Volume 5 - CH 17

Tanikawa Sakuya’s Downfall

———- Smash.

The front seat’s window was smashed.

A piece of shattered glass tears my cheek.

“Found you, Tanikawa Sakuya-chan right?”

“Y, You fool!? This is Master’s car you know!? Oi, little girl, are you listening to me!?”

“I’m the one who asked the question first though.”

“Guh……..!?”

The woman reached inside the broken window and unlocked the car.

Why do I have to go through such a horrifying experience when I’m just waiting for Master to get back from seeing his relative’s child……..?

“H, Help me……., Master…….”

“This is a little annoying.”

“!?”

Her right hand choked my throat.

My brain can’t process what’s happening.

Who is this woman……?

Is she going to kill me?

I flail my arms around to resist but that does not deter the woman at all.

“I need you to shut up a little, okay.”

“Gah…….!?”

A straight punch dug its way into my cheek.

In the dead of the night, a demon broke into my car.

“U, Uwahhh!?”

“Calm down Sakuya!”

“O,…….Otou-san…….?”

“You dropped the cup huh………it’s okay, they are not here…….”

My father tried to comfort me with a hug.

That managed to calm me down a little and the memory of that time began to fade.

Seeing that, my father let go and cleaned up the large piece of the broken cup.

“It brings back the trauma when you hear something breaking right………. You should get some rest.”

“………sorry.”

I can only call this man who I used to call Master Otou-san(Father).

That might actually sound more normal.

But I loved calling him Master so I used to call my father that all the time.

However, ever since that day, the day where I was beaten half-dead by the girl with a chestnut-colored pigtail, the day that mean-looking brown-haired man touched me, the day I was crying for Master’s help, the memories of that day were so traumatizing that I recall it whenever I tried to call him Master.

So I stopped.

Ever since that day, the relationship between me and my father has become awkward.

I was happy even though I don’t have any friends or a mother. Master was enough for me.

But my happy days were destroyed by those demons.

The longing I have for Gifts.

My aspiration to get into a Gift-related job.

Everything was crushed when I became a victim of those Gift Holders.

Even if I meet a good Gift Holder, the hatred for Gifts I have right now probably will not disappear.

Just like that, my days at my elementary school where my routine is studying and going home have come to an end.

I couldn’t make a single friend in my 6 years of elementary school but things might change for the better in middle school.

I dressed in the new uniform and headed to my new school with such hope.

“Wh…….Why!?”

At the school gate, although I wish I didn’t, I spotted the appearance of the piece of thrashes.

It was a group consisting of 5 friends chatting happily.

And 2 of them are.

The woman with a mole underneath her eye and a wavy chestnut-colored pigtail.

And a mean-looking man with a vulgar smile.

Seeing the woman, I almost vomited my stomach out.

Seeing the man, my body broke out into goosebumps and began to tremble.

I hate it……., I don’t want to go to the same school as them…….

Why, why does this happen.

Even with my mind pure white, I still understand that there’s no use thinking about them.

Still, I can not erase them from my mind.

When I was frozen in place, the man shifted his gaze in my direction.

I’m fully within his sight.

He then silently mouths something to me with a crescent smile.

[[Too – Bad – For – You]]

After that, he entered the school with his group.

After they disappeared inside, I was finally able to move.

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The man was the demon that my father’s sister took in. Akechi Hideyori.