Powdered snow...
It lightly trickled down the slope of the police department building...
Like baby powder condescending upon a young infant's back.
They had glimpsed slowly at me...
Naoki's last letter lay in front of my very face...
It was covered in dried-out teardrops...
Detetctives had ruled out his intricately planned suicide as a homicide...
Somebody had stabbed him minutes away from when the said suicide had taken place.
However, their ruling was wrong to begin with...!
The scissors were also laid out...
The ones Naoki had used a year before...
The ones that had taken away his beloved life...
They were rusted with a crimson tint.
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Even Though (たとえ)
Mystery / ThrillerThings have changed for 16 year old Mika Minato as one of her best friends Naoki committed suicide during the summer. And, both she and her other best friend Takeru are still grieving his death although it had already been five months since the inci...
