CHAPTER 28

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[Time: ??? Location: ???.  5 Years Prior.] TW/CW WILL APPEAR. YOU'VE BEEN WARNED.

"Ryū-san... I- I'm so sorry." Akane's voice came out in a hushed whisper, trying to place her hand on my shoulder. I stumbled backwards, my back hitting the lamp post as she bit her lip, holding back tears. People around us started to stare, curious as to what was going on but she just kept looking down at the concrete.

In pity.

She held a young child in her arms, no... it was Tetsurou?

Akane Miyazaki. An identical twin to Yua Miyazaki, my... my? Who was she to me..?
She always dyed her hair a bright aquamarine, her roots and ends fading into their natural white. Fiery golden eyes, the complete opposite of her sister. Compassionate, stubborn and hot-headed.

Her painted ruby lips pressed together, sitting me down as I felt cold tears drop from my face. I found my mouth moving by itself, as if I was just a spectator.

"Please... let me see her."

NO! DON'T PLEASE, I CAN'T-

The scene suddenly flashed from a green, plush park into a dark and dirty warehouse.

[TW/CW]

The smell of pungent iron and osmium metal hit my lungs, forcing my hands to grasp my mouth in a pathetic attempt to stop it from making me gag in horror.

Yua's pale white skin was littered with cuts and bruises, her white clothing stained red from countless stab wounds in her chest and abdomen. Her head was turned toward me, her once warm golden eyes now staring into nothingness as blood droplets rested on her white lashes, dripping onto her eyeballs. Her white hair matted with blood, the golden accessories braided into her locks stained in crimson as the metals intricate design was faded away by prolonged exposure to blood.

My body or rather, bodies laid next to her. Yūta Tachibana, Ryū Kuromiya. The Kurokawa family patriarch and sixth chairman. The whisper. Even the body from when I was child still in experimentation.

"Y-you... this is all your fault." Her gentle voice croaked, words slurring together as her fingers twitched, though her kind face remained lifeless.

"You caused this." I blinked only for a second, and freezing cold hands grasped against my throat as I got thrown against a wall. I gasped for air as her hands remained, squeezing every ounce of life from me.

"You monster. You pathetic killer." She spat as her skin started to melt from decay, slabs of skin falling onto me as her skull revealed itself, cracked from numerous hits by a hammer. I gasped in pain as sudden warmth filled my abdomen. I look down and saw one of her hands stabbing a dull knife into my stomach. My hands didn't know what to do.

I couldn't breathe. I couldn't stop her.

"I-I'm so sorry-"

"MURDERER! YOU NEVER CARED!"

Let me out.

"I-I tried to kill myself to r-repent, I'm trying!"

She continued squeezing tighter and tighter, tighter until I could feel my own veins bulging in desperation for oxygen. The knife kept entering and exiting my chest, forcing me to gasp for more air as I begged. I slapped at her hands, clawing her bloody arms to no avail as she only pressed harder and more blood kept pouring from her wounds.

PLEASE LET ME OUT.

I choked back tears as I couldn't even gasp for a lick of air. I begged and begged as my eyes rolled back, squeezing my skull as I could only focus on my hearing become more clouded and a high pitched ringing vibrating my entire skull.

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