Crimson Petals

Side Story 1

What Happens After the Main Story

Hakuba went to Heiji's house to invite him out to eat. He knocked on his door but no one responded.

'Hm, that's weird. Maybe Hattori's sleeping?'

He knocked on the door and again, Heiji didn't respond.

'I swear—'

Hakuba knocked and knocked until he was literally banging the door.

"Hattori! Open the door!"

There was no response, Hakuba started to panic.

'Fuck— Did his disease get worse? '

He starts to bang on the door again while shouting for Heiji and each time there was no reply. He quickly grew tired of it and decided it was time to break the door.

"Seriously Hattori! You leave me with no choice, I'm going to break this damn door!"

Panic rushed over his body, no matter how a person could sleep so soundly, there's no way they wouldn't wake up with a sound like this.

Once the door broke, Hakuba started heading up to Heiji's room. The moment he opened it, his body froze in place, eyes grew wide open. His heart almost dropped as the sight of Heiji's petal-covered body beholds him.

"Ha..." he choked.

"Hattori..." his lips trembled as he said his name.

He ran up to Heiji and held his still and cold body against him. Shouting his name as tears started to fall down.

Heiji was gone.

'He's dead.'

After calming down, he immediately called Kazuha and when she arrived, she at first couldn't believe what she saw.

"N-no... Heiji.." A tear fell down as Kazuha gasped, her eyes going wide. She covered her mouth and her fingers trembled before walking up to Heiji's body.

She kneeled down and removed the petals on his face. When she looked at how lifeless his face was, she hugged him and cried.

Hakuba couldn't bear to look at the scene any longer and called the ambulance.

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"Hattori Heiji's death has been estimated to be between 13:00 to 14:45 pm on the 11th of December 2023".