The Girl Nextdoor

Chapter 6.5: Deceit (2)

"Wassup, Doc! Good morning!" With a teasing smile and his right hand raised in the air while waving it as if acknowledging my presence, Shiro greeted.

"What a weird way of greeting me," I responded and dapped his hand. The sound of our hands slapping against each other was rather soothing to the ears.

"Besides, I didn't receive my doctor's license yet so please refrain from calling me that."

"You're so humble... and boring sometimes."

"Is that supposed to be a jab?"

Shiro grinned. "Who knows?"

"Alright, that's it. I am filing a copyright infringement complaint for stealing my signature line many times over now. I gave you warning," I joked, riding along with his occasional jokes while putting myself in the offensive side.

"What, you're a lawyer now, too? Damn, you're ruthless. At least give other people chance to get their dream job."

Shiro chuckled again. However, in the next instant his face turned serious as if a switch was just flipped.

"By now you already know why I called you out here, right? Considering you have a disguise on and all."

Before I went out, I already have an idea in mind what it is. And looking at his eyes right now I can confidently say that what I have in mind as to why he called me is most likely correct.

"You called me here because you want to personally inspect the area. You want to make sure if that man died from the incident that transpired last night," I replied.

"You sure look eager to know whether that is the case or not."

Shiro gritted his teeth and clenched his fist, "Of course...! Taking our youth is one thing, and I can let that pass. However, taking Yuki and her father's life is not something I can just easily slide," Shiro said with a cracked voice.

"If I ever see his grave erected I will punch it down! He doesn't deserve one!"

I placed my hand on Shiro's back and patted it to calm him down. "Easy now, Shiro. If it comes down to it I will step on his corpse too. Well, that is if he did not turn to ashes."

NLP, otherwise knows as Neuro Linguistic Programming, is a psychological tactic that causes a person to feel a certain feeling in accordance to a person's touch that he's or she's been programmed or used to.

In the past, I always place my hand on Shiro's back whenever he gets worked up over Yuki's case. By now his brain should recognize this sensation and is subconsciously making Shiro feel he is calming down just from my touch which he has been used to whenever he feels frustrated or worked up.

With this, Shiro wouldn't suspect me of being the one pulling the strings behind that incident.

"You're right," he replies and then walks forward while taking a huge gulp of air to calm his mind. "Right now I do hope though that Hell is real. That way he dies being burnt, and lives again being burnt for eternity."

"You're right. But I doubt that. The only thing we can hope is he dies in the worse way possible. Such as getting beat up by his fellow prisoners, slammed, stabbed, and then left to die in the fire while getting trampled over by huge debris."