Never Whole Again : Her Prayer, His Answer (L X Oc Story)

Chapter 3: Her Choice, His Destiny

"be with me always, take any form, drive me mad, only do not leave me in the abyss where I cannot find you" ~Wuthering Heights~

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Two weeks passed until Yu saw Misa Amane, there was no TV shows or variety shows, magazines or album where she could see Misa's face. Yu wanted to see her and wanted to talk to her, she felt that she could unburden her heart. Upon looking at Misa Amane, she could clearly see the shadow of death hovering over; like the same shadow she saw over Kenichi at her last birthday with him.... Hopelessness, futility and withdrawal.... Those all make up the shadow of death. Everyday Yu worried about her and kept writing names on her Life note....

Katsuhiko Nakanishi

Kim Eun jin

Fumiko Shimakura

Daiki Fuse

Sawako Kuroda

Mameha Ise

Wataru Ayase

Mio Sumeragi

Ume Wataya

Haru Kirishima

Yuusuke Tanaka

And she forgot to count how many years she had lost giving all those lives back. This was a voluntary suicide. She will continue to save lives until she has no days to live. It was her chance to empty all the time in her life account, when the balance hit zero, she will die.

Until that day.....

July 14th

Yu was returning home from school, bustling and sweating. The humidity top the charts, monsoon will hit soon within a week or two. The bag on her shoulder was especially heavy today, bulking with all those books on applied psychology and stuff, she decided to do a bit of light reading to understand her subjects' mental conditions, like why people start to take drugs or abuse people, the root cause of sadism and masochism, more and more.... And the more she read, the more on-point was her delivering purpose to each of her subjects, but Misa's condition never left her mind, upon her theory she lost her purpose of life the time with her parents' death and ensnared herself in a toxic situation knowing that it may cause her losing life, negligent suicide,

Just like her

'Yu Namikawa-san?'

A male voice called from her back and she turned around. It was man no doubt, with medium length dark hair, good natured face with a light shadow of pessimism and an ambiguous smile torn between sadness and courtesy.

'Hai.... I am Yu Namikawa, but I don't recall meeting you anywhere.....'

That man bowed to Yu and straightened up, 'ie.... I am Touta Matsuda, from NPA....'

'NPA.... The police?'

'Yes.... And I... have something for you....eh, you see, it's from Misa Amane, the idol....' Matsuda took out a bulky pink envelope and handed out to her, 'she urged that it should be delivered to you.... See, she has passed away at July 7th 11:59 pm' He hesitated and gave it out to Yu.

Her hands shook while taking it, passed away....

'What do you mean by "passed away", was there any catastrophe, like accident or something worse-' Yu's voice cracked despite she hold her calm.

'No... natural death, like the soul departing from the body..... ' Matsuda hung his head.

'Matsuda-san..... Why don't you come inside? It's getting dark...'