Boys For Hire!!

Final Chapter

I loved her for what seemed like forever. We all did.
But it seemed like the more we loved her, the more she'd slip away. Until she completely disappeared.
Until she'd disappeared from our very minds.

Akihiko's POV

The savoury smell of bacon tickles my nose as it sizzles on the frying pan, drowning in the oil and salt I'd peppered it with earlier. Everyone always like it super greasy and gross, I'd have to put them all on a diet later.

Grabbing five mugs from the overhanging cabinet, I lie them on an empty space on top of the counter with great difficulty—I was always the one to cook breakfast on a Wednesday alone since everyone else worked on a Tuesday. No one coming downstairs before 11 was the Wednesday routine, and as the 10 plates beside me started to fill with what I was cooking, it only made the feeling of cooking alone all the wholesome.

Alone.

Ha.

That's what I've been for the longest time.

Eleven months to be exact.

Each month more painful then the one it succeeded.

I hated myself every day. I felt guilty, disgusting—we subjected her to the greatest torture of our lives.

The more we loved her, the more she loved back.

And the more she loved back the more she wanted to do for us.

Till she gave up her life completely.

It took a whole two weeks to register, and once it did, my life felt all the more darker.

Arian Chiseki disappeared.

Off the edge of a building to be exact.

That sounds a bit morbid, but there's no other way I can deal with it frankly. It took chunks out of me, pieces of me that could never be put back into place.

She knew what she could do to free us, and like she'd endlessly promised—she did just that. Boys For Hire and Boys For aren't can be let off he job if they are fatally injured—or if their client is.

I couldn't believe just how stupid I was—to be blind from what was going on. She told me. She said she'd do anything. Why didn't I take her seriously?

Finished plating up the various assortment of mixed breakfast foods, I swing around the marble counter of the bar and hurry over to the staircase to shout upstairs. The new home we'd moved into was all that flash, but it was enough for all of us to live together with five rooms of two. With the compensation and condolence fee we'd all received, it was easy enough to buy a new dwelling east of the city but not too far away. It was only a short train and bus to the city centre, and it made it easy to get to work.

Most of us were working, excluding those who were still... emotionally injured.

Shiroi, Katsumi and Hakiko seemed to be fatally wounded by it. They'd been lethargic for months, and had only recently found their footing again.

Masashi, Naozumi, Katsu and Hotaka were hard to see for weeks. Normally being shut away in the first place, with this we'd gone days without seeing any of them, much to Miss Chiseki's disdain.