FACADE ( the GazettE Tale )

Chapter Thirty One : The Beast in Chains

Things were getting worst as seconds passed. I hope for all of this to be gone. But life was full of shit - That proved me right when I opened my heavy eyes and see those men, Tego and Tomiko were still there. Watching me like I was a piece of rubbish on a corner needed to be thrown away.

I kept my gaze down at the ground that was tainted with my blood. I wondered when and how this would end - I would end. I couldn't come up with a plan of retaliation, I was too tired. And a part of me thought that I deserved all of this.

"That's Ruki Matsumoto." Tomiko said with the slightest hint of surprise in her voice but it was anger and disgust that overpowered it.

"You're right." Tego answered. "He's the monster who killed your husband Mrs. Hamasaki."

I was trying to figure out how he found out about it when a familiar photo filled with tarnish blood was thrown near my face.

"You left your fingerprint, you shit." Beard man was the one who talked.

My fists tightened as I tried sit up straight and leaned my back on the wall. My face, my ribs, my hips, every part of my body hurt. I rest my head on the bricked wall behind me and trained my eyes on the floor.

Tego spoke again, addressing her calmly. "We showed you their true nature. Explained to you how they exist. Told you how your husband died. Now here's the suspect."

Silent ruled the place for ten seconds, then.

"Why him?!!" Tomiko almost reached me with determined eyes and palpable intention. "Why him!!!"

She cried the last word on Tego's arm when he stopped her to get to me. Why was he stopping her? I wasn't dangerous now was I?

I wanted to feel her anger on me. I wanted to feel the woman's pain of losing her husband on my skin.

Because, maybe it would lessen the guilt I was feeling right now.

Why him? Because he was the first man I saw when I was alone, because he was there and I was fucking thirsty.

I didn't tell her. It was useless. She wouldn't think it was reasonable. She would ask for a more fitting explanation. But that was all I had.

I was just goddamn thirsty.

"Why him....." She fell down her knees, sobbing on her palms.

Tego let go of the whipping woman and stood up straight. "We told her everything about your kind and the hunter's mission to stop you. We also told her how you turned her husband into nothing."

She might not accept it but I wanted to apologize for what I did.

I was forming a sentence of apology when Tomiko stood up and rushed out of the room.

Mizushima followed a look at her before his eyes caught mine while his finger pointed at me. "Your days are numbered."

He stormed out of the room together with the three guys, leaving me with beard and ugly man.

I knew that. Since I found myself chained in this place guarded by them, I knew I wouldn't exist longer.

I was nearing to my end, And I didn't know how to feel about that.

I'd let them end me, only if Tomiko Hamasaki would take that as a symbol of my apology.

An existence for a life.

My end would not take effect to anyone. The sun would rise again as another day starts, time would fly, not faltering a second. Humans would continue to live.