“Thank you for your patronage!”

Accompanied by the stiff and forceful words without gentleness of the night shift clerk, Kotoko Sasaki strode out of the convenience store.

The bag on the right hand contains bread and water.

The sky above is filled with starlight, and the bright moon hangs high in the night sky, continuously casting soft light onto the earth.

Sasaki Kotoko took out her mobile phone from her pocket. In the pale fluorescent light, the time on the screen showed 00:21. No wonder there was no one around except Sasaki Kotoko and the clerk. She saw the clerk yawning profusely.

With such a good look, Sasaki Kotoko only felt that part-time work was really hard.

Although she had the habit of watching late-night anime before, she just set her alarm clock to play time, and then went back to bed to continue sleeping after watching. To be precise, Sasaki Kotoko has never stayed up late. Tonight, for some unknown reason, Sasaki Kotoko lay

I was tossing and turning in bed, having trouble falling asleep.

Is it because she slept for too long in class in the morning? Kotoko Sasaki is seriously worried. Tomorrow is not a holiday. If she suddenly feels sleepy in the morning, will she have to fall asleep in class? She does not have the perseverance to resist the invasion of sleepiness.

.What’s more, the newly appointed squad leader will not let go of lawbreakers who openly disrupt classroom discipline.

Another thing is that I feel very hungry at night.

There wasn't much ready-to-eat food in the refrigerator, so Sasaki Kotoko simply took her pocket money and went out and went straight to a nearby convenience store. By the way, her parents basically adopted a laissez-faire education method for Sasaki Kotoko, so even if she was caught going out in the middle of the night, as long as she

It's okay to explain why.

On the street back home, a substantial coldness seemed to be circulating in the air. Kotoko Sasaki couldn't help but shiver, and she could clearly feel the tiny particles stirred up by the cold wind on the surface of her body.

She secretly complained about her carelessness. If she had known this, she should have put on a coat to protect herself from the cold before going out.

The street extends to the end of the line of sight and disappears into a certain point in the darkness. It is silent all around, and the street lights on the roadside cast a vague halo, like the highlights that have been accidentally smeared in a sketch, mixed with gray and yellow.

Smoke. A few moths under the lampshade dragged their swollen bodies around the only light source that seemed to exist in their eyes.

She threw herself into the night without hesitation.

——

The "residues" of the park are scattered at Kotoko Sasaki's feet.

Rusty iron frames, stone animal statues broken into stones, yellow and dead woods and lawns and flower beds, and large spider web cracks on the concrete floor. Rain Mountain Park, Sasaki Kotoko's only place on her way home, is about

Ten minutes ago, this place still looked as she remembered it. Now it is a ruined, dilapidated and deserted scene.

The steel lamppost standing in the center of the park had long been twisted out of shape, and the lampshade was shattered and scattered around. The darkness at night danced and sang unbridled.

Everything is running non-stop, but what is driving the development of the world's plot?

Standing on the street in front of the park, her body reacted, trembling, sweating, and the muscles in her legs contracted uncontrollably. After a few minutes, these reactions passed away like an ebb. However, Kotoko Sasaki's mind was surprisingly strong.

Being able to watch calmly, without any unnecessary emotions, as if sitting in front of the screen and waiting for the plot to come one after another.

Sitting on the only well-preserved bench in the north of the park is a man.

Sasaki Kotoko didn't know whether it was appropriate to call him a human, because he had lost most of the characteristics of a human being.

The legs were missing from the roots, and the chest and abdomen looked like large holes with bloody flesh caused by being eaten by large carnivorous beasts. Most of them were vaguely broken, inserted into the sternum of the lungs, intestines and stomach, and supported by the spine.

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The girl spoke.

The dilated pupils reflected the vampire's happy face before eating.

"I don't want to die"

It was obvious that she no longer had any extra physical strength to support her in saying these words, and it was obvious that she had exhausted all her strength to even open her mouth to breathe, but why?

why, why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why

why why why why why why why why why why why

Why.

Why are you so unwilling!

The girl didn't understand at all that she was not afraid of death itself. But where did the unwillingness that spewed out from her heart and submerged her body and mind come from?

Why is it me! There are so many people in the world who want to die, so why is she the one who encounters a beast disaster? Obviously the new episode has just been released, and the manga she likes has not been finished yet! Obviously...! Obviously she plans to next year

I went to Kyoto in February to participate in the selection of Nogizaka Armed Idols!

It seemed that something sharp was gently pressing against the aorta in Sasaki Kotoko's neck, and it felt cold to the touch. She tried her best to calm down, but her voice couldn't stop trembling.

What intense beauty, she thought.

Cruel despair, heavy desolation, as if everything is at your fingertips, and as if everything is just a mirror and will eventually disappear without a trace.

——

"Ah ah ah, I finally found you!"

The long knife fell from the sky and cleverly penetrated the gap between Sasaki Kotoko and the man.

At the hilt of the knife, a girl wearing an orthodox sailor uniform slowly landed on her tiptoes.

The shock wave spread in all directions from the moment the knife handle made contact with the girl's toes. Sasaki Kotoko was not seriously injured, but the man was thrown away as if he had been hit hard by a hammer and fell into a small forest not far away.

"I said, don't add random victims to me without permission. The evaluation within the group will be lowered."

The girl scratched her head, then shook her shoulders to cheer up.

"Well, although it's troublesome, it's a rule and there's nothing you can do about it. Come say hello."

She closed the fingers of her right hand, with the palm facing inward, and lightly touched her left shoulder with her fingertips to draw a smooth arc, with the palm facing upwards, then she made a fist and paused slightly downwards.

"We are Nogizaka46. I am Rina Ikoma, the ener of the third single "Go! Biyle". Well, although it is very sudden——"

Ikoma Rina grinned and smiled happily. There were waves of air all over her body, which made Kotoko Sasaki aside, her eyes were blurred and she couldn't see clearly.
Chapter completed!