May 10, 2010

Zig Road, Osaka.

It was a dark and desolated night. The weather was cloudy, it was about to rain anytime soon. Myobi was driving the car he received as aid from Ayame. Anxiously he peeked at his wristwatch, it was 7.50 pm. He was very confused as well as anguished about the whole messed up situation.

"Damn what the hell is happening with me? Why am I running away? What if Mrs. Ayame pulled out a crazy prank on me? But she seemed to be distressed too! Ahhh, the weather is too absurd today! I am driving consistently for 3 hours... My shoulders are twinging now! I think I should take rest for some time." He was mumbling on his own while driving.

Apparently, he stopped the car to get some rest. He glanced outside from the car mirror glass and the whole road was deserted. There was no sign of any living beings close by him. He was dismayed with the dead silence on the road.

"I think I should have taken the main road! This shortcut route is too isolated! I think I made the wrong choice! But still, if I can drive consistently then I will reach Fukuoka much faster! I can see Yurika and Irie again if I reach there!" He took out the wallet from his pocket with a sad face, slowly he held the picture of Yurika and Irie while gently kissing it with teary eyes.

"I don't know what's happening with me, I don't even know if I can reach you two or not... But I-I really want to live my life with both of you! I always wanted to quit the job and open a cafe with you Yurika! I have many dreams which I haven't fulfilled yet! I want to see you two so badly! Even if it's just for a second, but can you please just appear before me Yurika? I am scared today! I am really scared to lose you..." He uttered slowly.

On the spur of a moment, he took out his phone and dialed her. He was scared as well as desperate to hear her voice!

(Phone ringing)

"Hello? Myobi-san? Irie was just asking about you!" She answered him happily.

His eyes were teary while hearing her voice. With a heavy heart, he replied, "Yurika! I don't know but I feel something bad is going to happen with us!" He sounded mournful while talking to her.

"Myobi-san? What happened? Why do you sound so gloomy?" Yurika panicked with his response. In the meanwhile, Irie started nagging over the phone to talk to Myobi. 

He smiled a bit and replied, "give him the phone Yurika! I want to hear his voice too!"

"Hello, Daddy? When are you coming back? I want to play soccer with you! You will be the goalkeeper this time!" Irie sounded very happy while speaking to him. 

Myobi's voice choked with unbearable pain. He wanted to cry out badly holding both of them in his arms. Even it's just for a few seconds, still he wanted to see them gravely.

"Irie, if something happens to me today, don't ever leave her alone! Be the best son any mother can have! Stay by her side!" He replied very slowly with a choked voice. 

Yurika was terrified to hear his answer. She immediately snatched the phone from Irie and restlessly asked, "Myobi-san why are you sounding so strange? Where are you? Just tell me the location I will come to you!"

Myobi smiled painfully to hear her concern, he was happy to learn that he has become someone in her life, she was desperate to stay with...

"Yurika... I love you! I think I haven't said this to you but you completed my life Yurika! I- I will be always thankful to you... For everything!" His voice sounded very morose with eyes filled with tears. Yurika was shaken up in anxiety.

"Myobi-san what the hell has happened? Why are you sounding so sad? Please don't my patience... Please!" Yurika craved to know his situation over the phone. She was extremely tensed to hear him as a miserable one from a far distance.

"Yurika!---" Myobi tried to explain his disorganized state to her. 

(Beep Beep Beep) 

Myobi looked at his phone and there was a network error symbol! 

"Darn it! Why is it a network error now? I was just about to tell her everything! Shit man!" He mumbled restlessly while trying to restart the phone several times. 

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"You won't get a network signal here mister!" 

Myobi flinched with the sudden voice and turned his head aside with a fearful gaze. Hirotaka was staring at him from his car side window with a cryptic smile and a dark expression on his face.

"Yo-You are Mrs. Ayame's husband, isn't it? Why are you here? How long you have been standing here?" Myobi asked him very sharply.

"Well, yes I was watching you while you were desperately trying to restart your phone! I guess you won't get the signal inside! Come out. We need to talk!" He was smiling vaguely while gasping at him intensely.

Myobi found it a bit weird! There was not a sign of a single person on the way but when did he secretly appear? With his find full of chaotic doubts he was looking at Hirotaka with doubtful eyes.

"Aren't you going to come out? I had some important message that Ayame has sent for you! It's important! But if you don't want to know then you can leave!" Hirotaka slowly replied while stepping back a little from his car window.

"Mrs. Ayame told something for me? Then it must be important!" Myobi thought for a while and slowly opened the door while stepping out of the car.

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"PSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT"

On the spur of a moment, Myobi felt the sensation of something sprayed enormously over his legs by Hirotaka. He startled for a second and forcibly pushed Hirotaka away from him.

"Fuuucckkk! What the hell did you spray over me? You crazy man!" Myobi shouted vigorously while grabbing the car door for maintaining his balance.

Hirotaka didn't say a single word while gawking at him with a pair of ferocious eyes. Myobi was extremely scared of his intense expression.

"This man looks crazy! I should leave immediately!" He thought while trying to get back inside the car nervously but stopped for a second.

"What's this? Why I can't move? My legs are all numb! What the hell is happening?" He shouted while being seized with panic. Hirotaka was still standing there with very calm composure.

"Brother Baek told me the effect starts within 5 minutes, I guess he was right!" Hirotaka had a small concealed smile on his face while replying.

Myobi glanced at Hirotaka and saw he was wearing a black full sleeve shirt with a black trouser, holding a heavy iron baton in his right hand while smiling densely at him. He got chills in his spine with the view.

"Wh-Who are you? What do you want from me? Why did you use that spray over me?" Myobi asked in a broken voice while gazing at the baton.

"Ahhhh I gave you an option to run away! But you chose yourself to come out and face me! You should have left that time!" Hirotaka sounded very gentle but a little cryptic.

Myobi stepped back a bit and tried again to reach his car but his legs were completely stiff and numb! 

"Consider me as your grim-reaper!" Hirotaka replied vaguely and started walking slowly towards him. Myobi was extremely scared while staring at him with his eyes wide open.

"What do you want from me? Why are you doing this to me?" Myobi's voice choked in fear while asking him.

"Well, I don't like it if my prey tries to escape from me! So I had to use something to stop you from running away!" Hirotaka sounded very dense while replying.

Myobi was startled to hear his reasons! He nervously asked, "are yo-you the one who is after my wife?"

"After? Ha Ha! Yurika was always mine from the beginning! It was you who dared to come between us! Now you will reap what you have sowed!" Hirotaka looked extremely terrifying while approaching him slowly.

Myobi freaked out for a moment and desperately tried to escape one last time. But he lost his balance and fell on the ground with his stiffened legs.

"You can't escape from me, mister! I will make sure you die a painful death!" Hirotaka replied slowly while standing in front of him. 

Myobi was terror-stricken. He quivered in fear, "do-don't kill me, please! I have a family to look after! They can't live without me--"

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WHHHAAAAAAAMMMM!

Hirotaka suddenly hit Myobi's head fiercely with the iron baton, even before the completion of his request! His shirt was splattered with blood droplets after the huge blow!

"Ahhhhhhhgggrrrrhhhhhh!" Myobi screamed in pain while lying on the ground with blood smeared over his face! His body was trembling in anguish from the hit.

"You were living the life I always dreamed to have! You snatched my Yurika away from me! I should have killed you the day I saw you with Yurika at the school you bastard! You were holding her with your right hand, isn't it? Then you should get what you deserve!" Hirotaka grumbled at him while raising the baton again.

WHHHAAAAMMM!

"Ahhhhhggggggeeeeekkkk!" Myobi shrieked in torment while Hirotaka hit his right hand ferociously again with the baton! A small, creak sound broke out from the arm while getting hit.

Hirotaka stood there proudly while looking at him groaning in pain on the ground. Myobi was bleeding crazily from the bruise over his head caused by the iron baton. Hirotaka had a creepy grin over his face while watching him.

"It feels so damn peaceful to see you dying in pain! I am starting to enjoy this game!" He slowly took a seat beside him while speaking.

Myobi was lurking down being badly hurt. He slowly tried to raise his arm a bit but couldn't do it. It was completely numb and his legs were paralyzed too. His head was throbbing with an intolerable pain from the bruise! With a blood-smeared face, he gazed at Hirotaka who was smiling victoriously beside him.

"Are you checking up on your arm? I guess it's broken now! That's your small punishment for holding her!" Hirotaka replied casually while checking the bloodstains over his shirt.

"P....le....ase , sp....are me.. Do...n't be... so cr....uel!" Myobi uttered with a fumble voice while groaning in pain.

"Cruel? My own mother always cursed me to die! I begged before Ayame to break off the engagement but she didn't have any mercy! Weren't they cruel to me? So when I am paying them off what they deserve, why I am the only one blamed to be cruel?" Hirotaka glanced at him while speaking. Myobi was breathing very heavily. He was bleeding so severely that the portion of the road he was lying, was stained with his blood!

"You know Myobi, you are a nice person! Your only sin is you dared to stay beside someone who is everything for me! That's why you deserve to die! Any last wish before dying?" He spoke while grabbing the iron baton again and looked at him.

"Do...n't hurt her!.... Don't... hu..rt my fa...mi..ly!" He mumbled very slowly.

Hirotaka stood up gently and smiled devilishly at him. "Hey! How can I hurt her? I am doing all these just to be with her in this life! But honestly, I can't guarantee your son! Well, how should I finish you? Choose an option-

a) Smash your head

b) Slit your throat and stab you to death

c) Smash your head and then burn you to disappear!

So tell me, what do you want?" 

Myobi couldn't say anything further. He was groaning in pain while breathing heavily. "I guess this is it! My vision is blurry now! I can't do anything now! Yurika... Irie... I failed to protect you two! Please forgive me! Please!" He thought helplessly.

"Hey come on! Choose the option! I don't like to wait for anyone! I can only wait for Yurika in my life! That's it!" He poked Myobi's arm with that iron baton. Myobi still couldn't answer anything with tears rolling down over his blood-smeared face.

"Damn! I can't see you miserably anymore! Goodbye Mr. Myobi! Hope you meet Ayame there in paradise! Have a safe trip!" He replied slowly while raising the baton at him.

TTTHHUUUDD!

He smashed his head brutally with the baton! It was an extremely violent blow! Blood splatted over his face this time! In the meanwhile, it started raining heavily. Hirotaka stood there in the dark holding the baton with a proud devilish smile on his face in the rain. Myobi had stopped breathing! 

"That was really fun! Since you didn't choose any option, I will decide something for you!

Option C! Ha Ha Ha!" He started laughing brutally while staring at him. Myobi was covered in a pool of blood with his eyes half-closed.

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It was around 10 pm. 

Hirotaka was sitting quietly near a cliff while watching the car burning down. The area was a deserted one and it was filled with smokes.

Hirotaka drove the car along with Myobi's dead body inside it, 5 km away to that cliff away from the Zig road. The rain had stopped but the weather was still cloudy! While watching the car burning down he turned his head aside and smiled watching the ashes. Myobi was already burned down to ashes and he was waiting for the car to burn down completely.

"Well, the alcoholic spray really made my work easier to burn him down! I guess I just need to throw away the remaining parts of the car along with the ashes from this cliff! Then my job is neatly done!" He murmured with a spooky smile on his face.

(Phone ringing)

Hirotaka looked at his phone and it was some unknown number. Reluctantly he picked up.

"Hello?" He answered.

"Hello? Is Mr. Hirotaka speaking?" A voice replied.

"Yes?"

"Mr. Hirotaka I am Inspector Lin from Osaka Police station! We got the post-mortem report of your wife and no presence of poison or anything hazardous was found in her body!" The person replied in a tense voice.

"That means, my wife wasn't poisoned or something?" Hirotaka tried to act a bit nervous.

"Umm, no! But even if it's a suicide case, it's really weird to jump off from the rear side of the terrace! We need to investigate if the matter is something else! But where are you, Mr. Hirotaka?"

He looked at the car burn down and replied anxiously, "I am just mourning over my beloved wife's death! I don't know what to do anymore!"

"We understand your condition, Mr. Hirotaka! But please can you come over to the police station? We need your co-operation!" The person replied firmly.

"Sure! I will be coming soon!" He replied politely and disconnected the call.

"Ahhggghhh my damn fate is too twisted! Now I have to co-operate with the police investigation or else they will suspect me! Fuck! Then I have to wait till the investigation is closed! I did my job brilliantly so I am sure the police won't find a single clue against me! And now this Myobi is gone too!

Now, I will find you Yurika as soon as this case is closed! Just wait for me till then!" He mumbled with a vicious smile on his face.

**To be continued....