Chapter 10. A fate that could not be avoided.
After I got home, Sarli ran out to my entrance and started shouting:
—Damn you, Minori! How long have you been gone, let me hug you! – he spoke with a joyful voice, smiling at the same time and also tried to stretch out his hands to me.
I pushed him away and went to my room, but my way was blocked by another classmate of mine named Kabayashi, who scratched his blue hair without stopping and wiped the blood on his white shirt, so that his white shirt quietly turned into red.
— Help me, Minori, I think I'm starting the same killer mode, but I don't want to! I don't want to kill anyone..." Kabayashi said in a whisper, almost crying at the same time…
— Please step back, I will inject him with sleeping pills, so I have fought this infection several times already, so this can be said to be a proven method.
Sarli injected a syringe with sleeping pills directly into Kabayashi's fifth point, after which he almost instantly passed out.
— Sarli, can I ask a question… Where is everyone else?
There was some noise coming from the room above, so I decided to run there to find out what was going on there. But, Sarli decided to stop me by grabbing my hand.
— There is no need to go there, there are those who were previously under the regime of the killer, so it's hard to trust them, and I don't really believe you ... - said Sarli.
His look was like that of a crazy person, all the actions now hinted either that he was starting to plunge into the killer mode, well, or he just became schizophrenic, while I was in the hospital.
I escaped from his hands and with the help of my card, I quickly ran to the room, which was locked with a key, from behind the door I heard Miki's quiet voice:
— Minori… Don't listen to him, he's been under the regime of the killer for several days, he locked us in this room and cut us to death, so stay away from him and help us get out of here.
Sarli was already approaching up the stairs and his shadow was already visible, so I decided to run in search of the key to this room, but immediately I heard the ringing of keys in Sarli's hands.
— I'll ask you another question. Are you a fool? You do understand that snatching the keys out of your hands is easier for me to do with my card…
I ran to him, grabbed the keys and went back to the door, but... the keys didn't fit the door.
— Naive you, Minori, who would just give the keys to his opponent? I knew you had this card, so I hid the keys in a safe place, and now… It's time to put you to sleep too!
He approached me, started sticking a syringe into me, but I kicked him and he fell down the stairs and apparently lost consciousness, after which I tried to quickly find the keys and found them in the microwave in the kitchen.
The very situation in the apartment was terrible due to the fact that there were traces of resistance from classmates everywhere, and there was a whole puddle of dried blood in the bathroom… In general, it was clear that while I was away, everyone was having fun like that… Of course, it's fun in quotes, because it's unpleasant when you are tormented every single day…
I went back to the door, opened it and saw the following picture:
The curtains in the room, which had previously been white, turned red with blood, as well as the floor, but there the color was already more black.
The door was all torn by claws, almost to the lock, but apparently there was not enough strength to reach the lock. There were six classmates lying in the room, and there was a girl waiting for me at the threshold, who was disfigured beyond recognition ... Bruises under her eyes from beatings, her hands were blue from the cold, because the air conditioner with a very low temperature was turned on in the room, fortunately there were warm clothes in this room, but unfortunately there were not enough gloves for everyone. Everyone woke up and ran out of the room to get warm somehow, because in that room it was really like at the North Pole.
Mika told me that Sarli, after returning from the hospital, began to behave inappropriately, first locked Nasu in the bathroom and started beating her, so there was already a pool of blood.
Then I locked her in that room and turned on the air conditioner. Then, when Mika herself went to the toilet and heard someone knocking from that room, she instantly received a slap in the face and then hit her head against the wall. And she woke up already in this room. Similar stories happened to the others.
We decided to tie Sarli up, but... he wasn't at the bottom... and I was already losing consciousness from the sleeping pills that he managed to inject me, it didn't work on me immediately, because it wasn't stuck in my fifth point. And thanks for that so let's say…
From around the corner of the room on the first floor, someone's loud footsteps could be heard… But it turned out to be just Nasa, who said that Sarli was successfully tied up and placed in a storage room.
And then I fell asleep with a calm soul on the sofa in the living room.
And again… In a dream, I saw myself from the side of the same Minasa, but this time everything was seen more clearly, but it was no longer from her face that I was given a view, but from someone else, it was so noticeable that after talking to Karou, she decided to talk to others who were classmates who saw this, among them was probably the old man who came to us. It was also evident that Karu ran to my grandfather Akishito at the meeting and retold what had happened. And from him were the following words: "Damn this Narito Kei!"
At this point, my dream was again interrupted by a scream near the pantry room… I jumped up abruptly and ran there. The room was open and Nasa was lying next to her, who opened the door to Sarli. Nasa itself was bleeding because Sarli hit her on the shoulder with a crowbar.
Also, cooked food was lying next to her.
— Why did you open it to him? You know he's not in an adequate condition right now. I shouted at her.
— Well, it is necessary to feed him, he is a man after all…
— God… What can I do with you... tell me where he ran!
— I ran out into the backyard, where everyone else is…
Well, great, damn it! Of course you have to run there to kill everyone, well, scum ... Of course it's clear that he's not scum, but this killer mode, but oh well…
While I was taking out my card, I could hear the sound of a pistol shot from behind the backyard, then a second, a third… I ran out and saw that Sarli was lying paralyzed by shots in his arms and leg. The gun was held by one of the three athletes of the class – Karl. He was breathing heavily and holding on to his chest, apparently Sarli hit him in it, so it became difficult to breathe.
The police arrived almost immediately. Apparently, knowing about our situation, they were nearby.
Also, the ambulance quickly arrived at the scene and took Sarli and Nasu with them. They didn't arrest Karl after I told them that he was defending himself. From the police car I heard a familiar voice:
— Minori, come here, information about Minasa Kotori has arrived.
I came up and the policeman told me that the previously convicted Minasa Kotori was one of the witnesses to the murder forty years ago, but apparently the killer's regime reached her, so she was convicted of murder, but a week later, after she was put in jail, she escaped from prison, and then it is not known what it happened to her. She did not return home, she did not commit any more attacks…
Apparently she died just by escaping from prison or... she was killed by that… Narito Kay?
— Narito Kay? the policeman asked me.
Apparently, I said that name out loud when I was thinking…
— In my dream, I saw the past, which showed me that earlier my grandfather mentioned a certain Narito Kei... Apparently he was a murderer then and my grandfather knew about him.
— I've heard this name before, but apparently the police quickly closed this case, so it didn't appear anywhere else. They tried to look for him, but no one found him.
— It's because he had a map that hides him from sight... - grandfather suddenly appeared out of nowhere.
— Grandfather! I'm so glad to see you!
— I'm glad to see you too, granddaughter, but now is not the time for hugs, it's time to tell you more about the powers of cards and why you should be careful when using some types of cards, even though you have never seen them.