My transformation into a beautiful girl started with a hemorrhage.

Looking at the handsome, elegant, and upright Fujiki Kouta.

She... wants Kouta!

She was willing to use any means necessary to win over the man who fascinated her!

Kouta is hers!

suddenly,

A chill ran through me.

She awoke from her reverie and watched Kouta gradually approach her.

Kouta approached Maeda Chie with a complicated expression. He was conflicted. On one hand, he wanted to kill Maeda Chie, the woman who had witnessed him commit murder and knew his secrets.

On the other hand, he recalled the care Maeda Chie had given him before. In a way, Maeda-senpai was someone who had been kind to him, and the two were friends. Moreover, she had been accidentally dragged into this because of him.

For a moment, Kouta's thoughts inexplicably drifted towards Maeda Chie.

'This is bad!'

She thought of one possibility: Did Fujiki-kun intend to kill her?

'Yes, I witnessed the entire murder by Fujiki-kun and discovered his secret... No, no, I have to think of something.'

Chie Maeda's mind raced...

A look of fear crossed her face, then, as if forcing herself to suppress her terror, she walked shakily to Kouta, her eyes brimming with tears, filled with heartbreak and despair, making one's heart ache: "Kouta, are you... going to kill me?"

After saying this, as if she had made a final decision, her body stopped trembling, her voice stopped shaking, and she just stared straight into Kouta's eyes, as if she wanted to remember Kouta's image forever.

"If this will put Fujiki-kun at ease, then let's go!" A calm voice slowly rang out.

"However, there is something I have been keeping hidden in my heart for a long time that I want to tell you. I am afraid that if I don't say it now, I will never have the chance again. I don't want to leave with regrets."

As Maeda Chie said this, glistening tears, like pearls from a broken string, rolled down her cheeks, and she cried out in a sob, "I... I love you! I love you the most!"

Maeda Chie seemed to have gone all out.

"Do you remember the first time we met? You had just arrived, and the moment we saw each other, I was drawn to your clear eyes."

"Other men look at me with desire in their eyes, but you, Fujiki-kun, always look at me with such clear, transparent, and pure eyes. From that moment on, I began to like you."

"However, I hinted at it to you countless times afterward."

At this point, Chie Maeda gave a self-deprecating laugh.

"You never responded, and I once thought it was because you didn't like women."

“Until a few weeks ago, when I saw that girl, I finally understood why you weren’t responding to me.”

As Maeda Chie spoke, her heart ached as if it were being stabbed, and her voice was so sorrowful and poignant that it moved everyone present.

"Ah—, I really hate it! I'm so jealous! Why does she get all the good things in the world?"

"why?"

"why?"

“My parents died when I was young, and I lived with relatives who always made things difficult for me… My life, my whole life, ended right from the beginning! It’s over!”

"Nothing... there's nothing!!"

By the end, Chie Maeda had screamed out her heart-wrenching cries, her voice so poignant that it brought tears to the eyes of all who heard it.

After Maeda Chie finished speaking, she closed her eyes, her expression one of utter despair, as she quietly awaited death.

really.

Kouta stopped in his tracks. His heart wasn't made of stone. Seeing Maeda Chie like this, he, who was already hesitant, could no longer bring himself to do it.

Kouta turned around and said, "Senior, you should go."

"I won't go! I won't go!" Maeda Chie opened her eyes, a hint of joy flashing across her face. She took two steps forward and hugged Kouta tightly. "I know you'll choose that girl, but... but..."

"senior!"

Kouta struggled a couple of times, but of course he didn't dare to use force, for fear of hurting his senior.

"Don't call me senpai, just call me Chie... even for a moment!" Maeda Chie's voice was low. "Is that not okay either?"

Kouta felt the soft, warm body behind him, hesitated for a long time, and slowly said, "...Chie."

"Kouta, let's dispose of the body together!"

Kouta's brow twitched. He knew what Maeda Chie meant, because legally, disposing of a corpse together constituted complicity and essentially the same crime.

“Senior, no, Chie, you don’t have to do this.”

"No! I want it this way! Because, because... this is the only secret that Kouta and I share!" Maeda Chie said firmly, tears streaming down her face, her voice choked with sobs.

"……All right."

……

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Chapter 286 Eliminate the Weeds at the Root

Nine o'clock in the evening.

Kouta then took Asuka and hailed a taxi back home.

Along the way, Asuka seemed to have been quite frightened and hadn't recovered from the previous scene, remaining silent the whole time.

Kouta looked at Asuka and sighed silently. He knew it was best not to say anything at this moment and let Asuka have some peace and quiet.

The reason he came back so late was that he needed to dig a pit to bury the body, and the burial site was the overgrown weeds of the unfinished building.

As for whether he will be discovered, Kouta no longer cares.

This is a change in mindset brought about by power.

If it were an ordinary citizen, they would naturally feel guilty for killing someone; however, if it were a CEO of a corporation, a political bigwig, or someone else, dealing with an ordinary person would be a simple matter of a word, and such a trivial matter would only barely reach the standard of 'being put on their desk'.

The reason for this change in attitude is quite simple.

For an ordinary person, there is no way to resist the power of the state's judiciary; but for powerful figures in society, they have ways to deal with, circumvent, or even use this power for their own purposes.

This is how Kouta feels now; he has absolutely no respect for the so-called judicial system.

To a certain extent, he is now invincible in this modern city.

A few days ago, he was in fear and had to rack his brains to outwit two criminal police officers when they questioned him.

However, if he were to encounter those two detectives again, he wouldn't be afraid at all; he might even warn them to mind their own business...

After all, humans don't try to outsmart an ant, nor do they try to guess what an ant is thinking.

After dropping Asuka off at home, Kouta didn't linger but immediately turned and left.

He still has things to do.

Today's events served as a reminder to him: if you don't cut the weeds at the root, they will grow back in the spring.

When dealing with the bodies earlier, Kouta had already obtained the home addresses of Yamamura Jeff and Yamamura Hayato from Maeda Chie.

He could ignore the other small fry, but he wouldn't be at ease until the Yamamura Hayato family was dead.

Who knows what kind of village idiot will pop up tomorrow and target the people around them?

He already knew from Maeda Chie that the Yamamura families, Jeff Yamamura and Hayato Yamamura, were not to be trifled with, because their income came from small-scale lending, which was essentially usury.

Of course, this loan sharking is different from the one involving Maeda Chie. After all, the Yamamura family were individually owned and couldn't possibly come up with 100 million yen.

Night has fallen.

At this moment, Kouta stood on the roof of a commercial and residential building that was more than ten stories high. There was no lighting here, and although it was not pitch black, it was close. Kouta looked down at the street below, which was a bustling and busy street with a constant flow of traffic. Countless people were moving about, and the neon lights, car lights, and bright streetlights were shining together. It was a world of light.

Withdrawing his gaze, Kouta turned around and suddenly propelled himself forward with a burst of speed. Just as he was about to step off the edge of the building, he launched himself forward and flew several dozen meters away to another building...

Kouta consistently used this method, flashing past between rows of reinforced concrete buildings. His speed was incredibly fast, and with the cover of night, no one on the ground knew that someone was crossing over their heads.

After crossing countless buildings, Kouta stopped on the rooftop of a residential building.

This is a residential complex consisting of apartment buildings. The buildings are all the same size and generally not tall, only about seven stories high, with six households on each floor.

The building in front of Kouta at this moment is the residential building where Yamamura Jeff lives.

He remembered that Chie Maeda had told him that Jeff Yamamura had told her that his house was 503, and that his cousin Hayato Yamamura and his family lived in 504 next door.

It was already 10 p.m.

By this time, some office workers in the neighborhood had already started to go to sleep.

Konta did not choose to enter through the main gate because the main gate of the residential building here is an electronic lock that cannot be opened without a key, and there is also a camera installed at the gate.

In the past, if Kouta wanted to go inside and eliminate that family without them noticing, he would have needed to spend a lot of time planning, and there was no guarantee of success.

However, Kouta glanced at the residential building less than twenty meters away and gave a cold smile.

The sprint and the jump were executed in one smooth motion.

Kouta leaped to the seventh floor of the apartment building. He didn't hide and casually walked down to the fifth floor. The stairwell was quiet at ten o'clock at night. The lights on the ceiling were very cheap and emitted a yellowish light.

Arriving at the door of apartment number 503, Kouta wanted to ring the doorbell, but found that... there was no doorbell, so he had to resort to the traditional method—knocking on the door.

Boom boom boom!

"Who?"

An impatient voice came from inside.

Kouta didn't answer, but continued knocking.

Thump thump thump...!

This time, it seemed that the person inside had been thoroughly angered. A faint voice could be heard from inside: "Damn it, which bastard keeps banging on the door? Does he have a death wish?"

Click!

The door opened.

A man who looked about 70% like Jeff Yamamura opened the door. Upon seeing the high school kid, Kouta, his face immediately darkened, and anger surfaced on his already cunning expression: "Damn it, it's you who kept banging on the door, banging on your mother—"

Kouta didn't waste any words with him. With a "whoosh!" his arm flashed through the air and grabbed Yamamura Kodai by the neck.