Unspeakable bubbles

However, Sakakibara Ikuko felt a pang of guilt about Kimiko's death.

Regardless of her original plan, Yuko never intended to kill anyone.

Since Kimiko's dead bubble has become like this, even if she has no conscience, she has to take care of her a little.

"Be good, Bubble is a good boy."

"Hmm," the blanket shifted, revealing a small face streaked with tears.

"Bubble isn't hungry."

"...Okay, if you don't want to eat, then let's talk."

"Say what you have to say; it's not good to keep it bottled up inside."

Bubble thought for a moment: "What should we talk about?"

Yu Zi breathed a sigh of relief when she saw that she was willing to talk.

"Tell me about your family. How did you end up here?"

"Bubble has never seen what her parents look like. She used to live with her sister in the orphanage."

"Later, later, the kitchen caught fire, a huge fire."

“Sasha…”

As she spoke, Bubble's eyes reddened, and she hugged the rabbit doll sadly, saying, "Sasha is gone, Kyoko and Yo-kun have left, and Kimiko can't see anymore."

"Eh,"

Unexpectedly, Bubble's experience was so tragic that even Yuko was speechless for a moment.

Looking at Bubble's dejected profile, a thought suddenly struck her: "Ahem, Bubble, do you know where people go after they die?"

"Where to? No, didn't it die? Where could it go?" Bubble was full of questions.

"The body may be dead, but the soul remains."

Yu Zi leaned closer with a mysterious look on her face: "I'll tell you a secret, good children will go to heaven and become angels after they leave this world."

"Where is heaven?" Bubble stopped crying and asked curiously.

“It’s a nice place.” Yuko recalled the fairy tales she used to read: “A nice place with no death, no war, and spring-like weather all year round.”

"Then, what is an angel?" Bubble asked again.

"Hmm, it's a good child with wings, who gets good food every day, lives in a big house, and is carefree!"

Yu Zi breathed a sigh of relief after speaking, and quickly added, "I don't know anything else, I've never been there."

"By the way, don't ask me how I know all this, it's a secret."

Bubble lowered her head and pondered for a while, then suddenly burst into tears: "Wow, Sasha can't go to heaven, what should we do, what should we do?"

"Huh, why?"

"Because, because only good children go to heaven. But, Sasha..."

Thinking back on her older sister's past behavior, Bubble became even more heartbroken.

This was truly beyond Yuko's expectations.

Judging from Bubble's expression, she imagined that Bubble's older sister should be gentle, considerate, and sensible.

It seems I've made a mistake.

"It's alright! Even bad kids can go to heaven!"

Yuko racked her brains to weave a plausible lie: "However, however, bad kids and bad people have to work in heaven."

"Need work?"

"Yeah, if you don't work, you won't have anything to eat. But if you're hardworking, you can still live a good life."

"Oh, that's good then." Bubble breathed a sigh of relief.

"That's good." She repeated, a pure smile spreading across Bubble's face. "Sasha and Kimiko must be living a good life in heaven!"

Chapter 60, Section 060: The Murderous Impulse

Going to class as usual, eating as usual, chatting with Bubble as usual, just like any other day...

Sakakibara Ikuko felt that this was not an ordinary daily routine, and if she had to explain why, she had been having a certain feeling that was hard to suppress lately.

She couldn't quite explain what she felt like.

I always feel like I have to do something, but what exactly should I do?

Yuko sat in the chair, turning back and forth, her impulse growing stronger.

The entire classroom fell silent because of the sound of her slamming her hand on the desk.

Yu Zi decided to skip class altogether and got up to leave.

Misa Ohara watched all of this coldly, saying nothing.

"what is going on?"

Yuko wandered aimlessly around the school, trying to find clues.

Did you eat something that upset your stomach?

I didn't eat anything strange.

Is puberty here?

Hmm, I've never heard of puberty being like this.

I got sick?

That doesn't seem right either.

Yuko knew exactly when it started.

It wasn't long, probably around Kimiko's turn...

Kimiko?

The image of her lying in a pool of blood involuntarily flashed before Yuko's eyes.

Hollow eyes, broken body, intense sense of death, blood everywhere.

Yuko's impulse became increasingly difficult to control, and in an instant, she understood something.

No, that can't be.

Sakakibara Ikuko gave a strange look.

However, this is the only explanation.

They wanted to destroy things, to kill things, to want more, more deaths.

"I never thought I'd finally become so strange," Yuko thought sadly.

She doesn't reject her impulses, but she also doesn't want to lose her future.

In the future, Yu Zi wants to leave this school, go shopping, buy new clothes, and go to the movies.

She's still very young, and there are so many things she wants to do but hasn't done yet.

"You must restrain yourself and not act impulsively!"

“Sakakibara Ikuko, this is a major crisis that concerns your life.”

Especially since Kimiko had just jumped off a building at the school, if someone else were to die now, Nakamura wouldn't be able to protect her.

"Sigh," Yuko sighed again.

Why did this happen?!

Time always seems to pass slowly when you are patient.

The urge to kill tormented Yuko constantly, and she began to have nightmares.

In her dream, she went on a killing spree at the school.

Nakamura, his classmates, Misa Ohara... were all tortured to death by her.

Sweat soaked her pillow, and Ikuko Sakakibara often woke up from nightmares.

Upon waking, I was met with an endless sense of emptiness.

My blood is burning, my throat is parched, and I desperately want to destroy something.

"Ikuko"

"Ikuko!" Feeling someone pull her hand, Sakakibara Ikuko snapped back to reality.

She was holding chopsticks, lost in thought, while Bubble looked at her with concern.

'Are you finally starting to hallucinate?'

Just moments ago I was lost in fantasies of killing, but I was suddenly jolted awake to find myself eating.

"Nothing, I was just spacing out for a bit," Sakakibara Ikuko said casually, but her eyes were fixed on Bubbles' neck.

Fair and supple skin.

Sakakibara Ikuko swallowed hard.

"I don't have much of an appetite, I'm leaving now!"

Ignoring Bubbles' shouts behind her, she ran quickly out of the cafeteria.

Oh my god, this is really awful.

Just now, she almost couldn't resist taking action.

This is too strange, Yuko couldn't help but wonder.

I've never had any similar warning signs before, so how did I suddenly become like this?

If Nakamura were here and saw this scene, he would probably be overjoyed.