A stormy night passed, and the sky was surprisingly bright. The morning sun rose high, its golden rays piercing through the thin clouds, as if plating them with a magnificent golden edge.
Kira Yoshikage suffered immensely that night, his mind on the verge of collapse several times.
Kira Yoshihiro was dead!
He died at the hands of two petty thieves.
This was incredibly unbelievable, but fate was truly so absurd and ridiculous.
Last night, during the lightning and thunder, two petty thieves broke into the Kira family home, intending to steal something, but were discovered by Kira Yoshihiro.
Kira Yoshihiro didn't know what he was thinking, perhaps out of boredom or a sudden whim, he hid inside the possessed camera and played with the two ordinary people.
Just as he was having a great time, one of them coincidentally smashed the camera!
Kira Yoshihiro, deceased!
Kira Yoshikage arrived late and stayed in his father's room the entire night, not closing his eyes once.
"Fate is too unpredictable. Even a tiny variable can cause my entire world to undergo drastic changes… Killer Queen, can you help me? Go back to the past, and let me truly grasp peace of mind and happiness in my hands."
Kira Yoshikage stood in front of the full-length mirror, looking at Killer Queen in the mirror, while tidying his attire and muttering to himself.
Killer Queen floated beside Kira Yoshikage, like a pink bipedal cat, its eyes resolute.
"Find a way to preserve those hands, and then, leave Morioh Town!"
Kira Yoshikage combed his hair into an adult style, placed the Substitute Arrow at his lower back, and strode out of the room, just like any morning when he needed to go to work and clock in.
His intuition told him—Morioh Town was no longer safe.
Take those hands, more perfect than the Mona Lisa's, and leave Morioh Town!
This was his greatest wish now.
A wish that must not be destroyed.
Essentially, Kira Yoshikage was an incredibly cowardly person, afraid of sudden changes and afraid of being exposed to a dangerous atmosphere.
…
Kira Yoshikage headed to the same coffee shop as yesterday.
And after he left, another "Kira Yoshikage" openly entered the Kira family home.
It was Vermouth, the Thousand-Faced Witch, in disguise.
She didn't know that Kira Yoshihiro had already died, so she pretended to have forgotten something and rummaged through the rooms.
Su Ze had been remotely monitoring Vermouth with the Invisible Bamboo Dragonfly and couldn't help but frown when he saw her fail to find the Substitute Arrow for a long time.
Indeed, an unexpected event had occurred.
…
"Damn it, damn it, damn it! Where is the thing!?"
Fifteen minutes had passed, but Vermouth had found neither the Substitute Arrow nor the camera supposedly hiding Kira Yoshihiro. She stood in the hall, gently biting her finger, sweat beading on her forehead.
The situation was becoming extremely dire.
If this operation failed, the difficulty of the next one would multiply!
Just then, a sound came from the Daimon.
Kira Yoshikage was back!
"Damn it!" Kira Yoshikage's face was grim. He paused when he pushed open the door, then hurried to the washroom on the second floor.
Large, dirty water stains covered his chest.
He had been near the coffee shop, and just as he got out of his car, another car passed by, splashing the accumulated water from a pothole onto him!
This was absolutely intolerable for him, and he couldn't approach the owner of those hands in such a state, so he rushed back.
Click!
The washroom door closed, and the water heater rumbled.
A few minutes later, Vermouth emerged from behind the sofa and walked calmly towards the second floor.
If the Substitute Arrow wasn't at home, then only one possibility remained.
—It was on Kira Yoshikage!
Kira Yoshikage was showering, which was a golden opportunity.
Clothes and trousers were placed outside the washroom door, and among them was the Substitute Arrow.
Vermouth's face lit up with joy. She had thought she would have to face Kira Yoshikage, but she didn't expect him to be so careless.
"He's a person with obsessive-compulsive disorder… Is it because he really couldn't Stand the dirt on him?"
Vermouth's mind instinctively came up with a reasonable explanation. She quickly stepped forward and grabbed the Substitute Arrow.
Bang!
Just then, the washroom door was shattered by a punch from Killer Queen, and Kira Yoshikage, wrapped in a bath towel, appeared behind the door.
He looked at Vermouth, who was almost a one-to-one replica of himself, a hint of surprise flashing in his eyes, then he sneered:
"Do you know why I put my clothes outside the washroom?"
"Because I didn't want the bomb to affect me."
"I touched that clothing!"
"Ganar!"
A rumbling explosion rang out!
In the fire and smoke, Vermouth was blown away.
Kira Yoshikage smiled, then saw Vermouth retreat rapidly, breaking through the window and escaping.
How was that possible!
To suffer a close-range explosion and still run so fast!
It was those shoes that had grown wings!
Kira Yoshikage's thoughts flashed, and he was already giving chase.
…
"He didn't discover my position, otherwise he would have attacked directly… He just knew someone was in the house… The bow and arrow were a trap."
"When did he realize this?"
"When he entered the house… The carpet… Footprints!"
Vermouth was covered in blood, her eyes barely able to open, but her mind still rapidly completed the deduction.
"Miss Sanshoku Kin, can you still hold on? I'll take you to the hospital now," Takashi Miki asked anxiously.
If she didn't get treatment soon, Sanshoku Kin would surely die from excessive blood loss.
Vermouth looked back at the relentlessly pursuing Kira Yoshikage, gritted her teeth, and threw the Substitute Arrow into the distance.
Now she could only abandon the chariot to save the king!
Suddenly, Su Ze appeared beside Vermouth and raised his hand to grab the Substitute Arrow.
Time Stop!
Su Ze used Time Stop!
When he noticed something was amiss here, he immediately used Time Stop to get there.
Vermouth stopped at once.
"Suze!" Takashi Miki exclaimed, transforming from a shoe into a human.
Vermouth's body swayed, almost falling to the ground. She was wearing a pair of heightened Martin boots, the only way she could match Kira Yoshikage's height.
The three of them looked solemnly at Kira Yoshikage, and Su Ze was no exception.
Unless absolutely necessary, he didn't want to meet such a "protagonist."
Now he could only see if there was any room for recovery.
If Kira Yoshikage insisted on being their enemy, then they could only nip it in the bud.
At that time, the fate on him would increase again.
Uncomfortable.
If he didn't kill him, he was afraid that fate would cause trouble using Kira Yoshikage as a pawn.
"Who exactly are you people?" Kira Yoshikage's expression was grave, Killer Queen protecting him by his side.
A strong sense of being manipulated and ominous feeling emerged in his heart.
"We are just here to retrieve this Substitute Arrow; we have no intention of being your enemy," Su Ze said, spreading his hands.
"Oh, ho ho!" Kira Yoshikage immediately became enraged: "So you killed my father! And that Oriental Woman yesterday was sent by you?! Where is that Oriental Woman, hand her over quickly!"
Takashi Miki scratched his head and said with innocent eyes, "You have a hand fetish, right? The hands yesterday were transformed by me; I can't give them to you."
This sentence was nothing short of a giant bomb, mercilessly shattering Kira Yoshikage's longed-for world into dust, bringing a sense of despair countless times greater than the death of Kira Yoshihiro!!