Extra Story: Hakata Rei’s Life

1st September, 2018.

The Hakata household is very sucks. My mother and father only care in family business. The reason for my life's nothing but just to inherit the family business. I really don't want any of this treatments, I only want my family is full of happiness. I went to talk with my parents about it and they said something I can't give a reply.

"If we don't have moneys, from where will happiness will come at us!?"

My parents want me to inherit their business. For my future, it's certainly that I have 100% of chance to get a job, but they never understand me, I wanted to become an English teacher.

Being a teacher was my dream since I was 6 years old. I don't know why, but maybe because I think I kinda admired that job and I'm good at English subject, and maybe I think it is fun to interact with people.

"I'm going to be a teacher!"

Hearing that, make my parents colder than before. I really... hate this family...

In the end of September, I decided to leave my home and refuse the offer to inherit the family business. My parents didn't say anything when I leave.

I went to Seigo academy to be a teacher in training and live at a very small apartment and very cheap too of course.

Even though my parents keep quiet when I leave, they keep giving me allowances and hoping me to inherit the family business. I always sent back the allowances they sent to my apartments and I repeat it again and again until now.

I'm just walking around when I met her. She greets me with smiles. Her name was Karakuri Kazuki, an P.E. teacher who has been working there for 1 year. In other words, she's my senior as workimg teacher.

She's still 22 years old, not to tall and not to short, long red haired and attractive. I... fall in love at the first sight.

She's so nice to me. When I told her about my family, she didn't mess in with questions so much.


In December, I officially became a teacher. I proposed to Kazuki at Christmas night. I won't forget what she said to me, *just like snow falls, I think I have fallen in love with you too. White is symbolizing purity and red symbolizes courage, in this holy night you have become a red knight and I as your choice, accept your love!*.

I’m startled, a P.E teacher could came up with that poetic lines. I’m happy too with that answer, the past I have, feels like just a nightmare before happiness.

17th April, 2019.

Today, I plan to move out, so I packed my properties and preparing for my move out.

When I opened my apartment's door in the morning, I found two shadows who was creeping me out these 20 years, right, my parents come to my apartment...

No matter how many times I refused, my parents keep being stubborn and asked me to come back. What now? It's too late! I already found the purpose of my life!

"I... will move to the dorm that my school built for students with cheap fees. Don’t bother me again!"

The debates keep going on and stopped at noon. Of course I don't want them to rule my future, I have rights here! I... don't want to back with tbat kind of parents...

My parents leave and say, *you'll regret your choice!*. Kazuki already moved to that dorm and I'm forced to stay here by my parents till noon.

The dorm just opened this April, it's an old one but it can be used by students wbo want to live there, the fees are just 2000 yen per month.

When, I got to the dorm, sakura flowers flew away, I saw a girl standing in front of the dorm. I tried to talk with her.

"Um... Kazuki's niece?"

"Yes!"

She greets me with smile just like when I first met Kazuki. Her name is Karakuri Yuri, first year middle school student who will be the first student that moves here.

That's when the tragedy happened.

Two shadows appeared in the dark and stab the girl.

The girl fell to the ground. The blood won’t stop. The girl just stays quiet. The shadows are laughing evilly.

The shadows still hide in the darkness. But they certainly said *people around you will suffers, Rei!*. With that, I knew these two know me. More precisely, I can predict who are the shadows really are, they are my own parents…

“With this… you must know… you’ll go home with us now!”

My dad said a thing and did a thing human law won’t allow.

“…calm and come back with us…”

This is wrong!

“We will defile our hands if it’s needed…”

Wrong!

What’s with that… you even involve the people who aren’t involved in the beginning... parents like these two, I don’t need them!

“Sorry… mom… dad… you two…”

I took a pen from my pocket, and stabbed them.

“…will die on my hand…”

I went blank. My head is full of killing intention. There’s nothing I can see. My body moves on its own. My hand rise automatically. I felt I swing my hands many times. My ears only hear the word from my heart and flowed to my mouth.

 

“Kill!”

 

My dad resisted and tried to stab me. But I clearly dodged it. My mom just saw the beast that restrained inside of me. I unleash my true feelings for these 20 years I live with them. I can’t even have fun a bit. Then, I stabbed both of them.

The grey road turns into red. They screamed but I can’t hear them. In my life, I called that night as Bloody Night.

Without realizing, I became a murderer. I stab my own parents with a pen that I always use for teaching my students.

I check on Yuri, she’s already not breathing. I’m wrong to not aid her first. I’ll not tell anyone about Yuri’s death.

Today, I became a hitokiri and killed 3 people.

Covering what happened that night, I just said I killed all of them on the internet, leaving a fake proof, it’s all for keeping Kazuki safe. If citizens got involved in this, the percentage they can be freed of doubt is just 1%.

22nd April, 2020.

1 year have passed after I jailed by the police. When they asked the reason I killed 3 people, I said, I’ve sick with this life, the other one just a trespasser who got involved.

Even if I told them the truth, they won’t believe me, that’s humans are. Searching the truth but they won’t believe such a truth.

Kazuki? Maybe she’ll believe, but I don’t want her to know that my parents were Yuri’s murderer. That kind of truth, I will seal it!

Today, a mysterious young boy come to check me.

"Hakata Rei, wasn't it?"
"Who are you?"

He didn't answer my question. He looks like a middle schooler and wearing the Seigo uniform.

"You... came after hearing that murder incident, didn't you?"
"Yes, it's pretty a long time passed after I heard about that incident."
"Then... what do you want?"
"Forcing you to make a suicide."

He answers with a flat tone.

"Ahahahaha! You? Force me to commit suicide? Are you even now who I am? I am a Hitokiri you know. Ahahahaha!"

I put a strong act with laughing out loud, people don't meed to know the truth, evidence are zero. They just need to know that I'm a hitokiri and killed 3 people at that night.

"I killed 3 people you know~? Ahahaha!"

Hurry up and go, brat! You don't need to know the truth! I'm the only one who knew. Just go away...

"Hakata Rei, became an official teacher on christmas year 2018."
"Huh...?"
"Confess his love at that time too."
"Wha-?"

"The partner said more poetic line than him."
"Ho-?"

"On April, year 2018, he killed 3 people."

Tch... this brat...

"If you know so much, so why are you come here?"
"I never know the reason you become a hitokiri."
"... I just... fell like to..."
"THAT'S NOT TRUE!"

This brat... shout too loud... there's no reason for that...

"That makes no sense at all, hitokiri because you like it? Screw that! That's not an answer, it's just an excuse!"

What's this brat... he's too deep in digging the truth, even you learn, it will be no use to you anyway...

"Saw this rotten apple? If you pour blood, it looks like a new one but still not back to normal in look."
"What do you want to say? Is it okay to leave you defenseless against a hitokiri."

I moved my body and pulled a pen that I used before. I try to intimidate him with acting as a hitokiri. I grabbed that brat’s uniform and put my pen right on his neck just like I did to my parents that night.

“You have the wrong person to deal with.”

I can feel my hands are shaking. I don’t become a hitokiri by my own will, but with a control of desire. I made a mistake that night, it’s not wrong to make the same mistake. After all, I don’t have anything left to throw away.

"…now… stay still…”

Even though I trembling, shaking, want to runaway, this brat doesn’t make any move. This brat doesn’t make any sense at all. He’s facing with a hitokiri, but he’s not afraid at all. Instead, his expression was scarier than me.

Ignoring him, it seems he walk closer and closer to me, without realizing, a syringe has been injected to me. He took some of my own blood.

It’s not on my wrist, but… for what… this brat…

“…you…”
“Give me your hand!”
“Huh?!”

“Give-me-your-hand-!”
“So, what’s the reason? You wanted me to commit suicide? How did you gonna do it?”

I lowered my guard too much. He poured my blood to my hands.

“Now, all of the Hakata family’s been murdered by Rei. You have no family, your name is just Rei, thrown aside by the public, a criminal, and…”

This boy makes no reason at all…

Kazuki, you must know him right? Come and bring him out of here…

“Kazuki…”
“If you’re looking for Kazuki-sensei, she’s been tailing me to here.”

The boy pointed at the door, Kazuki’s certainly standing there.

“No, maybe there’s another one. Come out Yuri!”
“You found us, Kouta…”

A girl I saw that night, Karakuri Yuri… but… how… the hell… I’m sure she’s not breathing anymore that night… she’s dead… I… kill him…

“You didn’t kill me!”
“Eh…?”

This must be an illusion.

“I’m sure I was stabbed from behind, and I’m sure the other people you killed were my murderer, even you knew they were your own parents, thanks Rei-san!”

Just a thanks can’t bring anything from dead, just from killing won’t make any deed.

“I… am a… hitokiri…”

Right, no matter what happens, I can’t save anyone, with my killing action that time, it only increase the number of dead people. I… can’t save just a little girl… That night, the right thing to do is call the ambulance first, yet I…

“I’m sorry…”
“I forgive you… Rei-san.”

Yuri hugged me, a year since I have felt warmness like this, this is not an illusion. 1 year I’ve stayed in jail, it is very cold. I want to get out from here, but…

“I… have no right to come out…”
“Hakata Rei, no, Rei. With this, the victim of your crime just said she forgive you, with this, you have rights to leave the jail.”

That boy declares such a weird proclamation. There’s no way I can get out from here just by that.

“New rule about prison: if the victim forgave the criminal, the criminal can be freed.”
“That ru-“

“Established by Japanese government at 12:10 in 22nd April, 2020.”

Why now? Exactly when these guys coming to see me…

“Rei-san, please marry Kazuki-onee-chan!”
“Onee-chan? Not Oba-sa-”

Kazuki slapped me, I forgot that’s how she is.

“Idiot!”

“…sorry…”
“Why didn’t you tell me about what happened?”
“…that better, if you hear the story, you’ll just end up hating all people…”
“That’s not true!”
“Eh?”
“I heard from Yuri, you just don’t know what to do at that night…”
“That means…Yuri’s still alive…”
“No, she died. That night, you can’t save her.”

The boy gives me an expression, just like I did that night. He makes me face the expression I’ve made right after being a hitokiri, and that brings trauma back.

“She’s a spirit, I materialized her existence, it’s my job is to make people to lead people who did make mistakes to the right path. I don’t want people make the same mistake as me.”
“…that means…”
“These two have forgives you. Rei, you have been freed according to the brand new law.”
“Is that even fine…”
“You don’t have any families. Hakata Rei is dead. Now, your name is only Rei, no, maybe you’ll become Karakuri Rei.”

The boy said thing that is unexpected in real life. Since the truth already exposed, I have nothing to say anymore. This boy, succeed in making me commit suicide, in a movies like way. Geez, is this boy a protagonist in movies, he’s super irritating.

Kazuki ran off to me and give me a push toward the floor.

“Kazuki?”
“Baka-Rei!”

“Huh?”
“I never forget you this 1 year! You just make me sadder when you leave me alone!”

She cried all out. I can’t stop it. That boy and Yuri just stay quiet and waited till Kazuki cry ended.

“Boy… your name?”
“Igashiro Kouta, transferred to Seigo academy yesterday, nice to meet you, Rei-san!”
“Same with me.”

I really glad they came today. I really glad that you’ve found a really good student, Kazuki.

I, Rei, have been freed from the jail with the help from a meddling middle school boy. Really, kids are unpredictable.