LOVE OR DEAD
CHAPTER 25: THE DEATH OF KENJI

After the incident in the toilet, Kenji fell silent not daring to look at me. Could he be embarrassed or scared?. I pura – pura ignore that and sing along.

Hayami sat down next to Kenji and asked him to speak, while Naoko and I were singing.

“Why is your face, Kenji?” ask Hayami.

“Nothing – what” replied Kenji.

“Then it is so good for us here” invite Hayami.

“My voice is not good, next time” said Kenji.

“Contact, don't strain like that. We're here to play, show your cheer. By the way – by the way, I have given the opportunity to get acquainted with Yoshiko” Hayami fishing line.

Kenji just shut up and drank the canned drink on the table.

Finished enjoying the fun in karaoke, we walked the four of us to the inn. In the room before going to bed Naoko invites me to chat while looking at the sky – room sky.

“What do you think of Kenji?”.

“Customize”.

“I wonder why Hayami brought such an unattractive man”.

“Hmmm..entah”.

“Sayami said she is a junior lecturer at one of the universities in Tokyo”.

“Oh yes..”

“Seeing the person is a bit stiff hard to interact with, is it because he's a nerd?”.

“Maybe”.

“But at least he's plain”.

“Ya..”.

“Hei...Yoshiko, what kind of man do you like?”.

“He was warm, always smiling at me, he never got angry even though I made a lot of mistakes. Although he is weak yet he is very brave to defend and protect me”.

“Wah..he's like a hero, it's hard to find him. Hayami is also a warm and humorous man, but he likes to be jealous and nagging if I make a mistake. At least he's a loving man”.

“Are you going to marry him?”.

“If he proposed to me, I would marry him. We date already 4 years this”.

“I'm sure she'll marry you”.

“Hopefully, by the way – said when we were in the hot spring I saw a small burn scar on your back. What's that wound?”.

“It...used sting jellyfish – jellyfish, just think so”.

“Hmmm...whatever, let's go to bed tomorrow I have to work”.

Naoko then turned her back to Yoshiko and pulled the blanket over her face. While I remember the persecution I received from Kawaki. The cigarette stubs at the resort at the time, became evidence of the violence I received from him. May those bad memories disappear…

I was right – really restless to find Uta in Tokyo. Is the path I took here wrong?. I hope it's just an unrepeatable whip.

On the other hand Uta partied with the comfort women, all the members of the group finally attended and joined. Kawaki came last with his sadistic face, he just sat down and drank the alcohol in front of him.

All singing and true – true party full of madness…

Uta arrived – to speak up, “Kawaki, I saw the woman exactly like jal@ng Chiyo. We had a chat because his girlfriend hit me in karaoke. Not wrong with her face like a betel in two, only her hair is short and her face is wearing make up”.

“No face is the same unless they are twins or they are both the same person. Nemo tried to investigate all the CCTV in Karaoke was” Kawaki said with a cynical smile.

“Good, tomorrow I will browse” replied Nemo.

“Hear the name alone, as if an exciting game sign will start” Kawaki said then laughed.and invited toast with eyes full of hatred. All welcome and toast with joy.

Two days after that…

Kenji in a hanging position, his hands tied in chains pulled up. Two masked Oni (a mask depicting the form of a typical Japanese devil that is creepy). Water splashed onto his face until he woke up.

“Where am I?! Please let go!!” yell Kenji scared.

“You don't need to know, you will live if you answer my question correctly” Kawaki said with sharp eyes wearing a mask and a black hat.

A picture of Chiyo was given to Kenji.

“You know?” ask Kawaki.

“He is similar to Yoshiko” replied Kenji.

“Who is Yoshiko?” ask Kawaki.

“She's the woman Hayami introduced us to when we went to the hot spring a few days ago” Kenji replied.

“Are you guys dating?” ask Kawaki.

“No, we just got to know when it” explained Kenji.

“Where does he stay?” ask Kawaki.

“I don't know, I just know he works at Hayami's cafe in the suburbs of Tokyo” replied Kenji.

“Who is Hayami?” ask Kawaki.

“He was my friend when SMA” replied Kenji.

“Then what is the relationship Hayami and this girl” asked Kawaki.

“He's Yoshiko's boss and Yoshiko's sister's boyfriend Naoko. That's all I know, please let go of me” added Kenji.

Nemo immediately gives Kenji's phone, and Kawaki draws closer to Kenji's face to unlock his phone. He found Hayami's phone number and photos of the four of them together at the inn. Kawaki ngezoom photo of a woman called Chiyo-like. While smiling cynically he said softly “Ketemu”.

Behind Kawaki, Kenji was beaten with iron blocks many times – times with his mouth chopped, his head covered using a black cloth. Until Kenji's body does not budge and dies, Uta releases her mask to Kawaki who is still busy looking at Chiyo's photo.

“The corpse man wants us what?” ask Uta.

“Cut his hand for fingerprints by – by the police, the rest of his body drowned to the Japanese sea border with a concrete chain until forever he did not appear to the surface. We have to lure a stray rabbit” orders Kawaki with a smile of satisfaction.

The next day, the rest of Tokyo is in an uproar with the discovery of a palm in a box wrapped in a gift box in front of the security universias post where Kenji teaches. At once the local police station arrived and identified that it was a human hand and entered the forensic laboratory.

It became a news that shocked Tokyo until all television stations and all media raised the case. I after breakfast, stared at the television screen in the living room while preparing the bag I was going to use for work. At first I ignored the news because the identity of the victim was not known.

When the police published the identity of the victim after being identified from fingerprints and residual blood from those on the palm of the hand. Kenji's name is mentioned in various media, even some sources are good family, coworkers in several media interviews.

I was at the time when the news came out on the caffe with Hayami, staring at the television screen hanging on one of the caffe walls. Immediately limp to the floor, Hayami was frozen to hear his friend was the victim of a murder case that was being discussed.

“What is Kawaki?” my question in my heart, I got up and staggered – hermaids towards the bar. Taking a glass of water and drinking it, it was as if my throat was choked knowing that Kenji was a newly met man and that he knew he had died from a sadistic death.

“Why Kenji died so tragically, what's wrong until like this. How cruel the killer was” Hayami said restraining her anger.

Chiyo was silent and didn't care about Hayami's words.

“Yoshiko..tomorrow I will go to visit, I will leave this cafe to you. In the alumni chat group there was already a lot of news about Kenji's death. The family decided to hold a funeral, although the rest of his body was not found” Hayami said.

“Hopefully this is not because of me, he was killed so tragically” I said inwardly.

“KRING..KRING...OLALALAALA” sounds a ringtone from Hayami's phone.

A phone went into Hayami's phone, when Hayami picked up and turned off.

“Now there are so many pranksters, I have been called several days by an unknown number repeatedly but there is no sound” Hayami said annoyed.

My gut feeling is bad, but I'm trying to calm down.

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