Chapter 20 The Long Atonement
Thirteen years ago, Obon Festival.
Nagano Kawai could never forget that secluded path. The air was filled with the smell of ginkgo, the treads jingled not far away, the crossing railings slowly lowered, and a moment later the train rumbled past.
"I'm sorry, I told you I didn't mean it..." The younger brother followed her and begged in a low voice: "Can you forgive me? You will get half of the pudding tonight..."
Nagano Kawai no longer remembers what she was arguing about. Anyway, it must have been a trivial matter. She only remembered that she pushed her brother and shouted:
"Go to hell! I hate you the most!"
What followed was the sound of impact and the sound of bones and flesh shattering. She would never forget the scene of her brother's face being crushed by a tire. The car paused for a moment, reversed, started sprinting, reversed again, started again... The ninety-second green light turned into a long torture.
It wasn't until the red light came on, the road railings slowly rose, the car lowered its windows, and the owner glanced at the body that he sped across the railroad tracks.
Afterwards, everyone said that it was not Kawai's fault. It was the green light at the time and she was just messing around with her brother.
However, when Kawai raised her head and looked at the Buddha statue with compassion in its eyes, she only felt that she was guilty.
In order to atone for her sins, she tortured herself day by day for ten years.
Memory is the most unreliable thing. Kawai was afraid that he would forget that face. Therefore, before she went to sleep every night, she would close her eyes and constantly recall the scene at that time - recalling the smell of the ginkgo tree, recalling the hurried alarm bell, recalling her brother's bloody body, and recalling the picture that poked out from the car window. face.
She had a nightmare for thirteen years before Chizuru Sakurai's face was carved into her bones.
"I didn't want to commit murder, so I went to ask for the Royal Buddha Lotus nine times and asked Vajra Buddha if he could take revenge..."
Nagano Kawai whispered: "Nine times are good luck."
She pulled the trigger suddenly, only to hear a crisp sound as the bullet jammed.
Compared with firearms, Japan has stricter control over bullets. Therefore, Naganogawa used reloading bullets. Due to different models, shell deformation, moisture in the gunpowder and other factors, this type of reloading bullet has a high jamming rate.
Big beads of sweat appeared on Sakurai Chizuru's forehead. She slowly turned her head, glanced at Kawai behind her with her peripheral vision, and said urgently:
"How can you abuse lynching as a police officer? I will surrender! Please, please give me a chance to apologize!"
Fushimi Lu leaned back, leaned on the back of the chair, and said in a strange tone: "Yes, it has only been thirteen years, and the prosecution period has not passed yet. Wouldn't it be a perfect merit to let the law punish her? Doesn't Buddhism emphasize putting down the butcher's knife to achieve success immediately? Buddha? ”
Nagano Kawai turned a deaf ear. She removed the jammed bullets, reloaded the gun, and said: "If all five bullets are jammed, it's God's will, I'll go; if not, it's God's will, and I will be your retribution."
Hearing this, Instructor Sakurai realized that the crisp sound just now was the sound of a bullet jamming.
If she was unlucky, her head would be open right now.
"Wait!"
She quickly said: "If you kill me, wouldn't you be a murderer too! Then why are you alive? Call the police. The most rational choice is to call the police -"
"Yes, I deserve to die too." Nagano Kawai turned the gun, pointed it at his temple, and pulled the trigger without hesitation.
There was a crisp click and the bullet jammed again.
"This is God's will."
She removed the bullet, reloaded the gun, and pointed the gun at Sakurai Chizuru again.
However, after jamming twice in a row, the gun lost its deterrence. Sakurai Chizuru suddenly turned around, pulled out a piercing knife from her suitcase, and leaned over!
At the same time, Nagano Kawai pulled the trigger!
Thunder roared in the sky, lightning pierced the dark clouds, and the sound of gunfire was lost in the heavy rain.
The bullet passed through Chizuru Sakurai's abdomen, grazed Fushimi Deer's ear, and embedded itself in the wooden table. The latter was shocked, and his auricles hurt. He stretched out his hand and touched it, but it was all covered in blood.
Tsk, DNA is left behind. Fushimi Shika frowned and looked up, only to see Sakurai Chizuru relying on inertia to stab the sharp knife in his hand into Nagano Kawai's chest. The latter did not hide and shot Sakurai Chizuru again in the abdomen.
The thunder is rolling, deafening and deafening.
Sakurai Chizuru was so painful that she burst into tears, and her rather heroic face became particularly ferocious at this moment. She squeezed out the last bit of strength and twisted the handle of the knife. Nagano Kawai spurted out a mouthful of blood and the pistol fell to the ground.
The two of them staggered two steps at the same time and fell to the ground.
Chizuru Sakurai panted heavily, her pupils shrank, and adrenaline was continuously secreted to suppress the pain.
For the rest of her life, she held her stomach and laughed wildly.
"I survived! I'm still alive! This is God's will! Did you see it! This is God's will! You madman! This happened so many years ago, it makes no sense! You attacked me for such an inexplicable reason , go to hell! Go to hell—"
The words stopped abruptly.
A shadow fell on Sakurai Chizuru's face.
She raised her head, her eyes widened, and her pupils reflected the black muzzle of the gun.
"——Wait——"
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Kang!
Fushimi Shika pulled the trigger.
The first round jammed, so he unloaded and loaded the gun methodically. Sakurai Chizuru panicked. She shouted, 'I have no grudge against you', 'Why on earth', 'I'm wrong, I know I'm wrong'... Fushimi looked expressionless and pulled the trigger again.
There was a gunshot, the bullet hit the center of the eyebrow, passed through the skull, and blood spattered on Nagano Kawai's police badge.
"This is how a gun should be used."
He turned his head and looked down at Nagano Kawai: "I used the reasoning game as an excuse to hope that Minamoto Tamako and I would stop you from killing people. We were hesitant and uncertain in our hearts, so you ended up like this."
Nagano Kawai struggled to sit up, leaned against the podium, coughed out a mouthful of blood, his eyes full of confusion: "Why...why?"
"You have penetrated her spleen and she is bleeding profusely. Even if I don't shoot, she will be dead." Fushimi Shika said.
"Then why did you need to take another shot?" She still didn't understand.
"First of all, I also hate Chizuru Sakurai. I once defended a hit-and-run prisoner. It was not a pleasant feeling."
"Second, it was my idea to steal the diary, and you didn't confess me. I don't like to owe others, so I am paying off my debt."
Fushimi Lu knelt down, looked into her eyes, and said seriously: "I am the murderer, and you are innocent."
Nagano Kawai was stunned.
There was a buzzing in her cochlea, and her eyes began to feel dizzy, but her heart became relaxed.
The burden that had been weighing on my heart for thirteen years suddenly disappeared. She finally came to the end of the road of atonement where she had to become a murderer. She repaid the guilt in her heart, did not commit any murders, and did not break the promise she made with Minamoto Tamako.
On her deathbed, she returned to six years ago in a trance, where Yuan Yuzi was wearing a high school uniform, holding up an application form and cheering loudly:
"Yoshi! In order to eliminate all evil and uphold the justice in my heart, I announce that the reasoning team has been officially established!"
Hot tears welled up in Nagano Kawai's eyes and fell down her face. She murmured in a low voice:
"Sorry, this is my last question."
(End of chapter)