I, Who Longs To Be A Dependent, Have Decided To Be Owned By A Yandere - Chapter 20

Memories of Kinugasa Yura 1

Kinugasa Maria was “born” when Kinugasa Yura was 9 years old.

“…Who are you?”

“Kinugasa Maria. I’m your friend.”

Due to her introverted and kind personality, Yura, who had no friends, was the only one who could see Maria. As Yura grew older, so did Maria.

“Hey, Yura.”

“What, Maria?”

Yura, who is shy, seeks her side by leaning on Maria, and her isolation accelerates.

Yura’s misfortune didn’t end there. The “cruelty towards living creatures” that many children experience had become her “ultimate solo playtime,” due to her lack of friends.

“Let’s make some other friends, not just me.”

“You’re my friend, Maria.”

In a dark room, dissecting a frog she had caught, Yura, now a middle schooler, muttered with a twisted smile.

“Everyone finds me creepy… Why are they scared of the beautiful red color of intestines?”

“…Hey, Yura.”

“What?”

Yura’s reflection in the mirror subtly transformed, projecting an idolized version of herself as the beloved “Maria.”

“I’m surely your ideal form.”

“Yeah. I think Maria is the most beautiful in the world.”

“But, our faces are the same.”

In the mirror, the reflection of Maria smiled charmingly.

“Yura can become Maria. After all, I am the ideal you, surely you can make precious friends.”

“But, I don’t need that!!”

Stabbing a scalpel into a frog’s belly, Yura stood up forcefully.

“I don’t need friends!! Just having Maria is enough!! There’s no one who can save me!! If such a person existed, they would be nothing less than a ‘God’!!”

“…Yura”

Turning her face away from her sorrowful friend, she shifted her focus back to the frog, struggling for its last breath.

The frog, its belly torn open, languishing as it awaited death, seemed to mirror her own life.

Yura had believed she was destined to die alone… until she was whimsically caught up in the life of Kiriyama Akira

“Hey!. Hand over the money.”

“…Eh?”

Returning from middle school and about to procure frogs for dissection, Yura encountered a boy, a pitiable sight, with one hand thrust forward.

“Didn’t you hear me? Hurry up and hand over the money. I’ve finally escaped that woman’s prison, and made it back here. I need bus fare to get to the police before I’m caught.”

His clothes were tattered from top to bottom, his face, arms, and legs marked with Scratches, standing as if such a state was the norm for him.

“Ex, extortion is, a, a crime—”

“Obviously, are you stupid? What, you’re gonna say ‘that’s walking’ when someone starts walking? I know that, now give me the money.”

Intimidated by his rough tone, Yura opened her wallet and the boy looked inside with a broad grin.

“You’re rich, huh?”

“Uh… I don’t really understand…”

When Yura offered a ten-thousand-yen note, the boy casually took a thousand yen from her wallet and tucked it into his back pocket.

“I’ll borrow just this,”

“Compared to that woman who had a gambling addiction, you seem more fitting for me… Should I change my preferences?”

“Huh, change?”

“What’s your name?”

“I-It’s, Kinugasa, Yu-Yura.”

“Kinugasa Yura, Kinugasa Yura… Alright, I’ve memorized it.”

As a woman’s scream could be heard from somewhere, the smiling young man gripped Yura’s hand and whispered.

“I’m the type that remembers a person’s name instead of their face. I’ve memorized your name now. Let’s meet again, my cash cow.”

With an implausible speed, he started running and vanished from sight in no time. Dumbfounded , Yura who was left standing there– The next day, he, who was in the same school as her, Kiriyama Akira , had all her problems solved in just one single day.

“How, how did this happen…?”

In the deserted science lab, Yura, astonished, watched a group of boys and girls kneeling before her, while Akira, nonchalantly playing on his mobile game, looked on.

“You’re being bullied, right? They’re the ringleaders. I think it’s clear, but they’re apologizing to you.”

“Why? How did you do it?”

The girls who tore up and flushed Yura’s textbooks down the toilet, the boys who carved obscene words into her desk, the several students who had physically assaulted her in every conceivable way… all of them were trembling, prostrating themselves before her.

“I don’t know.”

“Huh?”

“If I wished for it, ‘someone’ would just take care of it. The key to the science lab was just in the shoe locker. I didn’t do anything. But this scene, if the honor student Minatsuki-san saw it, she might snitch to the teacher, and I’d be in big trouble.”

Turning off his mobile game, Kiriyama Akira grinned mischievously.

“I am like a genie of the lamp.”

Sitting confidently on the desk in the science lab, he held her hand, which no one in school dared to touch, with great care.

“I’ll grant two more of your wishes.”

At that moment, Yura’s yandere heart was throbbing intensely.