I, Who Longs To Be A Dependent, Have Decided To Be Owned By A Yandere - Chapter 65

The gunshots rang out, mixing with the natto.

Several days had passed since Yui came to this island to reclaim Akira… and eerily, Fiene, who had not made a move, had summoned her, and Yui was standing in front of her childhood friend.

“Finally, we have a chance to talk.”

Her skin, as clear as crystal white, the beach reflecting sunlight became like a background screen for her model-like “presence form”.

Fiene Almhort, who Yui met for the first time in 10 years, was covering her black swimsuit with a white sun umbrella and glaring at Yui without a smile.

“You didn’t forget our promise, did you? I thought Japanese people were good at keeping such rules stupidly?”

“Why did you bring Akira-kun to this island–”

With a casualness as if she were going on a picnic, Fiene pushed Yui off.

“Huh?”

What spread below her eyes was the cliff bottom where the blue ocean spread. Realizing that the steep cliff would easily destroy her skin and flesh, Yui reached out desperately to the top of the cliff, grabbing the “ground” at Fiene’s “feet”.

Suddenly, her weight fell onto both arms, and a voice of pain involuntarily leaked from her mouth.

“Hello, Japanese. In your country, do you learn that you can answer a question with a question?”

Fiene, who had squatted down on the spot, looked down at Yui with a smile and whispered to her, who was clinging desperately.

“Do you remember me?”

“… I, remember.”

“It’s okay, don’t be so scared. I want to kill you, but I don’t feel like making a risky choice in front of Unya.

Calm down, secure your footing by bending the tip of your right foot inward 15 degrees. You can climb up on your own with your athletic ability, right?”

As Yui climbed up the cliff following Fiene’s instructions, she was smiled at by Fiene who was waiting there, and Yui, who had become sweaty, tasted a sense of defeat.

“Do you know what a elephant gun is?”

“… Eh?”

The topic changed abruptly, the smile without any malice, the relaxed and calm way of speaking… Yui shivered.

This feeling, it was the old Fiene. The time when she didn’t call Akira-kun “Darling” in a silly way.

It wasn’t the time when she was a girl, it was Fiene Almhort, the “monster”.

“Elephant gun. A gun used for big game hunting to enjoy killing large animals.

It has a really grand appearance. That’s why it got the nickname ‘elephant gun’ from the Finnish soldiers.”

“What do you want to say–”

“What do you think would happen if a gun designed to shoot elephants and rhinos shot a human?”

No, I’m being swallowed up! Say something! Say something!

“If a firearm that can penetrate the skin of a pachyderm and inflict a fatal wound shoots a human, the person who gets shot would be shattered into pieces–”

There was a sound that I had never heard before.

The sound disappeared, a severe numbness ran from my ears, a ringing sound dominated the world, and a tremor ran through me a few moments later.

It was a gunshot. A single gunshot.

The heartbeat induced tinnitus, sweat flowing from the forehead entered the eyes, and the fear that I couldn’t even move my fingertips.

The island owned by an individual, the private military company PMC contracted, the elephant gun mentioned as a threat… everything combined with the current situation, and with the smile in front of me, “fear” was engraved into Yui’s heart.

“See, Fii despises women. She can’t stand the thought of her cherished treasures being defiled, destroyed, or turned into something unattainable. She hates watching the things she has held so dearly be snatched away and seeing others happy with them. She wants to keep what’s important to her locked away within her chest, where no one else can get to it.

Fii is…”

Peering into those aquamarine eyes, she sensed madness on the edge of the abyss.

“I hate you.”

It’s hopeless, she can’t win. She shouldn’t have come. Compared to this girl, she’s inferior, always losing, just a top student in Japan, with no field where she can triumph… What flits across Yui’s mind is the guy who loves Kiriyama Akira.

Prompted by her, she found herself opening her mouth.

“…There’s no gunman.”

Barely able to voice out, the demon before her reacts.

“During the earlier gunfire, Fiene gave no signals. Not a gesture or a wave, timing the gunfire would be impossible. I considered the possibility that she specified the number of seconds from the start of the conversation to the gunfire and instructed a gunman to fire warning shots, but there’s no way she could have estimated the time it would take for me to climb up the cliff. If I think about the dramatic elephant gun segment as a ploy to make me believe that ‘gunfire occurred’, it means she intended to give me that preconception from the start.

And the one who pushed me off the cliff was…”

Yui leaned over the edge of the cliff and found a speaker that had been stuck in the blind spot. She ripped it off and thrust it at Fiene.

“It was to plant ‘fear’ in me so that I wouldn’t find this, wasn’t it? If you specify the foothold and act to concentrate my gaze on yourself, there’s almost no chance of it being found.

You just played the sound of a gunshot at max volume with this, didn’t you? There was no actual elephant gun fired.”

Watching Yui blurt out everything at once, Fiene claps her hands with a beautiful smile, then grabs Yui’s shoulder and turns her towards the sea.

Next to Yui’s head, Fiene’s finger, shaped like a gun, is thrust out.

Her index finger, extended straight to the undulating waves. The face drawn on her thumb pointing to the sky seemed to be smiling at Yui.

“BANG!”

A deafening explosion – the wave splashes.

Looking at the bullet that just hit the water before her, she stands there in a daze, her mind shaken by the whispering voice.

“I ‘predicted’ everything.”

Whisper, whisper… the demon whispers.

“Your maximum movement, the range of muscle movement, even your 100-meter dash time, everything is in my head. From where the conversation starts to how it ends, how many seconds it takes to climb from the bottom of the cliff to the top, what conclusion the ensuing conversation reaches… As expected, Yui, you blabbered about the ‘wrong thing’. Why do you fall for Fiene’s ‘trap’? Didn’t you have this in kindergarten too? Just because the cover was in English, you gave up and admitted ‘defeat’?

Nothing has changed. You think you’ve changed, but you haven’t changed at all. If you hadn’t bitten Fiene’s hand, we could have ‘shared’ our precious things.”

With a sigh, Feene expresses her regret.

“It’s really a shame, Yui.”

“I, I… I love Akira…”

“Get lost《unnecessary》”

The moment that command reached her, Yui tried to escape from the spot…

“Ah, by any chance, do you eat natto?”

She ran into her boyfriend Akira, who was wearing only swim trunks and stirring natto.