"Hey, Umi-chan, have you ever seen me thinking about trying harder?"
"Countless~"
"Eh?!" Faced with this unexpected answer, Honoka Kosaka was surprised, "Isn't Umi-chan better than me in everything? Did you see something about me?"
"I'm very reluctant, so I keep it a secret."
"Eh--" Honoka Kosaka shouted unwillingly after being betrayed.
"Kotori and Honoka are my best opponents~"
"Huh? Umi-chan..." Honoka Kosaka was very pleased to be recognized by her friend, "That's right too!"
It was already evening time, and the sky was dyed red by dusk, but in the temple, Nozomi Tojo was still cleaning there.
The sound of footsteps sounded behind Nozomi Tojo. Although it was not a special thing for the temple to have visitors, generally speaking, no one would visit now, which slightly attracted Nozomi Tojo's attention.
The person walking towards Nozomi Tojo is Eli Ayase.
"Huh? Eli dear?"
After waiting for Nozomi Tojo to finish working, Eli Ayase brought Nozomi Tojo back to Akihabara, but Nozomi Tojo did not change out of the miko uniform she was wearing.
"What's wrong? Why are you back again?"
"I suddenly remembered something."
"Huh?"
"I just thought of it when I was walking on the street. The new things that come one after another alternate with each other, and they are constantly changing every day."
The signal light for pedestrians to pass was on, but they did not go to the other side.
"This town can accept anything, no matter what it is."
The sunlight reflects on the glass of the building, which is obviously very dazzling, but very beautiful.
"Maybe it's the most suitable place..."
A gust of wind blew by, blowing her hair.
"As our stage--"
Delicious poison!
At dusk, in a hospital named 'Nishikino General Hospital', Senba Gari followed Takai Geki to the door of a ward with intensive care.
"Do you really want to go in and take a look?" Before going in, Takai Geki suddenly asked Senba Gari, "You must know that the people inside are acting like crazy people now, biting everyone they see."
After listening to Takai Geki's words, Senba Gari thought about it.
"If we don't go in, we won't be able to determine whether this is Mlortha's fault."
"Okay, but be careful, what I just said is not an exaggeration but will really happen." Takai Geki reminded him again and again, and then opened the door.
"Ahhhhh! I want to eat! I want to eat!!!"
Suddenly, a very thin young man wearing patient clothes suddenly emerged from the door, and the thin young man rushed towards Senba Gari like crazy.
Senba Gari did not panic when he saw this, but stretched out his hands to grab the young man's hand with one hand and his collar with the other, then turned around and threw him heavily to the ground.
"Ha!"
--Bang!
"... ugh!"
Being thrown by Senba Gari like this, even an ordinary person would have suffered pain and fell to the ground for a few seconds, not to mention that the young man's body was now very thin, so he passed out.
"What should I do..." Takai Geki looked at Senba Gari quite speechlessly, with eyes that seemed to say, 'You took the initiative to come to ask someone about something, but it's better now. They've been knocked unconscious by you, so how can you ask?'
"Ahem..." Senba Gari himself also knew the meaning of Takai Geki's eyes, "Wait, wait until he wakes up on his own, and then we'll talk."
---Time dividing line-
"Uh... sss--my back hurts..."
After almost a few minutes, the thin young man slowly opened his eyes, and then completely opened his eyes due to the pain in his back.
"Hey, you're awake."
"..."
As soon as the young man opened his eyes, he saw Senba Gari and Takai Geki standing in front of him.
"No, don't come over! I, I don't dare anymore! Nurse! Where are you nurse!" When the young man saw Senba Gari, his eyes suddenly became fearful, and he shrank on the hospital bed and screamed.
"Uh... I'm not that scary..." Senba Gari pointed at himself with a twitching corner of his mouth.
"Perhaps it was because of the fall you just made that he became a fool." Takai Geki also said slightly speechlessly.
"Tsk, hey! If you scream again, I will throw you again, believe it or not!"
"..."
After hearing Senba Gari's threat, the young man stopped yelling.
--Click bang
At this time, the door to the ward was opened, and a nurse stuck her head out and looked at Senba Gari and the others in confusion.
"Well, I just seemed to hear the patient's cry..."
"It's okay, it's just that you heard it wrong, right." As he said that, Senba Gari glanced at the young man, his eyes threatening him, "You'd better stop talking nonsense, otherwise... humph"
"No, it's okay."
"Really? I'm sorry to bother you." Although she was still a little confused, the nurse withdrew.
"Then, it's time for us to talk about business." The conversation changed and Senba Gari looked at the young man who was still scared.
"Can you tell me, what exactly is that 'Taste of Food'?"
Taste of Food, this is the name of the restaurant Takai Geki told him on the road, and it is also the source of all this.
"You, are you going to that 'Taste of Food'?" After hearing Senba Gari's words, the young man's body suddenly trembled violently.
"Don't go... it will make your life worse than death..." The young man seemed to recall that memory that was worse than death.
He used to be just a high school graduate who had just entered the society. One day, he was working overtime at the company and came back from the company very late. On the way, he suddenly felt hungry and happened to come to 'Taste of Food'.
At first, he just walked in with the idea of filling his stomach, but he did not expect that this was the beginning of his nightmare. It was originally just a very ordinary dish, but after he ate it, it was like a delicacy in the world, which he could not forget. He could hardly find any words to describe the taste.
Even after returning home, he could never forget the taste. The taste had been deeply remembered by his tongue. No matter what, he would go to that 'Taste of Food' to taste that taste again, even if it cost him everything.
So he came to the restaurant "Taste of Food" every day to eat. Whenever he came to "Taste of Food", there were many people like him sitting there, waiting, including office workers like him, people who came to Akihabara for fun, and even the police came to dine here. Although the spicy dishes were ordinary, the taste was still indescribable.
Not only that, every day, different people are invited out by the waiters in the restaurant because they have no money to continue eating, and those people will not make any fuss because they are afraid, afraid that they will be blacklisted by 'Taste of Food' and will never be able to eat that kind of delicious food again, because other food is like biological excrement to them, disgusting to them, and they will not even look at it.
'If you have no money, then invite you out. If you want to come back to eat, then bring more money... I don't care when you have money. I don't allow credit, so what should I do? You can steal, rob, overdraw your card, or even sell something. As long as you have money in your pocket, you are always welcome to dine!'
This is the owner of 'Taste of Food', who is also the chef who makes dishes with unforgettable tastes. What he said sounds like he is asking them to break the law, but they really do it, yes, they really do it. Just to eat that delicious food, they steal, rob, overdraw their life savings, and even sell their body organs.
The parents looked at their children in pain and tried to pull the children out, but they themselves were also trapped in it, and even their relatives and friends were involved.
That kind of deliciousness, no! It is no longer the so-called food, it is a 'drug'! It is a 'drug' that makes them self-destructive.
"Ha... haha... hahaha, you can't imagine that kind of deliciousness, hahaha... you will fall for it, and even give everything for it, hahahahahahahahahaha..."
When he thought of this, the young man suddenly laughed like crazy. He was going crazy because his parents and his family were all trapped in this quagmire just like him. Moreover, he had barely touched a drop of water in the past few days and could not eat a grain of rice, because he did not like those things at all, and every time he would always think of the taste. It was just like what people call drugs, and it was even more addictive than those drugs.
Every time he thinks of this, his body feels like countless kinds of things are crawling densely on him. Now, this feeling comes again, and this feeling, this feeling...
"Hey! What are you doing?!!!"
"Asshole! You don't want your life!?"
The young man suddenly jumped down from the hospital bed, pushed Senba Gari and Takai Geki towards them, and rushed towards the wall behind them like crazy.
Although the two of them grabbed the young man, they didn't know where the young man got the strength to break free from the hands of Senba Gari and Takai Geki.
"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!"
When he was only a millimeter away from the wall, his heart suddenly felt relaxed, as if he had arrived...
Liberation.
'Father, mother, I'm going to take the first step.'
--Bang!
The snow-white wall was instantly stained with blood, and the young man's head became bloody.
"Doctor! Nurse! Come here! Someone committed suicide here!!!" Takai Geki ran out of the door in panic to find the nearest doctor and nurse.
'Death, is this your choice?' Senba Gari looked at the young man lying on the ground and his bloody head, Senba Gari seemed to have guessed what the other person was thinking.
He didn't want to live in such pain, so he chose death.
"I'm sorry, please leave here. We need to operate on the patient immediately!" At this time, a nurse said to Senba Gari. At the same time, other nurses and doctors behind the nurse were also ready to start the operation.
Senba Gari left the ward without saying a word. You said that Senba Gari was obviously capable of saving him, so why didn't he save him? Maybe it's because he knew that the other person didn't want him to be saved, because he would have to live in pain again, but this is just maybe, you will never know what he was thinking, because he is very good at 'acting', and no one has ever known, Senba Gari... his inner truth.
When Senba Gari was about to go find Takai Geki, a man wearing a suit and trousers with familiar red and sleek hair happened to pass by him.
"Huh?" The man looked back at the familiar figure and frowned slightly.
"Hello, Dean." A nurse asked the man respectfully.
"Well, I received a notice that something happened here. What else happened?" The man asked the nurse with dignity.
"Someone committed suicide in the ward."
Hearing this, the man frowned again. After all, this would cause some trouble to his hospital.
"Then, Dean, I'll take my leave now." The nurse was about to leave the man's side.
"Wait a minute."
"Is there anything else you can do, Dean?"
"That man just now, do you know what he came for?" Because of a doubt in his heart, the man couldn't help but ask.
"He and another person seemed to have come to see the patient who committed suicide."
"Really?"
Make a scene
The next day, after learning that Minami Kotori was working at Akihabara, everyone gave Minami Kotori a special task.
So as soon as the training was over, before anyone else came, Minami Kotori sat alone in the classroom, holding a pen and a notebook on the table, closing his eyes and thinking.
In order not to affect Minami Kotori, Honoka Kosaka and Umi Sonoda ran outside the back door of the classroom to watch Minami Kotori's situation.
Minami Kotori immediately caught the things that flashed through his mind, and then opened his eyes suddenly.
"Chocolate bread, delicious!"
"Crepes with crispy crust, I want to eat them!"
"The cat with white face and gray hair is so cute!"
"Socks with five separate toes, very comfortable! Uh..." Minami Kotori was thinking about some random things in his mind while writing them down in his notebook.
Then Minami Kotori collapsed on the table in despair, "I can't figure it out!" (Me too!)
This starts from the morning.
"Live at Akihabara!" Eli Ayase said to everyone in the expanded event room.
Guo: "Isn't that just--"
Bird: "Performing on the street?"
Hui: "Yeah."
"Akihabara is under the nose of 'A-Rise'!" Yazawa Nico feels that this proposal is a bit risky.
"That would be quite interesting." Nozomi Tojo was interested in this proposal after all.
"But it's really bold." Maki Nishikino, who was sitting next to Nozomi Tojo, said.
Painting: "Akihabara is a holy place for idol fans. If the performance there is recognized, it can become a good publicity."
"I think it's good!" Honoka Kosaka stood up from the ground excitedly
"It seems very interesting!" Minami Kotori, who also stood up after Honoka Kosaka, agreed.