Chapter Fifty-Two
[ Voice | Public ]
...Man, as much as I hated having to spend every day working at that school, having too much free time is even worse now that school's out for the summer.
I almost feel like the town's still treating me like the kid I'm supposed to be with getting a summer vacation. But, hey! That means swimming and bikinis and all that, right? Maybe things will be getting better!
[ Action | Roller Rink ]
[ While it certainly did not take long for knowledge of the wonderful trophy room to circulate around to Keiichi's ears, it definitely took him a while to get around to visiting it. While the disgust was well more than strong enough to suppress the macabre or angry curiosity, there was something he had to make sure of, even though his gut told him he would find exactly what he hoped not to find. His drastically increased amount of free time did not help this.
He had hoped he would be able to sit comfortably in ignorant denial for a little while--maybe conveniently miss what he was looking for but did not want to see a few times--but there was absolutely no amount of denial that would allow him to miss what he looked for even once.
So, after only a few seconds after entering the trophy case, Keiichi's denial was completely obliterated by the truth; this truth, of course, took the form of one of the three large, hefty, and very, very gold and unmistakable and unmissable trophies amongst the many smaller silver and many, many much smaller bronze trophies.
He sighed and stared at the trophy for a long, long while before leaving.
No matter how many times he blinked, rubbed the name to remove some magical blemish, or did anything else, the name on the trophy was completely impossible to misidentify:
BERNKASTEL
ACCOMPLISHED MURDERER ]
...Man, as much as I hated having to spend every day working at that school, having too much free time is even worse now that school's out for the summer.
I almost feel like the town's still treating me like the kid I'm supposed to be with getting a summer vacation. But, hey! That means swimming and bikinis and all that, right? Maybe things will be getting better!
[ Action | Roller Rink ]
[ While it certainly did not take long for knowledge of the wonderful trophy room to circulate around to Keiichi's ears, it definitely took him a while to get around to visiting it. While the disgust was well more than strong enough to suppress the macabre or angry curiosity, there was something he had to make sure of, even though his gut told him he would find exactly what he hoped not to find. His drastically increased amount of free time did not help this.
He had hoped he would be able to sit comfortably in ignorant denial for a little while--maybe conveniently miss what he was looking for but did not want to see a few times--but there was absolutely no amount of denial that would allow him to miss what he looked for even once.
So, after only a few seconds after entering the trophy case, Keiichi's denial was completely obliterated by the truth; this truth, of course, took the form of one of the three large, hefty, and very, very gold and unmistakable and unmissable trophies amongst the many smaller silver and many, many much smaller bronze trophies.
He sighed and stared at the trophy for a long, long while before leaving.
No matter how many times he blinked, rubbed the name to remove some magical blemish, or did anything else, the name on the trophy was completely impossible to misidentify:
BERNKASTEL
ACCOMPLISHED MURDERER ]