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I woke up behind an arcade. Looking up at the starless night sky lit by the city lights, I recall the nightmarish memory of Nozomi cutting my back and scrubbing it as hard as she could with a brush.
I was so scared that I touched my back, but there was not a single cut on my back.
Kaya and Ayane were lying nearby. Their clothes were lightly stained with blood–as was mine–and there was a stench of dust mixed with feces and urine.
I wondered if it was really real. I feel like I’ve been having a bad dream.
I look at Kaya and Ayane’s faces.
[I’m not lying. It’s just a reward for Ringo doing whatever she wanted until now.]
[That’s right. Besides, we’re Hira…..Nozomi’s friends !]
The two of them seized me in front of Hirai, who was holding a cutter in the dark basement, and sold me.
But even that seemed like a dream. I was cut to pieces, and the intense pain should still be there in my brain, but there are no scars on my back. It was like a lie.
“Ayane, Kaya. Wake up.”
I called out to them, and they woke up and got up too.
[ [I’m sorry ! …..Hm?] ]
They both got up with tears on their faces, apologizing, and then looked at me and at each other.
“….D-dream?”
“I dreamed that Hirai and Ito were giving me a hard time.”
“Me too !”
Were the three of us having a common dream? Or was it reality?
Looking back, Ito also used a strange technique to injure me. ……Nozomi too? No, no way. It can’t be that surreal. It’s a dream, after all.
“…..Anyway, it’s getting dark, shall we go home now?”
[ [Y-you’re right……] ]
I left the two of them, who looked strangely uncomfortable, and I went home.
When I get home, my dog, Beth, greets me.
Beth is an old dog, 17 years old this year, and he has a skin disease. To be honest, he’s dirty, smelly, and a pain to take care of, and I wish I could just dump him somewhere, but when I told my mom that, she got mad, so he’s still at home.
“Shush.”
I brush the dog off with my hand and enter the house. I’m in a bad mood because I had a bad dream, and then I’m greeted by a dirty dog that makes me really nervous.
I decided to take a bath and go to bed to relieve my fatigue.
Late at night. I was awakened by a sudden attack of intense itching on my back.
It itches like crazy. Unusually itchy. And then, it hurt. I turned on the light in my room, took off my jacket, and looked at my back in the mirror.
But it’s extremely itchy and painful. …..The only thing that comes to mind is a dream I had in the back of an arcade.
I had a dream that I saw Nozomi cut my back with a cutter and scrubbed my back with a brush. ……Maybe it wasn’t a dream?
If that’s the case, I can’t forgive her. Hirai, that scum. If she had just stayed with Ito, the ugly trash would have been a good match for each other, and I would have forgiven her if she had continued to be a good servant to us as she has always been…….
Hirai, you really piss me off.
The guys from class A are in a mass kidnapping and Hashida and Konoe haven’t come back yet, but only trash like Hirai and Ito are left.
I’m definitely going to bring them to justice tomorrow. That’s that, but I’m itching. It’s so itchy. I can’t sleep.
Midnight.
I couldn’t sleep at all because of the intense itchiness, so I decided to hit up Hirai’s house as a quick fix to cover up this discomfort.
I knew Hirai’s house because I had been there many times. But Hirai’s father said that Hirai had not been home for a long time.
But yesterday, I met her walking with Ito at the arcade. Then, Hirai is probably at Ito’s house. I know where Ito’s house is because I have followed Ishibashi kun and Hashida there several times. I went to Ito’s house.
“I’m sorry, Hirai ! I feel bad ! I have an itch ! I can’t sleep because it itches and hurts ! Please forgive me, I really do!”
“I’m sorry ! But I couldn’t go against Ringo ! It’s only Ringo’s fault ! Please forgive us ! !”
When I went to Ito’s house, I heard Kaya and Ayane’s loud voices.
“Kaya ! Ayane !”
“Ringo……. Because of you, we’re in a terrible mess ! !”
“How will you take responsibility?”
Kaya and Ayane approach me with frightening looks. ….Kaya and Ayane were the same ones who bullied Hirai. Ayane was the one who suggested we cut Hirai’s hands with a box cutter and scrub them with a brush, and she thought it would be fun to have Hirai have sex with the family’s dirty dog. It was Kaya who came up with the idea.
“Y-you guys were having fun together too ! Don’t blame me !”
“Shut up. It’s a nuisance to the neighbors, so please don’t do it here.”
The next thing I know, Ito came out of the door while I was arguing with Kaya and Ayane, and we found ourselves being moved to the basement where we came out of yesterday’s nightmare.
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“So Nozomi. It seems like those three people were cured after all, but it’s not like they were cured normally, right?”
After devouring Nozomi as much as I could, I was genuinely curious about what happened to those three, so I asked her.
“Right. ……Actually, the three of them have only healed on the surface of their wounds.”
In other words, even though the wounds looked clean, the dog poop that was coated inside the wounds had not been removed at all.
Looking back, I feel that Nozomi seemed to suffer less from feedback for having treated so many wounds for three people.
“The wounds are getting more and more soggy and rotten, even though they look clean. But it’s hard for doctors to treat it because the surface is properly sealed. So if I don’t treat it, they’ll probably die in agony from the itching and pain.”
Nozomi said with a grin. I see. It’s a pretty nasty story.
It must be scary, painful, and itchy to have a wound that doesn’t exist on the surface rotting away. And I can’t imagine the pain, because that situation could not be created without Nozomi’s [Heal].
And since only Nozomi can heal them, the three of them will have to continue to obey Nozomi for the rest of their lives in order to get first aid for those wounds. If they disobey Nozomi, all that awaits them is a horrible death with intense itching and pain.
Boom, boom, boom, boom ! My door is slammed and the intercom hits repeatedly.
“I’m sorry ! Hirai, I feel bad ! It itches ! It hurts so bad I can’t sleep ! Please forgive me, I really do !”
“I’m sorry ! But I couldn’t go against Ringo ! It’s only Ringo’s fault ! Please forgive us ! !”
Sato’s cronies were yelling something sweet behind the door. ……It sounds annoying.
“Kaya ! Ayane !”
“Ringo….. You’re the one who got us into this ridiculous mess !”
“How are you going to take responsibility?”
“Y-you guys were having fun together too ! Don’t blame me !”
It’s really noisy. I have no choice but to leave.
“Haa, shut up. It’s a nuisance to the neighbors, so please don’t do it here.”
Then I moved the three of them to the basement.
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