The Happiness That The Shinigami Gave Me - V4 Chapter 4
Volume 4 Chapter 4
October. Momo-chan’s social media went ‘viral.’
“Look, look!” Momo-chan said as she proudly held up the screen of her phone. On it was a picture of Suzuno smiling shyly, with the autumn leaves visible in the background.
The three of us (me, Suzuno, Motoyama) took a look at the picture.
“Amazing, it looks like a pro’s work.”
“Natsuhara-san is so pretty!”
“Right?! Look at the other ones!”
As she scrolled down the screen, more pictures of Suzuno appeared.
Her energetic form as she ran in the sports festival, her elegant look as she stood among the hydrangeas with a parasol in her hand. There was a picture of her closing her eyes while wearing her sailor uniform and a picture of her eating a melonpan in the class.
“Those look good, especially the last picture. Suzuno’s smiling face is a rare find.”
“I know right, Yamaoka-kun? Well, it’s a photographer’s job to be able to capture this kind of moment!”
Gotta say, Momo-chan was good at her job.
“I posted a lot of things on my account, but Suzu-chan’s pictures are the most popular of them all! I guess that’s because her beauty is out of this world?”
Motoyama nodded at her words, but he seemed to be concerned about something. “Is this kind of thing okay?” he asked.
“Posting these kinds of pictures, I meant. Isn’t it…unsafe?”
I was concerned about that too. The teachers told us about the danger of posting your pictures on the internet and they didn’t seem to be exaggerating.
“It’s fine, it’s fine, I don’t post anything else other than our faces anyway. Besides, everyone’s doing the same thing!”
But the impact of seeing Suzuno’s smiling face blew away all my fears.
Instead, I felt moved seeing her like this.
* * *
November. Every morning, Suzuno and I met at the park, ignoring the cold air of the late autumn.
Suzuno was eating her melonpan, while I was sitting next to her, trying to warm myself with some hot tea.
As she was eating, she fed a certain black cat that stopped by occasionally with some milk.
“I’ve been trying to heal this little guy’s injuries for a long time, but they just don’t heal for some reason.”
When Suzuno tried to stroke its back, the black cat jumped and walked away.
I first met this little guy back in April two years ago. It was still as thin as back then. Even its limping leg didn’t get better since then.
“It’s a mysterious little guy, isn’t it? It was the one who led me here.”
“Eh? Really?”
“What? Didn’t I tell you about this?”
Suzuno looked at me with an intense gaze.
“You know, I noticed that a lot of strange things happened around you. First is the shinigami, then there’s this cat. Maybe this cat is actually the shinigami? Or is it just being guided by him?”
I couldn’t even refute her words. It was safe to say that I’d been deviating from what one could call a normal life ever since I found myself inside that sky blue train.
“Either way, if it has something to do with the shinigami… Ugh, that guy p*sses me off…”
“Huh? But didn’t he save your life?”
“Yeah and I’m grateful to him for doing that, but that doesn’t change that he’s a sh*tty guy… Also, he said something that p*ssed me off when you and I started going out.”
That guy would only appear whenever something big in my life happened.
“‘Come over here quickly,’ he said.”
After hearing my words, Suzuno showed me an anxious look, but I quickly cracked a joke to ease her.
“Anyway, he isn’t scary for a shinigami. He’s scrawny, dresses like a nerd and for some reason he has a big afro head.”
After that I made more jokes about him and we laughed at them for a good while.
Right, now that I thought about it, it had been a while since that guy appeared.
Since our last meeting at the Fushimi Inari Shrine, I haven’t felt any sign of him.
Well, if he ever showed up again, I’ll show him that I’ll never give him whatever it was that he wants.
Do you hear me, shinigami? Watch me.
From now on, I’ll be living as myself.
I won’t be living as your doll, bound by your filthy curse.
With Suzuno, we’ll survive together.
TL: Iyo
ED: samheart564
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ZInZardarean
Idk man, that’s a lot of flags there. Also the fast pacing in the timeline is making me anxious.