[Comprehensive] Late Night Radio

"Welcome to Lala Kaka for your troubles. Let me listen to the ninth episode of No. 20...Why do you have the illusion that you haven't done a show for a long time when you are at work every day...Ahahaha must be just an illusion."

"Then let's answer the audience this time without delay..."

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"Hi, congratulations on connecting to the audience line. I'm your host, Xiaoling. May I ask what troubles you have?"

"……actually……"

The man's voice was a little choked, with a hint of nasality.It's like a wronged child.

"...I'm going to die tomorrow."

"...huh? You're not kidding, are you...?"

"No one would take their own life as a joke."

"Listener, are you planning to commit suicide? If possible, please calm down and think about it, in this world..."

"No." The audience interrupted me, "I don't want to die, in fact..."

"Maybe it sounds unbelievable, but what I said is true, and it doesn't matter if you don't believe it. In fact, I'm going to die tomorrow, it's not my decision..."

"I'm only 30 years old, and I was diagnosed with a brain tumor about a week ago. When I heard the news, I was much calmer than I thought..."

"Until the devil suddenly appeared—ah, he was said to be a devil, but he looks exactly like me, but his personality and appearance are two extremes of mine."

"The devil told me that tomorrow I will die."

"Sounds a little ridiculous, right? During the day, I know that I can only live for half a year at most, and when I get home, I know that I will die tomorrow."

"It's unbearable for anyone, of course, I am the same."

"Ashamed to say, in order to survive, I still accepted the deal with the devil."

"—just make something disappear in the world, and I can live an extra day."

"...This, this sounds really unbelievable." After hearing what the audience said, I was a little shocked, "This kind of setting seems to only appear in novels and comics."

...But having said that, there are many things that happened around me that are like the plots that only happen in novels and manga.

"However, I choose to believe you. After all, this is a trouble news radio station. Of course, as a host, you should trust the audience."

"Thank you."

"Can I ask, have you made anything disappear so far?"

"This..." The audience hesitated, "Even if I say it, you won't know, after all, it has disappeared. When I disappear tomorrow, you will definitely forget me."

"Oh... that's really amazing."

"May I ask you a question?"

"You can ask, everything is fine except ** questions."

"...if you had to make one last phone call, who would you call?"

"..."

This question can't help but make me fall into deep thought, but I quickly thought of the answer.

"I'll call mom."

"Why?" he asked.

"...Maybe it's because of habit. Even if I want to call someone suddenly, I don't know what to say at all. If I call my mother, I should be able to say a lot of things."

"...That's it."

"But I think it's better if the phone disappears than everything else disappears."

"why?"

"After all, the phone is just a kind of communication tool. Even if it disappears, the fetters between people will not disappear. Even if there is no phone, there will be other things that can keep people in touch. So... probably like this Bar."

"Oh, I agree with you on this point. Even if most of the things in the world disappear, people can continue to live... In other words, even if I die, the earth will continue to go on, which is also true for everyone else Same." His voice was still a little choked, "It was the same when Rapunzel died, and she too..."

"lettuce……?"

"A long time ago, my mother had a cat. My mother died a few years after Rapunzel left the world."

"...Then on this point, we are really similar."

"Huh?" Obviously, he was surprised by what I said.

"In fact..."

I hesitated to speak.

So far I haven't talked about these things with anyone, because even if I did, it wouldn't make sense.The words that came out of her mouth were like fairy tales to me.

Since he said that everyone might forget about him tomorrow, it doesn't matter if I say it.

In the end, I still spoke.

"Mom also had a cat a long time ago. To be precise, she raised it secretly. Mom has very, very severe cat allergies."

"Oh, so did my mom. But a month after she had the lettuce, the cat allergies miraculously went away."

"Unfortunately, such a miracle did not happen to my mother. Due to the opposition of her family, she had to secretly keep the cat in a certain place... Probably because the sincere love for the cat moved God, the cat has never been loved by others. People have found out."

"Until the day—"

"Dad didn't know why he found out about the existence of the cat. Although he didn't get too angry because of this, he still played with the cat. Mom was relieved because she had been up all day because of some things, and she fell asleep with peace of mind. "

"But when she woke up, the world collapsed."

"...the cat is dead, and so is Dad."

"...Uh..." The audience who heard this didn't know how to comfort me, "That's really much worse than me."

"The truth of this incident has not yet been ascertained. There are no witnesses, and no suspicious figures have appeared in the images detected by the cameras in the nearby streets."

"Of course, according to common sense, the first person to be suspected is my mother—but this was quickly denied, after all, my mother can't see... There are other evidences, but I don't know."

"Anyway, since then, Mom has hated cats."

"...so I am too."

"Even if you know the cat has done nothing wrong, even if it is."

"Sorry...for causing you such a sad memory." The audience apologized to me.

"It doesn't matter. After all, this happened before I was born. To be honest, it doesn't make much sense."

...The first time I said these things, even I felt a lot easier.

Why is this.

Why does it feel like a sigh of relief after talking about such a sad topic?

"... Then, can I continue to ask you questions?"

"If this can help you, just ask."

"After that, my mother continued to raise a cat. But my mother passed away a few years later, and naturally the cat was raised by me. A few days ago, the devil made a move... I even heard I have to understand how cats talk!"

"... Isn't that good?"

"Maybe. Maybe good, but not too good either."

"why?"

"Why do you think humans like animals?"

"Uh... because animals are cute?"

"Yes... what you said makes sense, but there is something more important than this."

"What is it?"

"...you can't communicate with him."

"Ha... that's true."

"I don't know cabbage...ah, that's the cat's name. I don't know whether it wants to eat or walk or sleep. These are just my subjective judgments. I can't communicate with it verbally." Communication, because I think it is hungry, so it is hungry."

"Um……"

"However, after I understood the cabbage, I found that I was wrong. It accused me, saying that I always imposed my subjective thoughts on it..."

"Um...then what?"

"Then I thought ... maybe this is the case ... that people like animals because they can't communicate with them."

"Even if it doesn't think that way, it is like that in people's hearts. Human beings can't hear the voices of animals, so they can impose their own subjective thoughts on it."

"But people are different. People can communicate, so there will be friction, so there will be quarrels. Only animals will accompany you silently."

"You're right." I sighed, "This is the same for people who don't interfere in their own lives. People who can't really appear in front of themselves and communicate with themselves can always remain in people's hearts. perfect image..."

"Yes... But, what I want to say is actually not these." He didn't know if he was infected by me, so he also sighed.

"...I'm going to die tomorrow. But I can live if I make one thing disappear," he continued.

"So, you mean, you gave up your life for something like that?"

"...It seems like that, and it doesn't seem like that." He paused for a long time, as if he was preparing for something, and slowly he continued, "In your case, if the cat disappears, you can Continue to live one more day, if it were you, how would you choose?"

"..."

This question stumps me.

I really can't make a choice all at once.

The first thing that came to my mind was Mio who I saw in the rain a while ago.It hid in the corner of the cardboard box and shivered, and its shaking figure seemed to be conveying "I'm going to die" like a passing person.

...If I don't save it, it will die.

At that time, I kept circling this idea in my mind.

So after that, when I saw it in his house after that, I couldn't help but think, I didn't do anything wrong.

...so I adopted that cat in the game, even if it was just a game.

The next thing that comes to mind is my mother.

I didn't get to meet her cats, but images of her spending time with her beloved cats are always in my mind.

What would the world be like if cats disappeared...?

Dad is not dead?

Are these thoughts never going to come to my head?

In short.

I found that I couldn't make a choice.

"...you can't choose, can you?"

The voice of the audience brought me back to reality.

"Me too, it's better to say that I have a choice in my heart."

"I will not let anything disappear from the world again, because I cannot deprive other people of their happiness."

"I can no longer make other things disappear because of myself."

"Do not……"

"Actually, there are other more complicated reasons, but it doesn't matter if you say it or not."

"Tomorrow I will die, not the cat disappearing from the world, but I disappearing from the world."

"Before I died, I understood things that many people have never known in their lifetime. In this regard, I am still happy."

"I am very happy to be able to say these words to you at the end, no matter what."

"It doesn't matter whether you will forget me tomorrow or not. This is the first time I listen to your program, so maybe it's a kind of fate that I just got connected."

"I hope my words can help you... Although I seem to be talking on my own, I haven't said anything substantive. Well, it's an if after all."

"Then, let's stop here. Although we can't see each other again, we should still say the last, right?"

"Goodbye."

Maybe this sentence is not simply speaking to me.

Maybe he is using this world to say goodbye to other people.

Or maybe saying goodbye to the world.

But I don't even know the answer.

A busy tone came from the headset.

Only the busy tone remains.

in the world.

Only busy tone.

The author has something to say: 【Thank you for purchasing the genuine little angel~】

The audience is the male protagonist in "If Cats Disappeared from the World", I avoided the key points in the novel, some content was tampered with

Try to avoid spoilers... But to be honest, this novel belongs to the type that cannot be spoiled... In short, it is really a good novel, let me share it with everyone XD

Well, it must be related to the later plot, otherwise I wouldn’t write it here (x