[Comprehensive] Manna's Summer

Volume [-] Who Killed the Mockingbird

40#If I call your name

September 9—9:11

【Kuroko Tetsuya】

Sister, I'm here to see you.

Today I went to ask the police about the progress of the case and they just said sorry.

When I left, I heard them complain in a low voice, "People die every day in Tokyo. The workload is so heavy. How can we investigate a case without a case?"

I know, they've dropped the case.

I also know that they tried their best.

But I can't do anything.

That day, Ziyuan said that he saw you.

Is it because you are still resentful?So can't rest in peace?

... Sister, if your soul is still here, come and see me.Then tell me who killed you.

The posthumous letter, the girl who sent the letter said, was the last words of the deceased...Compared with the letter you left me, I want to know who killed you.

...Please, come and see me, sister.

Come meet me and tell me the truth, Mana.

***

September 9—9:15

【Kise Ryota】

Little Mana, good afternoon.

Today is a fine day.I brought coffee, you like this brand, don't you?

...No, how should I put it, I actually don't know what you like.

It's kind of funny to say that you can tell what everyone likes, but you never say what you like... except singing.

How much you like to sing—that turns out to be the only thing I know about you.

...something everyone knows.

I often can't help but want to walk that alley again. That day, you fell there.I tried my best not to recall what happened that day, I wanted to remember more about your smile, but I kept walking and found that I was walking back there again.

In fact, I discovered it a long time ago. Although you always give the impression that you are smiling, when you are alone, you seldom smile.At that time, I often thought, are you really as happy as you show?what are you thinking

... Then I finally found out.

Now, Mana, when you died, didn't you change your mind?

I think... you may have changed.

So when you die, you must hate me very much.

I'm sorry, Mana.

I obviously promised, but I didn't do it.

***

September 9—9:19

【Kuga Aoi】

...It seems that there are quite a lot of visitors today.Here, Rosemary Rose, I don't know what flowers you like, so I just bought some.

Mind if I smoke a cigarette?

OK, I know you don't mind.

... Bah, this smoke is too weak, without any energy.The new assistant really doesn't know how to pick cigarettes, he just knows that buying women's cigarettes is as boring as it is... Forget it, let's smoke.

Phew—if you were here now, what would you say to me, Mana?stop me?

You will not.

Because you are such a hypocrite.

Of the three of us, it will always be me who stops you from doing stupid things.At that time, Erica took a box to coax you to smoke, but you actually took it and lit it.You were choked so badly that I snatched the cigarettes from your hands.

What did I say then?

I don't remember clearly, but I just scolded you anyway.On the contrary, I remember your smile very clearly.

You just smiled and said to me, Aoi, it's all right.

Do you know how much I hate that smile of yours?

...or should I say, do you know how much I hate you?

I hated you from the first time we met, hated your smile, hated your face, hated everything about you.

I hate a fool like you the most... You can't even tell that I hate you, you foolishly pester me, smile at me, don't know how to get angry, and don't want anything from me.

... I hate this kind of blissful idiot the most.

That idiot Aomine said he saw you.What, you finally know you're back?

Still can't forgive me.

...It's okay, because I can't forgive you either.

If you want revenge, come to me.

Because I made you that way.

***

September 9—9:22

【Flute Koji Erika】

Good evening, really~ Nai~chan~

I'm coming to see you again!How do you miss me?Erica misses you so much, I see you every day when I close my eyes.And you, will you think of me?

Now, when I wake up every morning, I hear your voice, come over from the door, touch my face and say, Erica is up, we still have rehearsal today.

Then I will grab your hand and tell you, let me sleep for a while, okay, just sleep for a while.

You will show a helpless smile and coax me to get up over and over again.

Then again?

And then I woke up.

Sober enough to remind me of the fact that you've left me forever. . .

did i tell youThe days when I entered Garia were my happiest days.The three of us living together - me and you, all the time - couldn't have had a better time than that.

You wake me up every day by making breakfast and coaxing me until I wake up.In the evenings when I’m not busy at work, I can also go to you with a thick book of fairy tales, as long as I say to you, “No one has ever read a storybook to me” and show a sad expression, you can’t do anything about me up.You'd let me lie on your bed, next to you, and read me stories in that soft voice, and then I'd pretend to be asleep so I could sleep with you in your room.

… I often have the illusion that I am still living in that time.I often see you and see you smiling at me.

I know that's not true.

How can you still smile at me?

But even if it's a hallucination, I want to see you.

I cut a small piece from the top of Todaiji Temple, don't worry, I did it carefully, no one will find out.

I can see you until the incense burns out.

Na na, Mana-chan, are you here now?

I want to do one thing.

Don't you think it's unfair?You are dead, but they are still alive.

Even gradually no longer feel the pain of your death.

I often feel a fire burning inside of me, but I don't feel the pain anymore, not at all.

But what a joy it would be to let the fire out.It's best to burn it with me, that's the happiest.

I will do one last thing for you.

Everyone, everyone involved in this must go to hell - including me, of course.

So, come and meet me.

Come see me before I die.

Only you can kill me, so come on, Mana.

***

September 9—9:23

【…】

I hate you.

I hate you all.