Black Black Lotus ch5

p1
>>What happened to Renna, who was pushed off...!!?

>Renna!

>Ngh!

p2
>I don't know what I'd do on my own.

p3
>Oww... You okay, Renna?

>Y-Yeah. Thank you...

>That bitch...

>What are you doing over there?

p4
>Are you okay? Are you feeling unwell?

>Oh dear...
>If I recall, this girl is...

p5
>I'm sorry, White Rose-sama.

>White Rose?

>Ah.
>Wait, not that.
>Somebody tried to push her down the stairs.

>Eh...?

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>Is she hurt?
>Nope.

>...If this is true,
>then it's quite disturbing.

>Oh.
>Whose is this?
>A smartphone...
>Th-That's mine.

>...
>Here.

>Tch.
>I know I wasn't seeing things.
>Why'd she go for Renna...?

>Don't tell me.

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>This is about Black Rose...?

>Fuuka!

>Ah... No.

>It's unfortunate, what happened to that girl.

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>She really was... full of mysteries
>to the bitter end.

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>Did you see who pushed you?

>I was just looking at that site and...

>Fuuka.

>There's something I want to discuss with you...

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>You sent a message!?

>Yes.
>To Shirano-san, who was the one person who hadn't gotten a reply from ***-san...

>But I didn't get a reply.
>Well, I figured as much.

>So I figured I should get in touch with ***-san directly.
>Heh?
>If you do that, you're gonna get your account banned like mine did.

>What if I got them to send me a message?
>What would happen then?

>!
>Don't tell me...

p12
>>Text
>>I have no place in this school and it's too painful to live. Somebody please save me.
>>Name
>Maybe ***-san will get in touch if I wrote something like this.

>Hold on! That's dangerous!
>This is someone who might be killing several people...
>You're right.
>...

>But you'd be there for me, right, Fuuka?

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>!?

>!

>You're...
>Tch

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>...Ng

>You're not getting away.

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>Ng...!

>Shit!

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>For someone about to push someone over,
>did you think you wouldn't get pushed over yourself?

>Did you push my friend over like this too?

>...It's you.

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>You're a Fuyou student, right?

>A Fuyou student?
>I've seen you before. I believe you're a second year.
>Hirai Narue... I think?

>To think the one who killed that girl would be in the very same school.

>...
>You're ***-san, right...?
>Thanks for the message.
>Sorry for deceiving you.
>I'm the one who wrote that message.

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>We were waiting for you to get in touch.

>We also picked this vacant building so we could have a little chat with you.

>I've got a bunch of stuff I wanna ask you.
>How did it feel when you pushed my friend over?
>N-
>No...
>I don't know...
>...Ng

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>!?

>That hurts!
>I want to know.
>What face did that girl make in her final moments? What did she say?

>I want to know.

>!

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>...Wait.
>You're...

>"Shirano"?

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>Eh? But we were waiting for ***-san...
>I didn't get a reply from Shirano-san...
>Doesn't look like an alt account.

>There's a chat history with ***.

>Don't look at it!

>...I get it now.

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>You and *** are connected.

>Hah.
>You're doing whatever *** tells you so that you alone don't get killed by them?
>Lame.

>You're wrong!

>That person saved me!

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>Saved you...?
>Um!
>We have some things we want to ask you.
>Stop it!
>Ng!

>You'll just...

>I'm sorry for scaring you.

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>...If you're connected with ***-san,
>could you mediate between us?
>About Fuuka's friend who died
>after posting on that matching site,

>and the death of Black Rose-sama.

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>...
>If you don't, we'll have to turn you in to the cops.
>You tried to push her down the stairs before too, right?

>...Ng.
>I can't... mediate.

>Look here, you!
>I just can't... that person is
>special to me...

>I can't sell them out.
>Today was something I did of my own accord...
>It has nothing to do with that person.
>When that message came trying to bait that person out,
>I told them
>"I won't let them probe any further"...

>Huh?
>You think that excuse is gonna fly?
>I-I'm sorry...

>Uh
>I'm sorry...!
>I'm so...
>I'm sorry...
>I'm sorry
>Uuh...

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>After all the danger you got put in, Renna,
>this is all we got out of it.

>We should've turned her in to the cops.

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>We couldn't do that...
>Even if we did say something, the police wouldn't bother.
>Well... We don't have any evidence about the stairs and rooftop incidents...
>And if site admin got exposed, it'd just get closed again.

>Hah...

>That's right.

>Ah!

>Oh crap!

>!

>Huh?
>Hinoue-san?

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>...Ah.
>Yeah.
>I was just chatting with Renna.

>!

>This is...

>something... a 2nd year dropped?

>Yeah, yeah! I was gonna hand it to her later.
>So? What did you need?
>Ah. I forgot something...

>Sorry for interrupting.
>It's fine! See you later.

>...

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>She gone...?
>Hm?

>What's this? A hidden camera?

>Yeah. I thought someone might come up to the roof,
>so I left a camera there just to be safe.
>You can do something like that?

>Some scary stuff happened in the past... so better safe than sorry.

>Hmm...

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>Ah. It's Narue.

>Who was that just now?
>Dunno...

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>Is this it?
>No. It should've still been recording as long as it had battery.

>That was...
>The person from earlier...?

>Ah, it cut off.

>Could that person have been...
>***-san?

p34
>>Shirano
>>I failed. I'm sorry.
>I know.
>I saw it all.

>Matsuoka Renna, huh?
>She really is... an amusing girl.

>>The one "Shirano" is connected to is... "White Rose"!?