chapter 22
22. Future Predictions 6
“Ahahahahaha! I love you! I love you, darling♡ Love Momo more and more!”
I reflexively looked away from the sudden flash of skin.
“Look, look, look, look, receive a lot of Momo’s love! Okay? Okay?”
Long pink hair bouncing dynamically. On her upper body, only her underwear. Momo, who is wearing a short navy skirt and rubbing her body lewdly, is probably on top of me.
“Darling, I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you!”
In a dimly lit room like a basement, I’m tied to a chair, sitting naked, with an indescribable expression on my face that I don’t know whether I’m laughing or crying, and it’s definitely not the face of a happy couple touching each other. Momo, who is sitting facing me on my knees, who looks so absent-minded that she is indistinguishable from a corpse, sometimes stares at my face and makes a face as if she is savoring happiness.
On the edges of the screen are photos that are stuck to the wall and scattered on the floor. If you look closely, you can see that they are of Momo and me looking close. An amusement park, an aquarium, a pool, a photo of some kind of anniversary, and sometimes a fashionable matching outfit that is not too revealing. Just looking at it, it looks like an ordinary photo that only lovers or couples can see, and they are scattered all over the room. Momo and I in the video continues to stick together.
It’s a very eerie and incomprehensible situation, but from the ecstatic expression and tempting gestures that Momo, who looks more mature than now, shows, it seems that this is a form of love for her.
“Hey, darling? What do you do at a time like this?”
At Momo’s words, I nodded and moved my limp arms to hug Momo without motivation. It’s like the movement of a cheap doll with nerves only in the elbow area.
My hands on Momo’s back had no fingers at all. Only the lumpy and short remains of fingers, as if they had been cut off and joined together, remained, and ten unbalanced fingers supported Momo’s back weakly.
I couldn’t help but give up thinking about what happened to me, what happened to Momo, at the sight of my miserable figure on the other side of the screen. The sensation in my fingertips, which should have been safe just by watching the video, became numb, and I involuntarily confirmed that I had fingertips with my other hand.
“hahahaha♡ Darling loves Momo too, right? I’m happy♡”
Momo strokes my head repeatedly with a satisfied smile. She hugs me tightly as it is, and puts her lovely and soft cheek on my chest, which hasn’t changed.
“I like it. I love it. I love you. I’m glad I chose Momo… Hey, tell me the usual?”
I, who had not opened my mouth until now, stared blankly at Momo with my unfocused eyes, and muttered distorted words that I had forcibly shaped in my mouth.
“Momo, you’re cute”
“I’m glad! I’m glad, right. That’s right. Momo thinks so too. Momo is the cutest when she’s with Darling, right? I love you, I love you, I love you! Oh, that’s good, Momo is still cute today, the best, the best, wonderful, Darling is only for Momo, don’t go anywhere, Momo knows Darling the best, Momo understands the best, only Momo knows Darling’s feelings. That’s why being with cute Momo is the happiest?”
“…Yeah, Momo is cute”
I repeated like a poorly made robot.
“No, I’m embarrassed if you say it so many times. I know that Darling loves Momo, but if it’s too sweet, I’ll turn red… Ahahahaha, Momo also thinks Darling is the coolest in the world?”
“Thank you”
“But you don’t seem to be feeling well, Darling. Oh, are you worried that someone will get in the way again? It’s okay, I won’t let anyone get in the way of Momo anymore! This place will never be found. Even if it is found, if anyone other than Momo tries to enter this room, they will be burned to a crisp in an instant with the device outside. Even if it’s… a hero of justice.”
Momo smiled wickedly. The expression on my face, which had been absent-mindedly answering until now, changed and became tense.
“….”
“Ara? What’s wrong? Do you have a scary face? Are you worried that someone might come and destroy Momo and Darling’s love nest? Ahahahahaha, don’t worry about it?”
She continues to talk calmly while kissing my cheek and forehead each time she takes a breath, as if cherishing something precious.
“Hey, darling. Last night, a bright red field mouse tried to break into Momo’s love nest…”
And the murderous intent and malice that began to appear, the hostility that boiled and gurgled with an unstoppable amount of love.
“Do you care what happened? Do you not care, it doesn’t matter to Darling, right? Ara? Why do you still have such a scary face? Darling should be fine with Momo, you shouldn’t care about other women. .. It’s strange. Why do you have such a face?”
She tilts her head with a teasing smile.
“…No, I was just worried that cute Momo wasn’t hurt”
My voice was trembling as I replied, and my words were tasteless and out of focus. Even if it wasn’t me, it was obvious that it was a misleading word because I was so shaken.
“Ehehehehe, I see. But it’s okay. The red thief mouse was completely caught in the trap that Momo set, and it became numb and unable to move. Momo took care of it properly?”
Momo smiles.
“S, so. That’s good”
On the other hand, I couldn’t hide my despair that a glimmer of hope had disappeared.
“B, but. Since you can’t move because you’re numb, you didn’t kill it, did you?”
Momo frowned at the question that barely came out.
“Of course, that trap is for neutralizing heroes. There’s no way I can easily kill that monster. Besides, even if it’s a good-for-nothing human garbage field mouse that doesn’t know Momo’s value and is less than human, it would be pitiful if it died without knowing it. While it was unable to move, I tied it up tightly with Momo’s special wire, and cut off its naughty hands so that it could never rebel again. Then, I was surprised by the pain and woke up, so Momo asked. What are you doing here? I said… So what do you think that field mouse said?”
“….”
There was a brief silence. I seemed to be desperately searching for a convenient answer, and I was sweating all over, but Momo continued without waiting for my reply.
“‘I came to save Sora!’ hahahahaha, isn’t that funny? Darling is Peach’s darling, and this place where Peach can be with Darling, where Peach can see the cutest Peach every day, is the happiest life for Darling, so help? He’s out of his mind. Basically, after being dumped by Darling and losing his hero powers, he’s trying to face Peach, the strongest hero in Darling’s love. Not only is he not cute, he’s also stupid, it’s really pathetic, right ? I felt so sorry for him that I ended up sticking Peach’s special barbed wire into his mouth that only says stupid things. He’s surprisingly gutsy for not being a hero, and he managed to stay conscious and endure it until he swallowed about 15 centimeters. But a normal human being can’t withstand the pain or the bleeding, and after a while he stopped moving. A hero who has lost the power of love is worthless trash! It’s really pathetic, isn’t it, a poor, uncute sewer rat who can’t even resort to force♡
“…Why did you, Akane-san?”
“Huh?”
Peach’s mouth, which usually has a high-pitched, girly voice, suddenly makes a deep, resonant sound.
“Don’t call out other women’s names, Peach has warned you many times, right? And why are you doing that when Peach is right in front of you? Darling should be satisfied with having cute Peach, right? Are you worried about that sh*tty, arrogant, self-conscious sewer rat? It’s not, is it? Hey?”
“S, sorry… Peach. It’s my fault, Peach is the cutest. I’m not interested in anyone else”
The words came out of my mouth so smoothly that it was pathetic. Ah, surely I’ll continue to survive like this, pretending to have my dignity.
“…I wonder how he found out about this place?”
To my desperate flattery, Peach replies with a calm expression.
“Wha—!?”
“I brought him here thinking no one would notice. I wonder how Peach’s whereabouts got leaked? He doesn’t have any collaborators anymore, and how do you think that muscle-brained, thieving rat found this place? Could Peach have been followed? But Peach’s mobility is higher than any other hero, that’s impossible, right? I wonder why, could it be…someone told him?”
“…W, well, it’s not, it’s not like that”
My excuses, like a man caught cheating, were cut off by Peach’s deep sigh before they could take shape.
“Haah, that’s too bad. Darling”
Peach regretfully releases her hand from my head and holds it up in the air. With a small buzzing sound, a cute pink toy-like pistol appears in each of her hands.
“Peach’s weapon, you know, is this toy-like pair of pistols”
She gently presses the gun in her right hand against my temple. Desperate to find a good lie, I suddenly shut up, perhaps frightened by Peach’s serious expression.
“I wonder why, I’ve never used about a Peach gun or anything… I always thought, why not make it something cute like a magic wand?”
She puts her finger on the trigger.
“But now I understand”
Peach brings her body close to mine and leans her face towards my ear, which is unable to leave the chair.
And with her other hand, her left, Peach points the pistol at her own head.
“This way, the two of us can die together…you see. Darling, we’ll be together forever. I love you♡”
— BANG! —
At the same time, the image was cut off with a double gunshot.