Chapter 17 Section 1

On a sunny day in August, when Miyuki came back from training at the club and walked to the door of the house, for some reason she felt a strange atmosphere shrouded in the house. Miyuki stood there, looking at the house from the gate. It is an atmosphere that makes people feel that the house in front of them is camouflaged.The whole home seems to have been completely replaced by something in disguise. Of course this is impossible.Miyuki tilted her head slightly, shrugged her shoulders and entered the house.The entrance door was unlocked. "I am back." Miyuki said loudly while taking off her shoes.But soon she felt as if she was shouting into the deep well. She heard her own echo, but there was no answer.

"Is no one home?" She yelled again, and found a pair of familiar leather shoes next to the shoes she had just taken off.That's Dad's leather shoes neatly placed there. "Is Dad home? Where's Mom?" Mei Xing walked into the corridor, pushed open the door of the living room, and there was light from the opened door. "Is anyone home?" When she stepped into the room, she held her breath for a moment: a person sitting on the sofa came into view all at once.That was the back view of his father, Yosuke Baba.The back of his white short-sleeved shirt stood there like a rock.

"What's wrong?" she asked.Yosuke held a cigarette in his left hand, and the white smoke was spiraling upwards. After a sigh, he turned his head to Miyuki.Then, as if he just realized it, he shook the long ash from the cigarette in his hand into the ashtray. "Is it Miyuki?" The hoarse voice was heavy. "Actually..." He was about to go on talking, when the doorbell of the entrance rang, he closed his mouth as if startled, and then looked towards the entrance. "What happened?" Miyuki asked. But Yangsuke didn't answer, the muscles on his face spasmed in pain.

Then he took his eyes off his daughter's face, and staggered towards the corridor. Yosuke opened the entrance door, and there stood a police officer in uniform. Those were two men with no expressions like terracotta figurines.One of them asked Yangsuke, "Where is the body?" corpse? Shhh—Housuke signaled the officer not to speak, and turned to Miyuki. At this moment, Miyuki realized what happened, and she subconsciously moved her steps. "Ah, you can't go to the second floor." Hōsuke called out as she raised her foot to go upstairs. But the voice didn't stop her.She was just strongly driven by an intuition.

Miyuki pushed open the door of her parents' bedroom without hesitation, and then saw her dead mother. Mom is dead.