Chapter 5 chapter Five

Akio found that the flashlight was still on, he turned off the power, put it on the table and went straight to the door. "where did you go?" "Go up to the second floor." He refrained from blaming his wife for asking unnecessary questions. Once in the corridor, he stepped up the ancient staircase.The lights on the stairs were off, but Akio wasn't even in the mood to touch the switch.He even wanted to hold his breath in the dark, and finally understood how Yaeko didn't want him to turn on the light. Naomi's room is on the left after going upstairs, and the light shines through the crack in the door.When I got closer, I heard some kind of noisy noise.Akio knocked on the door, but there was no response.After a moment's hesitation, he opened the door.

Naomi sat cross-legged in the center of the room, her developing body had slender hands and feet that looked a little weird.Holding the handle of the game console, he stared straight at the TV screen one meter ahead, as if he hadn't noticed that his father had walked in. "Hello." Akio said, looking down at his son who was in the third year of junior high school. But Naomi didn't make any response, his hands nimbly manipulated the handle, and the virtual characters in the screen kept repeating the scene of killing. "Naomi!" Under Akio's stern tone, he finally turned his head slightly, and muttered something, as if "I'm so bored".

"What happened to that girl?" The other party didn't answer, but just pressed the button on his hand irritably. "Did you kill it?" Naomi's lips finally moved convulsively. "I didn't mean to." "Nonsense, but why would you do that?" "It's annoying, I don't know." "How could you not know? Well, answer me well. Where is the child? Where did you bring her home?" Naomi's breathing became short of breath, but she still didn't answer her father's question.He just kept his eyes wide open, desperately trying to focus on the game, trying to escape this troublesome real world.

Akio stood still, looking down at the dyed brown hair of his only son.Gorgeous sound effects and music came from the TV, as well as the screams and curses of the characters. He wants to take the gamepad from his son, and he wants to turn off the TV.But even under the current circumstances, Akio did not dare to make such a move.Because the result of doing this before was that Naomi started smashing things at home in a semi-crazy state, and when Akio tried to force him to the ground, he was attacked by his son's beer bottle instead.The bottle hit Akio on his left shoulder, which made him unable to do anything with his left hand for two weeks.

Akio's eyes fell on the mountain of DVDs and comic magazines piled up beside his son's bed. On the cover, the girls in lewd outfits with innocent expressions were particularly eye-catching. There was a sound from behind, and when I looked back, I realized that Yaeko had also entered from the corridor. "Azhi, tell Mom and Dad what's going on, please." Akio was impatient with Yaeko's flattering tone. "Hey, let's talk about the cause and effect, okay? We'll play the game later." She shook her son's shoulder lightly. At this moment, a picture of something breaking appeared on the TV. Naomi yelled, it seemed that the game had failed.

"What are you doing!" "Naomi, don't be ignorant, do you know the seriousness of the matter?" Hearing Akio's uncontrollable roar, Naomi put the handle on the ground and glared at his father with his mouth crooked. "Ah, Zhi, don't be like this. His dad is too, don't yell." Yaeko pressed Naomi's shoulder to comfort him, and looked up at Akio at the same time. "I'm asking you to explain clearly, do you think things will pass if you leave them alone like now?" "It's annoying, and it doesn't matter." In one corner of Akio's agitated brain, angry that Naomi could only say such things, he felt that his son was really an idiot.

"Okay, then don't say anything, let's go to the police station." Both mother and son were taken aback by his words. "His father..." Yaeko's eyes widened. "What do you want me to do?" "Are you kidding me!" Naomi became mad, "Why should I go to the police station? I don't go to that kind of place!" He grabbed the TV remote control next to him and threw it at Akio.As soon as Akio dodged, the remote control hit the wall and fell, and the batteries inside were scattered on the ground. "Oh, oh, Zhi, calm down, please." Yaeko hugged Naomi's arm tightly, "We're not going to the police station, we're not going."

"What nonsense are you talking about? How could you not go? It's useless to comfort him with such irresponsible words now, sooner or later he will—" "Stop talking!" Yaeko shouted, "Anyway, you go out first, I will ask him, I will ask him well." "I'm still a minor. Parents are responsible for what minors do, and it's none of my business." Naomi, who was protected by her mother, stared at Akio and yelled, showing no remorse or regret at all.His expression seemed to say that he was right in any situation, and the responsibility had to be borne by others.

He doesn't seem to listen to anything else. "You must ask clearly." Akio turned and left the room after leaving this sentence. After going down the stairs, instead of going to the dining room, he stepped into the Japanese-style room on the other side of the corridor.When Akio came back, Yaeko walked out of this room.Although there is only a TV, a low table and a tea table inside, it looks a bit shabby, but it is the only place where Akio can rest quietly.Yaeko was probably here to soothe her mood before. Akio knelt on the tatami mat, with one hand on the low table.He felt that it was necessary to look at the corpse again, but his whole body was as heavy as lead, and he couldn't even sigh.

There was no Naomi's roar from upstairs, and I don't know if Yaeko asked why. She must have been talking to her son in a coaxing way as usual.Naomi has always had a bad temper since he was a child, so Yaeko has been used to coaxing him like this every time without knowing it.Although Akio couldn't understand this practice, since most of the child-raising process was done by Yaeko, he couldn't complain about it. But how did things happen today? It's not completely clueless, Akio can roughly imagine Naomi's motives, because two months ago, he heard Yaeko mention something.

When she came back from shopping that evening, she saw Naomi sitting with a nearby little girl at the doorway leading to the dining room from the yard.He was holding a cup and was preparing to give the girl something to drink.But when he saw Yaeko, he poured the contents of the cup into the yard and let the girl go back.That alone cannot be said to be a problem, but Yaeko checked afterwards and found that the Japanese sake bottle had been tampered with. Her guess was that Naomi wanted to get the girl drunk and then molested her. Akio smiled and denied his wife's opinion, only taking it as a joke.But Yaeko still told him seriously that Naomi might have a habit of young girls. "When there is a little girl passing by in front of the house, he will always stare straight at her. And when he attended the funeral last time, didn't he really want to lean next to Erika? She is just in elementary school, you just Don't you find it strange?" It is true that Naomi's abnormal behavior can be seen from these words, but Akio didn't think of any way.In other words, his thinking might just be in vain. After hearing about a situation that he had never imagined, he himself fell into chaotic thinking.And the desire to hope that it was all just a misunderstanding outweighed the desire to think of countermeasures to solve the problem. "In short, we have to observe first." This is the conclusion he came to after thinking. Yaeko naturally couldn't be satisfied with this answer, but she could only accept the reality after a while of silence. After that, Akio began to spy on his son's performance as much as possible.However, in his opinion, Naomi didn't show any signs of childish obsession.Of course, he couldn't see everything about his son.Originally, there were very few opportunities for the two to meet each other. When Akio went out, Naomi was still under the covers. When he came back from the company, the latter had already entered his room.They only share the same space on rare occasions during weekends and weekends, but during such a time period, Naomi tried his best to avoid looking directly at his father's face, and when he had to talk, he tried to use the fewest words possible. finish conversation. Akio couldn't tell when Naomi became what he is now.Although there were some emotional fluctuations when he was in elementary school, he still listened to his parents and would correct his mistakes after being reprimanded. He can be regarded as an honest child.However, I don’t know when he stopped obeying Akio’s discipline, and he didn’t respond at all when he reminded him to pay attention to something. When Akio got angry and scolded him for this, he simply showed a vicious look in reverse . Akio reduced the chances of getting in touch with his son, comfortingly looking forward to his son's resistance period will pass sooner or later. At that time, he was not at all motivated to nip the mutation of his only son in the bud.He even hoped that if something went wrong, he wouldn't let himself feel the signs. Now Akio regrets that he didn't take measures at that time, but this regret is so feeble that even he himself doesn't know what the so-called measures refer to. With the "creak" sound of feet stepping on the stairs, Yaeko came down from the stairs.She opened her mouth halfway, staring at Akio as he walked in. Blushing, she let out a sigh as soon as she sat down. "Did you ask him?" Zhaofu said. Yaeko nodded, still facing Akio sideways. "What did he say?" Before answering, Yaeko swallowed a mouthful of saliva. "He said...he was strangled to death by him." Akio couldn't help closing his eyes. Although he had expected it, he still had a glimmer of fantasy, imagining that this was just a misunderstanding. "Where is the child from?" Yaeko shook her head. "He said he didn't know either." "Where did you bring her back then?" "He said he met him on the road. He didn't want to take it home. The other party followed him on his own initiative." "Nonsense, do you believe this?" "It's really not believable, but..." She swallowed the next words. Akio clenched his fist and slammed it on the low table. Naomi may have found a "prey" casually while wandering in the street, or in other words, as soon as he saw a girl that fit his liking, the demon in his heart was awakened.But no matter what, he must have gone up to strike up a conversation first.Because the girl's parents will always warn her not to go anywhere with strangers.In today's day when children are often attacked, every parent will be particularly cautious in this regard. But Akio never expected that his son would become the attacker—— Akio can imagine the situation when Naomi is coaxing girls with a smooth tongue.When he faces the person he likes or wants the other party to meet his willful demands, he will use an unexpected rhetoric to achieve his goal.On this point, Akio is naturally very clear. "Why did he strangle him to death?" "He said he wanted to play with her, but the girl didn't listen to him, so he tried to scare her by pinching him, and he wasn't going to kill her." "Playing... What fun is there for a middle school student to be with such a small girl?" "how could I know." "Didn't you ask?" Yaeko didn't say a word, her expression showed that she couldn't possibly ask this question.