Chapter 46 Section five

Leaden clouds covered the sky.The moist air entangles the skin on the body, making people feel that the rainy season is approaching. On that day, I was unable to accompany Naomi to practice because I had to attend a gathering of team leaders and coaches from various companies.The meeting was over and I was back at work a few minutes to four. The activity room of the archery team is on the second floor of the gymnasium.On the court on the first floor, the basketball team is training. The corridor on the second floor was quiet, except for the archery team, the softball and volleyball team's activity rooms were also on the second floor, but at the moment they all went to practice.

The lights were on in the archery team's activity room, but the door was locked from the inside.I knocked lightly on the door, and Naomi would lock the door from inside while I changed. Seeing no response in the room, I took out my key and opened the door. Naomi was lying on the bench, looking like she was taking a nap — at first, I did think so, and she was breathing evenly.But as soon as I saw the cables extending from her jersey to the timer connected to the cables, I knew what she was up to. I hastily pulled out the plug from the socket, hugged her body and shook her violently. Naomi opened her eyes slightly, and stared at me blankly for a while.That expression looked like he had forgotten what he wanted to do, and was at a loss.

"Coach, I..." "why?" I shook her shoulders hard and asked, "Why did you do that?" "Ah... this..." Naomi pressed her temples, and frowned like enduring a headache, "Am I not dead? Did you intervene, the coach?" "What stupid thing are you doing? If you die, wouldn't it be the end of the game?" "right." Naomi smiled slightly, "I just want to end this, I don't want to live anymore." "Don't talk stupidly, isn't it just that you didn't get selected for the national team? As long as you work hard, you can recover immediately."

She smiled and shook her head. "It's not just for this reason, I always feel so tired... Coach, I'm almost thirty years old. However, I have never been an ordinary woman, and I don't know how to do it. In this way If it continues to be abandoned, I won't leave anything behind after I become an old woman." "The ones that can be kept." "Don't tell me it's just a memory." "..." "Our archery team is almost finished, right? What should I do next? I have never done business in the company, let alone the company. With my current strength, even if I am in the company's archery team You can't mix it up either."

"So you have to work harder." "After that, the dream was shattered again... When I came back to my senses, I realized that I was alone... I didn't even have a lover." Naomi was wailing in my arms.Words alone can't soothe her sadness at all.Because everything she said was definitely not just wishful thinking. Only later did I realize that the camera was still filming.I asked her why she did this. "I want you to see me as I die." She said with a look of exhaustion, "Let Coach, you will never forget me in your life." At night, I took her to the street to get drunk, which has never happened before.Ever since I realized her feelings for me, I tried to avoid being alone with her.

"I want to find someone to rely on." Naomi said half drunk, her fingertips lightly touched my hand on the bar. "I also want to experience the feeling of having someone around me to rely on." I saw tears in her eyes. A year has passed.Since that night, the relationship between Naomi and I is no longer just a simple coach-player relationship. I know I'm not in the right place.But since the emergence of the relationship between men and women, Naomi's hysterical mental state has been quickly curbed.The mental stability is also reflected in the body, allowing her to successfully regain the vitality of the past.She reported frequent successes in various competitions, and was called back to the national team not long after.

She didn't make any specific requests to me like marriage, which is also an important reason for the enduring relationship between the two of us.And I am also justifying myself, telling myself that this is for Naomi to enjoy the fun of this dangerous relationship. For me, the best ending is that Naomi can compete in the Olympics, and after she retires, I will completely break everything with her. However, I never thought about how to deal with this relationship if I can't get the best ending. A week after the Olympic trials, Naomi asked me out.She came outside my apartment and we met in a nearby park.

"I want to give up archery." She said categorically that I had a vague premonition about this before, so I wasn't particularly surprised. "Is that so... There is no other way. Everything that needs to be done has already been done." "Yes. I don't have anything to miss anymore." "Finally, let's have another good drink together." After listening to my words, Naomi didn't nod.There was a slight smile on her cheek. "coach." She said, "Can you talk to your wife about me?" "Hey……?" "I want you to tell her what happened between us."

"What did you say out of the blue?" "I can give up archery, but I can't forget about coaching you. If the coach is not good for you, then I will go to see your wife directly, and I will beg her to get together with the coach." Naomi's words seemed to be sincere.Before that, she had been obsessed with the dream of competing in the Olympics, but now that her dream is broken, she can only find another dream of getting married to continue.For her who lacks social experience between men and women, she may feel that the man who hugs her deeply must be the one she loves the most in her heart.

I panicked all of a sudden, I never thought that she would make such a request.I persuaded her to let her go back today and give me some time to think about it. "Okay, I'll go back today. But, coach, don't betray me. If you betray me, I will let the whole world know the relationship between you and me." As I said that, a light flashed in Naomi's eyes, and I felt a chill behind my back. "Understood, I will not betray you." I suppressed the feeling of being cornered by her, and said. If she hadn't left the tape when she attempted suicide last year, maybe I wouldn't have thought of it.As long as I have that tape in my hand, I can kill her without arousing anyone's suspicion.

I had no choice but to kill Naomi.Naomi called every day, asking if I had talked to my wife about it.As soon as I was vague, she said she wanted to interview my wife directly. I'm terrified of her telling other people about it.If you let the company know, then everything will be over. Except for Yoko and the child, I can only kill Naomi—every time I feel afraid because of the act of killing, I will keep reminding myself in my heart and continue to prepare. The tape was on the back of the shelf.I looked it over and over several times to make sure no one could tell it was made last year.The crux of the problem is that the scene of me saving her was captured in the second half of the video.I truncated that part, leaving only the part before resuscitating her.Perhaps the police will be suspicious of the interruption of the video recording, but this is also impossible. Restore the layout of the room to how it was when the video was taken.After that, Naomi herself must be restored to her original appearance. I have my own arrangements for this. "The archery team is about to disband, how about taking a commemorative video? Put on the team uniform and take the longbow." Without even thinking about it, she happily agreed to my proposal, and said that it would require proper makeup. "You don't need make-up, I like to see you go to the game. It's better to cut your hair short... like in this photo." Show her pictures of her suicide attempt.She took the photo, thought for a while, and said, "Then I'll make it feel like this." At four o'clock that afternoon, we met in the activity room.The activity rooms of other teams are still the same as usual, and there is no one in sight, which makes me let go of a hanging heart. She cut her hair the way I told her, and the red coral earrings are the same as last year. After chatting for a while, I took out a bottle of juice, unscrewed the cap in front of her, and handed it to her. It was a bottle of juice that I recapped after taking sleeping pills. It didn't take long before she began to feel drowsy, and even her speech became incoherent.I gently hugged her overwhelmed body.She had difficulty even opening her eyes. "IM so tired……" "Then you can sleep." "coach……" "what?" "Farewell... Coach." After a while, Naomi breathed evenly, and I carefully placed her on the bench. Afterwards, as she did last year.To avoid fingerprints, I put on gloves, wrapped cables around her chest and back, and turned on the power on a timer.Then I closed my eyes, and she was in exactly the same position as before, as if she hadn't woken up yet.I gently put my hand to her mouth, her breathing had already stopped. Goosebumps popped up all over his body, and a new fear oppressed his chest.However, I can't have any hesitation, I have no way out. With the camera set up, I pulled the tape from the rack.Just in case, I read it again, no problem, it works like this. In order not to make any conflicts with Naomi's suicide situation, I checked the room carefully.The timer is ok, the video is ok, the fingerprint and Naomi's pose are ok. very good. I took a deep breath and reached out to the phone in the corner of the room.The police are 100.How should I say it?Should I stutter a little nervously?It's better to be calm and calm - I haven't made up my mind yet, but my partner has already answered the phone.So I told the other party the situation without any distractions. It should be going well, right? The police didn't seem to be suspicious of me.Although the voice sounds a bit high-pitched, it may be more natural that way.Just give the company another call afterwards. At this moment, something stuck in my heart.It was Naomi's last sentence. "Farewell, Coach." Why did she say that at the time? A burst of uneasiness gradually spread in my heart, and I dialed the company's phone number.