Chapter 590 – Praying for Death

　　Under the azure sky, raging waves lapped against the surface of the deep black reef, splashing snow-white waves. The humming sound of the waves sounded like thunder, echoing above the wall.

　　This is a lonely narrow road that surrounds the green mountains, and is about eighty meters high from the sea surface below, so if you step out of the short guardrail surrounding the road, and then take a few steps forward, you will be able to stand on top of the wall and see the deep blue sea level in the distance.

　　At the moment, at the edge of the wall stood a little girl in a tattered kimono.

　　One of her feet was wearing clogs with a broken root, the shoe on the other foot had gone to an unknown place, and her black hair covered in grease and dirt was coiled into a ball and tied up with a light pink shiny crystal cherry blossom hairpin, the messy hair at her temples fluttering in the wind.

　　This girl was no more than twelve or thirteen years old, petite and childish, her tear-stained face gazing at the distant sea, a pair of small hands clenching the hem of her kimono with great force, her lips pursed up in indescribable sadness and resignation.

　　After a long time, she took out a flip phone with a yellowed Pikachu sticker.

　　She dialed a number.

　　”Hello ……” she spoke timidly.

　　”This is the Yokohama City Police Department, how may I help you?”

　　”Can you, uh, collect someone’s body?”

　　”I’m sorry, what did you say?”

　　”Collecting corpses.” The little girl looked at the choppy waves at her feet, “In five minutes, the cliff by the Machiyama line …… Can you guys come and help me collect my body?”

　　The voice on the other side of the phone paused, and the faint sound of tapping on a keyboard came from it, as if it was looking up something.

　　At the same time, a small string of white numbers lit up faintly on the little girl’s shoulder.

　　The voice on the other side of the phone got serious:

　　”You are Yuzurina of the Shidai Min, number 42857494, yes? Are you aware that suicide is an unforgivable act of blasphemy? Please give up your frivolous thoughts, and soon a patrolman will go to ……”

　　Doh-!

　　Yuzurina hung up the phone.

　　Her arm gripping the cell phone slowly dropped down, biting her lips tightly as she whispered:

　　”If you don’t help me collect my body …… then you won’t.”

　　She threw the cell phone aside, stepped away and walked towards the edge of the Jedi wall against the sea breeze, and on her black kimono, a few floating cherry blossoms looked like they were dancing wildly in the wind.

　　She stood at the edge of the wall, just one step away from falling, the raging waves below hid a sharp reef, as long as she crossed over from here, she could be pulverized in an instant.

　　It shouldn …… t hurt very much, should it?

　　She was silent for a long time, stretching out her hands and making a gesture of prayer in front of her chest.

　　”Kind and powerful God of Blessings, Great Black Sky, this is the last time I pray to you.

　　You are the god of war from the other side, you are the nemesis of all evils, you bring peace and happiness to the earth, and dispel all bad luck and ominous …… Please forgive my sin of lightness, and give me relief and hope.

　　May your blessed light shine on the earth.”

　　She gently released her palms, her gaze fell on the vast sea at her feet, and taking a deep breath, she moved to leap down!

　　Suddenly, her body froze in place.

　　She rubbed her reddened eyes and looked at the sea not far away, a shocked look appearing on her small face.

　　Only to see in the sea under the wall, a black figure was like driftwood floating with the waves, like a corpse, but the weird thing was that no matter how the waves lapped, he was like a wax statue, and his arms didn’t even shake a bit ……

　　Dead man?

　　Yuzurina blinked hard, trying to get a better look at the man, but without waiting for her to look twice more, the driftwood-like body had already floated with the waves, into the group of reefs below her, stuck at the very bottom of the wall.

　　Yuzurina was a little angry.

　　That corpse had to float to the place where she was about to jump off, what if she jumped off and hit that corpse and didn’t die at once?

　　Then how painful it must be!

　　And even if she died, she would probably be stuck there, entangled with that strange male corpse among the reefs ……

　　No way, absolutely not!

　　The more she thought about it, the angrier she became.

　　She stomped her foot in anger, and tears began to well up in her eyes again.

　　Why was she so unlucky? It was so hard to gather the courage to jump into the sea to commit suicide, and she had chosen the most decent looking place, but in the end, she was even shortchanged.

　　This place, must not be given to him just like that!

　　Yuzurina made up her mind and directly threw the half-broken clogs into the sea, then ran to another relatively gentle slope of the highway and, barefoot, carefully walked towards the sea below.

　　She walked along the gravel beach into the sea water, which was cold, but she clenched her teeth and swam determinedly towards the black-clad figure stuck in the reef.

　　The figure was getting closer and closer to her.

　　She finally swam to the group of reefs and yanked on the collar of the black-clothed man with a forceful tug!

　　The body slid off the reef.

　　Wow-!

　　A wave crashed onto their bodies, directly washing the petite Yuzurina, along with the man, back into the gravelly shallows on the side, during which Yuzurina was also slapped into the sea water by the wave and gulped down many mouthfuls of seawater.

　　Although she could swim, but the water is not good, after all, according to the rules here, all residents are not allowed to set foot in the sea, whether it is swimming, boat, fishing, or flying, are absolutely prohibited.

　　Her swimming was still something she had learned as a child in the creek next to her home in Osaka.

　　After she was swept up onto the gravel beach, she struggled to rise from the ground, her kimono soaked through, and fell to the ground coughing violently.

　　Only when she had coughed all the water out of her lungs did she let out a long breath and staggered to her feet, walking over to the body next to the one that had washed up with her.

　　It was only then that she had time to take a closer look at the man.

　　Soon, her brow furrowed.

　　This is a young man who looks to be no more than about twenty years old, quite handsome, the weird thing is, obviously after floating in the sea for so long, his body did not get a drop of water stains, his hair was dry, and his eyes were open, looking somewhere, like he was thinking, but also a little wary ……

　　It was as if his time had been suspended.

　　”Strange corpse ……” Yuzurina muttered.

　　She stood up, ready to go back to where she belonged and get on with ending her life.

　　She had just called the police station, and the other side seemed to have tracked her location through her code, and had already sent officers here, so if she couldn’t kill herself before the other side caught her, she was probably going to be thrown straight into jail for the rest of her life, not to mention killing herself in prison.

　　Here, suicide was a felony.

　　She had just stood up when she saw the corpse lying on the ground, and her eyes seemed to blink.

　　She froze, rubbed her eyes, and looked back again.

　　In the next moment, the body of that black-clothed man, sat up violently from the ground, horror written in his eyes as he opened his mouth and gasped roughly.