Do you like Yu-Gi-Oh even if it's like this?

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"I can't get through on the phone either. I wonder if something happened to you."

I took my homemade pepper spray and muttered to myself, making sure that my parents would not come home tonight.

She opened the door and looked out into the moonlight on the cold night.

"Boom...boom..."

I don't know why, but my heart is beating so fast.

Heading towards the Nine-legged Spider's home

"This is……?"

When she turned a street corner, the touch of her feet made her hesitate slightly.

—She lifted her sneakers up… It wasn’t a very ladylike gesture, but she was used to it.

"Is this blood?!"

However, her weak legs made her sit down on the ground.

The bloodstains followed the moonlight and moved towards the inside of the alley, forming sticky strands.

"Gudu..."

Being able to clearly hear the sounds inside the body is evidence of a refusal to recognize the external environment.

She suppressed the urge to call the police and stuck her head into the alley.

——A small figure, buried in the gaps of moonlight, buried in the shadows.

A bloody smell emanated from there.

"……spider……"

——I called out his name.

I should have called out his name.

The figure at the end of the alley seemed to have some feeling, and his lifeless eyes turned mechanically.

"Ahem...sleepy?"

It's so weak that it's hard to imagine it's a sound a human can make.

——The wound was in the abdomen and the bleeding was heavy.

"Your……"

My mind is in a mess.

——We should call someone…who? Three numbers? What are the three numbers?! We need a white car to pick us up, but what is it?!

Tears welled up in my eyes, and countless thoughts were swirling in my head. My body was imprisoned by these wild and chaotic thoughts, and I felt dizzy, and blood rushed to my head...

"Are you confused? - It's common to forget what you should do before you know it."

…But, that reassuring voice rang in my ears.

"Sorry, I can't control my balance..."

He staggered, but did not fall.

"But, let me follow my arrogance of being a teacher..."

"I'm listening! Don't fall asleep!!!"

"Remember, everyone...will suddenly face the moment of farewell...you and...me, it's the same."

The voice was weak and smelled like garbage in this dirty alley.

"So... let me get used to it first."

"Pfft!"

——Unconsciously, I had caught his falling body.

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"...want to save him?"

In a trance, I heard a sound.

"Sign this contract... and after you graduate from high school... come work for me."

I was eventually rushed to the hospital in time, and she was in a trance for less time than I thought.

"What are you thinking about! You almost died!!"

Turning around, she walked into the door, slammed it, and jumped in front of me to question me.

"...No, let's put this aside for now. Tell me what happened first - I can't contact your mother!"

"..."

I turned my head away and said nothing.

"Then let me guess..."

"Don't, don't guess. I'll tell you everything."

——My heart tightened.

Girls have always been superconductors of gossip, and I feel the same way.

"...I haven't even started to guess yet... Tsk, okay, you tell me."

"Both my parents are gamblers - one wins and one loses."

I tried to stay calm, but a feeling of despair still lingered over me. "At first, it was just my mom who discovered the unusual amount of money in my dad's account - and then she confirmed that my dad was gambling."

——Cards are props in games and also tools to seize people’s value.

She immediately took the initiative to get me divorced, successfully obtained my custody, and asked my father to pay child support every month.

2...Up to this point, everything is still normal.

9. The problem is that Dad is gambling bigger and bigger.

"…I am sorry about your father's matter."

０ She sat on the edge of my bed with a heavy heart, leaving a slight dent in the white sheets.

4 "No, he is living a very comfortable life now."

⒊ "Huh?"

I admit that I am a little bit mean.

⑹ "It is better to say that the casino is simply his personal gold mine. The bigger the bet, the more money he makes."

Four "This... This is impossible!"

"Nothing is impossible." I hid my eyes deep under my bangs. "I don't know the specific method - but when I asked my dad, he said... 'If someone loses, someone wins. If the dealer can't lose, let other gamblers lose more miserably.'"

"..."

——If it ended here, the story would just make people sigh at the injustice of the world.

But a person, especially a woman...when she finds out that the person she abandoned has made a fortune from gambling, and the child support she received remains the same.

Its pitiful future is visible to the naked eye.

As the saying goes, "I want you to be well, but I don't want you to be too well."

"At first, my mother became silent - then I saw her going in and out of some strange places... restaurants with terrible food but inexplicably crowded with people, street corners where young men gathered, people making strange gestures..."

And then finally…

——【That's not right! Why can he do it but I can't? !】

——【It’s you! It’s you, right?! He can always win because you’re not by his side!】

——【I am going to the Buddhist temple to pray for a blessing ceremony. Don’t worry, it won’t cost a lot of money… But the lunch these two days will be…】

"…She left two hundred dollars and disappeared—but foreign debts are not easily eliminated. The one who stabbed me today was a debt collector."

My resentment has not yet subsided, but I think there is really no need to tell Mei more.

"..."

However, I raised my eyes—and saw a feeling that I expected but was beyond my imagination.

【mercy】

It dripped from her eyes and pierced my dignity.

"..."

——For a moment, I hid the feelings in my heart.

Tentatively, instinctively...a smile.

"People in my class know that my parents are gamblers, so they keep their distance from me - are you satisfied, Mei?"

I shouldn't have used a sarcastic tone. I shouldn't have made fun of her right in front of me.

But I couldn't help it.