“…Did he plan it…for me?” I asked in a trembling voice. “I-is he…trying to threaten me and to tell me that…he will kill anyone who would try to help me?”
My words echoed in the four corners of that empty and dark room, then it was followed by a long and deafening silence. The stillness of the room pricked my skin and made me feel colder as Takuma and I both stood motionlessly while staring at each other’s eyes.
The sedate gaze that Takuma was wearing without uttering any word, confirmed that my words were true, and that he also had the same thing running on his mind.
“Yeah. I suspect that at first, he did not really plan to let the police know about his crime. But maybe…he got frustrated when he failed to abduct you at Fukui, so he decided that he will use this as an opportunit
