Shinrei Tantei Yakumo - Volume 10 Chapter 18

Chapter 18

Translated by Niulili

Yakumo sat on his chair, his gaze drifting overー.

The room of the <Movie Research Club> was surrounded by silence.

Yakumo removed his left eye patch, closed his right eye with his hand, and opened his left eye.

The moonlight came in a while ago and it was slightly bright, but it turned into complete darkness.

He felt that the silence deepened the darkness.

Until now, the left eye had a different view from the right eye.

The soul of the deadー The ghosts of this world.

Yakumo has hated that from the bottom of his heart.

It was not once or twice that he was treated as a monster because his left eye was red. Every time he looked in the mirror, he felt the urge to pull out his red left eye.

Seeing ghosts on a daily basis brought pain to his mind.

Those who died and still wandered around this world had some reason.

Accidents, illnesses, suicides, incidentsーThe circumstances in which each person died were many, but many of them left some regrets in this world.

That’s whyー They wandered.

It was almost always a grudge, hatred, anger, or a negative emotion.

He didn’t understand the reason, and by continuing to see those feelings, Yakumo’s spirit was pushed to the limit.

He didn’t know what to do, just frightened by the continuing shadows of ghosts.

There was a vague boundary between a real human and a ghost, and it was scary to go beyond.

If he didn’t had a red left eye, he might had been able to spend a more calm life. He thought so countless time. This red left eye was also a sign that he had this man’s blood.

Unkai, a man with two bloody red eyes, his father of blood.

Moreover, Unkai was Yakumo’s mother, Azusa, half-brother.

Yakumo’s body was filled with condensed, cursed blood. Just thinking about it made his spine cold and even nausea.

Even if he thought that the blood of a man who played with other people’s emotions and led them to their ruin flowed into his body, he was accustomed.

So far, he had kept his distance from others.

Being involved with him also harmed and cursed the others. He felt that way. In fact, Nao’s mother, Akemi, died because she was involved in Yakumo.

He unintentionally injured anyone who touched him. It was like a porcupine dilemma.

That’s why he hadn’t tried to be involved with love.

A cursed person, like himself, should not think of someone.

If he did that, he would suffer and even the person he had feelings for. It was harder than anything.

Leaving his own gene was synonymous to leaving a chain of curses in later life.

He should end the red-eyed curse himself. That’s what he thought. No, he still think he should.

Suddenly, Haruka’s face appeared on Yakumo’s mind.

She looked at Yakumo’s red left eye and said, “Pretty.”

Undoubtedly, it was honestly how she felt. She didn’t know how much Yakumo was saved by it.

The red eye, which he hated, were described as “pretty”, which made Yakumo felt like she was the first to affirm his existence.

After hearing those words, he was able to strangely face his red eye more than before.

As a result, the number of people involved in psychic incidents increased dramatically.

Of course, Haruka, who was a good friend, might collect troubles of psychic phenomena from everywhere, but that was not all.

It was also because he realized that his red left eye wasn’t just a curse, it could sometimes save someone’s heart.

Of course, not everything he saw could be saved. He tried hard, but sometimes his thoughts didn’t reach them.

Even so, he was able to touch some feelings and found hope.

With Haruka, he felt like he hated himself less than before. He thought it was okay for him to exist.

If his left eye wasn’t red, how would he be in contact with Haruka ?

Such a question suddenly came to his mind.

If he was a typical college student, would he enjoyed Haruka ?

ーNo.

That was impossible.

He met Haruka after a certain psychic phenomenon.

In other words, if it wasn’t for his red left eye, he wouldn’t have met Haruka in the first place.

She must have finished her life without knowing his very existence. Even if they were to meet, they would have been in a different relationship.

Because of his red left eye, he was able to know the existence of Haruka’s twin sister and touched her heart.

It was not just Haruka.

Perhaps he would never have met Gotou.

He first met Gotou when Yakumo was about to be killed by his mother, Azusa.

If his eye wasn’t red, she wouldn’t had tried to kill him.

If he could not see ghosts, Gotou would not have been concerned about Yakumo.

It was the same for Ishii and Makoto.

He was able to meet them because Yakumo had a red left eye.

In the end, if he was not for the red-eyed man he hated so much, he would not even exist in this world.

However, he could not forgive that man.

After all, the red left eye was a curse. Therefore, he intended to keep a certain distance from both Haruka and Gotou.

Yetー

Now Yakumo wanted the red left eye that he hated so much.

Because it was necessary to found Nao. But it was too selfish.

This desire for the red left eye was exactly the same as seeking help from the hateful Unkai.

The existence of that man-Unkai should not be accepted no matter what.

Perhaps that was why his red left eye’s vision did not return.

Yakumo rejected the existence of Unkai.

That was why he could not seeー.

However, recognizing the existence of Unkai meant forgiving what he had done so far and approaching him.

That’sー…

That was terrifying.

The cursed blood that he had desperately suppressed inside him might wake up and went to the same darkness as Unkai.

If he couldn’t get Nao without it, maybe he should.

ー Is it realy the case ?

He asked himself. The answer did not come back.

“I…”

Yakumo leaned on the back of his chair and looked up at the ceiling.

He didn’t even know who he was. He wanted to disappear like this.

Yakumo just wanted that.