Satsugai Monologue
Satsugai
Matsuo-sensei stood over his lifeless body and bellowed,
“What have you done!?” I didn't mean to kill him, he kind of just got in the way. He was running from me so I was chasing him. Then he just suddenly stopped, I think. I look down at the knife in my hand, I had wiped the boy’s blood, I think his name was Aito, off onto my light blue jeans. I’m just a normal kid… I think. I just have some slight homicidal tendencies.
“Satsugai!” yells sensei. His face has turned red with anger and his black blazer has come unbuttoned. His short black hair, that was previously gelled flat, now stands on end. He looks at me with wild eyes, daring me to lie. I don't know what else to say so I tell the honest truth,
“I was playing with a knife and Aito-kun began screaming and running away from me, so I chased him, all for good fun, and then he just stopped and I stabbed him.” Matsuo-sensei, the principle of _ Junior High, is speechless. What do you say to someone who just accidentally murdered someone else? He clenches his fists and says somewhat calmly to me,
“Satsugai, I'm going to have to call the police.” I nod in defeat but in my head I am thinking, it's my last year of junior high, all I had to do was …show more content…
There is a school legend about that stain. It says that if you walk past the bloodstain three times during noon break, when there are no classes, a ghost of “the boy who died there” will jump out from inside the wall, stab you to death, and drag you into the wall with him. Luckily I learned a valuable lesson from that myth: Legends can never be trusted. The legend is actually about how I used to sit at that wall during noon break and wait for any small animals to scamper past. Then I would stab them. It was a little game I used to play with myself. I chuckle as I think. But that was when I had no one to play with, everyone was too terrified, but that was before Yamato of
Matsuo-sensei stood over his lifeless body and bellowed,
“What have you done!?” I didn't mean to kill him, he kind of just got in the way. He was running from me so I was chasing him. Then he just suddenly stopped, I think. I look down at the knife in my hand, I had wiped the boy’s blood, I think his name was Aito, off onto my light blue jeans. I’m just a normal kid… I think. I just have some slight homicidal tendencies.
“Satsugai!” yells sensei. His face has turned red with anger and his black blazer has come unbuttoned. His short black hair, that was previously gelled flat, now stands on end. He looks at me with wild eyes, daring me to lie. I don't know what else to say so I tell the honest truth,
“I was playing with a knife and Aito-kun began screaming and running away from me, so I chased him, all for good fun, and then he just stopped and I stabbed him.” Matsuo-sensei, the principle of _ Junior High, is speechless. What do you say to someone who just accidentally murdered someone else? He clenches his fists and says somewhat calmly to me,
“Satsugai, I'm going to have to call the police.” I nod in defeat but in my head I am thinking, it's my last year of junior high, all I had to do was …show more content…
There is a school legend about that stain. It says that if you walk past the bloodstain three times during noon break, when there are no classes, a ghost of “the boy who died there” will jump out from inside the wall, stab you to death, and drag you into the wall with him. Luckily I learned a valuable lesson from that myth: Legends can never be trusted. The legend is actually about how I used to sit at that wall during noon break and wait for any small animals to scamper past. Then I would stab them. It was a little game I used to play with myself. I chuckle as I think. But that was when I had no one to play with, everyone was too terrified, but that was before Yamato of