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Chapter 1: Act 4: Scene 4


 * Mei was on her was back home late into the night, at the bewitching hour when even the plants were asleep.


 * The narrator doesn't know why she was out so late, whether the Freezis negotiations were drawn out longer than expected or she lied to Kai and actually did help Perrie and crew look for a mermaid. Regardless, she's on her way home now.


 * At that moment--I, the scissors I dwelt in, were with Kayo.


 * That doesn't mean they were at the tailor shop. Kayo was on the street corner waiting for Mei. After confirming Mei pass by the front of the shop, Kayo dashed out with the scissors anticipating this.


 * Kayo was hidden behind the soba shop; once she saw Mei, she slowly revealed herself.


 * Mei's eyes widened at the figure suddenly appearing before her and recognized her immediately.


 * Mei: "...... Oh, Kayo-san. It's been a while. What are you doing in a place like this on such a night?"
 * The narrator could see the color of tension in Mei's eyes. Even though she knew her, it would be impossible to not be tense meeting someone at night like that.
 * Without answering Mei's question, Kayo silently closed the distance between them, taking out the western scissors she concealed.
 * The narrator describes how western scissors are two blades with a screw at the fulcrum holding them together, making them a match.
 * "They're like a harmonious couple," the woman who was her mother sometimes told her.
 * However, Kayo had removed the screw in advanced and held the handles of the two separate blades, one in each hand (a dual-wielding stance).
 * Mei immediately realized her murderous intent apparently and she turned around to head in the direction she had come from.
 * However, Kayo flew at her much faster and pinned down her shoulder with her right elbow.
 * Mei: "Help--"
 * Those were Mei's last words.
 * The next moment, the sound of the blade in Kayo's left hand was stabbed in the back of her neck. As soon as she rmeoved the blade, blood spewed from Mei's throat.
 * She could no longer scream; Mei was stuck there on her knees.
 * The narrator explains that the scissors weren't weapons made for killing. Despite their sharpness, the single blow she dealt to the neck wasn't fatal.
 * So once Kayo let go of Mei while holding down her legs, she stabbed her throat again with the blade in her right hand this time.
 * And then again with the left blade--.
 * Right, left, right, left--.
 * Many, many times--.
 * At first, Mei was showing some resistance.
 * But, she soon lost more and more power from her body until she stopped completely the last time.
 * Yet still, she was faintly breathing.
 * Kayo put both blades together--.
 * Stopping it right htere, she pierced through Mei's chest.
 * Kayo: "..... The pretty kimono I waited for is all messed up."
 * Kayo said while her own face was a bloody mess. Of course, all that blood was what had sprayed from Mei's body.
 * Kayo took the red kimono that had been bloodied and torn and returned home.
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 * Since the day she was born, Kayo grew up as the daughter of tailors and shouldn't have known any martial arts.
 * Of course, this was the first time she had killed someone too.
 * Since I've known Kayo since she was a baby, there's no way I'm mistaken.
 * --So why did she kill Mei with such skill?
 * I guess that it was this.
 * The person who exchanged bodies with her--.
 * Elluka, were you someone who was good at that--?