Episode 1: A Teacher’s Daily Life

“The defendant, Kanaki Taiga, is found guilty of the crime and sentenced to death.”

The judge’s voice resounded through the courtroom, and I―Kanaki Taiga, looked up to the heavens and gently closed my eyes.

The verdict was as I had anticipated. My honest opinion was that this was about as close as I was bound to get, notwithstanding my disappointment to some extent.

Sobs escaped from some of the relatives who had been following the trial all the way through. Did they truly rejoice that I would be going to die? Well, from their perspective, I can see why they would detest me for murdering their cherished family members, but if they loathed me so much, why didn’t they merely kill me personally rather than leaving it in the hands of a third party? It would undoubtedly feel better to do so. Instead, why did people continue to condemn themselves inanely by using the words “Constitution” and “Law”?

There were a plethora of superfluous commandments in this world―

After the trial, I returned to my cell and lay down on the thin bed.

All I could think about was slipping out of here as swiftly as I could before the time limit expired and I actually received the death penalty.

However, even I found it difficult to flee from this prison because of the high alert level―

Within the concrete walls of the room, with fixed-point surveillance cameras set up in each of the four corners of the room in the corner of my eye, a small breath was released.

Hmm?

A sudden light flashed there, at the border of my line of view.

I couldn’t believe what I was seeing as I peered in that direction, wondering whether the fluorescent light was broken.

There was a hole in the space, so small that a person could barely fit through it―

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A/N:

In case you are wondering, I am writing this in a kind of horror fantasy. I hope you will stay with me until the end.