The Detective is Already Dead

Chapter 13: A girl’s monologue 2

Chapter 13: A girl’s monologue 2

Kimizuka had given me a new life as an ace detective.

I was no ordinary detective, either. I would be fighting pseudohumans.

...Yet I think I was nervous, somewhere in my mind.

Well, that's no surprise. I was a nobody before this. I couldn't possibly handle such a major role out of the blue. I needed someone else to acknowledge me as the detective, or I wouldn't make it as this new me.

But I won, in the end. (Well, it's technically possible that Siesta took the high road and withdrew, but I'm not going to try to find out. Mostly for the sake of my honor.) Ultimately, Siesta said she'd entrust Kimizuka to me. (I mean, it wasn't like we were fighting over him, but I'm not going to get into the details. Mostly for the sake of Siesta's honor.)

I'm kinda making it into a joke, but it meant so much to me.

Now I can become an ace detective in both name and fact. I can finally be somebody.

—But that also means I'm not allowed to fail.

I hated being nobody. I don't want to go back to when there was nothing. Anything but that darkness. Never again.