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A chill was penetrating to the skin of my back, taking a comfortable smooth slip along an orbit of like a great cup of coffee that was usualy being placed at amusement parks.

Though stumping the brake pedal repeatedly like an estrus ape, it would be absolutely irresistible against hydraulics in oil. Because the bumpy surface of tires didn't firmly grip to the gravel, even though the braking surely affected.
"Shit!"
About a five centimeters projection of grooved concrete was coming through the view over the bonnet. The irresponsive handle was laughing at my sweaty hands.
For a moment, I worried about the tires to blow out. But quickly I told myself that there was no leeway at all.

A inertia force that would occur several times in my life like a decadence and brake-wired, was in action. My body would be thrown out into a sweet and an unknown world, represented as simple word "Death" without any prior knowledges.
I had never faced the word seriously, my its image was being changed. By chance or inevitable, I would like to consider about it, even such a situation now, if I was alive after this.

The feeling of the fear looked like to be inhaled from air into vacuum.
No pain, there had to be "Nothing" in the world.


"Gon! gon!"
I woke from the "Ecstasy" that was imitating a dream. Those shocks were caused by the front wheels hit on a line of the road projection.
"What was I doing and tasting a decadence?"
And instantaneously, I recognized that it turned into a drug. I had to have a grudge driving on this road with no guardrail. It was stupid where and when I was driving. Too much confidence myself, even if only this one time. No.. it was just that I couldn't tell confidence from overconfidence.

After a while exposing my immaturity, the body would be thrown out into the air. I regreted the return to consciousness from that ecstasy at the time.
"Legs and teeth have to be tight. I'm very scared to be honest, my back will be frozen like chill."

Diving into the darkness seen as my future over the cliff with little tears in my eyes. For a moment, I felt my body flied. The sounds turned to brushing of lots of leaf of the trees, and the car was dropping naturally.
"Ga ga.., za..za.., baki.. baki.."
"Dan! Gra.. gra.., va.. va.."
I couldn't feel the pain so much though, unprotected my body hit somewhere a few at least.
Heavens and the earth, right and left, front and back, quite having no sense of those directions.
"Gon!"
Stars in my head were crashed and broken.
"Gua.."
My forehead crashed the fissured frontglass. It took some time to recognize the feeling of the pain for a while. There were two kinds of smoothly things, attached blood and glistening small pieces of glass on my palms. Unconsciously my body seemed to take a judo protecting form.
"Kuu……"
Strokes pain, tingling pain, stretched pain, dripping from these wounds and the smell of my blood. Standing them with the car upside down position. I wanted to leave my crooked neck back to straight, regretting a helmet was required.

"Stopped here means...... safe?"
I was thinking I would fall down in rotation like an enemy of James Bond from a cliff along a forest road.
"Something tree stopped me?"
My body was bent, it became a tough time becasue of the bucket seat. The side glass was shattered, reinforced frames should be done like rally cars.

I guessed that I would be confused at first. But it was a mistaken to think it as cool, and I recognized that it was impossible to think so cool becasue of the position. Just hurt through my back to the neck.
"Have to sneak out from a side window.."
My legs were crawling on the ceiling, just patiently they went out like a snake. I could recognize some pain becasue small pieces of glass were cutting my parms.
"No smell of oils, means no leaking maybe.."
"Don't worry and hurry".
It was hard only me to stay there even a few minutes after then.
However there were few lightness in the darkness, the moonlight led me think this was not just a stupid car accident.

Finally my upper body could be out of the car, then my palms touched the damp soil like humus being soft. It was steep slope downward where I was looking at.
Completely my body was out of the car by kicking the frames. Rotten leaves and soil were attached on my body.
"This ……"
There was an exposed oil pan of "86" that seemed to be few shown to the moonlight having gravity toward the center of a huge sphere.
"Fuu.."
I had a big sigh.

Falling from a cliff in the middle of a night by myself, how could I be if there wasn't enough forest to save me... I had to thank the owner was not going to build the house.
"But such a trace left.."
Japanese pampas grasses were laughing at me.
It was at an almost end of the summer...

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- Hiroshi Motomura, a student of a university in Tsukuba city.
About twice a month come to drive here for "attack" late at nights, beloved vehicle "86" was the car that I bought from an acquaintance discounted. Exceeded 100,000 km, appearing on the display even further now exceeds 80,000 kilometers. It was not particularly surprising that because being debuted way back, sometimes I had seen cars that was being overused. There was no other way for them to say the oppositely, they might be happy to have such users.

To be waged fierce battles at ordinary roads between cars in some movies being different from races held at circuits. Developments of those cars such as a proud symbol of sports car performance was transfigurating to those for global warming, other environmental considerations to family cars and eco-cars.
But a factor of that the gas required for the race was indirectly reducing the gas required for our living, was no matter at all for me anyhow. The fear created by the thrill of the moment was much more attractive individually than the tiny problem on gas.

"Fuuoh.."
Sleepy.., "86" was jacked up by the crane of a lecker service, it costed me enough to be poorly living for a while. All pieces of glass window were broken, but the main engine and underbody would work probably, were the condition then.　Ignoring the body's dents few and some awkward running, it would be barely driven. For a while I would drive the car with a new frontglass, vinyl and cardboard for the sideglasses. But I only warried when it rained...

I picked the back of Naoko with a sharp pen in my right hand.
"What?"
Looking back obviously sulking of her face, she was taking some sentences written by a professor on the blackboard. The French professor's reading invited me to go to sleep, and led me like enjoying listening classical music while lying comfortably on a piece of cloud. There was cozy temptation for snoozing after full enjoyed surfing at a beach. After then, I asked her without eye contact but downcast eyes.

"Yesterday, my car was broken so......"
"Oh so."
She showed me a note on a page of her notebook, but her face remained toward the blackboard.
"It costed so much for jacking up the car, so now penniless."
"So what?"
She showed other notes with the same attitude.
"Let's do lunch together without its my charge."
"Yourself please."
Naoko being close to me at the begining of the entrance ceremony because of the department list order.

"Why don't we go to karaoke tonight?"
"Not tonight."
"Why?"
"Drinking party tonight."
"Oh.. OK."
I kept being silence.
Naoko was taking notes then.
"I am not a convenient doll."
She had a bad mood.

The End of the lecture chime rang.
"Are you sure to go to the party tonight?" I asked her.
"Yes." Naoko turned arround and smiled at me artificially.
"Oh, good."
"Then you want to come with me?" she probably said me a joke.
"Oh well, I can go with you.." I said.
"...It's just a joke! The attendances are already dicided, and it is strange to go party for encounter with a man!"
"That's..."
"Bye."
That was all what she said, and left the lecture room.
"Okay.."
I put my textbook into my bag.

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Toriyoshi - A japanese style pub, took a few minutes from the university I was attending by bicycle, based in Tsukuba city.
Typical Japanese style yakitori pub that red lanterns was hunged at the entrance and drinkable while watching some yakitoris were being grilled by charcoal fire over the counter.
They had some separated tables for each group and the visible looks from the outside were likely more large in-store than the size of the actual space.
A big wooden board written as "Binchotan" was hanged on the right side of the entrance to authorize the quality like. In fact, a thought of that the charcoal influenced the taste of yakitori, was because of being difficult for amateur people to grill the chicken sticks, was also whether to have philosophy that very important item was the charcoal.

Going into the pub, the smell of grilled chicken and the white smoke both permeated the Naoko's body from the face.
The reason why they were easily to take off their clothes when entering this kind of pub, wasn't simply the highness of the temperature and for relaxing at the moment.
Tonight's the group drinking party would be held here.

By the sort of drinking party should be held at more fashionable place, but the sponsor decided here unilaterally. The person who claimed as "Toriyoshi-mania" had been attending here once a week, especially their lever was most delicious as he said.
At first time Naoko thought "Why we ought to keep him company at the drinking party", but oppositely Naoko expected how they would be tasted.
Good looking guy and dericious yakitori might be, both were welcome for her.

"Hey Keiko!"
Naoko called Keiko who just came into the pub late crossing a corner from red lanterns.
"Oh, Naoko.."
Keiko noticed Naoko's red cheeks already being drunken, and was walking toward the table while smiling.
As soon as she got the table where was five steps from the entrance,
"So late Keiko?"
Naoko seemed so happy.
"Yeah, sorry.."
Keiko murmured so as she put her handbag beside.
"Well, this is Keiko Arakawa, is working at a hospital nearby, a former high school's classmate."
Naoko introduced her to guys sitting in front of girls.

Group party between three women and men. It became all by Keiko's coming.
Keiko sat down next to Naoko being at the corner. Keiko took the position in the middle of the women's group.
Another female was Ai, a friend of the same class, sitting the opposite edge of the corner Naoko's.
"Hi guys"
Keiko was smiling and bowed for men. They looked embarrassed a bit.

Keiko, so-called beauty. Pretty, cute, rather beautiful than them.
It is said to be difficult for her to find any suitable boyfriend, whether truth or not actually. Naoko asked once to Keiko why she couldn't find someone within any doctors in the hospital. But Keiko answered not try to have any relationship like that. At the time, though Naoko responsed as well, it didn't seem really matter for her.
Today's clothes of Keiko, the black colour emphasized her body line, didn't looklike a clerk of an infirmary. It was less welcomed for students of Naoko and Ai, such forme as being highlighted.

Men's stares were shifted to the middle of us a little, after Keiko came to sit down beside.
Naoko regreted to invite Keiko here a bit, but it was okay becasue there was no guy as level as satisfied her. That party was intended to stick them, Ai and Takuro who was the organizer, sitting in front of her.
Naoko didn't have acquaintance of Takuro until today here. Few his information was informed just before that party. And Ai asked Naoko to find someone who was able to attend that party, due to her friend who was going to come with her, had something not to come the party. Then Keiko was invited here. Getting worse Takuro's interest seemed to be toward Keiko, oppositely there should be such an accident if Ai would use Naoko and Keiko to get her happiness among Takuro.

"Do you work at an infirmary?" Takuro asked to Keiko.
"Yeah.."
"Well, are you needing to stand all day?"
"Not so much, we have some break so."
"Well.."
"But the payment is cheap.."
"Wmm..."
Naoko thought that Keiko had brand clothes which seemed to be expensive for her cheap salary. Does she have something connection to earn money or such clothes?
"Are you all students?"
Keiko asked all gays while looking at them along downstream for her.
Takuro was described as young looking like a sunburnt high school boy. It would be natural for Ai to have a favour with him becasue he was likelt to be kind of her.
"Yeah.."
Three answered at the same time. There was only an atmosphere between Keiko and the three.
"I wanted to have any experiences of a campus life." Keiko said so with no envy feeling.
"Not too late to join now, Keiko?" Naoko said.
"Yeah.." Keiko murmured without the seriousness.
"Yakitori platter here!"
Toriyoshi's young employee brought some yakitori sticks on a big plate and put it on the table.
"Wow!"
Keiko's practice then was not suitable for her looking.
"Their yakitori is excellent here, try to eat them."
Takuro recommended while looking at Keiko.
I understood that why Takuro wanted us to bring here.
"Wow what this? Oh, look!" Keiko said so and smiled at Takuro.
"See?" Takuro replied.
"Hey, what will you do at upcoming school festival?"
Ai asked Takuro so interrupting a conversation between Keiko and him. Purposely she changed the topic on their campus life.
"Well, now still ahead, I don't know what will we do or open something a shop?"
Takuro was thinking. Then Keiko said,
"Can I go to the shop held by your circle?"
Ai definitely looked to the inconvenience to Keiko.
"Of course, please come. Very welcome if you come!"
Takuro smiled at Keiko.

The existing of Keiko at tonight's party might be an eyesore for Ai, there had to be something differents of fascinating men from students. Ai started eating some pieces of ornamental cabbage below the yakitori sticks crisply and noisily for interrupting a talk between Keiko and Takuro.
"Hey Takuro, what you do on your weekend?" Keiko had an interest of Takuro.
"Wmm.. nothing to do especially." Takuro immediately answered.
"Well, I would like to invite you my apartment? I can cook something for you.." Keiko asked so like as usuall.
"Buuu...!" Ai blew off with surprised at next to Keiko.
"I don't mind but ……" Takuro was clearly upset, but seemd happy.
"Well, let me know your phone number later, I will call on my holiday."
Takuro and Ai, also Naoko was little shocked at the attitude.
"Oh, yeah……"
Takuro became fearful bit her ongoing...

Another two men except Takuro were drinking beer much enough to be drunk. Takuro didn't drink there for his driving and picking up those two. So he was there for eating his favorites and enjoying the party, and whether or not that seemed as a party for making good relationship between Ai and Takuro, Naoko didn't particularly feel sorry for him.

"That yucky director.."
Keiko was already in a complaining mode. Today's her dresses tended to be distorted, but it showed more alluring for the three men.
"Excessive drinking Keiko?"
Naoko put her hand on Keiko's shoulder saying so, and looking at her anxiously.
"No, let me free once in a while.."
Keiko complained to Naoko.
Surprisingly it might be a stressful job from Keiko's manner, can't be imagined.
"Okay……" Naoko was conciliatory then.
There were eyes blaming Keiko's manner at the opposite side from Naoko.
"Allow her.." Naoko retorted to Ai in silence.

"Have you said that your favorite type of girl is who the kindness could be felt, haven't you?"
Ai asked Takuro so with somehow bad mood and the sleaze voice.
"Well, did I?" Takuro replied.
"That will not be changed?"
"Perhaps……"
"Wmm.."
Ai was complaining coolly about something against Takuro and next to Keiko already drunk.

"I just toilets -"
Takuro left away from the uncomfortable atmosphere.
"Hey, Takuro.."
Ai followed Takuro's leaving there to the toilet after a while later, but they had never returned the table again.
It was just passed 19:30, was as good as end of the party.

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"What they're doing here?" Takuro asked Ai, sitting by him.
"Well, it is located at place away from the city central as you know" Ai replied.

Ai followed Takuro after he left for the bathroom at the drinking pub. She secretly escaped the pub from the other members who were drinking no knowing about her, by waiting at the front door for Takuro who went his toilet. As Keiko was likely to tempt Takuro, Ai took Naoko's scheme.
After leaving the pub, as she asked Takuro let me have a break in his car, and Ai expected that he would take care of her. It was scheduled for Takuro to go home, so he was only drinking oolong tea. Then it was easy to care about Ai who was drunk already. Finally he took her to have a rest.
Takuro and Ai who were not natives of Tsukuba city, didn't know about the geography of the city in detail. So they drived and lost their way to get a place, then they got somewhere in a strange way.

After driving for a while, Ai asked Takuro to go to a place being possible to have a pee. So they were looking for somewhere to be lighted. There was a small building which was lighted around of the darkness, they thought it might be a somewhere often done among couples. That was not so large building itself, was a two-story and looked like a kind of observatory. And "Minamitatsuta Nano-technology Institute" was written at the entrance.

Drinking lots of beer made me feel to go for a pee, and it was an amount being almost intolerable.
"Do they let me use their bathroom?"
Ai begged Takuro so.
"Perhaps.."
He couldn't know what they would do and who was in the building.
"Uuuu……"
Her face was quite a pale complexion and the forehead sweated. She was staring a certain point on the car's windshield while clenching her fist on the lower abdomen. And she was trying to breath quietly as possible. Takuro worried even the car's engine vibration would stimulate her bladder.
"Ca.. can you ask them, please?"
Ai begged Takuro to visit there and ask them.
"Okay, wait a minute..."
Takuro hastened runing to the entrance from the gate where his car was parked with Ai. He could guess there might be at least some people there, because of the shadows which were moving from side to side, the leakage of light through the blind.
"Don! don!"
Takuro knocked the door.
"Excuse me!"
He continueed to knock the door.
In a moment..
"What?"
A man who was dressed in white opened the door was standing and looking at Takuro.
"Excuse me, could you please let us use your bathroom?"
Takuro said so while pointing toward his car.
The man in white said that,
"Oh, go ahead."
He led Takuro into the laboratory.
"Please turn to the left at the corner."
Saying so, the young man in white was pointing a corner.
Takuro signed as a circle by his both hands toward Ai, seemed to crouch in his car. Then she looked relived and run into the laboratory. It looked like a monkey living at snow mountains though, she warried about her lower abdomen which was fulled. She regretted the day's fault that she should made sure to go to the bathroom after drinking.
"Uuu.."
Ai hurried to the toilet, was located at the left.

"Woo.."
The feeling of how her sweats was cool, returned to her sense, by reason of that she could reach a place in relief to have a pee.
A dim yellow urine was making a sound like "Jaaa.." and a stream of her pee was mixed with the water quickly. It took a long time to have being relieved though, Ai was enjoying the time for a while looking at the ceilling of the bathroom idly.

When Ai was doing her toilet, Takuro was looking at a map of that laboratory just in the entrance. It seemed to be a nano technology-related research institute though, why it was located and stood here at the heart of a mountain.
"Minamitatsuta Nano-technology Institute had never been heard so far.."
Research institutes in Tsukuba city except for the observatory kinds, such a laboratory in the deep mountains was quite rare. Most of them were located at the flat central area.
"Is this a miner or a private laboratory?"
Takuro walked into a lighted room at the right.

"Well, it will be finished if this body is in that car."
A man in white was late 40s said so. This man put on glasses, was seemingly intelligent but scary looking in detail, a loan shark or an economic gang either.
"Is this okay?"
The other man asked him anxiously. This young one had fair-skinned and thin body. The weak character was expected from his talking and the voice.
"Don't worry about him, I heard that he has to die."
"Anyway, hurry up, else the anesthesia might not affect."
The older man replied so quietly.

The feeling in a hurry from the men, apparently their work had to be done has been delayed.
"Why this man has to be killed anyway?"
The young man asked the other man as if pitying the lying man late 50s on the bed.
"I don't know.. but he seems to be a foe, maybe.."
The older man answered as he took a black plastic bag.
"There is a rumor that our boss was in the reformatory when he was young, right?"
The young man asked with thoughtlessly.
"Shut up!"
The older man took a pose that shut up his mouse to menace the other man like.
"You will be the same as this man if you said so facing our boss!"
The older man said strongly with very keen eyes.
"......"
The young man's face became pale white.
"Never mind, but we have to do this sooner."
The older man let the young man hurry up.

"Ga.. ga.."
It was a sound that Takuro's hands hit the door knob of the room.
"Wmm..?"
The older man quickly turned around the direction of Takuro.
"Wo.."
He acted then like as not knowing what they were talking about.
"Hey! what are you doing here!"
The older man seized Takuro's cloth of his chest as soon as dushing there. It was much more intense approaching far from the man's attitude just before, becasue the older man understood that the conversation among two shouldn't be listened and the lying man had never been known to anybody else.
"No.."
Takuro tried to avert his eyes.
"Oh, they visited to borrow a toilet here."
The young man said so.
"Are you stupid? No one should come in!"
The older man appallingly looked being very angry and amazed, and he said.
"And he might listen what we talked about just before.."
He glared to threaten Takuro.
"Have you already known about it, haven't you, ah?"
It was threaten voice completely.
"......"
He had no response that means "yes".
"That's OK, but this guy can be a guinea pig either.."
"Another one, a girl is in the bathroom."
The young man said gingerly.
"Haa?"
The older man was in a surprise and amazed.
"Toilett.."
The younger man said so and pointed the direction to the bathroom.
"You are a fool?"
After shouted so, suddenly the older man hit the pit of the stomach by his fist.
"Guuu......uu"
Takuro collapsed there.
After then the older man was hurried up into the bathroom to catch Ai, but he couldn't find her.

Ai was coming close to the room where Takuro and suspicious two were talking in order to look for Takuro after her pissing. But as soon as listening their arguing, she escaped to a safe place hiding behind Takuro's car outside of the laboratory. As Takuro kept the key of his car, Ai coudn't escape by means of driving, but she thought to hide for a while at least waiting through the night.

"She will not be able to escape from this deep mountain, anyhow we have to hurry up to transport this man into our car whom a nano bomb was embedded in his head."
The older man said so while looking down the face of a man lying on a bed.
"And.. the guy can be fuel with tire chips..."
Additionally the older man murmured so while glancing at Takuro fainted away and was lying on the floor.

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This novel was translated from the original in Japanese by the author.



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