Welcome!

Have you decided on your order?

2 iced coffees.

Yes, understood.

I will take your menus.

Hmmm, Ueki Keita...

Haruhino High School...

Where was Haruhino High School again, by the station?

Did you already slit your wrists?

Ah, no. I, It seemed like would hurt... so...

Really?

It's ok, you don't have to hide it.

N, No, no, I'm telling the truth.

See?

Thank you for waiting. Here are your iced coffees.

Ah

Please let me know if you wish to order anything else.

O-K.

Please take your time.

Ah

Umm

I...

So

Are you really serious about it?

...Yes. Everyone already...

Hates me... So...

I, I contacted you...

To get some help...

Huh? You want to kill yourself right?

That's why you sent me a text, right?

Ah... Yes. Even though I don't want to...

Huh? There's something odd with your story.

Eh, no, since you're someone helping someone looking to commit suicide...

Huh?

...Matsushita-san, you're... Helping me, right?

To All Hopes, A Yell First Part

5 Days Ago

It happened to Ueki again.

Huh, what happened to the inside of his desk?

Well, there was a plastic bottle...

He's simply worried that his textbooks are covered in juice.

They are.

Ah

Whoa

Phft

Whoa!

Whoa whoa

It's dirty.

You have to check your chair, Ueki.

This sort of thing was an every day occurrence.

When your older sister was your age, Keita,

I think she did much more than you.

Keita, are you studying?

Math

Your older sister never got scores this low.

Anyway, it was tough.

Ah

I should die.

To put it concretely, I wanted to escape.

But I didn't know how to kill myself.

Matsushita

To the person on the verge of suicide, please don't. Please text me, I beg of you!

Anonymous

What's with him?

Shuga~

But there's always the train.

"Matsushita"...?

Ah... He put in an e-mail address.

A text...

I wanted someone to help me.

I sent the text that was like a plea yesterday. And now...

To: Matsushita-san

So you want to die, right?

Why would I stop you?

Did I write that I would stop you from killing yourself?

Wai, wh...

What do you...

I said, if you're going to kill yourself, don't do it arbitrarily.

Please contact me first.

Get it?

Y, Y, You don't mean that you want to watch me kill myself... And that's why... you called me?

Aren't you the one who called me? Well... Anyway,

Good luck

On killing yourself!

He's crazy.

This guy is definitely crazy.

I, Is it normal to cheer on someone's suicide... No, it's not normal, he's crazy!

Ah, umm, well, I...

Ah?

Are you going to stop?

2nd year boy of Haruhino High School

Who lives at #5 in West Haruhino.

I see, Ueki-kun. So you like dating sites~

I wonder if I should post your contact information around the school.

T, T, That would be terrible...

No, it's fine, right? Since you'll be killing yourself soon.

So I can reveal this.

This guy is serious about bringing me down the path to kill myself.

A, Anyway, please stop.

I... have to make preparations...

Ah, that's true. How do you want to die?

How do...?

Hanging? Jumping off a building? Or maybe cutting an important artery?

N...

U, Umm, I hate... pain...

I can't. I really can't.

I can't even stand getting a paper cut on my finger...

Are you really serious about dying?

Don't take killing yourself so lightly!

I, I'm... sorr...

Then how about a comfortable death?

Eh?

I, Is that... possible...?

They were selling this.

Online.

I've been looking for someone looking to kill themselves and give them a comfortable death.

Especially a human like you, who has no courage to die.

W... With this, will it really... be painless?

Ah, that's right. No pain or suffering.

Only death.

If you want it, I'll sell it to you. What what will you do? Do you want it?

If you don't, there's always someone else...

I, I'll buy it...! Please sell it to me, I beg of you.

Ah, ok?

That'll be 400,000 (yen).

Fou...

I, I, I don't have that kind of money...!

Ah?

Then I can't sell it to you.

T, That's... I'm a student, I can't borrow money.

Since you're a student, then you should get a part time job. Think about that and die!

I, I'm sorr... Die!?

You're relying on others for everything! You naive fool!

Th, That's impossible. My parents always tell me to study...

Which is more important, killing yourself or studying?

? Y, yes...

U, Umm, please give me back my student ID soon...

Ah, I'll give it back once you die.

That's...

Make sure you have your phone ready to answer at any time.

I'm the only one giving out personal information....

Ah?

Nevermind...

Anyway, is "Matsushita" a fake name?

Yeah.

I thought so... It was like a real name, so I believed it...

...Um, is my student ID... that interesting...?

Not really.

Haruhino High School is a school for smart people, right? So even though you can't study, you got in?

Eh... Ah, my parents... told me that my older sister went to the same high school...

Hmm, your older sister...

Getting in like that is fine, but your grades are bad so you got in trouble with your parents.

Yes...

Every test, they would compare me with my sister...

Heh~ For example, what rank were you from the bottom?

From the bottom... I don't know.

Then what rank were you out of how many people?

Ummm... Out of 300 people... I was 4th... On the last test...

Ah! But that was because I tried really hard... Normally, I'm around 6th.

4th is bad?

It is. The lowest I can be is 2nd...

My older sister was always 1st or 2nd...

Hmph... So...

You want to die.

Yes. I'm like that when it comes to studying...

I don't have any friends...

I'm out of place both at home and at school...

Did you think I would stop you from killing yourself once I heard that?

Did you think I would say that's not true, try and live?

Right now, the only thing I'm thinking is that you're a gloomy person, just like you appear to be.

Well, good luck on getting money so you can die.

That's right. The one thing I decided was to die.

It was just like an insult.

Ah

For a coward like you, hanging is too much.

Matsushita, who was known as a "grim reaper" online,

Referred me to a part time job that was short staffed.

W

Welcome...

Conserve Water

Yeah, that was good. You were much louder than at first.

You don't need to be so nervous.

I, Is he an idiot?

Calling someone gloomy...

Yes...

A, And then of all things, a customer service job...

Umm~ Excuse me~

Y, Yes?

Are you already out of the limited time promotion~?

Umm, limited time promotion...

This~ The strawberry flavored.

Ah, please... wait a min...

Do you have it~? Or don't you~?

I can't. I can't get irritated.

I'll go check right now.. So please wait a little while.

Geez~ Just say you don't.

Ah, Ueki-kun, can you please help out at the register?

Ah, yes...

1 item at 105 yen.

1 item at 298 yen.

She's fast.

Ah, hey, wait.

Don't put the juice on top of the magazine.

Ah

I, I'm sorry.

Thank you very much.

I, I, I'm sorry, I was spacing out...

It's a job where you stand a lot.

It happens all the time, it's ok.

Uh... Yes.

This is bad... I feel even more depressed...

I want to hurry up and die...

Like I thought, no matter where I am,

I'm nothing but a burden...

Ueki-kun, over here.

Even though he referred me,

Y...

Yes!

I feel like... I'm not suited for it.

Ueki-kun, sorry, take over the register.

Thank you for wai....

Nikuman.

Huh? This employee is so impolite. He's digusting.

Please wait a little bit...

So? Are you making any progress?

How does the price of killing yourself feel?

...I'm slow,

Even though everyone is kind to me...

I've only been a burden since yesterday...

There are times... when I wonder if I can keep doing this...

What!? How naive are you? You already want to quit? You've only been working here for 2 days. Die!

Wa...

Y, You're too loud...

And please don't tell me to die...

No matter where someone like you goes, the result is this, and you want to escape, idiot.

If you don't want to interview with someone you don't know, then prepare yourself right now, idiot!

So hurry up and do it.

He called me an idiot twice...

He said it so well that I wanted to hurry up and get the money. And I didn't think my life was just garbage.

Well, I am a garbage-like human...

In order to die, I'm working as hard as a I can.

In order to die, I'm now living.

In order to die, I'm working hard.

Good luck

Killing myself.

It's my goal.

For the first time, my life had a goal.