Chapter 68: Rooftop Whispers(Part 12): The MILF'S JUDGEMENT
The rooftop was quiet again. Too quiet. The kind of silence that pressed down on your chest until it felt like you couldn't breathe. The storm was gone, the chains had vanished, and Saki's final embrace still burned faintly against my skin.
But now she was gone.
Rika knelt where Saki had disappeared, her hand frozen mid-air as if she could still touch the girl. Reina hugged herself, pale, her lips trembling. Even Mayumi, usually steel was pale beneath the moonlight, her jaw tight with barely contained fury.
And then there was Nakamura.
He sagged against the wall, his glasses cracked, blood staining the corner of his mouth. His eyes weren't wild anymore. No madness, no curse. Just a man broken down to the bone.
"I…" he coughed, his voice shredded raw. "I should've fought it. I should've protected her." His shoulders shook with each word. "Instead, I—" He choked, forcing the truth out like it was poison. "I was weak. I thought if I closed my eyes, if I let it… feed, then maybe it would leave me alone. I thought it would… stop."
Rika's hand dropped to her lap, her eyes glassy. "You let her die…" Her voice was soft, but the weight of it crushed against all of us.
"I killed her." Nakamura's head bowed, blood dripping from his lip. "Not with my hands. But with my silence. Every day, her cries… her eyes… haunted me. And I buried it. I buried her." His fingers clawed at his shirt. "I deserve whatever punishment comes."
The wind cut across the rooftop, bitter and cold. None of us spoke. None of us comforted him. Because he didn't want comfort.
Because he didn't deserve it.
The MILFs' Judgment
Mayumi was the first to step forward. Her sneakers scuffed against the concrete as she loomed over Nakamura, her fists trembling.
"You coward," she hissed. "You let a student—your student—get eaten alive by something you knew existed. You had the power to stop it. And you didn't. Don't you dare call that weakness. That was a choice."
Nakamura flinched but didn't raise his head. He didn't argue. He didn't beg.
Reina's voice cut in next, quiet but sharper than Mayumi's rage. "You buried her truth because you were afraid of losing your reputation. Afraid of being cast out as a madman. So instead, you let her suffer alone. That isn't just failure. That's betrayal."
Nakamura's lips trembled, but still he said nothing.
Then Rika stood. Her voice wasn't loud, but the rooftop bent beneath the weight of her fury. "Do you even understand? She called me 'sensei.' She trusted me, looked at me with those same eyes you ignored. And you—" She shook her head, eyes burning. "You spat on everything it means to be a teacher."
The silence that followed was unbearable. The only sound was Nakamura's shallow breathing, ragged and uneven.
I folded my arms, letting the weight of my fifty years settle into the sixteen-year-old body I wore. "There's nothing left for you to say. You'll answer for this, properly this time. Not to curses. Not to whispers in the dark. But to the living. To those who still bleed for what you did."
The System stirred at the back of my mind:
> [Objective Complete: Confront Nakamura.]
[New Sub-Objective: Deliver Judgment.]
[Emotional Sync: 19% → 22%.]
The rooftop felt heavier, the night thicker, as the four of us closed in around him, not killers, not executioners, but teachers and protectors demanding justice for the dead.
Mayumi was the one who finally grabbed him, her grip iron on his arm. For a man who once stood as their colleague, Nakamura didn't even resist. His body sagged like he'd been waiting for someone to drag him away.
"Get up," Mayumi snapped, hauling him to his feet. "If you want to atone, then face the punishment you ran from all these years."
Rika moved beside her, her face pale but unshaken. "You won't hide behind silence anymore. You'll tell the truth. Every detail. In court, in prison, wherever it takes, Saki deserves that much."
Reina stepped forward, her medical bag slung at her side like a badge of authority. Her eyes narrowed, no longer the gentle nurse but a woman who'd stitched enough wounds to know when rot had to be cut away. "If you resist, I'll sedate you myself. But something tells me you won't."
Nakamura bowed his head, shoulders trembling. "I'll go. I won't run this time. If… if there's a way to pay for this, then let me carry it. I have nothing left but that."
I stepped in last, voice steady, cutting through the rooftop silence. "Good. Because you're not escaping in the shadows again. You'll rot where the sun can see you."
The System pulsed:
[Sub-Objective Complete: Deliver Judgment.]
[New Thread Cleared: Nakamura-sensei.]
[Reward Unlocked: System Dialogue Expansion.]
Mayumi tightened her grip on his arm, and together the three MILFs escorted Nakamura toward the exit. The rooftop door groaned open, swallowing the echoes of his shuffling steps.
I stayed behind for a moment, staring at the skyline. The city glowed beneath the stars, eerily calm after the storm.
But even with Nakamura gone, the weight in my chest didn't ease. Saki's laughter still clung to the wind. Her final words haunted the night.
"I'll be back, sensei…"
And I wasn't sure if that promise was a comfort or a warning.
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The rooftop door clanged shut behind them, echoing down the stairwell. The sound was final, like a coffin lid closing.
For a moment, I stood there alone, watching the night air swallow the space where Saki had vanished. The railing rattled softly in the breeze, almost like it still remembered her grip.
Mayumi's voice broke the quiet when she came back up, brushing a strand of hair from her sweat-streaked face. "Police are already on their way. I called while we were dragging him down."
Reina gave a slow nod. "Good. We'll hand him over. No more secrets rotting in the dark."
Rika stayed quiet. She was holding Aika's hand so tightly the girl winced, but neither of them let go. Rika's eyes glistened, locked on the corner of the roof where Saki's shadow had first appeared.
"Sensei…" she whispered, almost like a prayer. "You kept your promise. You came back."
I didn't answer. Not yet.
The night air was heavy, but it wasn't suffocating anymore. The ghost was gone, the storm passed, yet none of us felt lighter. Trauma didn't leave with the dead—it lingered, stitched into our skin, waiting for the quiet to remind us it was still there.
The wail of sirens in the distance finally pulled us back. Red and blue lights began flickering against the rooftop walls as the squad cars pulled in below.
"Time to go," Mayumi said, her voice clipped but steady.
Together, we descended the stairwell, every step slower than it should have been. None of us wanted to look back. None of us wanted to face the silence that would follow once the cops took Nakamura away.
At the ground floor, uniformed officers were already waiting. Mayumi shoved Nakamura forward, and for once, he didn't resist. He just lowered his head and let them slap the cuffs on.
Reina turned her face away. Rika pulled Aika close. And I… I only watched.
Watched as the man who had let Saki fall disappeared into the back of a police car.
But her words still chased me, still burned like ice in my chest.
"I'll be back, sensei."
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The silence of my room felt heavier than the rooftop. No wind, no cries, no ghosts. Just the faint hum of the city outside and the ache of exhaustion in my bones.
I lay back on the bed, shirt half torn, skin still burning with the chill of Saki's touch. My eyes traced the ceiling cracks like they could spell answers.
That's when she came.
Not with cold text. Not with sterile chimes.
Her voice slid into my skull like silk dragging over bare skin. Low. Sweet. Dangerous.
> "Mmm… my Renji. You've made quite a mess tonight, haven't you?"
I stiffened, breath catching.
"You saved your precious girls, dragged a coward into justice, and even touched a broken soul no one else dared to reach. Tch… my greedy boy. You just can't stop collecting hearts, can you?"
My fist clenched over the sheets. "You sound horny again! maybe that's why your voice is different!!!"
She laughed, rich, throaty, the kind of laugh that makes the air hotter.
"Different? Oh no, Renji… this is me when I'm pleased. And tonight? You've pleased me so much."
Her words dripped like honey, but every syllable wrapped iron chains around my chest.
"But remember… every trauma you absorb, every woman you bind to yourself, it's not just pleasure you're taking. It's their pain, their scars, their ghosts. How long before all of that… overflows inside you?"
I swallowed hard, jaw tight. "Then I'll handle it. Like I always have."
She sighed, almost a moan.
"Mmm… that stubbornness… that dominance… It excites me, Renji."
Her voice dipped low, molten.
"I can't wait to see how far you'll go before you break. And when you do…"
The whisper pressed right against my ear, enough to make me turn my head like she was really there.
"…I'll be the one to catch you."
The air went still. My chest rose and fell like I'd just been fucked out of breath.
And then silence.
No more whispers. No more System.
Just me, alone with the heat her voice left behind.