As I relaxed from the terror I’d been feeling, Watanabe’s last words came back to me again. He had been looking down on me all along, using me. He wanted to be a murderer, and he had exploited me to do it. But the girl was still alive. It was Watanabe’s plan that was the failure. You’re a failure! You’re a failure and you don’t even know it! You stupid loser. I’m not sure which came first: Moriguchi’s little girl regaining consciousness and looking up at me…or my letting go and dropping her in the water. But once I’d done it, I left without looking back. My legs weren’t shaking anymore. I’d
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