Chapter 126: Today (2)
“After the seventh resurrection, I began consciously investigating who wanted to harm me. I knew the dorm’s communal bathroom was dangerous, so I never went to shower again. I also knew someone would put peanuts in my food at the cafeteria, so I avoided it. I knew someone would push a flowerpot on me from the top floor of the classroom building, so I skipped class and went to the top floor ahead of time—but it seemed like they had noticed my movements, and I found nothing on the top floor…”
“And then?” Misha had never heard such an interesting story before. Seeing Orff fall into thought, she quickly prompted him to continue.
Orff probably didn’t interact much with girls. When he saw Misha lean closer, his face flushed over half red, his eyes darted up and down nervously, and he began stammering: “Then I… I just…”
Then he entered a tragic cycle of endless deaths.
In the seventh cycle, after checking the top floor of the classroom building and planning to leave, Orff was accidentally pushed off the floor and died from the fall. Not only did he die, but he never got a clear look at what the person looked like, which was extremely frustrating.
In the eighth cycle, Orff pretended to go to the top floor but secretly kept an eye on everyone around him, trying to identify the culprit who had killed him. He looked at every passerby with suspicion—students, professors, janitors, maintenance workers… he doubted everyone, except for the fact that he was doubting!
Orff thought of himself as an extraordinary Sherlock Holmes, but in reality, because his acting wasn’t convincing, nobody jumped out to kill him until he safely left the top floor and returned to the ground.
Full of suspicion, Orff decided to abandon his investigation and rest in the dorm—maybe if he stayed put quietly, he could avoid being killed?
Immediately afterward, he was pierced through the chest by a javelin that flew out from the neighboring stadium, turning him into a humanoid grasshopper that had been impaled to death.