Naito:
It’s almost that time. Just four more days. I look at the calendar, crossing off another day.
December 28.
My body -burns-! Finally! Finally! Sister that man will get his due!
He’ll come of course because I’m -sure- that Yagi woman told him to. She broke him yes? Broke his mind? His feelings? So she has a -hold- over him and will do her bidding, to come here. But that’s not enough for the likes of him. Breaking his mind is not enough to break him Yagi-san! His body needs to be broken as well. That’s what happened to my sister. He threw away her devotion, destroyed her reputation and eventually her mind so he can move on to that witch Takagi Tokio. And then? All of them in Aizu, used my sister as their servant and only released her after she was no longer useful! She was skin and bones when they sent her to me. To me who was starving myself! But my sister, -she- looked like death! Still she asked about that man! I’m sure it was because she wanted him brought to justice!
So sister, now I can fulfill your wish. I will do the same to him. I’m thankful to that woman. Yagi Hide wasn’t it? She did the -easy- part. I’ll do the rest Yagi-san. She can thank me later when she realizes the justice I also took for her sake. I’ll get that man who was dirty with women. It will be justice for -all- women abused by him! You’ll see. They’ll see! My sister will see!
I can’t wait to break every bone in his body. Make him bawl and scream at the same time. Make him wish he’d never survived the war, the prison, the exile, the famine, this Meiji!
I will skewer him first at each joint, then cut off his appendages so he can’t get away! I’ll pierce his flesh avoiding the vital parts. He’ll not get off that easy. I -want- to skin him -alive-, separate his skin from his flesh and carve out his fat and feed it to the dogs! I’ll then cut open his bowels and pull out his organs with my bare hands. I’d gouge out those abominable eyes but I want him to see as I cut open his chest and take out his heart. I’ll smile at him as I tear it off from the rest of him and throw it away like garbage! Only then will I claw out those devil eyes of his so he can’t see but only -hear-. I want him to hear his blood rushing out of him and not be able to do anything about it except to scream in pain or beg for help or mercy, so I won’t cut off his tongue. Besides no one will come. No one cared about my sister and her child. So why would anyone come for him?
I’ll do it right in front of my sister so she -knows- justice has been served. In front of the Jizo statues that keeps the memory of my sister and her child -alive-. They’ll never live again but they’ll sleep soundly knowing that, that man was slain by me. Even my father and brother will be -proud-. I’ll even burn that man’s body so nothing is left of him in this world.
Four more days!