In a World Where Dirty Cartoons Are Legal 135

Chapter 135 – Volume 27 – Sender Unknown (5)

She turned the book over at the moment.
She quietly closed her eyes and began to control her emotions.
It was a scene that came out of nowhere, and that’s why it was even more frightening.
I couldn’t understand why the kind Nozomi had to face such a death.

“Did I make a bad choice?”

That was her first thought.
This comic book has obviously changed the story to fit the choices made so far.
Then, she could see that this situation was due to her own choice…

“Whoa…”

Rather, something like strong guilt had arisen inside her.
All of a sudden, because of the curse attack that started now, she climaxed very badly.
Thinking that there must be a way to save Nozomi in this work as well, she opens the book again.

“Wait a minute, that letter…”

Letter sobs for a long time, and eventually drinks a lot and falls asleep in a tavern drunk.
She does, but when he wakes up, she realizes that he has a strange piece of stationery and an envelope with him.
But the letter paper and envelope were the ones Letter had seen before.
With a strange sense of déjà vu, I grabbed her hair and looked at the letter with a much more serious expression.

“What is it, writing a letter…?”

And he began to diligently write the contents of the letter.
The moment I sealed the letter and put it down in front of the house, I could see that the letter disappeared in an instant.
After that, she showed what she had written in the letter by opening a large letter.

“This letter certainly has a special power. I am writing this letter with the conviction that ‘this letter’ will save Nozomi.”

At that moment, I suddenly remembered that I had received this letter in the first place.
In fact, I couldn’t help but notice that the letter from an unknown sender was sent by Letter from the future.
In other words, Letter must have tried to save Nozomi with this letter.
I tried to inform my past self of the current situation.

“…But what actually arrived was an empty stationery with nothing written on it?”

After memorizing as much of the contents of the letter as possible, I turned to the next page.
There, along with the phrase ‘Ending 1: Desire to change the past’.
It tells the page near the end of the book, and it says to remove the sticker of ‘Ending 1’ there.

“…Sticker?”

When I actually opened the page, there was a place where the sticker was stuck like that.
She slowly pulled away the part with ‘Ending 1’, which contained the content of her letter and a brief summary of the story she had just seen.
There was even a picture of Nozomi looking gorgeous on the morning of the day we were supposed to go shopping together.

“This is a space for collecting endings. Regardless of where you are currently viewing the work. There is no problem in looking through this space. In the case of stickers, please remove them only if instructed to do so.”

Collect endings?
In other words, the ending changes with what she chooses.
Each conclusion was recorded here, meaning that it could be checked at any time.
And when I turned the pages, there were quite a few endings besides this one.
With a total of 8 endings, she returned the work to the beginning, believing that there must be an ending to save Nozomi among them.

“I said that after removing the sticker, you can enjoy the work again from the beginning.”

And seeing the scene where the letter appears at the very beginning of the work, the doubts from before disappeared and only the thought of saving Nozomi filled her mind.
The letter, not knowing at all that the letter was from my future self, made me very frustrated.
No, why did that letter disappear after I wrote it?

“Feeling of déjà vu!? Hold on, yeah… At first, I just thought it was because Letter was sick.”

But what if that proves that Letter has returned to the past?
What we have experienced so far is not a lie, it becomes a real thing.
Feeling it for some reason, she was only beginning to understand the situation more clearly.

“Nozomi…”

Come to think of it, when I first saw Nozomi, the main character shed tears without realizing it.
I didn’t know why, so I laughed and passed it over.
Now she was in a state where she seemed to join in the crying.

“…You just have to find it. This time, it’s about finding an option that won’t kill Nozomi.”

Wouldn’t it be nice to twist the options she chose at the end?
If she hadn’t gone to the grocery store then, surely Nozomi wouldn’t have died from the flower pot.
I’d rather go somewhere else that day…

“Mountain?”

Yes, she said that Nozomi said she wanted to go hiking then.
It seems that she was able to choose from options as well.
She looked at Nozomi for the first time in a long time and read her work with a half-forced smile.
But every time she chose a different option, Nozomi showed her a different side and kept digging into her heart.
Together with Letter, she falls in love with her girl named Nozomi again.

“Yeah, the story changes.”

Originally, the two of them would have gone shopping, but this time, the schedule changed to go to the mountain and see it.
She continued to read Nozomi’s work, thinking that now she would not die from her plant.
The strange darkness that seemed to follow Nozomi all the time really bothered me.

“What is this?”

It didn’t have any shape, but it felt oddly dark about Nozomi.
Even though I’m clearly standing in a brighter position, it’s as if I’m hidden in the shadows…

“No!”

And this time, Nozomi stumbled and fell onto her cliff side.
As she watched Nozomi fall off the cliff and die, she felt a very dizzying sensation.
In the end, the method was changed this time, but the ending was the same.

“Something unknown is trying to kill Nozomi. And I decided to call it the curse of the name ‘Zets’.”

Curse.
That meant that Nozomi didn’t die by accident.
Since she was killed by the curse of the name ‘Zets’, even if she changed places, Nozomi was killed by ‘Zets’.

[Ending 3: The girl with the curse]

I met a different ending, but I still couldn’t find a way to save Nozomi.
I was hoping that only the ending I chose would have Nozomi die.
Seeing that this ending was the same, it didn’t seem like it would be easy to save Nozomi.

“Relax. Keep looking.”

After she went to the back of the piece and took off her sticker to collect the ending.
I started reading the work again from the beginning.
I pick out options that I haven’t tried before, and I see and remember the new Nozomi.
Damn her, her melancholy heart melted every time her Nozomi appealed to her own loveliness.

“I told you not to leave the house this time.”

She wondered if there was any reason for her death in her house.
Still, the death of Nozomi that had ever occurred was a situation where her curse could have killed Nozomi with a simple operation.
If it was at home, she wondered if she could put off her death.

“Ugh…!”

But the ending was even more disastrous.
She dies more brutally than we’ve ever seen, her whole body hacked up with knives.
Seeing the pain on her face, she regretted choosing this option.

“I remember. I’m definitely not the first to go through these things. I clearly remember. Remember. Remember. Remember. Nozomi wouldn’t be the first to die. Why does this happen? Why? Why? Why?”

It’s not a letter I usually wrote after clearing my mind.
A letter stained with madness written while leaving Nozomi’s corpse in the living room as it is.
And while writing the letter like that, Letter realizes one thing.

“No matter how much I write a letter to save Nozomi. Nothing remains in the letter. ‘An unknown force is erasing the contents of the letter.'”

Collecting ‘Ending 2: Unrecognizable Despair’.
For the first time she shed tears, albeit briefly.
Even after watching her third ending, she still couldn’t find a way to save Nozomi.
Even going back to the past like this, she couldn’t even convey what she wrote in the letter like it said in the letter.
It was helpless.

“Finally, I’ve found a choice to be with.”

So she found the best way.
It is an option for Nozomi and Letter to be together in the house.
They are hugging each other in bed, so that they never get hurt by anything else.

“Ah…”

However, the curse called ‘Zets’ came to the ending that I finally found after trying several times.
As if to behold, he strangled Nozomi right in front of her eyes.
Nozomi, whose heart stopped for no reason and was dying, whispered her love to Letter even in that painful situation.
She ended up collecting her ‘Ending 4: Decided Destiny’ in her deep sadness and her beauty.

“Her curse that kills her, she was really cold. If she warmed her up and ‘burned’ her curse, would she be able to live?”

After struggling to read her 4th letter, she took off her sticker after trying to control her feelings for a while.
She also despaired that no matter what she did, she couldn’t change the ending, then stared blankly at the summary of the four endings she had collected.
And I began to wonder if something was left behind in the contents of the letters written in the four endings.
Because those letters are hints to save Nozomi that Letter was somehow trying to convey to her past self.

“Wait a minute, if I’m right…”

She immediately began to put into practice what she had in mind.
As soon as she confirmed the result, she let out a small exclamation as her eyes widened.