Wish of a Lazy Otaku

41 41. Katsutoshi Flashback Part I

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Then suddenly I remembered what Mr Ricky asked me and I didn’t find the need to hide anything from him so I started to explain everything related to the incident which took my daughter away from me for two years and turned her into a half-dead state.

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Ten years ago,

Just like every other day, I was playing with my daughter in the courtyard of our house.

It’s been a year since my wife left me and our daughter alone in the world. I also retired at the same time from the military and chose to live with my daughter to make up for both my father and mother’s presence in her life.

I am just grateful for my daughter who doesn’t complain about it but sometimes I do see her crying in the middle of the night. It’s just her care for me that she didn’t want to worry me about so she tried to hide it but how can I not see the sadness in her eyes.

Now, I dedicated all my time to spending with my dear daughter and making up for the days I wasn’t able to accompany her before.

“Hehehe! Otosan! Look, I caught the balloon.” As I reminisced about my late wife but my dear little Yamini’s cute voice pulled me out of it.

“Hahaha! Good girl!” I patted her head with loving care.

The innocent smile on her face makes me want to smile for her and motivates me to keep her happy so I can see that smile always present on her face.

I played with her in the yard for a while and looking at the sweat on her forehead, I rested for a bit then remembered something. I looked inside the basket which I had brought with me and took out a chocolate mousse cake from it then gave it to little Yamini to eat.

“Yummy! Otosan! Can I get more of these?” Yamini licked her fingers after eating the whole cake then looked at me and asked me for more of these.

Seeing her smile fills me with vigour to move forward despite facing all kinds of troubles.

“Here, my little Yamini! Eat this while I fetch the drinking water for you from the kitchen!” I smiled softly at my daughter and handed the plate to her then I remembered that I forgot to bring the water bottle for her to drink.

After patting her head I headed towards the kitchen which wasn’t far from the courtyard.

“Hmmn! This will do.” I took the bottle with a small cup which was her favourite as she got it on her last birthday and as a moment, she kept it with her.

Just as I reached the courtyard my instinct screamed at me, which I honed all my life in war at life and death battles, so I believed them as they never disappointed me.

I looked around trying to find the object which made my instinct react so much, then suddenly my eyes fell on the translucent ball of light which was floating just above my daughter’s head.

First, I didn’t know what that thing was but just as my daughter looked up and in curiosity tried to touch it, my instinct again gave an intense reaction.

“No...!! Yamini! Don’t touch it and get away from there....hurry!” I shouted at my daughter without a second thought and at the same time, I sprinted at my full speed.

“Jap!!!”

The perception of my vision slowed down like the world came to halt and those few seconds lasted like hours to me.

As I helplessly watched my daughter slowed down by the ball of light which suddenly expanded and enveloped my daughter whole before my finger touched her, she vanished from there then again the world started to flow like normal.

My eyes lost focus for a few seconds and my mind went completely in disarray and my heart went cold then my body slowly started to shiver in fright.

My vision went dark after not being able to cope with the physical and emotional discharge.

A day after that, I woke up in the hospital feeling confused then suddenly everything dawned on me what happened to my dear daughter.

My tears unconsciously started to flow from my eyes, as my mood was a mess from my sadness. Butler Han informed me of something which made me endure everything and stand up to search for my daughter with all my might.

“Hello, Sir! How are you feeling? I don’t want to disturb you, Sir. But the news which I brought might help to discover what happens with Ms Yamini.” Butler Han said to me.

“Hmmn! What is it, out with it.” I responded absent-mindedly.

“Sir, there were similar cases all over the world but it got suppressed shortly after, by the authorities.” Butler Han replied with a serious tone.

I didn’t doubt what he said but it gave me clues to where to start my search from.

Just after that I started to dig into everything related to the incident and after thorough research and digging around, I confirmed my suspicion that this is a worldwide phenomenon and higher-ups have been known about it.

I also got to know that this wasn’t the first incident where children have gone missing. In fact, this was the second time that the incident happened.

I wasn’t able to dig deeper than this but at least I got the lead and cause for my daughter’s disappearance.

The search stretched for two and a half years, in which I almost used all of the wealth and connections that I had accumulated.

I also hired detectives, hackers and many technical persons. I had them search all over the internet using the photo that I provided them with.

I was almost losing my hope and was very close to despairing myself but Butler Han informed me that they got the person matching my little Yamini’s photo.

“It doesn’t matter how little the matching is, even if there’s a slim chance that she might be my daughter then I have to find her!” I declared and made haste by following the instruction of butler Han.

I gave the responsibility to Butler Han’s capable hands as I wasn’t in my right mind to make any kind of decisions.

After that, we both took the helicopter to reach our destination which was the outer region of Onigashima.

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