Three Days of Happiness

91
I had previously considered her outside the range of those desires,
but once I started looking at her that way, there seemed to be no
one more suitable than Miyagi for that kind of desperate act.
I don’t know why, but she seemed to stimulate my sadistic nature.
Maybe since she was always acting stoic, I wanted to disturb the act
and make her show her weakness. To tell her “You act so tough, but
you’re really this weak.”
As I stood in front of her, Miyagi took a slightly defensive posture as
if sensing my thoughts.
“I’ve got a question for you.”
“...Yes?”
“Once an observer sees their target doing an “inappropriate act” or
whatever, how much of a lag is there before their lifespan’s
terminated?”
Miyagi’s eyes showed caution. “And why would you be asking?”
“Basically, I want to know how long it’d take before I got killed if I
were to get violent with you right here.”
However, she didn’t look so surprised.
She looked at me with colder eyes than ever before, scorning me.
“I can make contact immediately. After that, it wouldn’t take
twenty minutes. And escape would be completely impossible.”
“So, I’d have about ten-some minutes to act freely?”, I promptly
asked back.
Miyagi looked away and weakly said “Nobody said anything like
that.”