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    The Spilled Ones (Kobore-mono)
    Threadmarks: Chapter 20 - Rocky Recon

    Chapter 20 - Rocky Recon The footsteps hit the corridor like a drumline before Fumi-tan appeared with the whole circus behind her. Baseball jacket over her black tank top, shorts. Hair loose, but still with her signature bun. Striking as ever. "Jouji!" Her voice boomed. Definitely not happy. I...
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    Threadmarks: Chapter 19 - Ghost Army

    Chapter 19 - Ghost Army The four of us walked slowly toward the Kamishiro Tech gate. The school loomed ahead. Same basic layout as Kamishiro High, main academic block, separate workshop wing, athletic facilities in the back. But the vibe was different. Grittier. More concrete. The kind of place...
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    The Spilled Ones (Kobore-mono)
    Threadmarks: Chapter 18 - Cat's Out

    Chapter 18 - Cat's Out I was waiting at the main entrance porch, straddling my beat-up Yamaha Jog, warming the engine. The thing coughed like an old man with a smoking habit, which made sense because its owner had one too. Gas tank was still decent, filled it three days ago. The other mopeds...
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    Threadmarks: Chapter 17 - Math

    Chapter 17 - Math "Jouji?! You mad or what?!" Fumi-tan's voice cut through the murmurs. "I'm not." I shook my head, keeping it calm. I'd expected this. "Jouji, their school is ninety, probably even ninety-five percent boys." She was leaning forward now, arms still crossed. "Which means if...
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    The Spilled Ones (Kobore-mono)
    Threadmarks: Chapter 16 - Still Running

    Chapter 16 - Still Running I opened my eyes to a different ceiling. Not the water stain in the corner of my room that looked vaguely like Hokkaido if you squinted. Not the crack running diagonally from the light fixture that I'd been meaning to tell my mom about for two years. Not the faded...
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    The Spilled Ones (Kobore-mono)
    Threadmarks: Chapter 15 - Yesterday

    Chapter 15 - Yesterday The three of us, me, Donda, and Makoto, finally sat down at the front entrance. The night-watch station was officially operational. Three chairs lined up facing the closed gate, the empty street beyond it lit only by the orange glow of streetlights that still hadn't given...
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    The Spilled Ones (Kobore-mono)
    Threadmarks: Chapter 14 - Secret

    Chapter 14 - Secret The cleanup was fast. Almost military. Umi, Marina-senpai, and the kitchen crew moved like a well-oiled machine, plates vanishing from tables, leftovers wrapped, counters wiped down. Nanase was right in the middle of it too, carrying a stack of bowls toward the Home Ec room...
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    Threadmarks: Chapter 13 - Frequency

    Chapter 13 - Frequency Marina-senpai stood up from her spot, pushing her glasses up the bridge of her nose with the efficiency of someone who'd just remembered she had responsibilities. "Alright, everyone!" Her voice cut through the post-speech murmur with the practiced brightness of a Student...
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    The Spilled Ones (Kobore-mono)
    Threadmarks: Chapter 12 - Home

    Chapter 12 - Home It was Nanase who noticed Umi first. Or maybe Umi noticed Nanase. Either way, I caught it, that half-second pause where two people's eyes meet across a room and you can see the gears turning, the facial-recognition software booting up behind the pupils like in a sci-fi...
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    The Spilled Ones (Kobore-mono)
    Threadmarks: Chapter 11 - Fail-Safe

    Chapter 11 - Fail-Safe The four of us rode in a loose formation, me and Nanase up front, Fumi-senpai and Yumi trailing a few meters back on the Honda Today. Streetlamps ticked by overhead, one after another, pooling orange light onto empty asphalt and then letting the dark close back in behind...
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    The Spilled Ones (Kobore-mono)

    Thanks so much for reading! Really glad you're enjoying it so far. The vanishing is definitely the central pillar, but it's not the only anomaly. So the further the group explores this mystery, the more they start noticing things that don't quite add up, the more weird things that tie back to...
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    The Spilled Ones (Kobore-mono)
    Threadmarks: Chapter 10 - Full Disclosure

    Chapter 10 - Full Disclosure "Nacchi." I slowed the Jog a little. "Did you guys eat lunch?" I finally asked something after some five minutes of not-awkwardness we usually found in our time together. We are used to sitting side-by-side, not saying anything, watching pigeons and people being...
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    The Spilled Ones (Kobore-mono)
    Threadmarks: Chapter 9 - Two Mouths

    Chapter 9 - Two Mouths The crew-cut one, Ebara. Had to be. The one who'd been yelling at the girls. The one Nanase had mentioned on the phone, her voice trembling through the static. "Who the hell are you?!" His voice was exactly what I'd expected. Loud. Aggressive. The kind of voice that had...
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    Threadmarks: Chapter 8 - Welcome

    Chapter 8 - Welcome My house. About three minutes from Sayaka’s. The streets here were wider, lined with zelkova trees that someone, the city, maybe, had planted decades ago. Their leaves caught the afternoon light and scattered it across the pavement in fragments. Pretty. In any other...
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    The Spilled Ones (Kobore-mono)
    Threadmarks: Chapter 7 - Permission

    Chapter 7 - Permission Fumi-senpai had already taken position at the front of the room. She'd gotten there ahead of me and launched straight into it. No hesitation, no preamble, no asking permission. "Alright, everyone!" Her voice cut clean through the low murmur. "Everyone who's heading home...
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