Bread Crumbs

Introduction

I had a daughter named Aiko...

She was a sweet and adorable girl, everyone liked her and talked to her wherever she went...

Aiko has always loved animals as much as I have... But now, I don't know if I like them that much.

Part 1

Some months ago...

Aiko really wanted to have a cat, she even begged me to let her have one, because all her friends had them and she thought they were cute...

She even played with some stray cats that stay at the neighbor's house...

She was a very good girl...

Aiko studied in elementary school at a school close to home...

She had many friends...

But you can never go home with them... I never let you.

However, one day, I don't know why... I let her go back with her friends... and I still regret it a lot...

That day was where it all began...

***

"Aiko..."

Aiko turns to answer the call...it was a cute girl who was standing looking at Aiko.

"Hi, Emi. Do you want something?"

Emi responds with a huge smile on her face...

"Yes!"

"Can you come home with us today?"

"Hmm...I do not know..."

Answers Aiko smiling nervously...

"But..."

"Can I call my mom and see if I can..."

Aiko takes her cell phone out of her purse and calls her mother, who answers...

After a few seconds...Aiko hangs up.

"She left?"

Emi asks, excited...

"Yes...she did!"

"Really? Yay!"

And then, after class. Aiko, Emi and another one of their friends called Tomoko, leave school...

***

Talking euphorically... they go to Tomoko's house and leave her, and finally Aiko leaves Emi at her house...

Glad it was the first time going away with friends...

Aiko calmly walks towards her house...

Aiko passes in front of a children's playground, after walking more than she used to...

Aiko sees a wooden stool and sits down...

In front of him, there was a group of crows that used to stay there.

One of the crows looks at Aiko...

She looks back, and then the crow walks over to Aiko.

"Hmm?"

"Are you hungry?"

"Wait one moment..."

Aiko digs into her bag... and from there she takes out a bag of bread...

"Ready..."

"I couldn't eat it all..."

"Here it is..."

Aiko throws very small pieces on the floor...

And then the crow eats... after he swallowed the last piece of bread...

The other crows notice and start fighting each other.

"Stop, stop."

"I have more..."

Again, Aiko throws bread to the crows...

After some time watching the crows eat...

Aiko realizes it's getting late, and goes home...

Part 2

The next day... Aiko passes by the playground again...

There were again the same crows from the day before...

She sits down and starts feeding the crows...

After feeding them and sitting for a while resting...

Aiko gets up and goes home...

***

It was already the third day and there was Aiko...

Feeding them...however, the number had increased...

It looked like the crows had called their friends to the playground...

However, Aiko didn't care about that...

***

I should have asked her...

On the fourth day, Aiko came to me and asked for more money...

I already gave her enough to buy sweets or snacks for the break...

But I...again I accepted and gave it to her...without even questioning why...

I'm a big idiot...she was only 10...I could have, no, I should have asked...

Part 3

After a week...she kept asking me for more and more money...

And I denied. I never gave anything more than enough for her again...

***

Aiko again leaves school and goes to the playground... going there was already routine for her...

It had been a week since she had been feeding the crows...

He even named each of them...

However, when I got there, there were dozens and dozens of crows...

Much more than there was before...

However, Aiko didn't think that was bad...and so she sat down on the wooden bench...

All the crows calmed down upon seeing Aiko. Everyone was waiting for the bread crumbs...

Aiko opens her bag and looks for the bag of bread she had bought at a bakery near her house...

Aiko remembers that she had eaten everything with Emi, during the school break...

"Ah..."

"What a shame..."

Aiko looks at the crows...

"Little Crows..."

"There's no food today...I'm sorry..."

Suddenly...from calm and well-behaved, the crows start to get nervous and agitated...

Screaming and screaming in rage...

Aiko is startled and quickly gets up...

"Calm down, please..."

"Stay here, I'll go get it and I'll be right back..."

Even with Aiko trying to calm them down...

They screamed and flapped their wings in rage...

Possessed by hunger and hatred, they start attacking Aiko all at once...

She tries to run, but she ends up falling in the middle of the street and being eaten alive by crows...

Pecking violently and bloodthirsty, the crows that used to be her friends, leave Aiko's body unrecognizable...

***

The next day...

A lady who was walking her dog in the street in the morning...finds Aiko's deformed body and immediately calls the police...

The police arrive and take her to the autopsy, there they meet Aiko and tell her family...

That's right...my Aiko is gone...

After all that...I got a terrible depression...I had to see a psychologist...

She told me it was for me to write...

Everything I felt in this diary...

All I really feel... Is that I was a terrible mother.