Game of Mass Destruction by Chloe Gilholy

Nobody loved playing with her hair more than her girlfriend, Sakura Kanagawa. Her classmates and colleagues envied her wavy black hair that she wished was straight. His tender whispers and sweet words behind closed doors still lingered after three years. He told her every day that she was the most beautiful girl in the world. If he was alive, he would have told her to stop acting foolish. She could imagine his deep laugh and whack on the back. I'm not the angel they think I am, Hiroki. Yuzuko meditated by Hiroki's grave every morning at six. Higushiotani Cemetery was the perfect resting place for her husband, Hiroki Shikumi with perfect views of the rising sun. Her greatest task of all was to be a loving mother to her infant son, who would only know his father through a tombstone. Her only wish was to make her family proud with top grades, a doll-faced beauty, and burning all her leftover energy working for her grandfather's IT firm. Kyoto was a utopia that she was proud to call home. Robots and humans living as one: that was her grandfather's dream. How dare she! Her grandfather was Professor Takeshi Denki: the greatest scientist alive, king of the robots and a table tennis champion. Sia had accomplished many things, but all she wanted to do was to make her grandfather's life a misery. That horrible woman needs to leave my grandfather alone. Hate was a strong word, but Yuzuko's blood would boil at the mere thought of her name. There was only one person who could be behind Aunt Kiki's disappearance: her grandfather's enemy, Sia Bucks. Evenings were empty without Kiki's energetic welcome home songs.

Kiki wasn't her aunt by blood, but since her grandparents called Kiki their baby girl, it made her an aunt in Yuzuko's eyes. Yuzuko kept it in her pocket ever since she disappeared. IT WAS THE LAST POEM Kiki wrote before she disappeared. The race that made us also wants us dead,

Game of Mass Destruction by Chloe Gilholy