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Reckless Translator
《1 On Earth》
Today’s weather resembles the recent state of my heart, overcast and cloudy.
As I walked to the convenience store along a tree lined boulevard lit by street lamps, I saw a familiar figure about 50 metres ahead.
I walked a little faster to get a closer look. When briskly walking for a better look, I, Kashiwagi spotted my childhood friend, Tendo Ayaka, walking while looking up at the sky.
「What’s up with that girl? It is dangerous to walk at night, alone 」
I muttered to myself.
She was a childhood friend, we got along well as children, but recently we have become estranged.
Even though I said to myself, it was me who started taking a distance from her, and not the other way around … …
Tendo Ayaka has no idea why. It just got that way before I was aware.
Around first grade in elementary school, I started going to a neighborhood Karate Dojo.
I did not know until I started going, but Ayaka was my karate sensei’s daughter .
However, due to a certain event at high school, I no longer attend the karate dojo.
The bullying started in class after entering high school, I helped my classmates who were being bullied, I appealed to the other classmates to stop the bullying, and consulted the teacher … …
The guy who initiated the bullying had a veneer of being a good guy and was good at curry favouring with people.
My classmates were all influenced by him one after the other, my persuasions were ineffectual.
Contrary to my persuasions, I started getting bullied.
What astonished me, in addition to that, the classmates that I was protecting fell prey to his flattery and started bullying me instead.
Following that, I come to dislike unjust behaviour and betrayal in particular.
Because I did Karate when I was younger, only when I am first attacked, only then do I reciprocate with [BokoBoko]¹ . After that, the ignoring and backbiting, and more insidious harassment began.
Before long, word of my fights got to the ears of my karate sensei and I was driven out of the dojo.
Ayaka said, 『There is a absolutely good reason for that』to my karate sensei… but it all fell on deaf ears.
My parents were summoned to the school and, at that time, even my parents heaped the blame on me for the incident.
Even the school teachers were siding with the bully from the beginning.
Since then, I’ve lost all trust in adults.
There maybe trustworthy adults out there but I’ve yet to see or meet any of them.
Likewise, I’ve lost all faith in my classmates, so it is not only the adults that I lack trust in.
Since Ayaka is a different class, I do not know if she is aware of the bullying or harassment. If she was with the current me, there is a risk of harassment spreading over to her, so I decided to take some distance. So, that is how I started to take some distance from her.
Ayaka is the most popular girl in the school year, she is cute enough to compete for first or second place…
but I’ve known her for such a long time.
From a bullied person’s standpoint, I lack the courage to spend time with a popular person.
When my attention reverted from my distraction, I spotted Ayaka again. She began to cross the crosswalk whilst the signals were still flashing.
Suddenly when I glanced to the right, a car that was clearly going to run the red light and was not slowing down.
I started running in haste. When I was about to catch up to Ayaka, I yelled out with everything I had.
「Hey! Ayaka! There is a car coming !!」
Ayaka looked back and smiled as she noticed me. However, she then noticed the car.
Her cute face instantly turned pale. At that moment, the worst case scenario came to my mind.
「Damn! Make it in time!」
I increased my running speed further, reached the side of Ayaka, and pushed her back.
Although Ayaka raises a small scream with a 「Kya!」, she managed to get out of the way of the car’s path.
In that moment of relief, I bounced off the car and was dancing in the sky…
「Nooo, Ahhhhh!!! Ruiiiiii!!!」–
I thought I heard my childhood friend screaming at the end but my consciousness faded there ――
TN Notes :
- BokoBoko [ボコボコ] usually refers to an onomatopoeic word for the sound that a severe beating makes.↩