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教科書には載らないあの子達のこと、授業では教えてくれない不完全な愛の話。
Dialogue in this work
Page 1
- So, Nagi...
- You don't have to hold back anymore, okay?
Page 2
- Why?
- The Sinking Morning, the Rising Night.
- First Period
- "Dear Sirs, We Are"
Page 3
- Hmm...
- I suppose so...
- It's because you're not the 'big brother' anymore, Nagi...
- Maybe?
Page 4
- I don't really get it.
- Iruka and Aiba are my little brothers!
Page 5
- Okay, listen.
- Aiba, this doesn't really involve you right now.
- Nagi and,
- Iruka.
- You two are here, right?
- The truth is, you two...
- are 'switched'.
- So, Iruka is actually the big brother, and Nagi is the younger brother.
Page 6
- Do you sort of... get it?
- With my childish brain back then, I could only vaguely understand, but the gist of it was a simple 'mix-up'.
- It's a common enough story to mix up twins, and triplets are no exception.
- The cause was most likely some ridiculously trivial incident, like being unable to tell us apart after their bath.
- But no one in that room could have possibly known what kind of effect this memory, one that could almost be a funny anecdote, would have on the future.
Page 7
- Exactly one year before that day,
Page 8
- I had been hit by a car while protecting my younger brother.
Page 9
- Big brother?
Page 10
- Although my life wasn't in danger, I was left with minor damage to my right eye and right ear.
- But the one who cried wasn't me. It was Iruka.
Page 11
- Toys
- Games
- Stuffed animals
- New clothes
- My three o'clock snack
- My favorite mug
- Ever since we were little, if there was anything I could give, I gave it to my younger brother.
- Because that was the greatest happiness for me.
- So there was never a single thing I regretted giving up. If I had died and my brother had been saved, I would have been fine with that.
Page 12
- But that was the problem.
- The way I'd get hungry before dinner,
- the way fireworks would burst when I opened my right eye,
- even these clothes that don't fit.
- To me, none of it mattered, but...
Page 13
- My mother was always kind. My mother was always right. And that's why she was cruel.
- The reason my mother was now so carefully explaining all this 'stuff that didn't matter' was, without a doubt, my fault.
- My father once said that 'correctness can kill people'.
- My father, who said there were no right answers in this world, left after the fifth New Year and never came back.
- But still...
- Even if it's wrong...
- I want to be the one you look up to!
- I learned that what was justice to me, in the eyes of an adult, simply looked like a form of self-sacrifice.
Page 14
- Big brother!!
- No!
- Big brother, are you... not going to be my big brother anymore?
- Why? I don't want that...
- Don't go anywhere...
- I'm not going anywhere.
- I'm your big brother!
- It's okay.
Page 15
- Before I knew it, he had forcefully grabbed the wrist of his other brother, who looked a little awkward,
- and was running out the front door barefoot.
- I hate complicated talks.
- And I hate boring stuff even more!
Page 16
- It's not that I especially hate Mom, but...
- I just don't like adults. They're all a pain.
- I'm sure Mom won't come after us.
- Because Dad used to say she was a terrible person.
- The late winter concrete was still cold on our bare feet, but...
- The park, with just the three of us... looked a lot like the Neverland I'd once seen in a picture book.
- The last patches of snow, illuminated by the moonlight, shimmered like a dream and twinkled like fairies, and it felt so comforting.
Page 17
- Do you think Mom will come get us? Do you think she's mad?
- Let's sit.
- Dad would be mad...
- Mom never gets mad, though.
- ...Sleepy?
- Whoa.
- You're warm.
- Iruka, if you're sleepy, you can go ahead and sleep.
- Okay...
- Ah...
- Shhh...
Page 18
- Brr...
- ?
- Cold...
- Freezing...
- Ngh...
- Whoa...
- Big brother!
- Mmmm...
- Wake up!
- What is it...
Page 20
- In the end, no one came to get us, and all three of us caught colds.
- Mom scolded me harshly, but thanks to that, everything became a blur.
- The last snow that fell that night settled, and with the arrival of spring, it quickly erased everything, along with our secret.
- The meteor shower that flowed with your tears has continued to shine forever within the darkness of my hidden right eye.
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