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How My Life Was Ruined 079: Knell
The sky outside was getting a bit darker and I could see dark clouds approaching from the eastern side.“It’s going to rain pretty heavily.”The time was around 4 pm.The classes for the day were over long ago and starting today we won’t have any classes no more. Tomorrow – that is the sixth day – and the day after tomorrow will be packed with nothing but trips to different places in Kyoto. The third-year students had a relieved face. Now they could finally get to enjoy the vacation in its truest sense.I was alone and I walked at my own pace scanning the places around me and committing every detail I saw to my memory. Today, I was once again out in search of Hayami. Even though the past two days had seen no result, I wasn’t going to give up yet. And today, I hadn’t sneaked from the hotel. There was no need to. The school had allowed us, students, to go on a stroll around Kyoto to our liking. We could go anyplace we want to as long as it wasn’t someplace shady. As a rule, we had to ke
How My Life Was Ruined 080: The Schemes
I was angry. But I didn’t feel my blood boil. Instead, I felt calm. Looking at my face, nobody will ever think that I was furious. As if to let the world know the anger raging inside me, from the heavens came a thunderous roar so loud it shook the very ground. Along with the lightning and the thunder came the drops of rain pouring.Every drop of rain felt like bullets and with each drop that hit me I felt as if wounds were opening up everywhere in my body; both old and new.As the downpour got heavy, people around me started running around trying to find a place to shelter themselves from this heavy rain.I, on the other hand, continued to run, all the while being hit by the numerous raining bullets.As I ran, the sounds of water being splashed reached my ears. Along with water, mud was being splashed everywhere including my clothes.When I no longer was able to run anymore, I stopped. Then I suddenly opened my mouth as wide as I could, gasping for air. Seems like I had stopped brea
How My Life Was Ruined 081: Ugly but Effective
When I said that, her smile that was about to reach her ears froze where it was. As if time itself had stopped.“What…do you mean?”“Listen here. You want the two of them to get remarried and I don’t want that happening. So the only solution here is to take me out of the equation. You get what I am saying?”Think about what if she had never learned that Hitomi had a son. The two of them would get remarried and the three of them will live happily ever after. If she wants to have a familial experience, then she has no choice but to ignore me. As long as she doesn’t include me, everything will fall in place.The rain was seeping into my clothes and making them heavier. I had also started feeling cold and hot at the same time. Was it just a fever or pneumonia? I didn’t know. However, I did know that I will become seriously ill if I continued to soak in this rain any longer.With my piece said, I turned around and walked towards the hotel.Because of the loud pitter and patter of the rain,
How My Life Was Ruined 082: Already Betrayed
We were allowed to go outside today as well for the same time period of 4 pm to 7 pm and of course, we had to follow the same rules. The student identity card I was carrying around my neck was swinging here and there in random directions as I walked around the streets of Kyoto in search of Hayami. I went to different bars and hotels and other shady places while keeping my identity hidden. I didn’t want to leave a single place unexplored. Even then, I still had no results to name. I didn’t even have any leads to work with.I continued my search for about an hour. When the clock hit 5 pm, I stopped my search for the day.Today, I had some other plans in store.I took out my phone and checked the location I had been sent in advance.“Oh, it’s not that far from here.”I walked for five minutes down the narrow street and took a right turn to a dark alleyway with barely any light even though it wasn’t night yet. As I walked, I could see light up ahead. Leaving the alleyway behind, I was led
How My Life Was Ruined 083: A Lie (?)
“What…are you talking about?” Nakamura uttered those words so feebly that it was equal to not speaking as well.She, like a mechanical robot, slowly turned her head towards her dad.“Dad, what is he talking about?” She asked but Tatsuya didn’t respond and just cast his head down.She then looked at my mom sitting across from her.“Hitomi-san? Tell me that it’s a lie.” She didn’t speak as well. Just like Tatsuya, she had her head cast down.Nakamura was panicking as time passed.“Hey. Why are you two silent? Answer me!” Nakamura screamed and begged the two adults to speak. But, no. They didn’t speak. They couldn’t. For what I told was nothing but plain truth.A dark shadow started forming on Nakamura’s face as even after five minutes had passed the two of them hadn’t said anything. No retort. Not a single word. Their faces were paling. It was turning white. Deathly so.I gripped the small glass with a cold drink in it and gulped its content in one go.With a small thud, I placed the gl
How My Life Was Ruined 084: A Kind Little Reminder
After making sure that the three of them had gone from the small opening in the window, I stepped out.The middle-aged man along with some young staff was standing there wide-eyed.“Um…what just happened…?”“Ah, nothing. Just a small quarrel.”They didn’t look convinced. One of the female employees looked over my shoulder to our booth where things were a bit messy. Chunks of wood had come off and drinks and food were sprawled on the table and on the floor. It was easy to guess that what had happened was not a small quarrel by any stretch.“Sorry for this ruckus. And don’t worry, I will pay for the loss.” I tried to comfort them with a smile on my face.“You have an online payment system here?” I asked.The female employee who had been looking at the scene turned her attention to me and answered. “Ah, yes.”She led me to the counter and I paid 50,000 yen as compensation. She tried to argue that the amount was more than required.“Think of it as extra payment for disturbing the atmosphe
How My Life Was Ruined 085: God and Fakeness
MIYAMOTO SOTA'S POV:With his parting words, Kageyama-senpai left the booth and Miyamoto alone there.Miyamoto could hear nothing else. Not even the loud drizzling of the raindrops outside.All he could hear were the words Kageyama-senpai said. They were repeating themselves inside his mind, like a broken record. Sometimes echoing and reverberating, but they were there, inside his head, all the time.He was a geek. A nobody. A loner who had nothing going on for him. Just his books and his glasses. He barely even talked to anyone in school. Not because he didn’t want but because nobody wanted to talk to him. Of course, he was sad but he could do nothing but suffer alone. He didn’t have in him the courage to step up and talk with others confidently.For as long as he remembers, that was how he had lived his school life. And he was sure he would continue this pattern throughout middle school and even up to high school. He was saddened by this fact but he had no choice but to accept his c
How My Life Was Ruined 086: The Truth
TANAKA'S POV:After the encounter with Kageyama, Tanaka was unstable. The truth that he had stumbled upon was something he should never have heard. It was something he didn’t want to hear. If he hadn’t, then he wouldn’t have suffered like he is now. With unstable steps, he walked down the halls. Up ahead, on the right side was a single-person room belonging to someone he knew and someone he was close with.Instead of going to his room, he decided to go to her room.He knocked on the door twice and the door opened shortly revealing a small girl with green hair on the other side.“Tanaka?” She asked. Tanaka looked at her and noticed that she didn’t have her usual braid but her hair today was done in a half down half-up hairstyle. “Let me stay here for a while.”He went past her and sat on the bed.Matsushita closed the door and then sat on the table beside the bed without saying anything else.Tanaka peeked at her from behind.“You are writing a novel again?”“Hmmm.” Matsushita just g
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