Echo on the Bay by Masatsugu Ono

Author:Masatsugu Ono
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Two Lines Press
Published: 2020-10-15T00:00:00+00:00

“Your height ain’t changed, Someya, you’re still as short as you ever were!” Hashimoto said.

“That’s the truth,” said Hidaka.

“Mmhmm,” mumbled Someya, uncertain what to say next. Then he grinned, his front teeth missing. A toothless grin. His teeth were grinning from his hand. A mouthless grin.

“What about the romance that started in the pig shed?” he said.

The other three shot glances at him as though he’d overstepped his bounds. Someya took no notice.

“Takeo took Midori’s place,” he laughed.

Hatsue liked her brother’s classmate Kawano Itaru. She liked him far more than she did Abe Hachiro. Hachi was thin and swarthy. He had sharp features and deep-set eyes, as though a sculptor had gouged too deeply with his chisel. She never dreamed she would end up marrying him.

But her feelings for Itaru died away. It wasn’t because she learned that they were related (Itaru’s father was Hatsue’s great uncle); Hatsue knew that a connection like that was no barrier to marriage. One of her brother’s friends, Someya, had parents who were cousins, but he was still a much faster runner than her brother. So, being related like that didn’t matter. That didn’t stop her from liking Itaru.

It was Itaru’s father who messed things up, when he made the mistake with the name she’d chosen for the boat. It was unbelievable! She was furious. And to think that it was Itaru’s father who had built the boat with his own hands! Didn’t he care about the things he made? Her anger didn’t fade. It was the first time her father had given her, rather than her brother, the right to name a boat. And it was no ordinary boat. It was the reincarnation of Midori. Midori, who had been sacrificed to celebrate the boat’s completion. And what made it even more terrible was that Hatsue had, without knowing it, eaten her, a part of her. Hatsue hated herself for that. She thought of Midori’s eyes—clever, moist, green eyes—the reason she had chosen to name her Midori. Hatsue’s own eyes grew moist as she remembered her. Midori had been naughty. Hatsue knew. She knew what her brother did, hiding in the barn. She knew why he was nasty to Midori.

Her brother’s trousers were down. He was playing with his willy. Midori (her name was Momo then) grew excited. Mucus ran from her muddy, straw-covered snout. Saliva and bits of food spilled from her mouth. She shrieked. Her voice sounded just like a human’s. She jumped up against the side of the pen, toward the regular movement of Yoshi’s hand. Her body was shaking. She shrieked again. Then for some reason their mother came rushing in. She looked at Yoshi, shocked. Later, she told their father, who just laughed, long and hard. But Yoshi didn’t find it funny. He blushed crimson as he watched his father laugh.

Yoshi was very annoyed about what had happened. That’s why he put a firecracker in Momo’s anus. He had no right to do a thing like that. He had no right over her at all.

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