Red Girls: The Legend of the Akakuchibas by Kazuki Sakuraba

Author:Kazuki Sakuraba
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3, pdf
Publisher: VIZ Media
Published: 2015-04-26T04:00:00+00:00

4. Tatara Flames

Japan was also experiencing the beginning of a bubble economy. Although Kemari and the other delinquent boys and girls ran wild and brilliant through their teens, once they graduated from those ranks, they quickly became adults as if some evil spirit had been exorcised from them. The boys found work in the region, one becoming a mechanic, another a contractor, and still another studying and going on to become an ambulance attendant. The girls got pregnant one after another, married their boyfriends, and became stay-at-home moms. The approaching bubble was wholly unconnected with these once-delinquent girls and boys. The ones made to dance were the diligent eager beavers in the delinquents’ shadow, pushed into delinquent culture themselves.

Now in university, they bought cars, dressed in style, and reeked of the capital. The disco stopped being a place to lazily eat yakisoba where middle schoolers showed off their moves on the floor, giggling and screeching, and became somewhere adults hung out, a stage where the spotlight shone on the female university students and office workers. The late-blooming eager beaver Fire Horse girls ruled over the disco nights of the capital in their tight dresses.

Companies pushed outside of their main fields of business, going into debt to do so. Land prices went up, and land sharks started maneuvering behind the scenes. The general population also bought condos on loan and wore expensive designer clothing. University graduates were in great demand in industry, but that was in the capital. The people in the San’in region simply watched all this through that convenience of civilization, the television. The village of Benimidori did not change in any noticeable way.

Kemari didn’t pop her head up to so much as glance at the late-blooming, university-debuting Fire Horses. Once in a while, she would go hang out in Yoimachi Alley. She seemed to have started dating an exceedingly ugly university boy she met there, but everything besides that was shrouded in mystery. The boy had come from another prefecture to go to university and knew nothing of Kemari’s terrible legend. He apparently thought she was nothing more than a kind of pretty girl with long hair and red lips, and he dated her without giving the matter too much thought.

Other than the very occasional outings with this boy, Kemari was locked up in her room day and night, drawing something. “Roses are so hard to draw,” Kaban happened to overhear her muttering, but she had no idea what that meant. Then, on the order of about once a month, Kemari would walk down the hill road of the steps to the post office and post a large, square envelope. Other than that, she only went out to wander the town or stayed home and read manga on the floor, which eventually, naturally, led to her family wondering.

“Too much energy’s a problem, but too quiet’s pretty scary,” Manyo grumbled. And just as she was hesitantly starting to discuss with her mother-in-law, Tatsu, about maybe going and saying all those prayers again, a single change came upon them.

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