I Had That Same Dream Again by Yoru Sumino

I Had That Same Dream Again by Yoru Sumino

Author:Yoru Sumino [Sumino, Yoru]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction
Publisher: Seven Seas
Published: 2020-03-19T04:00:00+00:00


Chapter 7

THE NEXT DAY, after morning announcements, I called after Hitomi-sensei and presented her with the decision I had made the night before. “I’ll take the handouts over to Kiriyuu-kun’s house for you today. There’s something that I need to tell him.”

She appeared troubled at this proposal. That made sense—she assumed I was part of the reason that Kiriyuu had stopped coming to school. Although she wouldn’t say it, I knew that was true.

“You said I should be his ally, didn’t you? An ally of justice should never stop being an ally just because someone won’t come to them. They go to the aid of the weak.”

I refrained from adding “Obviously the idiots in our class are the bad guys.”

But Hitomi-sensei still appeared troubled. I began thinking about what I ought to do should my proposal be rejected, and thought I would just go to Kiriyuu-kun’s house anyway. After all, Hitomi-sensei had said herself that adults were not always correct.

Of course, that did not mean that I was any more correct, just because I was a child. I knew that the decision Hitomi-sensei had come to meant she had decided to have faith in me.

“All right. You can take the handouts today.”

“I will honor that duty!”

“Good, but I’d like you to promise me three things.”

She made a serious face and held up three fingers. It was the sort of serious face that I loved on her. I was sure that she was thinking of both me and Kiriyuu-kun from the bottom of her heart.

“First, if you manage to see Kiriyuu-kun, I want you to tell him that I will always be waiting for him.”

I was stunned. “You haven’t seen him?”

“No, he still hasn’t wanted to see me.”

“He really is completely spineless.”

As I said this, she folded down a second finger. “That’s number two. You mustn’t go after him. Attacking someone is not part of being their ally. So you absolutely must not try to force him to come to school.”

This made sense to me. It was the duty of an ally of justice to scold naughty children, and although Kiriyuu-kun was spineless, he was not naughty. And so, I could not attack him.

“And the last one?”

“Third, you have to promise not to call your classmates bad. Everyone is just as worried about Kiriyuu-kun as you are.”

I heard this, and I thought: She really is off the mark.

I wonder if she realized that the last promise was the only one that I did not nod to. When I returned to the classroom, I looked over the kids who were causing a ruckus. Everyone was passing the time as they always did, the usual vapid looks on their faces, as though Kiriyuu-kun had never even been part of the class. No one else said anything about Kiriyuu or asked Hitomi-sensei about him. Not a single one. And so, her third request was a lie. An absolute falsehood.

I had no idea if this was a happy thing or a sad thing, but it soon became clear that day that I, although I was only a child, was not confused or mistaken.



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