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“…”
I felt a pain in my heart.
Inside my destroyed locker, there were many heartless words written in paint and oil-based magic marker, which are not easily erased.
Needless to say, the club members must have done it.
I had a feeling that something like this would happen one day, since I had been completely ostracized in the club since the rumor spread.
“Haa…for real…”
I let out a sigh, put my stuff in the broken locker, and started changing straight away.
“Do you think there’s going to be a run today?”
“I don’t know.”
“It depends on the director’s mood.”
“He’s a moody person after all….if he’s in a good mood, we can go without running today…….”
“Whoa.”
When I had just finished getting dressed, about five or six junior members of the club appeared in the clubroom, conversing with each other.
When they meet my eyes, they make obvious disgusted expressions and silently enter the club room.
“Tch.”
“Seriously….”
“Criminals…”
“The worst…”
“Disgusting…”
The junior members of the club whispered such things to me as they changed their clothes so that I could hear them.
Before the incident, my junior club members had loved me so much, now they verbally insulted me with heartless words, and my mood was steadily sinking.
“I’ll go ahead and get ready.”
I looked at them, but none of them responded.
Not a single junior member respected me as a senior any more, and they all looked at me as if they were staring at something unclean.
I couldn’t stand it any longer and left the club room to escape the stares of the juniors.
“He’s really creepy, isn’t he?”
“I can’t wait for him to leave the club.”
“I’d be really tired if people thought we were part of the criminal gang.”
“He really needs to quit.”
“Let’s play games today and keep grinding him down. Then he’ll quit sooner or later.”
“Gahaha. That’s a good idea !”
From the other side of the closed door, such conversation and laughter could be heard.
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“Ouch…….”
7:00 pm.
I was cleaning up after club activities, holding my throbbing leg.
Today, too, I was treated badly at club activities.
I was completely ignored by my classmates, seniors, and juniors, and I wasn’t even paired up for practice.
The manager did not prepare water or rice balls for me, and the coach treated me as if I did not exist.
Hayato was the only one who covered for me, but the other members of the club seemed to want me to quit as soon as possible.
“Senpai~, oh, wrong. Criminal~, please clean up.”
“Hey, criminal. You’re on your own.”
“Rapist. I’ll leave the cleanup to you. You’re on your own.”
“Criminal senpai〜. I’ll leave it to you to clean up the mess. I think if you get caught, you’ll have to clean up as part of the prison work, so it’s better to practice now. Just kidding.”
“Gahahaha !”
In the end, the only time the club members called out to me was when they were pushing me to do the final cleanup.
I was left alone to clean up the work for dozens of people, and I cleaned up the tools by myself, dragging my feet all over the place because they were so scraped off.
“Hey, Tohru. I’ll help you.”
“It’s fine……even you will be hated, you know?”
“Don’t worry about me. I don’t care about the people around me.”
“I care. If you get a sore because of me, I’ll feel bad that I won’t be able to come to club activities. Just go back.”
“….I see. I’ll go change first and wait for you.”
“Yeah.”
Hayato tried to help me clean up, but the last thing I wanted was for him to be hated because of me.
“Ouch……damn it….you just slide around like you want to….”
Every part of my body ached.
There’s already an atmosphere within the club that I get treated like nothing, and when it comes to games, the club members do whatever they want to me by sliding, tackling, and other fouls.
The coach, who is the referee, never blows the whistle when I am fouled.
I was almost sandbagged during the entire game.
“I’ll definitely prove the false accusation… I’ll prove it… I’ll make them kneel on their knees and apologize…”
I said this to distract myself from my frustration as I dragged my aching body to put away my practice gear.
“Hey, criminal. You should leave the club.”
“…?”
I was suddenly called a criminal from behind.
When I turned around, there was Asakura AIna, the manager of this soccer club…..standing there.
Folding her arms, she stared at me with a stern expression.
“What is it? Do you want something?”
“Huh? Isn’t that what you are? I’m saying you should quit as soon as possible.”
“Why do I have to quit?”
“Because you’re a criminal.”
“….”
A criminal.
I don’t know how many times I’ve heard that word since the incident happened, but it still hits me.
I did not commit a crime.
The fact that I raped Kisaragi is all a false accusation made up by Kisaragi.
Every time she called me a criminal, I wanted to accuse her of such a crime, but I knew that if I actually said it out loud, she would call me a liar and abuse me even more.
I bit my lip and felt helpless.
Seeing that I was unable to talk back, the other party began to say more and more.
“Did you apologize to Kisaragi san? Forcing yourself on a weak girl is really disgusting.”
“….”
“Can you please quit the club quickly? It’s a nuisance. People think we’re part of the criminal gang. It’s going to give the soccer club a bad reputation.”
“….”
“I’m sure Hayato is protecting you because you’re his childhood friend, but I’m sure he really wants you to leave the club. I’m going to make this very clear. Criminals don’t belong in our club. So get out of here. Submit your resignation to the director.”
“Don’t screw with me. Why do I have to quit?”
She yelled at me one-sidedly, and I couldn’t help but talk back.
I know I should quit, but the resentment I’ve been building up is pouring out in the form of words.
“You and everyone else…why do you decide that I’m a criminal? Why do you only believe Kisaragi’s words? I didn’t do it. Kisaragi falsely accused me.”
“Don’t lie. Why don’t you admit your nonsense?”
“It’s not nonsense. I’m going to ask you, where is the proof that I forced Kisaragi to do it? How can you know that if you didn’t even see it?”
“…..T-that’s.”
Asakura looks hesitant for a moment.
For a brief moment, I really had the feeling that she was shaken by my words and leaned toward my side.
But the next moment, she shook her head as if she had a second thought and said to herself.
“Because…e-everyone says you’re bad…that you’re a criminal……”
“If everyone says so, are you in on it? Are you going to participate in a lynching without proof?”
“S-shut up…! There’s no way Kisaragi san would lie !? I saw Kisaragi san crying too…! ! ! It’s absolutely true that you did something terrible to Kisaragi san ! ! !”
“Oh, I see. Then you should think so.”
I can’t get anywhere.
In the end, this guy is just talking emotionally.
She only believes what she wants to believe.
Logical persuasion is meaningless.
I gave up trying to persuade Asakura and resumed cleaning up.
However, Asakura didn’t go away right away, and she was still making a lot of comments to me, whom I was ignoring.
“I’m really shocked…..a member of our club would commit a sex crime…….
“…”
“I…I thought you were…a good guy…and I didn’t think you’d do something like this.”
“…”
“Even if you’re not a good player….you’re dedicated, you’re always thinking about the team…..and I thought you were a really good guy….but you’re really not….”
“…”
“In essence….you were the worst kind of guy who would forcefully hold down a weak girl and project his desires on him…I was an idiot for thinking you were a serious and good guy even for a moment…”
“…”
“Goodbye. I don’t have anything to say to you anymore. Please quit the club as soon as possible…otherwise the reputation of the soccer club will suffer. Well then.”
Asakura left, saying only what he wanted to say.
“Damn you…you don’t know anything…”
My mutterings of frustration faded away on the empty dark field.
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