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Lately I’ve been feeling a strange sense of discomfort.
I have this weird feeling that I don’t know what it is, so I can’t help but worry about it in my daily routine.
“Ren, what’s wrong?”
“It’s nothing, Mom.
See, this is why even my mother worries about me.
My father passed away due to illness a long time ago, so my mother has been raising me alone.
Fortunately, she says she has a good-paying job, but it’s still difficult–I don’t want her to worry too much.
[Next on the news–a man who forcibly touched a woman has been arrested on suspicion of molestation.]
Suddenly, I heard such news from the TV.
Recently, things have been so noisy, or……well, the world itself is like a noisy place, and every day the TV tells us that there has been an incident.
There are not so many incidents where I live, but in the city, it is a daily occurrence.
“Why would someone molest someone? The police would arrest them right away and it would be a big deal.”
“I don’t understand how people who molest women feel…… isn’t it because they have such a high sex drive?”
I have no choice but to answer like this.
Then after breakfast, I quickly got ready and left the house–the high school I went to is about a 30 minute walk…..which is quite a long one, but I’ve been doing this for a long time now so I’m used to it.
I didn’t have a meeting with any of my friends today, so although I didn’t feel lonely, I quietly headed to school alone…that was the time.
“….That is.”
I saw a couple walking in front of me.
The faces of the man and woman are familiar to me…no matter how they hide it, they’re my classmates, and they’re also famous as a handsome couple.
“Ugh, it’s the morning for lovey-dovey stuff.”
As a non-realistic person like me, it’s a disgusting sight, if not nauseating.
Of course, I don’t make a move on them just because they piss me off, and I don’t do anything ugly like talking behind someone’s back,……so I’m jealous and curse them in my heart.
“…I’m jealous, after all.”
I’d like to go out with a girl like that,……well, first you have to become a person that people think is attractive !
…I don’t know if I can do it though.
I’m walking behind the couple like that….and I found something that caught my attention.
“…… Gauze?”
The beautiful woman–Minase Ruka’s gauze stuck to her thigh…I thought she had a bruise or something, but I just can’t help but wonder…what is this…..I wonder what this strange feeling is.
However, it’s perverted to keep staring at Minase’s thighs……I’m not going to go any further.
“……………”
After that, I arrived at school safely and went to my seat when I entered the classroom.
Even though the scene should be the same as usual, there is something strange about the everyday scene, and I tilt my head to the side.
“Ito and Mizuse were walking around today as if they were showing off.”
“I’m jealous,……I wish I was born a handsome guy too ! And I also wanted a girlfriend who was that beautiful !”
“No, no, first of all, let’s make an effort to be like that.”
It’s not the first time such words have been whispered to those couple.
But…..I don’t know what’s so strange about it.
Actually, I’m using the word [uncomfortable] all the time today.
“Hey Ami, what are you going to do after school?”
“Oh, I don’t know. I don’t really care.”
“That’s what bothers me the most !”
“H-hey !”
Just when I thought that the gals nearby were having such an exchange, one of them, the one who stood out the most, was pushed by her friend and shifted towards me.
Even though I moved my desk as hard as I could, she just glanced at me and didn’t apologize…well, I don’t really need an apology, but it doesn’t feel good.
“……………”
But I still keep wondering about my discomfort.
The time of the day passed with something strange that seemed to be at the tip of my throat.
▼▽
The strange feeling in my chest is still there.
It was as if something changed in my head……and as soon as the date changed to midnight, it felt like a switch had clicked.
The next day……morning to be exact, I turned my attention to a certain news.
[The following news–a woman who groped a man has been arrested on suspicion of molestation.]
A woman was arrested for molesting a man……even though it’s not strange news, I find myself looking at it strangely.
My mother said this to me with a nervous look on her face.
“Y-you’re still curious after all. That’s true…after all, you’re a boy…..you don’t want to be molested. Compared to men, women have a huge sexual desire…”
……I don’t remember my mother being like this.
As a son, I thought such a rude thing….yesterday, my mother is at least imposing, or rather, no ! My mother should always be imposing…….not always.
(Or rather…why is my mother so afraid of me?)
I had this feeling that my mother was scared of me…..
“Mom……? Why are you so–“
“Ah……I’m not an old hag today. You called me mother.”
“……What are you talking about?”
“I-I’m sorry!! Don’t be mad at me !”
Oh, come on, I would never call my mother an old hag.
Do you call your precious mother who raised you an old hag? If there was someone who said something like that, even if it was a stranger, I would want to throw them out.
“I wouldn’t call you an old hag. Thanks for the delicious food today, Mom.”
“Ah….yeah !”
“W-why are you crying !?”
My mother was moved to tears…wait, wait, wait.
What’s really going on? Am I having a bad dream, or am I actually still asleep?
“……Ouuch”
I pinched my cheek….and it hurts. It hurts so much, not enough to kill me, but it hurts.
Once I put myself aside and rubbed her back to comfort my mother who had gone crazy, she seemed to be even more moved and couldn’t stop crying and I didn’t know what was going on anymore.
After an eventful breakfast, I left the house to go to school.
“……Oh.”
Then again, on the way to school, I caught sight of another beautiful couple as if it was a rehash of yesterday.
What the….is this meant for someone like me who doesn’t have a girlfriend?
Immediately after thinking that and clicking my tongue, something happened that I couldn’t believe my eyes on.
“S-Shinji kun….made you a lunch box… Eat it for lunch–“
“Huh? I don’t need a lunch made by someone like you.”
Minase’s words were rejected by her boyfriend…Ito Shinji.
Her lunch box is something that high school boys all over the country admire…..that’s what that handsome bastard said while looking at Minase with disdainful eyes.
“……Eh?”
No, no, this is bad news ! The hidden face of a loving couple ! I was surprised, not because it was big news, but because it was a scene that would never happen.
(Wait, wait, wait……Ito is surely not like that, right? I mean, it pisses me off that he has a pretty, beautiful girlfriend, but I’m sure he’s not a jerk like that.)
And there I was again, with a strong sense of discomfort.
The scruffy Ito in front of me and the mild-mannered Ito that I remember alternately popped up in my mind, making me feel sick…..and even a little nauseous.
Ito quickly leaves, and Minase remains there, holding back tears…why?
“……………”
Eventually, that doesn’t stop me from heading to school, even though it bothers me.
But……as soon as I get to the classroom, I feel uncomfortable again.
“That Ito, he’s a piece of work. I wonder if he doesn’t get tired of spending time with women.”
“You never know when you’re going to be assaulted. But, well, if you’re assaulted, do you think you’ll get compensation?”
“That sounds like a possibility……haha, I’m thinking of going that route.”
“But….I’m a little scared of women.”
“Me too……”
The boys in the class are making those statements.
Then, following the scene earlier, another flashy girl slammed into my desk with a clang,……and it was the same as yesterday, but the reaction was different.
“I-I’m sorry……you’re not hurt or anything, are you?”
“Hey idiot ! What are you doing !”
“In the beginning, you bumped into me-”
The girl who didn’t even apologize yesterday is looking at me like she’s afraid of me and apologizing.
…I don’t know what’s going on anymore.
The next day, with such an incomprehensible sense of discomfort, there was news of another man being arrested for molesting a woman.
(……There are so many molesters !)
Although I made such a tsukkomi, my mother was just as usual…as usual?
I feel uncomfortable again.
“Shinji kun, did you eat your lunch? I worked hard on making it.”
“Really? Thanks Ruka !”
The lovey-dovey couple is flirting……yesterday…..hm?
“……………”
I stop and sort out the situation.
I felt like there was a bit of a fog hanging over my head, but if I thought about it for a while, I’d understand.
“The sense of virtues between men and women…are they reversed or not?”
When I said that, the fog hanging over my head cleared away.
…Apparently, the discomfort that I had been feeling for a long time was that the sense of virtue was being reversed every time something happened in this world !
That’s how I realized……I noticed it.
However, because I noticed the frequent changes in the world, I could imagine that I would be in a lot of trouble in the future.
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