That was about two years ago. Charles is on vacation, and it's a rare time to return home.
There was something wrong with the boy who lived in the neighborhood.
When the boy was younger, Charles was still a student and a good friend of mine. Since that time Charles has been a pretty heavy geek, something I've seen a lot of cartoons and comics with that kid.
The boy, who was thirteen years old, had a dark face and was crouching in front of the house. If you look closely, there are also signs of crying.
Charles hardly responds when he talks. When I waved the topic of the cartoons and comics we used to see together, I was stared at with a sinister look and said:
"I'm old enough and I'm still stuck with cartoons and comics..."
But it's not Charles you can say that to.
"What's wrong with that? - Hey? Would it be nice to have a crush on noble literature and theatre? Different expressive techniques don't change the fact that you're telling a story, do they? There's a human bump in there, but there's a drama. People's minds live properly in fictional worlds. That grabs the hearts of many. Don't look down on me like that with small measurements."
"There's a drama going on in my house."
And the boy spoke. My parents started fighting all the time, and they finally said they were getting a divorce. And I was close. When my brother and I were separated.
"I know it's hard, but I'm a boy, so don't be creepy, let's split. We need to be strong. You also said that the milk cloud dragon from the TS Shuiju Final. Shivering nipples in parting grief, he said, is another taste of life. Now it's time for you to bite that word off."
Name and dialogue the popular characters in the TS Beautiful Girls animated series, which Charles and his boy loved.
"I'm still saying milk cloud dragon or something..."
Big sigh boy.
"I have a milk cloud dragon in my heart, too. Always with me. I'm in the minds of fans all over the world. If you believe you're here, that's for sure. If you're gonna make a fool of yourself because it's fiction, you're gonna lose the point of fiction, too, right?
Charles theorizes.
"Ridiculous......"
"Hmm. Well, here's one thing to prove."
"What?"
"Let's bring Dairy Cloud Dragon to reality for you. No, I'll prove I'm here."
The boy was looking at Charles with the eye of finally going crazy.
Charles goes somewhere as he is, and that evening Charles shows his back of his hand when he returns before the child.
"Look, I brought the milk cloud dragon."
The boy was stunned. The back of Charles' hand was carved with the tattoo on the face of the beautiful girl she had been talking about earlier.
"There's always been one with me. I showed it to you."
"Ha ha, ok...... Isn't Charles seriously stupid?
Boy with a shudder and a laugh coming up for some reason. I know you're going to act like you're trying to cheer yourself up, but you're so out of focus, you're even thin cold.
But still, when it comes to not having any effect on the boy's mind, it's not. When you become aware that that behavior that goes off track is for you, a positive feeling boils down that is hard to describe. What I was worried about makes me ridiculous.
"Yeah, I think it's pretty stupid. It was a life-threatening life whenever I thought of it. So I tried to get a comic book special or become a mercenary."
"Bye, Charles' favorite comics, cartoons, games and lanobes, name it all. Let me prove it all."
"Don't give me that."
To the boy, who laughed like a prank, Charles broke his face, then two of them raised their voices and laughed.
That day, with True, Charles and another mercenary, Tomash, Origa and a total of six boys and soldiers, he was walking in the ruins of an area where the air strikes were particularly severe.
Four days after the bombing of government and U.S. military bases from the underground, the Mirkos also resumed their usual city patrols, especially since there had been no notable incidents since then, and the fighting in the old town had always been the same.
This zone is relatively peaceful, but we cannot be alarmed. A collapsed building has been demolished and temporary housing is beginning to be built.
The government no longer possesses bombers. It was all dropped by the US military. Therefore, there is no need to worry about an air strike. And there are many people who have lost their homes and families in air strikes, evacuating to makeshift homes built all over the place, but temporary homes in places of refuge are particularly common around here.
"Once the war is over - and President Mogoa is out of office, our exciting days will be over. Kind of lonely to think about that. Many of us seem to dream of being soldiers as they are. What do you think I should do?
While walking, Tomash kept talking. Whether there is an ambient reaction or not, we are talking about it in an extended manner without worries.
"It's up to you to decide. There's no question about that."
Seeing as he obviously swayed the conversation at himself, Oliga said without a choice.
"The mercenaries came and I thought about it, too. It's a good idea to be a mercenary. But..."
I cut the words where Tomash spoke so much, and I think a little bit.
"Origa, do you know who the strongest of us is?
"If it's just strength...... it would be Ignatz. Overall, I think it's Mirko."
"Yeah, you're right, but the overall strength is a hassle. Overall, Ignats is missing more than one head. But..."
And, Tomash sees the truth.
"Truth is, its ignats are outnumbered as well. And some of the mercenaries are better than that. So is Charles here. That's what I see. We've been fighting for about a year, but what we're trying to do is fight the same opponent all the time in the same place, and it's a lot inferior to the mercenaries who go around in different places. Yeah. I've been observing and figured that out. Oliga doesn't know? Haven't you seen it?
"Hmm..."
"Ignaerts has personality difficulties, so even if he is able to excel, he's not for the leader."
He was an oliga who wanted to say something, but Tomash keeps talking without worrying about such an oliga.
"In my inability to admit that I have no power, something inferior stretches out my back, red shame and life stains. I want to avoid this. If so, should the challenge be avoided"
"I don't like that idea."
The truth that I had been silent uttered.
"I really agree. It's important to work through the calculations, but I can't believe the result is that I don't like it if I try and fail."
"Ugh, I guess it's dull..."
Charles also tells me that Tomash can drop his shoulder and nod.
"You're a fine soldier at a time when you're taking guns like that now and you keep fighting to get your country back from dictators, so you don't have to be pessimistic"
"Oh, yeah... yeah"
Truly said, Tomash gives a happy face.
At that time, another soldier appeared before the six.
Neither the government army nor the Lost Paradigm. The vigilante. Besides, it was the same five-man group of boy soldiers as Origa and Tomash and the others. But the age is higher than that of the Origa and their mid to late teens.
"I've met some nasty people."
"Nasty guys?
Oliga shrugs and Tomash is surprised.
"Oh, are you new to Tomash? If you do, you disgust them. The type of people who overestimate their power? I still take my gun and the sun seems shallow, but I feel like I'm drunk with myself fighting."
You're the type to die prematurely.
Hearing Origa's words, Charles said with a bitter smile.
"Yo, Origa. Lady Knight of Knoppo, isn't he here today?
"Come here and you'll have fun. I don't know if I like that knoppo."
Older boys and soldiers, throwing their inferior voices and gaze mainly towards Origa.
Origa glanced at him with a cold glance, but then turned to him and decided to ignore him.
"I mean, rumor was it true that we couldn't fight alone and we were hiring mercenaries or something. of Dassay."
In their mistake with the older boy soldiers, there were those who could not ignore the words they uttered.
"Yeah, you can't. You can't just forgive me for what I'm saying."
It was Tomash.
"Undo it."
Older boys and soldiers flaunt Tomash, who lay guns in angry shapes. No, the Origa and the others pulled a little too. Then Tomash even takes the outlet.
"Oh, hey..."
"Oh, my God... we're going to do this together."
"An ally? He's not an ally or anything to insult the government forces and the people who are fighting Rospara with us. An inner enemy. You should know you can't help it if they kill you."
Tomash's badly quiet, chilled tone was at the same time murderous. The five older boys and soldiers breathe.
"I get it. I'm sorry."
Leadership exhaled and apologized. Others looked like bums or tongue-beaters, yet no one tried to say anything, and walked away.
"Ouch."
Oliga slaps Tomash's head pretty hard with his fist bone when he puts the gun down.
"It's too much. Just say it with your mouth and stick it to your gun."
"Er... but I was pretty."
"But even though we've known each other for quite a while, I've never seen Tomash get mucky like that,"
While scolding you, I think Oliga wanted to show Mirko and Ignaerts as well.
"Uhm... now I'm getting fiercely embarrassed. You were very, very unlike me. I hope you forgot."
"Tomash was a boy too."
Charles smiles and strokes Tomash's mushroom head.
"I don't think Tomash did anything wrong. In order not to be naughty, you should do that much. Besides, there's nothing you can forget about the brave Tomash now."
"I'm not happy to be remembered. All of us."
True followed, but it did not console the angry chilled tomash.
While the Truths were on patrol, Mirko was training the younger boys and soldiers in the school yard.
Three people, Li Lei, Simon and Krishna, look at Mirko like that a little further away.
(It's hard to do...)
Mirko doesn't like it, but he becomes conscious. From them, who would be much better than me, I'm sure I see my bad parts too. And to see that, I even wonder if you're visiting oh well.
"It was a very polite instruction."
Krishna called out in anticipation of when the boys and soldiers disbanded and Mirko was the only one.
"But some parts of it are a little hard to think about. I was just wondering..."
I was relieved because I was praised, but also cautioned, so oh, I guess Mirko.
I know by reason that Krishna is purely speaking out after thinking of herself, but as a Mirko who also has something like confrontational or drawn-out, I can't emotionally break it off.
"Thanks for pointing that out. For your information."
While accepting Krishna's opinion, Mirko utters a word of gratitude without being deterred from becoming sinister.
Aware of his young rebellious mind, Mirko remembers self-loathing.
"I thought you were serious, but I like it when you're not."
It was Lei Lei who said that while looking at Mirko.
"What do you mean?
Krishna doesn't understand the meaning of Lei's words.
"It means we're still in a rebellion. But that's not a bad thing. It's a sign of self-reliance. I was in some kind of slow rebellion..."
Li Lei smiles brightly there. It reminded me of my embarrassing past.
"You can say whatever you want with your eyes from above."
Mirko becomes the top of the Buddha.
"That's because you're older for once. More than twice as alive as you."
Li Lei grins bitterly as he strokes his mustache.
"I don't know, Lei has a temptation for youth. I'm almost twenty years away from me and my new home, so sometimes I get a tingle about that. You just have to go easy on me. If that's what you think, it'll help you feel uncomfortable with depressed elders."
"I see."
Mirko soothes when he hears Simon talking with a bright smile.
"I see, they said something like that. At least I don't feel that way about Mirko, and I'm gonna be watching you warmly."
Li Lei shrugged her shoulder gently as she smiled.
(Those are good people... they are)
I think Mirko makes it. He said he was glad they came.