- Saying goodbye to my father, Subaru was slowly walking down the road, tidying his mind of the city he was used to seeing.

In the chest of the walking Subaru, there are many emotions that creep up.

It's something that hasn't happened since I started not attending school, such as wandering outside at sunrise hours. However, the view that I should have walked through many times looks different, not least because I feel the sun.

"Well, I can walk under the heavens with less grandeur if I don't go to school."

I can't wait to become a neighborhood rumor or or be coached by an officer.

Even Subaru, who had the sincerity he didn't even realize that he wanted to be hated by both his father and mother, just didn't mean the flow he hated in police shanty.

I have memories of the roads around the house, everywhere.

To bite them off, feeling on the soles of my feet to be sure, I arrived in front of my home gate when I passed through a residential neighborhood that was not purely popular - and thus no longer worried about the feeling of thirsty tears over my cheeks.

Once, breathe, stop.

numerous emotions that go too far into the meditating mind, drinking them all down,

- I'm home.

Open the door and let the voice go into the house.

Waiting for a reply while I wonder how nervous I am. but that's not coming back that's how it's supposed to come back. I frowned surprised at that, and Subaru went up into the house when he took off his shoes. And let his gaze wander in search of the appearance of his mother who was supposed to be there,

"... Yes"

- I was looking back in front of the fridge and calling out to Subaru when my mother returned with mayonnaise in her mouth.

"... I'm home"

Where was the tension earlier - Subaru dropped his shoulder and somehow responded with a bitter smile.

"I just called you and you haven't heard back, so I thought you were worried about something."

"Something happened. Look, your mother's mymayonnaise was empty. That's why I was sneaking around on your father's mayonnaise... lately, I think his voice is starting to resemble yours. You can't tell from a phone call."

"I'm flying a few stories, but you couldn't tell me from Dad, so you were hiding. No, if you're hiding, I'd like you to do more."

Facing his mother, who was mayo sucking, in the living room, Subaru is sucked out of the contents to inflate the recessed mayonnaise container and somehow make him stand on the table.

Vegetable Hoko tilted her neck as she looked at it,

"Don't tell your father. When I'm smoking your father's mayonnaise, look. You feel like you can get a good deal on the flavor of your favorite mayonnaise and your father's at the same time, don't you?

"I'd have trouble reacting if people asked me something like that recoder licking testimony! Elementary school kids are the strongest when they combine what they like with what they like!

"So, what happened to your father? Did you leave it? When did you get so fast you could leave your father?

"You can't win even if you're cool with your dad in the first place... no, I don't think so"

Rejecting her mother's questionable voice, Subaru swallows it into her chest.

When was the last time I did something like a race with my father? Back then, Subaru was supposed to be watching with admiration and a little bit of remorse for his distant father's back, leaving this one unattended without much help.

But it's been years since then. I'm sure that now, compared to my father and the speed of his legs, he won't be left out as much anymore, or on the contrary lose.

With all the admiration enlarged, Sage's presence in Subaru was too great. Because no one can be saved if they seem to missee the essence.

"Damn, everything was halfway there, me"

Let the back of the chair sit down as he says, Subaru stretches out his back in a good way. and Vegetable Hoko put her hand on her mouth and laughed as she watched Subaru like that,

"What? Something funny happened?

"I thought you looked just like your father. That's how your father stretches his spine on his back, too, for a long time. Turn it upside down."

"Does it resemble not only the voice, but the method as well? Look, I'm sorry, I can't judge you right now."

"I think it's a good thing. - I knew you were that guy's kid."

Dunn, his chest rang hard once, and Subaru desperately enjoyed that he was about to groan out of his throat. To Svalbard's reaction, which stretched his expression and opened his eyes, Vegetable Hoko is squeezing his sharp eyes just like Svalbard's. Breathe with your nose, calm its high sounds immediately,

"If you stay long, you'll be left untrained..."

Say and take a seat. looking up at this one. The strange mother's gaze, Subaru scratched her cheek with his fingers as she was pointed at it,

"You know, I need to ask you something."

Yeah, listen to me.

Vegetable Hoko looks at the mayonnaise with a slight attitude with strange faces such as hesitation and footsteps. On the same level as the continuation of my son's story, I guess he's driven by the urge to carry the mayonnaise down his throat.

It doesn't change too much. I was totally detoxified by the way it looked, and Subaru laughed out small.

"- Where was the school uniform?

- Sleeve through an ironed white shirt and put your foot in a nicely organized slack. Fasten your belt and stand in front of the mirror, wearing a deep green tie as you struggle. and weave a blue blazer from the top,

"Student Natsuki Subaru, done... haven't seen you in three months"

Confirming himself finished in front of the mirror, Subaru breathes like he's done his job.

What you see is a school uniform that's been a long time since I've slept through it. Blazer type. That's a hassle to tighten a tie every morning and I didn't like it because I felt like it was shredding my precious morning sleep for a minute or so.

Two years and a little, I kept it tight every day but it never improved. That is still somewhere dressed and I have a complicated feeling when I think this is my last chance.

"Should it be perfected because it's the last one, or should it be done as usual"

That said, the answer is already in me.

Play the head of the swollen sweet tie lightly with your fingers and keep it clumsy. Subaru turns his back on his appearance. Look around the room and grab the student bag.

Now I'm an exemplary high school student ready to go to school, no matter where I look from.

"Unfortunately, it's already time that HR, on the contrary, is about to start a triple limit. Come out after the sun goes up, exemplary and shit."

He grinned bitterly as he scratched his head and Subaru stretched out on the spot before leaving the room - just before that, he looked back into the room as he remembered.

For Subaru, who has never had the kind of move since birth, this was the only place he could call 'his own room'. It's a room where I've been awake for nearly six years since I was given it when I was in middle school. - Even such a place, this will be the last.

――――

Without words, Subaru just lowered his head quietly.

Just one trick of it, with all the six years that have elapsed.

After a long long bow, Svalbard turned himself sunny and turned his back on the room. Then make a noise and close the door. Keep going down the stairs and back to the ground floor, Vegetable Hoko, who was waiting in the living room, opened his sharp eyes to surprise,

"Oh. I ask you where your uniform and your white shirt are, so I've been prepping you for everything I thought you might burn... and it's gone to waste"

"The idea of my son asking where his uniform is and coming out goes in the burning direction? I mean, this potato, this skewered Frank...?

To a host of ingredients arranged on the table, Subaru loses words for the first time in fluency beyond his own mother's assumptions. Vegetable Hoko, on the other hand, has such a strange face of Subaru's warfare that he looks at the changed Subaru from top to bottom.

"Yeah, yeah, it suits you. That's how you make your outfit look like an adult, and your eyes are offset and you look a little calm."

"Your mother's taking calm from me in a way that's currently in progress!

"Why are you so crunchy? Lick mayonnaise to calm down?

"I'm not in that mood right now..."

"Yes, you are."

Mayonnaise to be offered - it says' S 'on the lid part, which is a named mayonnaise indicating that it is Subaru's property. However, now pushing back that he wasn't willing to lick it, Vegetable Hoko nodded as if he knew Subaru's reaction,

"'Cause you really don't like mayonnaise that much."

――――

"I love your father and your mother, so you just licked me together"

Words of vegetable hoko while placing the Subaru stamped mayonnaise on the table and turning it around. Take it, Subaru gets his throat blocked by surprise. When you panic, breathe and then shake your lips,

"Hey, what are you..."

"So Subaru chooses between the world and mayonnaise?

"No, that's the world..."

"You see."

"Even if you're a bad talker!! What do you see with your face? Whoever chooses mayonnaise for that choice doesn't like mayonnaise, he hates the world!

Svalbard stares at the mayonnaise on the table, breathing with his shoulders, plunging into a vegetable hoko remark that was quite off target. Then he whispered his nose small,

"... since when did you think that way?"

"A long time ago. Your father and mother are depressed like the end of the world when my mayonnaise is gone, but they weren't."

"I'm desperate for the height of the hurdle you're looking for, I am."

Subaru weakens in her mother's words. But the inner part of it is not calm.

Subaru is a mayor who is neither pushed nor pushed. I'm not lying about that, and I don't care what you say condiment, mayonnaise. Mayonnaise, of course, for karaoke. The mayonnaise flavour of snack confectionery is also muscled with mayonnaise to eat.

But how can you be so obsessed with mayonnaise...

"What you two are savoring looks delicious, you said I wanted to taste it like a dick, too. Making it, I was a fazacon mazacon and a family con..."

"Supermarket it?

"Super/Family Complex Abbreviated Sufami is loud"

Exchanging unfavourable conversations, Subaru takes a long breath shaking his head. and then, more importantly, take the tabletop mayonnaise into its hands,

"Ah."

"- Ugh. Ugh! Long time no real mayonnaise! The mayonnaise over there that makes use of the material is good, but I figured unhealthy mayonnaise with synthetic colorant buns is the real deal! That's the mayonnaise over there."

Try to squeeze it and swallow the mayonnaise that was almost full all at once. A sour taste passed over his tongue, and heat ran like burning to his throat and chest.

This is the mayonnaising that the mayonnaise addicts don't love.

Wipe the white stain left in his mouth with the back of his hand, and Subaru lifts his cheek to the vegetable hoko of his astonished face,

"Two mayonnaise lovers lose, but I must be a believer who doesn't love mayonnaise either. I swear to all the mayonnaise caps I've ever licked off"

Incidentally, inside the room is a cap of mayonnaise that Subaru has personally used up so far. It swelled to an unusual amount, the number of which was seven hundred and seventy-six. Just now, it's seven hundred and seventy-seventh with this guy who's emptied.

"It's Three Seven. You can leave it in my pocket later."

"Oh, I'm so glad seven is three. In the meantime, your father was overjoyed by four seven."

"You literally had a different kind of love kettle!

My mother received mayonnaise for fun. Subaru, ruined in his accomplishments, is an ill-convinced face, but when he immediately takes care of that look,

"Well... then it's time to go"

"Oh, if you want to go to the convenience store, get me some shoe cream,"

"Look at my outfit and make my imagination work before you speak!?

Open your hands and appeal to yourself. Vegetable Hoko laughed "jokingly" at the subaru,

"Are you going to school now? I'm glad your mother... but isn't evil conspicuous? Why don't you do what you can tomorrow?

"That's how I'll stop breaking my son's motivated nose. It's just that I'm tough on other people and I've got a sweet, licked gut on me, and I'm stuck with it."

"If she really was like that, your mother wouldn't have had this much trouble."

To Subaru pinching the masochistic story, but Vegetable Hoko replied blurry as ever. And when my mother stood up in front of Subaru, narrowing her eyes, saying, "Hey,"

"Well, Mother, I'll get your jacket, so just give me a minute."

"Wait... no way, are you following me? Take off your drawstrings, go to school with your parents. It's not a punitive game on the level!

"I'm not going to school. Just go buy mayonnaise and shoe cream to the convenience store there for a bit. Not if it's so sweet."

"That!? It's like I asked you to come with me!?

My mother replied "Yes," to Subaru, who shouted at the flow that did not fall. Accompany them on their way to school.

"No, no... give me a break. Damn."

Saying so, Subaru's cheeks were loose in relief.

- Subaru was aware as he confronted his weakness that his time to bid his mother farewell had been postponed at all.

"It's been a long time since I've walked alongside you like this."

"I guess. If it was night, I'd go out with a lot of buyouts."

"Huh. You know, if it's the way things are going now, it's up to you to talk about lunch. We need to think about the meaning behind the words and talk about it."

"I'm just not convinced your mother will tell you about the good and bad perception of that hand!

Vegetable moon and vegetable hoko are one of the most unpredictable dishes in the world.

That is the common view of Subaru and Sachiichi in the vegetarian family, even if it is actually the vegetarian Hoko opponent, or a conversation with a sense of humor almost 100 percent does not pass without explanation.

In addition to the fact that the person doesn't have that awareness, there is a part of him that doesn't understand his out-of-the-box naturalness at all, so he can't be stressed out talking about it.

Even though I knew it, Subaru liked to talk to my mother.

"I'm glad you're warm today, aren't you? What were you talking to your father about?

"Whoa, conversation with your mother. Primary - no connection between the first and second half, there it is. It's me because I'm not after anything, but, yeah..."

Subaru twists her neck to her mother's inquiry as she walks side by side on her way to school.

If I explain my story with Hyunichi in detail, that makes me have to talk about Subaru's embarrassing inner complexes, the crying things.

I know it was necessary, but that was a wave of emotions that came out because I thought it was that limitless, and how about putting it out here again?

That's why

"Big deal...... talk about Ikeda, a little old story"

"Oh, Ikeda. You're moving to Thailand with 10,000 tickets, tricked and stripped by your local young wife, burning them in black and typing them into manual labor."

"I'm the first ear of that tragic development later on!?

"I knew you wouldn't get bad money. You wrote to me that my body is in trouble now, but my heart is full."

"My experience in an unknown place made me peel, Mr. Ikeda... not some other HR!

Only the difference between a different world or a foreign country does not change Subaru and Ikeda so much. I feel like we got each other unexpectedly and subtly wish him a good fight Subaru.

and my mother tilted her neck "hmm" to such a subaru,

"So, you used to talk and you were willing to go to school?

"Oh, yeah, well, in a nutshell. I've been thinking about all kinds of unscrupulous things, and I've got a hang-up to turn around. So."

"Whatever it is, you mean you stopped trying to do it like your father."

――――

Vegetable Hoko relentlessly hunts down Subaru for trying to defraud him with something he doesn't get the guidelines for.

The smile on its side does not change, and there is no change in sharp but serene eyes. So maybe I didn't mean that in my current words. but nevertheless felt enough, for Subaru, to have been constrained by the tip.

In front of the silent Subaru, Vegetable Hoko waved her hands wide and walked,

"Subaru was a hard worker, and you could do a lot more than that. I had all kinds of opportunities because your father was so darklessly multi-hobby... and I'm gonna get tired."

"Oh, my mother... how far do you think I am..."

"You know,"

The heart that I should have kept hiding even from myself. Subaru can't carry on two sentences in her mother's mouth that she's known for a long time.

They call me by my name, and I raise my face. My mother, who circled in front, stopped, staring straight at Subaru,

"You say that a lot. Kids are looking at their parents more than their parents think."

…………

"But, you know, the other way around. Even parents look at their children a lot more than they think. Even your mother is looking at you a lot more than she thinks?

Exactly, I just have to suddenly lose myself.

The inner feeling that I just assumed I could hide so much through was the fruit of it, the total emptiness of my work. More importantly, I was feeling lonely that no one could possibly understand my distress, my shallowness in a state of drawbacks.

"When I was little, I even put suppositories in it, so I'm even looking at my butthole. The only thing your mother hasn't seen in her body is her gut."

"I'm sorry about that. It was a bit of a good flow right now, so I don't need it."

Besides, as far as guts are concerned, my parents and brothers, on the contrary, have never had the chance to see it that way themselves. Although I happen to have seen Subaru as a bit blessed with such an opportunity.

Whatever.

"About the mayonnaise and the reason it pulled off..."

"If your mother could do something for you, I'd do it for you. Whatever your mother did, I'm sure it wasn't going to work out. But"

Laughing small and then taking over the words, my mother stared at Subaru's black eyes jizzily,

"It's not your mother or your father, someone did something about it, right? I thought that was a very good thing. You have to thank that person."

"... yeah, it is. The man told me there was nothing he could do about me. The guy told me there's nothing he can do about me. It's not me. So now I can walk."

Let me be aware of my stupidity, let me affirm myself like that, and Subaru stands here now in the past - facing my father and mother.

Oh, not at all.

"They're amazing good kids. It's a waste of time for me."

"But you don't give it to anyone, do you?

"It's obvious. It's not about whether I catch up or not. If it's enough to do it to someone, you don't have to match it to mine. And then you build up my value."

"Yeah, yeah - I knew it was that guy's kid."

How much does that word mean to Subaru?

My mother, who knew the inside of Subaru, who had never told anyone, must know that. If you know, and you're saying this to me,

"I guess I can do that properly. I don't know if I can do that kid right."

"It's okay. 'Cause half of the kids are mothers. When you get dressed up to half your father, it's not a Norma achievement."

"I'm aware that my genes that make up my body are inferior!?

"Why don't you get half as good as your father... and the other half as good as you get?

does not move to Subaru, Vegetable Hoko says so and shows the answer.

When I heard that word, Subaru was stunned, stunned.

"It's all about being like your father. 'Cause if all of that happens to be the same as your father, your father will be alone and your mother will flutter, won't she?

"A wobbly heart between husband and son is a sensual novel!

"No, don't, no more!

"Gu Pan!?

I get punched with my fist in the light of Subaru's remarks I can't afford.

Subaru where you can eat a good right in the face besides your thoughts. As he was teary-eyed at the pain in his jaw, Vegetable Hoko flipped to turn his back on this one,

"That's why I hope your mother tries her best."

"It looks good, but you're bleeding a little, me"

"When I say blood, doesn't it taste like blood when you lick an iron pipe?

"Such an extreme circumstance. It's hard... Yay, conversation with your mother. Intermediate, I've suddenly lost track of the question"

I can't help but talk about it here, courteously, because the substances that make up the iron and iron pipes in the blood are close. If you take this kind of question seriously, "Why are you talking differently? 'Cause you're going to feel angry and irrational.

So ignore the context between

"Do I look like me?"

"Sort of. I want to be like your father, but I do."

Vegetable Hoko in a manner satisfied with the conclusions drawn. and its legs stopped going forward to the lid, and Vegetable Hoko, looking back, pointed to the right of the road divided into two parts,

"So your mother's this far because the convenience store is this way... are you okay alone?

"That's so worrying...... it was a serious injury, yeah"

I am not overly worried about vegetable hoko.

Subaru, who had been snagged, was so pitiful, I guess, that from my mother's eyes it was not incompetent. So Subaru reassured my mother,

"It's okay. What I have to do and what I want to do is mesh disappointingly. Now there's nowhere else to be stuck."

"Oh well. Good for you. Good luck with that."

Nod as relieved by Subaru's answer, then take the split right at the foot like Vegetable Hoko plays. Subaru is on his way to the left, where he says goodbye to his mother.

It breaks up. I'm sure that's a lot longer than my mother thinks too -,

"Mother -!"

Uncomfortable dropping off that back, Subaru was loudly calling off his mother.

My mother's legs stopped skipping in search of mayonnaise and looked back at me body by body. Burn her unchanging mother's figure on her eyelids, as usual.

"Ah..."

Seeking to say goodbye, Subaru hesitated to say it.

Now, if I don't throw a goodbye word on this occasion, my mother remains unaware of how long her breakup with Subaru will be. Subaru also loses the opportunity to see a scene where her mother cries down, who will never see her again. If you don't want to make the last mother you see cry, shouldn't you shut your mouth here?

Such a skinned deception of caring for yourself and your opponent.

"- There's something I have to do. So it's gonna be a long goodbye"

Natsuki Subaru's heart did not allow it.

Vegetable Hoko is silent in the words I told him. Subaru folded before anything but reacted there,

"It's a little far away, and I'm not even going to be able to contact you or anything. I think it worries me a lot. I can't even assure you that I won't do anything dangerous... One way or the other, from all the danger, I'm talking about helping a dangerous child."

Be quick. Line up the information. The words I want to speak overflow.

"I think I'll worry about my father and mother again. Because unlike yesterday when I was in sight, this time it will be out of sight. But no matter where you are, I think about you two, and I won't forget..."

"Phew."

"I don't think I want to be two kids anymore, and I don't want to do anything that I don't like myself anymore. I can't believe you dropped me off at ease. I know it's not a story I could have told you. But I..."

"Phew."

The voice of my returning mother had stopped Subaru from knowing what she was talking about.

When I look up, my mother stands right in front of me. And

- It's okay.

"... that it's okay"

"Because I know exactly what you're trying to say. So you don't have to work so hard to find words."

"I knew... how..."

"Because your mother is Subaru's mother"

- What a basis that there is no logic for shards, yet it can never be defied?

The back of my eyes gets hot. I just tasted this feeling an hour ago.

How many times should Subaru cry like a child like this? How many times can I weep like this and get a steel heart that doesn't move anything?

"This... like a child..."

"If it's bad enough to cry when you want to, then all the babies you're going to have are going to be bad."

"That... doesn't mean..."

"Yeah, yeah, I said I know. In front of your father and mother, you are a child no matter how old you are... when you want to cry, you should cry."

The world blurs. Tears overflow. Wipe it with your sleeves and hide your face, Subaru won't show that face to my mother. Nor does Vegetable Hoko do anything to peek in respect of Subaru's will.

Just slowly, with the short head of Subaru's hair stretched out and stroked,

"... Sorry, Mother. I can't do anything for both of us..."

"I didn't give birth because I wanted you to do something, did I? I gave birth because I wanted to do something for you. Your mother gave birth to Subaru because she wanted to love you."

- If that word was right love, Subaru had already received countless.

"If you want to do something to your father and mother, you can give that feeling to someone else. That's my favorite child, and if I could have a child that I want to love again... wouldn't that be great already?

"... oh, that's great"

"It would. I'm not so wrong about what your mother said."

Laughing satisfactorily, Vegetable Hoko tickles Subaru's forehead with her fingers.

Then I pushed this chest and let it step back, and I looked up at Subaru with my face raised from the bottom,

"When you cry and your face screws up, you're looking weird more and more like your mother."

"... put it to your own face-to-face, you can often say that"

"Because I'm confident that your father's favorite face. So just for your mother's confidence, you can be confident that your father loves you."

"I'm talking about the face part!

I wiped my face with my sleeves thoughtfully and stopped crying as I turned bright red around my eyes.

I'm laughing at myself for crying, exposing myself to the truth and comforting me, neat.

"Oh, I'm so sorry I cried."

"Don't cry. I cried terribly when I was born. At first, everyone cries like a fool. There's so much going on, I cry in so many situations."

――――

"So I cried a lot, and at the end of the day, if I could laugh, that would be all right. It's not the first or the middle, it's the last one."

"Does that mean all ok if the results are good?

"That's not how I receive it. This, homework from your mother"

I'm sure there won't be a chance to make an answer match.

A farewell greeting in the name of homework offered. Receive it, Subaru holds it in his chest. Will there be a day when I can come up with the answer to that, when I know it's natural?

A very refreshing and unclean breakup scene.

My father and mother are both sending me out smiling instead of hitting a grudge against my son, who is nowhere to be known for his dragging quote.

Not at all, I was a past parent to myself, in a past environment, a place I loved.

- Okay, I'll be there.

"Yeah, I will"

I shake my head and finally force my cheeks to move to make a smile.

Leaving that dressed smile on my mother, Subaru turned his back and walked out.

The road to school is already good, and then we go all the way up this divide, and if we go up the hill from there, the school building is waiting for us...

"Oh, yeah. I forgot."

And a blurry voice when she said that she had come with all this temper, but she could call from behind.

Subaru looks back, unable to hide his disappointment, as he inadvertently seems to stumble.

At the end of the day, my mother raised her hand to the anxious Subaru,

- Come on in.

So he waved small, smiled and said to me.

- The last night before being summoned to another world. When I went out to the convenience store, my mother should still have spoken to Subaru the same way. But at that time, Subaru silently pushed open the door to see if it was even bad for the bug's residence,

――――

So, this is the last chance to wipe that day of regret...

Conversation with your mother Advanced - no matter how much on the side roads. At the end of the day, you will always get to the right answer.

The moment I thought of that, a real grin that wasn't forced on my cheek,

"- I'm coming!

So high up, Subaru's voice echoed on the way to school.

No one's in the school building. From the lifting mouth to the lower foot box, he opens a badly erected door that he hasn't opened and closed in a long time. When he changed his outer and upper wear and slapped the floor with his toes to fit his feet, Subaru breathed and then went down the hallway.

Subaru's school year is three years, and the class is the sixth among the eight classes. Three years and six sets, attendance numbers mixed, number 22 is Subaru's number.

The third-year classroom, which is the highest grade, is on the ground floor and continues down the hallway to the side of the stairs.

Only the footsteps of Subaru, a corridor with no sound, slamming the floor of the linoleum, continue to sound as Subaru walks toward his classroom.

And then, yes, we arrive at our destination in less time. Stand in front of the door, take a deep breath.

――――

Put your hand on the door, slide it aside and open it.

As soon as possible, the gaze of censure concentrated on Subaru, who has been attending school a long time later-

"That was a lot faster than I thought."

That didn't happen.

Open doors, there are empty seats in the classroom as far as you can see, and only one seat in the middle of the classroom sits.

And the person sitting on that seat looked back at the Subaru who came in, chair-by-chair,

"Welcome. - What has time brought you to face your past?

And "The Witch of Greed," who rocks her gray hair, has asked that with curious eyes.