The Former Hero Wants To Lead An Ordinary Life
136. Brave Men Are Prey Part II
"I can't believe I'm still using this stuff for the rest of my life, - it sounds stupid"
Rice Leung threw up like that hatefully.
For some reason, Rokkaya had nothing to say back or move, even though it was not strange to be furious at that apparently overdone act. I'm staring at a towel that can be stepped on without being slightly moving.... in a very sad way.
Couldn't watch any more, I quickly crossed the bench and circled behind Rice Liang, holding Rice Liang's upper body in each arm with both arms, calling him the name of Six Valleys sharply.
"Rokkaya...! Come on, towel it!
"..."
Following my instructions, I took up the towel where the mundane and the six valleys had crept up and held it in my chest like it mattered.
"Hey... I will...! Nutcracker..., I want...!
Rice Liang, with his feet floating, agonizes.
My elbows are also stiffened so that I can't move, so I guess I have some pain.... I still intend to be quite modest on this, but it seems that Rice Liang is a very weak type. The weight on my arm was also lighter than I thought.
"Fangshu!?"
"Hey! Let go of Fang Tree!
Rice Liang's friends raise their voices and make noise.
Mei Liang also slammed his legs and attacked him with his heels, so I just loosened my arms and freed him as soon as I waited for the six valleys that reclaimed the towel to get their distance.
"... fu, wind discipline, I'll call you...!
"Elementary school?"
I shrug my shoulders in such childish rhetoric that I say it all the time.
"You can call me if you want to call the wind discipline. If only the guy who kicked someone else's stuff in the leg could make sense. - If there's only so many witnesses, and it works, it must be an incompetent gathering for the Wind Discipline Committee."
... In fact, the same is true for me when they call me Kazuki (awkward in the sense that I'm sorry for causing another commotion and vice president), but this kind of thing loses if I get weak hips.
The suggestion was that both Rice Liang and his two friends were frightened and said, "Oh, remember!" He threw up the promised throwaway dialogue and moved to another locker lane. Of course, don't forget to stare at me and Rokkaya with a glimpse full of rage.
The gallery named Wild Horse, which was gathered together with Wow Fight Outbreak!?, will also be scattered, and no one will be around because other students who were on the same lane walked away from the scene with the sleaze. Nobody wants to eat anything.
I shrugged my shoulders and said honest thoughts about "the troublesome guy," and when Rokkaya laughed and nodded like weak and troubled, he dropped his gaze and thanked me small "... thank you".
"Hey... why is he eyeing Rokkaya?
Not in return, but I stepped in and asked.
Rice Liang's poor attitude towards the Six Valleys is a little too much.
- It's like a personal grudge, too. And...
Rice Liang looked like he knew that the towel in the hands of Rokkaya was not just a towel.
It was a special character towel that Rokkaya cherished, and furthermore, even seemed to know that the character was a character in a BL comic book.
Little does Rokkatani talk about BL outside the dorm's own room.
Even if there was, I was always aware of my surrounding eyes, and only when I was talking within a buddy who knew Rokkaya's hobby, to the point of leaking it. That was rare.
I wonder what kind of rice Liang is to Rokkaya, knowing that he can't possibly know.
And why did Rokkaya never get as exasperated as when I tore a book right after I entered the dorm?
On the contrary, how could you have even spoiled and accepted the irrational conduct of Rice Liang somewhere?
That was strange to me.
In the locker room it was Rokkaya, who avoided a clear statement, but on his way back to the F school building, he revealed to me why.
"In the middle of nowhere, there were times when me and him were roommates."
The middle part is not a private room but a room for two people all, changing rooms every year.
It is longer than the room changing highs in a short cycle of six months.
Miriam and Rokkaya were in the same room at two years in that middle section.
At first, the two were close, and as the months went by, they became more and more intimate.
"I'm embarrassed, but... I used to think Fang Kun was my best friend, how dare you"
Six valleys walking shoulder-to-shoulder down the road beside the ground spoke some nostalgic glance towards the sea.
Mi Liang also showed understanding to Rokkaya's hobby, BL, and tolerated it as one of the only hobbies that was not to be dumped there.
Meanwhile, Rice Liang also had pets that were a little difficult for other friends to understand, and his roommates at a time of the year had allowed their reluctant pets into the six valleys they accepted without resistance.
The two of them were well into friendship, but one day something happens between them that will have a decisive crack.
"The BL comic strip I was piling up had an avalanche."
……
"Bad luck... there was his pet that was adorable underneath..."
"Uh... no way that"
"Dead..."
"Crushed to death..."
Oh, my God.
"It was an unfortunate accident..."
Do you remember that time, the voice of the six valleys sinks in pain?
Rokkaya has apparently stopped leaving BL comics outside since then.
Sure, now, it's sometimes the time to read it that piles up in bulk, but it's usually cleaned up in closets and bookshelves. Placing books is also mostly limited to my territory, that is, the top of my bed.... Most recently, the bookstore clerk would like to make it easy for the Demon King to grab it, even though I have arranged the recommended books on the bookshelf without hesitation...
"What's a pet... a dog or something?
It was still Beechcow that immediately occurred to me as a pet.
I didn't know I was allowed to have pets in the first place until now, but small indoor dogs don't seem to be able to keep them. Most importantly, the pattern would be the exception when you push yourself to live on an island like Beechkow...
Besides, Beechkow doesn't feel more like a pet than a servant or a subordinate or anything like that.
But I missed my expectations.
"It's wacky."
"…………………………………"
"One of the two that came with me that I would miss you separately"
It was just an insect.
... I remember nostalgic that I used to have one too.
I used to go to the shrine groves that were in the neighborhood with Uchi to get beetles.
Mostly about elementary school and insect fever is something to cool off, but Rice Liang became a junior high school student without losing the mind of such a boy, and I guess he came to this school.
And his beloved quail - to the sacrifice of a BL book in Rokkaya...
"He thinks... he's done something sorry for his wacko too"
Since then, it seems that Rice Leung has made Six Valleys his enemy.
Boy, do you hate me in a hateful mood to the point where I hate you, and not only do you hate BL, but you hate me by the Rokkatani as well? I finally understood that it was a tough hit.
"That's why I can't forgive you for breaking a BL book by surprise in return."
"Ahhh......"
That's what happened. That's why Rokkaya exposed so much anger.
(- What I did, you mean I scratched the trauma in Rokkaya)
And I was good at this again.
At that time, why did the six valleys creep that far?
But... Rokkaya seemed to have something to regret about that incident in Rokkaya.
"... if they hurt me, I'd do it back and take it for granted. Fang...... so did US Liangkun, and so did I. But Shokun didn't, did he?... Why? The truth is that I still..."
Asked again like that, I look in myself for answers, but no great reason came to mind. "Reasons for not doing so" is harder than considering "those reasons".
"No... for one thing, I mean, I didn't think about anything in particular, or anyone would be mad if something important was hurt, right?
That's another normal emotion, too.
Violence was not something I was praised for, but I also felt it was different to hold it down force.
"Aren't you allowed to be angry? Well, you can't go too far."
I had a sense that the feeling around me was probably more mahy than a normal human being.
- So I also know that I am never tolerant.
Because true tolerance is tolerance based on understanding pain rather than indifference or bluntness.
If I look tolerant, it's just a fig on the top.
There are one or two things that no human being can forgive.
I took the liberty of interpreting whether the pet had been a book or not, so slightly that its existence was not small for them, and it was important again, but therefore the loss was huge.
The wound still remains vivid between us.
Perhaps that's what this is about.
"... thanks"
On an early summer sea breeze, a small word of gratitude that seems to disappear reaches my ears.
"Somehow... I feel better."
I looked sideways at the usual poker face in Rokkan, then looked up at the sky where the clouds floated, and finally tilted my neck.
"... you're welcome...?
"Why Doubtful Shapes?
"Somehow?"
"Really?
We had a verbal exchange and we blew it out.
I simply thought it would be nice to have such a cheerful conversation with Rokkaya.
Relationships, not absolutely.
Circumstances vary from person to person, from person to person.
at times, even if the person does not wish to.
But if we ever break up with Rokkaya again, I'm sure we'll remember laughing like this.
Ever - as long as I can remember that.
"If you insult me, you'll die."
During the class, the profound words uttered by the instructor come back to life.
I felt my heart grabbed by an eagle at the words of a man who stopped and showed Seto's fist without difficulty.
"You don't seem quite ready yet."
That's what you taught me, once upon a time, to beat every move into 'The Brave' and train it up - someone who was a mentor.
They were immature. They kept asking me if I was ready to fight and lead them ahead.
(No way......)
I told myself, "It's my fault," "It's just a coincidence," and threw the possibility out of my head.
… that's what caused my traumatic memories to react to rejection. They were respectful people, but at the same time they didn't want to get involved again. For now, a radius of ten meters...... no, I don't want to get within a hundred meters. I don't feel comfortable with advantages that are only ten meters. I don't feel I can get away with it. I guess I don't need to run, but... that's what made them feel like they wanted to run reflexively somehow.
They literally threw up blood reflexes.
Let me make it clear here that the shivers were tougher than I was wanting to stop by the Knights and get bogged down.
At least as things stand, their presence is completely unnecessary in my peaceful routine.
(... Hopefully we won't meet in this world)
And I don't really wish for it.
Besides,
More than that, I'm sure they'll take me...
(Even if they were reincarnated, I wouldn't have a face to match. I, "The Brave"...)
- Because I abandoned the two of them, who were also masters and companions, and left them in the dead.