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Volume 3 Extra 1.3

Translator: Reflet
Editor: Weasalopes

「Hey, Katsutoshi……」

「I ain’t the only one who feels this way, mate. I’m just a bit of an extremist with how vocal I am, but the other guys from the same middle school practically feel the same way. We saw four, five o’them push down a man, force feed ‘im chocolate, cover his mouth ‘n force it down even when he’s tryna spit it up, ‘n then gettin’ pissed at ‘im for dirtyin’ their hands ‘n resortin’ to group violence, ‘n then stoppin’ us from tryna intervene with laughter on their faces, so ya gotta understand why we have good reason to not git involved with them females, yeah？」

「Nah, but they ain’t all like that……」

「Still, from the population ratio at ma middle school, it ain’t no small number that’re crazy like that. Only four classes, an just one class was filled with ‘em, which is already one-fourth of the whole darn school class. The gals from the otha classes said ‘n did similar things to ‘im, so I bet it’s a larger percentage.」

　I showered point after point at the other guy, and the whole class went silent. Of course everyone knew that the class from the other school was weird. But coming at it from a different angle, this meant that if you were fine with leaving that “weird” environment be, you were fine with dismissing these inhumane actions as “weird” and considering them to be “usual”. The boys were probably hardly any different, in fact, but middle school boys did not generally think of conspiracies, so when things actually got devious, there was no way they could realize what the girls were up to.

「He did end up somehow rehabilitatin’. But there were still plenty o’gals who badmouthed the guy in front o’his face after he started showin’ up to the infirmary every day, after seein’ all that, we didn’t ever fantasize about girls again.」

「……」

「Well, if he finds a gurl to love an she’s a good one, then we’ll prolly start trustin’ women a bit more.」

「……Hey Katsutoshi……」

「If ya still wanna insist on the goodness of women here after hearin’ all that, me an you are over. I won’t reply even if ya talk to me.」

「……Alright. I won’t say it no more.」

　Omori was the type of guy to never understand my feelings of repulsion. Unless we compromised, we would remain enemies, and I get that, but I can’t feel right about this unless I go about things my way.

　We will most likely never be able to build trust with the female gender anytime soon.

３．The Case of Toiguchi Manami（former classmate, jobless）

　I got fired again.

「The heck did I do wrong……！」

　Giving in to my irritation, I slammed the tissue box in my hands at the wall with all my strength.

「Obviously them customers are the ones in the wrong！」

　When hoodlum customers surrounded me, I initially endured it, but once they started groping my breasts, it was more than I could handle, and before I knew it I had slapped away the hands of those perverts. And then I was fired without question.

「It’s all been downhill since that fool Azuma got hospitalized！」

　All the loser did was eat a chocolate and then freaked out over it, and now my life is in tatters.

　All I did in that incident was block the traitors from getting in any closer, and they could have easily slipped through had they wanted to. And yet I was treated like an accomplice and wasn’t accepted into any high school. Thanks to that, I went from being 5,000th in the nationwide mock examination to having to end up in correspondence education as a middle school graduate.

　Plus the girls who had bashed that fool Azuma after the incident had an unofficially bad reputation and had to advance to very inferior high schools. This was an about-face and we were the targets of the attack.

　That fool was the one to blame for all this, and yet society acts as if we are the ones who did wrong. I truly hate this.

「And that fool didn’t even apologize afta leavin’ the hospital.」

　Azuma, how dare you mess up my life and then not apologize or reflect on what you did. I find it repulsive that this trash tier man is living peacefully as the world sides with him. Plus our parents had to shoulder all of the medical expenses and moving expenses. It really sickens me.

「And then ya got Matsushima or Ishida, just actin’ like they sorry ‘n showin’ up to school like nothing, it pisses me off……」

　Matsushima, who had watched Azuma pinned down while laughing, and Ishida, who had blocked the way alongside me were both going to school as per usual. This was clearly unfair. Especially for Ishida. If you want to call me a criminal, then she did the same thing and should be considered a criminal too. But no, unlike me, she got into a high school just fine (although in her case it was faster to count from the bottom).

「Matsushima’s just actin’ like some sorta heroine in a tragedy, ‘n Ishida’s sayin’ similar things despite doin’ the exact same thing I did.」

　So the same types of girls fooled the schools into letting them in while I try being honest and I don’t get accepted. That’s insane. And even my parents, who are supposed to be on my side are saying it was my fault and that I can’t live a normal life until I turn over a new leaf. 

　That would great if it ends there. They also said I should have entered a correctional facility, and I’m just treated like a criminal overall. The ones who actually did the deed were already sent to a correctional facility, so that should have marked the end of the incident.

　Besides, the only valid reason to call it an incident would be if one of the main perpetrators nearly killed him and they were totally insane and got quarantined in a mental ward. Everyone was just messing around with him a bit, but no, the weakling had to get food poisoning and get sent to the hospital for something that shouldn’t have been a big deal.

　Plus if it really was all that bad, normally the homeroom teacher or civic guidance instructor should be the ones to pay attention, but they didn’t even do that, so why put the blame on me?

「……I think their name was Ushiomi Ichi……」

　It’s been quite a while since my parents stopped giving me an allowance. I couldn’t even hold jobs for very long, and I’ve never had enough money as a result, but if I find another job and manage to reach pay day without getting fired, then I can somehow wrench out enough for traveling expenses.

「I won’t be able to rest till I give that fool some payback.」

　I should get light revenge on that fool who caused all of this. Honestly, it’s not enough considering how much he wrecked my life, but I’d be willing to forgive him if he gets on the ground and grovels.

「Gotta figure out where that fool lives, how to get there, ‘n how much money I need.」

　And so when I tried to carry this plan out, the moment I arrived at my destination, I was found, taken into custody by the police, charges were filed against me, and then I got another unfair criminal record added to my cause.

　I will never rest until I mess up his life, that fool.