Episode 61 – Recovery

When I returned home and told Riko that some of my memories had returned, she was embarrassed and fidgety, but eventually acted the same as the other two.

After spending the night with my sister and Riko, who were in a good mood, I went to my room and went to sleep. I remembered that I wasn’t sleeping in my sister’s room, but that she had come to my room to sleep.

As proof, I woke up on Sunday morning to find my sister under the blanket.

Sunday was spent slowly and a few more days passed.

It was after school and I headed home alone. When I get to the front of the house, I notice someone standing in front of the front door.

I wondered if there was something he wanted, so I called out to him.

“Um, is something wrong?”

“Hm? ….It’s you.”

Upon seeing my face, the person became sullen.

I don’t remember his face, so I don’t understand why he suddenly became grumpy.

“Because of you, my daughter, my daughter is…..

“Um, you know what? If you don’t need me, is it okay if I go through?”

I’m aware that the way I said it was not good, but I don’t want to hear him talking to himself without any kind of conversation. I don’t even know who this man is.

First of all, with no memory, it’s no use to be told what happened before.

As I was wondering what I should do, the man in front of me turned bright red, and I felt as if his face was bloated, so I turned my attention to him.

Then, as if he had just been weighed down, he began to speak.

“Because of you, my daughter has been arrested ! It will affect her future ! She has to pay alimony ! All of this happened because of you. Everything was ruined because of your involvement with our daughter, Eri.”

“Eri…..um, who are you talking about?”

“Why do you pretend you don’t know? If it weren’t for you, Eri wouldn’t have acted the way she did. If you had been mature enough to follow Eri’s lead, we wouldn’t be in this mess right now…..”

Who is “Eri”? I don’t know who it is, but when I heard the name, I felt a little pain in my head.

I don’t know why he said that, so I tilt my head further and ask the person a question.

“Um, what did I do?”

“……Oh, let me tell you. You spread a rumor against Eri !”

—Rumors about the three of them on the school’s underground site.

“Just because you got dumped by Eri doesn’t mean you have to do that !”

—I confessed to the girl sitting on the bench and got dumped.

“Eri has gone crazy because of you !”

“Ugh….”

“What, are you having regrets now?”

No, I’m not. I thought so, but I couldn’t speak. My head hurts like hell. I feel like my head is going to crack.

Memories I don’t want to see are pouring into my head. Is this my memory?

—Three people, a boy and 2 girls verbally abused me and kicked me.

—Being doused with water at my part-time job.

—The affair and infidelity I happened to see at the amusement park where I went out.

—Proposals that don’t make sense.

—Three people barge into my house.

And then…….

“……Get out of my way. She deserves what’s coming to her.”

“What !”

I push Kagurazaka’s father away from the door, holding my head in intense pain.

I don’t even want to see his face anymore. I want him to go home.

“You can’t talk to me like that when everything is your fault !”

“Didn’t you listen to your own daughter? I wouldn’t do anything if she’d just dumped me.:

“Don’t lie to me ! I have heard everything from Eri.”

It seemed that he only believed what he heard from his daughter, so there was no point in talking any more about it.

With a single-minded determination to get some rest as soon as possible, I inserted the key into the door of my house.

Then, I was grabbed by the back.

“Don’t try to escape. We haven’t finished talking yet.”

“Give me a break……”

He grabbed my back with such force that I was able to unlock the door, but not open it.

As I was wondering what was going on, I heard a familiar voice behind me.

“Hm, Yuuki kun? Who’s that person? Is something wrong?”

“Oh, Natsuki. I need some help, is that okay?”

“……Should I call the police?”

“Tsk.”

The moment he heard the word “police,” Kagurazaka’s father ran back to the house next door.

If he was afraid of the police, he shouldn’t have done that, but maybe he was just really frustrated.

I opened the door and tried to get inside, but I felt dizzy and it was hard to move.

“Yuuki kun, let me lend you my shoulder.”

“Thank you.”

Seeing this, Natsuki lent me her shoulder and I went inside the house with Natsuki.