OreShura: Volume 1 Chapter 1
Chapter 1: Highschool Life begins in Mayhem
Harusaki Chiwa.
Freshman. Childhood friend of Eita.
A bit dumb. Was in the Kendo department.
Favourite line is "feel free to eat as much as you wish"
It wouldn't be quite suitable for me to say this, but I am "anti-romance".
Romance this sort of thing, is nothing but a mirage. It's a disease. If you don't believe me take a look at couples giggling every now and then in front of everyone. It's annoying to whoever sees them, praying for them to leave. As for their reasons to flirt in public? That's because this is the real romance, unmasked: Morphine emitting everywhere in the brain, making them lose their shame and all. My attitude towards these people? I always put up with it because I don't care. But when it comes to myself, it's another topic. For me, even if it were not in public, I will never do such shameless moves.
Of course, if I told anyone about my thoughts like this, they would probably chuckle and reply "There's no need to pretend to be strong" "Is this the excuse of an unpopular person amongst females?"
Huh. Me, unpopular amongst females? What a joke. I have a history of being confessed to. Nostalgic, those times in the kindergarten..... Forget it, these past glories? Who cares.
But really. If other people gave me a reply like this, I would fully understand. It sounds just as bad as college dropouts saying "schdule my a**" - lack of persuasive power. Not having a single bit of romance in my entire life so far, saying anything casaully like that would sound nothing more than sour grapes jealousy.
Which pretty much sums up why I don't tell anyone about it, but it IS truly how I feel. And the people who taught me to think like that were my parents.
The story of how my parents got together: they met; they fell in love; they got married. Just like every other love dramas on the television. Throughout childhood I was bombarded with them talking about the ups and downs of their love story. Then in junior high, I was subjected to their endless fights. One day as I was about to go into high school, they both left to seek the "real one" for them and disappeared forever from my eyes, leaving only a letter entrusting me to relatives and a power of attorney to their house as funds for unsettled expenses.
- You - Are - All - Bastards
Me and my hatred to my parents and romance itself was to the degree of using "Hakata Salt's" advertising techniques. (Note: Lyrics in the Hakata Salt commercial are sang syllable by syllable.)
Of course, my sensible logic tells me not all parents are like mine. On the contrary, people falling blissfully in love, getting married, form the majority. Though say my logic is sensible, I still would not "fall in love blissfully just to show you!" or any other kind of similar urges. After all, without romance, life can still go on. Won't make much of a difference not doing pointless stuff. Besides, I don't have the time either.
I have my own ambitions. My target is to get into National University's medical faculty and become a doctor.
Getting into the medical faculty would mean a considerable amount of expense, and I simply cannot give any more trouble to my current guardian ???-san.
Kiryū ??? is my father's sister, in other words, my aunt. She is my benefactor who takes care of me, here to clean up my parent's mess. Originally she thought of selling this tattered house to raise money, but putting my feelings of attachment in this house into account, she eventually moved in and settled down with me together. If it weren't for ????-san, I would have been moved else where to some unknown relative a long time ago. Therefore, I have decided to repay this debt to ????-san one day, definitely.
My highschool is called Haneyama Public Highschool (short form Hane High). In this school, we have one policy that goes like this: the school will award talented students with good conduct a place at National University (with scholarship). And That's what I'm aiming for.
After entering highschool, for the first semester I have already been ranked the first in my year. To a person whose results were in the fairly low district for the entire junior high, this is a staggering feat. I have no intent to slow down, and will continue working hard to keep my grades up.
Which is why, I have no time to spare on romance.
Therefore, I have sworn myself to the following laws:
- Study goes first!
- No romance! Romance alert!
- But don't let others believe I'm gay because of the 2nd rule
As long as I follow these laws, my highschool life will be perfect!
Yet.
Yet, even for a person like me, have an attached girl. The so called fate of a childhood friend.
Well, why shouldn't I begin the story from her then.
It was the end of May, an incident that happened some day when students were about to change into summer uniforms. Because of work, ???-san is often away from home. A reason why I have to do all the housework alone. Dinner; vacumming the floor; hanging clothes dry; all part of my work. In the eyes of others, this may look very extraneous. True. But only at beginning. But now, chores have even become one of my hobbies. Especially making dinner, not only can it directly reflect your results, it is also an useful skill in life.
It was almost dusk, half past five. I threw all the washed clothes into the dryer, about to step outside for ingredients for dinner. Before that, I have to prepare rice and started pouring rice into the cooker, when suddenly, short energetic cries of "Urg!" and "Hah!" came next door.
"What the heck? Hmm....?"
After finishing last touches and setting the rice cooker into position, I walked down the hallway into the courtyard. Not very big, around the size of the area of 3 hanging racks, less than ten or more steps to my neighbour's fence. Across the short fence seperating both houses, I could see a person dressed in sportswear and skirts, waving her bamboo blade around. I called out and greeted "Hey-- Chiwa--"
Chiwa stopped her exercise and turned around, sweat sparkling in the sunlight of what was remaining of the sun. "Hi--Ei-kun! What for dinner?"
Heh, thinking about food from dawn til dusk.
"Why are you doing practices with your sword?"
"I guess because there was a sword lying around?"
"....."
According to my calculations, this person will become addicted to mountaineering activities in the near future.
"I thought you gave up a long time ago?"
"The Kendo department was what I gave up. Despite many persuasion from my seniors, I finally severed my ties with them."
"Did you give up because of your health conditions? Now you're practicing again, won't it...."
Harusaki Chiwa smiled. "No problem. I had a body check last week and my doctor said if it were exercises, then I'd be fine~"
"....really?"
"Really~ really, Ei-kun loves to worry~"
Chiwa had been
