[My English] Mizuki-san can't cheer up

Those hands covered her eyes, shaded her view, stroked her cheeks -- please don't open them, she said.

Those red eyes stared at her, and Minazuki Eiko felt that his right hand was being held and stroked along the lines of his hand.She thought of what the person who read her palmistry said, saying that her lifeline was very strange, and there must be a catastrophe.

"I've been waiting for you."

That voice said so.

Forgotten memories, abandoned memories continue.

That belonged to—the past of the dead Eiko Tsukitai.

**

Greed is a net.One does not know when it appeared, and when you didn't realize it, it tightly bound your net.

Greed, greed, jealousy, gluttony, anger, laziness——

These are the seven deadly sins written into our genes.

Some people overcame it, some escaped, but more people were deeply involved, ups and downs in black desires.

Ever since he could remember, Yuetui Yongzi knew that his family was struggling.

Because my father likes to gamble.

The mother and father were not a marriage formed under free love, she heard from the phone call between her father and others.Children who are still young are precocious and quickly understand the vocabulary of adults.

Because of financial problems, the family is not doing very well. During the phone call with her young boy, the mother has not disclosed the deteriorating situation of the family. Yongzi thinks that maybe she does not want to cause trouble to others.

Around the age of four, all the children who went to kindergarten together have discovered their own "personality", but she has not yet discovered her own personality.

This would have been... probably not a very good thing.

In the kindergarten, there were not many people who hadn't discovered their individuality, but except for Yuezi Eiko, everyone else was vaguely isolated.

Except Yongzi.

When we talked about personality during play, a child with personality of the same age said very, very cruel things in an innocent tone.

"Guys without personality are different from us. If you get too close to them, you will become so abnormal if you are not careful. But Eiko-chan, you are different. You are so cute, how can anyone hate you. "

Because of "abnormalities", because "small groups cannot tolerate abnormalities", because "others are afraid that they will be infected if they come into contact with them"...so they started to reject others so early.

And she was only approached by people because of her good-looking face - who would hate good-looking people?Just looking at it makes me feel better, so it's really hard to hate it.

——Is personality really that important?

Mother is on the phone with someone.The little girl leaned her head to one side, as if she was watching a TV show, but her eyes were not focused.

The mother said that she was actually a little happy that Yongzi hadn't shown any personality traits yet.

"...I'm so selfish, but I thought that she might have no personality, so I'm happy."

"You know, no personality - no personality will be directly abandoned by the family."

"I hope—she—"

"Don't be like me."

Why, don't you be like your mother?

My mother is very gentle and cooks very delicious dishes.

Even if my father didn't come home often, when he came home, he would just sleep and search for things that could be sold at home, and then went to the casino to spend all the banknotes-almost nothing left.

Although it was such a desperate situation, my mother was able to use her hands to find out all kinds of things that could be made into food like magic, and made delicious food that could fill the stomach.

The call here was hung up, but another call followed.

Facing the sisters, the mother changed her tone again.

"Huh? Riu, I'm fine—well, you don't have to come back, I'm fine. You have to take good care of yourself over there...Okay."

"I'm living a really good life. When you come back after learning something, let's read together again."

"Well, I love you too, Risu."

So - gentle.

Eyes, so sad.

It seems that in the next second, tears can be shed... sad.

The precocious Yuetui Yongzi suddenly couldn't understand his mother again.

She thought about the fairy tale books she had read, and for some reason, that story suddenly appeared in her mind.

--"nightingale"

The nightingale who has lost her freedom can no longer sing melodious songs.

Trapped in the king's garden, gazing up at the blue sky, unable to escape...beautiful, Nightingale.

**

Today, when more than 80% of people have "personality", "no personality" is a very abnormal thing.

The mother's personality is data analysis, and the father's personality is electromagnetism—it stands to reason that their offspring should be able to manipulate electrons by analyzing data...with such strong personalities.

But something happened with a very small probability. By the fifth year Eiko Tsukitoi came to this world, on the vernal equinox day of the fifth year, she did not show a trace of "personality".

The gambler's father didn't care about it, or in other words, he didn't return home long enough to make him interested in his so-called daughter.

Yuetui Koizumi only found out about his partner’s gambling addiction after marriage, and a little money from the other party’s family was swallowed up by the slot machines in the casino—fortunately, the other party was still a bit conscientious and didn’t extend his hand to support him The child's money.

They were a marriage arranged by the family, and from a symbolic point of view, they just lived on like this coldly.

Yuetui Koizumi was extremely thankful for this fact, and also very glad that Yongzi had no personality.

From the perspective of appearance alone, Yongzi will definitely step into the same river as her - but as a vase for commercial marriage, the family will not choose "no personality".

A marriage partner without personality is a bit too ugly to say.

... Such a mother must be very selfish, right?Criticism and exclusion for those who have no personality... There are also cases in the broadcast news.

However, she still chose that name wishfully.

Let her be forever... a happy child.

The one who is not hurt by anyone, the one who is loved, is treated gently, walks along the road safely, and then meets the person she likes at the right time, and the person she likes also likes her——

For Koizumi, such a situation is not the continuation of the happiness he hoped for?What she has suffered, she does not want her children to suffer a second time.

This is the tenderness of a mother.

But all good looks are short-lived.

In the seemingly intact inner wall of the vase, savage cracks began to grow. After reaching a certain fulcrum, even the usual appearance could not continue...

Beautiful things shattered to pieces.

**

— Do you like your dad more or your mom more?

—I like my mother a little more, but I also like my father very much.

Although he would answer his mother's name without hesitation, Yuetui Yongzi also likes his father very much-maybe because he rarely gets his father's attention, the blood comes from another person's gene, which secretly connects them So, although he is not a very responsible father, the girl still likes him very much.

When will Dad stop to look at me?

Although the parents' way of getting along is more like strangers living together than a couple.

But she also wanted... to show her performance to her father who didn't come home very often.

"In that case, can you pat my head?"

"Although it is an unlikely wish, but if there is any god, I hope..."

"Father, can you see me."

The little girl made a wish like this, closed her eyes, and entered the dream with a smile.

Rarely, she had a dream.

——At the same time, it was also the first meeting with "that demon".

The face of the person in the dream was blurred, but the pair of red eyes were very vivid.She was half kneeling on the ground in complicated clothes, and Yong Zi found herself sitting on a high seat.

"She" raised her eyes and looked at Yongzi intently and deeply.There was endless sadness and nostalgia in her eyes, as well as faint emotions that she couldn't distinguish.

Yongzi found that his body could not be controlled by himself, and obviously did not respond, but his hand still moved—it was not a child's hand, but a very slender hand with well-defined joints.

It was just hanging in the air, but the half-kneeling person understood what she meant.

"She" said, "If it's your wish—we'll break that rule and make it come true, no matter the cost."

"Of course—we are waiting for your return at any time..."

"Please don't get lost in this, your authority is not limited to this."

"かぐやどの"

"She" called that name in a low voice again.

***

Yuetui Yongzi found that he seemed to have become lucky recently.

Before going to bed, I made a wish of "I hope my father can see me", and it came true on another day.Her father, who had returned to the apartment on a rare occasion, praised her for the first time in his life because he saw the homework she was doing.

Playing games with the children in the kindergarten, because she didn't want to play role-playing games anymore, she secretly made a wish in her heart, and it really came true.

The wish that my mother would not have to work so hard has also come true.My mother was promoted to a relatively easy job with a good salary.

Everything is going in the right direction she wants.

She started making little, innocuous wishes.For example, you want cotton candy on the side of the road, you want your mother to be able to wear beautiful new clothes, and you want your father to be able to gamble less.

All achieved.

Yuetui Yongzi touched his heart, thinking, is this his own personality?

A useful personality, a personality that brings happiness, like Santa Claus... so amazing.

A personality that makes my mother smile knowingly, a personality that makes my father look at me, and a personality that makes me "happy".

——It turns out that this is the "personality" that everyone wants.

And she also found that as long as she gently sang the songs she learned in her dreams, the effect of this "personality" would be stronger.

Yongzi has done a small experiment: I hope the cold at the same table will get better soon, so that I can come back to play together earlier.

At that time, she sang that song.

The cold at the same table is not only getting better soon, but according to her, the uncomfortable feeling is taken away in an instant.

"It's like a blessing from the gods."

It's like magic that can bring happiness.

Therefore, after his mother accidentally cut her finger with a kitchen knife, Yongzi sang the ballad without hesitation, and made a wish of "I hope my mother's wound gets better".

In normal times, Yongzi consciously avoids others and uses his personality.But there are only mother, father and herself in the family, so she didn't deliberately avoid it.

- Then, a miracle happened.

The girl's eyes glowed with a faint golden light, and she sang a song in an unknown language with a childish voice—in the blink of an eye, the small bleeding wound on her hand disappeared.

This is the personality of Tsukito Eiko.

"desire"

——Also, the source of all misfortunes.

Father spoke with an excited expression that he had never seen before, and an excited voice that Eiko had never heard before.

"Yongzi... that just now, is it your personality?"

But Yuetui Koizumi is very familiar with it.

That was the excited expression that the other party would only show when they got a good result in gambling.

That's for gamblers, ecstasy.

The author has something to say:

Uh, I suddenly ate a mouthful of melon with a slightly confusing taste.

The author's behavior of carrying private goods made me feel a little uncomfortable...but the discomfort belongs to the discomfort, my fake products are still there【. ] But it certainly won't be true.

When the main text of Bamboo and Knife next door is finished, I may finish this side of the main text by the way, but the branch line will drop from time to time——

I am very grateful to the readers who did not give up, but I climbed the wall like a blink of an eye, and ran ruthlessly【………】