Sente Eiji's Black Friday

Tsugaru is the only place of light left in Dazai Osamu's life, and it is also the place of sorrow that he never dared to touch again.

Eleven years ago, he met the love of his life there prematurely, and lost him prematurely. Since then, he has completely despaired of the world.

At that time, he was still 【Shuji Tsushima】.

11 years ago, Tsugaru.

In early spring, Shuji Tsushima stepped on the crooked-neck tree in his small courtyard, leaned on the fence and looked out.

As one of the most wealthy landlords and wealthy families in the neighborhood, Tsushima House has walls that stretch beyond the horizon, but because the courtyard he lives in happens to be located in a remote corner, Xiuzhi was lucky enough to see a different scenery from the uniform white and gray walls.

——Outside his courtyard is a path leading to the shopping street.

Seven-year-old Xiuzhi's favorite thing to do is to look at the outside world through the narrow shopping street.

That day, he saw a little toddler being held by his father and bought a lollipop at the stall just facing the path.

What does it taste like?

The boy with fluffy black curly hair looked at them quietly and obediently, with a dull, faint light in his deciduous eyes.

That is the longing for the outside world, and the unspeakable loneliness.

Brothers will come to bully him again today.Although he could play them around, but after that, he beat them harder and harder.

The miscellaneous Xiaoji said that he was willing to do anything for himself, but when his elder brother beat him, he immediately dared not say a word.

Last night, Ji Zi came to secretly cover him with a quilt.He remembered that when she first came here, she just liked to stare at him and praise him, but later she wanted to touch his head, kiss his cheek and neck while bathing him, and finally last night...

Thinking of last night, the boy suddenly lost interest in looking at the hustle and bustle of people, and curled up on the tree branch with chills all over his body.

...Why did Kiko unbutton his pajamas last night?

"Master Xiuzhi—"

The calling of the woman who happened to be thinking came from under the tree.

The call was too soft, with disgusting, sticky sweetness and happiness. Accompanied by the sound of the courtyard door being locked heavily, it created a chilling echo in the space where only the two of them were left.

"Really, where did you go again, Master Xiuzhi—"

The trembling footsteps of the maid covered by the hem of the clothes mopping the floor made Xiuzhi so afraid, and the "hissing" like snakes slowly entering and exiting the yard, the doting, fiery and longing in the voice made people sick.

"Don't be naughty, come out and play, Ji Zi will always, always patiently play with you..."

"Master Xiuzhi—"

Don't, don't, don't.

Don't want Ji Zi to play with him, she will only touch him excitedly with those cold hands that are as slippery as snakes, slowly stretch them into his collar, and eagerly press her bitter lips against his. skin, holding him tightly in her suffocating embrace...

——That's not playing! !

The immature but over-intelligent boy hugged himself and screamed in his heart, feeling infinite fear of the huge black shadow-like adult hovering under the tree.

Don't look at me, don't touch me, don't love me.

Help me, no matter who...

Why didn't his father like him?Why didn't the brothers believe him?Why did the servants play with him like this?

Shuji Tsushima called the place where he lived a birdcage.

He can't get out.He is in pain.He is not happy.

Days like this continued until that day.

【"Good day, Master Xiuzhi."】

Xiaoji was found stealing snacks in the kitchen, and the blue-eyed boy who replaced him appeared in the bright sunshine after the rain, but his smile was brighter than the sun.

He was wearing the same simple clothes as Xiao Ji, but Xiu Zhi knew for the first time that the same clothes could be so neat and straight when worn by someone else, exuding the fragrance of vine flowers dried in the sun, so fragrant and warm.

The boy was not in a hurry when he didn't get a response from the boy. He just glanced at Kiko, who was kneeling at the side, almost half of his body blocking Xiuzhi. A lollipop.

It was the lollipop that Xiu Zhi had longed for, exactly like the child that day.

【"I am Eiji Tsushima. From today onwards, I will be your exclusive servant!"】

Under the dazed gaze of the boy who finally had a reaction, the young man was like a ray of dazzling sunshine, giving light to those withered eyes for the first time.

It's a pity that there are always poisonous snakes trying to spoil the happy moments.

【"Dirty things bought outside, how can the noble and pure young master Xiuzhi taste them?"】

Ji Zi's gentle but indifferent voice sounded, and he casually assumed the posture of a senior and a housekeeper, reaching out to take the lollipop.

At that moment, the boy clearly saw the dimmed candlelight flickering in the boy's eyes.

【"That restaurant is a well-known signboard, and Master Xiuzhi obviously wants to eat it very much."】So he made an innocent and willful gesture, raised his arms and easily avoided the woman's hand, and slowly raised his eyes It seems to contain the deep sea.

【"Besides, if I'm not wrong, you are just a maid with no surname. As a servant specially assigned to Master Xiuzhi, I don't need to ask for your permission if I want the master to eat something, Ou Ba Sang ?”]

【"——!"】

Ji Zi froze for an unknown reason, then turned pale without warning, retreated and fell to the ground in shock and uncertainty: 【"You...you...!"】

The boy pointed at by her ignored her, but took the opportunity to grab Xiu Zhi's shoulders, and thrust the lollipop into his mouth with a smile and affection, and winked at him mischievously: [" Eat quickly, Master Xiuzhi! You can say what you want, so that no one can do anything to you!"]

The little Xiuzhi was stunned by the accident in front of him. He opened his round eyes like a cat, looked at the boy's smile, then at the boy's arm as if protecting him, and finally at the frightened Ji son.

That was the first time he realized that Kiko, who was in charge of everything around him, was actually so short in height, and the boy who came to him on the first day was not at all different from others.

As if the sun broke through the dark clouds, the suddenly enlightened child subconsciously licked the candy in his mouth, and tasted the sweetness that he had never tasted in his life so far.

For a boy who is far beyond the intelligence of the world, it only takes one sentence to correct his cognition, but it takes a lot of time and patience to gain his trust and calm his fear.

However, under the premise that there are ghastly beasts coveting him and whose desires can never be satisfied, another person who finally appeared in his life will inevitably become the object that the little animal seeks for help in a panic.

【"...I want to take a bath with Eiji today."】

On the night of Eiji's arrival, the skinny boy sat alone on the tatami for a long while, then suddenly lowered his head and said such words.

Ji Zi's reaction was like being punched out of thin air, her eyes flashed with rage like being trampled on a forbidden place, and then she quickly filled with tears, crying uncontrollably, asking if Master Xiuzhi was tired of her, Is there something she didn't do well? If it's because of the lollipop during the day, she can buy more for the children in the future.

But didn't she still say that it was a dirty thing outside during the day?

Xiu Zhi didn't believe her words at all, he expressed his resistance and persistence with silence, finally got some light in his eyes, looked at Tsushima Eiji cautiously and beggingly, with a pair of small hands seemingly stable on his lap , but the fingertips like white jade beads were trembling slightly.

He mustered up all his courage to make this request. He was not sure whether Tsushima Eiji would agree, but he sincerely hoped that he would give an affirmative answer.

【"But isn't Master Xiuzhi already seven years old? Can't he take a bath by himself?"】

Finally, Tsushima Eiji looked at this and that, and spoke carelessly with unbelievably rough nerves.

Xiuzhi suddenly clenched his little palm tightly. Although he didn't achieve the expected goal, this answer is another way for him, but the most important point is...

The boy eagerly leaned forward, stared at him and said anxiously: "Then, can you wait here until I finish washing..."]

However, before he had the courage to finish the second half of the sentence "Don't let Ji Zi into the bathroom", the woman who had been silent all this time suddenly said: "This is how you lied today, Master Xiuzhi."]

As soon as these words came out, Shuji Tsushima froze as if frozen.

He was cold all over, his eyes were red uncontrollably, helplessness, struggle and a trace of disgust submerged him like a tide.

"Master Shuji likes to tell lies" is the maid Noriko who has been serving the Tsushima family since she was a child. The communication was subdued, so that the entire Tsushima family unknowingly recognized the fact.

Because everyone has already believed that he likes to lie, so when Xiu Zhi realized this, it was too late to think about anything else.

In the limited time he can see his family, no one will believe what he says, and no matter how much he accuses Noriko, she will not be punished, but will only make everyone hate him time and time again, and even move him to this In a remote courtyard.

Ji Zi was the only maid who came to take care of him among the servants.Others say that Ji Zi is loyal and kind-hearted, but Xiu Zhi only feels fear and helplessness from the bottom of his heart.

When Ji Zi didn't move here, Ji Zi didn't dare to show it openly, and when she was the only one close to him, wouldn't it be...!

Xiu Zhi's conjecture came true.

The intimacy that Kiko commits below is becoming more and more excessive and disgusting day by day, and even starts to hurt him.Her approach, her body temperature, her smell, everything was like a slug in the sewer, so disgusting that he wanted to run away screaming.

He began to hate pain, hate exposing his body to the air, hate the clinging sight and suffocating love, and even hate being called by her name...

I want to die.

Shuji Tsushima is seven years old this year, and he is already fantasizing about whether death is the only way to free himself.

But he still wants to live.He still wanted to be rescued.He frantically struggled in the mud, begging for a ray of light above his head to bring him back to the world.

The arrival of a boy named Eiji made him think that he finally had that beam of light.

——Until Kiko brought up the excuse of "lying" again.

At that moment, the dark and hopeless past, where no one would believe his past, caught up with Xiu Zhi, submerging the glimmer of hope he finally rekindled in the bottomless darkness.

The woman hugged the boy who gave up resistance like a broken doll with a gentle smile, and even sighed helplessly.

【"The young master is a bad boy who doesn't like to take a bath. He will make up a lot of lies in order not to take a bath, and there are many tricks to escape when taking a bath. Yinger-kun, I'm afraid you don't know about these on the first day, so I'd better tell you give it to me."】

wrong!She was lying, she was lying!is her--! !

The inner self collapsed and screamed, but the real Xiuzhi just lowered his head with empty and barren eyes, like a walking dead who lost his soul, and remained silent from beginning to end.

I want to die.

The person holding himself is walking towards the bathroom.

I want to die.

The waterproof shoji door slowly closed before his eyes.

I want to die.

A huge shadow enveloped his thin body, and cold, snake-like slippery hands reached out to his trembling body.

I really want to die, I really want to die, I really want to die——

"——what are you doing, Miss Kiko?"

When the suffocating darkness was about to pass over his head, a depressive and calm question sounded like the sound of heaven.

Xiu Zhi, who shrank into a ball, reacted for a while, and finally raised his head in shock amidst the heart-piercing screams, and looked in astonishment at the woman lying limp on the ground with her mouth blocked, and the boy standing at the door with her arms twisted.

Shuji Tsushima could never forget that scene in his life.The 15-year-old boy's deep sea-like eyes are filled with an astonishing sense of oppression, his eyes looking down at the woman are so cold that they are not human, his soft voice is as cold as cold brew, and his figure is as tall as a god.

"Can't you see that kid is scared, scum?"

He asked with no emotion in this way, and slowly exerted force on his hands, making the woman's arms folded in half to make a "click".

"Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuh!"

The woman squirmed on the ground like a pool of fat.

Her mouth was blocked by a towel, and she could only let out a creepy moan.Xiu Zhi didn't know how much she was in pain, but at that moment, he was very bad... he could only feel extremely relaxed.

It was like the dark clouds in his heart were all dispelled by the young man who suddenly broke into his life, and a light that he never imagined was shot into.