Volume 3 Chapter 15.28 - Extra 1.1 (1/2)

Volume 3 Extra 1.1

Translator: Reflet

Editor: Weasalopes

Extra・People Involved In a Certain Incident and What Became of Them

Warning：This topic may contain content that causes some people to experience discomfort.

This will not affect the main story in any way, so anyone concerned can feel free to not read this particular section.

１．A Certain Public Senior High School Third Year・The Case of Matsushima Yukari（former female classmate）

I will most likely have to shoulder these regrets for the rest of my life.

「Yukari, let’s go home.」

「Wait a sec. I gotta write an entry.」

「Kay.」

I wrote in the class duty journal as I had my friend, Kono Shiho (same middle school) wait for me. This was your average school, with scholarly ability on the low side but no particular breaches in discipline or anything like that. This was quite recent after the new school year had begun, and as you would imagine, there aren’t usually incidents that occur around this time to write about.

「But wow, same thing as always, eh?」

「It ain’t like I wanna do this, mkay. The other two classes might get away wit it, but us third years gotta keep up appearances.」

「Yeah, but don’tcha think it’s ‘bout time we had one or two people who don’t try ‘n hang us for what we did in middle school?」

「I’m sure that Azuma-kun wanted to say the same thing at the time.」

It had been three whole years since that event. The incident in question had finally begun to die down in the eyes of the public, but our generation was not done with its punishment. We had barely begun our third year, but by that point, any sort of chance at human relations was hopeless, and there was no indication that the environment would be changing anytime soon. After all, when we advanced to this school, the effects of the incident were still thick in the air, completely isolating any and all girls from that specific middle school. Us fellow girls had to band together in our own little group. The boys from the same middle school were better off, since some of them at least tried to stop the incident, but even they were not seen very favorably.

Several scandals emerged after that as well. The school already lacked students due to the aging population, and this only served to ensure the closing of the school. Various circumstances had resulted in several students being the last students to enroll at said middle school this year. The underclassmen one year behind us were already not well off, but then you had the new students enrolling this year or the students coming in next year, still completely dragged into the mix of people to avoid. This was the gravity of what we had caused, and we truly felt that. The confidentiality was essentially zero at this point, yet even the juniors behind us had to take on the penalty. We felt seriously awful about all this.

「Hey, at least I tried to stop the other classmates.」

「Yup. So you got more leverage, but me ‘n Saki can’t say nothin’ even if we wanted to.」

「Saki’s one thing, but Yukari, they gotta forgive ya at some point, I think……」

「One person broke him to such a degree, ya can’t expect forgiveness for that.」

That’s right. I broke one boy to a fatal degree. I wasn’t the principal offender; I wasn’t even an accomplice, but I was in a position to stop the incident from happening, yet I did nothing. I lightly brushed it off, thinking it to be the same pattern as usual, and didn’t see it as going beyond that. If I had actually been paying attention, I would have recognized that this was not only beyond the boy’s usual treatment, but it was just pure violence. Even a child could understand that much.