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Is it disconcerting? If anything, I would say that it’s comedy.

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I’m so happy that I don’t know what to say.

Why are days you want to avoid always arrive earlier mercilessly? Days that I am excited about would feel delayed instead. This is totally unreasonable.

I stared out the window, listening to the train that was moving along, waiting to reach my destination.

The sharp readers might have made an educated guess, but let me explain it for those that haven’t caught on.

Today is the the photoshoot day for the poster modeling.

‘Haaa…’ I sighed loudly inside my heart.

Nooo, I don’t want to go…

But despite my plight, I have to keep my promise. Moreso when money is involved in it.

Besides, that would trouble a lot of people, most especially, Sakaki-san, the person that I promised. The matter this time is just too big to be ditched willy-nilly.

Well, if it is a promise with Shin, then I usually just break it…

Sometimes, Shin would bring me to weird places. To name a few, a haunted house, a giant maze, and so on. Shin would always take me along to places he is interested in, and then I would join him out of curiosity, but then I would always suffer a painful experience.

For example, back in the haunted house, Shin would leave me behind, and then I would slumped down on the floor, weak in the knees, overwhelmed by the fear and loneliness. A staff that played as a ghost piggyback me out of the place¹.

And then another example, back in the giant maze, I was separated from Shin and ended up walking alone and lost for 3 hours. I was still lost by the closing time and a staff had to guide me out².

Muuu, now that I think about it, every time he invites me out, it feels like he would overlook all my troubles. Next time, I’m definitely going to complain to him.

…Haa, that’s enough for now.

Now is not the time to be distracted. I am a model for the photoshoot later. Maybe, they will put a makeup and breast pads on me. And then, I will wear ladies’ clothing and make various poses towards the camera.

“Haa…” I sighed.

This weights heavily in my mind. I don’t know if I’m up to the task, and I have always been bad at having my pictures taken.

Compared to me, Karen and Sakura-chan would be a better choice.

Regardless of my opinion, I have taken on the job, so I have to go through with it until the end.

However, it still weights heavily in my mind, my heart is being clouded with dark clouds.

Yet, the weather was awfully very clear. Summer was approaching, so walking outside would inevitably make you sweat.

It’s not as unpleasant in the train thanks to the air conditioning, but the thought of needing to walk out into the heat dampen my mood.

Despite it being a holiday, the train was still quite populated. There were a few families going out and a few salarymen reporting to work in holidays. And then, there’s a young man heading towards the city center, and an old man dozing off in the train. I wouldn’t say that it’s full, but there’s still quite a lot of people. There are at least less than 30 centimeter gap between each person. It is a little packed, but it’s still better than the sweltering heat outside.

That said, the trains inside the city are more packed.

While I was distracting myself from the reality that the people from the city center got it worse, suddenly something hit my buttock.

There are a lot of people, so it must be just a bag.

It looks like that in the city center, a little touching would immediately trigger an accusation of a molester. How scary. To make matter worse, there are also people who would accuse others of being a molester, and then extort them. The city is really scary.

I ignore the thing that’s touching my buttock, and when the train shook, the thing also moved.

So it’s a bag or something. Well, of course. No matter how you look at me, I’m just a country boy.

Using my experience from the time when I was changing for gym back then, I have put some mind into today’s clothes.

I was not wearing the clothes from Shin’s Onee-san that I usually wear, but instead a baggy gray jersey, a pair of pants, and a shoulder bag.

What do you think of this bumpkin aura! No way anyone is going to mistake me for a girl like this!³ Fufufu! Even I grow and learn new things every day!

I held myself from guffawing. I wonder if is anyone looking at me strangely since I held myself back so much that I was trembling?

As I was thinking that, I was suddenly jerked to someone’s body, and with a pomf, something soft hit my face. Sweat scent stimulated my nose.

“What are you doing! You pervert!!”

“–Fue!?”

I was befuddled from the sudden bellowing loud voice.

W- wait! That was an involuntary force, I didn’t mean it, I just lost my balance…!!

That pervert must be referring to me, and the angry girl must be the girl I just bumped into.

I wanted to apologize immediately, but being at my wits’ end, what came out was simply ‘Au au’.

I then tried to run away, but someone held me from behind tightly.

“You, aren’t you ashamed, molesting such a sweet girl!?”

‘I’m sorry! It wasn’t on purpose! I just lost my balance! …Maybe.’ I wanted to explain, but the stern visage that was bearing down on me kept me quiet.

“Do you even think about the feelings of someone you are molesting!? Do you know that the receiving side is so scared that she is speechless!?”

‘I’m really sorry! I know that being a molester is bad! However, it wasn’t on purpose!’ so I thought, but that was yet another thought to be swallowed.

“She’s even shivering this much… what a poor thing. You! Are you even aware that you are the lowest of a human being!?”

‘Aah, soowrrry! It wasn’t on puurpose…! Please at least, at least let me explaiiiin~~!’

However, the grip was instead getting stronger.

‘Aah… my life ends here…’

I can’t explain myself, there’s no evidence that I didn’t molest her either⁴.

I felt remorseful that I would die here.

Otou-san, Okaa-san, Karen, I’m sorry. It looks like this is as far I can go.

At the very least, let me be graced with a reduction in my punishment. Even as I was contemplating my life like that, the girl only utter a sentence of disdain that originated from her heart.

“You’re the worst!! Uncle, are you even aware you’re an adult!?”

I’m soowry… this uncle is guilty… N, uncle?

Only now did it struck me that the situation may not be what I thought it was.

“I, I did nothing! A, a pervert… that’s slander!”

Behind me, I heard a middle-aged man furiously said so.

N? No way, was the molester not me?

“Don’t play innocent! Don’t you wash that hand! I saw you groping this girl’s buttock! If we found strands of fabric from her clothes, then that’s the end for you!” said the woman confidently, even after being threatened.

“Khuu…!” grunted the man after hearing that.

And coincidentally, the train arrived at the station. I heard the air being sucked out of the door as it opened.

“Ah, wait!!” said the woman in a hurry.

However, a few seconds later, you can hear the man yelled “Guaa!” in agony.

“Hey, don’t run!”

“Since you’re running, do you confess having molested her?” said another man that I have not heard before. From this, I understood that another passenger has caught the molester.

I also noticed that I have sighed out of relief.

And so, I was let go, and I finally can take a look around.

“Are you okay? It must be scary.” she patted my shoulder and caressed my face gently.

That woman has beautiful blond hair. She’s wearing a sunglasses, so I don’t know what her face looks like, but I can easily imagine her to be a beautiful girl. Her clothes are also stylish, and she exude a unique aura. That’s it, an aura similar to Shin’s.

“You must be scared, it’s okay now?⁵”

“You’re shivering so much, a poor thing…”

“Can I take you to your parents? If they can’t be reached, is there another person you can rely on?”

The woman in front of me didn’t notice, but around me, women of various age have gathered around me, everyone looked worried and spoke out to me.

However, the appearance of the person in front of me and the women around me didn’t matter now. What mattered to me was but one thing.

“Uum, was he molesting me?⁶”

“Eh, you didn’t notice? He was groping your buttock to his heart’s content, you know?”

“Uum, I did wonder what I was feeling, but… I didn’t think I was being molested…”

After I said that, she looked a little serious and angry.

“I won’t berate you, but if you feel like your buttock is being touched, check immediately. You are a girl, so be more sensitive to danger, get it? You see, a molester targets a seemingly meek girl. Stop going out like that too, be more stylish–”

“W- wait a minute!”

I feel like it will be a little long, so I yelled a little to cut her off.

“N, what is it?”

Being suddenly cut off, she got confused, and other people were looking at me.

I feel very awkward being surrounded like this, but I want to correct a misunderstanding. I really would have like it that I heard it wrong, but I really want to confirm it.

I, after gathering a little courage, said, “U, um, I think there’s a misunderstanding…”

“Misunderstanding?”

My word didn’t just turn her head, but also others’.

“Aah, do you know that man? Was it some kind of play? If that’s the case, then I can’t condone it. It causes misunderstanding, and it would cause uproar like this.⁷” she said admonishingly, and I panickly tried to correct her.

“T-that’s not it! I wasn’t playing with him! That’s not it! That was the first time we met!”

“Then, what is the misunderstanding?” she said, completely clueless as to what I was referring to. It’s very hard to say out, but I eventually said it, “Um, I’m a boy. I think, there’s no need for this uproar if the uncle really did grope my buttock…”

“………………Eh, can you say that again?”

In an instant, not just her, but everyone around us also stopped as if petrified. However, only she recovered from it immediately. She wanted to confirm it one more time.

“Um, as I said… I’m, a boy…” losing my nerves, I looked away in the middle of my sentence.

“…Who is the boy?”

“I.”

“You are?”

“A boy, yes.”

“A boy, yes? ……I’m sorry, can you repeat that again?” she said, while massaged her temple with one hand as if she’s having a headache.

It’s a little embarrassing, but I raised my voice and said, “Um, I am, a boy!!”

“That’s impossible!!”

I shouted with all my might, which were quickly drowned with her own pretty shout, and then, a few moments later, others who were in the train also cried out in amazement.

Anyway, the train won’t stop forever, and my stop was coincidentally also in here, so I stepped down from the train. At this time, everyone was staring eyes wide, in astonishment, seeing me off. It was really scary.

However, even if I’m a boy, that doesn’t change the fact that I have been molested. Two young men who were holding the uncle and the blond woman also stepped off the train.

I spoke with both the train station attendant and police, and as a result, since I have no intention of raising a complaint, no further action was taken.

To be honest, this person should be arrested for the sake of women in this world, but the one molested was a boy, so I pitied him, and so didn’t raise a complaint.

Well, my another reason was that the promised meet up time with Sakaki-san was approaching. I can’t let my circumstances delay, or even cancel the shoot.

After deciding that, I’m glad that I left home early today. I would barely make it, but that doesn’t count as being late. Besides, Sakaki-san would understand if I explain it.

Despite that, I can’t leisurely walk anymore.

I want to repay the two young men who caught the oji-san at another day, so I went to exchange contact information with them, but it turns out that they go to the same high school as I do. And so, I decided to bring my thank-you gift to school later. Both of them are my senpai. Being one grade lower, it would be embarrassing, but I want to work up my courage to show my gratitude towards them.

Anyhow, after I told them that I will definitely repay them in the future, I briskly walked, leaving the station—although strangely, the blond woman also followed me.

I looked at her face while bending my head slightly to one side, looking slightly confused. Are we going to the same place?

When she noticed my doubtful look, she showed me a beautiful smile and said, “Even if you are a boy, you have only just been molested. Today is my day off, so let me walk together with you until you reach your destination.”

“Eh, it’s okay, you know? Not to mention that it’s not near yet.”

“It’s fine, I’m just doing what I want. You don’t have to mind me, okay?”

“O, okay…”

“What a half-hearted reply. You won’t be able to answer like that to me once you know who I am, you know?⁸”

I looked confused towards her who have said this full of confidence.

It looks like my respond amused her, as she chuckled to herself.

“Alright, rather than that, let’s go.”

“Ah, okay.”

Accompanied by a woman who was a little humored, I walked towards the place I have an appointment at.

1. Richie: I used future tense deliberately even though this is describing a past event because I feel like this is a prediction of the future. Not the staff though, the staff might not do that next time.
2. Richie: And this one is in present perfect and past perfect because I feel like Kurona wouldn’t get lost in the same maze this badly twice.
3. Richie: Famous last words.
4. Richie: The burden of proof falls on her though.
5. I know it isn’t a question, and I’m sure the author knows this too, but the author used this symbol possibly to signal an interrogative infliction, not actually asking, and so I just copied it.
6. Richie: Kurona has a habit of denying that bad things happen.
7. Richie: Can people in Japan really do this if supposedly, everyone knows that those two are consenting and just playing? I feel like that there must be some decency-related law.
8. Richie: You sure about that?

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