
Maria angry. Grasping his phone, he immediately walked out of his school.
His comrades looked over from the second-floor window, seeing the short-haired girl running quickly out of the fence. Even though that time just rang a bell sign of rest and left behind the provision of Maria still tied at their table who was planning to have lunch together.
Later that afternoon, Maria had to meet the teacher where her sister Keiichi was studying, Reitaku High School, which is next to the fence with the building where Maria studied.
Keiichi has messed up so many times, and always for the same reason: Keiichi broke up when he was angry and always ended in violence. And coming to the teacher's office, what Maria saw was none other than Keiichi's bonyok face and his already torn collar. Next to him were his similarly battered, two-man classmates, and it looked as if they had just ganged on Keiichi.
"I'm sorry!"
Maria holds Keiichi's head, forcing him to bow to the teacher as well as his classmates. The homeroom teacher, Serizawa's mother, who had grown used to Keiichi's actions now with a worried face several times wiped the sweat off her head.
"You know Keiichi, you've been troubling your brother back and forth because none of your guardians have been able to come here... And the reason I haven't been punishing you so far is because of your good grades, I know you're not a punk, you still have hope"
"They!!" Keiichi pointed to his classmates, "They are all that ***! Those who started encouraged me and despised our family! And they may despise me, but I will not be silent if they despise my family, despise my brother!"
"Keyichi!"
Maria screams and Keiichi's smoldering eyes are instantly extinguished. The teacher breathed.
"Pardon us Master Ma'am, after this Keiichi will no longer-"
"Look... You've said that many times, and also our duty as teachers is not only to guide, but also to protect our students. You know, not just these two guys, but there's one friend who broke his arm from Keiichi?"
"Keyichi! You!!"
"Of course I know enough as his teacher, Keiichi was unable to contain his anger from what we concluded after the counseling guidance all along, and we didn't know how to guide Keiichi because the same thing happened. Parents wouldn't be happy if I took Keiichi off, too much has happened."
After the words between them came a momentary silence, Maria and Keiichi knew that they would not gain any respite this time, until the teacher broke the silence by clearing a deep thud.
"Well, Maria, Keichi's sister, I asked you a question and asked you to ask your guardian to consider Keiichi finding psychiatric treatment, and if not, if not, I hope Keiichi should be prepared to endure the 2-month suspension, the parents of the victim requested."
"Two months?"
Keiichi was silent, but Maria knew two months was enough to make Keiichi miss a lesson, it was the same as not raising Keiichi.
"Therefore, if Keiichi upon the consent of the guardian decides on the first option, I can plead with the parents of Keiichi's friend who broke his hand not to demand things that are capable of harming Keiichi's future..."
"Good..." Mary spoke to the teacher's mother, "I'll consult with Grandma."
"good. Well, Keiichi."
Keiichi looked at his homeroom teacher, his eyes cynical full of hatred. Mrs Serizawa thinks she knows enough about her situation, but she never cares. Not once did he see firsthand the treatment of his friends towards him, but the teacher did not allow it. At times like these Mother Master Serizawa just blamed her.
"I know you're not the one who started it, but you're the one who did the most damage. If you don't learn from this, you won't be able to get into society. You should know, we teachers care about you."
Nonsense, Keiichi thought. If only the elder brother's hand no longer forced him to bow respectfully, he wouldn't do it to his teacher, let alone to his damn friends. But Keiichi did it anyway, and afterwards they were allowed to go outside. When she got outside, Maria pinned Keiichi's head.
"Keyichi..."
Mary looked angry, a little bit of her tears coming out.
"Can't you do it because of it."
"Sister, but-"
"They who make-"
"Can you just shut up this time and listen to what you said!!!"
Maria shouted, making the people around shocked and started to look at the two of them.
"Silver is the same."
"What's? What did you say?"
"Son't you son of a bitch like all of them!"
Keiichi ran in the hallway, yelled at the passing teacher he didn't care. Maria is still crying. He felt he could do nothing to his sister.
***
Keiichi's head is always bleeding.
Ever since small, the head was always on someone's face.
He reacted so quickly that there were people who mocked his late mother.
"Where is your mother Keiichi? Ah, your mother doesn't care about you!"
One hand punched the stomach.
"Keiichi your father left you because he was ashamed to have a son like you."
One hand punching mouth.
But the first thing he punched was the foot of the police at his house.
Keiichi was in the 5th grade of elementary school. When he had just returned home from school, he saw a pale corpse hanging in the living room.
Keiichi's mother committed suicide by hanging her neck on her home fan. His face had paled with flies beginning to gather.
It was the first time Keiichi looked at the appearance of death, and he did not overreact, a little pale from the shock of floating legs. At that time death was so foreign in his mind, he did not really understand it, and slowly Keiichi had walked into the small space.
Keiichi did not call the police or do anything for his mother, instead he went to the dining room, ate rice and leftovers this morning that had not been cleaned. Then he watched television, a series of black steel knights that aired the afternoon after school, turning his back on the mother's corpse until Maria came after her archery club activities and then shouted full of horror.
"Mother! Ibuuu!!"
"Sister."
"Keyichi? Oh Keiichi's..."
Maria hugged Keiichi for a moment, and was astonished to see Keiichi watching television. But he did not have time to think strangely, immediately Maria called grandma, before he finally remembered the foreign police phone number in his head.
The police came shortly. Maria was still crying hugging Keiichi who was still flat on her face saying nothing.
The policeman with the medical party came to try to lower the stiff mother's body, until Keiichi broke from Maria's embrace.
"You want to do what Mom!"
Only then did Keiichi look so horrible with burning eyes, his countenance like a demon. He made a fist, ran to beat the foot of the police officer who was on the chair trying to lower his mother who then lost her balance and fell.
"Keyichi!"
Maria tries to pull Keiichi, and she sees Keiichi's sinister face turned out to be an expression of fear.
"They're taking me where! Mother still... Mom's still..."
In Keiichi's head his mother is still alive. His mother, who was always lethargic, lay at the end of the room, staring at the television blankly, running fast when the phone rang thinking about the news of the father who was going abroad carrying family assets for investment and was not heard from again. He had been pale all along before he hung up. She was once a mother all along according to Keiichi.
"Mom is dead!"
"Mother be-"
"Keiichi listen brother, I've already!!"
"Nooo!!!"
Keiichi galloped out of the house crying, penetrated the police guard outside, and continued to run in an uncertain direction.
That day, Grandma and Maria search for Keiichi who disappeared until dawn. Maria screamed in tears in the middle of the city, which was crowded with neon lights, tiered humans, and tattooed strangers who looked scary. Her legs were tired, and the grandmother who was with her decided to force her back, telling close relatives to continue the search. Keiichi was lost at night.
Maria cried all night in Grandma's arms until she fell asleep in a feeling so empty and afraid to be left alone.
The next day, when the ceremony and the procession of the dead body was carried out, Keiichi came home with his body very dirty. Maria in her all-black clothes immediately hugged Keiichi. "I'm sorry big brother, I'm sorry..."
And Keiichi said with a sobbing cry,
"Adek will take care of brother... We'll always be together, unlike Mom and Dad, Adek won't stay with you..."
***
The school bell rings a sign home. Mary her eyes were still black wet after crying. His friends approached Maria, one of whom was a blonde girl with mature brown skin named Maya, saying to her "You should occasionally not care about your sister."
"He needs my help."
"No, not always. You're Maria High School girl! And your lifetime is just filled with your sister. You can play, not go home to prepare a meal, your sister will be able to do it. You should be dating, not accompanying your sister on her free time and so on. Ah, yes, I'm with us!"
Although they differ, Maria always feels relaxed hearing the words of her friend Maya. Although clearly Maya is not a child who can be called 'good children' in the stereotype of the teachers because they often ditch and act, she is a friend who always accompanied her when she was a child, even the times when it was left by her father to her mother and the worst conditions Maria had ever experienced were always Maya next door. His carefree and always optimistic attitude seemed to always motivate Maria to keep the spirit of life. Hearing Maya say this to him, Maria was unable to resist.
"Yes right," said another friend, "You can go crazy if every day is just like this."
In Mary's head, she was also still upset with her sister who mocked her as a "***" after what she had done to her. Maybe there's a point, just once, he'll leave his sister alone.
Previously, he or Keiichi would have waited in front of each other's gates. But Maria doubts that Keiichi who just pulled out of his school will be waiting for him now, and surely, as usual Keiichi will be home late because of the snack. And finally Maria nodded.
"Yes! Maria wants to go with Karaoke!!"
His friends cheered, even one of Maria's favorite men, Ryosuke, a school baseball captain cheered together as well. Maria blushed in embarrassment as Ryosuke held her hand casually, trying to convince her.
"Just forget your sister, you should play with us once."
And little did Maria forget about her sister's troubles. Little, she felt like she was a high school girl as usual.
***
It's 5 o'clock.
Keiichi waited at the gate, but Mary did not come. He wanted to apologize and felt his words were outrageous towards his brother. He had vowed not to hurt his brother, but he always did. Really don't know yourself, don't know it's lucky! Thought Keiichi.
It's been 20 minutes. Is my sister having business with her teacher? Thought Keiichi.
Before long he looked at the end of the road, suddenly there was a strange appearance. A little yellow-haired girl, using a bandage that covered her face with blood-red flashing around her lips. The face was so familiar, Keiichi tried to remember it, until suddenly a hand held onto Keiichi's shoulder.
"Oi, Keiichi."
There was a heavy, angry voice, a familiar voice to Keiichi.
***
Returning home from karaoke, Maria eats taiyaki with her friends.
"Said what! Maria's voice is good, isn't it?"
"Hey, hey, are you going to the photo together?" One pointed to the photo booth.
Maria still blushed embarrassedly not saying anything next to Ryosuke who looked so eager to invite him to play. But at once he felt a bad feeling, and soon Mary saw the clock.
"Friends, I think I'm going back."
"Ahhh, don't shout Maria!"
"I have to cook, my sister..."
"Your sister can make her own meals, believe me, not your time caring for your sister like mothers do."
And Ryosuke held Maria's hand.
"How about taking a photo together? I'll take you home on my bike."
Maria almost nodded at him, until the sound of her phone rang. Grandma's number.
Maria lifted him up, and suddenly her eyes opened wide. One hand covered his mouth. Time seemed slow, and his eyes darkened. His friends slowly disappeared. And what he knew was that he who was running so fast didn't care about anything. In the back, Ryosuke and Maya follow the strange behavior of his friend leaving his other friends behind.
Before long, Ryosuke and Maya hear a loud scream near their school. They knew it was Maria's voice and immediately frantically headed towards the source of the shout.
"Oh my god, Mary..."
There they saw blood spilling on the road, a dented truck, and a crushed body. The broken head took out its contents, its body twisted, its hand broke limp in an awkward angle. And on the bench of that terrible corpse by Mary who hugged him so tightly, her head fumbled over the already cold and blood-filled body smelling fishy.
Officers tried to calm Maria down, they wanted to finish the task immediately, but Maria was like a madman slapping their hands, as well as her friends. "Don't touch you shit! Keichi!! Keiichi wake!!"
"Mary..." Maya cries to see the tragic state of Mary.
And knowing Keiichi did not answer, Maria once again cried out a scream, the cry made the hearts of her listeners crumble, a cry that seemed like a mother who lost a child that was very dear to her.
"You promised not to leave me Keiichi..."
"You promised..."
Said softly, then shortly Mary was unconscious.
***
Keiichi wakes up in a white room.
He looked left and right, there was nothing around him, until suddenly a mysterious woman in a white dress was in front of him, startling him.
"Keiichi, welcome!"
The voice boomed through the room, almost breaking Keiichi's eardrum.
"You, Keiichi, I beg you to do something for me..."
"Huh...?"
At that time, Keiichi had known that he was not in the same world.