Re; Sekai
Episodes 3.3
At school, there was talk of Keiichi coming back to life, many skeptical until the crowd filled the windows. They were not so sure, but clearly the short boy who was as tall as his athletic older brother's shoulder was seen apparently in front of the gate.
One by one Keiichi's classmates started to get crowded with curiosity except for the class president, Kasumi, who was now preparing a bouquet of flowers to decorate Keiichi's desk.
He was angry after hearing friends make rumors that seem joking that he considered not funny.
They clearly did not see Keiichi's body directly, no one even wanted to accompany him when he had to visit, and now they just dared to say a no-no. Kasumi ignored the stupid crowd and prepared a vase she had brought from home.
Kasumi then went to the bathroom to fetch water for her vase, and when she returned, she saw a crowd in front of her.
Prangs!!
Broke the vase apart from her hand, but none of her eyes were drawn to the loud enough sound.
“Keiichi..”.
Kasumi looked up in disbelief at what she saw. The little man with messy hair in front of him. A pale person in the chest that he saw yesterday in the chest is now in front of him, breathing, alive.
...
“Truly you revived Keiichi!”
Said one of the men in his class. The handsome man with earrings in his ears was so foreign in Keiichi's memory. Were they ever friends, but it is clear in Keiichi's memory that he was never close to anyone in his class.
“You are like Jesus Keiichi! Even wake up faster.”
“If more than three days Keiichi has become ash!”
In the chat, Keiichi did not try to get into their chat. They are excited about the answer to their expectations that turned out to be beyond expectations. The news that seemed to lie turned out to be really happening, a miracle that appeared in their boring lives.
In the distance, Keiichi saw the figure of three children who looked like delinquents with injuries all over his body who looked at him irritatedly with their legs being hit hard and then shouted.
“You must be pretending, you wanted to make us and the boss look bad yesterday!!”
The children began to look at the three children, and somehow they did not try to defend Keiichi and just fell silent.
“You're all noisy, when how could someone live after death? Stupid!”
But some whispered while showing a picture of Keiichi's body yesterday photographed by several children in front of the school, how the photo really looks genuine and terrible. In the whisper they said: “Aih, they really don't want to be guilty or have made Keiichi wretched.”
“Eh why do you whisper! Woi don't unplug?!”
“Hei!”
Keiichi shouted in front of them. The boys initially seemed happy that the figure he was insulting was now responding to them, but as soon as they looked into his eyes directly, Keiichi's horrified look seemed to make their feet freeze.
“Don't make it because, if there is a direct affair against me only.”
“Aaa... did you say Keiichi? Ma... would you like us to battered again?”
“You made me battered?”
Little Keiichi recalled that two days ago he had a fight with his brother over his actions fighting with his classmates. And Keiichi said “Ahh!” while patting his hand, “Oh yes y'all yah!”
“What do you mean what to say like that? Woi!”
Unfinished they talk to each other, suddenly the crowd in Keiichi's class is broken by a large figure. Bald head, red eyes, and trembling legs.
“Keiichi... Is this true you Keiichi?”
Said the big man, and suddenly the three boys immediately stood up straight saluting.
“Boss!!”
Keiichi immediately realized, the man in front of him was the figure his brother talked about who was accused of killing Keiichi, the top leader at his school, Takeshi.
Keiichi did not reply, he was speechless looking at this big man and was able to feel no evil impression on the man who had this hideous face.
“Keiichi, can you come to the roof with me?”
The children begin to whisper, saying that Keiichi will be killed because it makes them panic and frustration. Some whispered about the idea of trying to call the teacher, but it did not appear they were all moved to actually do so.
“Tak after lessons only?” Say Keiichi, “Before the bell is not.”
“I can't wait that long.” Takeshi said with a red face and tightly clasped hands as if to punch someone in front of him.
“Good.”
Keiichi stood up and walked with Takeshi, who was followed by three boys behind him. From a distance, Kasumi could only see them from a distance while cleaning the doorbell on the floor of the school hall.
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Classes have started. The teacher, who was now passing on his students, stared at Keiichi's empty desk and was astonished by the excitement in the teacher's room, saying that the student was still alive. He remembered rightly as the one who did not come home that day, seeing with the teacher and the other students the remains of Keiichi in front of the gate. There is no way anyone could have survived such injuries, the teacher thought.
In his absence, the teacher decides to skip Keiichi's name. At that time, the class leader, Kasumi, could not focus on the situation in the class.
“Kasumi? Oii!”
The teacher approached Kasumi and patted her absent book on Kasumi's head.
“Ah yes!”
“You're okay? I called you from earlier instead you didn't answer.”
Kasumi thinks about Takeshi dragging Keiichi. Guilt filled his mind, how Kasumi and friends stayed away from Keiichi so far which he considered to be the cause of Keiichi's death. He remembered when the words of his friend were thrown in front of Keiichi who was playing with Kasumi: “Your father is a fraud! He tricked my father, brought everyone's money! That's why your mother killed herself, right?”
It was perhaps the toughest time for Keiichi, whose mother had just left, whose family lived far away and Keiichi only lived alone with his brother despite occasional visits by his grandmother.
Kasumi and friends who are close to Keiichi instead of helping, decide to stay away from Keiichi, not only because they agree about what Keiichi's father did is a crime that deserves to be humiliated, but also because he did not want to be dragged in the bullying of his other friends.
Thus, he saw Keiichi so tough to deal with, he fought his bullies even though his resistance never brought results. As the days get louder, and seeing Keiichi unaffected, Kasumi slowly sees him as normal.
As a small town, those Keiichi bullies meet again in Junior High School. Luckily Keiichi follows a baseball club that has a high family nature makes Keiichi protected by his seniors who do not know about Keiichi's condition. Seeing that Kasumi as an agitated person saw the treatment of his friends against Keiichi was quite able to breathe a sigh of relief, his guilt slowly disappeared, but it did not last long.
Not long after, exactly when they stepped on 2nd grade Junior High, in the middle of the hot summer sun, there was an incident that made everyone decide not to care about Keiichi…
Then came the day Keiichi died.
Kasumi was so heartbroken that she heard the involvement of a hoodlum who also contributed to Keiichi's death.
At that moment it occurred to me that the most terrifying thought in his head was that all of them, Kasumi and co, were closely involved in Keiichi's death. They let all the abominations go on with their friend. The refraction, for some reason, felt like an act that indirectly killed Keiichi.
On the day of Keiichi's death, Kasumi in her class line group tries to contact her friends to make memorabilia, a poster with a picture of friends and words for Keiichi that they miss him. But his words are ignored and outdone by the video of Keiichi's death, with disgust and gruesome words coming out of their chat. The item Kasumi brought to Keiichi's funeral was a lie, a word she made herself regardless of the feelings of her comrades.
On that day, when she meets Keiichi's cold face, Kasumi promises while crying to herself not to keep quiet. He is not strong anymore, he does not want to see any more tortured friends like Keiichi!
The truth is that he's here now. Sit down, lead the greetings to the teacher, waiting for his name to be called, doing nothing to Keiichi who himself was being dragged up on the roof by the person involved in Keiichi's death and was probably being beaten to a bonyok.
Sweat dropped from Kasumi's forehead, her glasses evaporating by her heated, dusty breath. Kasumi was no longer strong and she decided to stand up.
“Pak Master! May I permission, my stomach hurts so much..”
“Kebelet Kasumi?” Say one of my friends followed by the laughter of Kasumi's friends.
Kasumi blushed in embarrassment, and saw Kasumi who did look pale the teacher also allowed Kasumi permission.
Kasumi went straight out, slowly walked away from the classroom and she started running down the hallway, then up the stairs, until finally while trying to take a gasping breath, she said, he saw Keiichi lying on the floor with three rods around him carrying a caste bat.
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