elder brother
When I successfully stopped crying, I looked up and saw Shuji Tsushima trying to hold back his laughter. My hands felt itchy - I wanted to hit someone.
"Pfft" he laughed.
I silently got up from the ground, picked up my kimono with one hand, stretched out the other hand, and chased after Tsushima Shuji to impose "just punishment" on him.
What's wrong with this guy? I just saved him, right? How can he have the energy to run so fast?
But I finally caught him.
I stood on tiptoe and knocked him on the head, but he hugged his head exaggeratedly as if he had been hit by a heavy hammer.
"Ah! It hurts! You are so cruel! I feel like you have made a big bump on my head!"
He accused me seriously.
I:……
I looked at my fist in confusion. Could it be that I am actually very strong? No way?
I looked at Tsushima Shuji again. He was now writhing on the ground in pain.
His twisting was really funny. I decided to keep this picture in my mind and call it "Cricket Pupa".
"You weren't even afraid of what happened just now, so why do you feel so much pain after just a single blow from me?"
He froze, then turned to look at me with resentment all over his body. "You don't know how powerful you are, do you?"
I've never hit anyone before, so naturally I don't know how strong I am. But looking at him now, it seems that I am indeed very strong.
"...You deserve it."
Tsushima Shuji came up to me and said with a frown, "Are you not angry now?"
I shook my head and said honestly, "I'm not angry anymore."
"Are you really not angry anymore?"
I shook my head again.
He smiled at me and I hit him back, but in my opinion the two canceled out and I was no longer angry.
If he was saying that he had pointed out something wrong with me, I wouldn't be angry. He was just saying what he saw, and I have no reason to be angry with him for that.
He blinked his eyes, chuckled, straightened up, put his hands on my head and rubbed it. "Long is really a good child."
"——What? Aren't you also a minor? How dare you call me a child..."
He just complimented me, didn't he? Right? I think my ears are hot - I think I have enough hair, right?
Tsushima Ebi's ears had already turned red enough to look like blood, and even her face was very hot, but it was a pity that her attention was now focused on how not to expose her ears - so she was still a child.
Tsushima Shuji smiled and took back his hand. "So, do you love your mother?"
…
I touched the top of my head unconsciously and it seemed to still be a little warm.
I paused when I heard what he said, "My mother doesn't like me."
Instead of saying whether you like your mother or not, you are asking whether your mother doesn’t like you?
Tsushima Shuji tilted his head and thought for a while, then said in a lively tone, "Let's run away from home!"
"……?"
Seeing my expression, Tsushima Shuji suddenly seemed to remember something and became serious. I had never seen him so serious before.
This gave me an inexplicable sense of déjà vu, as if I had seen a similar scene before, and I had a feeling that he would say something more shocking than his idea of "running away from home".
"——You haven't called me brother yet, right?"
I am running out of speechless words today, or to put it simply, I am numb, so I turned around and left.
But Tsushima Shuji grabbed my shoulders and said, "Call me 'brother'!"
I looked up at him impatiently, but unexpectedly saw a pleading look in his eyes - as if he would lose something important if I didn't call him that.
He is still the most favored child in the family. Basically no one in the family can refuse his request. Now, I may be included in this range.
——Why would he leave here?
"...Brother." I lowered my voice and turned my head away from him. Was he teasing me? Was this a new trick? Would my brothers and sisters suddenly jump out from a corner and point at me and laugh?
I felt very uneasy, as if there were a thousand or ten thousand ants crawling on my body.
He hugged me and said, "…Long is the best child in the family."
——No, I am not, and I can’t be.
I am an honest person, this hug is warm and I like it, but "How stupid, Shuji, you must look stupid now."
"Hey - you didn't call me brother anymore. I'm so sad."
He was selectively deaf and rubbed my ears. I didn't have to guess to know that my ears turned red again.
He let me go quickly.
He said he was going to run away from home, but Tsushima Shuji's position in the Tsushima family would remain high for a long time.
Even the slap his father gave him last time was full of educational implications. I really don't understand why he ran away from home.
Tsushima Shuji saw it and said, "Rong, I've said this before, right? I hate almost everything in my house. Everyone in my house disgusts me."
"My father's stupidity and arrogance, the abnormal competition between my brothers and sisters, my mother and servants' extreme admiration for the status of the head of the family...all of this is like a distorted mirror in my eyes."
"And you are different. You don't fit in so well in this family."
"No, no, I'm not different! I'm exactly the same as everyone else in the family! I'm not an alien, nor am I anything else. I'm Tsushima Suzu, a member of the Tsushima family!"
I was a little emotionally broken because I had been being excluded these days.
Tsushima Shuji, however, talked about other things.
"Rong can see things that others can't see, right?" Tsushima Shuji pointed to his neck and said.
"I've seen this so many times, it's hard to pretend not to see it."
He was quite distressed.
"I compared my neck to other people's necks and I didn't notice any difference, so it must be something in your perspective."
"——Lin, what is the difference between the world you see and the world we see?"
He suddenly moved close to my eyes, and through my pupils I saw the thing on his neck. That thing was like a solid green color, floating towards my face curiously in the same posture as his.
This action and his words made me break out in a cold sweat.
Tsushima Shuji distanced himself from me and touched his neck - but of course he touched nothing.
He didn't care and put his hand down.
"Long, do you know what a person with special abilities is? The different way you see the world is the best proof that you are a person with special abilities. I don't know how you hid this secret before, but you did a good job."
"——How about this, after we leave, let's go to Yokohama? That's where people with special abilities gather."
I opened my mouth, I closed it, I thought a lot in this moment, I finally asked, "How did you know the information about the special ability? And, I didn't promise you."
"Long, my father has a lot of guests, and there are always one or two who are not ordinary people... Well, now you should go back to bed quickly, and the rest of the things will be solved tomorrow!"
*
Just like that, he came back with just a few words.
I tossed and turned on the tatami, still unable to figure out what he meant by "It will be sorted out tomorrow."
...Could it be that he was going to set fire to the Tsushima family?
…
I reflected on myself, why was my first thought of setting fire when I thought of Tsushima Shuji solving the problem, and why did I listen to Tsushima Shuji so much?
After a long time, the sound of someone hitting the bed with fists was heard in Tsushima Suzu's room.
It's not that I don't want to leave the Tsushima family, I just... never thought of this possibility.
[Very irritable]
[Can’t run anymore]
[Let’s leave quickly]
It's so noisy.
I covered my head with the quilt and hoped that the voices shouting "leave" would quickly disappear from my mind. The voices that I could usually ignore skillfully now sounded so harsh.
*
The next day arrived quickly. The first rays of sunlight in the morning quickly woke me up from my insomnia.
Normally, I'm only that grumpy when I wake up, but today I was easily soothed by the chirping of birds outside the window and the fresh, calm air.
——Are there these things outside my window?
I got up briskly, folded the quilt, opened the window, and watched the dew dripping from the leaves while waiting for the maid to help me put on my heavy kimono.
The maid arrived soon - she was used to waking me at this time.
She was surprised to see me lying on the windowsill. She probably thought I slept like this all night. "Miss!"
I waved my hands to tell her not to worry, and turned around and waved my hands up and down. I never asked her her name, so I could only call her this.
"Sister, let's do it quickly today!"
I'm now in a hurry to find Tsushima Shuji to ask for clarification.
After the initial shock, the maid quickly got into work mode and her work attitude was first-class.
While she was tying the belt on my clothes, she glanced at me quickly. She was usually silent, but today, for some reason, she said something extra.
"Miss, you are in a good mood today. Is there anything good going to happen?"
Am I in a good mood today? I was stunned. I looked at myself in the mirror. Am I smiling?
...Ah, so that's how it is. So I was really looking forward to leaving the Tsushima family. So this is what Tsushima Shuji meant by "solving the problem"...
I don’t know why, but now when I look at myself in the mirror again, I feel like that person is both crying and laughing.
——I’m leaving home, right?
...I'm leaving home, right?
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