Volume 5 - CH 11

The BirdCage Girl, Consult

The next day at school, I went to apologize to Emi.

I told her that the swimsuits we bought together were trashed by my father.

That I can’t go to the pool with them.

That I can’t stay and chat with them after school anymore.

And, ——-that I want her help.

“……….I see! Let’s do this together!”

“Eh?”

Emi held my hand and said that with a smile.

It was what I did to her when we first met.

“Let’s put the matter about the pool on hold. It will be fine. We will definitely make it in time.”

“In time…….?”

“We still have almost a month left. It will be okay. Hideyori-kun and I will surely be able to think of something!”

“R, Really…..? We can do it……?”

“With Towa, I, and Hideyori-kun then I’m sure that we will.”

Emi strongly affirmed.

Even though her body is much smaller than mine, I can feel strength from her.

“We don’t want Madoka-chan to know so let me buy you the same swimsuits we bought before okay.”

“No, if it’s that then I can buy it myself…..”

“Is that so?

I would feel bad if she ended up buying it for me after all.

“Then, Towa. Let’s keep this a secret between us okay. You can’t tell Juumonji-kun or Risa-chan about this alright.”

“Okay! I understand! If Emi says so then I will keep this between Emi and Akechi-san.”

“Alright! Let’s do this!”

Emi brightly smiles at me.

I’ve never thought that Emi would be so dependable.

“If you break the promise then I won’t forgive you okay.”

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“I heard the story from Emi. Emi and I will definitely help you on this Miyamura-san.”

“Akechi-san……”

During the lunch break, the three of us came to the library to hold a strategy meeting.

Akechi-san says that as long as I don’t involve Juumonji-san and Risa then we can all head to a happy ending.

“For the time being, please tell us about your father.”

“I understand.”

I told him.

About how we moved here for me to enter a different middle school from my friends.

How my father was so strict about studying.

How he views my friends as unnecessary.

How he was violent toward me.

And how my mother couldn’t go against him.

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“Unforgivable……!”

“Akechi-san…….?”

“That was too cruel!”

Akechi-san was angry at my father.

Emi rushes to his side and consoles him, saying that it’s okay.

When I tried asking her about his unusual outburst, Emi glanced at Akechi-san and started talking.

“When his parents died and he was taken in by his uncle, Hideyori-kun was abused by his uncle as well. That’s why he can’t stand what Towa’s father is doing to you.”

“I will make sure that it’s a success! Let’s destroy your birdcage and forge our own future, Towa!”

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He’s the same…….

I see……

Akechi-san has also suffered the same thing.

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If it’s him then he can surely understand me.

If it’s him then I can trust.

If it’s him then surely he can fix my problem.

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—- I will finally be freed from my father’s curse.

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“Pl, please be careful……”

“Eh?”

When I was about to return home, I was ambushed by someone at the school gate.

However, that someone was a person I truly didn’t expect.

She’s the girl with a coffee cup hair tie I saw some time ago.

Tanikawa Sakuya-san……was it?

“A,……….At the library…..I overheard you……I’m sorry……”

“Ah, Ahh……, you heard about that! Sorry, I made you hear something weird about my family……”

The girl seemed to be nervous.

I sympathize with her because I’m not good at talking to people I don’t know as well.

……But if she’s so bad around strangers then why did she call out to me?

“U, Uhh……please be careful…… your father……….”

“Ahh, yes! I will be fine! I will definitely fix my problem with my father!”

“…….your father, please treasure him.”

“Of course! He can be a little noisy but I do treasure my father! See you later okay! I have to get home soon.”

She seems to be poor at communicating but she’s probably a good person.

I’ve met plenty of good people at this school and my school life was truly a breeze.

Maybe, I can get along with Tanikawa-san as well.

With that in mind, I decided to hurry as I have to get home by 5 pm.

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“Please be careful……, those two are fiends……… Rather than the fiends that are pretending to be your friends……treasure your father instead…….. ……………I pray that you don’t have to experience such bloodshed…….”

With her body ridden with scars, she still wishes for safety for a person she doesn’t even know.

Her wish was to not let the girl become a victim of the fiends like herself and her father……

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After her encounter with them, she could no longer call her father Master.

She was proud that her father was like the Master she’s saw in the movie. It was because she loves him that she gave her father that endearing nickname.

But now, when she calls him Master, it makes her remember the fiends that did all those cruel things to her. The memory was so scary that she couldn’t bear it.

On her first day of middle school, the moment she saw the chestnut pigtail, she almost vomited her stomach out. That was how much trauma they gave her.

When she was listening in on their conversation in the library, she was so terrified that she wanted to scream. She doesn’t want the girl to be their next victim and she truly wants to prevent that.

However, that will go against the pledge. The pledge she can’t break unless she wants to lose her beloved father.

“……I hope Gifts can just disappear from this world.”

Her pained voice was carried away by the wind and disappeared without reaching anyone…………

TLN: Yes, this is Sakuya from the end of Vol.4