I Went Back in Time to 10 Years Ago and Saved My Young Lady Childhood Friend and She Became My Fiancee ~She’s Honest and Cool and Looks at Me Like She Wants to Be Cared For~
I remember the past.
Yorumiya Hina moved to a nearby apartment building when I was in elementary school, and then transferred to my elementary school.
I was very young at the time, so I knew nothing about Yorumiya’s family or her situation.
(She’s a strange one.)
That’s all I thought.
She was in the same class with me, and people around us thought she was a “ghost” and gave us the creeps.
She certainly didn’t seem like a normal child. When I talked to her, she would just lift her vacant gaze lightly. Other than that, she was always expressionless and blank. Only her appearance was too beautiful, and she really stood out like a ghost.
Yes, she was strange, but I thought it was wrong to be creeped out by her.
Yes, there was something different about her. She’s not bothering us, though.
（What kind of girl is she?)
One day, I suddenly began to think so, and I talked to Yorumiya.
Even if she didn’t respond, I talked to her patiently.
I didn’t care what the people around me thought.
I could tell that I was beginning to isolate myself from the people around me, but it didn’t matter. They were all the kind of people who would isolate Yorumiya anyway. It was better to stay away from them. Besides, I felt that the more isolated I became, the closer I would be to Yorumiya.
Yorumiya ignored me for a while.
I was lucky that she didn’t seem to dislike me.
I do not remember exactly how we communicated.
But I do remember that I wanted to hear her voice.
One day, after I had continued to talk to her like that, I received a response from Yoramiya.
I remember the way Yorumiya’s eyes moved at that time. After a while, Yorumiya opened her eyes. It wasn’t that she had closed them. But I felt that they were open. I was reflected in her eyes. I felt for the first time that her eyes were beautiful, as if they were absorbing me.
“Um…”
She opened her mouth and said.
“……Why me?”
I realized after a moment that she was asking me a question.
“What?”
“Is there something you want me to do for you ……?”
“No, I don’t have one, but …..”
She looked at me as if she was looking at something mysterious, and I told her.
“I’d like you to be my friend.”
Yorumiya’s eyes widened and she begrudgingly held out her hand. I shook her hand.
From then on,
Little by little, I began to play with Yorumiya. Gradually, Yorumiya began to talk to me, and her expression softened. I didn’t get along with the other kids, but that was fine.
But things changed when we entered different junior high schools.
Yorumiya was unable to play with the other children more often because she had to study, and – eventually – I never saw her face again.
It was only after her accident that I learned that it was because of the circumstances of the Yorumiya family.
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–I am now running under the winter sky.
I have to stop Yorumiya before she gets hit by a car.
Where is Yorumiya? I had a clear image in my mind.
Memories of the past when I couldn’t save her.
Her collapsed body.
The alley ahead.
I could go to that place.
And …… I’ll get there.
In front of a crosswalk illuminated by streetlights. A quiet residential street with few cars passing by.
This is where Yorumiya was supposed to be.
“Huh …… huh …… huh?”
She’s not here.
I took a deep breath and held my knees as I looked around.
There was no one. No cars. There is only a hint of a deserted town.
(…… I see. You haven’t come yet?)
After a little while, I realized. There was no way I would be standing here all the way to the accident. I knew where Yorumiya was going to have her accident, but I didn’t know the time. It wasn’t that time yet.
Is she somewhere …… alone?
(If not, let’s wait until Yorumiya arrives.)
I am relieved to some extent that I was able to get ahead of her.
At worst, if I wait here all the way, I should be able to prevent an accident.
I look around again. Then I saw a figure on a bench in a nearby park.
A small shadow that I had missed earlier.
…….
Was she sitting there in the cold weather?
I ran toward her. All sorts of emotions were swirling in my chest.
I stepped on the park gravel and stood in front of the bench. There was a girl standing overhead, not even brushing the snow off her head. She is wearing a school uniform. The same as in my memory.
“Yorumiya.”
Her face slowly lifts from its slumped position.
Her vacant eyes reflect mine, and gradually the light returns.
Her face, which had looked like a ghost, gradually became more and more human.
“Shu-kun?”
I almost cry at the sound of her thin voice.
“Why are you here ……?”
Why am I here?
I would probably not be lying if I said I was here for this moment. I wanted to help. That’s why I came. But I’m not going to embarrass myself by telling you that.
“I came to get you.”
I held out my hand, and Yorumiya took it. Her hand was as cold as ice. Yorumiya stared blankly at our joined hands.
“It’s …… warm.”
Maybe Yorumiya’s hands are just cold.
I ran in the cold weather too. My body is warm, but my hands are probably cold.
“Let’s go home, Yorumiya.”
“No,……, it’s the same again.”
I pull my hand, but Yorumiya does not move.
Yes, it’s true. On this day, this place was not Yorumiya’s usual route home. People were wondering why she was in this place. Why was she in this place? Why was she wandering alone in a place like this?
The answer is probably what she just said.
(–Gave up?)
Yorumiya Hina is a child of infidelity.
A child of iniquity, in other words, a child born of adultery.
On the paperwork, it is made out to be a girl born out of a legitimate marriage, but in reality it is not. The father had an affair, and the daughter born as a result is Yorumiya Hina.
For the Yorumiya family, this only daughter was a symbol of ugliness.
Naturally, those who know the circumstances do not want to treat the child of infidelity in the same way as other children.
Her mother died when she gave birth to her, and her father, the cause of her death, refuses to recognize his daughter. The people around her smoke Yorumiya as a child of iniquity and keep her at a distance.
–‘Just learn to do your schoolwork and be polite. Then you will still have some use’
It was the head of the family, Yorumiya Shido, who said this. Since then, Yorumiya has been isolated in an apartment far from the main family and forced to study and learn in solitude. In elementary school, she still had time to see me, but by the time she entered junior high school, she gradually lost that time.
It was all about study. If she didn’t get first place on a school test, she had to do an extra assignment. If she did not get the top ten in the national mock examinations, more assignments were added. The lessons never end. Beginning with piano, they filled up her daily time.
Yorumiya had little freedom.
Yorumiya cried out in a voice that sounded like it was trying to be squeezed out of her.
“Even when I go home, I just keep solving assignments, and when I’m done, it’s another assignment, and even if I don’t sleep, I can’t finish it, so I have to do it at school. ……There’s no point in continuing like this,……, I don’t have any. ……”
I don’t know the exact thoughts of Yorumiya who was run over by the past. But surely, even before the time leap, Yorumiya was sitting in this park. And so, in retrospect of the current hard life, the whole body is cold in the winter cold, and sick of everything already, and so, without even looking at the surroundings, hoping that everything will disappear, burnt out – and so on.
“I’m sorry, Yorumiya, I didn’t realize it until now,”
I couldn’t save her. I didn’t even realize it.
I learned all these facts after the fact.
I am an idiot.
I had only vaguely wondered if Yorumiya was doing well during junior high school.
“….Why, Shuu-kun?”
She looks at me with a face that looks like she’s about to burst into tears. From her point of view, it might seem strange to apologize. But the fact is that nothing could be done. If I could use a time leap to go even earlier, I’m sure I could have done a lot of things. But here is the past that I have arrived at.
So, I have no choice but to change it from here……
“But as of today, ……, it’s going to be okay.”
“Eh?”
“Your grandfather collapsed …… just now. I don’t mean to be rude, but he probably won’t make it.”
“…… eh?”
The man who binds Yorumiya is her grandfather, the head of the family, Yorumiya Shido.
However, the head of the family passed away today. I heard from Mihato that before the time leap, “he wasn’t saved.” Perhaps this time too.
“So that should change.”
“Are you sure……?”
“Yes.”
“But that’s not how ……”
Yorumiya shook her head in disbelief, her face still blue.
I put a little strength into the hand I’m holding.
“If the same thing happens,……, I’ll take care of it.”
A few years after the fall of the head of the family, there were many scandals in the companies related to the Yorumiya family. I don’t know if the head of the family was hiding it or not, but I am sure that people who would do the same thing are still hiding.
During the first round, I remember the names of those people well because I used to research the companies related to the Yorumiya family.
Yorumiya looked at me.
“……Shuu kun,……, has your mood changed a little?”
I’m sure it’s changed. I also have memories from before the time leap.
“I think so,…….”
“What’s wrong?”
…… something happened. Yes, I saw her disappear.
I don’t want to feel like that.
And I want her to live happily this time.
“I wanted Yorumiya to be happy.”
“Hee……?”
Her eyes widen.
“That’s a bit sudden, isn’t it?”
“Yeah….. but I really mean it.”
“…I see.”
Yorumiya sounds curious.
“So,……, let’s go home.”
I took her still cold hand and carefully walked home.
Make sure you don’t run into a car even if you make a mistake.
clasp our hands tightly.
Yorumiya was staring at me blankly the whole way.
Maiban