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幼なじみの妹と、身体の関係になってしまった
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Tokyo is a city of ghosts.
If you stand in the middle of Shinjuku at dawn, watching the first wave of salarymen stumble out of the neon-lit depths and toward the station, you can see it. They aren’t people—not really. They are hollow shells, translucent spirits moving through a forest of steel and glass, desperate to reach the next station before the sun reminds them they exist.
I was one of them. I wanted to be one of them.
Five years ago, I boarded a night bus with a heart full of rot and a single, desperate prayer: Let me be forgotten. I didn't come to Tokyo to find a dream; I came here to bury one. I wanted to drown in the apathy of twenty million strangers. I wanted to eat convenience store bento on a cold floor and drink enough low-malt beer to turn the memory of a certain summer afternoon into a dull, painless ache.
I thought I had succeeded. I had my eight-mat room, my "ditchwater" coffee-shop job, and a life that felt as flat and gray as a concrete wall. I was a professional coward, hiding in the one place where no one looks at your face.
But the past doesn't care about distance. It doesn't care about five years of silence.
The past has a way of showing up on your doorstep on a freezing Tuesday night, wearing a thin school skirt and the scent of mint lip balm.
When Hachijou Mii looked at me through that freezing Tokyo wind, I realized that the "shadow" she talked about wasn't just following her. It had been waiting in my room all along, sitting in the corner of my cramped apartment, wearing the face of her older sister.
We are two broken things trying to glue ourselves together with sweat, guilt, and the taste of instant curry. We call it "staying," but we’re both just running in circles inside a room that’s too small for three people—the two of us, and the ghost of the woman who destroyed me.
She says she’ll do anything. I say I’ll think about it.
And in the dark, as the city hums with the sound of millions of people who don't know we exist, we realize the truth.
You can run across the world, but you can’t run faster than your own shadow.
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