Buying a Weeping Girl Under the Wintry Sky, and Making Her Too Happy. - Chapter 13: Responsibility.
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Responsibility.
AWKARD! SO AWKAWRD! …I feel like I said something quite embarrassing to comfort a crying girl. Though… I’m glad to see that Miyu is feeling better now.
“Ahh, Uhmm… I wanted to let you know that I’m going to be doing some late night shifts too from now on, so I may not be around at night.”
I should make it clear before saying things like ‘this kind of thing will not happen in the future.’ In fact, I was going to sneak out of the house after Miyu went to bed….
“Could high school kids work late nights?”
“…That’s what it looks like.”
“It’s not true, is it? …Is it because of me?”
I wanted to hide it from Miyu, because she is very perceptive and I knew she would probably notice it. Though… I don’t want her to think that because of her I’m taking this trouble. That’s why I…
“Well, I’m pretty sure I’ll have to ask the manager to let me, but it isn’t because of Miyu, okay? Originally, I was going to negotiate with the manager to let me work late at night during the winter break.”
“Then is it fine if I ask why?”
“I’m living on my own for a reason, and the condition is that I have to take care of myself except for the school fees,” she said.
“If it’s not my fault that you’ve been able to get by with that, but when I came along you decided to work late nights, then why so?”
“We have a school trip next year, right?”
“Ahh…”
“I have been paying for everything except my school fees, which means I have to pay for the school trip too.”
This is a lie, but it’s also true. I don’t want to go on a school trip, but I need to pay for it. If I don’t, my grandparents and the school will be suspicious of me in many ways. By cancelling the school trip on the day before or on the day of the trip, there will be a cancellation fee, but I should still be able to get half of the money back. The other half will be a waste, but there is nothing I can do about it but to give up…
“…Can’t you just tell your parents and they’ll help you with it?”
“I’m sure they can, but it’s a selfish wish of mine to live alone and I want to do everything I can by myself.”
“Kazuya-kun is surprisingly admirable.”
“‘Surprising’ is too much. More importantly, is Miyu alright with it?”
“With what?”
“No, well, you see…”
Since your parents abandoned you, will you be able to afford school fees and other school expenses? I can’t ask this…
“Are you worried about expenses?”
“Ahh, yeah…”
“I think I can deal with that.”
“You can?”
They are the kind of parents who would abandon their own daughter. I’m not sure if they will continue to pay for her school fees and school trips. It seems to me that this is too much money to pay for a child that they abandoned…
“Society is a society. Abandoning one’s daughter is unacceptable in today’s society, right? So I’m sure they’ll try to keep it a secret as long as they can.”
“I see what you mean.”
I can certainly understand why she said that. If they knew that, they couldn’t help but feel angry at the fact that they had abandoned their own child and were trying to make it look like they had common sense. In the first place, did they ever think that Miyu might appeal to the police?
“Didn’t your parents ever think you’d go to the police?”
“It’s useless.”
“HAA?”
“The man who was my father is the president of a large corporation. So he has no problem pretending that the incident didn’t happen as long as the media didn’t find out about it. Besides, I don’t have the money to hire a lawyer even if I had to sue him and go to court.”
Even I knew the name of the big company Miyu mentioned. No, it’s a company that is famous not only in Japan but also in the world. He’s the president of such a big company? …If so, it would certainly not be difficult to pretend that the incident that occured in such a family did not happen.
This country claims to be a democracy and respects basic human rights, but I am sure that among the wealthiest people in the country, things are being done that would be unthinkable to the average citizen, and things are being unreasonably pretended to not have happened.
The proof is that if everyone’s basic human rights were respected and a minimum standard of living was guaranteed, there would be no such thing as homelessness or vagrancy in our country. I am sure that there are people who live such a life by choice, but it is an extremely rare case.
No matter how many beautiful things you put together, society is such that they are only a front. As long as we have a clean front, we are oblivious to the dark side of society that is going on behind the scenes.
“…You gotta be shitting me.”
“But Kazuya-kun saved me. He even bought me and said he’d take good care of me, so I know I’ll be fine.”
Kamiyu smiled at me, seeing through my inner thoughts. Huh. …There’s no reason for me to be annoyed by it when the person in question is trying not to worry about it…
“So, I’ll probably be fine. That man has got more money than he knows what to do with.”
“I bet…”
The president of that big company would probably have enough money to hand out 10,000 yen to every Japanese citizen for spare change…
“I think I understand why you have to work late at night, but if it’s actually for me, don’t do it, okay?”
“Don’t worry, it’s nothing like that.”
Miyu is really perceptive. …It seems that I need to be very careful not to get caught…
“Also, don’t push yourself too hard, okay?”
“I know that.”
This was a lie. If I had to push myself so that Miyu could live a normal life, I would push myself as hard as I could. It didn’t matter that I had just started talking to Miyu, or that she had only been in my house for three days, it is my responsibility to make sure she doesn’t die.