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“ONE!”
Smack!
“Wow.”
There is a fairly large river called Ishikawa about a 20 minute walk from Oogei.
“TWO!”
Smack!
“Guhoo!”
There’s a riverbed here, where students often played baseball, fireworks, barbequed, and it was a perfect place to enjoy a fun student life.
But currently, it had been transformed into hell, in which sweat, tears, and screams flew about alternatively.
“THREE!”
Dogaaaaaaaaaaa!
“Gyaaah!”
In the third attack, I staggered backwards a few steps reflexively.
“Ooh, what’s the matter! If you’re getting done in by this, then you’ll definitely die if you get a kick from Hogson!”
I would definitely die, no matter how much you train, if I were to receive Hogson Dalacey’s kick.
“Hey, wait a moment, a break, let me take a break!”
I unbearably put the mitt down, and sat down on the spot.
“Oh, alright. Then let’s take a break for around 10 minutes!”
Hikawa threw a frozen sports drink from the cooler box that he brought to me.
“Here, catch.”
“Ahh, thanks.”
I placed the drink which was still frozen and placed it on my arm to cool the stinging before drinking it.
“I am going to have to show my gratitude for accompanying me for practice some other time!”
After saying that, Hikawa laughed furiously.
Even though he had to move his body at the Ninjutsu Study group, he kept up this personal exercise, just how energetic must his body be…
“Do you always keep up this practice?”
“Yeah, since a long time ago. It’s unrelated to the ninja stuff.”
I accompanied Hikawa to help him practice karate.
A kicking practice that he practices almost every day. I was supposed to receive them with the mitts equipped on both arms, but after trying it, it left a great impact on my arms.
“Sorry, this one thing is something I can’t ask of a girl.”
Well, of course.
It’s not so bad when it’s a trained girl, but a normal girl will be blown away along with the mitt.
“When did you start?”
I didn’t really know the details, but it seemed to me Hikawa had pretty strong feelings about this.
Unless he practiced pretty seriously, he wouldn’t have turned out like this.
“Since kindergarten I think.”
“Eh, from that far back…!?”
That was even further back than I had expected.
“My father also did karate you see, so do both my older brother and sister, there was no way for me to not do this since everyone else was doing it.”
In such an environment, I guess it was only natural.
“But if that was the case, shouldn’t you have been recommended to a university with a strong karate club…?”
“Yeah, I was told I could get a recommendation for Kinki University or Daishou University.”
“Eh, then why Oogei? Moreover, the ninjutsu study group?”
Hikawa paused for a brief moment there.
“Nah, I just thought that it was… boring you know.”
“Eh?”
As Kagawa stroked the back of his head,
“Well, you see, everyone in my family practiced karate, and all of them went to university through athletic recommendations. So, the only subjects of conversation were how practice went or how amazing one particular athlete is, and stuff like that. Something like that is suffocating, isn’t it?”
“Yeah, that’s probably true…”
I don’t think I could withstand that for a week.
“I like karate, but I also liked anime and games, so I thought I could make an action movie by taking advantage of this experience. I took Oogei’s entrance exam with that resolve, then enrolled when I got accepted, so while I’m at it, I might as well become a ninja.”
Hmm…
So, there was such a back story behind Hikawa too.
“Well, then I hope you can shoot such a movie someday.”
“Oh! At that time, I’ll be counting on your help at that time Hashiba!”
If he had gone with the flow, he most likely would have gone to college through karate.
No person can judge whether a life is good or bad, however Hikawa already held doubts whether to follow the flow while he was still a high school student. Thus, he walked a different path.
I regretted the path I had chosen casually for some reason or another, and I wonder how strong my will had been, considering that I came 10 years back into the past as a result.
Even within his muscle head, he had also experienced hesitation and conflict. Unexpectedly, he seriously attended lectures, seemed like he had a lot of friends and belonged to a circle, and was not just whiling away his youth.
“But, you could have just asked the members of the Ninjutsu Study Group for help with this.”
If he did that, he probably would have gotten a better practice partner than me.
“Yeah, even so it’s all good though, as it’s been a long time since I spoke with you……. To be honest, I thought I might be able to talk about my hobbies like anime, games, baseball, which was my ulterior motive!”
“You can just invite me at any time for that… You can even come to the boarding house if you like.”
“Oh, well about that… That’s a bit… I mean, there are girls at your place right.”
“Yes, but, is that bad?”
“Ah… Don’t you like, don’t you play eroge and stuff like that?”
“Haa… Eeh!?”
At those overly surprising words, I stuttered on my reply for a moment. I see, it might be difficult to talk about such a hobby at length in that boarding house. If someone were to come visit and play, Nanako and Shinoaki would probably join in as if it were natural. Even Tsurayuki, even while if he said otherwise, I was pretty sure he would also join in.
Even so, Eroge huh.
Whether I play it or not, it was something I created as part of my job. Although my love and hate are jumbled together, there’s no doubt that I like them. That said, I can’t straight up say that.
“O-Of course I do…Just a little.”
When I answered thus,
“Oh! Really!”
Hikawa replied gladly, and shook my hand.
Wait, if he likes ninjas, likes eroge, then I can bet that he likes Kukkorokei too. 1
It’s somehow pitiful his senior kunoichi rejected him.
“How about it, do you like Leaf and Key games? Or maybe the rape type?” 2
AND A STRAIGHT BALL QUESTION OUT OF THE BLUE!
“I…”
I was going to say it, but I hesitated for a moment.
Afterall, this was year 2006. I couldn’t talk about games that have yet to be released.
While frantically trying to remember lineups from 10 years ago,
“Eh, umm, I played a Biga game. The one of Narito Shirou’s scenario.” 3
Of course, I couldn’t say Dwight Album 2, so I answered a little vaguely. 4
“Oh, you mean Parche! I like it too! But I’m more concerned about the continuation of the B.G. NEO! Do you think it’ll have a sequel! What about Nukonuko? I cried at the Shirogane end~” 5
“…Hey Hikawa, you really went all out, didn’t you?”
Furthermore, he liked fighting games too like I expected. In that regard, he didn’t betray my expectations.
“Ooh! After all, I couldn’t play them until I turned 18! I’ve been at it since graduation!! Man~, I knew my eyes weren’t wrong. Hashiba is a fellow companion!”
What kind of companion are you talking about…. But of course, I understand that companions with whom you converse together are valuable.
Until the sun went down, we had a passionate (somewhat one-sided) conversation on the eroge situation in year 2006.
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- It’s a meme much like “Tuturu” and such like that, but it’s a kind of inclination mostly observed in female antagonists that were either subdued by the male protagonists in novels, anime, games and such.
- The term Hikawa uses is “葉鍵ゲー” which means games from “Leaf” and “Key”.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leaf_(Japanese_company)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_(company) - Biga is a parody off of Giga and Narito Shirou should be a reference to Maruto Fumiaki.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giga_(brand)
https://vndb.org/s216 (Maruto Fumiaki) - White Album 2 if anyone didn’t get the reference. This is also a Leaf game.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Album_2 - Parche is a parody of Parfait and B.G. NEO is a parody of V.G. Neo. Couldn’t figure out the reference to the last one. Leave a comment if you figured it out.
https://vndb.org/v683 (Parfait)
https://vndb.org/v3984 (V.G. Neo)
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