Prologue

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'Looking Back on High School Life'

Class 2F Hachiman Hikigaya

Youth is a lie. It is nothing but evil.

Those of you who rejoice in youth are perpetually deceiving yourselves and those around you. You perceive everything about the reality surrounding you in a positive light. Even life-threatening mistakes will be remembered as single-page proofs of your youth.

I'll give you an example. If such people were to dabble in criminal acts such as shoplifting or mass rioting, it would be called 'youthful indiscretion.' If they were to fail an exam, they would say school is not only a place for studying. Their pursuit of 'youth' excuses even distortions of commonly held beliefs and social norms.

Under their discretion, lies, secrets, crimes and even failure are nothing but the spice of one's youth. And in their corrupt ways, they discover something peculiar about failure. They conclude that while their own failures are generally a part of relishing in youth, others' failures should be shot down as just failures and nothing more.

If failure is seen as proof of one's youth, isn't it strange not to consider those who fail to make friends as experiencing the height of their youth? Not that they acknowledge that.

It amounts to nothing. This is simply opportunism. Therefore, it is a sham, full of damnable lies, deception, secrets, and fraud.

They are evil.

That is to say, ironic as it is, those who do not glorify their youth are the truly righteous ones.

In conclusion: riajuu, go blow yourselves up.

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" What have you written Hikigaya?" Hiratsuka sensei is laminated with a boisterous expression that only can be made by her.

You may ask, what is the reason for her ranting? The fact is I was asked to write an essay about my social life in high school, but I failed to get satisfactory results the first time, which leads to rewriting this essay couple of times. Also, my week has been really really bad which results in the description of youth that man seems uncanny to many as they are riajuu themselves.

That being said, honestly, the essay I wrote is like a compilation of complicated words which closely resembles an armature novelist's roughly written draft.

Hiratsuka sensei is reading my essay now, which brings some laughter from the nearby adults. It's not that much trash you see. As they are the same kind of people, who once celebrated youth, so they failed to capture the charm of my essay. Maybe it looks like a pile of meaningful words, but the general description of the youth in my essay is a universal truth. It should be added in a well-certified dictionary, maybe not, but you get the point. " Exactly what you are reading"

"Stop with your smart-ass response, It is not how you are supposed to write an essay for your assignment. I asked only a generalized view on a high school student's social life, but you have written a view of a person, who seems to be even hated by their parents," she said while picking up an unlit cigarette. Sensei don't forget that you are in the teacher's lounge. She seems to remember that as she keeps the cigarette in its place.

"hm, I am ready to rewrite it sensei, just stop reading it aloud."

"I am tired of making you rewrite this, Hikigaya. Here I am going to take other measures to stop your anti-social behavior"

It may seem anti-social to some people, but not you sensei, being single despite your age, sorry about mentioning that, you should know first-hand, how the mentality of a loner will work.

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