Touken Ranbu: Shiawase Days

Saniwa

I lived a life of nothing.

I had nothing.

My family died in an unfortunate accident, and my relatives threw me away.

I was left to fend off for myself, for my daily needs. I worked at every possible job I could find so that I could continue going to school.

No time for leisure, making me have no friends, much less, anything or anyone who would support me.

It was supposed to be another tiring day as I walked on the way for my next part-time job.

The sound of of the station was loud, enough to make anyone irritated. People were chatting time away, the sound of phones and the intercom filled the air.

It was so loud, so noisy, I could feel my head throb. It only tire me more.

The people were so busy of their own business that I saw a boy get pushed down the tracks by a running salary man.

I was no hero, I had no time to waste. Someone else will probably save him.

That's what I thought.

...

The sound of the train. It was only then that people started to notice the small boy trembling down the tracks.

"Oh my goodness! A boy! A boy is down there!!"

"Somebody call the staff!!"

"Hurry up and help him, idiots!"

But no one did.

Not a single person moved from their spot and just took out their phones in the midst of the panic.

They recorded what was happening.

They only took a video of the trembling boy, that could die as soon as that train arrives.

I am no hero. I convinced myself.

I had no time to waste for others.

But...

"M-Mommy!!!" The boy cried out as the people around him can only think of what they would do if they died too.

They were too afraid of helping, fearing death might grasp their souls too.

I gritted my teeth. These idiots. All of them. They're all the same.

"Humans are such.." I mumbled and threw away all of the things I was holding.

My bag, my folders, I threw it on the concrete and quickly ran, pushing people that blocked my way.

Move. Idiots.

If you're not going to help him, then I will.

I don't care anymore if I think I'm a hero or not.

But hearing that familiar cry of a child calling for help tugged the guilt in me.

If I let him die here, if I would just watch him die, then I was no different from those people that abandoned me.

"Miss, you can't--!!"

"She jumped!!!"

...

Year 201X.

A single girl died from saving the child of a famous conglomerate Takeba, the third richest family in Japan.

Investigation waa quickly done on who the girl was, and the Takeba had greatly rewarded the girl for her deeds.

Investigators also discovered that the young girl's family abandoned the girl. Further investigation is being done on the girl's background.

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