Kagerou Daze II - A Headphone Actor

Yuukei Yesterday I

I woke up to the piercing noise of my alarm.

I stretched my hand out beside my bed, fumbling to reach for my mobile phone.

After turning off the alarm, I checked the time, and let out a large sigh.

... This is strange. No, this is really, really, strange. It is definitely strange.

After all, I should've slept for at least eleven hours.

Yet, why in the world am I so sleepy? This is way too unfair. Even though I paid a beautiful high school girl's "Late-Night Time" as compensation, the satisfaction my body got in return was way too little.

Something wasn't right. Are you trying to say that I'm just not beautiful enough ...? Though once I'm awake, I'll just end up playing that online game; but even so, I did pay compensation.

A sense of fatigue flows through my entire body, "Wait! If you don't sleep some more, you're gonna die. Think about it again!"; that danger signal is emitted.

My brain received the warning, and began thinking of "A way to comfortably stay in the futon".

For example, Strategy 1: Feigning Illness

Right now, I'm living with my grandmother, so it's just the two of us. If I tell her "I don't really feel very well today, so..." I'll be able to skip school pretty easily.

I'll feel pretty ashamed about deceiving my grandmother, but on this occasion, I suppose you could say it can't be helped.

But, this strategy isn't good at all.

To say I'm "not feeling well" is quite untactful, as my grandmother will find it best to immediately send me to the hospital.

Ugh, there'll be a medical examination, and then I'll be hospitalized ... When I think of these things, a chill runs down my spine.

Also, in the ward, I'll barely be able to play my game, and I'm sorry, but I'd rather not spend my free time just doing absolutely nothing.

The thing is, everyone's just too nervous about it. Even with the symptoms of this "illness", I don't think it's something that life threatening. Everyone's just exaggerating it.

My late grandfather was particularly nervous, and was always worried about my illness. He pulled a lot of strings and arranged things so that the high school I'm entering this year will treat me with great caution.

... Well, I guess if I suddenly collapsed in the classroom with a crash, it would be troublesome to people around me, and above all, it would be quite embarrassing.

"Thinking about it, this current situation is probably the best."

——Living while thinking in this way, half a year passed. Ever since I entered the school, I have yet to make real friends, but it's not like I have any problems with this.

Anyway, after this and that, Strategy 1 is a failure.

The time it took to compute all this was about two minutes. Considering the "law of the speed that time elapses in the morning," it would probably be said that my speed of thinking was overwhelmingly fast.

Strategy 2: "Actually, school is closed today."

I could tell my grandmother that school's actually closed today... but thinking about it, yesterday evening, when she asked me; "Should I make you a packed lunch tomorrow?" I remember replying, "Yep, I want to eat tamagoyaki!"

... I'm such an idiot! Why tamagoyaki!? Rather than a packed lunch, I should've requested an "Extended Sleeping Hours Ticket" or something. Although such a thing obviously doesn't exist.