. What's that? .

That on your chest. .

. Huh? .

Are— .

Are you that cu- rious?

…Ah— .

Ahah- hah... .

Really? .

. Ah… yeah. Sorry. .

That's because I quickly speak what's on my mind.

I'm going home for today. .

.Where can I've put that necktie? .

On the day after that, everyone in the class started talking about the scar on my chest.

About the fact that I'd brought a boy who already had a girlfriend in my room.

. That I had no father. .

That my mother's job made her come back home in the mornings.

Soon, there was no seat for me any more. .

You know, it looks painful.

.Ah—

This is… no- thing much…

An in- jury?

You

sound

quite

frank.... .

. I du- nno. .

dsda

Heart-Breaking Dawn First Part

DING- DONG

Yes? .

Oh my… Sorry you had to bother. .

C L A C K . .

Yes. I see… .

No, she's well and healthy.

Sorry for every day.

Chisaki! Natsumi-chan came with a friend. .

These are the handouts from today.

I'm really thankful for all. .

in the morning, get dressed up in uniform, then stay inside my room without any food until evening.

Chisaki, I'll... leave you those handouts in the kitchen.

You know, your mommy has to go to work. .

Chisaki!

I get up normally

I had another call from your class teacher. .

… .

CLACK••• .

S L A M

And I sometimes remember how my body was rejected by that boy that I liked. .

But I don't like him any more.

t o s s .

f l a p .

Like a puddle of dirty water. .

The books I've read part-way pile up. .

My way is to make many towers out of them so that I won't carelessly demolish them.

.

I don't like books in particular. I don't even mind if they become dirty or discolored. Once some- thing gets dirty— .

. . . . .

—it can be thrown away. .

Half past eight. I'm hungry. .

.

I'm sleepy. .

How can a person be hungry even when they haven't been doing any- thing?

. .

. .

I feel sorry for myself. .

f w o o s h .

Let's say a huge spider appeared inside my dream. .

One of sorts that can be seen in illustrated encyclopedias. It crawls up my leg.

.

It's already past my stomach, past my chest. It reached my neck. It's by my mouth.

... .

. . . . .

S N U G G L E ... . .

Eek! .

KICK k

OUCH! .

There's no doubt. My mom forgot to lock the door..

A burglar entered inside.

. He will kill me to get rid of a witness. . .

Otherwise, it's some supernatural pheno-menon. No matter which it is, I'll probably end up getting killed. .

Those were the thoughts that ran through my mind at that moment. .

creep…

But some- how— .

It didn't seem that it came to kill me at all.

It didn't even seem like it had any body. .

... .

w a v e r … .

Is it lost? . .

Hey! .

SHOCK! .

So- sorry… . . .

Umm… .

Who're you? .

. .

I thought that it might not be appro- priate in that case.

Ma— .

—na— .

—bu. .

Manabu-kun? . .

I'm— .

Chisaki Kimi- jima. .

I'm a student.

This is my room.

Nice to meet you.

I won't do anything to you. .

It was a question one would ask a “human.” That was why—

... .

That left hand. .

.

It belonged to a person called Manabu. Before he knew it, his left hand had wandered into my room on its own. .

While his hand was in there, Manabu's body was sound asleep. .

It looked like he could somehow recognize sounds and what was happening around it. .

Although, because the hand didn't speak, the exchange of thoughts was difficult.

whump whump .

I have lots of books, right? .

I haven't fini- shed reading a single one. .

.

Mom tells me to throw them away. .

I use things lying around to mark the page.

Look, this is some ticket… .

I bought it by mistake… .

All of them belonged to my father before he left. .

This is an o-mikuji. .

I visited a shrine together with a boy I liked.

Nitta was his name. .

He's from the same class as me. .

He gave me a cold shoulder some time ago. .

... .

I was an idiot and didn't know that he had a girl- friend.

He didn't tell me by himself either. .

Manabu-kun, do you have a girlfriend? .

Have you ever had sex? .

When it was getting close to dawn, .

Manabu-kun left me and went home. .

Chisaki, I'm going to work now. .

What else… .

Your classmates came here today as well. .

Did you say proper thanks to them? .

And there was another call from your teacher.

…*sigh* Never mind. .

SLAM

.

They always come. .

The girls from my class. .

I wonder if it's because they feel guilty for bullying me. .

They've been spewing all kinds of stuff about me on social media. .

I know about every- thing. . .

They still think I haven't found out about it.

Manabu-kun, did somebody ever bully you? .

Ah— .

I got bored with this one as well. .

What are you doing? I can't close it now. .

Do you want to tell me that I shouldn't stop reading halfway through?

Se— .

—cond .

ha— .

—lf

There was no way I couldn't have been curious about Manabu-kun's real appearance.

Second half is interesting. .

So you read this book. .

Hmm… … .

. . Ugh… … .

If you say so, .

I'll try reading for a bit longer. .

P A T .

B R U S H … .

However, spending time with my mouthless friend was simply fun. .

I said a lot of weird things before. .

I thought that you might have enough of me…. .

I'm sorry that I can talk about nothing but sad stuff. .

I feel like I can tell you everything because you're a good listener.

Hahah! .

You often make peace signs. .

Is this a habit of yours? How cute. .

Right, right. You can't write because it's not your dominant hand.

You're telling me to finally get down to those handouts.

Ah— . .

I've not been taking classes for a while. .

There's one more reason why I don't want to go to school. .

I fear that I won't be able to keep up with studying. .

Ah… sure I was right… Hahah… .

And it just happens that I slip off every day because of that. .

I don't know that any of this means. .

*sigh* .

I can't do this any more… .

Manabu-kun, do you like studying? .

What—

Did some- thing happen? Are you looking for some- thing?

CLATTER CLATTER .

CLACK CLACK .

TAP .

my red pen. .

QUIVER . .

W H O O O S H . .

W H O O S H .

LIMP .

You must be intelli- gent, Manabu-kun.

Somehow… I remember what was on lessons better than I thought…

I… may be able to go to school again.

.

.

…If I had learned about his girl- friend, .

I wouldn't have let him in my room. .

If I'd only known that he would spread that around as some funny story,

I wouldn't have taken my clothes off.

I would have never come to like him in the first place.

Yeah. .

It's difficult for me to find someone to hang around.

I wish I could go to school together with you. .

That would be ama- zing.

SQUEEZE .

Do you go to our school? .

I don't think we're in the same class, but…. I think I heard about you somewhere.

Would you also hate me after seeing my body?

Manabu-kun. .

Could you go to school even if you knew you don't fit in there? .

Come to see me again, okay? .

Good night. .

What— .

That's— . . .

Tomo- rrow… .

. . .

.

.

.

.

.

DISGUSTING .

DON'T COME TO SCHOOL .

FILTH