Otoko Aruji - Side Story 6

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Side Story 6 - In the Case Of Kurita Koichiro (Age 16 at time of accident)


"Eh? Isn't that the case?"


Masashi is talking to himself next to me. He's talking to himself while engrossed in the walk-through book for the game he just bought so it's creepy. I'm reading a

book on my smartphone next to that Masashi. Since I have no interest in the game that Masashi bought a walk-through for. I play games as well but if you were to ask I

prefer shooters, action, and puzzle games. Retardedly long RPGs and adventure games feel like they are just a waste of time so I can't bring myself to play them.


Games are something you do to kill time and I can't understand the meaning in making playing a game itself into an objective. Although, if I were to say something

like that I would just isolate myself from my surroundings so I've never said it but.. In another 10 minutes we'll be at our bus stop. In the front of the bus

there's a plump old lady and several salary man looking people sitting, after that it's just high school students. We're sitting on one of the two-seaters in the back

left side of the bus but there's no one else behind us.


If I take a look in front of us there's a group of high school girls sitting and noisily talking about something. On the side of them there's a male student holding

the leather rail and dazing out. The uniform is one from a reasonably high-level school. The male student sitting on the side has been facing down from the start

from behind you can't tell what he's doing. I guess he's probably reading a book or looking at his smartphone the same as me.


It seems the bus has entered the railroad crossing. The vibration and clatter tells me that we've gotten off the pavement and onto the rails. In the next moment, I

heard a loud screeching sound from the left and I reflectively looked to the left. The situation was too unexpected so I couldn't even raise my voice, just open my

mouth wide. The train plunged into the bus we were riding.


It might have been a blessing that we died in an instant. It's the same as saying we had no time to suffer after all. My consciousness was really stolen away in an

instant.




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"U..Ugyaa, a, a, anngyaaa!"


Damn it, I can't seem to speak. Several days or weeks have passed since then. It's almost like I have a haze in my eyes I can only see vaguely. Occasionally I have

something soft pushed into my mouth and I'm allowed to drink some kind of liquid food like thin milk or something so I somehow have survived I guess. If I think

about it calmly even though a train plunged into the bus I really must have had good luck to survive that. Ah, come to think of it I wonder if Masashi is alright? I

was the one sitting near the window at that time so it should have plunged into me first. Since I've been saved I wonder if Masashi was saved as well?


However, no one is coming to visit me. I wasn't that isolated and I had several friends other than Masashi. In the first place, putting aside my older sister and

little brother, why haven't either of my parents come to visit? Ah, come to think of it this is a foreign country. I sometimes hear some weird words. I don't know

what they're saying at all though.


I wonder what in the world they're talking...about... is what I was thinking when suddenly a strange line of characters appeared in front of me and below that was

katakana and even further below that was Japan with a mix of kanji displayed. In Japanese it said, "Ah, it's good this child was born healthy but I wonder why it

doesn't cry much?". Whenever I focus my eyes on the Japanese words and move my glance the words roll over to katakana and the other set of weird characters.


I started at the characters that were rolling over for a bit, what in the world is this? is what I thought. It's the first time I've clearly seen something since

that accident after all, I was happy that my eyes haven't completely stopped working. Until then I was depressed since thought my eyesight had dropped close to zero

as an after-effect of the accident.


I heard a man's voice from outside of the room. When I unintentionally looked towards the direction of the voice I suddenly felt drowsy. Since there's no meaning in

resisting it I fell asleep right away.




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After testing it out several times I've started to understand it. If it's right after someone other than me says something and I think, "I want to know what they're

saying" then a translation of that comes out. It's no good if I think, "I don't know what they're saying" or "speak in words I understand". However, after realizing

that I start to get tired soon after translating it's a bit depressing. It's pronounced in katakana it seems but after listening closely I realized it's just

adapting to katakana which has a similar pronunciation. It's like forcibly displaying a foreign language in katakana I guess. Even if I were to speak it just like

that it probably won't be make sense or it'll sound like baby speak in parts.


When I was going along like that I finally met it. That's right, it said it was God. Sounds like a lie~ However, putting aside accepting it the way the knowledge

was directly poured into my brain as an explanation matches up, the only one that could do something like this is a God, all I can do is accept thinking that way. I

guess it couldn't be helped that I died in that accident. I realized that at the very least there was no way I could do anything about it.


Well, I was angry over the fact that the accident was man-made (God-made?). After all, it was completely us being hit by the spray off? I can't simply forgive this but

I quickly understood that God doesn't particularly care about being forgiven. In the first place, who would seek the forgiveness of ant they stepped on? I don't care

if it's showing face to keep from being looked down upon by the other party of the dispute but I guess I should grateful for even just being able to receive a new

life while maintaining my memories and a unique ability. I'll stop my judgement there.


Ah right, Unique Abilities. My Unique Ability is supposedly something called "Language Comprehension". According to the explanation God gave me it's something to

somewhat quickly be able to understand languages you don't know. The translation function is just like a bonus and it seems it's more effective to use it like a

dictionary to investigate words you don't know.


Also, in this world there's not just Unique Abilities but also something called Special Skills, and of all things magic is a Special Skill and anyone can use it

through training. I'm happy about this. I mean, it's magic after all? Being able to shoot balls of fire and such, just dream of the possibilities.


And God also said this. As a general classification there's two types of abilities, Unique Abilities and Special Skills. If you were to classify them even further

there's inherent and posterior ones. And even further classification there's active and passive. My language comprehension ability is both inherent and passive, plus

it's a unique ability so it seems that I'm the only one in the world with it. Of course, it's also possible to use it actively like a dictionary. However, using it

actively uses up mana so mana runs out. If you completely run out of mana it recovers while resting but since my body is still that of a baby it seems the upper

limit is low. In order to increase it beyond growth from age, there's acquiring and leveling up the special skill that is magic, training mana, or leveling up

yourself.


In short even if you ignore it, it'll increase a bit with age but using magic to train mana or by leveling up it also increases. That should be plenty as

information. And it's something important but the 39 victims of that accident including me all received some kind of unique ability at the same time as

reincarnating into this world it seems. Since it seems the culture in this world is considerably behind Japan so I want to gather up as soon as possible.


I feel uneasy being alone after all. Ah, I have parents don't I?




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After a while I feel an abnormality in my body. I'm tired and it seems I have a fever. I wonder if I caught a cold? If it's a cold then taking in some nutrition,

drinking some medicine, and sleeping is best. I need to rest.. drink some medicine.. does medicine exist?




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My cough doesn't stop. The food is just my mother's milk. My body feels sluggish.




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I don't even have the energy to cry. The fever and fatigue in my entire body is severe. The cough is the same as usual. Isn't this bad?




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I've realized that my stamina has fallen to it's limits. I feel like I can hear a worried voice. I can already somewhat understand the words they're saying but I

don't have the energy to understand. I wonder if the cells of my brain are just working and my stamina is decreasing? Just thinking about stupid things wastes my

stamina.




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...Ah, so tiring. I don't want to eat anything anymore. It's cold.




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Damn it. Damn it. Damn it. It's the end here huh? How vexing...




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I probably don't even have a fever anymore. I don't have enough energy to generate heat. Dying from a cold, lol.




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....A.......

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Summary: Sad story. A 16-year-old High School Student Kurita Koichiro riding the bus with a friend (SS8) reincarnates with a Unique Ability [Language Comprehension] and soon after dies of sickness.