Otoko Aruji - Side Story 30

Hmm... What a comeback chapter right. I hit a wall on those reverse chapters again, honestly they're just PoVs of the {Butchers}/{Exterminators} and not any real relevance other than showing their personality/mind state. They aren't terrible chapters but I'm putting them off for a bit as they're of even less relevance than Miduchi's chapters. Next chapter will be 235.

Also, in regards to Side Stories this is the last "pointless" one you don't need to read. If you check the top of the index I've added ** by the sides of side stories that I suggest reading as they come up and *** by the ones that I suggest reading (before volume 3 at least) but that don't need to be read right away. Other side stories that don't need to be read at all like this one have nothing.

This is quite literally the last of all the pointless side stories though...


Side Story 30 - In the case of Moroi Hisa (Age 16 at time of death)

(Come to think of it today was Valentine's Day..)

Moroi Hisa remembered after hearing the words of the high school girls talking noisily inside of the bus. Seeing the uniforms of the high school girls Hisa could tell they were upper classmen of the Hatsudai High School he attends. In really he already knew the face and name of just one person among them but Hisa wasn't being conscious of her. He wanted to think that way.

(Yukino-san..She won't notice me at all..)

Up until they entered elementary school, since their houses were close by during kindergarten they would often player together you could say she's a childhood friend one year older than him. When they went up to elementary school they separated from Hisa moving and that was the end of it. However, soon after entering high school and when he was taking orientation for club activities, Hisa immediately recognized that the manager of the soccer club was his childhood friend Yukino. Since even after entering the club and introducing himself Yukino didn't react to his name at all he hasn't been able to mention it until now.

If you were to say he's just a substitute first year member who doesn't stand out and isn't even in Yukino's consideration then that would be the end of it.

(That chocolate, after all it's for Sugii senpai..)

"I want the soccer club to give it their best as well. You know Takashi-senpai, because of his sense of responsibility as the former captain even now he still is properly looking after everyone. Isn't that amazing?"

While hearing Yukino talk to a girl who seems to be her classmate next to her Hisa recognized that he was getting even more depressed.

(For her to not even realize that one of the underclassmen of that soccer club is on this bus at this time..)

"Sugii-san, is he still coming to the school? Was the school he was entering already decided?"
"Yeah, it seems he's going to Jonan Music School! And, he intends to make a band! Isn't that cool? Even today he came to the school to coach some juniors! Isn't that great of him?"

Yukino's voice which stretches out the ends of all of her sentences echoed well through the bus.

(Thanks to that I'm greatly troubled though..Even today I was driven out by Sugii-senpai and the others and made to go and buy a present..Well, it's my own fault for losing at rock, paper, scissors though)

The next generation captain after Sugii as well, because even after retiring he often shows his face under the pretext of individual coaching he's gotten sick of Sugii, so they planned a farewell party to try and chase him away.

(Shit, I can't concentrate on my game either)

Every since Yukino and the others got on the bus he's lowered his face to look at his smartphone trying to not to standout as he plays a boring game. It's supposedly a popular title recommended to him by friends in his class. He's been playing it since just now but he couldn't understand what was fun about it at all.

He heard a loud squealing sound from the left and the glass windows from the wall behind Yukino and the others went flying.
Yukino came flying along with the bench she was sitting on.




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(It seems I was somehow saved..)

Hisa could somehow remember up to where the train came plunging in but he couldn't remember anything after that. A pain as if his entire entire body was being crushed, he sort of remembers that but he wondered if he was stuck in between some kind of material of the bus and train when he was rescued.

It seems he was seriously injured as his eyes are blurry and he can't see very well but since he was somehow able to see that the walls weren't white so he thought it must be a considerably stylish hospital. He must have been injected with a strong pain reliever as even the slightest bit of stimulation causes him to react and cry out but there was nothing like being scolded either. Somehow it seems his head is a bit dim as well, the talking of the nurses or doctors aren't entering his head at all either. Not just that but it even sounds almost like a foreign language or something.

However, in just a few days he noticed that somehow things seem strange.

And then, while carefully observing his surroundings and touching various parts of his body he gradually started to understand.

(Where is this? Who am I?)

I wonder if this is the so called spiritual out of body experience and possession I've heard about?
The fact that he couldn't speak well, in the end was it really the best for Hisa.

The confusion lasted for at most one day and after that he was able to take his time thinking.




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After several months passed and Hisa was able to obtain a considerable amount of information.
Probably because the words were close to English but he was able to somewhat understand what someone was talking about.
Obviously his eyes has started to be able to see clearly.
The scenery he saw was almost like that from some kind of Traveler's Journal magazine in the remote areas, not to mention some developing country where no convenience electronic goods exist.
On some plains and a forest with not many hills there were just fields cultivated by human power spreading out.

And then he was a baby.
His parents had the appearance of Westerns but they seemed strangely young.
He already found out his name. Matthew is new name Hisa was given.
Since he energetically moved around for the fir six months after being born, he ended up being tied up to a pillar so he doesn't move around foor long as he pleases.
It seemed like his family were farmers and they were often seen going to the fields carrying what could be called considerably primeval farming tools.

It's not like there's anything in particular to do, it's all things that he couldn't understood from just thinking about it.

(What should I do..)

Hisa, now known as Matthew thought but after all there was not a single thing he can or could do.

(After all I, died didn't I..)

Since he was bored he confirmed his current situation countless times and thought about it. It's only obvious that the conclusion he came to every time was the same.

(Father and mother..I wonder how they're doing..)




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Von! Von!

He could hear the barking of a wild dog.
Usually even if he hears wild dogs it's just at the level of howling.
It was unusual that he could hear it from this close.

Genbiru Village where Matthew lives is in the inland areas near the center of Duke Belgriddo's territory.
The public order is decently good and it's a land with almost no damage from monsters.

Though thanks to that the Viscount and squires who govern the village have had their sense of danger drop but that's nothing to criticize them over.

(It's considerably close.)

Judging from the volume of the barking he was able to guess it was right near the house.
Unable to control his emotions Matthew started crying in a loud voice.
Since he started crying in the middle of the night Matthew's mother left the house holding him.
Matthew would occasionally cry at night but he would often stop crying right away after circling the house one time.




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And then several days passed.
Some nights, just the same as usual Matthew's mother would carry him outside around the house in the middle of the night when he starts crying, but this day developed in a major incident.

They were attacked by a wild dog.
However, fortunately they were also able to chase it off right away.
Hearing Matthew's cries spurred on by the wild dog attacking and his own wife's screams the father of the household quickly ran out of the house and things ended without a problem.

Though that's the case, there was 4 or 5 wild dogs.
Including Matthew his parents suffered some light bites wounds.
However, the wounds were really light and even to a baby like Matthew they weren't anything significant.
Obviously there was no problems with his bones either.
Matthew himself even thought (it should heal cleanly in 2-3 weeks).




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One day around two months later, the abnormality first appeared in Matthew.
He felt listless from the morning almost as if it was a light cold and even though the bites have already completely healed the area where he received it around his knees itched.
The reason is unknown but he felt strong feelings of unease as well.

(Ah, it can't be helped since I've returned to being a baby but I'd like to be pardoned from this~)

Since up until now Matthew had been unable to control his emotions numerous times he didn't realize he was infected with a disease.
The name of the disease is {Rabies}.
Even since ancient times on Earth it's stolen countless lives and still hasn't been eradicated, after the symptoms have started to appear even in modern times there's no treatment method, a frightening disease that has tens of thousands of victims every year.
The only salvation could be that it can't be spread from one person to another.




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Just a few days after that Matthew completely stopped drinking water.
Every time he tried to swallow soup or water an intense pain ran through his throat.
And then soon after just seeing water caused him to remember the pain, he would get afraid and cry out half in confusion.

Matthew's parents were unable to do anything.
They brought him to he healer in the village where he was diagnosed with hydrophobia and were told there was nothing that could be done.

When asked by the healer if the parents had any idea of how he could have gotten sick they couldn't think of anything. Being bitten by cats or dogs is a daily occurrence in this sort of remote territory and above all else there's far more frightening monsters out there, the healers have no knowledge that cats or dogs could be the source of disease either.

In the end they just had healing magic used on him once for consolation and the family returned to their house.

Patients with an outbreak of hydrophobia last at longest a few days before all of the muscles in their bodies go number and they die.
His parents lamented and were saddened, but the two of them couldn't have even dreamed that they would follow after their son from an outbreak of hydrophobia as well.