Disgust in rise

In a room at a certain place, a scroll was hanging on walls which stated,

“ EMOTIONS ARE THE ONES WHICH GAVE MEANING TO LIFE “

In front of that scroll an old bald man was sitting. Spinning the brush in hand and staring blankly at whatever his eyes caught in the room.

*knock knock* A shadow appeared on the tatami gate in front of the old man.

“Yes?”

The shadow slide opens the door slowly and says while in seize posture

“Tengen-sama,excuse my visit.”

“What's the matter?"

“According to the news we received there is a sudden rise in DISGUST among humans.”

“Hmm….” The old man Tengen moves the brush in the air aimlessly.”It's probably a natural phenomenon considering today's world……still tell the PRIDE section captain to send someone for a simple investigation.”

“As your command Tengen-sama, excuse me.”

<>

There are many reasons for which a war could start, famine, hunger to gain power or control over others, to get their hands on something the others have or from the fear of others.

I am also going to take part in one type of war. A war mostly fought by women. A war which is held in most Japanese supermarkets.

But today this war is going to be much more fearsome, because today…..today they are going for… the special sale happening on meat!!!!

When I was looking around I noticed my rivals started to appear on the battlefield, the horse legs wielder Asami-san, the fastest hand wielder Sachi-san and The one wielding the power of 100 man Hiraru-san. There are other housewives but they are the ones whom I have lost to many times.

While I was observing my rivals a lady came wearing the apron of staff, we all knew it was time for battle.

With the most serious expressions we headed to war.

<>

This is post war news, I suffered an utter defeat.

Not only that, I got 3 packs of O-Toro grade Tuna meat, one from each of them as they took pity on me and laughed….

“Haha..ouch!” A laugh escaped out as I remembered their laughing faces but a stinging pain stopped me .

You may find it weird that I am laughing because you don't know that these types of moments are common between me and them, and I also don't hate how they treat me.

I am like their own son to them. Even though we met in the supermarket , somehow we ended up in this type of friendly relation.

…Even with this scar on my face I am treated as someone normal by them……..

I was lost in my own thoughts, so much that I didn't even realized that I already reached home until by little brother called out me,

“Nii-san, where are you going?”

I snapped out of my gloomy thoughts and looked behind, my little brother was pointing at the entrance of our house.

“Did you forget to buy something?”

With a smile I replied “oh! I somehow didn't notice it..”

“Hahaha, you should pay attention to where you are going nii-san.”

“Now now, don't laugh at me. Let's go inside.”

We went inside.

After placing the things I bought at their places I started preparing for the dinner. And yup, I had to use THAT fish meat.

Time passed. The dinner was ready. I was sitting on the couch waiting for my dad.

*Creak*

“I am home” Dad announced from the entrance.

I went and prepared the plates, bowls and chopsticks.

*Thump Thump Thump*

My little brother came running from his room on the second floor and hugged him.

“Dad! Welcome back!!”

“Oh Shigeo! You are full of energy hahaha.”

“When is he not?” My little sister said from the stairs.

“Lemon, help me.” I called her.

After dad changed his clothes we sat around the dining table and had dinner.

While savoring the meat in the mouth we had our little conversation. Mainly the topic was which high school Lemon was going to attend, she is in 3rd year of her middle school.

“I am going to nii-san’s high school.” That was her answer in 2nd year and now.

I tried to convince her to go to any other high school when she first declared it but she didn't change her choice.

It's not like I hate my sister and don't want her to go to the same school with me or anything, rather I was happy for a few seconds when I heard it until my memories reminded me of what was going on with me.

After finishing dinner dad and shigeo took a bath while me and lemon washed the dishes.

When they were finished we took turns to bathe.

Both Shigeo and Lemon were gone to their rooms. Dad was watching TV sitting on the couch and i was folding the clothes when he suddenly asked me

“Is everything going well in school?”

“W-what?” It took me by surprise.

“You don't look well nowadays.”

“Everything is good, you are just imagining things dad.” I forced a smile.

“Maybe I am but…whenever I look in your eyes they look…. lifeless and dead.”

Honestly it is not surprising that my dad can tell that much even though I try my hardest to not show it on my face because he is my dad.

“It's just….I am missing mom.” I was.

Dad paused for a second, like I said something which put pressure on him though it is true that it was such a subject.

With a sour expression dad replies “ They…….can't find her, no matter how much the police search for her.”

I knew that dad was hiding something but seeing the expression of his face whenever this topic came made me stop from asking any further.

I mustered up courage once and asked dad about mom, maybe because it was around two or three weeks after mom went missing that dad had such a scary expression when he replied “You will not understand.”. I was in 1 year of my middle high school at that time, with no knowledge about the world or courage to ask any further.

“Oh I remembered! You are going to come late tomorrow right?” I changed the topic to avoid any darker atmosphere.

“Yes, there will be a meeting and the president holding an afterparty tomorrow so don't make my portion of dinner.”

“Got you. Don't drink too much.”

I took all the clothes and headed towards the door.

“If you are being….. bullied at school just tell me.” dad said as I opened the door.

I turned to answer “Bullying? Why will I be bullied? You are overthinking dad.” I laughed it off.

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In the back left corner of the classroom I was sitting on my seat near the window. Head resting on the arms on the desk.

“Look at this picture.”

Some boys from class towards the door at the back started talking.

“Oh! She is the idol. How did you get your hands on this photo.”

“Someone spotted her yesterday and posted her picture.”

“She is a beauty! I wanna date her so badly.”

“Do you think she will even talk to you ?”

“Maybe not her but I may have a chance with girls in our class.”

sigh...…they are again at it.

“Our class does have some beautiful girls.whom will you want to date Kazuki?”

“Um…Furuya Azumi-san, She is my type.”

“Most of the guys have their eyes on her. It's only been 2 months since the start of our 1st term but some guys had the guts to propose to her.”

“She needs someone like me, a handsome figure not like the disgusting face sitting towards the window.”

It started.

“Don't talk about gross things in the morning..ahhh now I am recalling his face.”

“How can he even walk in public with that face of his, yuck!”

“Doesn't his family feel sad looking at him.”

“Even he knows his face looks gross, that's why he is covering that side with his long bangs.”

They kept this conversation going until the homeroom teacher came.

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After school was over I stayed behind because it was my cleaning duty that day with one other guy who left and ditched it all on me.

It was nothing new. Bumping into me on purpose, doing something to my shoes in shoelocker, punishment games involving me etc are there ways of having fun.

I would have gone through all this somehow but nowadays they started to involve my family in their talk. Day by day my worries increase, what if someday somehow they start targeting my brother and sister.

If I start thinking about all the stuff happening to me I sink in an abyss of negative thoughts.

What did I even do to them?

The school is the place where my heart sinks in the oceans of thought. The pressure keeps increasing the further it sinks.

It's suffocating to feel all those eyes staring at me with pity but still avoiding me. Whenever I try to talk to others from outside of school, bad memories make me feel awkward and I can't.

I kept covering myself with all those foggy thoughts until a voice blew them away.

“Are you okay?”

I stopped erasing the board and turned towards the voice.

“U-Uragao ari-san!?”