Track 4 - Everyday Life (Fake)
What era did it start?
Hidden in the shadows of history, this bloodline has simply been passed down.
A necessary evil? An animal’s survival instinct? “Ninokuruwa” is a house steeped in shadows, hidden behind the powers that be.
The return of imperial rule, defeat in the war, and their ideological collapse…
There have been many turning points in history that could have sealed their fate, but in the end, they’ve tenaciously survived.
All the way until this era, where freedom is upheld, and love and wisdom are seen as blessings.
And now, I live as that house’s Tenth member.
Simply because I was born there.
I exist to live and die there.
―― I’m talking to her.
About the stupid, ridiculous, meaningless things that happen in my life.
“So yesterday, I finally did my first tour. I tried pretty hard, y’know? It’s a pain, but I gotta make sure they don’t have any reason to kick me out.”
“You know that report I had to do for uni? I completely spaced out and almost got an A+. Ended up sneaking into the prof’s office at night to fix it. It’d be a major drag if my grades were too good, right?”
“The big deer of Chinatown got shown up by that stray dog. Crazy, right? I mean, I’m pretty surprised by it, but I’m sure it was an even bigger shock for him.”
“Today was tiring as fuuuck. Some low-ranking member in the organization screwed up, so I ended up getting dragged into it. Cleaning up after these guys was a major pain in the ass.”
“This job was easy peasy. That stray dog has loose lips when he’s drunk, and it only took a second to win him over. If I get a bonus this time, I’ll buy you a present.”
“You know that skater I told you about? He came all the way to my uni just to bring me a bento he made. Funny, right? But you know those people I hang out with, those uh, uni friends? I guess? They got pretty jealous, so I was thinking I could make some cash off of it…but even I’m not that much of an asshole.”
“That girl wasn’t too hard to deal with, but damn did she get pissed. Not a huge shocker though. Are you okay? Pretty sure I kept you out of the way.”
“That genius who cheated death seems like he has pretty good intuition. Too bad his weaknesses are obvious. Must suck having something you cherish.”
“Oh yeah, starting tomorrow, I’m gonna be the mayor of HAMA Ward 1. I’ll be starting another life again…”
Another life of lies…
“Will you come with me?”
She didn’t say anything.
But I still took her with me.
An abandoned past, a life steeped in lies, temporary roles, a fake name forgotten with every reset, and beyond all of it the vague outline of the real me.
She’s the only one who knows of the man named “Ten Ninokuruwa”
―― “...When the Ninth died, they asked me…”
A voice echoes from the distant past.
“‘Do you have a backbone that supports your life?’…My backbone is…”
The thing I stole from the Ninth. “She,” who knows everything about me.
For me, who's always lying, always playing the role of somebody else, she’s the only thing that’s like a backbone.
I have no other constant.
I was simply born to live and die.
Just another unremarkable life buried within the pages of history.
A life without rhyme or reason.