3-gatsu no Lion 9

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Chapter 9 Contract

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thought: That person is Father's friend.

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guy: ....
guy: Hn.

guy: Why didn't you take the dragon?
[tl note: The promoted rook]

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kiri: Ah...
kiri: If I took the dragon,

kiri: I feel like I'll get checkmate...

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kiri: ....
kiri: Here.

kiri: You can tell easily that I'd get checkmate.

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guy: And I thought that you would take the dragon.

guy: You're not like a child.

guy: Do you want to checkmate me?

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dad: Kouda, I'm sorry that I was late.

dad: There was an emergency patient.

kouda: Oh, good work.

dad: I feel bad for making you wait.

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kouda: No, it's alright.

kouda: There was Rei-kun here to be my opponent.

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thought: Even though he was Father's friend, but everytime that person came, I would get excited for no reason.
[tl: gahhhh that sounds so wrong ><]

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kouda: Rei-kun made a very interesting move just now.

thought: Father and that person once participated in Shorei Kai a long time ago.

kou: It feels very much like the way you used to play shogi.
kou: Looks like you put in a lot of work into it.

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thought: No matter if it was in the neighborhood or at school, I was also the kid that got bullied.

father: At that time, even though I wanted to play outside, but...

thought: No matter what I did, I couldn't make friends.

father: This quality is also similar...
father: To me.

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thought: My shogi was horrible. But because I could spend quality time with my father who was often busy with work, I spent all my time learning how to play.

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thought: I would never be able to take part in the topics of my classmates.

thought: No matter what, I was unable to catch up to their feet.

thought: I always felt like I was listening to a different language.

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thought: And the words that person said, sitting on the other side of the shogi board...

thought: Each word made a deep mark left in my heart.

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thought: Even though, he was an adult, he would always speak to me seriously.

thought: ...This made me understand.

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thought: This kind of person... Besides family, he was the only one...

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kiri: Eh?
kiri: You want me to go to the nursery school to pick up Momo-chan?

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aka: Because oba, she...

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aka: Ah, you should have met her.
aka: She's the female register of the store, "Misaki".
aka: She accidentally stepped off the stairs and hurt her leg. She's at the hospital right now.

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aka: Hina is at her club right now and I can't contact her.
aka: Ojii-chan is still working at the store.

aka: I'm sorry.
aka: But could you do this favor for me?

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teacher: Momo-chan!!
teacher: Someone's here for you!

momo: Coming!!

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momo: Ah!! It's Rei-chan!!

[kiri: Hello...]

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kiri: Seems happy today.

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kiri: Momo-chan, what are you singing?

momo: Oh, this?
momo: It's the Cat's Song!

momo: Have you heard it?

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kiri: ....Nope.

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kiri: It's my first time.

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momo: Ah!

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kiri: Wait!

kiri: Hey!!

sfx: roll roll roll....

momo: Momo's hat~~~!!

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kiri: Ah, got it.

[kiri: It almost fell into the river...]

sfx: pat pat

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girl: Stop that, Shiro!

dog: WOOF!! WOOF!!
[dog: WAHH~~ What a cute girl~~ Let's play~~~]

momo: KYAAA!! KYAAAA!!!

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dog: WOOF WOOF

sfx: I like you! I like you! pant pant pant

momo: NOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!

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kiri: Momo-chan!

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kiri: Momo-chan!

dog: Hey~ Hey~ Pretty girl~ Let's play~ Hey~ Hey~ Let's play~]

sfx: pant pant pant pant pant

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sfx: crash~!

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girl: I'm sorry! I'm so sorry!

dog: Ah.... I made her cry..... i'm sorry.....

kiri: Momo-chan, are you alright?

kiri: huff

kiri: huff

kiri: huff

momo: WAHHHH~~~~~

kiri: Is your forehead okay? Did you fall!?

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kiri: Look!
kiri: We're home, Momo-chan.

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kiri: We'll check out your scratches right away.

sfx: whimper whimper

momo: Wuu...

kiri: Momo-chan,
kiri: Do you know where the medicine box is?

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kiri: Let me see.
kiri: ...Ahh, sand got into the scratches.

momo: wuu

momo: wuu

momo: wuu

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kiri: Alright, let's wash your hands first, okay?

momo: Rei-chan, it hurts...

kiri: I'm sorry. Just bear with it a little longer.

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kiri: Okay, first...
kiri: Antiseptics...

kiri: And then...

kiri: Bandages.

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girl: Onii-chan!

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momo: ....
momo: Rei-chan?

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kiri: I'm really sorry about...
kiri: Today.

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aka: Rei-kun,
aka: Ah... Really...

aka: You really don't have to worry about it.

aka: It's normal for a child to fall.

momo: Momo doesn't hurt anymore!

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hina: Rei-chan seems to really care about this.

black cat: Mmph... It's so bright.

[hina: He only ate a little bit of dinner......]

white cat: Hey~ My throat's really dry. Can you give me some milk?

hina: Momo, did you cry really badly?

momo: Momo didn't cry at all!

arrows: Lying

cat: I haven't had dinner yet... Meow...

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momo: But, Rei-chan cried.

momo: His tears were big!

momo: Momo saw!

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hina: Eh?

hina: Why?

hina: Why did Rei-kun cry?

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aka: ....Ah...

aka: Then, it must be...

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aka: That he thought of his past.

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aka: Rei-chan he also had...

aka: A younger sister.

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thought: My daily life... One day, it was suddenly shredded into many pieces...

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thought: After coming home from a trip, my important father, mother and little sister... They became icey cold, hard, and badly wounded bodies.

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guy: I hear that they were hit by a drunk driver in a truck.

guy: All three died immediately.

guy: What's going to happen to their son?

guy: Is he going to be adopted by his father's sister, Kiwako?

guy: How would that happen? That woman would never do something like that.

guy: And Grandfather is already at such an old age.

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old man: Those wretched fools...
old: What's going to happen to my hospital?

old: I had just...
old: Gotten you to give up shogi.
old: And I thought that everything would go well after that...

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guy: Father, it's alright. You still have me

guy: Don't worry! Just leave it to me!!

woman: That's right. Didn't we say this from the beginning?
woman: Father always had onii-chan.

old: sob

old: sob

old: sob

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kiwako: I feel so bad.
kiwa: As for Rei-chan, I'll prepare a place with everything for you.

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thought: A place with everything... I didn't know what kind of place that was.

thought: ...But...

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thought: Since the beginning, no matter how painful it was at school...

thought: When I returned home to my warm room at night, being all alone...

thought: I would be able to relax.

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thought: ...But, if I went to a place like that...

thought: When I returned, there would still be people around me...
thought: It would be the same while I slept...

thought: I know that in the 365 days of a year, that "time of relaxation"...

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thought: I will never experience a single second of it again.....

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thought: ...And then, that person came to my side.

thought: At the funeral, there were many family members that came.

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thought: But at that time, only that person came into my room.

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thought: That feeling of reminiscence made me want to painfully cry.

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sfx: whisper

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kiwa: That's why I'm saying that the Kiriyama Hospital will now be inherited by my husband.
kiwa: No matter what you say, it'll be useless.

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sfx: whisper

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lady: Goodness. Look that Ms. Kiwako's attitude.

lady2: That woman has always been like that.

man: Shh. We're in front of the Buddha.

lady: But!!

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kouda: ......
kouda: Do you...

kouda: Like shogi?

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thought: This was the moment the contract was made.

thought: Since then, the god of shogi and I...

kiri: .....
kiri: Yes.

thought: It was a lie...

thought: That was my first time in life...

thought: Lying in order to survive...

thought: ....And it was a point of no return........

thought: Have been wrapped together because of that ugly lie.

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thought: And so, the curtain...

thought: Was so rashly pulled down...

thought: ....I become a child of a shogi family.