Reiryuu Academy Student Council

66 Heart and Darkness

Summer break was also plugged in mid-day one day.

The largest hospital in the city, there was a bud grenade in the orthopedic waiting room there.

A while later the door of the clinic opened and Kei with crutches came out of the inside.

"Sister Bud Grey, I'm so sorry"

When he came out, Bud Grey grinned bitterly when he saw Kei apologizing to Bud Grey.

"What are you talking about? What was that?

The bud grenade stood up and ran over by Kei. He hurt his right leg a little in the football practice game. Because Kei is a freshman but a major fighter, he was referred to the hospital by his coach, and this is how the bud grenade followed him as an escort.

"He had a broken ankle. He said he'd be at rest for a while."

Kei tells in a bitter way. "I can't play soccer for a month - or something seems dull," he groaned unfortunately.

"Ma, I'm glad it's not important. We need to get better soon."

"Right. It'll annoy the team."

"I called your father earlier and he said he was picking you up out of the office because it was just lunch."

"Seriously? Lucky."

The bud grenade slowly walks down the hospital corridor in conjunction with the speed of the guillotine wearing the crutches.

Then he found himself well acquainted at the reception of the spacious entrance.

"Is that it? Come on, Ro."

If you follow the end of the bud grenade's gaze, you'll see Laila just walking into the hospital. That look on my prominent golden hair. I can tell in an instant and I can't go wrong.

"What's wrong?

Kei smiled when he saw the bud grenade squeaking a little worryingly.

"You can go. I'll go with my dad."

That's what Kei said and left the entrance slowly by himself.

The bud grenade sweetened Kei's words and headed to Lailuo.

"Come, Ro."

He walked early and the bud grenade called out to Lailuo. He hadn't noticed any sign of the bud grenade, and Lailuo's shoulder jumped in a freak.

"Wow!! Ah... uh, ru-chan?

Lailuo seemed more surprised to confirm the appearance of the bud grenade. Surely it would surprise me to see you here.

"Ru-chan, is something wrong?

"Yeah. Kei got a foot injury and that escort -. Come on, Ro. What's wrong with you?

Bud grenade leaned his neck worryingly, and Lailuo grinned bitterly at it.

"Don't look like that. I'm not bad anywhere. My mom's in the hospital, and I'm just here to pay her a visit."

"Hospitalization... are you okay?

Lailuo just laughs and doesn't answer that question. And as he dropped his gaze to think of something, Lailuo took a deep breath and laughed at the bud grenade.

"Ru-chan"

Lailao calls the bud grenade in a slightly lonely voice.

"Hey, mom's welcome, can you escort me?

The bud grenade was taken to Lailuo, went up the hospital stairs and proceeded down the hallway of the ward.

Then Lailao stopped in front of a private room door.

The name tag plate in the private room says "Kaoruko".

"Are you sure it's okay if I'm here?

"Yeah. I mean, I think that would make my mom happier,"

Lailuo smiled and said, the bud grenade went into the door without thinking.

When I walk into the room, I smell like a rose. Despite being one of the rooms of the hospital, there is a sense of femininity in the room.

Kaoru's mother, Kaoruko, was waking up from her bed and looking out the window at the view.

The same purple long dark hair as Lailuo's ground hair attracted the bud grenade's eye.

"Mom."

Kaoruko turned around with a nostalgic grin as Laila called in her adorable voice.

"Come Ro, you're still here today. Oh, is she your friend?

When Lailuo nodded, Kaoruko laughed happily when he saw the bud grenade. The smile was very similar to that of Lai Luo.

"It's a Nanhara bud grenade. I always come to take care of Luo."

"I'm Lai Luo's mother. I'm sorry. I greeted you dressed like this."

"No, I don't... I'm sorry I came all of a sudden."

The bud grenade rushed to wave and bow his head.

"Come Ro, if you had such a lovely girl friend, I would have liked you to introduce her soon."

"Huh. Sorry, Mom"

Lailuo and Kaoruko, I saw how the two of them were doing and immediately thought Bud Grey was a good parent and son.

Then the bud grenade had been here for a while and Kaoruko and I had fun playing the conversation.

Kaoruko's complexion isn't bad, and he's fine. I guess it doesn't mean it's a serious illness.

It was the arrow tip that the bud grenade thought so.

"Come Ro, I was worried because I was only with my boy friends. I wonder if you don't have any friends of the same sex..."

Kaoruko says with a serious face.

The bud grenade was bewildered by the reaction for a moment. You must be mistaken. I thought so, but the idea disappeared in the next word.

"Sometimes girls can only talk to each other, right? Say hello to you, buddy."

"Huh... ah..."

"Sorry, Mom. Me too - you have business to attend to. My dad said he'd come visit me after work. We should probably go home."

Lailao smiled and said goodbye to Kaoruko so as to shelter the bud grenade, which could not hide the confusion.

"Oh really? I'll be discharged soon, and now you can come and visit me at your house slowly. Bud Grey."

"Ah...... yes. Nice to meet you, please. Take care."

Bud Grey laughed and greeted him, leaving the room with Lai Luo.

I left the room and there was silence between the two of us for a while.

Asked if he had time for Lailuo, the bud grenade nodded. They often sat on a bench in a park outside the hospital without having a conversation.

I had to say something, but every word I could think of was unreliable.

Seeing how such a bud grenade looked, Lailuo was grinning bitterly.

"Ru. Thanks. It's been a while since I saw your mom's delightful face."

"I'm nothing..."

Lailao shook his head to the side.

"My mom was so healthy today - thanks to you"

Lailuo really appreciated it. I took the bud grenade because I knew the bud grenade was confusing and I still thought Kaoruko would be happy.

"Come Ro.... Um, Lai Luo's mother... about Lai Luo..."

The bud grenade had chosen the word. Mei Luo also knew what he wanted to say, and Mei Luo smiled and opened his mouth.

"You're surprised, aren't you? My mom thinks I'm really a girl. That's the right way to put it."

Lai Luo's smile seemed lonely sometime. It wasn't the usual smile of Laila that seemed adorable and entertaining.

"Ru, I think you've figured it out too... my mom is suffering from a heart attack"

Lailuo said in a quiet voice, looking up at the sky. "I've been doing that for a long time now..." said Laila, continuing the conversation.

"My mom always wanted a girl. But when you gave birth to me, it seemed like a difficult birth... and I could never have a child again... That's why my mom would never admit I was a boy."

Lailuo was spinning his words as if he were talking gay.

"But I'm still small and... naturally I dress like a boy and do things like a boy... and then my mom cries and falls every time she sees me like that and keeps going crazy"

Say it like Lai Luo is nothing. But I couldn't believe that in bud grenades. The mother of Lailuo, whom I just met, was a really normal good mother, if she missed her last remarks. It also came to pass that I love Lai Luo very much.

"So... I promised my dad I'd be a girl for my mom when I was little. But I knew I was a boy, so if I'd done that halfway... I wouldn't be able to have a boy friend or a girl friend. If I pulled it off, I'd be like a mechanical nerd..."

He came to Lilong School from the middle department, and Lailuo said that it was the first time he had reached out to me.

Shotaro and his situation are similar. Lailuo said so, and the bud grenade was convinced of it.

"So is this admission. I just happened to see him in the bathroom and he just collapsed looking like me."

Lailao laid his eyes down.

I was remembering Kaoruko's face when I saw who I really was a long time ago.

"... it's the sea - you heard it, didn't you? Why don't you stretch your hair?"

Lailuo looked at the bud grenade. The bud grenade nodded small.

"That's the full resistance for me to be me. Because I'm a boy after all."

As much as I want to grasp where no one is, as much as I want to grasp the real, man's own freedom.

That's why Laila keeps cutting her hair.

The bud grenade leaned down and clenched his fist cuddly on his knees.

"... sorry, let me tell you something unpleasant..."

"Yeah. I'm sorry I let you talk like this to me. It's just that there's something I wanted to tell you. I wanted to tell you about it."

The bud grenade said, "What do you want to tell me?," he tilted his neck. Lailuo smiled gently.

"Even my parents wouldn't admit it was me if I was dressed as a boy. Even the board members didn't know it was me when they first saw it. But Ru-chan knew right away it was me when she first saw who I was, right?

"... yeah. But because... Lai Lai is Lai Lai"

I can tell that Lailao is Lailao. Bud grenades took that for granted. But that was special for Lailuo, and the current language of the bud grenade was still special for Lailuo.

"When we first talked, Ru-chan told you, didn't he? She said it had nothing to do with gender. It may have been a normal word for Ru... but I was so happy."

The bud grenade tries to sort out some of the memories in his head. He did say that. I didn't think about anything in particular, and I cherished the words I said.

"Thanks, Ru-chan. So keep it up... this is what I wanted to say"

Lailuo said in the light of the smell, offering his hand to the bud grenade.

"I didn't do anything to be thanked. Thank you so much for coming. Come, Ro."

The bud grenade shook Lailuo's hand and laughed.

Lailao was just satisfied to see that smile.

"Are you hungry? Let's go eat something."

Lailuo lifts his hips off the bench and walks with Stasta in front of the bud grenade.

The bud grenades hurriedly lined up next to Lailuo.

"Come, Ro."

"What?

"You know... there's nothing I can do."

The bud grenade stared at Lailuo with a serious face.