"A Man Is Made By His Beliefs. As He Believes, So He Becomes" - Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 17 verse 3
Part - 1
ORDINARY
6:00 am
I wake up for school, even though I never feel like it I just force myself up, not that I'm bad at academics; in-fact I'm one of the top of my class but the reason I don't even feel like going to school is because, well, I don't think there's any specific reason for it.
11:45 am
It's lunch time as we speak, I often just fuck around with my friends during this time period
1:00 pm
A thought just struck me - why am I bitchless at the age of 16 - then I looked at my friends and got a bit of relief; all of them are bitchless too, maybe this problem has something to do with my friend group, I guess?
4:00 pm
I don't have any consistent hobbies, that's why the only thing I have to do at home other than school work is watching anime or reading manga. I don't like playing games anymore, maybe because my life itself is a game…man this line was so cringe, I can't believe I said that.
10:00 pm
Took me long enough to do my piled up school work but I'm free at last.
11:00 pm
The day went by just as usual: I had dinner a bit late though, anyways I will be using my smartphone till 12 am and then go to sleep.
6:00 am
The alarm rings pains to hear and I only had 6 hours of sleep too but uh gotta go to school now.
11:45 am
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1:00 pm
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4:00 pm
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10:00 pm
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11:30 pm
Just another usual day, yet again.
6:00 am
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[June 18, 2022]
The days keep passing by as some video tape on loop designed upon a specific pattern, and I don't think this is ever going to change; the people, the world (except for a select few) live a life built upon a certain specific sequence of events.
We may call them ordinary people? Most of the people surrounding me are a part of this group; and I have probably already become a part of this blend. It's most likely going to be like this till my sweet death at an old age.
"Ryo-chan! Stop scribbling in your diary and come here ASAP"
"Comin'!"
"Meh, they can't let me relax for a sec, I bet it's some work she is going to impose on me-" Just before Ryota could complete his rant his mother told him "Ryo-chan, we are moving to a different place"
"Huh, what? Why so suddenly?" Ryota was a bit surprised; he also thought that his mother could be playing a prank on him. "Your dad has been transferred to Osaka prefecture and we will move out in 2-3 days, it's pretty far from here so finish any business you have here and be ready to move out soon", Ryota asked "But what about my school?" "About that, your dad has already talked to the principal and fetched every necessary report for you to transfer to a school in Osaka", "uh, sure then" it was all still very sudden for Ryota but he got over it just as quickly.
- Ryota came back to his room and jumped on the bed; lying on his back -
Guess I'm gonna be a transfer student now, I haven't changed school even once so this is a new experience for me, not a good one though, I worry if I would be a loner there cuz my communication skill sucks.
Well, whatever it's already 11:36 pm, I'll just go to sleep now.
[June 21, 2022]
Early morning
The Kimura family consisting of Kimura Kaede (Ryota's mother), Kimura Makoto (Ryota's father) and their only child Kimura Ryota left for Osaka after all the preparations and reached their destiny at around 7 'o clock.
[The next day]
Uh man I still wasn't prepared to go to school but my parents…huh, I just wish I don't get isolated, or bullied in the worst case and I do hope to pull a cute girl (Ryota has never been in a relationship before)
7:34 am
- At the front gate of the school -
Ryota was sitting on the side of the road and his white shirt was full of spatter of blood on it…he ended up not going to school that day.
Part - 2
THE INCIDENT
7:02 am
Ryota was almost at his school which was located on a hill. There weren't many students in sight, so he realized that he had come to school early. Shortly, he saw another boy of the same age as him a couple hundred meters away from the school, at first he obviously guessed that the boy was coming for the school from that direction thus he didn't pay much attention to it.
The weather was cloudy and it seemed that rain was soon to come, little droplets of rain were already pouring.
Ryota looked at the boy again, the boy was going over the railing trying to get closer to the brink of the hill. He got suspicious of it and rushed to the boy through the paved path. The boy took notice of him and just before Ryota could reach the boy, the boy jumped off the cliff but Ryota made it and tightly grabbed his hand from the other side of the railing.
"Leave my hand!" the boy said, Ryota disregarded it and asked him "why are you committing suicide!?" He didn't answer it and struggled to get Ryota slip his hand but wasn't succeeding. "I don't even know you but I sure can't let you commit suicide", "there's no reason for me to live my life is already a hell, life has no meaning anyways, death could be my only salvation", "I don't know what you have gone through to come to this conclusion but there's always a reason to keep living, and if you can't find one right now then live on to find one and you eventually will, life sure doesn't have a meaning to it by itself but we can give it one" the boy didn't reply to Ryota and went silent
Ryota exerted force from both of his hands and tried to pull the boy up, the boy wasn't trying to get pulled up but neither was he resisting - The rain had already come - Ryota had almost pulled the boy on the surface, he was assure that the boy is safe now, the boy also thought that his attempt failed and said "it's over now". A plant got stuck in the boy's lower leg, Ryota's grip was getting loose because of the rain and fatigue on the muscle though he wasn't letting it go. Ryota told the boy "get the plant off and try to push above", the boy had no other choice and he had already given up on suiciding - or anything - so he just did what Ryota said.
It seemed hard to untuck the stuck plant so the boy thought to do it by force "if I push above with force then the plant will break by itself" the boy thought, thus he started pushing above by putting his other leg on the brink. The stuck plant eventually broke and he got above on the surface but all of a sudden his leg slipped which made him disbalanced and fall off the hill. Ryota tried to grab his hand but it slipped off because it was already wet all over. The boy fell down a height of around 30 meters (100 feet) and hit his head on a rock along with various other injuries all over the body from the fall causing instant death.
Ryota rushed to see the boy in extreme panic falling on the road a couple of times till he reached the boy, finding nothing but a dead body full of bruises and blood. He sat down and grabbed the boy to check if he's still alive but there was no sign of it, grabbing the boy made his white shirt red with blood.
Ryota thought of calling for help (hospital, police) but he didn't have a cell phone at that time, the nearest place he could find help was his school which was a couple hundred meters away. He ran to the school, his stomach had started to hurt from the consistent sprinting but he didn't pay any attention to it.
7:34 am
Ryota had almost reached the school, as it was still earlier than school timing very less students were to be seen but those who saw Ryota were both confused and terrified of it, his shirt was splattered all over with blood. Just when he was about to enter the school, he suddenly ran into one of the teachers and fell on the road.
The teacher saw Ryota, suddenly realizing that a horrible incident had just happened and asked him what's the matter. Ryota explained it to the teacher and asked to call for help ASAP and get to the boy, all while knowing that the boy was already dead.
8:06 am
The school was immediately closed because of a 'sudden emergency' without disclosing the matter to other students.
The police were already there examining the scene, taking photographs, marking and closing the area while also inquiring Ryota. Ryota was held as the suspect for murder as he was the only one to witness this incident though the body was first sent to post-mortem at a hospital by ambulance to get to know the real cause of death.
The police called for the parents of the late boy and also held an investigation on him.
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