From the “Dolce” gacha.
Can be found under the “Sub” story tab in Ensemble Girls! Memories.
Written by: Akira
Month: April
Tohmi Chika
In progress.
Kuromori Suzu
Chapter 1
> Living complex
Suzu: (What in the world am I doing?
Standing around alone, at a place like this…
What a harsh rain… Maybe the heavens are laughing at me too. For the fool I am.
For the idiot I am, clinging ruefully onto a past now gone for good, remaining lost in it forever…)
“Achoo!”
(Uugh, I’m totally wet from the rain… I’ll catch a cold like this…
Goes to show that even rain, a blessing, is nothing but deadly poison to someone cursed by God, like me…)
“Achoo! Achoo!☆”
(Crap. My sneezing isn’t rock n’ roll at all.
At least to spit on the heavens that bestowed this damned fate upon me, I should sneeze more imposingly.)
“A-A-Ach-Clochette! Ac-clo-… Achoo!”
(I can’t do it… Seriously, what am I doing…? I’m starting to feel dumb…)
“Hmm?
O-Oi! What the hell are you doing over there!?
You—yes, you! You, the shabby-looking guy!
Answer my question! What the hell are you doing at that place!?
That’s—that’s the house of that person… my precious…!
Huh, what? You live there? In that house? What does that mean?
Speaking of, I think I’ve seen you somewhere before.
Aren’t you the idiot student council president’s errand boy? I see. Then you’re the guy she said was…
No, don’t mind it. Just talking to myself.
Swear to me you wouldn’t tell… err, your older sister, that I was here!
If you tell her, I’ll burn you to death in the flames of hell!
Huh? That person… I mean your older sister, she’s in the middle of an excursion?
A school trip? Huh, so it’s the season for that at the other school…
That’s okay then. I guess I really came here for nothing.
My fate and that person’s seem to be broken apart forever, after all.
Never to cross… Achoo☆
Huh? N-No, I’m fine! Don’t worry about me!
I am a wingless Lucifer—all things in existence God created only hurt…
Eek!? Don’t grab my hand and pull me!
What!? You’ll lend me a set of clothes to change into, an umbrella, and a cold medicine? No one asked you to!
Ugh, your forcefulness is exactly just like that person’s!
Aargh, geez…!”
Into the house
> House
Suzu: (In the end, he forcefully brought me inside the house…
Damn it, to think I end up having to rely on another person…!
Know this: I’ll never say thank you! ‘Cuz I’m a rebel!
But to be honest, I might be grateful.
Basking in hot shower seriously brought me back to life.
So, about the change of clothes… Is this it?
It’s our school uniform… but it’s not mine, I think…?
Why does he have something like this with him?
Well, no need to look too deeply into it.
Hmm? Huh!? My eyepatch isn’t here!)
“Y-You bastard…!
Where did you hide my eyepatch!?
Eh? It was ruined by the rain, so you threw it away?
What do you think you’re doing!? Without that, I’m…!
Eek! Don’t look! Don’t look at my cursed face!
Uuu…! Nooo! Don’t look at me! Uwaaaa~!
(sniff) (hic) Uwaaaa…!”
Chapter 2
> House
Suzu: “…Sorry for kicking a fuss.
I’m hopeless without my eyepatch…
My eyepatch hides under it the proof of the wingless Lucifer — the mark of sin!
And it now aches, torturing my soul…!
You fear it too, don’t you? It’s fine to be afraid.
Such reaction is natural coming from the clay descendants created by that hateful God!
Huh? You’re not afraid? In fact, you find it magical and captivating…?
D-Don’t be stupid! Your joke is not funny at all! E-ehehe…♪
W-Well, that aside. I guess it would’ve been annoying if you’d gotten afraid.
Haha, you two really are siblings. You’re just like that person.
When I look at you, I recall it; my first meeting with that person.
I’ve always loathed this proof of sin carved onto my face.
When they see my face, everyone grimaces and steps away from me.
Ever since I was born, I’ve been repeatedly reminded of how different I am compared to others.
Always, always…
Everyone feels uneasy when they see me.
They became confused, afraid; they condemn, for they can’t understand.
When I was a child, I had naturally wished to be loved by my parents and everyone.
But whenever I got close, that only distressed the other person.
That’s all that ever happened to me.
No one understood me. So finally, I gave up. I lived in the shadow.
Hiding so no one would see me, so they wouldn’t get scared of me… I was just like air…
But then your sister called out to me.
I remember.
I was alone like always when I just enrolled to high school, but your sister came up to me and talked to me tirelessly.
I thought she was doing that for her own amusement. That’s why I didn’t react kindly at first.
I cursed at her, spat at her and pushed her away.
Because everyone — when they come close enough to see my face — everyone becomes afraid and hurts me!
But she didn’t falter. She approached me every day.
No matter how hard I tried to distance myself from her, it didn’t work.
One day, I started feeling silly for all of it…
I gradually started to look forward to when she would talk to me.
She’s a reckless one. She’s probably an idiot.
But that’s what makes her so honest and pure.
She praised this face of mine;
With all the innocence and genuineness of a child who found something pretty.
You’re so cute. It looks so magical. I’m jealous, she said.
That was the first time ever since I was born that someone said something like that to me.
It made me so happy, so I stopped stubbornly pushing her away.
Even if we would have to part someday, I wanted to be by her side.
I liked her…
But then she parted from me.
Due to circumstances I couldn’t do anything about…
I lost my warm place to be.
Since then, I came to hate everything. I loathed the world.
It was only after she parted from me, that I noticed for the first time;
My heart was filled with her existence. I was content and blissful.
But I’ve lost that forever, and become empty.
To erase the hollowness,
I hurt my surroundings, taking revenge on everything that had taken her away from me.
In the end, while she might have praised it, this face of mine is a proof of sin.
I should have never existed in this world; I’m a child of evil… I’m sure of it.
Hmm? Hey, are you listening? What have you been doing since a while ago?
What’s that? A CD? Are you going to play a song?
This… is…? It’s my song?
Ah, it’s the CD that’s sold in the school, right?
It’s the one our members sold to gather budget for the club…
Why do you have it? D-Do you like my songs?
Eh? Your sister told you to buy one?
I see. So that person is listening…
Listening to my songs. We’re still connected through these songs…
Hmm? This is…?
You searched for something that can replace my eyepatch in that person’s room, and you found this?
Is this a costume for concerts? Whoa, it fits me!
That’s right. She was also the first one to have praised my song.
She introduced me to the Rock Band Club and even made me costumes. That person was skilled with her fingers.
…So she’s still supporting me, even now.
Can I put this on? Right now, I really feel like singing while wearing this!
I’ll let you listen from the VIP seat.
This is my song, a song of my gratitude towards that person!
It’s okay, I have my guitar with me.
I hope it didn’t get wet from the rain… Okay, seems not. Good I put it inside the case. Okay, all ready!
What do you think? Does it look good on me?
Of course, since it’s the costume that person made especially for me!
Fuhahahaha…!
She and I parted. Perhaps our paths will never cross again.
But my song can reach. It will definitely reach! I’m sure of it.
It’ll clear through every evil that stands in its way, piercing through the fate that the hateful God has planned…!
You should listen to my song too.
When I’m next to you, I remember;
Those most blissful times of mine, when I was together with her.
Thank you, Otouto-kun.
Just like her, I’m sure you’ll come to save a lot of people’s hearts.
The same way you’ve enlightened mine right now, even if just a bit.
~♪”