Chapter 3 The Sin of Children

The Sin of Children

——I am aware that I am a naive person.

After all, I couldn’t leave his mother alone after he betrayed me, so I ended up bringing her to my house.

I returned to my house with Hana-san, who broke down crying silently.

I left Takeshi and Kaori, who were in the middle of their second round.

I know. I know that if I had beaten them up, it would’ve relieved some of my anger.

But when I saw Hana-san, who was kind and always had a smile on her face, burst into tears, I couldn’t do anything.

“…”

For now, Hana-san, who had broken down crying, was asked to sit on the sofa in the living room. She seemed to have calmed down a bit, probably because she felt better after crying for a while.

I kinda hated myself for making coffee for Hana-san like this.

This part of me was probably the reason why my girlfriend Kaori cheated on me.

What a situation.

I can’t help but laugh at all this.

(Haha … Haha.)

I looked at the picture on my phone and tried to force myself to laugh…but I couldn’t.

After all, what I see there are Takeshi and Kaori, n🬀🬀ed and hugging each other. Even if I can’t see their private parts, I can see what they’re doing. If I showed them this, they would’ve to admit that they were having an affair.

As I left the room, I took a picture with my cell phone, holding the speaker down so I wouldn’t be recognized. Of course, the shutter still made a muffled sound, but it was drowned out by the charming voice I didn’t want to hear.

Well, as long as I had this…I could denounce them both later. I thought that was enough and was about to turn it off when my…finger touched the screen and the photo slid out, revealing a two-shot with Kaori that I had taken the day before.

We had taken it together on our way home from school.

At the time, we were making plans to go away and have a date the following weekend…so it seems like a long time ago that this happened.

“Hey…take a look at this.”

Since I was so excited, I pushed the phone to Hana-san with the picture open.

“My girlfriend…my ex I mean. Here’s a picture of me with a girl who used to be my girlfriend.”

Hana-san had doubted earlier that the woman who slept with Takeshi was my girlfriend. I was convinced after hearing their conversation, but just to be sure, I showed her again to prove that I wasn’t lying.

“… They seem to be getting along well.”

“Yeah, I know. We’ve been friends, I thought we were good friends…since elementary school. She was also the girl I had a crush on. I got up the courage to tell her and we started dating two weeks ago and became lovers.”

Then I show another picture from my phone.

“——”

The scene of Takeshi and Kaori’s sumo performance appeared on the screen.

Seeing this, Hana-san’s expression froze.

“I didn’t notice. I didn’t know Takeshi brought a girl to our house. …”

It seems that Hana-san wasn’t even aware that Takeshi and Kaori were doing such things in her house. She’s a quiet person, so she probably did not know that Takeshi was bringing women into the house without telling her.

That’s why she was so surprised to see them embracing each other.

Well, it doesn’t matter.

Whether Hana-san knows or not, it doesn’t matter.

“I’m sorry.”

It doesn’t matter if she apologized.

Even if she did apologize, it was meaningless.

“Really, I’m sorry.”

“… You don’t have to apologize.”

“But, but…”

“I told you, you don’t have to apologize!”

Loud and intimidating.

I don’t want to see Hana-san’s apologetic face anymore.

Because,

“Even if you apologize, it’s useless.”

I was betrayed by my trusted best friend and beloved girlfriend.

That fact will never change.

The only way to get rid of my feelings is to denounce them.

I know that.

But…Hana-san got off the sofa and even got down on her knees so that I couldn’t move.

It was like saying that the sins of the children are also the sins of the parents.

“My son is…I’m really, really sorry.”

Hana-san bowed her head deeply.

It was impossible not to feel pain in my heart when I saw her.

I am…too naive.

I sympathized with Hana-san, who seemed to be having a hard time, and I felt sorry for her.

That’s why those guys betrayed me——