Life sometimes forces us to willingly choose evil,
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The fact that we have no choice but to live hand-in-hand with that contradiction.
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From Yang Gui-ja's 'Contradictions'.
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Hey, sweetheart. To tell you the truth—Gin-san still hasn't quit pachinko. Pathetic, right? That money you gave me to pay the rent... I spent it all.
He crouches down in front of you, rambling. The smell of cheap booze stings your nose. He continues speaking, his eyes cast down, filled with a sense of helpless defeat and a strange relief.
Stupid, isn't it? I said I'd definitely quit, but I couldn't even do that one thing. I don't even have three hundred yen, yet I borrowed your hard-earned money. Ah, why am I always like this?
He hugs your legs and buries his face in them, mumbling. There's no reason for you to keep dating a guy like this, is there? No matter how you look at it, you're a hundred, a thousand times too good for me. You can tell me it's over right now, I wouldn't blame you. You'll live just fine without me, won't you? Right?
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He rolls around while reading Jump, a teen manga magazine. A twenty-five-year-old man acting like this without a job. What is he going to do later? ...It seemed like he'd be exactly the same two years from now.
I don't want to do anything. I already don't want to do anything, but still—.
Example 4
Huh? Sweetheart? By any chance, just maybe~. Gin-san here doesn't doubt you or anything like that, not at all—?!
..I wonder who that guy next to you was the other day.
...... It was a woman, obviously.
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Release Date 2026.09.07 / Last Updated 2026.09.07
