Sayuri Ishino had a dream last night.

I dreamed that I had become a little girl with short hair.

I dreamed that I had a bad relationship with my classmates at school and was often bullied.

Until one day, the classmates who usually bullied her locked her in the third room of the toilet cubicle after school.

She was helpless and scared, but after school, there was no one left, and no one could let her out of the toilet.

She started crying, crying and crying, crying until she felt her heart throb, she had trouble breathing, and the world was spinning.

After that, Sayuri Ishino woke up.

This dream frightened Sayuri because she knew that the little girl in the dream was Hanako.

"I was bullied by other classmates and put in the third cubicle of the women's bathroom. In the end, he died of a heart attack and became an evil spirit in the toilet. ”

This is one of the more popular versions of Hanako's many origin stories in the toilet.

Although she had strange dreams and felt scared, Sayuri Ishino still went to school today.

Because the little flat-headed Nagatomo Masao who I just met yesterday said that I wanted to eat a lunch box with her at noon.

When I arrived at the classroom in the morning, the atmosphere was a little strange.

She took the initiative to greet Kawano and Matsushima, but the three of them seemed to have passed ahead of time and didn't pay much attention to her.

Matsushima, in particular, even rolled his eyes back.

It will be so, of course, because of what happened last night.

Because of that Nagatomo Masao, he gave up teaming up with Matsushima last night and went to Sayuri Ishino to test his courage together.

Matsushima was furious.

Although a beautiful girl like her has no shortage of suitors, and she doesn't look down on Nagatomo Masao at all, she can't accept that she is alone like last night.

That's simply a humiliation, when did Matsushima suffer such a grievance?

Nagatomo Masao should have tried his best to please her last night, and saddle her before and after the horse.

And all of this is naturally the fault of Sayuri Ishino, a dirt girl.

Recess.

Three beautiful girls led by Sae Kawano got together and whispered.

Matsujima: "Now when I see Sayuri Ishino's rustic face, I'm angry!" That guy doesn't really think we're willing to play with her, we're treating her as friends, right? ”

Kawano and Matsushima, the three beautiful high girls, really didn't really regard Sayuri Ishino as friends.

The reason why some scheming beautiful girls are willing to stay with ordinary-looking girls. I just want to use the ordinary and ordinary of the latter to highlight my charm.

Kawano: "Don't be so angry, Matsushima. ”

Matsushima: "Of course I'm angry, Sae. If it had happened to you last night, you would have reacted more than I did! ”

Kawano: "Ugh...... Okay, okay. Anyway, like Ishino, there are many dirt girls who want to befriend us and be friends with us. ”

Sayuri Ishino's side.

She didn't get around three beautiful girls like a dusty puppy today.

Instead, he sat quietly in his place, looking at the Chinese textbook to be used in the next class in a daze. With Sayuri's thoughts, she can naturally understand that Kawano and Matsushima are alienating themselves because of last night's incident.

Sayuri felt aggrieved.

Why do this to yourself?

Obviously, a girl like Matsushima won't like Nagatomo Masao at all.

But what's the use of being wronged?

The relationship between her and the three glamorous girls has never been equal.

Sayuri Ishino was thinking nonsense.

A few boys in the class walked past her and suddenly snatched both of her hearing aids away with a split.

"Hey, hey."

"Haha."

When the boys got their hands on it, they burst into laughter, while Sayuri just sat in her seat.

These boys have a bad personality in the class, but Sayuri Ishino usually hardly communicates with them.

And maybe it's because Ishino always stays with the pretty Kawano and Matsushima, and these boys never take the initiative to provoke her.

I don't know why this is an unusual move today.

"It's so sluggish, and you look stupid."

"Tsk, that's pathetic, glasses girl. You can't hear me without this, can you? ”

"You really shouldn't be here, you should go to a school for the disabled."

“……”

A few boys jokingly said something, opening and closing their mouths. But Sayuri Ishino, who had lost her hearing aids, could only see the shape of their mouths changing, and could not hear what they were saying.

Anyway, it definitely won't be a good word, right?

"Please give it back to me, please."

Sayuri, who had done nothing wrong, lowered her head, held the corners of her clothes with both hands, and her voice was as thin as a mosquito's chirping.

"Huh? Louder, deaf woman. Ears don't work, not even mouths, do they? ”

The boy in front of him with a hearing aid opened and closed his mouth, and then laughed again.

Zizi ...... Zizi ......

Electric current sound.

Obviously, the hearing aid in the left ear, which was only a little out of order, had been snatched away.

But Sayuri Ishino looked at the way the boy's mouth opened and closed in front of him, and there seemed to be a faint sound of electricity in his ears.

Her consciousness began to drift a little.

"You're a little different from other kids."

Since she was a child, Sayuri Ishino's parents have told her this.

And Sayuri knows that the so-called different means abnormal.

In this world, there are many people who are visually impaired.

For people with visual impairments, it will be corrected by wearing glasses.

In this world, there are still many people who are hearing impaired.

People with hearing impairment rarely wear hearing aids to correct their hearing.

Unless it's like Sayuri Ishino, you can barely hear a sound if you don't wear it.

People believe that it is normal to wear glasses and that it is not normal to wear hearing aids.

And the root of this idea is simply because there are a lot of people who wear glasses, and very few people who wear hearing aids, that's all.

Because it is less, it is different from most people, so it is special and "abnormal".

Even when standing in a crowd, it will appear abrupt and unsociable.

Zizi ...... Zizi ......

The sound of electricity seemed to be ringing again.

Sayuri suddenly felt extremely depressed, and said, "I will never be able to fit in." ”

It's like a little dirt dog with a gray flutter, mixed into a pack of pet dogs with bright hair.

"Hey! Deaf girl, give me a reaction. What does a person say to himself? You look like this, even bullying you looks so boring! "The nasty boys were still yelling.

The rest of the class had long been attracted by this farce between classes, and they all looked at it with different expressions. Some people are indifferent, some are sympathetic, and some people are purely watching the excitement.

No one came up to stop it.

Under the gaze of this gaze, Sayuri Ishino felt that her face was very hot, her chest was very tight, and her heart was angina.

Zizi ...... Zizi ......

Or the sound of electricity.

However, this time, the voice of a little girl was mixed with the sound of electricity: "It's so pitiful...... Bullied by them again, right? ”