35. Ryosuke Icemuro's past
Ryosuke Himuro tells his story: "It wasn't like this before, my mother loved me very much. But since my sister died, my mom has changed. My sister and I are twins.,We look very similar.,Grew up at this shrine.,Mom is a shrine maiden of this shrine.,It's also the administrator.。 When I was 5 years old, my sister and I were playing hide and seek on the mountain behind the shrine, and I didn't find out where my sister was hiding when it was dark that day, and I later learned that my sister accidentally fell down the mountain. Mom has always refused to accept this fact, I am also very guilty, since then, I have been raised by my mother as a girl, sometimes I will call my name wrong, the clothes and toys I bought are all girls' things, when I was 10 years old, I have enough awareness of gender, I am very confused, I know that I am a boy, but in my mother's eyes I am a girl. That day, for the first time, I didn't wear the clothes my mother had prepared, and it was also the day my mother turned into a demon, and she tied me up, beat me with a whip, and asked me crying as she smoked: 'Why did my sister die, not you, why?' You give her back to me, or become her. I was beaten unconscious by my mother, and when I woke up, I saw that my mother had changed into a girl's clothes, hugged me, and called my sister's name over and over again. I thought that since my mother hated me, then I would live like my sister, and my mother didn't beat me in the days that followed, but suddenly one day, when she was bathing me, she looked at my body and said, 'No, you're not her, you're not her.' So she whipped me again, and I was so scared that I cried and said to my mother, 'Mom, I'm Ryosuke, not my sister, and I'll never be a sister.' My mother didn't speak, she just cried and beat me, and then she barely spoke to me, and didn't care if I was wearing the clothes she asked me to wear or not. She began to drink heavily, and occasionally when she drank too much, she would still whip me with a whip, and it was not until yesterday that the police told me to go to the police station to find out the situation, and I learned that over the years, my mother often went to the underground black market, paid to whip boys, and even beat people to death because of it. I talked a lot with my mother at the police station, more than all these years combined, she said that she can't control herself, every time she sees me, she thinks of my sister, she doesn't want to beat me, but she can't control her body, so she often goes to the underground black market to spend money to vent her desire to whip me, but the black market is not often opened, and the consumption is also very high, so more often you can only drink to numb yourself, but after drinking too much, it is more difficult to control your emotions, she said that she is sorry for me, and she doesn't need me to forgive her. I asked her, 'If it was really me and not my sister who died, would you treat my sister the same way you did me?' She didn't answer me, she just kept crying. Yan Shi, can you tell me the answer? Am I myself, am I my sister, am I a boy, am I a girl? ”
After listening to Ryosuke Himoguro's story, Yan Shi was silent for a long time and said, "Ryosuke-san, do you know? This world is big, although I don't know about you, but there are still many people like you in this world, and we humans should not be distinguished only by gender, who are you? Who do you want to be? No one can tell you the answer, you can be a boy, you can be a girl, of course you can be yourself, be yourself and not what others see you, your childhood was unhappy, but you will eventually meet your loved ones, and you will eventually be happy. ”
After listening to this, Ryosuke Himuro looked at Yan Shi's sunny and cheerful smiling face, and instantly burst into tears: "Thank you, classmate Yan Shi." ”