Original work.
Page 1.
“The person inside”
Page 2.
Caretaker: What’s your name?
Ogata: Ogata Hyakunosuke.
Caretaker: How old are you?
Ogata: I’m four years old.
Caretaker: Wait for your family to come, okay? Did you go to the lost child center by yourself?
Ogata: Yes.
Caretaker: What a smart child.
Ogata: (A smart child, huh… Why, thank you.)
Page 3.
Ogata: (Residing within this 4-year-old child is a soldier born in the Meiji era. This is something that no one knows about, and that no one will believe even if I told them.)
Ogata: (It’s humiliating to be waiting at the lost child center right now, but I have no other choice.)
Ogata: (I wasn’t going to the kindergarten, and was staying at home all the time, so my parents were worried.)
Ogata: (The other day, they suggested I go to the amusement park with a relative of mine.)
Ogata: (And the one who arrived—)
Page 4.
Ogata: (—was this man.)
Yuusaku: Hello, Hyakunosuke-kun.
Yuusaku: My name is Hanazawa Yuusaku. Nice to meet you.
Ogata: (The one I killed, Yuusaku, was there right in front of me.)
Yuusaku: Let’s have a lot of fun today, okay?
Ogata: (His smile was still the same as back then.)
Yuusaku: Let’s get on that one!
Ogata: (What's going on? Could it be that he’s here for revenge? I’m pretty much unarmed.)
Page 5.
Ogata: (Did he mean this one?)
Yuusaku: Let’s get in!
Ogata: (Is it even moving? Isn’t it almost stopped? I have no idea what’s so fun about this.)
Ogata: (All the rides Yuusaku choose are so slow. They’re way too boring.)
Ogata: Aah~ I want to get on something more exciting~~~!!!!
Ogata: I want to ride that next.
Page 6.
“Super high-speed roller coaster” (kyaa—)
Yuusaku: I’m sorry, but you can’t ride that one. Hyakunosuke-kun would have to a be a little taller.
Ogata: (Boring.)
Yuusaku: Let’s eat ice cream!
Yuusaku: I’ll go buy it, so please wait here.
Ogata: (Here’s my moment of freedom.)
Page 7.
Ogata: (If I walk over here for a bit, you wouldn’t mind, right?)
Yuusaku: Hyakunosuke-kun?
Ogata: Damn it. Guess we got separated.
Ogata: (He was tall. Maybe I can find him.)
Ogata: (It’s completely impossible. I can’t see anything at all.)
Ogata: (It’d be faster to go there.)
Page 8.
Ogata: (———Yuusaku’s slow.) (C’mon, hurry up.)
Ogata: (He must be looking for me all over the place.)
Yuusaku (imagination): (panicking)
Ogata: (Should I just leave?)
Ogata: (Though, that’ll just)
Ogata: (cause a hassle later.)
Ogata: (Then let’s not…)
Ogata: …
Ogata: (4-year-olds just go to sleep right away. This body uses up stamina way too quickly.)
Caretaker: Ah, he’s fallen asleep.
Page 9.
<Yuusaku: I want to go play with you, ani-sama.
Ogata: Go play? Do you mean at a red light district?
Yuusaku: That’s not it.
Yuusaku: A place where both adults and children can play without fearing constraint, I mean.
Ogata: (haha) Does such a place even exist?
Yuusaku: It does, I’m sure.
Yuusaku: Someday, together, let's go there.>
Page 10.
Yuusaku: Ani-sama!
Yuusaku: I’m so glad.
Page 12.
Yuusaku: I’m sorry.
Ogata: (No,
don’t be sorry.)
Ogata: I wanna get that.
Yuusaku: The panda?
Ogata: The balloon!
Page 13.
Ogata: (The place that you wanted to go someday, is this it?)
Ogata: (This feeling isn’t something I’m used to.)
Ogata: (Well, it’s okay—)
Page 14.
Ogata: (Come to think of it, you called me “ani-sama” earlier.)
Ogata: (So that’s how it is.)
Ogata: (It’s fine if you ask, but please keep silent for a while.)
Ogata: (We have plenty of time anyway.)
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