rubestie

Season: Winter

Writer: Akira

Characters: Ibara, Madara, Kohaku, Tsukasa

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<Noon that day. Information Room, ES building.>

Ibara: -I see. I understand completely.

This is beyond my powers.

The documentary program set in the Maizuru House showed that J-san was sorted into the “Kaiju Group”, consisting mostly of problem children.

I now understand perfectly how that came to be.

What is up with this shitty monster kid.

Kohaku: Aaaa! Don’t do that, J! If ya nibble on that, ya’ll get shocked!

Tsukasa: That’s right, J-san! Don't put that into your mouth, it's unsanitary! Please stick your tongue out for me, say “mlep”!

Kohaku: Shut yer mouth! The stuff yer sayin’ is weirdly incorrect and confusin’! This ain’t a sanitary problem, it’s that if he keeps nibblin’ on that power cord, he’ll be in danger, alright!?

Tsukasa: He is just like an untrained dog… J-san, I thought you were a good and quiet kid. This is a bit of a Shock for me.

Madara: Hahaha. He gave me a pretty hard time when I was at Maizuru House as well.

Ibara: I’d actually like to know just how Mikejima-shi was able to tame this viscous beast?

Madara: Ah, as expected, the program chose to omit those circumstances. Just watching the show would probably leave you with the impression that J is just a normal kid you could find anywhere.

But in reality, as is evident, he is a supermonster who indiscriminately destroys all that comes near him.

It seems like he respects me, or maybe is afraid of me, so whenever I’m closeby he becomes as quiet as a mech with its power cord plugged out.

Kohaku: Could ya stop watchin’ with that blank look on yer face and help us stop J!? J refuses ta listen to anything except what ya tell him!

Madara: Sounds like a drag. Just when I finally thought I had found someone I could entrust this troublesome child to.

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Tsukasa: Uhyaa, J-san is somehow taking his rampaging skills to new levels!?

Kohaku: Ah~ah~ah~, he’s just ‘bout old enough ta understand what other people are sayin’. I bet he overhead what Madara-han said, and is showin’ how much he hates that idea.

Seems that J doesn’t want ta be separated from Madara-han.

Madara: He’s such a spoiled kid, isn’t he? Here, here, it’s alright. I’m not going anywhere, at least not yet.

Kohaku: Can’t ya reassure him a lil’ and tell ‘im ya would never leave ‘im? Even if it’s a lie?

Madara: I will leave him at some point though. And since it seems like J trusts me, wouldn’t he just get sad if I ended up telling him lies?

Tsukasa: Ah… J, J-san just stopped moving all of a sudden. Thanks to Mikejima-senpai coming closer, he must have felt relieved.

Kohaku: Madara-han is like kryptonite for J. Or maybe he’s more like a grenade’s pin.

Madara: It’s accidental from my side though. When J is like this, I can’t exactly leave him at a police station or anything, and I have to stay by his side twenty-four seven, even while he’s in the bath or sleeping. It’s pretty hard, you know.

If I move away even a little, or even just seem as if I’m leaving him, he explodes just like how you saw.

He should be too old for this behavior, it’s almost like I’m taking care of a baby rather than a child.

Ibara: That might be an apt analogy. J-san is being targeted. If we take our eyes off him for even a second, there is no telling what kinds of danger he could be exposed to.

That does make him similar to a baby, in that taking your eyes off him for even the slightest moment can lead to his life being in danger.

Additionally, if you leave him unattended, he immediately starts bawling and attracting attention from his surroundings. To keep such a child safe must be a rather proving task.

I have neither the patience nor the time to complete such a bothersome mission. I also lack any obligation to.

The fortune J-san is set to inherit from GFK is mesmerizing in and of itself, to be sure. However, if it is merely money then I will sooner or later be able to earn that much on my own without having to go through this amount of trouble for it.

Which is why I am retracting my offer to become J-san’s guardian. Please continue taking care of this child as you have up until now, Mikejima-shi.

Madara: …How weirdly considerate of you. I thought you would keep arguing with me for a bit longer.

Well then, is everything thus far proceeding according to your hypothesis?

Ibara: I wonder. I was planning on actually securing J-san into my own hands if he had been a quiet kid who didn’t need too much attention.

This child is an incomparable treasure, but he is also simultaneously a ticking bomb whom many villains will be coming for. To care for this child is to take on a huge amount of risk.

I have other important jobs to attend to, and cannot afford to become occupied with such a dangerous task.

You have much more time on your hands, so I will leave it to you, Mikejima-shi.

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