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<h6 class="has-text-align-center">One hypothesis about childhood friend, Momoyono Rin</h6>\nThere was a move before Takatsuki contacted me back. Apparently, the person who contacted Yui’s sister was a real reporter.
Two weeks after the communication with Yui’s sister, Takatsuki had become the talk of the town on the Internet. The first report was about Takatsuki’s infidelity. Takatsuki’s affair with the wife of a famous former female announcer caused a certain amount of publicity. This was followed by a story of trouble with a woman from his college days that was rumored in a corner of the Internet, and other unsavory gossip was flying around the Internet and in the paper from somewhere else. It was so much excitement for gossip about one prefectural assembly member.
Takatsuki admitted the truth about the affair and said he would deal with his wife in good faith. Still, it seems that he has not given up his ambition to run for the next national election, and his attitude has drawn a lot of flak, especially on the Internet. However, no matter how much he is disliked on the Internet, his ground in Takatsuki is solid. Most people expect that if he runs for office, hhe will be elected.
What Takatsuki did to Yui had not yet been reported anywhere. I had not even told Yui’s sister the password to my secret diary. I was quietly waiting for Takatsuki to contact me.
While there was a lot of gossip about Takatsuki on the Internet, Rin and I were at the center of gossip at my high school.
It seems that Rin dumped a senior member of the soccer team with whom she was rumored to be dating.
She dumped the most handsome guy in the school in an extremely bold move. She said, “I have sworn my lifelong love to my childhood friend Riku Hasegawa alone. Please do not spread any more strange rumors about me. Thanks to this, Riku-kun has misunderstood me and won’t even talk to me anymore.”
Each word of this unusual statement, which could only be described as dignified, became a whispering rumor that circulated among the students. Why in the world is Rin Momoyono, the most beautiful girl in the school, so devoted to Riku Hasegawa, who has few friends and is not very popular? And why would Riku Hasegawa reject such a high peak flower like Rin Momoyono?
Of course, I have no intention of explaining myself, but Rin misunderstood the situation. Indeed, after I finished reading Yui’s diary, I sent Rin a message saying, “I have decided never to spend time with Momoyono-san again. Thank you for being with me all this time.” I sent her a message. Rin seems to have misunderstood that the reason I sent such a message was because of the rumor about her and the senior members of the soccer club, but it was definitely not such a low-level reason. But it was not a low-level reason by any means.
I had always been unable to understand why Rin was so obsessed with me. Yui used to talk about wanting to go out with me, but in Rin’s case it was a bit more intense. She almost refuses to talk to any other boys besides me, and spends all her time with only me.
And Rin, who was supposed to be living in the modern age, somehow knew about a fossil-like website called “Secret Diary. Furthermore, when I learned that Yui had committed suicide, my suspicions grew stronger. Perhaps Yui was also reincarnated.
Perhaps, unlike me, Rin does not remember all of her previous life. My impression is that only a few memories remain. My hypothesis was that Rin had no memory of her past life, but that the guilt of having betrayed her childhood friend in a previous life was stored in a deep part of her soul, and that this was the reason for her obsession with her childhood friend.
And if that is the case, what would happen to Rin if all her memories were to return for some reason? I didn’t want Rin to remember what Takatsuki had done to Yui. I wanted to keep that kind of thing away from Rin as much as possible.
Rin, being a normal high school girl, had no interest in news about politicians, so it was unlikely that her memory would be triggered by the incident. In other words, the only person who could connect Takatsuki and Rin was me. I was afraid that my presence would trigger the return of her memories of her previous life. I would have to live apart from Rin.
But Rin can be quite stubborn. When I tried to avoid Rin and leave school, she would say, “Riku-chan, let’s go on a date after school today! And when I was waiting in line at the store for lunch, she would suddenly hand me a homemade lunch box, making me panic. Each time, I silently rejected her. Forget about me as soon as possible. For some reason, I wanted to protect Rin even though I had never trusted my childhood friend.
Such a life continued for a while. Maybe I would never hear from Takatsuki again. Just when I was about to give up and think that it would be better to entrust the password of the secret diary to Yui’s sister after all, I received an e-mail as I had expected. It was an anonymous e-mail that did not reveal the sender, but I knew who it was from. The text read, “Let’s talk on the phone.\n