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<h6 class="has-text-align-center">The bad event </h6>\n I was well aware that Yui had an elder sister.
I must have seen her countless times as a child, but I had forgotten what she looked like.
She is 44 years old now, a year older than Yui. I had no idea what she looked like.
Yui’s sister gently probed me to see if I was a reporter, so I sent her some of my memories of Yui, such as winning a silver medal in a piano competition when she was in fifth grade, being in the tennis club in junior high school, attending a concert by her favorite music group with a childhood friend the year she died, and so on.
When I responded, “I see you did a great job interviewing her. Yes, all of that is true ” was her reply.
As a reporter, she seemed to have garnered some trust.
Yui’s sister informed me of Yui’s condition following my suicide via direct messages on a social networking service.
“Yui was fatigued after a boy she had known since infancy committed suicide.
I was married and away from home, but that was the only time I saw Yui.
I’m not sure why, but Yui seemed to blame herself for the boy’s suicide.
She took some time off from school and cried in her room.”
“Yui just gradually recovered.
She still had thoughts about the boy she grew up with, but she began to eat well and began to converse naturally with me.
Yui healed enough to return to school around a month after the youngster died.
Yui’s school buddies and a guy buddy from junior high school came to our house the day before she went to school for the first time in a long time and even smiled at her.
A male acquaintance from junior high? I had no idea, so I asked Yui’s sister for the name of the boy buddy.
“Tachikawa-kun, if I recall correctly? Yui had a crush on him in junior high. Yui seemed to have always had feelings for a boy she knew from childhood who committed suicide, although she was only in love with Tachikawa-kun for a short time.
Perhaps because of our age difference, Yui never hesitated to tell me about her love life, therefore I’m familiar with him.”
Tachikawa was another memorable character.
It was also the first time I learned Yui had feelings for Tachikawa.
He was a popular junior high school boy who belonged to the same tennis club as Yui.
Another aspect of my childhood acquaintance that I was unaware of emerged. Yui’s sister rejoined the narrative.
“As a family, we were relieved and hoped Yui would recover fully.” But then something strange happened. Yui came home from school one day, completely dejected.
No, that was outside the scope of the word depressed. In retrospect, I suppose you might call it a breakdown.
When we asked Yui what had happened, she refused to tell us. She hardly spoke, stayed in her room, and quit attending school.
I considered sending her to counseling, but Yui rejected as well. This way of life lasted for several weeks.
Yui startled us one morning when she announced she was going to school. In retrospect, our family should have intervened. We should have stopped Yui from wearing such a pale face to school.
Yui hurled herself over the school building that day.
We urged the school and the police to investigate Yui’s suicide, but they did not do what we, the family members, wanted.
They came to the conclusion that Yui’s suicide was the result of the suicide of a childhood friend who was close to her.
But I don’t believe so. Something happened at school.
I can’t help but imagine that something terrible happened to shatter Yui’s frail heart.” On the contrary, Yui’s sister inquired in a mail.
That man’s name was mentioned in the text. “Do you know Toru Takatsuki, a politician?”
Takatsuki’s name was mentioned for the first time in the investigation into Yui’s suicide.\n