Tenkuuden: Stage Three: Unqualified to be a Housemate
Touma: 'Ever since we started living together, everything has been like this. All my (life) patterns were disrupted. I was confused by their unexpected reaction, feeling angry, and could never get used to it. Even when I thought at the time that I was careful, I know now that one has one's own pattern set based on one's family experiences. For example, probably because being raised in a big family, the seeming willful Shuu reacts quickly when something happens, and notices the details carefully beyond my expectation. Shin is a person with consideration from the beginning. Seiji's properness in following all the rules has no one who could match with him. Like I did, Ryo also grew up by himself. However, with his upright personality, he tries hard to fit in with the others. That is, I was the only one who grew up in an environment in which the rules were solely based on my own convenience. However, I never thought I am the one who is strange. And I must have believed unconsciously that I'm the one who is always correct.'
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Nasti: 'Really!! You guys should cut off those silly fights. Both are to blame.'
Shuu: 'It's Touma's fault from the beginning. (Everything happened because) he didn't come to meal.'
Seiji: 'That's right.'
Shin: 'But it was probably too much when you started the fumigation.'
Ryo: 'Forgive them, Touma.'
Nasti: 'Both of them did a nasty trick.'
Touma: 'I'm not angry.'
Seiji: '(When) You look so displeased.'
Touma: 'I AM just feeling stupid.'
Shuu: 'ABOUT WHAT?'
Touma: 'YOU GUYS MAKE SUCH A BIG DEAL ON SOMETHING TRIVIAL LIKE A MEAL TIME.'
Shuu: 'WHAT? YOU ARE THE ONE THAT...'
Shin: 'All right, all right, cut it off.'
Seiji: 'Touma. Do you know about group life?'
Touma: 'YOU HAVE NO RIGHT TO ASK ME THAT.'
Nasti: 'I said, STOOP IT. Touma, you're not being honest either.'
Touma: 'ANYWAY, I DON'T WANT TO WASTE MY PRECIOUS TIME ANYMORE ON SUCH A STUPID TOPIC.'
(Touma ran out)
Shuu: 'He's no cute'
Seiji: 'He seems to have a very crooked personality.'
Ryo: 'What does he feel displeased about?'
Shin: 'There is something different of Touma's feeling/perception, even he's not an unpleasant person. The heart of Tenku's armor...'
Ryo: 'The Heart of Wisdom. There might be differences even when we all are bearers of armors. But, guys, it's definitely possible for us to understand each other.'
Seiji: 'It seems he is on guard of something.'
Shuu: 'I would never understand a genius............AAAAAA, I'm getting angry. MEAL! LET'S EAT MEAL.'
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(Nasti knocks on the door)
Nasti: 'Touma? You are there, aren't you? I'm coming in'
Touma: 'What do you want?'
Nasti: 'You must be hungry. It's impossible to tell from your appearance that you eat so much. I thought you might still feel awkward so I bring the meal here'
Touma: 'Nasti.'
Nasti: 'Touma, you don't understand well on how to get along with the others, do you?'
Touma: 'mmm..'
Nasti: 'Please don't be angry. But you really didn't want to act so stubbornly, too, did you? It's just you don't know how to stop it, right?'
Touma: 'It's not like that..'
Nasti: 'I know it's none of my business, but you said that you lived alone by yourself.'
Touma:'..No, I lived with my father...'
Nasti: 'But (you said) "he rarely came back"'
Touma: '..mm...'
Nasti: 'And You have no other sibling. Then you must be good to act like an adult even when you didn't wish to. In addition, this's the first time you have a real friend or a real companion.'
Touma: 'Nasti.'
Nasti: 'Shin has something similar, too. But he is good at interpersonal communication because he has the experiences of interacting with all kinds of persons before. However, in your case, not only that you're always alone, you're also always being treated specially by the others.'
Touma: 'I'm not special...'
Nasti: 'Yes. You are not 'special'. It's those adults around you who thought that they have to treat you special when you were actually just another child. It's difficult, wasn't it? Since you are so very ordinary. So when you realized that they are the real friends, you felt kind of....awkward? You should relax more. Everyone is a friend. Even if you act freely, no one here would mind. Everyone here is a comrade who resonances with the armors (as you are). And this resonance is probably stronger than the tie of blood. If you think that way, everything would be fine, won't it? Even when you started a fight, did a trick, no one here would mind it.'
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Touma: 'It's the first time in my life someone has told me things like this. To say the truth, I was astonished that Nasti looked me this way. It's true that I never have had a friend whom I'm not afraid of bothering (or a friend who accept me as I am). But, there is actually one person, who was really close to a 'real friend' to me. But still, she is not a 'friend'. It is just that she did not let me feel worried anything unnecessary (when I am) with her, and she did not act anxiously when she is with me, too. She is such kind of a person.'