Offline Absurdity

Almost everyone is now glaring at us like we did a crime or something... What have you done, KaShuun!?

"It's... alright... to be honest... My station... is not that far... So I can afford... to stand..."

The old lady said so herself that she will stand... But I don't think she's telling the truth. I think she has a companion before riding the train to be able to reach this far...

"But grandma... I don't think you could actually stand that long. We will help you shove this young man here and give you a seat."

If a superhero from a Hollywood movie, the middle-aged salaryman declared It...

But KaShuun basically told them that he's not going to stand from his seat! All of a sudden, the one they're saying that they're going to shove, KaShuun, spoke up...

"Oh? Superhero tonight, aren't we?"

"Superhero or not, everyone needs to help the elderly... and the fact that you don't even try to stand up one inch from your seat... makes you the lowest kind of human! A despicable scumbag!"

When KaShuun said some mean thing to him, everyone glared at him... But when this guy said the mean things, their eyes turned from a glare to amazement...

I wonder what's so amazing about what he just said... They're just trash-talking each other... But KaShuun's next words already transformed to trash-talking... to the truth...

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"Shut up, damn hypocrite..."

"Hypocrite!?"

He just said to him that he's a hypocrite... at that one word, all of their eyes shifted to KaShuun... and those eyes are not glaring or anything... More like, they're shocked...

"Children these days don't know how to restraint. Look, I know you're trash-talking me but that goes beyond trash-talking... That's disrespectful, calling me a hypocrite... It hurt my feelings..."

"Sorry, but what I said just now... is not a trash talk... It's the truth. The absolute truth..."

The truth... No one knows his exact definition of what he says as the "truth". That's why all of them will naturally act like normal... Be angry for badmouthing someone who they thought done a good deed...

"Oi, kid... What do you mean by that? It's not trash talk anymore, It's called harassment by now..."

"I don't know that speaking the truth is called harassment now... Then, what's justice for?"

"Okay kid... explain to me!!! What the heck did you mean by hypocrite!?"

The middle-aged guy said as he slammed the wall... allowing for a terrifying sound to echo at the whole train... I think KaShuun is going too far... I should just give my seat so conflict would be avoided... But for some reason, I can't bring myself to stand up now... So I just continued to listen to him as he speaks...

"The fact that you easily passed the responsibility of giving a seat to the elderly... and hasn't even thought of giving up your seat, makes you a disgusting hypocrite... You shove the responsibility to others but never even thought of doing those things yourself... The same applies to everyone here... Deep inside all of you, no one really wants to give up his or her seat!!! Every one of us is basically scumbags here!!! And you dare to act like a superhero when you're just trash like me!? Acting so noble-like when all you've done is shove responsibility to a younger man!!! Doesn't that make you sick!? Be ashamed of yourself!!!"

Those words of his... Everyone stared at him, not with anger, sadness, or irritation... Everyone's staring at him blankly and no emotions at all...

"Ikebukuro Avenue, next stop... The passengers who will stop at that station, please hit the button for the train to stop... I repeat-"

We arrived at the station rather quickly... and KaShuun pushed that button so violently that I almost thought that the button broke... No one threw him any words as he left the train... They just stared blankly at him, including me...

The old lady is now sitting beside me... he took the seat that he left just now...

Kanzaki Shun... I do admit, he's gone too far... But is that really the KaShuun that I knew? I don't remember him having a crude line of talking...

With that, the first meet-up I ever did in my life... ended in absolute failure... God doesn't exist after all...

END OF CHAPTER 6