Boxing Up The Past
Cast:
Aka-Oni, Akai Onikichi - age 17
Majorina, Majo Rina - age 63
June, 2015
"I'd like to say again that I appreciate your coming up here. It means a lot to me. My daughter, my own flesh and blood, couldn't be bothered, you see."
Onikichi finishes packing up another cardboard box, this one labelled [INVENTIONS]. He puts it in a stack with several others, then looks back at Majorina, who is supervising the packing of her life into boxes.
"You have a daughter? I thought you were an old maid."
Majorina coughs, hacking violently into her sleeve, then points a bony finger at the boy. "You need to learn some tact, Aka-Oni! An honest brute like you is sure to run into problems in life."
"But girls don't like liars," Onikichi says, scratches his head. "I learned that a long time ago."
"Oho, was it that Yayoi girl?"
Onikichi nods. "It was. She told a lie about moving far away, and they got so sad that she couldn't tell them the truth. So I told them for her."
"They got mad at her, I suppose."
"They got mad at me! One of them even kicked me in the junk! All because she told a lie! That's why it's better to tell the truth!"
Majorina coughs again, for several moments. "You sound like a pair of right fools! How did you ever become friends?"
"Yayoi felt bad. Said it was her fault. It was, but she wasn't the one who kicked me there, so I told her it wasn't her fault. After that we were cool."
"You fool. How is this a story about girls disliking liars?"
Onikichi shrugs. "They just do, I guess."