恋コア 第1話(2)
第1話 こどもになれたら、何になりたい?(2)金沢のような街のことを「小京都」という。京都とはちがう街だが、歴史を感じさせる景観であり、観光地という点で京都にならぶ街、を意味している。ところが「小大阪」と称される街は存在しない。誰も、大阪にはなりたがらないのだ。そんなことを考えているうちに、5分ほどがたってしまった。ひとりぐらしの古いアパートに、雨でびしょ濡れの少年を連れてきた。彼がシャワーの水滴を落とす音が部屋に響いている。少年がシャワーを浴びているあいだ、少年の着替えになりそうな服を自分のタンスから探しだし、シャワー室の前に置いた。少年はシャワーを終えると、胸から下をタオルでおおってぼくの前に現れた。しなやかな筋肉が肩と脇腹についている。ぼくと体格があまり変わらない彼は、ぼくが着古したTシャツを着て、ソファに座った。ファミレスの通りの、農業高校の前で、雨に濡れた少年を拾ってきたのだが、そのことにあまりリアリティを持てなかった。聞きたいポイントはいろいろあった。少年は、なぜひとりで生活しているのか?なぜ雨に濡れたまま歩いていたのか?「家」を持っていないのに、どのように日々を過ごしているのか?たしかに風邪をひくかもしれない状況で、彼をほうって置くことはできなかった。けれど、彼をほうって置けないと感じた不安の理由は、ほかに何かあったのだ。ひとり暮らしの部屋には、なんでも「ひとつ」しかない。ソファも、ひとつ。ベッドもひとつ。何か月も弾いていない電子ピアノが1台。それから、ぼくの毎日の、朝起きて、仕事に出かけ、帰ってきて眠るだけの生活のリズムも、変化のないものだった。大阪郊外の、歴史の塔の公園から4駅ぶんの距離にある、住宅街の古びれたアパートに、春の冷たい風が吹きつけていた。冷蔵庫からカルピスを取り出し、ミネラルウォーターと氷を混ぜて、テーブルの上に置いた。カルピスの水面を、じっと眺めていた彼に「飲めないの?」と声をかけた。「いいえ」と首をふって、カルピスを半分ほど飲んだ。「今日、寝る場所はあるの?」少年はまた首を振った。「名前は?」「レン、カタカナのレン。」レンは2年前まで両親と暮らしていたが、両親がドイツに移住するために、別々に生活することにしたらしい。「2年前といえば、ちょうど労基年齢がひき下げられた頃だよね?」「そうだよ。ぼくも家具を作ってる工場へ行ってた。あとはコンビニでバイトしたり、友だちの家に間借りしたりしてた。」「それじゃあ、やっぱり、帰るとこがないということ?」少年は黙りこくった。彼は、学校に行っていれば、5年生の年だ。勉強が大事とまでは思わないが、「普通」の生活を彼も経験する資格があるのではないか?「レン。しばらくこの部屋を使っていいよ。次の仕事か、次の家が見つかるまで。」「それは悪いよ、雨がやんだら、ぼくは出ていく。」「分かった。いつ出ていってもいい。ただし今飲んだカルピスの代金を払えるようになったらな?」「ここは喫茶店かよ。」レンは、目線をそらしながら笑った。これがレンとぼくの共同生活のはじまりだった。auto Translated by PCThe 1st storyIf becoming a child, what do you want to become? ( 2 )It says a town like Kanazawa to be " the little Kyoto ".It is the town which is different from Kyoto but it is the view to make it feel history and it means the town, を of which the point, the tourist resort, equals Kyoto.However, the town to say that is " small Oosaka " doesn't exist.No one is eager to become Oosaka.About 5 minutes had been enough for the time of being thinking of such a thing.It brought a soaked boy with rain to the old apartment of the living alone.The sound that he drops the drop of water of the shower is sounding in the room.It found out the clothes which seem to become the change of the boy while the boy takes a shower from its chest of drawers and it put them in front of the shower stall.The boy appeared in front of me, covering the bottom with the towel from the chest when he finished a shower.There is a lithe muscle at the shoulder and in the side.I put on an outworn T-shirt and he whom the physique doesn't change to so much with me sat on the sofa.It picked up the boy who was wet with rain in front of the agricultural high school as the family restaurant but it wasn't so much possible to have reality to the thing.There was a point to want to hear variously.Why is the boy living alone? Why were you walking as wet with rain? In spite of the hold of " the house ", how do you spend days?By the status which may catch a cold surely, he could not be neglected.However, there was some other reason of the anxiety to have felt that can not neglect him.There is only no " one " in the room of the living alone.The sofa, too, is one.The bed, too, is one.The electronic piano which many months aren't playing is one.Then, there was not a change in the living rhythm which goes out to the work, occurring in my morning of every day and lies only, coming back, being idle, either.The wind with the spring which is cold to the apartment in the residential area which could age which is in the distance for 4 station from the park at the tower of the history in the Oosaka suburbs was fanning.It put mineral water and ice on the table, taking out Calpis from the refrigerator and mixing them.It called out to him who was looking at the surface of the water of Calpis attentively, saying " isn't it possible to drink? ".Shaking its head, saying " no ", it drank Calpis as much as the half." Is the sleeping place being today? " boy shook its head again." Name? "" Wrenn, Wrenn of the Katakana. "Wrenn lived with the parents until 2 years before thoughFor parents to be moved to Germany, it seems that it decides to live separately." If saying 2 years before, is it when a trouble proximal age is exactly reduced? "" It is so It went to the factory where I, too, am making furniture Later, it did a byte at the convenience store and it rented it in the house of the friend. "" Then, does it say that it doesn't row when returning as expected? "The boy was absolutely silent.He is the year of the 5th grade if going to school.He of the life of " usually " whom it does but the studying doesn't think that it is an important thing, tooIs it that there is a qualification to experience?" Wrenn it may use this room for a while until the following work or the next house is found out " " I go out if it is bad and rain stops " " understand when may Ugo out but, should paying the fee of Calpis which was drunk now become possible? "" Here coffee shop. "Wrenn laughed while he evaded a look.This was the starting of cohabitation of Wrenn and mine.