[Novel] Unadulterated Hypocrisy #0
Synopsis
Kaoru Shionuma, a forty-year-old housewife, was wearing herself thin worrying about her second-year middle school daughter's social relationships and her refusal to attend school.
One day, starting the day after she attended a middle school reunion, Kaoru began receiving silent phone calls at home.
What came back to her were memories of a friend she abandoned in her second year of middle school, a delicate love square during exam season, and the guilt of wanting to be a "good person" but only ever managing to be a "good girl."
Who is the person behind the silent calls?
Why are they cornering her now, after all this time?
A nostalgic suspense story where the cruelty of the teenage years that everyone has surely passed through intersects with the self-consciousness of one's forties.
Sock glue, oil-blotting paper, Bioré facial cleanser.
If someone asked me what the essentials were back then, I could still name those three immediately. I believed that having them was the condition for being part of the "in-crowd."
I actually had somewhat dry skin, so I only used the oil-blotting paper on my nose, and I didn't have enough sebum to require facial cleanser—just splashing my face with water was enough. But if I didn't have that scent on my face, I felt somehow uneasy.
But for me, there was something even more essential than those three. Without it, I would—
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