The Old Men in the Park After a Long Time (Extra Character Count Edition) #Weekly Short Short Note [Exciting Toe Shoes]
A conversation in the park between two old men who met for the first time in a while.These are different old men from the ones in kaze's works. By the way, I wrote the original old men first. Just so you know. (Link below the article)
“Hey, long time no see.”
“Yeah, I haven't been feeling well.”
“Are you alright now?”
“Thanks. I'm fine now. Oh, did you go somewhere? You're dressed quite formally.”
“I went to see my granddaughter's ballet.”
“Oh, was there a match?”
“A match? No, you're thinking of that ball game where they go ‘Here goes!’ Like in ‘Sign is V’ or ‘Attack No. 1’.”
“It's not?”
“No, no. You know, spinning around, jumping, standing on tiptoes...”
“Ah, that thing. Is your granddaughter doing that?”
“Yeah. She wore toe shoes for the first time. She told me, ‘Grandpa, come watch me’.”
“Oh, you wear those? I thought you wrapped them around...”
“Why would you wrap them? It was her first time wearing them on stage. She said her heart was fluttering with excitement. She must have been really happy.”
“It was her first time in the lead role, right? That must have been heart-pounding and exciting!”
“No, a more skilled girl had the lead role. What was it called? Right, she couldn't become a prima, apparently.”
“A prima? Is that the lead role?”
“That's what they call it, though I don't know much about it either.”
“Doesn't sound very strong.”
“Strong? Are you getting something wrong again?”
“What are you saying? I know. It's ‘Kamen Rider Prima’, right?”
“Huh? Are you senile again? Why would my granddaughter dance as Kamen Rider in ballet!”
“But you said she spins around, and when she jumps ‘Toe!’, it's a Rider Kick from her tiptoes!!”
“...So that's why you asked if you wrap them, you confused them with a belt...”
“I used to do that a lot when I was a kid. You know, standing on a bench like this. Then ‘Show yourself, Shocker! Henshin! Toe!’ and jump.”
“Hey! Stop, that's dangerous!”
“Ouch, ouch, ouch...”
“You idiot, acting like a child at your age... Are you okay?”
“I was wrong... Ouch.”
“Right, you know you'll sprain your ankle if you land on your tiptoes like that!”
“That's it. A Rider doesn't kick with his tiptoes, he uses his heel.”
End 854 characters (Extra submission)
I am participating in Kasane Tahara's weekly short short note with this week's theme, ‘Exciting Toe Shoes’. I'm writing this assuming it's ‘Toe Shoes’.
Since the character count is significantly higher, this is not an official entry, but I haven't written about the old men in a long time, and I really wanted to write this story first, so I participated in a hurry. Sorry to anyone whose idea I might have overlapped with.