SECOND PART -- STORIES OF UNFORTUNATE IN LIFE (EPISODE 3 : A PERSON…SHOULDN'T BE JUDGED BY THE APPEARANCE)
From Isshi Of Kagrra,
Translated by Hayashi_Hime (Chinese into English)
First of all many thanks to kagrrafan.cn for permitting me to translate the story.
They have been putting in a lot of effort in providing Kagrra, info; translate Kagrra, blog's diary from Japanese into Chinese etc. I, myself only understand a little bit of Japanese language so I can only translate the stories after they have translated it into Chinese. So, once again many thanks to them for their effort and thanks a lot for sharing. My sincere apologize for the bad translation.
Credit goes to Sotomi san (from kagrrafan.cn) for translating this article from Japanese language into Chinese language.
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No offense, may I ask did you ever experience these?
1. While walking on the street, suddenly being questioned about your occupation
2. While cycling, suddenly being stopped and being questioned is your bicycle a stolen one.
3. Trying to help an elderly who is in difficulty but was somehow scolded without knowing the reason why and then leave the scene unhappily
Do have such incident, right? All these incidents happened on me. This might be the calamity that caused by my costume and hairstyle. But still, I don't understand. Why human being always judge a book by its cover? There's various type of people in this world, and they possess different type of character, so of course everyone is different; it seems like human being always judge another by the appearance. With only first impression, people start to guess others' personality, character and then anyhow criticize that person…By saying so, maybe lots of people will have a [?] in their mind…
For instance, Mr. Shimoda Kageki who recently reduces his exaggeration makeup is the most obvious example. His costume used to be exaggeration, always dye his hair into blue color and go onto TV show or something. However, I guess not much people know why he's being address as "Sensei"(先生). Maybe they don't know him so they just anyhow write, but actually, his an author who had won the "Naokishyou"(直木赏)*. Although there's many awards winner but there's no one like him that gave me such a strong impression. Thus, what I would like to say is "Don't judge a person by only look at his/her appearance!!!"
This is it. Why I would like to announce this loudly and question this matter. Because of this (the point mentioned above), the [calamity] fall on me. The above-mentioned three unfortunate points…everyone would have experienced any point of it a few times right? (Just to mention, I have such record of being stopped by police officer for ten times within a night!!); But, when the three points happened at one shot, that's really…heart breaking….
Beginning of February. As there's a photo shooting session in the early morning today so I got out of my bed at 3am, take a bath, tidy up my hair and step out in high spirit. There's no train in such early morning, so I'd prepare to ride my bicycle which I have not been riding for quite some time to work. As soon as I left the house, I feel the unbearable strong cold; so, I decided to make a trip back home to get my scarf and yarn hat.
Thinking of it now, that won't work(in resisting the cold)…; to resist the cold, I'd do all my best to hide my face and neck into the scarf, I put on my yarn hat because my ears were freezing, looking at my full preparation, "Great, now I won't feel the cold!"
Re-adjust my mode, I ride on my bicycle and went down the slope at the front of my house; when I make a turn to the main road heading to my work place, I found an elderly laying at the road shoulder! It looks like he's so drunk that he don't even have the strength to go home…I'd make a trip back home just now, and I'm aware that the set time to gather is ticking, however, I was thinking, if I leave him laying here he might die of freezing. So, I decided to wake him up.
"Grand~pa. You will catch cold if you sleep here, Grand~pa "
I called for two, three times but this elderly didn't give any response nor wake up. I look at my watch, stop my bicycle and walk towards him to hold him up.
"Grand~pa. Wake up. My good old grandpa!"
Finally, grandpa opens his eyes. I was relieved.
"Grandpa. You will catch cold. Hurry up and go home, ok? Where's your house located? Is it nearby?"
However, it looks like grandpa still in blurriness. "Oaaaa~~", "Hmm~~" he murmur, no idea on where himself is. I feel that this is difficult to settle, looking around to see if I can find someone to help out. Looking at my watch, the set time to gather had just passed…at the moment where I don't know what to do, from the back, the reflected light of my bicycle shine on me. This is the ray of hope in the hell! I'm lucky, the patrol police officer pass by. Immediately I stand up, "Excuse me. Excuse me."
When I was about to seek for help from this ray of hope, something surprising happened. The old folk who was unconscious just now jump up suddenly and yell at the police office.
"Help~~! H~help~!!!"
Let's don't talk about how shock was the police officer; I was the one who feel the shock the most. What is this all about? At the beginning, I have no idea on what is going on, then immediately I realize that the situation is not good; so I explain everything from the beginning to the end to the police officer. Then, after listened only a few sentences from me, the police officer curl his lips and thrown me this
"You~~I understood what you have said~ with such appearance of yours, you were suspected and are you still try to deny? Eh? "
These words are annoying!! Indeed, I'm in all black with my scarf and yarn hat that make me looks like a bank robber but I didn't expect my kindness to be repay with such speaking!! I don't want any backfire anymore, by the time I realize, the old folk had ran away…Forget about it… I thought; when I was about to leave the scene.
"You~ Wait a second."
"Eh? Anything else?"
I reply.
"Is this your bicycle? You, come over here, spare a minutes"
Unexpectedly, non-stop he looks for trouble.
"I really have no time!! I'm in a rush!!"
Even though I beg him, he still doesn't care, asking me this and that. With all this, it had passed another twenty minutes, my pant's pocket was searched for one time, my wallet, which contained only one thousand and twenty yen, was inspect by force. During this, my cell phone kept vibrating; it's the call from the manager….
Finally when I was able to get away from all this, I rush to the office, but by the time I reach the office it had passed forty-five minutes from the gathering set time. I got to apologize (to the office's authorities), with this incident, I was unhappy for the whole day, all those photos taken on that day reveals my extremely sad facial expression; those photos of mine which is OK was so little, and I was forced to re-shoot those photos again afterwards….
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*Sir Shimoda Kageki : The winner of the 83rd Naokishyou with the masterpiece titled "Kiiroi Kiba (黄色い牙)" in 1980
*Naokishyou : le Prix Naoki (Naoki Awards) please refer to
Prix Naoki — Wikipédia
*Sensei (先生) : It means teacher or master in Japanese