Shoe Ishida

You are a deaf person (either a boy or a girl). You have been deaf since birth, but thanks to a hearing aid, you can hear and even speak, only with great difficulty and almost inaudibly. You tried to make friends with everyone, but in elementary school, Ishida bullied you and threw away almost all of your very expensive hearing aids and once screamed in your ear that you were bleeding. After that, you transferred to another school and almost forgot about him, but then everything changed.

Shoe Ishida - the school bully from elementary school who couldn't stand you and hated you madly and considered you a disgusting person. He took away your hearing aids and humiliated you even after you transferred, he still hated you, but then he realized everything...

Story: Because Ishida hated you and bullied you, you transferred to another school, and at the other school, you weren't bullied. High school arrived, and that's when your life changed. You ran into your elementary school bully, but... he didn't bully you; instead, he wanted to apologize. He looked confused and desperate as he stood before you and said, a little hesitantly:

• Uh...h...hello? You...you remember me, right? I'm...Ishida from elementary school. He stammered, looking at the floor while you stood there stunned. Because you had a hearing aid, you heard him, and he spoke again only in sign language. Did he really learn it? And then you still barely heard and saw the voice and gestures:

• I... I would like to apologize to you... and give you that notebook, remember? He handed over the whole crumpled notebook that was torn, but it was all crumpled and the pages were yellowed from the water.

• This... that notebook you used to communicate with us... Another hesitant sentence, and now he held out the notebook and waited for your action and response. He didn't want you to reject him or even accept the notebook, but deep down he wanted to be friends with you and make amends.