軋む調和
The Rift of Trust
JLPT N1 · 5 min
The student council president, Ren, struggles under immense pressure to hide a school festival budget deficit, but his vice president and childhood friend, Yuki, discovers the truth and confronts him, leading them to a difficult moral choice.
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深夜の生徒会室で、会長の蓮は、文化祭の予算書を前にして懊悩していた。彼の目の前にある数字は、度重なる支出超過により、到底看過できない赤字を示している。伝統ある祭典を成功させねばならぬという重圧が、彼の理性をじわじわと蝕んでいた。
Late at night in the student council office, Ren, the president, agonized over the budget for the cultural festival. The numbers before his eyes showed a deficit that could by no means be overlooked due to repeated overspending. The pressure to make a festival with such tradition succeed was slowly eroding his sanity.