[There is someone who believes]

Life Auction

by Hika HaradaMr.

Satisfaction level ★ ★ ★ 3.5

Easy to read ★ ★ ★ ★

I wanted to read Hika Harada's work, so I picked up this book that seemed to be easy to read 📚

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At the end of the affair, an injury case occurred, and Aunt Noriko, who is under house arrest, and Mizuki who fails in job hunting and lives a part-time job. As a result of exhibiting a lot of brand-name items, tableware, and kimono on an online auction, the distance between the two gradually shrinks. And the truth of that incident gradually becomes clear...

As the title "Life Auction," it was a story about selling things, but it was a story like "looking back at life itself" somewhere.

The know-how of the auction is also drawn in detail and it is interesting, and I thought again that Hika Harada is good at telling stories that are closely related to "money" and "life."

At first, when she hears that "an aunt who caused a knife wound at the end of an affair," she takes a distance somewhere like Mizuki.

However, as we were together, it was impressive that the discomfort of "Is it really a person who does such a thing?"

"Have I ever thought, 'Other things are no good, this must be it'?"

"I love people so much that I hurt them, and I think that's what happens, but I also know that it's not just about love."

You can make people angry and upset in an instant, but it takes time to get people to forgive you, maybe.

There are a few spoilers from here ⚠️

When I learned the truth of the incident, I felt a fear that people would be judged not for what I did but for what I thought I did.

What is thought to be "possible" and what is actually "done" are completely different, but how can the boundary be so easily blurred? And above all, I felt very sorry for Riko who was not believed by her family.

In any situation, if there is even one ally, life may go in a slightly different direction.

Another episode "Ameyobi" recorded was also impressive. Yoshiko, an optician, and Teruo, a radio postcard craftsman. Both were not around, so it was very fresh.

"Imina" appears in the story. It is a real name that is only taught to the married person. However, personally, because I want to know the real name, I was a little stuck in the behavior of treating Teruo's secret lightly and the feeling of trying to step into it by lying 😞

When the two finally meet again, Teruo teaches Yoshiko his real name, even though they have already lived separate lives.

Does that mean "I still loved you,"

Or was it "to put a break in the past"? Because the answer is not clear, it was a way of ending that lingered. After reading the explanation, there was a sentence that made me think that it might be so.

[Words that remained in my heart]

"In some worlds, what you think you did is more important than what you actually did."

It was a book that made me think about the ambiguity between "believing" and "thinking."

Hika Harada, I want to read another book 📚

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