Opening Act
“Hey, Cookie?”
This happened a little before summer vacation. I think it was the day after I made up with Cookie...or maybe two days? It was recess time, and I was talking with Cookie in our classroom.
“Yes? What is it, Chii? Is something wrong? You know you can tell me if you have any problems, right? They call me your mom for a reason, after all! I’ll hear you out, no matter what you ask me for!”
“I have a question.”
“You do? Well, go right ahead! Ask away!”
“What’s a lolicon?”
Cookie fell over. She slammed right into the classroom’s floor. It looked like it really hurt.
“Are you okay?” I asked.
“Y-Yeah, I’m fine, Chii... I was just a little surprised. So, umm, why are you asking about that all of a sudden...?”
“I’m just curious.”
It looked like the question was bothering Cookie a little. “Don’t you, umm...already know what that word means, Chii?”
“I sort of know,” I said. “Lolicons are boys who like little girls.”
“Oh, so you do get it! That’s exactly right. Lolicons are creepy boys who have weird thoughts about little girls like us! They’re terrible, terrible people!”
“They’re bad people?” I didn’t really understand. “All lolicons are bad?”
“That’s right!”
“Why?”
“Well, because...because they just are! Of course they are! The law says that that stuff’s not okay! Adults aren’t supposed to like little girls like that, and anyone who does is a total freak!”
“Why are they freaks?” I just didn’t understand. “Why does liking little girls make them freaks?”
“I-It... It just does! Lolicons are freaks!” Cookie shouted. “Don’t you remember what the principal told us at that assembly the other day? There’ve been more and more people lately targeting elementary school girls like us and doing awful things to them! Everyone who commits a crime like that is an awful lolicon freak!”
I didn’t say anything. Cookie looked at me.
“Chii... Did something happen between you and Andou? Is that why you’re asking me about lolicons?” she asked.
“Yeah,” I said. Andou helped me and Cookie be friends again, but after that, everyone in the literary club started calling him a lolicon, or “the lolicon knight,” sometimes. That’s why I got curious and decided to ask Cookie. I wanted to know what lolicon really meant.
“I knew this had to be Andou’s fault again! Agggh, that stupid pervert! First he goes and comes out as a lolicon as if that’s something to be proud about, and now he’s trying to trick you into thinking that lolicons aren’t a bunch of freaks...? What a scumbag! I just knew I couldn’t let him go unchecked... At this rate, my dear little Chii’s going to be totally ruined...”
I could sort of tell that Cookie was misunderstanding something. She was getting mad, but I was trying to think. I thought and thought...but I still didn’t understand.
Why is it bad to be a lolicon?
Why is it not okay for grown-up boys to like little girls?
And, thinking about it the other way around...
Is it not okay for little girls to like grown-up boys?
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