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Butterfly SANg 蝶が歌った

山師たちは何故か山を嫌っていた。山岳信仰や熊の神、良い香りのする白檀のペンなどは特に身の毛がよだつほど嫌っていた。山の奥でぼんやりと光る月も同様に彼らを嫌な気分にさせていた。

ふたりが愛したのはパラソルや波の音だった。時にラジオの電波などガヤガヤした雰囲気には浮かれて無邪気な様子で聞き入るのだったが、街や都会と言うものもいつも疑っていた。

このふたりの山師のうちひとりは女王によく似ていた。真っ直ぐな髪を肩下まで伸ばし誇っていたが不思議とその髪を美しいと言ってくれる人は居なかった。寂れた保養地で人々を相手に不思議な写真を撮り、どうしようもない悩みに答えを出せると嘯き金を稼ぐのが日々だった。

カーテン裏で湯気がたつように大鍋をグラグラ沸かしていたり、時には山の氷でガラスを曇らせると言う、手間という手間も一応かけていたが、それでも詐欺の部類だった。

そんなある日、蝶々が不思議な歌を歌い出した。

今日は特別な日

海の王は石を拾わせる

今日の歌は昨日の夢

また怒っているよ

空っぽは怖いよ

あなたの髪を撫で褒める人がいるよ

会いたいよ

褒められることは本当に知らないことだったので、好奇心だけで山師のひとりは山の麓に向かったのだった。そこで落ちてきたのが小さな王様と王女だった。髪をほめてくれるどころか気を失っていてもなんとなく偉そうだったので、腹の立った山師は服を剥ぎ取ったのだ。そして蝶の歌はまったくの出鱈目だったのだと思い、急いで保養地に戻ったという訳だった。

For some reason, imposters disliked mountains, especially mountain worship, bear gods, and sandalwood pens that smelled so good that it made their skin crawl. The moon shining dimly in the depths of the mountains was equally disgusting to them.

They loved the parasols and the sound of the waves. Sometimes they would listen to the buzz of the radio, but they were always suspicious of towns and cities. 

One of the two imposters looked a lot like the Queen. He was proud of his straight, shoulder-length hair, but strangely enough, no one had ever told him that it was beautiful. Two  spent their days at a deserted resort taking pictures of people and making money by claiming to be the answer to their inevitable problems. It was all came from steamy lends.

They would boil a large pot of water behind the curtains so that steam would rise, and sometimes he would use ice from the mountains to fog up the mirror.

One day, the swallowtail started to sing a strange song.

Today is a special day

Neptunus will make you pick up a stone

There just a stone,

Today's song is yesterday's dream

He is mad at me again  before he knew it his emotion frosty

Vacant hours scary

There's someone to stroke your hair and praise you

Come to mountain

Being complimented was something he really didn't know, so just out of curiosity, one of the imposters went to the foot of the mountain. It was there where fell in with a little king and princess. They didn't compliment him on his hair, but rather seemed to be somewhat pompous even though they were unconscious, so the angry imposter stripped off their clothes,and, realizing that the butterfly song was complete lie hurried back to the resort artificial.

By The Medium Necks

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