[True Story] The Blood I Shed to Protect a Friend: The Moment of the Stabbing and My Rebirth as a “Clumsy Survivor”

This article was translated from the original Japanese using DeepL.

May 19, 2026. I hereby record that, despite being caught up in multiple incidents and sustaining some physical injuries, I am currently alive.

It was a trivial matter.

I tried to save a friend (or perhaps I should say an acquaintance) from death.

But then, that person, in a state of confusion, stabbed me in the side with a pair of scissors.

Fortunately, it wasn’t serious enough to cause a major wound, and since they were small cosmetic scissors (I’m not sure how to describe them), I got away with just a few puncture wounds and damage to the cummerbund of my plate carrier. My favorite shirt did end up with a hole in it, though…

I’ll be writing about trivial things like this that I happen to encounter while living in Japan.

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