This part is surprisingly small compared to previous ones...but that's because Egg Egg only supports one team, Japan. And you can't make too many predictions from the outcome of one team, can you? But when the results of the match came out...I was spooked to the core, let me tell you.
June 14 2002 – The day of her last exam, and also the day of Japan's match against Tunisia. It is nine in the morning, and Egg Egg had studied until four before turning in.
Which makes what Zell says next seem rather contradictory.
Z: Say, we're looking bright-eyed and bushy-tailed today!
E: Of course! I can't wait for my exams to end. And that match...Why oh why couldn't it have been held at 7.30pm? It's so frustrating.
Z: (Shakes head) You're a gone case.
E: I even made a prediction of Japan 3, Tunisia 0.
Z: Did I ever tell you that you're one greedy bitch?
E: (Annoyed) I AM NOT GREE...errrrm wait...I AM NOT A BITC...
Alright, you win! I am a greedy bitch.
Z: (laughs) And I suppose all of them will be scored by that all-important person in your fervent wishes?
E: Didn't I tell you that he's no longer...forget it. Of course not, I can be impartial when I want to be. My prediction is:
It will be a goalless draw at halftime, as usual. I think this is their strategy. Then, one goal by Inamoto Junichi at the 50th minute, one by Hidetoshi Nakata (but of course) at the 75th minute, and the last by Takayuki Suzuki at the 85th, just before the whistle blows. Wahahaha!! See if my predictions will be correct!!
Z: Yeah, right. Real impartial, you are.
E: If any of them comes through, I will go and buy TOTO, the local lottery.
Z: What if ALL of them come true?
E: I'm sure that I will either faint on the spot or grin until my features are permanently fixed in that position, like this. (Makes a face with crossed eyes a goofy grin) Looks stupid, right?
Z: A very large improvement from your existing features.
E: I'm not going to argue with you.
Z: It's true, though. You do not smile too often.
E: What's there to smile about? Besides, I always thought that I look like a bumbling idiot when I smile.
Z: Such a waste.
E: What's a waste?
Z: I always thought that your face always lights up when you smile. Besides, you get to live longer.
E: ......
Z: What's this cloud of gloom over your head suddenly?
E: I do not think that I will want to live that long.
Z: Why not? Every one hopes to live to a hundred.
E: (Shakes head) You won't understand. Even I do not understand it.
Z: Must be some philosophical phase about "I am the devil's spawn, a menace to the Earth."
E: Snore......zzzzzz
Z: (tucks her in gently and switches himself off, quietly)
June 14 2002 – Egg Egg returns from her exams, jubilantly celebrating the fact that Japan had won the match with Tunisia by two goals.
E: Heeheeheeheehee!! Hahahahaha!!! Hehehehehe!!!
Z: Let me guess. Japan won.
E: By two goals, no less!
And one of them is by Nakata-sama!!
It is at moments like this when I really wish I were in Japan, so that I can jump around and celebrate!!! Yaaaaaay!!
By the way, I just found out that Mr H.N. is a year older than me.
Z: As if that has got a lot of relevance to me.
E: Of course it has! I was getting insecure lately, that the people I admire were all so much younger. It just indicates cruelly my increasing number of years. (Eyes Zell.)
Z: It's not my fault that when my creators set my age, it had to be at 17!! I had no choice in deciding my age.
E: Yeah, but a difference of four years! (Why four years? Zell was created in 1999, and it is now 2002, which means he is twenty this year.) I was bemoaning the fact that I had to resort to that kind of thing to feel younger!
Z: What kind of thing? Doesn't make sense to me.
E: (Tries to pat his shoulder) Don't worry. That is the way I intended it to be.
Z: (creases his forehead)
E: Why don't you turn yourself off? I want to admire that newspaper cutting with Nakata-sama's picture on it. Feels weird if you're staring at it as well.
Z: I thought that you had gotten over him already!
E: Yeah? Well, the cycle has resumed again, cos he SCORED a fantabulous goal, just as I had predicted. HAHAHA!!
Z: (Shakes his head) Will you never learn?
E: I even replaced his picture with yours beside my bed.
Z: By all means. That doesn't even look like me. You must've drawn it with someone else in mind.
E: Ouch! That hurts! You should learn to choose your words carefully. (Threatens to switch off his programme)
Z: Alright! I'll shut myself down!
E: (Lazy to answer, as she stares intently at H.N.'s face)
Z: Sigh.
E: Next prediction: Japan 2, Turkey 1.
Z: What was that again?
E: See if I got it right. I think I'll definitely place a bet on Japan this time. I missed two chances already.
Z: That's so un-ladylike.
E: Tsk Tsk, Zell. I have never aspired to be ladylike from the day I turned 12. It's so un-me!!
Z: I think it would be best that I terminate myself, before you attempt to disgust me to cyberhell.
E: Do that. (No paying heed to him, still staring at that picture. One wonders if her already very serious myopia would be aggravated.)
Zell exits in a haste.
My favourite websites (hehehe)
Ancient Tales - Gods from Yishegai
The Cursed Living Doll
The Storyteller's Tent
The Virtual Diary with Zell Intro
Part I - The Re-education of Zell
Part II - What N.H. did to Egg Egg
Part III - Wistful Dreams
Part VI - Shattering of the Japanese Dream, and Egg Egg's idolization
The Zell and Hidetoshi Nakata Pictures
