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>>6471858
Finished a draft version of the background. Text included in case you want it. Spoilered for plot reasons.

I moved a lot as a child, so I never really made any friends. I was so scared of becoming close to someone that eventually, I stopped talking. All my classmates, and even my teachers, shunned me. But I had a friend, in the corner of the schoolyard. Every time I got close to the cage, it'd come wobbling over to greet me. I'd reach through the netting, and pet its forehead. It liked it. I think it was taken in as a weakling by the school, but no one came to see it. It was weak, shy and covered in scars. Half of one ear was torn off. There was a cat at the school, too. Everyone played with it. I got sick whenever I played with the cat, so I stayed away from it, and everyone else. That boy showed up to help one day. Apparently he lost a bet. And that's how I started to like him. Maybe I was being selfish, but I slowly got closer and closer to him. In the middle of those dark and gloomy days, being with him may have been the only happy moment of my childhood. One day, I came to my friend's cage to settle it down. The door was open. In the middle of the cage, I saw red liquid splattered all over. All that remained in the cage was its severed head. And the cat, licking the remains. To that cat, I

The one problem I have is with the last sentence. I dunno how to format it. I want to format it such that you reach the subject, I, and the object, cat, but never understand the verb, as in the original sentence 私はその猫を。 I wrote what I think could work, but I'm not happy with it. The rest is perfectly fine, though.

Oh, but I also am not entirely sure about the font sizing/etc. I wanted to make it so that the text would fit perfectly in the 640 x 480 pixel box, but I ended up having to muck with the sizing to get it to work. If anyone has any ideas, I'd like to hear...! Also, you can do whatever you want with my translation.

>>6471858
Finished. Text included in case you want it. Spoilered for plot reasons.

I moved a lot as a child, so I never really made any friends. I was so scared of becoming close to someone that eventually, I stopped talking. All my classmates, and even my teachers, shunned me. But I had a friend, in the corner of the schoolyard. Every time I got close to the cage, it'd come wobbling over to greet me. I'd reach through the netting, and pet its forehead. It liked it. I think it was taken in as a weakling by the school, but no one came to see it. It was weak, shy and covered in scars. Half of one ear was torn off. There was a cat at the school, too. Everyone played with it. I got sick whenever I played with the cat, so I stayed away from it, and everyone else. That boy showed up to help one day. Apparently he lost a bet. And that's how I started to like him. Maybe I was being selfish, but I slowly got closer and closer to him. In the middle of those dark and gloomy days, being with him may have been the only happy moment of my childhood. One day, I came to my friend's cage to settle it down. The door was open. In the middle of the cage, I saw red liquid splattered all over. All that remained in the cage was its severed head. And the cat, licking the remains. To that cat, I

The one problem I have is with the last sentence. I dunno how to format it. I want to format it such that you reach the subject, I, and the object, cat, but never understand the verb, as in the original sentence 私はその猫を。 I wrote what I think could work, but I'm not happy with it. The rest is perfectly fine, though.

You can do whatever you want with my translation.