I'll knock on the door quietly, but there was no response from inside.

Nevertheless, I know I'm in the room. Besides, it doesn't even lock, the amphibian hexatatami. It would also allow us to go in slightly. but he didn't do anything to open the door, knocked small again and called without waiting for a reaction.

"... Belle child. I don't have enough seasoning to use for the evening, so I'm going to go get some. I'll be right back."

"... Lew, go?

What I heard was a faint tear.

I guess I was surprised and reacted. Because the voice of driftshield was too calm.

"I'll be right back"

Repeat, the boy goes down the stairs early enough to the back entrance. Wearing the hoodie's hood deep in his eyes, he rolled out as the sun was falling and his skin was getting cold.

This time of year when we withheld December to tomorrow. Is it warm winter this year? Not so much now, but the days of whitening of exhalation will come soon.

Are you used to this too? Even as the car headlights approached, I was no longer strangely nervous.

While walking the narrow pavement of the estate, the drift shelter aims at the place of destination. Contrary to the direction where the store is located. It's been a long time since I've been through, a quiet old fashioned road.

………

Walking for about five minutes.

We arrived at the corner of the residential area where the house can be found.

My childhood friend Girl - Lotus Castle Colorful Flowers lives near that entire house.

(Aren't you home yet...)

Upstairs looking up in the distance, there is no light leaking out the window in the girl's room. I guess it's getting late for school department activities.

Lifeguard often looked at the house immersed as every day as a child. From the window of the living room on the ground floor, the gap between the closed curtains, there is a faint light. My parents are supposed to be at home because of the parking lot. You know, waiting for my only daughter to come home while I prepare dinner?

(uncle and aunt... how are you doing?)

Sometimes my own father tended to vacate the house, and for a long time Colorful Flowers parents used to do it well. Especially when I was a little girl, it was a treat for dinner, as a matter of course, and they stayed. For drift protection, each could be considered the other parent.

I was just remembering my childhood and feeling nostalgic, and I saw people walking from the other side.

The flow shield reflexively lurked behind the fence,

――――――――――

I just got my thoughts stained in the blank.

Everything was about to blow up in front of that person who was exposed by the street lights.

What came was two girls dressed in high school uniforms that were attended by drift guards. A blue blazer and a boxed pleated skirt in the same color packed to knee length.

One is a tall female student with your hair.

(That's Serizawa "Shiraizawa"...)

Seven vegetables from Serizawa. He was a classmate of Liquid Protection. Secondary school was with me, but I haven't talked much about it, especially the pattern of not being close.

And the other one.

"- …………"

Long, glossy dark hair stretched to the waist. A distinct, neat little face with a prominent nose. In the last six months, would you have been a little upset?

(……… colors, flowers…)

Liquid protection almost collapsed from his hips unexpectedly.

I haven't flown to another world that night. She was a childhood friend girl, Lotus Castle Colorful Flowers, who had been dating for roughly a decade.

The two slowly walking in front of the Lotus Castle family as they talked side by side. Can't talk about it all, they kept stopping their legs and continuing to bicker on the spot. I can't even hear the content.

……

While lurking his breath in the shadow of the walls, the drift shield eases slightly.

(... I'd love to. I've been worried about you since you sent me such a Yandere email... but you look like you're having fun.)

That's fine, I think.

Stream protection hidden in the corners of the walls and colorful flowers that are intrigued by stand-up. The distance between the two sides must be less than ten meters.

"Hey, colorful flowers. Long time no see."

- and. I'm close enough to be able to get out with my voice like that.

(...... p)

I desperately suppress the urge to actually do so. Desperately bind your body, which is likely to move irrelevant to your will, in a chain named Reason. This may be the first time in fifteen years of my life that I have ever controlled myself so much. So much so that it seems so.

Arishi shield.

Before the lotus castle colorful flowers, do not show up.

(... oh.... Oh, that's okay, now...!

Only this time, my belly has been decided.

I'm going to Grim Crows again.

No more strays.

It's not like I made up my mind without thinking deeply.

It bothered me to the limit.

Which world should we live in, Modern Japan or Grim Crows? I can't put on superiority or inferiority. Still, if you have to choose between...

(I'm going. There are a lot of people who need this power, to that Grim Crows)

That was the decision I made.

In that world, keep fighting for your life. Only when I had a loved one or a place to be.

There is nowhere like coverage where they will always be safe. I don't know if this is the moment. If you don't protect it, you'll be lost instantly. Such a harsh world.

If it's true, I want to speak up. I want to let the colorful flowers right there know that I'm safe. I want to talk to her.

But I made up my mind. Leaving this world.

You should avoid more than solidifying your will.

Colorful flowers would surely please you if you knew you were alive. But what would you think if you heard he would be gone again soon? This time it will surely be an eternal farewell. I can't even keep in touch. The separation is no different from death.

There's no point in letting them know that Arima Current Protection is alive at least at the moment. It just makes me happy.

(... so colorful flowers...)

Time passes, people forget. The passage of time should sooner or later wash your presence out of her.

Of course, I don't think this choice is right. There is no right or wrong. But I have to choose just one of them. I don't want it. So,

(... always, don't worry about me)

I haven't seen that in a long time and recognise it.

Colorful flowers are beautiful.

I haven't tried so hard to admit it until now, but I think I stand out among my classmates and fall into the category of beauty.

(... dude, dude, fuck, colorful flowers is my proud sister look..., ahhh shit)

That's why.

(... I'd love to. I don't care if you grab a lie... you could afford one or two of your boyfriends)

I get instantly angry just imagining that diagram. I don't fake myself anymore. That's jealousy. If a guy like that really shows up, he'll want to punch you.

(... but that's fine)

If you'll be happy, that's fine.

You're not like me. I can study, and I have many friends, and even though I'm only in high school, I have a solid dream for the future, and... well, it's beautiful, and I'm sure there's a glorious future ahead of me.

Right now, we've been together for a long time, and all of a sudden I'm gone, and I might be a little upset...

Looking at her side, I think so.

(You'd be absolutely fine without me. So......)

A selfish wish. I really just wish.

Against the girl who showed me so much about herself when she was gone.

(... sorry, colorful flowers)

A childhood friend who's been a little screwed up.

(Really, sorry)

The only reason you look pale should never be because of the light addition and subtraction of thin dirty street lights.

(I'm going...)

I can't do this forever. With the thought of a severance, the boy turns back on his heel.

Because my body was going to rush out to her, even against my thoughts.

(Nice to see your face at the end)

At first, I was going to leave just looking at the house. I didn't expect to see him in person.

Start walking. Go away.

I'm right around the corner, within reach of you if you speak up, from a precious childhood girl.

(- Bye, colorful flowers)

While enduring thoughts that will tear your heart apart.

Shake off the stray, the drift shield tends to.

"Uh, let's go to Colorful Flowers." Nanko's tennis boy, right? This is practically a concoction, isn't it? You never did, did you? I don't either... Because it's okay to match the numbers. Though, considering the mentz over here, I'm going to be just a guy who's going to drop by the colorful flowers... "

"No, I... yeah... sorry. I need to get my bike repaired..."

"... can't you do it?"

As for my friend Serizawa Seven Vegetables, who knows the 'circumstances', I can't even say it too strongly. Instead of pushing me, I pulled back lightly. I guess he didn't really want to go to the concert, he just tried to cheer me up.

"Well, me and either one of you are getting better... I don't know what the difference is between a tattoo or two... after all, the guy is Otona's mysterious, like this... that one..."

And I thought, apparently, 'The Example Matter' is drawing tail.

"Oh, the other day? He said he ran into a really cool foreigner."

"Huh!? No, well... when I look at it like a hell of a model... That, even the protagonist of some kind of game. I thought it was CG. That guy definitely said Schweitzer or something like that. I wouldn't be surprised if I used magic or anything."

"Ha. What is it?"

"Anyway - I'll be somewhere soon. Do something. Look, we might have a new meeting or something."

"Mmm... but..."

"Hey, colorful flowers.... the... see. It's been six months, right?

Against a seven-vegetable whine that seems so hard to say,

It's only been six months.

Lotus Castle Colorful Flowers had answered with a bright voice at the bottom. It was somewhere, even like words to arouse myself.

"My uncle, Dr. Niyama... we're all saying the same thing. He's not a jerk. I think so too."

"..., um, you know..."

My friend said nothing more with a complicated smile.

- Colorful flowers themselves, there was awareness.

I can't say and repair any more positive words, no matter how they line up.

Arishi Shield is not coming back.

Though I am definitely trying to admit it, somewhere in my mind such thoughts are beginning to bring sickles.

Only once, I had a billa handout for a stream escort search in front of the station.

Contrary to effort, none of them were fruitless.

Still, one day, I might get some clue. It was a colorful flower that I wanted to continue without meowing, but was stopped by a certain person.

Of course, the strain on the colorful flowers themselves was a problem, as well as the predisposition of drift protection. Shortly before his disappearance, he was badly rough. Though I didn't get out of shape, I haven't had a fight in the city once or twice either.

Something got you into trouble that you shouldn't be involved in, and you disappeared. Such rumors were whispered as well.

It was a story that made me want to smile that it was unlikely as a childhood friend girl, but if, for example, drift protection really disappeared due to those circumstances, it could even pose a danger to the colorful flowers I try to find.

"- So, Colorful Flowers, wait. Hey, it's okay. If it's a shield. '

That's what Katayamazo, the lord of the karate dojo through which Lifeguard was passing, said. The colorful flowers of the time, which were completely disturbed, were something that I almost accidentally ran against the old man as usual.

"How can you be such a swallower? What do you know about drift protection?"

But.

"Colorful flowers, live as usual. Don't let this drag you down and lose sight of yourself. Live as magnificently as ever, and wait. When that kid snuck back, he said," Where have you been, idiot! Take responsibility and marry me, you asshole! ♪ So I can welcome you brightly ♪

Just kidding but gentle, in a teasing tone.

So, I understand. It's not exactly like my little girl's self, who was only seeing drift protection. The leader of his life, Ten Rivers of One Mountain, also showed him the colorful flowers that had been badly disturbed by the incident.

(But I...)

Nothing is more terrifying than "The Flow of Time". Colorful flowers have become painfully realistic these days.

It was then that the noisy disappearance of the exodus, but now no one is on the subject. Even in school, it is becoming commonplace not to have him.

The incident, in which a boy student in his first year of high school went missing, was certainly weathered.

- And most of all, what's scary.

(Me too, one day...)

Wouldn't I admit it?

The boy's absence became routine, and this heartbreak healed. Aren't you going to give up that Arisu is nowhere else? I just can't wait to be scared that the time might come.

…………

I'm not the only one.

My father went out to work, as he always did, and as far as the old One-Mountain man...

"... ah... or... hey colorful flowers! Are you listening?

"Oh, oh, sorry"

"Damn, colorful flowers just like this......, hmm?

So the seven vegetables cut off their words, and, contrary to the direction they had walked - they turned their eyes to a dark alley that stretched securely.

"What's wrong, seven vegetables"

"... I don't know... I think someone was looking at me from the corner..."

"Oh, hey... don't be scared."

It's been awhile since the sun went down.

It's still evening in time, but the darkness around us is no different from that of the night. In this period of short days, after the club, there was so much atmosphere that I didn't really want to go home alone.

"Isn't someone just passing by, or something?

"Yes, I was there. I felt a sneaky gaze at JK from the shadows. Are you a pervert? I'm gonna take a look."

"Ma'am, if you stop"

When she hurried to grab the shoulder of the seven-course dish, she snorted back.

"'Cause here, in front of the house of colorful flowers, right? It could be your stalker."

"No, because you don't stalk me or anything. I mean, if you're really a stalker, I think you're in danger."

"Dash here!

"Ah!"

This push question was also in the calculation, or the seven dishes rushed out toward the bend of the problem as if by accident. If anyone really sees how it goes from there, it would certainly surprise you.

"Hmm!"

let that little body bounce and jump out quickly into the alley, but

"............ uhh?

As the amateur round mystery stood, the seven dishes stood as if they had clapped out.

"Was there a stalker?

As he walks over, Colorful Flowers throws a clear question of the answer.

"No, ha. That can't be true. Real life."

Lined with bitter seven dishes, the colorful flowers look in the same direction. There was no different there than usual, only the landscape of the estate at night. Lights are leaking from every house because it's still evening in time, making people feel like they're breathing even though it's dim.

On the other hand, there is no such thing as passers-by, so he is quiet with Sin, so if anyone rushes away or runs, he should know in footsteps.

…………

Seven vegetables are right. Such an event, it is not what it is. The mere fact that the drift protection is gone is such an anomaly that there is no more.

"... I wonder if it was my fault. Well, that's the stalker, but you thought you weren't walking in. He says housekeeper Gocco or something, and he peeks through the gap until he realizes we're here. I don't even have a house near here."

…………

"Well no. Is it time to go home?... colorful flowers? What's wrong with you?

"... oh yeah"

I was staring straight at the asphalt line that continued straight. Take this road for about five minutes and you'll reach the Arihai family. I'm totally gone, I'm out of shelter, in that house.

"Colorful Flowers. Next Sunday, go to Miyamazu, Miyamazu"

"Huh?"

"Fine, go. Ask him to come back. I'd like to go to Charlotte in a while. Let's go shopping. Kimari!"

"Uh... but I also need to put my bike out for repair..."

"Ugh! What the hell is Chari doing? It doesn't even take that long, does it? You can let me out! Yes, decision!

…………

Is it time for you to be bothering your surroundings? In the shadow of the current shield. Exhausted. Worried, cared for.

"... yeah, okay"

Colorful flowers feel again. Time is still horrible.

Don't drag it forever. Forget it already. The day they say it like that from everything around them, it's probably coming right up to that.