Volu 3, Prologue
When I was small, really small.
It was far before I t the lady in the strange suit at Gentle Breeze Park.
I think I was three or four.
I went on an adventure.
And ten minutes after my adventure began, I was lost…
“… W-waaaah.”
Through the influence of so ani or sothing I’d seen at the ti, the desire for adventure welling up in my couldn’t be quelled; I stole from my parents’ eyes and snuck out of the house. But my heart full of dreams and hope, in a re ten minutes, had turned all to regret
The young lost his way, he burst into tears…
“… Uuuu… mom, dad, where are…”
Where? … Well, I went and left on my own, so I an, my parents were probably at ho, but back then I was only able to wail, waiting for soone to co save .
The gradually darkening sky further stimulated my anxiety. Teeter, totter, I walked aimlessly, and by the ti I noticed it, I was standing before the tori gate of a run-down shrine.
It was at the mont.
“Two years, two hundred eighty-seven days, twenty-two hours, fourteen minutes until Kagoshima Akira ets the Cage of Death Remnant. I guess this is around the right place. If I co into contact with him when he’s any younger, there’s a high probability his eting with won’t remain in mory. But it’s not good for this eting to beco more impactful than his eting with the Cage of Death Remnant. To protect that unstable line, and beco a ‘friend who presence is only natural’… yeah. Now really is best.”
A quiet, clear and gentle voice.
When I looked again, there was a kid around my age before .
Gray hair close to white, a gray kinagashi close to black.
“Pleasure to et you.”
He said to with a bittersweet smile on his face.
“… Who are… you…? What are you?”
“Who and what am I, huh… fufu. That’s what I’d like to know.”
He gave a smile to evade the question.
“My na is… right. World of death… how does Shinose Kai sound?”
“Kai… kun?”
“No need for honorifics. I’m just going to call you Akira.”
“… Why do you know my na?”
Distrust was born in my chest.
Could it be this boy approached with so objective in mind? Had he investigated in advance? The young was cautious for his age, he began suspecting the boy.
“I an, it’s written on your clothes.”
He said with a sarcastic smile.
… At the ti, I was wearing the T-shirt mom worked through the night to make, a T-shirt embroidered with ‘Akira’ in large letters.
“That’s a cool shirt.”
“I know, right!? Mom made it for !”
… At the ti, I seriously thought it was cool, and gladly wore it.
Ah, how embarrassing.
After that, Kai led the lost all the way to my house.
“Hey, Akira.”
Kai said as he got ready to leave.
“Do you want to beco friends with ?”
He had helped out when I was lost, and praised my Akira shirt, so I already liked this Kai fellow a whole bunch.
“Okay!”
I replied, full of energy.
“Thank you, Akira. Then we’re friends from today.”
“Yeah. Best friends! We’re best friends!”
Ah…
I rembered it, Kai.
That’s how we beca friends, isn’t it?
The first friend I ever made in my life… was Kai.
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