Editing City Series:Volume7 Layer 1 (section)

===Record 95: Meeting You===

'''12/19/1998

'''13:25

It was your birthday, so I decided the two of us could celebrate it together.

School was off thanks to the tests, so I jumped down from my home (the fourth story apartment) and went to your house. I ran west on the road alongside the railroad to reach the pharmacy near the station.

The field next to the railroad had been recolored for winter and someone called out to me as I ran alongside it.

“Hey. You understand, don’t you?”

The voice behind me belonged to a somewhat more mature version of myself.

“Save it until we eventually meet. I don’t want to see myself yet.”

With that response, I tripped the other me without even looking back. I heard a light scream and detected a metallic scent as if something had scraped against steel behind me. I looked back and didn’t see anyone there, so I shrugged.

After running to the pharmacy, I for some reason found a ponytailed girl with a wooden sword standing behind the counter.

It was Snowy. She was playing with Daitarou, her pet white fox, but she looked annoyed as soon as she saw me.

“You are far too late. …Everyone else is already here.”

“What, was everyone thinking the same thing? Don’t copy me like that. …And what are you doing?”

“I don’t much like hanging out with people, so I’m looking after the pharmacy for her.”

“Then can you give me a drug to make me smarter? Things never seem to work out for me.”

Snowy held Daitarou in her arms as it begged for food and she gave me a rare smile.

“Sorry. I had the same thought and bought them all up a moment ago.”

'''Author Comment:

A conversation with the other “me”. A few more of them will show up, but I think this kind of existence is something that (both fortunately and unfortunately) everyone has. And no, I’m not talking about multiple personalities.