Tabi ni Deyou:Journey

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"...this is terrible," she said, sitting on the passenger seat, and looked up through the front glass at the clouds that covered the entire sky like a blanket made of old, dirty wool.

"Mmmh... looks like the sun has left you in the lurch at last," he smiled bitterly and squeezed his drenched socks after opening the door.

The persistent rain outside of the car showed no sign of ending, whereas the clothes they had taken off showed no sign of drying.

A few days had passed since leaving boss' warehouse. The two had kept following the deserted road, aiming for the neighboring town as originally planned. Though they had detoured a little because of mistaking the way, they managed—with more or less effort—to reduce their delay to one day.

However, at dusk of this day, they had fallen victim to an assault of rain.

Before long it had virtually been raining in torrents, leaving them no choice but to become like drowned rats.

Of course they were not mindless. They always carried their rain gears with them, and they had a blue sheet to use as a tentative tent — they hadn't traveled for three months without happening upon any rain.

That said, those items had come to no use this time.

It was not reasonable to ride Cubby while holding out a plastic umbrella, and their cheap convenience store rain coats had stood no chance against that rain. On top of that, the strong wind kept them from setting up a tent.

The two had not had any choice but to put their rain coats on anyway and search for a shelter while praying to all gods that came to mind.

If it was because their prayer had reached the gods or because some devil had had mercy with them remains a mystery, but after a few hours' ride when rain water had seeped through every corner of their cold bodies from the hair-ends to the back of their pants, the boy had found a deserted station wagon by the street.