Golden Time:Volume3 Chapter3

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Chapter 3

Tada Banri was walking.

Following him was Yanagisawa Mitsuo, they reached the crosswalk.

The signal was flashing, those two were running and jumping while laughing like two dogs, screaming [This is dangerous!] [Run run!]. They were with both their hands shaking with the weight of the supermarket vinyl bags.

"...Wait..."

As I expected,

"...Please Wait, Banri..."

Words beyond those didn't come.

Even though I didn't reach the end of the crosswalk, with the red signal I got with the face in my knees in the middle of the road. The cars were coming passing one by one. Like that, I was stepping without raising my face from the knees, none of the passing cars did break for me.

As for me, I couldn't scream. Please stop, please help me, the voice to scream won't come.

That is clear. Because I am dead. Banri was going straight foward, he doesn't even look back at me. Even if I ask him to wait, he won't listen. There's no way he will realize.

Even if I have something to say, with this voice, it won't reach anyone, there is no one in this world that knows that I'm here.

No matter how much I cry, or how much I scream, no one in this world will notice me here.

The time until now, I have never known such loneliness. Now I know that was a happy thing. I was already giving up. Accepting this destiny, all that comes and goes, I realized that with a peaceful feeling. I will only protect Banri. No matter how many decades pass, until the day Banri dies, I will stay like this, I was imagining such a selfish thing.

But that time I realized that Linda was crying. inside Banri's room, Linda was laughing, but inside her heart she was crying. It's not because I am a ghost that I got it. I am always with my ears close to Linda's voice. That's why I understood it.

There's one thing that I promised. If Linda started to cry, I would come running. That's why I thought [It would be good if I can be by her side]. Without contradicting my words. Snuggling to Linda when she was crying, being of help to her. Extend my hand, talk to her. Touching Linda's shoulders, back and hair again and again with those fingers.

Then I finally realized.

I won't be able to touch Linda anymore.

My voice won't reach her anymore.

There's no point staying by her side being a ghost, besides she won't even realize my presence, then, like that, Linda gave up on me.

Not anymore—

"...Banri... Wait..."

No one will understand me anymore. Why have I gone through those things so calmly like that. That's not okay. There's no way that it would be okay. Though I am dead, my head was being strange, I was crying, screaming, going through a rampage. Clinging into Banri, biting, screaming for you who is alive to do something. Do something to help me. Even with that, nothing will change, no one will realize me.

I thought that I had fear of vanishing.

Now I fear this endless thing.

If this was supposed to last forever, how am I supposed to bear it? If this doesn't have an end. Without caring about a dead or alive state of the body, if I am supposed to be the only one to keep existing. If my parents die, Banri dies, Linda dies, everyone that I know dies, and this doesn't come to an end.

"... I am telling you to wait for me!"

With tears dripping, I clean my face with my hand, and I desperately got up. I chased after Banri that was going far away, running with all my might while raising a crying voice. That was so hard up to now. I don't want to be left back. I don't want to be left back and be forgotten all alone at a place like this.

I suddenly realize while I am running. That Banri is living more than one year in front of me.

* * *

In front of the apartment entrance, there was a tall figure easily recognized from far away,

"Sorry Two Dimensions, were you waiting?"

He abruptly turned the way of Banri and Yanagisawa, that were drawing near.

"Nnn—You are late! I waited!"

Suddenly swelling the face like a sickle. Wriggling his waist. No mather if he is our soul friend Mr. Two Dimensions, a gross is a gross, without thinking, together with Yanagisawa we went [......] [......], Without saying anything, we exchanged glances and like that we acted as if it was an unknown person and passed by.

"Weren't you supposed to arrive at six o’clock? 15 minutes have already passed!"

There was someone behind that tall person,

"I'm telling you that if you are going to buy something it's better to meet at the supermarket."

That time, a white beauty appeared.

"Kidding, that was a lie. I am not mad even a bit. When I look at Tada-kun's face, be it fifteen minutes or one hour, nothing else matters. Just from seeing you I become h-a-p-p-y."

Walking close in Banri's direction and snuggling to Banri's with her left arm like a kid monkey. She was without doubt Kaga Kouko, Banri who doesn't remember to have called her, took a peek at her face and said "un!?". Kouko tilted her head with a "Ufu" and glanced back.

Two Dimensions also stepped in Yanagisawa’s direction and said,

"Being able to meet with Yana-san, I am also h-a-p-p-y."

Negating that with all his might, letting out a "Kii—!" acting all hysterical. That "Ki—!" was probably a disgusted "Ki—!".

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