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—!".

Surprise! Kouko's eyes were shining but, no, I was really surprised. Banri was supposed to have invited only Two Dimensions to this [Encounter to cheer up Yanagisawa Mitsuo@my house]. Even though I sent a mesage to Kouko saying that was okay and she doesn't have to worry.

"Why? Why is Kaga-san here?"

But she was surely dressed for it. Her hair style was different than the one in the lunch time. She was surprisingly wearing earth collor sleeves, an overswinging necklace, pants at the knee height, a Katyusha Headband to raise her fringe and braided long hair. She was also using a vivid lemon yellow bag the shape of a little toy on her back, her legs were very exposed with a Gladiator High Heels that could kick a sheep to death.

"Are you happy? Will you say that you are happy?"

Kouko who was dressed wearing a night drinking house fashion was putting all her weight on Banri's left arm.

"Ah, yeah, that is indeed..."

"I want to hear that you are happy. That's why you have to say it. Rather, I will get hurt if you don't say it"

"I'm happy! I'm Happy! I'm super happy meeting Kaga-san."

"Un~... I also get happy hearing it..."

She took the attention by pulling her forehead at Banri's shoulder with her big and round eyes shining, she was looking like a cute and lovely little animal, but that is that and this is this. I have to get back to myself,

"Iyaa, seriously, why did you come?"

Kouko said "I don't like it, why do you say things like that?" in an angry answer to Banri who had changed the subject. In a "Ki—" he flipped up his eyebrows,

"You still don't get it? I'm your girlfriend you know, if I want to see you it's obvious that I will come, isn't it natural?"

Saying "Right?" Kouko turned into Two Dimensions side. Two Dimensions shrugged while laughing a little awkwardly. "See this is common knowledge" she said while turning back to Banri's side.

"I thought that Tada-kun would know about that, but if you didn't know until now, learn it. I will go to see you the time that I want to see you. This is natural since I'm your girlfriend. 365 days per year, twenty four hours per day, you shouldn't let your guard down. Okay? Okay right? Did you understand? Did you really understand?"

She doesn't let him say anything. She was pressing her index finger on Banri's lips. Then Kouko "Ufu" laughed, and brought her face close,

"Well, to tell the truth, I am here since five o'clock. I was thinking if I should go home already. And I saw Two Dimensions coming, and I called him, and what, he said that you guys were going to a drinking party. Hearing it, isn't it already decided that I'm going to attend? Rather, there's something I want to ask. ...Why wasn't I invited ?"

Suddenly a serious face.

Banri who had a finger on his lips was asked that. In the place of Banri that even if he wanted he couldn't reply, "Here!", Yanagisawa on the side raised his hands while saying that,

"Isn't it clear!? Today's meeting is to cheer me up! And if you are there I won't be able to cheer up!"

"I didn't ask you about it."

"Hun", Kouko raised the tip of her nose as if ignoring Mitsuo, and once again gazed at Banri as if she was having fun.

"Ne, Tada-kun. ...No, [Password Tada]. Answer. Who am I?"

"...[Tiffany Kaga]..."

Banri answered.

By the way, Two Dimensions was [Kilobyte Satou]. That was the codename of the three of them.

If one of the members was going to a drinking party, they were obligated to reserve a place for the others, this is the pact in the middle of those three. If one is to break the pact, that member will lose something precious.

"Yeah, that's right. And following this pact, I have the right to join everything that happens on this drinking party... No, I have the obligation. Isn't it? Right? And the one who is not supposed to be there is..."

And Kouko with a model pose pointed her index finger to Yanagisawa's chin,

"Mitsuo. Go Home."

She said that with the coldest eyes ever seen before.

*Buchi* A cutting like sound was coming from Yanagisawa's forehead,

".........."

Without saying anything, he started taking out his boots, and tried to hit Kouko. Wait! Wait! Banri hid Kouko behind his back while saying that, Kouko on her side started unstriping her Gladiators and swinged it.

"There's no way that you are going to win over a Red Wing with a Jimmy Choo!"

"You are going to say that to a soul that stepped on shit last week!?"

"There's no shit! I am using Studs here!"

"Idiot Idiot! Excluded woman!"

"Man that steps on shit!"

"Even using a bag that looks like of a kindergarten child! Are you trying to be cute?"

"Haa? What are you saying? This is Celine! Ah, got it, are you so bad from being turned down that you went crazy? Super pitiful Mitsuo."

"Who is the pitiful, you aging face!"

"Free perm! I hope that your hair roots die from this cheap perm lotion!"

"Ass chin!"

"Are you ready to give bye bye to you hair forever?"

In the middle of the street, there's an ugly boots fight between childhood friends, Banri who was trying to approach the two of them, was fearing at the same level the shit on the left and the Studs on the right,

"Hii—! Two Dimensions, please do something! Two Dimensions!"

"Ah, wait. A call."

But Two Dimensions was really an existence from another realm, he was calmly using his iPhone,

"Is this time to be answering a call? Now we have to separate those two!"

"Incoming call... it's from Oka-chan. Do I pick up? Do I have to pick it up?"

After hearing that, the boots fell from Yanagisawa's hands. Kouko also stopped moving, and exchanged glances with Banri.

"....Ah. It was cut."

That moment everyone lost their words, a subtle silence was kept for a few seconds. The one who called just now of all of times was Oka Chinami.

The time that Kouko saw Yanagisawa stopping the fight, she started putting her Gladiators back while holding on Banri, Yanagisawa was there with the foolish image of one bare foot.

"Eh? Eh? Eh? What? in other words... Two Dimensions is exchanging calls with Chinami? Eh? What? Why? When...? Wait... Rather... I am not in position to be worrying about those little things... Yeah... Right..."

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