Just right before the sunset was about to vanish from the face of the earth, Zashi find himself staring over the window, forgetting what it feels like to wast the sunset alone,
He reach over his phone, try to find any hope that there still a chance that his happy life it’s not totally over, just a perfect time for him to receive a messenge from Yukio.
Stated that she doesn’t know how long both of them are going to be sepreted but she will figure things out for both of them as quick as possible.
Which Zashi take hia time to reply and respond with
“I hope everything will work just fine.”
he scroll down over his social media to see what else happen in thr world until another text appear from top bar
“We both need to be strong, I bealive that we can get through this together, I hope you will sleeping well tonight and don’t think about this too much.
”
Zashi reply with shaking on his fingers
“Yukio are we still together?”
He anxiety raises thinking the possibility of his concerning question.
Yukio simply reply.
“Yes, we both still are…, but for now, we go on oir seprete way.”
Zashi’s anxiety fades away, for receiving the reply but the sadness inside of him continue to grow right after Yukio end the chat with a text.
“Goodnight Zashi, today is just happen to be our unlucky day, but no one can tell what’s going to happen tomorrow.”
Zashi place his phone down and wrap himself with the blanket hoping he can get even slightly warmth that he had, when he was around Yukio.
Long hours has past his eyelid can’t bare his exhaustion carrying his thoughts along into his sleep.
On the next morning he wakes up almost immediately and check on his phone only for getting no messenge, he open the front door but unable to find any sign of Yukio but just three childrens running around and spotted him.
“Oh hey Zashi”
Before Zashi can say his hi back, he notice the other kid among them start to whispering something to his friends ears and just walk away,
Zashi close the door back, without saying any words.
Zashi syart off his day working on the market as usual, with several depression behind his eyesz he waited if there’s any chance to see the girl he love but the only thing he gets is peoples avoiding to go to his market, as Mr.
Yosa was concerned about Zashi’s situation
He came back home through the tunnel under the bridge as usual facing the light from the end of the tunnel
He visit the place they usually go together and eat some snack by himself,
He pull his phone again, just to see the same result, he let out a sighs and make a desperate attempt to go to her house.
He standing infront of the house, give some couple of knocks, no one answering, he give another knocks just to make sure that all hope is lost until Yukio appear open that door making both of them gasping
Yukio immediately take a chance to speak before anything bad happen.
“What are you doing?
You not suppose to be here, Zashi you need to go.”
And suddenly Yukio’s mom start to came
“What are you doing?, I told you not to meet him!”
“But mom…” Yuki try to soften her mom’s heart, but unfortunately it wasn’t enough.
“Enough get on the room now!”
Yukio immediately leave the scene, putting Zashi in akward positions with her mom
“And you!, don’t you ever talk or meet my daughter ever again you understand me, Never!!, or I report you to Supernatural Agency, and let them handle the rest, you hear me!?
“yes ma’am.”
She shut the door loudly infront his face, from that moment nothing else is matter to him in this world.
He take his first step and ready to face his new life without Yukio, The source of this chapter is g.com.
Another day he will woke up and decide to go for a walk back town while alot of peoples saw him, and immediately get inside and shut their window.
After peoples knows about his real identity
It’s already all over the news and there is no escape from it, his become more silent than ever all he can heard was a white noise around him.
And peoples passing by ignoring his existence.
On the other during evening,Zashi was laying on the couch and watching some TV by himse
He heard the knocking came at his door, assuming the universe has finally listen to him,
“Yukio!”
Zashi rush through to get the door open when he realize it was just Mr.
Yosa carry some fishes with him.
“Oh Mr.
Yosa, what are you doing here?”
“Just thought that you might some company and I was 5hink we can kill some time during this hour like old time.”
Zashi have no reason to reject his request, he let him in and the fishes is already filleted fry on the on the pan while Mr.
Yosa was watching some football match on Zashi’s small TV
“I was thinking maybe is better for me to visit you, after all the things that just happen, and do not worry about Yukio, I think the universe is not cruel enough to break you both to see each other.”
Zashi was just standing infront of the stove with expressionless face.
“Why you can be so confident, Mr Yosa?, it’s not like we own universe anything.”
Zashi hurtful words give some attention to Mr.
Yosa to look back and see different and yet fimmiliar Zashi that he used to know.”
“My father…, used to tell me, the point of living wasn’t only to have a fun and hope for the best thing happen to you, there a certain phase in your life that feels like you just surviving more than living, I guess i didn’t expect it will came to me twice.”
Mr.
Yosa stand up from the couch to approch and give him a warm hug.
“Oh Zashi, I know breaking up can be hurt, especially if this was your first time, but is not the end of the world either, and maybe the life that feels like surviving you mentioned, doesn’t need to define your whole life now.”
He break the hug and look at him with genuine care.
” Look, I’m not really expert with this, even I cannot predict what’s going to happen to your relationship this past weeks, even days, but no matter what happens is not the end of your story, there something else…, waiting for you…”
Zashi pause for a moment, try his best to not let a hurtful word slip from his mouth.
“Just like you?, spending the rest of your life on this poor village and fishing non stop, is there something that left, still waiting for you?”
Mr.
Yosa stunt to hear Zashi harsh comment and decide to brush it off with chuckle.
“Yeah you right, someone old like me, can’t possible have much to do, other than esit for my time to close my eyes forever, but isn’t that going to come to rest of us?, the universe was really a funny place don’t you think.”
Mr.
Yosa give a gentle tap on his back to encourage him to laughs along
After unexpected dinner he was having, Zashi was laying in his dark bedroom, find nothing to do beside check on his DM again.
There’s one messege is already enough to make him sitting up from his back.
“Hey, Zashi, my mom decided to move me to love with my aunt, so the chance that we going to meet…, well almaot to zero, unless you can fly and find me, which I don’t recommend, but this wasn’t my final goodbye, we still can talk here, and feels like we are facing each other and I bet it wasn’t enough for you, we’ll neither to me.”
Zashi heart beat move absurdly fast but then he thought himself to breath and stay positive.
“It’s okay, talking to you like this, is already enough for me to say that there still a chance for us to getting back, and someday I will find us a home that can protect us from outside world, jand make our own instead.”
Zashi waiting for Yukio to respond with typing icon, anf is a bit longer than the usual making him a little nervous and with just a blink the text has arrived.
“A Home…, i like that, you still remamber our promise, didn’t you?, fine, maybe someday you will see me again, at this place thag you called home.”
After awhile Zashi finally turn off his phone for experiencing emotional breakdown and hope at the same time, and what’s the best for him is to tell the world to shut up before he close his eyes.
Everything slowly turn to dark, but he can hear the sounds of wave crashing into shore, he find himself wakes up in the middle of shallow ocean.
The whole place completely surrounded by endless ocean, it so big that distracting Zashi for seeing a woman with silver hair distance away from him looking on opposite direction.
Zashi try to approach her slowly but at the same he turn around to hear Yukio voice shouting his name, who’s currently waiting for him inside his old zinc shack miles away.
“Zashi!, I’m right here!, don’t way any near there it’s not save, come back to me.”
“Yukio…” Zashi call her out quietly, but his attention is mostly pointed to Silver hair woman, he begin to move his feet agasint the shallow water, try not to make too much noise on every step he sink into the water.
“Zashi stop!, that’s not the right a way!, please turn back, this is your only home.”
Zashi ignore most of Yukio’s warning, and proceed to lean closer into mysterious woman.
He instantly awake from his dream all sweating on his hed, he catch his breathe like he was at the edge of his death.
He immediately go to the kitchen and having a cereal as his breakfast while watching cartoon.
Texting Yukio early in the morning.
Laying on the bleacher area by himself.
“How do you feel Zashi?
, how’s your morning?.”
Yukio send her first text to start a day after a weeks they’re having long distance relationship.
Zashi respond shortly after.
“Horrible, but I getting there, how about you?”
“Well i arrive to my auntie house safely, this place was nice just like how I remamber it when I was a kid, I no longer go to the sane culinary school anymore, instead my mom get me into this new collage, I get alot of friends here, but well, is not like is enough to get me distracted to think about you.”
Yukio send her long messenge, only for Zashi job to accept it openly.
“That was nice, at least you got something going on now, unlike me.”
“What do you mean, what you even doing for as long that I’m gone?, don’t tell me you don’t do anything.”
Yukio send her doubt.
Zashi send his sarcastic reply without putting much thoughts into it.
“What else I should do?, life is pretty boring without you anyway, especially when thr whole village thinking I’m some kind of evil demon that going eat the rest of them when they’re sleeping.”
“Really Zashi?, you got nothing to do, how about your manga?, about you telling me you want to be a successful manager author?
Well maybe that was a bit overexaggerated, but you did promise to show me your manga when it’s finish so are you going to succeed it?”
That question alone is enough to burn some motivation inside of him to continue his project.
He reread all the dialogue that he has given to each of his characters and observing a way to make his characters extra more details, totally committed to it
As he continue to text Yukio back and forth, eating and drawing every single day, adding more depth to his drawing and brain storming his imagination.
One day he head to his bleacher area again, and he spotted another couple already take the place making it as their sanctuary, he try to interfering their great time together, but he stop knowing the place is no longer mean significant for him.
Just like all his work, he spent for couple of months feel wasted after Yukio decide to stop texting him
The last text sended by him was a silly question that about to start his career.
“Third chapter just finished, do you think I’m ready to publish it?..”
Zashi stare at his last text while sitting on the fence rails on top of mountain, with fireworks lit up the dark sky, it was all colorful and sparkling, but clearly there is something that missing.
Zashi ignores all the fireworks that bursting out with variety shapes his mind is so convoluted with simple decisions to send the final message that helps him to sleep for tonight
“Happy New Year”
The message has been sent.
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