
The wind blew a little hard with the air so cool, the weeds and small grass on the ground seemed to sway rhythmically with the sound of Akira's footsteps.
The wind that blows makes the water in the river form small waves and fade the sun that is reflecting, the beautiful light bouncing in the water makes Akira a little glare, he raised one hand to protect the eye, then set his gaze to the sun that had been lowing in the west while thinking about the misfortune of today.
"Aha ha .. Oh my goodness, what a bad luck I have today" he said a little laugh at himself.
Akira looked sad, "I was hurt by fighting with the thugs, then almost lost my life to save a deep-seated little boy" he said, looking down uninspired.
"Huhh .. Look at Ken's good side, this is not how, after all I have saved two people, and look at this in your hands, you get food from them, it's amazing, it's amazing, so I don't have to cook today, my goodness ... lucky I .. ha ha ha.." she was excited again.
Akira continued to walk back to his house while looking around where the houses were arranged very neatly facing the road and river.
He saw people who were still busy working and heard the sound of children rejoicing playing together, occasionally he saw the sun and the river surging due to the gusts of wind that was a little strong, he said, the sound of the cold wind was heard snorting in the ears.
"Sometimes what we see is what we have to hear, and what we hear is probably what we have to see. I guess ... well, I never know the limit." Akira has calmed down and found the answer to the misfortune that he experienced is to think well.
Without feeling he had started to get close to his house, but he was a little surprised because there was a grandfather in shabby clothes sitting in front of his house.
"Hem .. who is that person, if he is lost, I should say hello and just ask him" he said then ran over.
He was a little stunned when he saw that the old man's clothes were very clean, but from afar it looked shabby and dirty, seeing that the old man was asleep he had little heart to wake him up, but he felt he had to ask the grandfather something.
"Grandfather woke up grandfather .." call him slowly while shaking the grandfather's shoulder.
Slowly the old man woke up and opened his eyes. "Whose grandfather is looking for, is grandfather lost?"
The grandfather looked at Akira. "Ohh no-no I'm not at all lost, I came here to see you."
Akira looked astonished and confused. "Sorry, have we met before."
The grandfather thrust his hand out to shake his hand, Akira greeted the hand very politely as he kissed.
"Dad ...we've met before, but not here" he replied.
hearing those words made Akira grow confused and try to remember. "I don't think we've ever met .. mu ...."
As soon as a flashback rotates in the head, like an accelerated film makes the head feel dizzy, the shadows of past events are very clearly visible, just as he was going on a bike ride to school when the morning was cold and the wind was blowing.
It makes Akira quiet in silence, sweat pouring in the temple, he seems to tremble when he saw the series of events when he beat a man with his bicycle.
He helped the man stand up and apologized, his eyesight a little blurry and the view was pointing from the man's nose to his chest.
"What's your name?" the grandfather's question made Akira flinch from the flashback reverie.
Heartbroken pounding his vision slightly faded, he tried to look at grandfather in front of him while adjusting his breathing to try to calm down so that his vision was clear again.
He screamed when he realized that the person he had hit with a bicycle in the past was the person in front of him.
At that instant he tried hard to let go of the grandfather's hand when the cluck was not holding it tightly, the panic he experienced had blinded his vision.
She kept screaming in tears while trying to put the old man's hand on her wrist, but the old man only smiled sadly until he let go of his hand, Akira stopped screaming and looked at the old man with fear.
"You ... What are you doing to me, who are you?" akira asked in fear until his voice shook.
The grandfather thrust his hand wanting to hold Akira's hand again, but seeing that, made Akira even more frightened and chose to go running away.
The flashback again shows the incident at school and then came home from school, then met with a man wearing a black jacket who was sitting on the floor, events after events continued to change with real vision in front of him.
As he continued to run away from nowhere from the grandfather, he even continued to bump into the person walking, then accidentally bumped into Ayumi who was carrying her basket, the collision caused both of them to fall down and sprayed out all of Ayumi's clothes.
His anger stopped when he saw Akira sitting down looking at him with tears that continued to pour from the face of fear, how not, he said, Akira is shown through a flashback where a portal is gaping and wants to pull inside, as well as a man who controls the portal with a terrifying smile.
Ayumi who saw Akira was frightened when she looked at him made her wonder. "Ken got ..."
"Go! get out of my sight please go!" akira shouted while protecting his face with a wrist.
Ayumi approached to hold Akira's hand. "Who is it? what happened until you were like this?"
It was not Ayumi that Akira saw but a man in a black jacket who was raising his hand to strengthen the pull of the portal.
"Stop!" Akira screamed and threw dust at Ayumi, making Ayumi look down to protect her eyes, while Akira ran back in fear while screaming in tears.
"Ken!" Ayumi yelled, but Akira had run away.
"What happened to her, why was she so scared when she saw me," said Ayumi sadly and astonished.
Akira kept running and started to remember everything. "I now remember, the reason why I could be in this world, this is not my place, someone has sent me to this world," he murmured inwardly trying to nourish himself, but she kept crying hysterically.
He saw the man say strange things and saw how he kept getting sucked into the portal.
"Well .. that man sent me here using a portal, and I'm sure that grandfather must have something to do with this, but why did they do it to me, too," he continued to speak in his heart and tried to calm down and string together every vision that continued to change.
"No. I can't keep going like this, I have to stop running and hiding, that's the only way I can try to calm down and think things through."
He continued to mutter to himself in his mind as if he could try to calm down and be thoughtful, but in fact he continued running with a frightened face, and tears continued to pour down his cheeks.
"Why, what happened, why I kept running had no direction and purpose like this, my body acted alone, like a rash person and could not think clearly, she said, does this have anything to do with my present self, I have forgotten memories, rather my memories change. What is possible .." he said in his heart and remembered Ayumi, Chio, and Shiro who called him by the name of Ken.
Akira continued to run, as if unable to rely on his own body, this happened because of the rash nature of Ken and Akira who could rely more on himself to calm down and learn to understand the situation against each other.
"Me and Ken exchanged tubs ...." He could talk and scream, but his feet stumbled over the rock until it fell hard and rolled away.
His eyes began to shut while staring at the dim twilight light by the pitch-black clouds carrying rainwater.
"If that's true, then .. who am I ...."
Akira begins to lose consciousness and does not remember who he is, until finally his eyes are closed and unconscious.
...●●●●...
By then Chio had told him everything about what he had witnessed regarding Ken's awkwardness.
"As I thought, he's not the Ken we know" Shiro said.
"Actually I don't want to believe this, but everything is very clear" Chio replied hesitantly.
"Well I do too, but we have to accept this fact so that we can finish soon" Shiro assured.
Chio nodded. "Then where Ken is Shiro, I'm sure you must have known it ..."
"Preserved! tomorrow we go early to Ken's house to make him admit everything, so we can immediately clarify this problem," he replied, switching the conversation.
"Yes .. fine then."
"I'm sorry, Chio, I can't tell you the truth, I don't want you to blame me, you should raise your own voice from Ayumi's mouth" she said in a guilty heart.
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