Trapped in the Past
Memory Flakes

The night Kagami came home from work. During the journey towards the rented place where he lived, did not stop his sharp eyes glancing towards the rearview mirror. Seen a sports motorcycle with two passengers with a stocky body as if following him since he came out of the cafe. Even when Kagami followed Alita home, her position at that time also felt trailed by two burly young men.

Kagami's hunch was suddenly not good. His fingers slowly weakened, as if a sign that he did not have to drive his motorcycle away from this. A small whisper in his head sounded as if forbidding Kagami to go home.

However, the man with the undercut hair kept thinking well. Perhaps the sport motorcyclists who allegedly tailed him were just a coincidence because their direction home was the same.

Arriving at the contract, Kagami's body trembled. His cost key repeatedly fell down before the door in front of him opened. He glanced back again, the rider who was following him disappeared. For a moment he could breathe.

His red duck motorcycle was slowly put into the cost. Just as he was about to close the door, out of nowhere the two burly men had suddenly stood in front of him.

Kagami was aghast at the trembling sound he had asked. "S–who are you? What's your purpose here?"

Not getting an answer. The beaver-faced man in front of him immediately pushed Kagami's body to go deeper into the boarding house. The shocked Kagami did not have time to put up a fight. One glass bottle immediately landed perfectly on his head.the sound of the crackling of glass shards from the object dominated the increasingly silent night.

The two burly men in front of him still had not budged to see Kagami trying to stand up. The other fellow thugs hit the second glass bottle again. In the same place as the previous hit. The blood that came out of the hit more and more, Kagami's consciousness immediately disappeared, his body collapsed and lay helpless.

"Hoi, you hit him too strong. Check if he's dead?" The black thug blames his partner.

"Suppose a blow from my bonus. The end of beating up this brat was just a waste of energy!"

They left after their task was completed. Before that they had time to send a picture of Kagami who was dying to Gagas, as proof of their duty has been done well.

Gagas also sent the rest of the money he promised to his rental thugs.

He laughed loosely at his pitch-black basecamp. "Ha ha ha! Rasain lu Kagami's. Wrong myself looking for my same problem."

Tirta who was next to Gagas accidentally saw a photo of Kagami had been lying covered in blood. Worried that Kagami is dead, she searches for Alita in the morning, telling her to check on her condition.

Tirta has no problem with Kagami. Even he feels indebted to Kagami, because his words make Rera aware of his love. Therefore, Tirta did not fully side with Gagas and did not fully like Kagami.

Ruri was furious to hear the story from Tirta. He did not expect that in his family was born a demon who was very cruel. The glasses girl kept daydreaming on her way home from the cafeteria, while carrying three boxes of rice in her hands.

What am I supposed to do? How to stay awake and not bother us anymore? Until this moment I thought, not a single hint I got. Siaaal! After lying to me, harming Alita and harming Kagami? If only I could, I'd like to kill a useless creature like him. You disgusting pest!'

Despite the murmuring in his heart, his facial expression clearly printed what he was thinking. His forehead has been clenching ever since.

***

Slowly her eyes came back crying. This time he cried in silence, not sobbing like before. His head felt so heavy that he folded his hands and hid his face there.

Next to Kagami, Alita still faithfully waited for the man to wake up, though she had to cry in silence all the time while waiting for him.

What people are seeing right now is the condition of Kagami who is lying weak. However, what Kagami saw in his dream was different. Whether this is a dream or what, but it feels very clear if it is said to be a dream.

Kagami walks in a vacuum. He had seen this room before, when he had fainted in school. But this time it was different. Along the walls of the room are scenes of life. I don't know who the main character of the trailer is, but Kagami who continues to be curious still sees it with others.

He saw a small child carrying an accordion with great difficulty. The little boy's face was blurry, then a woman came. The face of every human in the footage is also blurry. Only the atmosphere around them could Kagami see clearly. They seem to live in a pretty luxurious house.

The woman's lips smiled, then muttered. I don't know what he's saying, Kagami can't hear it. However, it was obvious that the little man laughed cheerfully after hearing the woman speak.

In another footage, a man holds the hand of a small man. From the looks of it they seem to be going somewhere. A large suitcase driven by a middle-aged woman with a fly on her right cheek clarifies Kagami's conjecture.

They speak happily. Kagami kept paying attention, like watching a movie. The film in front of him is silent.

Then in another scene, the middle-aged man next to the little man had raised his phone, they were making a video call with someone. A little girl was seen on the video call.

"Sir ...! I can't wait to meet brother ...!"

The girl's voice was flat and quite deafening. Strange, that's the only sound I can hear. Previously empty and empty.

Kagami's feet continued to step aside from the empty room, paying attention to each scene footage that became a wall around it. Far away, until he did not feel tired had walked to what extent.

Kagami looked back, because the scene he saw now was a scene he had previously seen. Is this a replay or did he misstep? But it doesn't stop there. Kagami continued walking, although what he saw was the same scene, but the scene he saw became clearer. Like looking at a high-quality film, his blur slowly disappeared.

The face of the middle-aged woman was clearly a mole on her right cheek. Sweet, that's the first impression Kagami sees when the woman smiles. All around the boy was full of musical instruments. Sitting next to the thin-bearded middle-aged man.

"Lia? An accordion?"

Slowly two other words were heard clearly in Kagami's ears. He was starting to understand, this was not a movie scene. It's a memory puzzle in his head. The missing pieces slowly began to become clear. Kagami finally realized something, maybe it was the figure of his parents. He then ran away from the empty room faster.

However, suddenly his steps came to a halt after hearing the sobs of a girl. Kagami sharpens the senses of his listeners, the sound he hears comes not from the memory footage of his brain but from another direction. Kagami walked to the center of the voice, far away until he entered a room that was very blinding to the eyes. His eyes closed for a moment, then opened. The first thing he saw was a white ceiling. The sound of sobs was getting clearer.

Kagami glanced softly next to her seeing Alita crying there.