This is the first chapter of 3 in total

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1.1 - Noble Tree - The sound of falling cherry blossoms

When the petals of a cherry blossom fell on the mouse pad, for some reason, an impulse suddenly surged in my heart.

I want to go out for a walk.

Listen to the sound of falling cherry blossoms.

It took me almost a second before I made such a decision, so I opened my already stiff arms, stood up and stretched, hurriedly put on my coat, changed into slippers, and opened the door and rushed out.

There was a muffled bang, and the wooden door was thrown behind me, when I suddenly remembered that the light in the room seemed to be still on.

Last night, I worked all night for a new project, and before I knew it, it was a sunny day.

Just open it...... I thought so, put my hands in my trouser pockets, and walked down the stairs with my head down.

With a gentle breeze and rain around me, I haven't been out to enjoy the cherry blossoms like this for almost ten years.

One day after New Year's Day, I celebrated my 23rd birthday on a train, and if it weren't for the fact that I saw a girl with a back that resembled Akari, I would have almost lost my memories of before I was 13 years old.

Thinking of Akari, I couldn't help but smile.

Although I have not been in touch with her for ten years, I still believe that I will meet her again one day.

Back then, I was admitted here because I was admitted to Tokyo because the best university in the country was in Tokyo, but I thought it would be closer to Akari.

"Yes...... Guishu-kun, when the cherry blossom petals fall, it is 5 centimeters per second. ”

Remembering the scene when Akari ran under the cherry blossom tree with a parasol when he was a child, a sadness suddenly spread from the bottom of my heart.

2.1 - Akari - Fly to the sky you don't know

It's cherry blossom season again.

The cherry blossoms in Tokyo always come two days earlier than Tochigi.

I don't know how old I am, I always like to put myself in the slowly falling cherry blossom petals during the flowering days, and from that time on, every year in March, I have to take a day out to enjoy it alone.

This habit continued until two years ago, when I met him in the park, sitting alone on a bench and leisurely reading the "Ancient and Modern Waka Collection".

Through that unexpected encounter, I started a relationship with him, and on New Year's Day this year, we got engaged.

I'm Akari Shinohara, and I'll turn 23 in a month.

Before waking up this morning, I dreamed about things from my childhood.

About 10 years ago...... One day in March 1998, Kiki-kun asked me to meet before moving to Kagoshima, and it was snowing heavily that day, and he didn't arrive at the agreed meeting place until late at night.

At that time, I listened to the radio at the station over and over again, but I couldn't wait for him, and I was very worried.

While worrying about whether he forgot his appointment today, he was afraid of whether he was trapped in the snow.

If...... He went back to Tokyo before the heavy snowfall...... That's it......

When I reached the railway line of the Odakyu Line, a buzz was already sounding at the gate, and I raised my head and hurried to take a step, and out of the corner of my eye, I caught a glimpse of a man walking with his head bowed and his hands in his trouser pockets passing by me.

When I was about to pass through the gate, I suddenly sounded, could this man be Guishujun?

My heart was pounding, almost breathless.

If I look back now, the other party will definitely see it......

Just thinking like this, before I knew it, I turned away.

The guardrail at the gate had long since been lowered, and the train on the Odakyu Line swished into my field of vision.

…… was blocked.

I was standing on this part of the train at a loss when suddenly the phone in my handbag rang.

— was his phone.

- "Before the car even started, I called." ”

- "Huh...... I also just got back from my hometown and was on my way to my apartment. ”

As soon as I said a word, I suddenly remembered that Mimi at home had not been taken care of for two days, so I hurriedly took a step. Almost instantly, the possibility that there might be someone on the other side standing like I did.

1.2 - The Noble Tree - If miracles can happen

After standing on this side of the railroad for a long time, I finally turned and left.

The train swooped off in sight, and by the time it drove away, all that was left was cherry blossom petals falling in the air.

If the other party leaves, it shouldn't be Akari, and every time I think like this, I feel extremely relieved.

Along the road, or rather along the cherry blossoms dancing along the side of the road, I wandered aimlessly.

Wander aimlessly around the modern city of Tokyo.

In this modern era, it's just chasing cherry blossoms and strolling.

When I reached the end of the cherry blossom tree, I turned back and looked for another flower path, and the roads in Tokyo were so good that cherry blossom trees were also common, so I was able to spend the whole afternoon wandering in the cherry blossom rain.

After dark, I began to feel a little hungry, so I casually walked into a convenience store on the side of the road, and the music in the store happened to play an old song by Yamazaki Masaki, and listening to this familiar melody, I couldn't help but feel even more confused.

When I was in middle school, I used to like this song very much, but now I don't remember the name at all.

"I've been looking for you~~~"

Am I looking for it?

I've always missed Akari, but I haven't done anything since I broke up at Iwafune Station 10 years ago.

When I was in junior high school in Kagoshima, I never had the courage to send it to her, even though I wrote 1,437 text messages on my mobile phone.

Let alone...... I've changed my phone number a few times since I came to Tokyo, but now I can't even find her way to communicate.

"If a miracle can happen, I will see you immediately~~~"

Yamazaki Akeyoshi's voice can't be said to be vicissitudes, nor can it be said to be magnetic, in terms of its timbre, maybe it's just an ordinary person, but the singing voice of such an ordinary voice can't help but make my eyes hot.

Standing in front of the refrigerated cabinet for drinks, my eyes fell on the hojicha next to the coffee box.

I don't know when it started, but there are also boxed hojicha in convenience stores.

But I still take the coffee next to the roasted tea every time...... Deliberately turning a blind eye to it.

The last time I drank hojicha, it seems that it was in the waiting room of Iwafune Station 10 years ago.

Remembering the scene when I sat with Akari and ate a bento, my vision gradually blurred.