Chapter 7 Tickets
The east is white, and a rising sun slowly rises in the east. The red glow shrouds the vast expanse of the land, encompassing everything that Osaka Castle has to offer.
Today is another day full of vitality.
The tram slowly pulled out of the platform with a whistle, and the sparse traffic began to be stranded and dense.
The crow looking down at the city on the wires tilted its head, and the rising red fireball in the east was reflected in its black eyes the size of soybeans.
It didn't know what it was, it only knew that no matter how anything in the world evolved, whether in ancient times or in the future, the fireball would rise every day, without exception.
At this time, stillness is still the theme of the city; But it's fragile, so fragile that a sudden alarm can shatter the silence of the moment.
A red glow splashed on Wade's face; The dazzling light pierced through the thin eyelids and into his eyes.
The sleeping consciousness began to awaken, but the brain was still heavy, and there were even bursts of nausea welling up in the heart.
"Uh...... Shh
With the twisting of the body, a knife-like stabbing pain instantly came from his chest, and Wade, who was still in a trance, woke up in an instant in the stinging pain, and then sat up from the bed suddenly.
"Whoa—damn!" As soon as he sat up from his bed, Wade felt as if he were undergoing an ancient but practical burning; The nerve endings in the chest constantly feed back to the brain a pain sensation that can cause most people to have a nervous breakdown.
"Damn, it's endless!" Wade grumbled bitterly; He looked down at his chest, and saw that his snow-white complexion had been replaced by a large patch of scarlet, like clothes that had been ironed by an iron.
"I deeply feel that there is something hidden under your exterior...... a nimble figure jumped forward along the street, two jet-black ponytails jumping up and down with the rise and fall of the body, so inactive.
The golden glow carefully clung to the figure's surface, and a little bit of light moved with her, undulating in the empty streets.
"Beneath the façade." The song in my ears came to an abrupt end, and Esaki Yukina stopped her agile steps, and the beautiful melody floating out of her mouth also dispersed with the wind. She changed into a Lolita-style outfit today, with a few scarlet stripes on the dark underbelly.
Wade...... Sauce? Yukina Ezaki stood in her position yesterday and called out to the empty window; After what happened yesterday, Edazaki Yukina didn't even know how to face Wade.
"I'm a stranger to him now." Edazaki Yukina said worriedly, but when she thought of Wade's character, the sorrow in her heart disappeared without a trace in an instant.
"damn—" Wade's piercing scream was heard again, shattering the last of the morning's silence once and for all.
Edazaki Yukina, who was standing downstairs, was stunned for a moment after hearing the screams, and then immediately became nervous: What's the matter with him, did he let out a scream just now?
"Wow...... A rapid knocking sound came from downstairs; Wade, who had just applied burn cream to his chest, heard a knock on the door downstairs, and climbed to the window in severe pain and looked down.
"Stupid!" Seeing a familiar face suddenly poking out of the empty window, Esaki Yukina breathed a sigh of relief. But when she saw the pained expression on Wade's face again, the strange look in his eyes yesterday reappeared.
"What happened?" Edazaki asked eagerly.
"You ...... first Come on. Wade gritted his teeth, threw out the key beside him, and fell on the bed with all his strength; His scarlet-colored chest rose and fell violently with the sound of heavy and rapid breathing.
Just then, the door opened.
"Will it still be in the chest?"
"Much better."
At sunset, two figures, one tall and one short, snuggled up to each other and walked forward in the crowded flow of people.
Wade smiled slightly pale at Xue Nai beside him, as if thanking her for her concern; Xue Nai on the side couldn't help blushing after seeing it, and hurriedly said, "I don't care about you!" ”
"Hahaha, tsundere ruined a ...... Pain, pain, pain! Wade, who was still laughing at Xue Nai just now, suddenly hunched over and covered his chest, and the smile on his face was instantly replaced by pain; Faced with such a sudden change, Ezaki Yukina and the surrounding pedestrians were shocked and didn't know how to respond.
"Haha...... He also said that he didn't care about me. The pained expression on his face changed back to his original smile, but there seemed to be a slight hint of teasing in it, which made him look a little underwhelmed.
Yukina Ezaki, who was about to check Wade's injuries, immediately knew that he had been teased by Wade when she saw the changes before and after him.
"Big bad!" Ezaki Yukina dropped a sentence indignantly, and then walked away alone with brisk steps; Wade, who was standing in place, looked at the back in the distance, and seemed to feel that he had done a little too much, so he immediately put away his smile and trotted after him.
At this moment, there was a sudden violent collision sensation in his left shoulder; Wade didn't think much about it, and immediately bent down to apologize, but before the words could be spoken, Wade straightened up again, squinting at the person he had hit.
It was a man wearing a hat and covering his face with a mask; The weather at this time was not cold, but he wore a high-necked trench coat and packed himself in a "cover".
He had bright golden eyes that were not inferior to Wade's.
"You don't belong here, get out of it and go back to where you really belong and need you." The man's voice seems to have been specially processed, and the timbre and pitch of each word are different when spoken.
When he had finished speaking, the man turned and left, without lingering; Wade looked at the back that was gradually moving away, and kept recalling what the man had just said in his mind, and suddenly, a snow-white appeared in Wade's eyes.
"Huh?" Driven by curiosity, Wade bent down to pick up the snow-white piece on the ground, only to find that it was a ticket to an amusement park.
"Hey sir, your ticket is gone!" Wade shook the ticket in his hand and shouted loudly in the crowd on tiptoe; But as far as the eye could see, there was no shadow of that man for a long time.
"What carelessness. Wade grumbled, and he looked at the ticket in his hand again, and saw that it was a USJ double ticket, and it would expire in three days.
"What, this kind of double ticket can cost more than 10,000 yen, and he really has a big heart." Wade said with some headaches, and after one last glance in the direction the man had left, and after confirming that he was indeed no longer likely to return, Wade carefully slipped the ticket into his pocket, and then left a note with his phone number attached to the fire hydrant next to it.
"That's perfect." Wade looked at his masterpiece and turned around in satisfaction to chase in the direction where Edazaki Yukina had disappeared.
The green lights began to flicker, and the numbers on the side had entered the final countdown.
Standing by the zebra crossing, looking at the vehicles on both sides, and then at the fleeting green light, she stopped, ready to wait for a red light; Just then, the familiar voice came from behind him again.
"Hmph, it's been so long to catch up!" Edazaki didn't have to look back to know that Wade had already caught up with him; Recalling his toying and the look of the underwhelming look just now, Ezaki Yukina was so angry that she immediately opened her slender legs and decided to cross the road before the green light was completely over.
The long-awaited green light finally lit as the last truck on the opposite street crossed the stop line; The car roared after waiting for a long time and sped off across the street.
The cargo compartment behind the front of the car finally crossed the center of the road, exposing everything behind the road to the speeding traffic on the vertical street, and the figure of a young girl suddenly appeared in the driver's field of vision with the disappearance of the cargo compartment.
It happened suddenly, and things have reached the point of no return.
"Didi-"
"Don't!"
Wade, who was waiting by the traffic light, saw the traffic behind the cargo compartment, and he threw out the mobile phone he was holding in his hand in a hurry, and rushed towards the figure at the speed of chasing the wind. In the field of vision, the weak figure that has reached the center of the zebra crossing and the speeding traffic towards it form a picture of death that makes people feel deeply hopeless.
"It's too late." At that moment, Wade's mood fell to the bottom. He is still walking like flying, but there is a distance of thousands of miles between him and Ezaki Yukina, even if he is as fast as thunder and lightning, it will not help; And those emotionless traffic, and the weak she is close at hand, as long as a few milliseconds pass, this beautiful but weak figure will be ruthlessly destroyed!
At that moment, it was finally coming.