Chirp-! Chirp-!
The bird sounds tickle my ears.
The sunlight is shining warmly.
The wind, expressing the season, blows refreshingly, faintly cool.
The leaves full of vitality are beautifully colored, as if welcoming the coming autumn.
It’s a scene that makes the heart race just by looking at it.
Beautiful.
It’s truly a beautiful place.
If I had been walking here alone, I might have stopped without realizing and gazed at the scenery.
It was that beautiful a place.
But.
‘What is this place?’
I couldn’t just enjoy the scenery with a joyful heart.
Clearly, until just before, it was a world full only of the sounds of ashes burning.
Why had it changed into such a world?
Moreover.
‘Why?’
In my eyes surveying the surroundings, an earthquake was occurring.
It’s a place I’ve never seen before.
No, I’ve traveled to many places, so maybe I passed by it somewhere.
Even so.
‘Why does it feel familiar?’
It can’t feel this familiar.
It feels like I’ve been here sometime, nostalgic and sad.
Unknown emotions swirled.
‘What on earth is this place.’
Why am I feeling this way?
It seems like the first time I’ve seen it, yet unfamiliarity and longing coexist.
It was a sensation I’d never felt in my life.
Tap-!
I barely gathered my wits at the sound of the waterwheel moving.
Then I looked straight ahead.
What I needed to focus on now was the person, not the scenery.
‘Nameless?’
Nameless.
Having no name.
The woman introduced herself that way.
Recalling this, I observe the woman. But.
‘I can’t see.’
The woman’s appearance still isn’t registering.
It’s blurry.
Her presence is so clear, yet for some reason, the recognition isn’t proper.
It felt like rejecting the recognition of her.
‘What’s her identity?’
I know there’s…