Chapter 712 (1/2)

A Single Intersection

I saw her for the first time on a train next to mine that was moving in the same direction. The two trains were very close to each other and moving at a nearly identical speed. No matter how much I tried to keep my eyes away from her, I couldn’t help but glance sideways every once in awhile. It was a little awkward at first, but after talking with her and getting to know her, we managed to get close. We moved like this together for a very long time.

But today, I managed to notice something rather peculiar. The distance between us had widened to the point where I was just barely able to make out her expression. When I thought about it, it almost felt like that was the case yesterday as well. And the past week, and the week before that too. Were we a little closer together a month ago? I asked her a question as I considered it.

“Hey, don’t you think we’ve gotten pretty far from each other?”

She responded to me calmly from the opposite side.

“Yeah. I think we’re about ten meters apart by now.”

“How did this happen all of the sudden?”

She turned to look at me, her cold eyes and her unmoving lips almost made her seem like someone else.

“It didn’t happen ‘all of the sudden’. We’ve been getting farther apart for quite some time now.”

“What? Since when?

“Who knows. Maybe from the start?”

“The start?”

“I don’t think you knew, but I was originally on the left side of you; now, I’m on your right.”

I didn’t understand what she was saying. She observed my expression for a brief moment before tiredly opening her mouth again.

“We were asymmetrical from the start. At a very tiny angle. We were getting further away from each other since the beginning, but you just didn’t notice it.”

“Then we’d continue to…”

“Right. We’d continue to move further away from each other.”