Vol 1 Chapter 2.4 (2/2)

Hirasaka building was right in front of them. Yata stopped the bike abruptly, waited for his companions to jump down and then let the bike fall on the ground.

“The stairs are in the back, hurry!”

Yata pushed the other two forward, but because Fus.h.i.+mi stopped Yata crashed into him.

“It’s impossible. We won’t make it” said Fus.h.i.+mi, looking up at the sky.

“What are you saying, it’s right in front of us –”

Wham…..!!

In that moment, the sky cracked open. Midst the clouds hanging over their heads, the blimp showed its huge belly.

Wham, wham, wham…..!

Heavy engine noise shook the sky and teared it apart. The air was pressed down and became thick, and pressure was put on their ears. The sudden gust of wind dried Yata’s sweat at once.

„Uah….It’s huge…!“ so huge they could see only one part of it.

And also,

„It’s so close!“

The blimp was pa.s.sing by, seemingly sc.r.a.ping the highest point of the building. Although it had to be several meters high, its size, so big it filled out their complete visual field, caused the illusion of closeness.

If they now would stretch out their hands, wouldn’t they be able to touch it?

If the person in the blimp would notice, wouldn’t he grabbed their hands and pull them in?

But they could neither stretch out their hands, nor move in the slightest. It was as if they were being overwhelmed by pressure, they could only stand upright. Like a huge tongue licking the sky once, the whole thing only lasted for a moment. The blimp pa.s.sed by above their heads and once again shoved itself into the thick clouds. The propeller at its end teared the clouds apart and the scattered pieces dispersed above the building. They hadn’t had the time to light “candle”, but they hadn’t remembered it anyway.

The crushed sky’s height returned to normality and when they were released from the pressure they couldn’t trust earth’s gravity anymore and the ground felt unsteady.

“Ah-ah. We couldn’t make it after all” grumbled Aya. She seemed slightly irked, maybe because her own calculations had been wrong.

“Misaki-kun’s intuition had been off.”

“Sorry…..though I had really thought we would make it. Seems like my intuition has burned out” joked Yata, trying to cover up the awkwardness of the situation. He turned to pick up his bicycle.

“Sorry, Fus.h.i.+mi. It was exactly as you said. I had gotten all excited by myself…let’s just go home.”

When he had turned around to say that, astounded he stopped the hand that grabbed the bike. Aya too, who had started to walk back discontentedly, stopped in amazement.

Only Fus.h.i.+mi who quivered without moving looked still up to the point where the blimp had disappeared.

“Maybe, if we…..”

He sounded as if he was murmuring to himself.

“…..had gotten onto it, would have something changed…?”

Although his voice and expression seemed bland, his quiet voice revealed the truth, and it sounded like a cried out plea for help. Just why was that?

“…..Right. Maybe it would have brought us to a far away, different world”, said Aya in a melancholic tone. Her posture had soften after that kind of reaction from Fus.h.i.+mi.

In one moment, the blimp had engraved its overwhelming existence into their bodies, and had then pa.s.sed by. The feeling that they were still pulled towards it even after its disappearance stayed in their bodies.

Yata was sure at the blimp’s destination there was a world different from the tiny one they were part of right now. A huge world filled with amazing power, something they couldn’t imagine just now, if such a world should really exist somewhere……

If it exists, then shouldn’t they be able to go there some day.

Tonight their failure had been vexing, but they could just go chase after the blimp again, and Yata wasn’t that discouraged.

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