Vol 1 Chapter 1 (1/2)

「Pure Love: Chapter 1

Long after that, I believed that it had been a fated encounter If I didn’t believe that the events of those several days – the days when I was isolated from the ‘reality’ I had previously lived – were ‘tossed by fate’, then my body and mind would be crushed from shock Now that I had finally crawled out fro in the real world by convincing myself that what had happened had been due to fate Fro as htenment1

The days that could only be called – the descent into a fated distortion

The deadline, which happened once every several ineer (SE), had been busy coht to otten three hours of sleep per day for several days up until now

When I realized that I was going to be late for work, I dashed up the stairs to try to get on the train, which had arrived at the platform, but it appeared that this was a bad idea Suddenly, I was blacking out, so I grasped the stair railing to supportbyin their way I heard the sound of the train leaving the platform overhead and accepted the fact that I will be late I will just have to catch the next train, which was going to arrive soon, but I couldn’t even keepa minor anemic attack Cold sweat dripped down fro went black before ht, but I couldn’t get o forward at all, so I just crouched down on the spot for a while, still holding on to the stair railing

At that ht?”

So to me in a low voice There are kind people in this society! ‘I’ht’, I tried to answer the kind person, but in reality, I wasn’t ‘alright’ at all I couldn’t even speak

“…You don’t look alright”

It seemed like the kind person could tellto himself

“Can you walk? We’ll get trao up to the top of the platfor to force me to stand up

“I’ed to breathe out as I lifted my head and looked at the kind man’s face

“Take it easy” He was peering at ood-looking face, I thought Even in my current condition, I couldn’t help but be instantly mesmerized by his face At the sa consciousness and accidentally collapsed into the man’s chest

“Are you alright?!” The man’s frantic voice sounded distant tothat I had been holding tuht, but I couldn’t get my body to move And with that, I lost complete consciousness

I woke up to the sound of the commotion around ood, I thought as I parted my eyes open

“Didn’t anyone notice you?”

As , attractive ht at me He had a small beauty mark next to his mouth, and he smiled at me with relief The moment I noticed the beauty

“Are you alright?”

I didn’t know for how long I had been staring at him absent worried, asked me that

“Ah……yes…,” I answered, co back to ain by the young man’s beautiful face as he peered at me

How could I think that a man’s face is ‘beautiful’? But the man before me was indeed really beautiful His skin hite, which made me think he e black eyes He had long eyelashes that cast a shadow beneath his eyes and slightly pink cheeks that co way

Of course I had never thought alike that until now He peered at , slender fingers It felt nice and cool because his hands were cold as he rested the pal like that about a man, and I was so at a loss of words that I surprised eventhe departure of the train, and I finally came to my senses

“I’m sorry……!” I quickly tried to sit up, because I had been laying on the bench that stood on the platform I had lost consciousness by the stairs, so the man must have carried me all the way here As I tried to sit up, I looked at his rather slender physique, feeling bad that he had to do that for me

“You shouldn’t get up too quickly” The ently stoppedup “How do you feel? You’re still pale…are you alright?”

As his hand supported my back, his beautiful face carew flustered

“I’ht,” I answered and forced myself to look away from him Out of the corner of ht my attention All of a sudden, a familiar face came to my mind, and inadvertently I quietly exclaimed, “Ah!”

I gazed intensely at the ht

“……What’s theand probably wondering rong as I stared at him

“…Suzuki-kun?”

The small beauty e dark eyes were all so I had seen before when I was a child and now, it clearly came to me

“…How do you know that name?” He was so surprised at ed color

“…You’re Suzuki-kun froht? We were in the same class It’s me, shi+mizu”

I felt his grip on my shoulder relax, so I sat up by myself and peered intensely at his face as I told him my name

“…shi+mizu-kun……” The man – Suzuki – said my name hoarsely

What a coincidence this was! How ht, calculating the years in my head We hadn’t seen each other since he had transferred schools during the surade elementary students, so it had been almost twelve years I took a moment to reminisce those times His face from back then and his face noere indeed the saht, s, and Suzuki returned my smile, but for some reason a complicated look appeared on his face

I was just about to ask hi?’, but that look disappeared fro worried, asked me a question instead

“You’re still pale It will probably be hard on you to ride the train…you’re on your way to work, right? Where is the nearest train station by your work?”

“Ōtemachi…why?”

I slowly rose up from the bench as I answered his question, still not quite understanding why he wanted to know the nearest train station I felt a little sick, but I could stand, so I thought that I could ride the train Being reunited with Suzuki brought back such nice memories, but I had a pile of work to do today and if I didn’t hurry up and get to the coues I was just about to saycare of ain andoffer

“I’o there with you by taxi? The roads aren’t as busy as the subway right now, so it would be a lot faster than the train”

“No, it’s okay I can ride the train,” I quickly shook my head and flatly rejected his offer

“I’ll be late like this, so I was planning to go by taxi It’s nothing to worry about” Suzuki said with a suilty if I made him late, so I couldn’t say ‘no’ this time

“…I’ll pay for the taxi”

I really didn’t understand why he was being so considerate over me, but in the end I couldn’t reject kindness At the very least, I will pay for the taxi, I thought, and decided to accept his kind offer Ōtemachi was around thirtyI hadn’t planned, but on the bright side, this would be a good opportunity to talk to my old classmate from elementary school that I hadn’t seen for twelve years Actually, when I saw his face, I was strangely drawn to him This was probably because I had already seen hi

Yet with all of this, for so swirling deep inside my heart I couldn’t point out why this was, but surely this feeling would disappear once we started talking, I thought as I looked at Suzuki

“Let’s split the cost,” Suzuki said with a srip onside by side, I saw that he was rather taller thanhis built, but upon closer inspection I saw that he was actually n s as I looked up at the side of Suzuki’s beautiful face Suzuki, however, for some reason did not say a word

It seemed like a dream to walk side by side with my classmate whom I haven’t seen for twelve years This coincidence is kind of a rare thing, isn’t it? I thought as Suzuki helped me descend the stairs We headed towards the place where the taxicabs were parked in front of the station Suzuki let et in the taxi first and then he also climbed in, sat down beside me, and told the driver our destination – Ōtemachi

“But still, it’s been a long ti tiain

“It sure has…,” Suzuki nodded deeply and said, “Do you still feel sick? You should lie down for a while”

He stretched out his hand towards my forehead

“I’ht”

I was also going to add that I was conscious now, but the moment the palm of his cold hand touchedInadvertently, I grabbed onto the seat for support and automatically looked up at him

“What’s wrong?” He gazed at e, dark eyes

“…Soood’ but couldn’t Suzuki touched ertips At thatwhy, I collapsed in the taxi car seat, fainting for the second time

When I opened ain, I was in a room I had never seen before The structure of the roo house Where in the world a up the bea

“……Ngh,” I sat up quickly, realizing that I was in a rather peculiar situation and place right now The roohtly sweet scent Perhaps that hy ot up off the bed and looked around the room, which contained only this one bed

When I happened to glance at my wristwatch, I saw that someone had taken it off, and only now did I also notice that someone had taken off my suit jacket as well

Where in a world was I?

And what tiht now?

There was a single ith its curtains tightly shut I came over to theand fiercely parted open the curtains

“Wha-?”

I was so in shock that I loudly cried out and stood frozen in place On the outside of the glass ere narrowly spaced-out metal bars

Why are there metal bars?

But before that, what is this place?

What in the world is going on?

I thought, standing there dazed for some time But then I finally came to my senses, opened theand tried to shake the e I could see that on the other side of the metal bars were dead winter trees and a lake The lake that stretched out below appeared a dark black color instead of blue Perhaps this was because of the poor weather conditions Judging by this cold, the temperature was quite low for Tokyo I closed theand looked out at the scenery on the other side

Was I drea?

I seehts were scattered This was probably because the heater was on causing the room to be very hot and also probably because of the sweet, strange scent that had been lingering inside this room

I placed lass

First, I have to cal , I had an anemic attack at the train station and my former elementary school classmate, Suzuki, had helped o with me and take me to work on a taxi and then…

What in the world had happened to me after that?

I ca click of the door If the as a no-go, then perhaps the door? I thought, realizing this only now and looked in the direction of the sound Next to the sturdy, wooden door, which was behind me, stood a tall er wearing a suit but was instead clad all in black – a black turtleneck and black pants Perhaps because of this, he seemed to blend in with the di quietly He seee illusion