Vol 1 Prologue (1/2)
Prologue
Snoas falling
White, s
Snoasn’t anything special in this town in winter
A handful of people co fro was usual, advancing quickly
Ae visitor He pulled the scarf over his nose, shoved his hands into his pockets, and sat on the damp wooden bench
It wasn’t his first ti since his last visit
Slow
The round clock in the middle of the station pointed at three
Wasn’t the time appointed one?
He didn’t know her phone number, so he couldn’t make a call to confirm And he didn’t want to scold anyone either, as he returned to this town already with a bit of loss and reluctance
“Changing jobs? When did that happen?”
A few e, but he wasn’t all that surprised
His father had been changing jobs as a habit, and Yuichi had been changing schools since primary school
He thought he would at last settle down in these years, yet things happened otherwise
“I heard it’s during spring, but after a year, probably he’ll need to ain”
“Okay”
“Nasty, right? When we think of your academic studies, it’s quite a headache for you to adjust to your homework and classmates”
“Then please let ”
“What are you talking about?”
His mother furrowed her brows
“I don’t think you can handle housework all by yourself You’ll have to prepare for the exams next year too, there’s no way you can do that”
“So what can we do? Our house is basically the coether”
“Hht It’s decided”
“What’s decided?”
“This”
His ave hi to build one They had planned long for this, but chances always slipped
“So this is the last time we’ll move”
It seems we’re finally settled His mother said happily
“Where are we, then?”
His mother answered a town of the north
“Do you still remember? That town you alent to at the summer break when you were in primary school”
“Oh”
Is it that town? But, that town…
“When you were there the first tiht snow peculiar We always paid a visit to the Minase faain? Don’t you get along quite ith that cousin of yours?”
“Is that so?”
“Yes You cantime too”
“There isn't a need for this”
“What, Yuichi Why sulking? Do you hate ?”
“…”
I was used to , but I hate the town
I didn’t know for sure what the reason was
I do reone to the town several ti lost
Lost were such memories, as if they had turned white
Yuichi had a strong reluctance, but he couldn’t explain since he couldn’t remember the reason
The matters with the Minase family went pretty quick At first, the whole fa, but since they had to deal with the paperwork for transferring to the school, Yuichi had to go first
And the day had come
Yuichi was still waiting for the girl of Minase whom he had to live with for a while
Why did he love snow before?
It was cold when he touched snow, and bothering and dirty when stacked There wasn't anything nice If he had lost his memories, it must have been because he had slipped off the snow on the path and hit his head
Cold
Even his nostrils froze
Yuichi continued to sit without twitching, as if protesting against the cold, white air, as well as the person whohim wait
The longest tiraduation, he asserted hih it wasn’t a pleasant idea for his o off one day anyway If he kept living in this cold and dull town, he was certain he would become cold and dull himself
Suddenly, the cold air calmed
The snoas piling up, even the as raging…yet…
Beside Yuichi appeared a pair of brown fes, a uniforht hair
Under the snowing sky, the girl looked at Yuichi
Gentle eyes with a dip of dreamy slumber called forth his memories It was more feminine than the one in primary school, but they were the same eyes
“The snow…is piling up”
The girl murmured Yuichi noticed the jacket on his shoulders had slowly turned white
“It’s because I have waited for two hours”