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Tick. Tock.
Tick. Tock.
Tick. Tock.
Ao stared outside the window of his apartment.
The clock on the wall told him that it was already 6:18 p.m.
The sky was slowly turning dark.
In the distance, beyond the towering skyscrapers,
the sun began to disappear beneath the horizon.
Tick. Tock.
Tick. Tock.
Tick. Tock—
He felt someone settle down on the other side of the couch.
He turned.
"... Hey," Leo said quietly in English.
・・・ ix・・・
Ao didn't say anything.
At the corner of his eyes, he noticed that his friend was holding a book in his grasp.
It was the same one as before.
The one with the shepherd and the raven.
Ao continued to stay silent.
Without giving it any thought,
Leo began flipping through its pages mindlessly.
"I... just finished reading this," he mumbled.
For a second, there was a pause.
"I think I know why she came to love this story a lot."
Ao looked at him.
He blinked.
Leo shook his head and gently closed the book.
Then, he laughed weakly.
Silence.
Leo breathed in and sighed.
"Tomorrow... I think I'm going back to America."
・・・ x・・・
Leo's tone sounded hesitant.
Ao was surprised at what he heard.
After a moment, he finally chose to speak to him.
"... Why?" he asked quietly.
Leo looked away and didn't meet his eyes.
Instead, he stared down at the book.
He breathed out.
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re:Happiness | Cell Phone Novel
General Fiction「 Can you teach me how to be happy? 」 Fujiwara Ao has been living the past nineteen years of his life in ease. Born with the ideal background and blessed with enough talent, that's what most of the people presume. In their eyes, he was sim...
