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Dream Drops and Star Flowers Chapter 2

Dream Drops and Star Flowers Chapter 2

16 year old summer. July 27th. Fireworks display on the Otomi River. A wind-blown hill overlooking the city. One big firework spreads out in front of you like a curtain of light. You are next to me. I heard your voice.

“Like”

I will confess to you. It was the moment I knew it.

I made this prediction when I was 6 years old. It was a hot summer day and the sun was strong, but I didn’t care about that, and I was watering with a few friends in the neighborhood with a water gun.

At that time, there was a moment when I suddenly lost consciousness. She saw her confessed at that moment. It was a moment, so I don’t think anyone realized that I wasn’t conscious.

When I told my father the image that suddenly came to my mind, he told me that it was precognition. I was also told that the boys of the Ichinomiya family were born with precognition ability. The Ichinomiya family is a family of priests and it seems that it is related to this ability, but my father does not seem to know in detail. However, when I was 6 years old, I predicted that I would be 16 years old, 10 years later. It seems rare to predict the future like this. In the past, my grandfather had told me that some people had predicted 1000 years in the future. So even if it’s rare, it’s probably about three generations.

Then there was one thing that was noted. If you change your precognition, you lose your ability, so if you try to change your precognition, you can’t. That’s what my father told me.

I was familiar with the voice of the other party who was confessed in precognition. The voice doesn’t seem to change much after 10 years. Is it because there is no change in voice unlike boys?

The other party is Kaede Futami. She is the same age and she attends the same elementary school. She was close to her house and was in the same group, so she met every day when she went to school in a group. But I didn’t talk much because it was a different class.

Our elementary school has a class change every two years, and when I was in the third grade of elementary school, I was in the same class as her for the first time. That was also the seat next to her.

Self-introduction after class change. After finishing my turn, I was excited to see if there was a guy who could be a friend, and I was listening to the self-introduction of a new student in the same class. And I was amused about what the self-introduction of the students who were in the same class when I was in the first and second grades would say.

Only when I heard Kaede Futami’s self-introduction, it was different from either.

I didn’t know much about the person to be confessed in the future. Her self-introduction is a unique opportunity to get to know her. Concentrate so that you don’t miss each word.

What I know now is that she is delicate and now a little taller than me. Her thin and long hair is beautiful. Sometimes it’s just that some of her long hair is made into thin braids.

“I’m Kaede Futami. Thank you.”

Contrary to my feelings that I didn’t want to miss, Kaede just said that and took a seat. She seemed quite nervous. When she sits down, she exhales deeply and strokes her chest.

After all, I didn’t know much about Kaede. She found out she was the type of person who was nervous in front of her. Let’s just do it. You should know about Kaede from now on. Because we are next to each other.

First step.

“Thank you.” After introducing herself, she approached her sitting in her seat and spoke in a small voice.

Unlike the image of self-introduction, she gave me a bright smile. She’s nervous in front of a lot of people, but she doesn’t seem to be shy.

Since I was sitting next to her, I soon became friends with her, and by the time a month had passed, I was able to understand Kaede a lot.

Kaede is learning the piano and seems to like music lessons. Her movement is average. She is smart because she scores about 100 points in all subjects on the test. She also liked books and often seemed to be in the library with her girlfriend during her breaks.

During the class, I lent out textbooks and shared a little bit with each other. Going to school was more fun than ever, and I didn’t want to go to summer vacation at the end of the first semester.

When I entered the summer vacation, I no longer met Kaede. She still went out a lot to see if she could meet Kaede somewhere, but she didn’t see her after all.

The last day of summer vacation in the third grade of elementary school. She was packing her school bag with tomorrow’s belongings in the living room.

I saw precognition.

Wet day. The way home from school. Kaede is about to fall into the river. I reached for Kaede. There, I regained consciousness as if the scene had changed.

It was broadcast on the TV in the living room that Typhoon No. 21 was approaching the Japanese archipelago. From the water level of that river, I’m sure it was a typhoon day that I saw in precognition.

The first day of school after the summer vacation. Despite the approaching typhoon, there seemed to be opening ceremonies and classes without notice of closed school. According to her mother, she will not be on holiday unless a storm warning is issued.

“Be careful!”

“Yes”

When I was sent off by my father and opened the front door, it was raining, but it wasn’t so strong now, and the ground wasn’t wet to the eaves. Hold an umbrella and go outside. The wind is not so strong either. I went to the meeting place to go to school in a group.

Kaede was there when I arrived at the meeting place in about 1 minute on foot. No one else has come yet. Kaede doesn’t seem to be aware of this. I can see her profile looking up at the sky through her umbrella.

The closer you are to Kaede, the slower your steps will be. She was nervous about seeing Kaede for the first time in a long time after the summer vacation. She was so close before the summer vacation, but she didn’t know how to talk to her.

As I approached Kaede, I noticed something. Kaede’s outfit is a pink T-shirt with frills on her shoulders and denim shorts underneath. It was the same clothes she saw in precognition. After all today is that day. She can’t step on her because of this. She called out as she went to Kaede’s side.

“good morning”

“Oh, good morning. I was worried if there really was a school because nobody came.” Kaede smiled when she turned to me.

“It looks like it’s there. I think it’s okay to take a break,” he said and looked up at the sky like Kaede. Gray clouds cover the entire sky, and the flow is fast. The wind in the sky seems to be strong.

After talking with Kaede for a while, other students gathered one after another. The tension she had felt a while ago has disappeared.

Look out from the back seat near the classroom window. The rain was getting stronger. The rain hits the windows and blurs the scenery of the courtyard. The wind seems to be stronger than in the morning.

The chime that started the third hour class rang. Normally, the teacher is in the classroom before the chime rings, but she hasn’t come yet. Everyone started to rustle. When Kaede and the teacher in the next seat started talking about what happened, the classroom door opened and the teacher in charge came in in a hurry. The teacher stood on the podium without saying anything and started writing something on her blackboard. In the sound of rain, the sound of chalk hitting the blackboard echoed in the classroom.

“As you all know, a typhoon is approaching. Today’s class is closed, so I’m going to leave the school in a group,” said the teacher.

The classroom is noisy again. Then the teacher said in a loud voice.

“Get ready to go home and meet at the place written on the blackboard.”

The group and the classroom were written on the blackboard. Kaede is close to her house and is in the same group, so she seems to be able to go home halfway.

Students living in the same district gather in eight classrooms on the first floor, and all of them start to leave school. It seems that one teacher will lead each group.

Our group started to leave school a little later when everyone got together. The wind wasn’t strong enough to be called a storm at this time, but it was strong enough to get wet with rain from below the knees even with an umbrella. The strong wind that sometimes blows strengthened the sound of rain hitting the umbrella.

“Be careful when walking.”

The voice of the PE teacher who walked behind me was often heard even in the rain.

I tried to be next to Kaede, but there was a girl friend there, and I had no choice but to walk behind Kaede. Nearly 20 students walk side by side in two rows.

I know I’m taller at the age of 16, but now Kaede is still taller. I walked while gazing at the pink school bag that appeared and disappeared in Kaede’s red umbrella. Her head was full of justice that she had to protect her.

What I saw in precognition was a river near Kaede’s house. My house is closer to the school, so I will arrive at my house first. It seems suspicious to follow Kaede past my house, and the teacher will stop me.

“See you later”

When I came near my house, I had no choice but to say so in my heart and broke up with the group.

“Be careful, go home.” I heard a loud voice from the PE teacher behind me.

I pretended to be back, turned back, and secretly followed the group. Don’t get too far away so you can’t find it. A group of five small umbrellas and one large umbrella is walking about 10 meters in front. The teacher will probably follow the student who is farthest home. So when I saw it in precognition, Kaede was probably alone.

A fork that I walked for about 3 minutes after following the group. Here Kaede and another student broke up with the group. As expected, the teacher followed the remaining three. Immediately after parting from the group, Kaede parted from another student and became one.

After that, I will follow you secretly.

Just a short distance from Kaede’s house, I approached a small stone bridge. Then Kaede crouched down in the corner of the stone bridge. What happened to her? Kaede stood up once and she returned to Ishibashi. She wondered if she would notice this, and made her body tense, but Kaede moved to the side of the river and she crouched down again.

Kaede crouching down beside the river is in my eyes. This is the scene I saw in precognition. I rushed up.

At that time, Kaede was reaching for the river. Her body is fluttering and is about to fall into the river. Just before I got to Kaede, Kaede slipped her leg and was about to be swallowed by the river. The sound of the muddy stream flowing through the river moved away for a moment, and Kaede’s movement seemed to be in slow motion. Reach out to Kaede.

It arrived. The moment I took Kaede’s hand, time began to flow at normal speed.

Kaede shouted, “Wow,” and the two of us shook the bank. My blue umbrella in her hand fell to the ground, and Kaede’s red umbrella was washed away by the river. The butt was wet because of the stickiness, and the hands felt wet grass and soil. In the prediction, I intended to help him a little cooler, but it seems that he didn’t. But anyway, I’m glad I was in time.

“Ryo-kun?” It looks like you’re here.

“are you OK?”

“Yes, thank you”

“You’ve been swept away by an umbrella.”

“Ah … what should I do!”

Kaede knelt down and looked into the river again. But there was no umbrella there anymore. She would have been swept away and she would have been swallowed under the bridge. The muddy water near the bridge is splashing. The muddy stream that couldn’t be put under the bridge is probably overflowing. The water level was approaching the top of the bridge.

“It seems that the umbrella has no choice but to give up.”

Kaede turned around and looked like she was crying.

“By the way, what were you doing here?”

“that”

The place Kaede pointed to was a bottle. It’s stuck on a tree branch and spinning around. There seemed to be pink flowers inside. It looked so beautiful in the muddy river, and she certainly caught my eye.

“Are you trying to get that?”

“Yes”

It was a distance that I could reach if I reached out. Squat to the edge of the river and reach for your right hand. It seems to arrive but it does not arrive. It’s about to arrive soon. The belly of the middle finger touched the bottle as he stretched his right shoulder further forward. Then he picked up the bottle by pulling it with his middle finger.

“I got it!”

The moment I tried to make the bottle look like Kaede, my left foot slipped on the wet soil. She loses her balance and her body leans towards the river. I didn’t let go of her bottle.

-There was a feeling that someone grabbed the arm of the person holding the bottle. It’s not Kaede’s hand. It was a bigger hand.

I heard my father’s voice, “Yoto.” I was pulled back to the bank by his father.

“Dad!”

“Are you okay?”

“Yeah. Why are you?”

“Do you understand?” My dad said that much. He must have foreseen.

“Both of us are dangerous here, so come here.”

Taken by my father, I return to the top of Ishibashi. I thought he would get angry, but he didn’t.

“Isn’t Kaede injured?”

“Yes”

“What about Ryo?”

“are you OK”

“It was good.”

“Yes, this” I gave her the bottle I picked up from the river.

“Thank you”

The pale pink flowers in the jar, which had soil in places, did not wither and spread out five petals.

“Then I’ll send it with my uncle and Ryo.”

The three of us headed to Kaede’s house. My dad used my umbrella, and Kaede and I used my big umbrella.

Kaede’s mother thanked me exaggeratedly.

After delivering Kaede, I will return with my father.

“Isn’t it great to help a girl?”

“After all, my dad helped me.”

“It’s normal for parents to help their children.”

“If you foresaw it, bring another umbrella.”

“Ryo, too? Did you see it in precognition?”

“I couldn’t see that much. I didn’t even know my dad was coming …”

“Well, my dad predicted that he only had his own umbrella. And I’m glad that Ryo and Kaede could have an umbrella,” he said.