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Dream Drops and Star Flowers Chapter 3

Dream Drops and Star Flowers Chapter 3

“Welcome, see you later.” I was sent off by my father and mother and left home.

The cherry blossoms planted at the shrine are in full bloom. Cherry blossom petals are mixed in places on the gravel laid in the precincts. I’m a high school student from today.

Maika High School. She was able to enter the same high school as Kaede. Her class is 5 groups a year. Kaede’s name was also on the paper with the name of her classmate.

When I went to my classroom, Kaede was already sitting in the back seat by the window.

Kaede had a part of her long hair in a thin braid, just like when she was in elementary school. Her beautiful hair is fluttering in the wind blowing from her open window. She was a picturesque scene.

I wanted to see it all the time, but it doesn’t work. She entered through the door behind the classroom and she went straight to Kaede’s seat and called out.

“Yeah, nice to meet you again.”

“Yeah … Regards”

After all it’s not like that. When I noticed, it looked like this. I was closer when I was in elementary school. Where did you dislike it? I was worried whether the prediction would be true.

There seems to be no island to attach to, so I immediately headed to my seat. Her seat was in front of the window. Put his bag on the desk and sit down. I liked the window seats where the breeze came in from the windows.

The teacher in the 5th class of the year was a relatively young female teacher in her 30s. She has a soft voice and speaks slowly. She is in the homeroom after the entrance ceremony. The homeroom teacher is standing on the podium and talking about precautions in school life.

“You can work part-time, but you will need to apply. The application form is in the Student Guidance Room, so please go get it yourself and submit it …”

The voice was distorted for a moment and the field of vision was switched. She quickly turned out to be precognition.

But it’s strange. It was the same scene as the precognition I saw when I was six.

July 27, Otomi River Fireworks Festival. A wind-blown hill overlooking the city. I’m looking up at the sky with Kaede. But when the four-shoulder ball went up, it was me who confessed.

The scene changes. Kaede is sleeping in a room I don’t know. Kaede woke up on the bed and turned to the calendar hanging on the wall near the entrance to her room. And she turned her back, she said, “two weeks later.”

At the next moment, the scene changed again and I returned to the original classroom.

I was confused in my head. The teacher is standing on the podium and continuing to talk, but the content does not come to my mind at all. I closed my eyes to sort out my thoughts.

Unlike the prediction I made when I was 6 years old, I confessed to Kaede. This is strange. The prediction that Kaede confesses and the prediction that I confess in the scene where the same four-shoulder ball goes up. It is strange that these two predictions exist.

Then there is another strange thing. Why did she foresee Kaede’s awakening? If there is a connection between the scene of confession and the scene where Kaede wakes up, I think what I have just seen is the prediction that Kaede will dream of being confessed to me.

Will I think because I can predict it? Maybe Kaede can also predict.

On that day, there were no classes at the entrance ceremony and home room, and the school ended earlier than usual. She walked to high school and went home with her boyfriend from junior high school that day. My head was full of precognition. I want to talk to her father soon.

Is it possible that Kaede can foresee? If Kaede could make a prediction, would I change the prediction? If so, will I lose my ability to predict? The thoughts go round and round in my head.

After parting from my friend, I ran and went home. Her parents had come to school to attend the entrance ceremony, but when she got home, her parents had already returned home.

“Oh, welcome back. It’s early.”

“Dad, I want to talk a little”

“Oh, what? Foreknowledge?”

“That’s right, did you foresee it?”

“No, it’s always a prediction when you talk with that kind of face.”

“What kind of face is that?”

“That’s the face.”

When I moved to an empty Japanese-style room, I explained in detail to my father the predictions I had seen at school today.

And I asked if Kaede could be a precognitive person.

“The Futami family is originally a shrine maiden family. Unlike ours, the shrine is gone, but it’s possible because of that family. As I said before, the predictive ability of the fathers is It seems that it is related to the family of the priest of this shrine. If you ask your grandfather, you can understand more, but it is not surprising that Kaede, the family of the shrine maiden in this town, was able to predict. world”

It was a surprise to me. Until now, I’ve only heard occult stories about being able to predict other than my own family. It was unthinkable that the girl I might be dating in the future would be a precognitive person and would predict a similar situation.

Another question. Given that Kaede is a predictor, can there be two contradictory predictions? What I saw was a scene where she confessed to me. Kaede sees me confessing to her on the same day and in the same place.

“I don’t even know it to my dad. You can change the precognition. So it’s possible that Ryo’s precognition has changed in the last decade. But changing the precognition is a will. It’s a different story if you try to change the precognition, but if not, it won’t change so easily. Was there really a contradiction between the two precognitions?

Is there a contradiction between the two predictions? But that was the same scene. Fireworks display on the Otomi River. Each said that they liked both precognitions when the four-shoulder ball went up. What if there was no contradiction?

“Thank you. I’ll think about it.”

I left the Japanese-style room with my head twisted to see if I could resolve the contradiction.

“If you have something you want to hear again, always ask.” I heard my father’s voice quietly behind me.

After that, I lay down on the bed in my room and thought about it, but I couldn’t find the answer.

For the next week, I was thinking about two precognitions every day, but I settled on the answer that they were inconsistent, and I had less time to think about them.

I started getting used to high school life and made new friends. The club activities haven’t started yet, but they are planning to join the same soccer club as when they were in junior high school. Without club activities, it’s quick to go home.

When I got home and opened the front door, my mother was in front of me.

“Oh, I was surprised. I’m home.”

“Welcome back. You’re back in the right place. Can you bring this to the purlin?”

There was a cider box at the entrance. I often got it from my maternal grandfather who lives in another city, and I think I got it this time as well.

“OK,” he answered, put the bag in the front door, and lifted a cardboard box full of canned cider. It was written on the cardboard as 250 ml x 30 pieces. I calculate in my head that it is about 7.5 kg.

The main building is right next to the house. I carefully crossed the stepping stones that continued to the main building, and opened the door of the main building while holding the cardboard on one knee. Nobody is here. After offering the cardboard in front of the Buddhist altar, I went to the living room and found my grandfather. He seems to be doing something by turning off the radio he always has.

“Oh, Ryo? Do you want to eat this?”

“No, I’m not good at sweetness. It seems that I got a cider again, so I left it at the Buddhist altar.”

“Oh, yeah, I don’t really like cider,” he said, laughing.

“What’s that?” I glanced at a picture of the fireworks on the desk in front of my grandfather.

“Oh, this? This is a picture of last year’s fireworks display.”

“Who took it?”

“Who is a photographer? If I take a picture, there will be two fireworks.”

“Blur?” I laugh and say.

“That’s right,” my grandfather laughs.

“As expected, it’s a professional. You can take beautiful pictures.”

My grandfather nodded satisfactorily.

“From here, choose the photo you want to put on the leaflet of this year’s fireworks display.”

“Is this the leaflet for last year’s fireworks display?”

On the leaflet, a photo of the four-dimensional ball, which is the centerpiece of the fireworks display, was printed on the entire surface. It seems that the four-shoulder ball of the year before last was orange and partly red.

“That’s right. Is the eye-catching four-shoulder ball good?”

I remember the four-shoulder ball I saw in the previous prediction. The orange streaks spread widely, and at the end, a number of small pink lights shone and disappeared.

Recall the precognition I saw when I was six. The same four-shoulder ball. The orange streaks are the same. But I think it was green that was shining at the end.

Are the fireworks seen in the two precognitions different? In other words, was it another fireworks display? No, this is the only fireworks display that can be seen from the hill with that wind stroke.

Was it another year at the same Otomi River fireworks display? No, the calendar in Kaede’s room was for this year, and Kaede said it was two weeks later. At least Kaede should think of that prediction as this year’s fireworks display. She doesn’t think the precognition person is the wrong year.

If so …

“Grandfather, at the Otomi River fireworks display, one four-shoulder ball will be launched at the end, right?”

“That’s right”

“You always raise only one shot every year, right?”

“That’s right”

“Is it possible to launch two shots? It’s like a photo that would blur if my grandfather took it. Well, not at the same time.”

“Hey?” My grandfather was looking at me with a slightly stupid face because his glasses were off.

The Otomi River Fireworks Festival is a traditional fireworks festival that has been held every year for decades, and it seems that it was started by our ancestral priest to develop the town and calm the spirits. So even now, this fireworks display is hosted by our shrine. That’s why my grandfather chose the photo of the leaflet. The leaflet has not been made yet, but it seems that the fireworks program has already been decided to some extent because it is an annual event.

When I told my grandfather about precognition, he decided to convene an executive committee.

My grandfather was enthusiastic on the day and went to the executive committee meeting. There is nothing I can do now. He went to the purlin at the time he would come back, sat on the porch and waited for his grandfather to return. In the garden, there are pine trees and chozubachi that my grandfather often cares for, and it makes me feel calm when I am here in a quaint landscape.

After waiting for a while, I felt a sign behind me. When I went to the living room, his grandfather was back. His grandfather’s expression is not good. The discussion didn’t seem to go well.

The program has not been officially decided yet, but it seemed difficult to make a sudden change in the program to launch two four-shoulder balls. The organizer’s suggestion cannot be overlooked, but it seems that it is difficult to launch a four-shoulder ball with a nonstandard size.

The four-shoulder ball was the largest fireworks in the world at one time, and there are various obstacles such as budget and safety to launch it. It seems that he will contact the fireworks master for the time being, but he said it would be difficult. It seems that the fireballs were ordered a year ago.

“Ryo, I’m sorry”

“Oh, I’m sorry to say my grandfather.”

It seems to me that my grandfather couldn’t live up to my grandson’s expectations, and the back of my tall grandfather returning to his room looked small and deflated.

“What should I do …”

As for the safety aspect, one shot was originally planned to be launched, so it should have been cleared.

In terms of budget, I can’t help myself. It seems that a four-shoulder ball costs more than 2.5 million yen per shot. At our school, the teacher said that part-time jobs are allowed as long as you apply, but it only takes about three months until the fireworks display. It is impossible to prepare a large amount of money of 2.5 million yen or more.

And if you can’t prepare a four-scale ball in the first place, you can’t launch two four-scale balls no matter how much money you put up.

After dinner, I was watching TV on the sofa in the living room.

“Hmm …” A big sigh leaked.

“I heard about fireworks.” My father called out from behind the sofa.

“Yeah, it’s no good,” I looked back and replied.

“But could the contradiction be clarified?”

“I just wondered if it was clear or if this would create a contradiction, but I don’t know if it really is.”

“If Ryo says so, that’s right. That’s what Ryo predicted. Rather than finding the correct answer, Ryo gives the answer. That’s the correct answer.”

“Something like that?”

“That’s it. So you want to launch two four-shoulder balls?”

“That’s right, but it seems difficult.”

“Don’t regret it.” I felt like my father pushed me back.

I once thought I should do this.

“I’m going to see the fireworks master”

My father nodded satisfactorily. That’s why he seemed to say he was my son.

According to my father, it is a company called Miyamori Smoke that makes all the fireworks at the Otomi River Fireworks Festival in the mountains of this town. He called in advance to make an appointment. When he gave the name Ichinomiya, he would meet me smoothly.