021. Coincidence (2)
021. Coincidence (2)
Yuna prayed earnestly.
Perhaps.
Perhaps she could finally meet the person she missed so dearly.
Thinking this, she slowly followed the sound of footsteps.
It was fate.
Yuna thought it was fate.
Aria also prayed earnestly.
'Hing-hing...... please don't let them be a bad person....'
Aria wanted to live.
Not because she wanted to drag out her life in a pathetic way.
But because Yuna still needed her.
So, not yet.
She knew she was getting back a whole, whole lot of the evil deeds she had committed.
There wasn't a single bad person.
Only Aria Witri.
She herself was the absolute worst in the world.
Thinking that, she began to walk, jeobeok-jeobeok, avoiding the sound of footsteps.
Aria thought it was a coincidence.
That it had to be now, at such an incredibly, incredibly late hour.
She really didn't know that someone would come to such a remote place in the middle of the deep, dead of night when everyone was asleep.
So, all of this was a coincidence.
She didn't want to get her ankle caught in some coincidence.
Or trip and never be able to get up again.
She didn't want that.
Aria gritted her teeth.
And very slowly.
She silenced her footsteps and lowered her body.
Since darkness where you couldn't see an inch in front of you was spread everywhere.
So, it was fine to do this.
'Please.......'
Don't let me meet anyone.
She prayed like that.
And.
The prayer clearly reached somewhere.
'......I can't hear the sound.'
Because Yuna had stopped walking for a moment.
Now, only silence spread everywhere.
However, she wanted to find them.
Who exactly was the owner of those footsteps?
Why, at this hour.
Did they bother to be in a place like this?
Perhaps, really.
'Aria Witri.'
......It couldn't be her, right?
Right now, that girl is in her dormitory room.
She had confirmed that the light was on.
So, she couldn't be here.
However.
'......I didn't see her myself. Whether she was inside or not.'
So, she had to check.
Yuna also gritted her teeth.
This might be the last chance given to her.
A chance to find that person and express her gratitude for everything they had done for her until now.
What on earth was that person's identity.......
Based on the image that came to mind when she squeezed her eyes shut.
For some reason.
She didn't know why, but.......
'Even though that can't be it.'
The face of the person she hated the most.
She hated it.
It was disgusting.
So, she had to check.
Because she really didn't know what kind of face she should treat that girl with now.
So, she had to check.
At least, just her face.
However.
Yuna's prayer did not reach.
Aria moved very slowly.
Moving in a way that dragged her legs as little as possible, she left the spot.
It just so happened that the surroundings were a world of darkness.
A place where no one could confirm anything.
Aria let out a sigh of relief and relaxed the strength in her whole body.
Because she couldn't let her identity be discovered.
She really, really couldn't show her weak true self to this unreasonable and absurd world.
Yuna was that kind of case.
Because her nature was so kind, gentle, and angel-like, strange and bad friends clung to her a whole, whole lot.
Including herself.
There were really, really so many people trying to bully Yuna.
'That, no.'
The only one who could bully her was herself.
It was enough if Yuna only had to hate her.
Yuna didn't have to hurt her heart anymore.
Because she was so kind and angelic, even having the heart to hate others.
It would only return as poison to her.
So, she alone was enough.
Jil-jil-jil.
Aria began to leave the spot, breaking into a cold sweat.
Very slowly.
So that her own footsteps would be buried by the sound of the grass insects.
Because her grass insect friends had also started their ensemble louder and stronger just for her.
She shouldn't miss this opportunity.
And this was enough.
Just, just...... just once.
If she could overcome a super pinch situation, jump over the crisis, and see Yuna again.
If she could really do just that much.
That was more than enough.
It would be more than enough for Yuna.
Because.......
She, the bad girl who bullied Yuna so much.
Would soon disappear, after all.
"No......."
Yuna muttered like that.
Because it wasn't enough.
Nothing she had right now.
No matter how many close friends she had.
If she didn't know that person's identity, it all meant nothing.
Because she was sincerely grateful.
Because she was thankful.
What had protected Yuna until she reached this place was.
'That person.......'
So, Yuna untied the red ribbon tied in her hair.
She held it tightly and pressed it against her chest.
Because at that moment, she realized.
The fact that her lack was only fulfilled when that person was by her side.
So.
Yuna's blue eyes sparkled even more under the faint moonlight.
Because tears were welling up, it felt a little bit.
Like she was looking from far away.
She clearly saw it.
Something moved in the darkness.
Something was moving in the opposite direction of the clock tower.
A small figure wearing something pulled down low.
She couldn't tell if it was a person or a beast.
But clearly, a haze was shimmering in the darkness.
'......Who is it.'
She just had to approach them.
There was only one person who would be in a place like this at this hour.
Because it was only that person.
Now, even if she just approached that way.
She would be able to know their identity.
So, Yuna moved forward slowly.
Toward the place where the haze was shimmering.
It was fate.
She thought it was a fate that had already been destined.
If coincidence overlaps with coincidence, even if it's artificial, the possibility of it being fate is overflowing.
Right now was exactly that kind of situation.
Because she had been drawn by something and finally ended up in this place.
Because she could finally meet that person.
'......What should I say at first?'
Yuna fell into that kind of worry.
However.
It was still too early to jump to conclusions.
She couldn't rule out the possibility that it wasn't that person.
Because Yuna believed she was smart and rational.
So, unlike her heart that felt like it would burst with excitement.
She took a step forward, pretending to be as calm as possible, pretending as if nothing was wrong.
Toward the place where the black figure had been.
When thinking rationally, the possibility that it was that person was low.
'But...... if there is even a little bit of possibility.'
Yuna couldn't control the corners of her mouth and they moved wildly.
Her heart began to beat faster and faster.
'If I could only see them.'
If she could only confirm someone, her, with these two eyes.
If she could only smash this stifling heart of hers to pieces.
'If I could only do that.'
Yuna...... toward her.
That was when it happened.
An abandoned letterbox located behind the clock tower.
So, the mailbox came into Yuna's view.
Yuna's thoughts, which had been wavering between fate and coincidence.
Soon hardened into certainty.
Just in time, a very thin ray of moonlight through the thick clouds.
And that, because a single beam poured down.
In the darkness where you couldn't see an inch in front of you.
The moonlight cruelly began to illuminate the mailbox brightly.
Yuna's attention naturally focused on the mailbox.
She walked sluggishly and approached the mailbox.
And.
Toward the bouquet of flowers placed below.
She reached out her hand as if possessed.
"......Ha."
It began to rain.
It was true that the clouds were gloomy.
But she didn't think it would rain.
For some reason, Yuna felt like rain was pouring down.
Because of the rain falling like that, she couldn't see anything in front of her.
Yuna Castilla, whose strength in her legs momentarily gave out, sat down right there.
And with trembling hands, she checked the bouquet.
Spring roses with various colors blended together.
Red, orange, pink—it was a bouquet with small spring roses neatly arranged without exception.
The thorns had also been removed one by one, all of them, just in case she, who held the bouquet, would get hurt.
A bouquet of spring roses like that.
Yuna started to sob.
The flower language of spring roses is gratitude, love, and beauty.
And friendship.
Because it clearly had that meaning.
"A person... who knows all of that, and gives... a gift like this, is...."
That person.
The one and only person who is so, so precious that she must meet them.
So, she must clearly confirm their face.
The identity of that person is none other than.......
"Ha...."
No.
That couldn't be.
She didn't even want to admit it.
Even if she died, even if she died, even if she died, she wouldn't admit it.
Not until she confirmed it with her own two eyes, absolutely.
She vowed that she would never, no matter what happened, admit it.
"So, so......."
So that her heart wouldn't be hurt anymore.
She had to clearly reveal that person's identity.
Yuna wiped away her tears and stood up from her seat.
If it was now, surely.
'Because I'll be able to... see that person.'
Yuna harbored a vague hope.
However.
A fleeting moment.
The short moment Yuna was checking Aria Witri's gift.
"Wh, where, where did... they disappear to...?"
The haze Yuna had been chasing was no longer visible.
Because.
Teol-seok-
With a sound.
Something had collapsed and was lying limp in that spot without a single movement.
"Ugh, ughhh...... ugh......."
The moonlight had now disappeared.
Yuna.
She didn't notice the fact that Aria had collapsed a short distance away.
She passed right by.
Aria also didn't notice Yuna's presence.
Even if she had noticed, she would have just passed by.
The two missed each other perfectly.
Quite coincidentally.
And.
A moment later.
The one who approached the collapsed Aria with a tearful face was.
"I told you so many times to stop doing such stupid things......."
Yuna Castilla.
It was not her.