After our long walk, we arrived in my house. It is a two-storey house that is made from the average cement and is painted with white and brown colors. It gives off the aura of the countryside, regarding that my parents are nature lovers so this dream house of theirs has that theme. The gate is painted with brown, the floor has a decoration of rocks on it and at the side of the gate, there are different kinds of plants and flowers that make the house more country-like. I grab the doorknob and open the door.
My mother, Azumi Yougaza is a sales clerk in a motor company, but right now she is in a middle of cooking our lunch. Her brown hair is now tied in a bun and wearing a white green striped apron and when her crystal-like eyes spotted us. She stop from her doing and greet us.
"Ohh… Kiro, who is that girl? Your girlfriend!"
The moment we step in the house an awkward silence once again envelop us, this time it's now between the two of us my mother is with us but it seems it's like the two of us. Before I said something and broke the ice tension my mother brought Hirai who was reddened quickly rebut while her hands were playing her bangs and try to calm herself.
"Uhmm… Sorry for betraying your expectations. But I am his classmate and acting guardian in our school"
Hirai said with a calm voice and refined grace.
'Good job'
I wink at her and my mother nods and went back to work
"Yup… Yup… kids these days are very secretive. But I can understand it… I… me too have come to this rebellious state. "
My mother shouted in without particular person. She just said those things to air.
'Really mom… '
I'd just brushed it off and went towards my room and leave them alone for a moment. When I decided to take the stairs I feel I am drifting farther towards them, that I can't reach them and our world is now different.
'Mom… Hirai… I… I'm sorry'
I peek a final glance then continue going to my room upstairs. As I walk towards my room, I began to recollect the bizarre happening in my life.
'I have been revived'
Still I can't believe, as if the time stops when I thought of that fact.
'If not… then what the hell is happening to me?'
I ask myself but obviously there 's no answer I can get to myself. I sigh and leave the topic for a moment and focus to my everyday life. I look in front and I am only few centimetres towards my room. Then I can hear a thud and a voice of a child laughing towards my room. The hair on my body rose suddenly and I can feel the chill running through my skin
'Is my niece here today, if so. Mom should have told me earlier. Did she forget because she is shocked that I bring someone here.'
My mind are thinking fast, and my feet is continuing to move forward.
'No… there's no sign that my niece is here. If so… who is that?'
I continue to venture towards my room when I peek at it I am dumbfounded what I see is a child with a very long green hair like those leaves in the midst of spring, together with my pillow is rolling back and forth in my room.
"Wheee~"
The child said as she roll from one corner to another.
Then she suddenly stop, she quickly stand up and her diamond like eyes look at me.
'Wait, this girl!'
I remember this girl
'That girl is…'
I thought as she slowly wipes the dust off her clothes with her petite hands. She wears her white hood and then suddenly I remember who she is
'It's her'
I suddenly open my door but she disappears all of a sudden.
'Tsk… I haven't have a chance to talk to her'
I click my tongue and proceed to enter to my room then all of a sudden I heard a shrieked
"Ouch"
It was a cute voice and when I lower my vision, I saw her. The girl that is rolling with my pillow is as tall as my knees only.
"Pfft"
I almost laugh at her but I can't because I am charmed by her cuteness and decided to help her stand but she brushed my offer and stand on her own. She is holding her forehead with her petite smooth white hand, she caress it slowly and look at me with an angry expression.
'Should I apologize?'
I shouted in my mind, though her eyes seems lifeless because of its translucent appearance it still bear emotions and sooner or later it will be filled with tears.
'I need to apologize!!!'
I panic and scold myself, unconsciously I give her a cookie from my pocket, at first she is hesitant and give me a stern look but she accept it despite that and eat it slowly and suck her thumb after eating it.
'So cute!!'
Once again, I am charmed by her cuteness which made me delay or forget what should I say.
"…"
Again, with silence. I sit across from her and look at her translucent eyes. Suddenly, from her back there seem an imaginary things that is glowing from it.
'It seems… a—Wings!'
I exclaimed in my thought. It was not just a normal wings the fairy in fairy tales have, it was a golden wings that is bright like the sun or brighter. My eyes are captivated by it and I saw her fly over me and level her eyesight to mine. She continue to stare at me. Those lifeless eyes are like Hirai's but it didn't seeps to my mind and knows my secret
'It … feels like I am dragged into it'
I shake my head and I accidentally bump to her head and make her fall again
"Ouch!"
She exclaimed and roll in the floor while holding her forehead.
Before I am dragged by her cuteness, I intake some air and brought courage to myself in order to speak.
'But before that… I must do something about that injury of hers.'
I stand up and get some ice and put it into her forehead
"Uwah… Cold"
She shrieked and felt relax, she did not fight back. She just sit silently and let me took care of her injury.
"Uhmmm I know this is sudden, but are you the one who save me at the brink of death"
I uttered
Without hesitation, without doubts
I have been revive
That's why it's too late to doubt anything I see.
Wings—Fairy or whatever—I can say they are real.
'I'll believe everything'
Up to this point I thought I am just dreaming, or hallucinating but that is not important. The fact that it is a dream or not is not important, what important is I am alive
I gulp and look at her translucent eyes as I rest the eyes on her forehead
"If it is you… I would like to say thank you. Hehe… uhmm… I know it's quite unbelievable. That I am revive and here I am having my second life. But I won't doubt because in the middle of the darkness. You showed me light that's why I am thankful"
'Yes… I said it!'
As I cheer and congratulate myself, I notice that she did not answer my question. She just look at me with her translucent eyes and enduring the cold.
'Still I am thankful'
Again, I thank her or whoever that saves me from the brink of death. As I thought to myself, she has closed her eyes and seems she like sleeping. Like a new doll displayed in a doll shop. She is not moving nor making any motions. She seems a lifeless doll.
That's why I decided to carry her and lay her on my bed. In there, she will be more comfortable and mostly its quite creepy seeing her sleeping like that.
I put my arms on her waist and when I will raise her up, her eyes suddenly open and look at me. Chills run immediately to my spine and makes me drop her accidentally but her golden wings open suddenly and prevent her from falling. She land on her right foot as her translucent eyes dragged me to someplace where I am before.
Something cold
Something like Death—