" A single event within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born. "
-- Antoine de Saint-Exuper
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What! Is he some forsaken child with no one to turn to?
Airi found him looking at her like an abandoned puppy. Even if she wished to lash out on him she couldn't!
" Hey! I'm not going anywhere! Shut up and listen! " She glared at him sharply.
She felt helpless when talking to this guy. Airi found him to be a vulnerable young man who needed protection and should be safe guarded from any trouble. His docile being triggered her protective maternal instincts.
How could she just reprimand someone so weak and timid like him?
But...
" Hmm...What I had been trying to say was that I'll ask you questions and you answer them without making a fuss! Got it! "
Airi put forth her proposition with an uncompromising attitude, not at all swayed by the latter's docile stance!
Parents should be strict to their children for an appropriate and modest upbringing.
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Without waiting for any further nonsense, Airi fired her questions at the latter.
" Where are you from? "
" Why do I not understand anything you speak?"
" Are you some fraud, playing silly pranks? "
" What do you mean by ' First Revelation ' ?... "
The latter answered her meekly, one question after another without hesitating.
" I am not of this mainland but from another. I belong to a different time period. Yo-you too do not belong here. I came here few centuries ago in search of a person. I guess it would be you. No, it's.... It's you!"
Once again he looked at her intensely. As if afraid that he might anger her, he kept his emotions in control and kept on speaking further .
" No! No way in the devil am I a prankster! I am the most amenable soul you could ever find in and across a hundred thousand miles. I'm definitely not a charlatan, never! "
Amidst all these explanation, Airi felt surprised and thrilled from learning such unbelievable things.
Gradually, she became serious and got invested in those newly found knowledge.
These kinds of things in this day and era was just some fictional plot in a fantasy novel!
" I--I thought it will be something easy of a task. Clearly it wasn't... I seem to have underestimated! " Bitterness could be felt from his tone.
(ó﹏ò｡)
It was not a good experience for him!
Ah so, you know that at least!
"... It was only you who was the first to acknowledge my existence!..."
" These years I have learnt different ways you humans lived with so many artificial assistances. I must say you guys are pretty talented! I gained knowledge on Science, Arts, Music and everything humans attained just to feel closer to them. I hoped that perhaps in the process of learning humane stuff, I wouldn't stay invisible anymore. But no one... (sigh*) No one until you... I wanted to know whether or not you could really see me or not so... " upon reaching this point he averted his eyes, looking away.
" So?"
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" I followed you to your home but I didn't want to scare you or make you think of me as some creep when I left soon after. The next time I met you was inside the library where It was confirmed that you definitely could see me but then you suddenly fainted and I... I panicked at the sight. I got you to the school infirmary with difficulty but then you ran away from me. I just wanted to talk but you kept on running away... "
He looked at her with a bitter smile, clearly giving her an accusing look that stated -- ' Was I really that scary? Did I do something wrong?'
(ó﹏ò｡)
Airi was engrossed in listening. She didn't even spare him a glance!
After a span of few minutes, she broke out of her trance.
Finally, the misapprehension got cleared and things settled in one after the other.
So that was the case!
Airi gazed at him with mixed emotions. She was relieved upon realising that he didn't know she drew him, dreamt of him!
But then those puppy dog eyes and bitter smile was indeed making her feel guilty.
In the midst of all these analysis, an image of a dark figure flashing by in the Cafeteria came to her mind. Airi enquired about the matter, her eyebrows raised.
" Was it you who...umm... messed up the Cafeteria? "
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" Eh? Yes... Or who else could so skillfully execute such a fit! I thought his hands weren't on the right place. He was hurting you! " he gave an embarrassed yet proud look while explaining.
Uh dude... you sure act arrogantly after committing a crime!
" His hands...? "
" Yes. He should have kept his dirty paws to himself! " he said righteously.
"..." Well, should I be thanking you then?
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" Umm... Then...Eh? What is that! ", Airi yelped out in shock pointing her fore finger at a funny looking creature.
Jun Jie looked towards the place where Airi was pointing at. He stiffened up at what he saw.
" What are you doing here, you imbecile! " he hollered out at the figure in displeasure.
Airi had a blank on her face. She looked at the odd looking thing stupefied.
It looked neither like a human nor like an animal. What is this weird thing?
With a face like a hamster coupled with hind limbs and furry paws, a bushy cute tail at the back and two protruding front teeth like a rabbit, it looked cute! The thing had snow white fur which appeared soft like cotton, so soft to touch.
The queer thing of all was that it only was half a foot tall yet he posed arrogantly. He also donned on an ancient looking robe draped on its body with shoes on both of it's feet! It looked cute yet scholarly!
Cute!
(´♡‿♡`)
Airi saw it disappearing out of a sudden and reappearing right in front of her. It then smiled widely and pounced onto her hysterically brawling like a crybaby.
"Wu...hu...hu! Ah mistress! Ah mistress! how could you forget me! I--I was so lonely without you!"
" We had promised each other to never abandon one another. Ever! "
" You! How could you!...now you have even forgotten your darling little Mio'er! "
"..."
What? What...just happened?
Airi could not help but be stunned speechless with it's endless wailing and whining like an abandoned wife!
What was it now?
Don't tell her...
Did she perhaps meet another weirdo again?!
(ノ_<.)