He was walking calmly. It was surrounded by people with intense emotions. He could now recite the facial expressions, tiny and gestures of each of them by heart.
Some of them could not read their facial expressions, the reason was that they had botox. The facial expressions and facial expressions of the people who were stabbed in the face would not work properly, and their foreheads and face contours would not wrinkle.
It had only been a few minutes since he had gotten here. Slowly, step by step, he began to wander around Megacity. On the other hand, he was thinking of the easiest way to make money.
Then he noticed the people setting up stalls. Why not ? Borrowing a pen, he wrote on a cardboard 'Do you want to know your future?'
Their fates were recorded in this simulated environment. Of course, within his choices..but there were some unavoidable truths. While you could easily access that, earning some pocket money shouldn't have been a problem.
He sat in a corner.
Needless to say, it didn't attract much attention. Except for some students crossing the road to get to school.
For their lives revolving around science, it was quite normal to be scorned. However, the Universe of the Dead existed on a highly advanced Quantum computer. And the infrastructure of this computer, which he had access to, could offer him the 'probability' of the future.
Errors were present.
But knowing the odds wasn't bad either.
"What can you say?"
It was a question posed to him. Yun did not raise his head, covering his face with the hood of the cloak, "What do you want?" he replied with a question.
"Meow~"
The cat seemed to be giggling. Was she laughing at him?
She saw the cat on the man's shoulder when she lifted her eyes slightly...it looked familiar.
"An explanation," Yun was instantly stunned as the standing man bent down to her level. The owner of this familiar voice found it easily.
How ?
"Nanren?"
It wasn't easy to catch...as soon as it arrived. No...Nanren...how did he get the strength to find her easily?
He lifted his head. All the cameras on the street are facing themselves...
He turned his face away, brows slightly furrowed, "What do you want?" he asked again.
As Yun took a step back and examined it, he saw that he had grown even taller. His face was a little more mature. How many years have passed?
Yun stopped at the time of his death, while Nanren had grown bigger than him with time.
Taking a step back made Nanren frown, and he took a bigger step, shortening the distance even further.
"What are you doing here ?" Nanren frowned, staring at the cardboard. Reaching out his hands, he grabbed her wrist, something he had done before. Now the roles seem to have changed.
When Yun uncomfortably wanted to pull her hand away, she pulled away from her wrist, she lost her balance for a moment and staggered. Had he grown stronger in his absence? His body was even more recovered and enlarged. Unlike her youthful body.
The difference was small, but noticeable.
"You're being quite curmudgeonly" Yun was annoyed. Did he want an explanation? Well, whatever he asked, he would answer.
But he wouldn't say anything if he didn't ask.
[Hey, this is not a place to talk!]
At that moment, both of them looked at the little cat, Yun slightly raised his eyebrows. So he was ratted by this little bastard.
[There's a cafe ahead~]
When the little cat winked at Yun, the bad feeling that formed inside Yun...
After arriving at the cafe, he was able to make sense of it.
"Doves Cafe" is a place filled with lovers and where couples flirt at any moment.
Nanren:...
Yun :...
"System!"
As they called out at the same time, Nanren and Yun's gazes awkwardly narrowed, averting their eyes. It's a weird environment.
But Nanren was not determined to stay in this environment. He grabbed her wrist and pulled her to another place. To his car.
-Kupm-
When he closed the door, they were both sitting silently, side by side, in the back seat of the car.
"Nyaaa~" the cat jumped on it, rubbing its head, burying its face in his chest. Yun felt a little bit that he understood the longing at that moment.
He stretched out his glassy, pale fingers, gently stroking the soft hairs. His face had a relaxed and light smile, Nanren simply stared at this expression silently.
He turned his gaze to the glass, speechless, with so many questions to ask, so many things to say and so many emotions to express, but Nanren was never good at expressing himself.
"You've Changed"
When Nanren refocused her pensive gaze on the glass. Yun lifted his head from the cat and continued with a light expression.
"Sorry"
Sorry.
He pressed his lips. Sorry ? He didn't want an apology, he wanted an explanation, a reason. Yun thought once more that he had really changed as Nanren involuntarily gave her a dominant look.
The car is on a quiet and dark street. Daylight was not reaching here.
Its environment is only slightly bright and rather stifling.
Nanren was dressed in dark outfits in style, from her haircut to her chin. His face, expression, self and even personality.
It was quiet, but this silence whispered something else.
It's not shyness, it's a feeling of pressure.
That soft feeling was gone.
And Yun felt quite foreign to that.
-To be continued-