(currently rolling time - Eiji)
The atmosphere in Yama's treatment room was instantly quiet, they had listened to the story of Yama's journey in an area that Yama called a labyrinth, Yama told his story briefly but in detail. This made some of them feel curious about the completeness of the contents of the story and others did not believe what Yama had just told.
Eiji was the one on the curious side about that, and when he was about to ask further, a nurse came and informed him that visiting time was over, at the same time Mr. Nakamura and also Mrs. Nakamura came.
Because time was up, they immediately prepared to go home. "Thank you for coming to visit and accompany our son Yama." that's what Mrs. Nakamura to Shuta, Eiji, Jiro, and the seniors as well as the other juniors.
Mrs. Nakamura looks very happy, because there are so many people who want to take the time to visit, accompany, and listen to Yama's story for three hours until finally the visiting time at the hospital has run out, and Yama has to go back to taking the medicine that has been prepared by the doctor who treats him. at that time.
"It doesn't matter to us, Auntie… we are very happy to be able to talk and meet again with Yama… we also wish Yama a speedy recovery so that we can meet Yama back at school," Satoshi replied kindly to Mrs. Nakamura, representing all of them who had visited Yama, and Satoshi's words certainly made Mrs. Nakamura and Mr. Nakamura felt very grateful and also happy to hear this. They again thanked them for the prayers given by them to Yama.
In the end, the children said goodbye and rushed home before it was getting dark. They walked out of the hospital together and then they walked towards the bus stop to head back to Murayama city. And along the way when they walked towards the bus stop, they chatted with each other randomly to discuss anime and other things at least so that they could kill time and silence there,
Srak... Scra... Scra...
The sound of the gravel on the side of the road, which Jiro deliberately dragged along the path along with Eiji and Shuta.
"Um… Shuta-chan!" Jiro called to Shuta who now turned his gaze to Jiro who was walking beside Shuta and also Eiji.
"Yeah, what's up… Jiro?" Shuta asked Jiro who now looked thoughtful,
"Isn't there… in Higashine a good school?? if I'm not mistaken Higashine Shiritsu Daichi Junior High School, I heard that all the facilities are complete, but why do senior Yama and senior Yuki attend Murayama? isn't that weird?" Jiro asked Shuta and Eiji who was now frowning in response to Jiro's random question,
"Eum, well… maybe because they want to get new experiences by going to school in a place that is quite far from where they live and making friends with people who live outside the town of Higashine because I think having friends in an overseas town is really nice." Shuta's answer looked awkward, but Jiro just believed it, who was now laughing and nodding his head in response. And because of that Shuta and Eiji were only able to hold back their laughter while shaking their heads, they couldn't help but think about this one child.
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After they spent quite a long time on the journey and finally arrived they were all at Murayama Eki mae or the bus stop in Murayama city, each of them said goodbye to each other and left to go back to their respective homes, but not with Shuta and also Eiji, both of them had to get back on the bus to Kaneyama together same.
"Oi, Eiji ..." Shuta's a call at that time, made the daydream Eiji finally turn his gaze to look at Shuta who just called him. At this time Shuta folded his arms towards the seat where the front seat was empty and put his chin on the back of the front seat. Their current position was sitting next to each other on the bus bound for their town of Kaneyama.
"Do you believe what senior Yama told you earlier?" Shuta asked Eiji who was now frowning and thinking again.
"I don't know… I'm having some doubts about that," replied Eiji curtly.
When he heard his best friend say that Shuta spontaneously frowned and asked Eiji again, "Ha?! why should you worry?? do you believe it?" Shuta asked Eiji who now quickly turned to look at him.
"You alone?? do you believe it?" Eiji said turning to ask Shuta the same thing, and the question made Shuta look doubtful, and then shook his head in response to the question.
"Eum… actually, I don't believe the experience recounted by senior Yama some time ago, however… for some reason the look on senior Yama's face really showed that he had indeed experienced all of that, and again the detailed story made me feel that those two things had made me doubt again because of it… I doubted if it's real, but it doesn't fit into my logic, do you feel the same way as me, Eiji?" explained Shuta at length who finally asked Eiji back, which now made Eiji nod his head in agreement with Shuta's words.
"Yes… I also feel the same way as you Shuta, I feel that Senior Yama has really experienced it all, because of the look that radiates from him, showing that he is afraid and doesn't want to go back to the place he was told again as if it was a nightmare. real to him." Eiji replied to Shuta, who was then given a quick nod by Shuta who also agreed.
"Whoa!! whatever it is, if it turns out that the experience recounted by Senior Yama is true… then it will be very difficult for him to witness all the horrific and shocking things, as explained by him, right?" Shuta asked Eiji who now responded with just a nod of his head.
Eiji's current gaze slowly turned to the window and then looked at the dark night and the soft moonlight that was lighting up the city sky, and during the journey back to their house, Eiji never stopped thinking about one thing that always stuck in his head.
How could that one senior have experienced such a terrible thing as he had told himself?