12/11
-----Delayed
(Tokyo Babylon vol. 2)
I guess the way we met was pretty awful—I was running from the police, and she stepped out of the anonymous crowd to help me. And then she listened to my story and just accepted me, despite where I work.
She was amazing.
We meet sometimes in a nice little café. We just talk, and laugh with each other, and be friends. It's wonderful, and she always boosts my spirits up so that I can keep earning money for my family.
But today Hokuto's very late, and the hot chocolate I ordered for her has long since gone cold…