Chapter 61
Dread
Not only a nightmare that could make you freaking out.
When you were alone, sitting in a quiet and shadowy place… sometimes, shallow feelings would grow inside you.
Not an exception for the child of hope.
Here, he was looking at the ground, absent-mindedly. His hands hung low, his eyes lost their gleam of ocean.
Then, it happened.
A flash of memory losing his friend…
An image was happened to appear in his brain…
His partner, fell to the darkness.
And what he could do was only watching him, powerless to do anything. He was just an ordinary child back then.
The hollow went even deeper, causing the blond to flinch and shut his eyes, palm clenching hard.
His mind was now unstable, shuffling more and more regrettable and sorrowful moments he had gone through.
He then had a miserable thought ; would he lose friends again?
Just as he thought – unsure of how stupid he was – , the image of Daisuke and Hikari appeared, smiling at him.
He smiled back, hand reaching them. But then, they shattered in to particle of dust.
He froze.
He had lost everything.
His hands were now gripping the Gilligan hat he had worn all the times, and was just about to scream when firm shake was given on his shoulder, mking him snapped back to his sense.
"Takeru!" and the person didn't need a permission to give him an embrace, a soothing hug that Takeru obviously needed.
The blond was quite surprised, but still frightened.
"It's okay. We're here for you," another voice, this one was soft and kind, echoed behind him.
Takeru managed to smile, and he slowly pushed the hug off.
"You're worrying me!" a casual yell, that Takeru had used to hear made him let out a small chuckle.
"Don't mean to make you to," he stood up, glancing to right and left, relieved to find his friends around him.
"We'll always be there for you, Takeru," Hikari smiled.
"For sure!" Daisuke added.
Takeru grinned, silently cursing himself to have that dreadful thought.
He knew that he was doubting himself that he could keep himself together with them…
But at least, he knew well that they would do their best too… to keep the three of them together.