I find that walking is nothing more but a pastime to let my mind wander. To let my mind think about unnecessary things, and unnecessary memories.
This time, unlike the last time, I thought of a certain Human Failure. My mirror. Someone I never wanted to meet again.
For some reason, he had his way of finding me in the most inconveniently convenient times.
Inconvenient for me.
Convenient for him.
Be it under the bride in Kyoto.
Be it when I faced those twins.
Be it when I was atop that rooftop with an endless Blue.
He had, always, usually, mostly, found me at times where I felt like giving up.
Giving up. Letting the Story continue without stoppage. Letting things end. Half-assed until I couldn’t half-ass it anymore. That is exactly what I do. That is exactly who I am. Exactly what I’ve always been. This world, this unknown area, this unknown planet with its’ unknown solar system and unknown citizens — I still played no part in it. I still got pulled by another’s waves. I still remained half-assed. I still existed for another’s will. And yet, I still continued to live like nothing.
So long as there was peace around me —
I could continue to live like nothing.
I could continue to exist like nothing.
I could continue to do nothing.
Whilst doing nothing, I walked. I walked endlessly. I walked without rest to the Clockwork Rafters again. I was going to buy food. At least, for once, for this time, it was not going to be kimchi.
The plain looking unreliable narrator reached the food vendors. There was no hotheaded woman around this time. There was no alien to question his food choices around this time. Those simple motions seemed to have pleased Ii, but it would never show on his face.
Getting in line of one of the vendors, the boy stood behind what seemed to be.. Another cosplayer? A turtle, this time. Ii has no recollection of ever seeing somebody like this, or a costume to such a detailed degree.. But, even if he had met someone like this before, his memory would fail him per usual. That’s always how it is.
“ Hello. “