“Mei…Misaki…”
I thought I could see surprise or maybe confusion surface in Izumi’s eyes as she gazed at her face.
“You’re…”
Izumi stopped whatever she’d been about to say, then shook her head slightly, right to left. She put one of the hands that had been resting on top of her bag to her forehead and sighed faintly.
“Izumi…Akazawa.” I could hear her quietly mumbling. “Akazawa…”
What’s up with her? Maybe it’s my imagination, but she looks like she’s trying to remember something important…
Thud.
A low reverberation materialized from outside my hearing range. At almost the exact same moment, I sensed the world go black for a split second, and my breathing stopped.
This is…
It’s like someone outside the world just clicked a camera shutter closed. Like someone turned out the lights.
