[](imagination)
This scenery. The beauty and happiness of that time.
I can vividly recall what happened then.
It's like I recreated this scenery again and again for decades.
I felt I could even reproduce every atom of that memory.
Everything to experience it once more.
But I was never able to.
The happiness I experienced then, I can never feel again.
Complex sequences of sounds emerge in the flow of time, then vanish.
From one sound, to the next sound, and then to the next.
The volume is incredibly loud.
But no matter how loud, it still fades away.
And so, the sound of cicadas almost disappears.
Once the eyes are open, an awkward-looking face of a girl can be seen.
Her body is pressed to yours, tightly.
The grass underneath is cold and wet.
The cat she tried to grab from the tree above is hesitantly sniffing both of your faces.
"Ah…" The girl's face shines red. Each beat of the heart in her chest can be felt clearly.
She tries to form a sentence, her voice trembling. Her eyes move a little, looking at your face and chest. "Thank you… for the catch."
For a few moments there is nothing more, as if everything stands still. The world is quiet and empty. Only the gentle rustle of leaves and rays of the sunーflickering on the girl's hairーremain.
"Um... anything hurt...?" The girl is interrupted as the cat jumps on her back and lies down, looking at you from her shoulder, absolutely relaxed.
