Seventeen on the truck
6. Shabby background
Ta-tak
Bam.
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….
I turned my head toward the door where the sound came from.
There was a small post-it note stuck in the crack of the door.
I quickly took out the paper and unfolded it in case someone saw it.
"Do you know how to get to the warehouse? See you at the bottom of the stairs tomorrow at lunchtime."
With a unified tone of voice and sentences that only I know
I could tell who it was even without anyone writing it down.
I still can't believe what happened today.
The cold and stuffy wind in the basement
The pupils of the girl who was shaking before I went down the stairs
The conversation we had back then
I just wish this moment of falling asleep wasn't the moment I woke up from a dream.
Squeak,
thud.
The door closed with a dull thud.
The person you need to find first is clearly visible without having to look around a few times.
A yellow book on a sunny window sill.
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…you came
The girl's eyes were still on the book, and she spoke softly while writing something.
I just nodded to him once.
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Wasn't it difficult to get here?
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Uh... what,
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It was okay
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That's fortunate
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What are you writing in the book?
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I told you
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A letter to my younger brother
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Ah.. uh
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… but surely
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You don't really think you can get out of here, do you?
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…
widely.
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What else won't work?
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Follow me
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I don't think you'll ever really think there's no hope.
Where the girl led me, there was a sky I hadn't seen in a long time.
The wind that blew as soon as I opened the door was pleasant.
And then my heart swelled as I saw the child climbing onto the truck.
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…
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… It’s a basement, so how can there be a rooftop?
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This isn't the last underground level, the surrounding area is dug deep, so sunlight shines through.
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Yeah, but why...
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…no
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I just think it's good now
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what?
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It's just that the sky has been gone for a long time
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I'm going to just sit back and watch for now
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Without asking anything else
I stared blankly at the sky where not a single bird was flying.
Then, the bottom that seemed to have no end made me laugh.
No matter how strong the defense is outside,
In the end, it's easy to die just by coming here.
I think it's a good place.
It's a shabby setting in an old basement warehouse.
The black hair fluttering in the wind from the side
This truck latitude seems to give a sense of liberation
The background is shabby, but it is not shabby.
So we started talking a lot about this background.