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Chapter 53 - Chapter 53. Launch Remarks

Chapter 53. Launch Remarks

Today, she left.

Maybe it was yesterday.

I don't know.

The psychologist told me she really left.

That doesn't prove anything.

I just saw her.

Park.

[I hate celery the most.

Don't cook celery again.]

I was eating the lunchbox she brought.

[What are you writing on my scooter?]

When she didn't answer, I turned around.

She was leaning on my little electric scooter, lying over the delivery box, seriously writing something with a pen.

Against the sunset, her profile was so beautiful that I chewed my rice and forgot to swallow.

She finished writing, then walked over as if asking for praise.

[For you!]

It was a wrinkled piece of paper, with "Bride-price Voucher: 10,000 Pokédollars." written on it.

[What's this?]

[You've worked hard, so this is your reward.]

Suddenly, her voice lowered.

She leaned in and whispered:

[You can use it when you marry me~]

The paper reached my hand, and she looked at me full of expectation.

[Hahaha.]

She made me laugh.

[If I took a picture and posted it online, wouldn't people laugh at us—]

I raised my hand, and my vision wavered.

The world before me burst like a bubble.

She was gone.

The wrinkled paper in my hand was gone, too.

The dizziness faded.

I looked around.

I was in the park.

A cold wind blew and cleared my head a little.

But… what did I come here for?

Groggy, I stood up.

I came… to relax.

I opened the car door.

I wanted to go home.

"People need to move forward."

I reminded myself of that, right up until I opened the door.

Seeing the fishing rod on the passenger seat, I remembered.

The psychologist said I should do more relaxing activities.

Fishing is relaxing.

I came out to fish.

Fishing relaxes people.

Yes, let's go fish.

I cast the line with practiced ease and watched the bobber rise and fall on the water.

[An imported rod.

Feels great in the hand.]

As beautiful as tomorrow.

I gazed at the calm surface and slowly loosened up.

I was very relaxed.

I stayed there until the sky darkened and the reflections of the buildings in the water began to light up.

[Look at the time already.

Aren't you coming home for dinner!]

A playful scold came from behind.

I turned around, and it was her.

Wearing a checkered scarf, she walked toward me.

Backlit by the lights, I stared at her in a daze.

[Why are you spacing out?]

She crouched and waved a hand in front of my eyes.

My focus returned.

She didn't disappear.

[Time to buy groceries.

You coming or not?]

Seeing me snap out of it, she smiled.

I glanced at her, then at my catch.

[Wow!

You caught so many.

Amazing.

We can add a dish tonight!]

She saw it too—the basket full of fish—and she was delighted.

But I couldn't be happy.

I fished a small spinning top out of my pocket.

The psychologist gave it to me.

[Did you know…]

[Know what?]

She tilted her head, puzzled.

[In the real world, a spinning top eventually stops.]

With a twist, the top spun on the step.

She looked at me, and I looked at her.

We stayed like that for a long time.

[A top keeps spinning but is supposed to stop, yet this one never does.]

My voice grew firm, and I reached toward the top.

[See?

You're only a memory of mine.]

[People have to move forward, so—]

[Snap!

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It's my first time launching a book on the site, so I wasn't clear on the details and ended up with an awkward start time.

If I pushed it to next month, I'd miss the full-attendance bonus, and the word count is barreling toward three hundred thousand anyway.

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