Chapter 1 (1/2)

Chapter 1 – He Came From the Future

It was high noon on a blistering hot su as one was outside, it would be i from above

nobody had the strength to speak Even the birds were silently hiding a the leaves Only the cicadas continued to cry out restlessly, as if they knew their lives were soon approaching an end

It was the final day of summer vacation

Stepping upon the newly paved asphalt roads that led to a normal school, it felt soft, as if it was finally on the brink of lare of the sun

A slilasses was currently walking along this road

He walked very slowly

Oneat the shabbythe listless holly leaves that basked beneath the sun's glare And after that, he stared at an old ad for treating STDs with ancient chinese medicine that had been on an old wire pole for some time

He see on this road extre

Afterward, he checked the tih the norates until he was beneath the eave of the school building

His actions would surely be considered strange When he stopped, a sudden clap of thunder resounded froinally azure sky was overcome with a black cloud that appeared out of nowhere Afterward, soybean-sized rain drops began to descend rapidly from the sky

The youth in sunglasses stood underneath the eave of the building, quietly watching the sky After a an to slowly ascend the school building's stairs

Students had to wait until the next day before they would begin their classes, so the school building was coht now The only one there was the youth in sunglasses who shouldn't have been there

His footsteps seemed to have a rhythm to them, as if they were an accoether, it al the theme to a beautiful prelude

When he arrived at the stairs leading to the fifth floor, the rain suddenly stopped

Weather in su The next moment, the sun hovered proudly in the skies once ht seemed to have weakened With the addition of the occasional breeze blowing by, the earth that had previously been scorched by the glare of the sun seemed to have livened up all of a sudden

The youth in sunglasses stood there, peering through a gap in the stairalls and trying to see the roof of the three-storied teacher's office building fifty meters away

Yet, his line of sight was limited to a stainless steel fence The concrete floors outside were completely barren

He looked at his wristwatch, and once again continued to peer outside

His expression revealed extreme concentration A concentration so deep that others would wonder if the cement floor over there was about to suddenly sprout flowers

Oh Three people came out

Three arettes

A as they chatted

The reer and simply stood silently in the back

There they stood on the rooftop, looking down upon the school building from behind the fence One of the older men stretched out a hand and pointed towards the school building and said a feords

It was a pity that they were so far away The youth couldn't hear anything at all

But that youth's gaze followed thehe pointed at

He suddenly grew excited His sunglasses covered up a pair of sparkling eyes as he said to himself, ”Father, it’s been over ten years now I'll finally be able to see you again”

He sounded like a person who hadn't been ho tiain

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On the rooftop, the two older

The young ot up and went to the other side of the fence to look

But when he was about seven or eight s and jumped atop them

The ed man the youth called father finally noticed the actions of the youngman and spoke a feords

Soon after, the otherman

His voice was exceedingly loud and was carried by the wind and over to the school building

”Xiao Sun, be careful Don't fall over”

But the young man simply waved at them without a concern

When the twoto the themselves with him After all, he was a co-worker and they couldn't just scold hi once more and resumed their chat

The youngany attention to him, so he slowly shi+fted his position and sat his butt atop the steel pole railings He quietly rested his heel upon the outer edge of the railings Now, only his hands were holding onto the steel pole railings, preventing his body froround

Thus, he stood there like this He raised his head and gazed up at the sky As if he'd seen so truly beautiful, he revealed a smile

Soon after, he got up without any warning and spread his arms like a bird

Then, his body began to rapidly lean forward

Birds would fly, but clearly, he would not

In reality, a person's skull in free fall at such a height wouldn't seem that much different from a watermelon

As the young ripped his fists tightly Upon careful examination, one would notice that his nails had actually pierced through skin