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Tale #15

Sandy Road

-pg110-

Alpha

Um...
Do you mind, till my clothes dry ?

Ojisan

Oh,
Not at all.

-pg111-

Ojisan

That bottle must be from the shop below.

Sensei

Mm...
Maybe so.

Ojisan

I gazed around me; it felt so completely different, but...
It was the same place, after all.

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Ojisan

On this same spot...

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Sensei

You're late!

Ojisan

Sorry!
Ah, sempai...
You were right, It-chan can't come either; work.

Sensei

Ah well.
Well, the two of us will do well enough.

Ojisan

Mm.

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Sensei

Well.
Shall we go ?

Ojisan

Oui.
She called me up unexpectedly.
She said that a group of us were going to take a last look at the closing
coast road.
But we were the only two free on a weekday; I was homeless and sempai was
at university.

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Sensei

Ah...
All over the road we're using.

Ojisan

It's less a 'road' than a river...

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Sensei

Well.
Try and go between the waves.

Ojisan

We're really gonna do this ?

Sensei

And...GO!

Ojisan

Augh!

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Sign

All traffic stop.
Please turn around.

Ojisan

Well there ya go.

Sensei

Yep.
Stop...Let's find out why.

Ojisan

You sure ?

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Ojisan

I'm guessin' THIS is why.

Sensei

Yeah, maybe.
Now we know!

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Sensei

This road...used to be bumper-to-bumper.
Now it's as if the waves have joined in...

Ojisan

I don't think there's anyone left living on this road, that used to.

Sensei

The tide drove them out.
Has it really only been ten years ?

-pg121-

Ojisan

Sempai...
We weren't quite right.
Nowdays our lives are somehow more free.
Sensei

Look now; we won't be able to see this again.

Ojisan

Sempai was the one who often showed me that 'disappearing' scenery.
She showed me signs of the times; things that I wouldn't be able to see
twice.

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Sensei

I'm sure we'll be able to read about this, but...
Actually being here feels completely different.
We get to see it all laid out before us.

-pg123-

Ojisan

Mm.

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Ojisan

Ah! Ya made me jump.

Alpha

Thanks for waiting.
It looked like the two of you were in...
A different world.

Ojisan

Ah, mayhap.

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Alpha

Ah...I'd like to see it.
Your world.

Sensei

You'll see where it goes from here.
And remember this time in that.

Alpha

Ah...

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Ojisan

The three of us being here was part of where it was going.
We just didn't think of it that was till later.
Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou Vol 2: Closing.