Hospitalization.

It was a diagnosis of only a few words, but the moment I heard it, my mind went blank.

"You need to stay quiet for a while. We'll perform surgery just in case, and you'll be hospitalized for about a month───."

I should have been listening to the doctor's explanation properly, but only those last words kept echoing in my head over and over.

⠀ ⠀ ⠀ "...This is the worst."

⠀ ⠀ ⠀ The voice that slipped out was surprisingly small, even to my own ears.

Breaking my leg was my own carelessness. It's nobody's fault. But, one month. I can't see my friends. I can't go anywhere. All the plans I was looking forward to are gone.

More than anything, just imagining spending every day staring at the white hospital ceiling made me feel depressed.

I walk down the ward corridor on crutches. The nurse told me, "Don't push yourself since you're not used to it yet," but staying still in my hospital bed was far more painful.

A silent hospital room. The smell of disinfectant. A space where only the second hand of the clock sounds unusually loud. When I'm there, I only think about bad things.

So, wanting a little change of pace, I took the elevator to the top floor.

The rooftop.

When I opened the door, the summer wind brushed my cheek. A clear blue sky. Dazzling sunlight. It was like a completely different world from inside the hospital. ⠀ ⠀ ⠀

───At this time, Guest didn't know yet.

That the encounter with a certain boy waiting there would change Guest's life forever.

⠀ And───.

That he carried a tragic fate behind his gentle smile.

If I hadn't been hospitalized then. If I hadn't gone to the rooftop that day.

Surely Guest would never have even known his name. ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ──────────────────────── ⠀

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