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I quickly checked my watch. It's almost 12 noon. The more the time goes on, the more it becomes hot. Of course it's middle of June. And I'm standing at the station right now at this time within this much heat. There is not even a single seat empty. Wait, actually there is only one seat but it's occupied by goods. People these days... never understands that there are infact humans like me who might need it. Whose goods are these though? I can't see anyone here. I can sweep those goods aside though. But it would be rude.
Whatever, now I can be sure that no one is going to pick me up. Sigh.... The time of picking was 11:00 A.M. and it's more than an hour late already. How can she do this to me? I told her about the time correctly. And I reached the destination exactly at that time. She even convinced that she would come 10 minutes before. I can't even call her now. The network is showing unreachable. If only I knew which way to go...
Now if I think carefully it's my fault too. I shouldn't have trusted a 9 years old girl. Wait, don't consider me as an idiot. I had no other choice after all. She is the only one who lives there. Yes, don't overthink it. She is the only one who lives there and she is 9 years old.
Where is her family? Well I don't know.
How can she live alone? That too I don't know.
She is apparently a scientist. Wait, enough of jokes? No I'm not joking. I seriously don't know anything about this mysterious girl. I only know that she is my cousin. Yes, she is, infact, one of my long distant cousin.
I think I should introduce myself here. My name is Luis Martinez. I lived in Argentina before coming here. I'm half Japanese and half Argentine. My mother is Argentine and father is Japanese to be precise. So the concern is that my father has been transferred to the Japanese branch of his company, in Tokyo. He wanted me to come with him but for some reasons I couldn't get transferred to any school in Tokyo. So ultimately I had been transferred to a school in this small town. And my father had sent me here, to live with my long distance cousin although I have seen her only once when she was too little.
Enough of introduction. Being hopeless, I'm already in search of "Shinonome Household". I can speak Japanese so I can speak to people here but at this time, it's difficult to find any human being here. But fortunately i found one with a silly Magician's hat on his head.
"Yeah I know Shinonome Household. I can tell you where but I can't go with you. Look, from here you go on ....", he then told me a detailed description of the roads but I doubt I could keep so much detail in my mind.
Okay, let's keep going.... And after 3 turns, I have lost the track. Great.
Crap if only I could get someone else here.
Meww Meww
Huh? A cat? And a fish in its mouth. It seems like it's escaping from somebody.
"Please stop! Please!"
Huh? It is now a girl's voice from same path the cat arrived. And just as I was thinking ....
BOOM
For a moment I thought I have just collided with a girl but then with the next moment... a massive explosion... which I of course don't know how the hell happened, but now my consciousness seems to be disappearing and....
When I got back my consciousness finally, I found myself lying on a road but at a different place. I don't know where though. It has all gone wrong since I came here. And... it has gone worse. I can't find my luggage anywhere. Oh my God, please don't do this to me. The luggage has all my money and other stuffs. I want to cry now. I have to find it out.
I hovered around for 2 minutes and I did find it. I can't remember how many times I thanked to God. It seems it has been okay despite the explosion. I may never know what caused the explosion.
Huh? There's something lying beside my luggage. Something skin coloured. I leaned towards it and...
"WOOAAH"
What is this!? How is this here!? It's a hand... a human hand. How can it be there? My throat got dried. I can't speak anything other than creating silly noises. I checked my surroundings. Nobody is here. Only me ... and a human hand. Whose hand is this? No ... more importantly where is police station? I have to inform it right? Here had been a murder surely. And why is there nobody? I can't believe it I'm in such a dangerous place. My goodness, where would I go?
"Where is it? Whe... Ahh MY HAND!"
Huh? A girl's voice? I turned around a saw the very same girl with whom I was collided.
"Ahh! I finally found it.", she ran here and picked up the hand and... just put it back....
"Where had you gone my hand? You know how much I searched for you? Thank you very much to you too for keeping it."
"Eh?? No.. not really.. more importantly..."
"Hm? More importantly what? Wait... OH! NONONONONONONO", as if she remembered something and got full reddened. "It's not like what you're thinking! It's definitely not a robotic hand. It may look but it's not.. definitely not!"
"Ah? Robotic hand?"
"No it's not! It's not!"
"I have had enough!", and just after spitting these last words, I collapsed, again.
I could hardly hear the girl's voice, "Wait what happened? Hey Mr. Please hear me! Can you ...."
"Please get me to Shino...nome...Hou...sehold... and... y.."
[To be continued]