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When I turned off all the lights in the room and opened the windows all the way, the clear night air peculiar to the year-end and New Year holidays passed by the side of my body at once. Orion's belt in the night sky looking up. A number of winter constellations were twinkling beyond the atmosphere, which contained no impurities.
“Karma, did you open the window?”
“Yeah. You can see the stars well.”
“Really?”
I felt like he was opening the window over my smartphone. Nagisa murmured with a completely relaxed voice, “It's Orion.” But what followed immediately was a snorting sound.
“You'll catch a cold.”
“Hmm…, sorry. I think it's good to enter a new year while looking at the same sky.”
The innocent words over the screen suddenly glitter. However, it was my important job to deny it. No, it's different. Nagisa isn't my sweet.
“Why do you think we're keeping the call connected?”
“Uh…you’re right….”
“If it's cold, you must to be in bed. Well, I'm fine, but you looks weak.”
“Yeah, I’ll do so. Karma, it's New Year's Eve, but you are a bully until the end.”
The reason why the air moved slowly is probably because he wore a blanket.
For some reason, my parents, who enter the year abroad every year, said that they would like to have a New Year in Japan only this year. I don't know much about those strange people, even their son. Then can I just go abroad? I wanted to see the fireworks in Kuala Lumpur, but I couldn't understand why I was dismissed.
When I told Nagisa about it on the day of the closing ceremony of the second semester, he shined a big eye, saying, “Let's have a new year together.” Can you do that? As expected, I also questioned. Can you get out at night? Nagisa's mother is really strict, isn't she? Nagisa said, “There's a good way to do it,” he said with a mischievous expression that was unusual for him. I couldn't against the glitter that was about to spill, and now I'm trying to keep calling apps connected and go through the years.
“... Joya-no-kane, can you hear?”
“Yeah.”
“Please speak something, Karma.”
The muffled voice surrounded by blanket was something I had never heard at school. It sounds relaxed and sleepy, and it sounds spoiled. Is it a blanket or comforter that wraps Nagisa? I wonder if he is staring at his smartphone with his long light blue hair.
“Karma, thank you for playing a lot. Let's play together next year?”
“Of course.”
Nagisa laughs fluffy with just his voice. But the words didn't follow, and silence fell. The room was already extremely cold. Take the coat out of the closet, hang it on my shoulder and return to the window. During that time, he didn't make any noise from my smartphone. All I can hear is the joya-no-kane on the wind.
“…I like your voice, Karma….”
Suddenly, Nagisa muttered. Conversation without a connection. He may be sleepy.
“I'm a mean and you think so?”
“My ears get warmer.”
“Nagisa, even if I only hear your voice, I can see the bullied face in my eyes.”
“No…, no….”
It's kind, sweet and soft voice. Hey wait, talk to me more, more for me. But I can't hear anything anymore. Even the joya-no-kane has stopped.
“Nagisa, the new year has come.”
“….”
“Nagi?”
“….”
“Dam it! I don't want to fall asleep here!”
You said we're going to have a New Year's Eve together. I wanted to have a happy new year with a clear, straightforward voice like this night. I thought I didn't need a TV or the internet, just with Nagisa's voice.
The talk time goes on without stopping on the smartphone that shines brightly. It was certainly a proof that I and Nagisa straddled the years together.
Small animal that is harmless to humans and animals will remove all my poison. Nagisa picked up the buds of anger with just that voice. Otherwise, I wouldn't want to pray for the peace of the new year. Isn't there only Nagisa who makes me think like this?
“I like ... I like too.”
I say that because I know it wouldn't reach him. I'm sure it's not just the voice that I like.
Somewhere in the city, I heard the drunken noise of the New Year, so I closed the window. Even though it's a happy New Year, it's a moment when it's greeted. It seems that the ruthless flow of time does not give a lingering finish. The first sunrise is about 6 hours and 50 minutes later. I'll wake you up, so be prepared.
I took off my coat, changed into my room wears, and sneaked into the bed without greeting my parents. It will take a while for my cold body to warm up. Until then, I decided to spend my time looking at the shining name in total darkness. The reason why my face naturally loosens even though I'm thinking about mean is because the invisible sleeping face I imagined is so calm and cute.
--Happy new year, and I love you, Nagisa.