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It was then, that she noticed someone out of the corner of her eye struggling to tie their wishes into the tree, and with her thoughts of the snack brushed aside; went to offer help. [ 桜 ] "You look like you could use assistance. Might I be able to help?"

;{♠}            The air was filled with the whispering memories of something Lon’qu simply couldn’t forget. It was the same season and even the same weather as in his head; but these sad pictures didn’t belong to this place. They led far away; to another country oversea which could no longer be called his home.    --- This was long in the past yet his heart could not simply forget. None of these memories he still kept deep within his hearts wanted to fade away to oblivion – cursing him even to suffer from the knowledge of his own weakness until all eternity. At those days when he could feel the cold wind caressing his cheeks gently he knew that the miserable feeling of regret and sorrow would come back. Actually it was even all present; haunting him even in his sleep. Maybe it was his fate to be remembered on those days - to be remembered that he lost someone he truly loved. There was no salvation for him – no simple apology that he hadn’t been strong enough back then.                                               The guilt was slowly suffocating him.                                        His lungs couldn’t be filled with air anymore -                               s i n c e    e v e n   h i s   h e a r t   r e f u s e d  t o   w o r k . Probably it had been his fate to be alone; to continue his meaningless life in the slums. His life had always been a lonely abyss of nothingness – without any purpose. So why had he been so selfish enough to befriend someone he shouldn’t have known to begin with? If he hadn’t met her back then she would have been still alive after all.           - KE’RI. This gentle name slipped his mind every now and then – along with the memories of her young, soft face. She had been kind to him despite his origin – even though he had nothing to offer besides an honest friendship when he was younger. In his head she was still smiling at him, laughing with him – but the truth was that this was only an horrifying nightmare to him now.                   ---- It was a lie – an illusion. She wasn’t happy in this place she were now – far away and unreachable. The man could still remember the painful, grieving faces of her parents when he ran away into the shadows – fleeing from his own mistake and past.                                                                 It was his fault.                                 He couldn’t protect her because he had been too weak.                                        No matter how much he had tried to safe her…                                      How much he had wished for a miracle to happen…                                      I N S T EA D   S H E   H A D   S A V E D   H I M .                                            Ke’ri had given her own life to protect him. Her sacrifice had become his legacy – the burden that he had killed her due his own inexperience. Even now after so many years had passed he could still not forgive himself                                                             that he had been too weak                                                                                           to protect the one he loved. His hands were blood-stained with her innocent blood. Maybe he should have been the one who had died back then – even though his body had survived this incident his heart was gone forever. The fear of loss had burned a deep hole inside his soul, unable to fill it with someone else.                                          H e   w o u l d n ’t   b e   a b l e   t o   l e t   g o .             …Ke’ri are you impressed how strong I’ve become?                    --- But it’s still not enough yet. No matter how many bones he would break, how many times he would collapse…he would become stronger. Stronger than anyone else to avenge her death.                      Just to forget the malicious laughter of the wind at least for single time.                                       T o   f i n d   s a l v a t i o n   n e a r   h i s   e n d .