Hospitalization.

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

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"You need to rest for a while. We'll perform surgery just in case, and you'll be admitted 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.

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"...This is the worst."

⠀ ⠀ ⠀ The voice that slipped out was so small it surprised even me.

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 hallway on crutches. The nurse told me, "Don't push yourself since you're not used to them yet," but staying still in the 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.

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The Rooftop.

When I opened the door, the summer wind brushed my cheeks. 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 meeting with a certain boy that awaited would change Guest's life forever.

⠀ ⠀ ⠀ And—.

That behind his gentle smile, he carried a tragic fate.

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

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Surely Guest would never have even known his name.

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