Sytoria

Chapter 13: Tentative

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I was awaken by the sound of screeching noises, it was the train bracing to stop at our stop.

Without fully waking up, I accidentally fell from my seat to the ground from the force of the train.

"damn what a clumsy bitch" I heard and saw two girls looking at me and whispering.

"learn to whisper, hoe" I whispered back.

I seemed to grab onto Mike's leg while falling, causing him to jump from his deep sleep.

"Hey." He said, surprised that I'm on the floor.

"...Hey." I said while getting up.

The train door opens and people rush out. Some people are waiting on the side to let the people inside exit the train.

"Come on, let's go." He said with his deep voice.

We got up and walked to the train door.

The train station of Setsun was rather nice. It was certainly much bigger than Shinki. It didn't really dawn on me that how big our place can hold. We have such vast civilization.

There's also a lot of vending machines scattered around the station, and the luminous lamps that hang downwards at the ceiling lights up the whole station.

It's quite spacious, too. Even though the crowd is very loud, the sound bounces back and echoes throughout the place. A lot of colourful graffiti on the wall, though I'm not really into those stuff. Those ones are a bit too...vulgar.

Setsun is the so-called outskirts of Sakkishi, although I think it looks more like a sophisticated and improved version of Sakkishi.

"I've never been here before." I said while I walked around, while Mike is still standing.

"You'll be surprised." He says. 

"Surprise me."

"Let me take you outside."

I followed him outside and was immediately blown away.

The view!

The landscape, the tall skyscrapers, the crowded supermarkets. Everything was so...big. I wish I could stay here though, but it's Saturday. This place would be so fun.

Ah, the letter!

"Mike, could you check the letter for anymore additional information?"

He nodded and grabbed the letter from his pocket.

"There's a coordinates printed at the back."

He then pulls out his phone and began searching for the location. 

"Do you need help?"

"Nope, I found it."

"Great! Now where is the location?"

"It's a house...102 kilometers away from us..." He says, as I slouched.

Why do we need to travel this far? Why am I even doing this? What am I even doing? 

But there's really no point in backing down now, 102 kilometers is around 2 to 3 hours.

"Can we grab a quick lunch and then go? I'm starving..." I said.

"Yea, sure. Where do you want to go?"

"...I don't know. Somewhere nearby?"

"There's a little coffee shop just down the right alley."

"Okay! Let's go."

As we arrived, I was visibly shivering. Mike saw me and quickly rushed into the shop.