They started heading back to the train, but he stopped when he noticed a member was missing.
"Miko?" Looking back, he found her still standing in the middle of the pitch. She seemed to be daydreaming. "Miko! Come on! Everyone's waiting!"
Not a single movement could be seen. Her expression was also hidden with her back turned to them. She spoke before he could call again. "Kyou... do you... see that?"
He blinked. "See what?"
"The sky... It's all... swirly..."
He looked up, following her gaze. "... No? It's completely normal..." A frown made its way to his face as he felt something weighing down inside him. "Is everything okay?"
It was then that she finally turned to him, and he could see just how much color had drained from her face. She opened her mouth to speak, but was cut off by her own coughing.
Something red escaped the gaps between her fingers and dripped to the ground.
"Kimiko!" His body moved faster than he could think. He ran to catch her just as she started falling, but before he could reach her, someone else did.
A very familiar someone.
"Long time no see, Okita Souji." That smirk, that tone, that extremely recognizable outfit and hair...
"Zanark!" He skidded to a stop right in front of him. A ton of questions ran through his mind, but one look at his best friend in his hands immediately brought back his focus. "What happened to her? She was playing soccer with us just fine a few minutes ago!"
"So I saw." He dropped the smug expression and flipped a coin into the air with his free hand. It then expanded into the red sphere device he was familiar with. "She's pushed past her limit. I'm taking her back to Supporter X. If she dies, then all our effort would be in vain."
"Die―?!" The last thing he expected was for that word to be thrown in. But that was also when he recalled everything he knew about the SSC. "W-Wait, didn't they say she still had eight years?!"
"I knew you would say that." The older boy clicked his tongue. "Maximum. She had eight years maximum. There were plenty who went at her age. Plenty of those younger too."
!
He knew that already. And yet... And yet...!
"I can stay and talk about this some more, but she doesn't have a lot of time left. We're going."
His head snapped up, and he was going to ask him to take him too, but―
"Of course, you're all coming too."
"Time Warp Mode."
In a blink, their surroundings changed from the floating rock in space to a garden surrounded by many high-rises.
"What the―?!"
"Where the fuck?!"
"How did we get here?!"
"Where even is 'here'?!"
"Eh? Are we back in the future?"
"Captain, WHAT?!"
"Future?!"
"Did we actually time travel?!"
"Who's that?!"
"Zanark?!"
"Huh?!"
"Kimiko! Why is she―"
"What is going on anymore?!"
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Fanfiction"You are my happiness." All she wanted was to keep him safe. All he wanted was for her to be happy. A lot of things happened in the span of a single year. They joined a revolution, time travelled, and even went to space together. "Just how stupid ar...
