TO SEE YOU SMILE

Chapter 3: Bird In A Cage

[3 months later]

Tanjiro's POV

"Mom! You're a liar! You said we're going to see a dinosaur! But there's no dinosaur here!"

I heard the kid beside me complained to his mom.

I'm at the zoo right now, taking pictures of every animals that I see using my brand new camera.

The kid was crying and having tantrums. Everyone is already looking at them so his mom suddenly got embarrassed and doesn't know what to do.

"But I only said that because you won't come with me unless I mentioned your favorite dinosaur."

The boy cries even louder. He really believed his mom that there are dinosaurs at the zoo.

I wears the strap of the camera on my neck and opens my bag pack to get a green art paper. After that, I started folding the paper to create a paper dinosaur.

When I'm already finished, I walked closer to the kid and lend him the paper dinosaur I made.

"Here's your dinosaur, kiddo. Stop crying now." I told him with a smile.

The kid slowly raised his head to look at me and to the dinosaur I'm holding. His little eyes grew bigger in mixture of surprised and delight.

"Did you make it?" He asked. I nodded my head.

"Yes,"

"You're going to give it to me?" the kid asked with anticipation.

"I will, but you need to stop crying first."

He wipes his tears away and stands up before getting the paper dinosaur in my hand.

"Thank you," he said.

Seeing the smile on his face also made me smile.

"You're welcome,"

"Can you teach me how you make this?"

Ever since I was a kid, I already love making origami so I got happy when he asked me to teach him how to do it. I nodded my head.

"Sure! But I have one condition,"

"Eh? What is it?" He sounds a little bit nervous.

Still wearing my smile, I raised my hand to give him a pat on his head before telling him my condition.

"You need to be nice to your mom."

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It's a fine Saturday morning and I rode on a bus to visit my uncle on his small village.

It took hours to arrive there but I got a nice and peaceful sleep inside the bus so I feel my energy overflowing.

It's been 5 long years since the last time I visited the village so I took pictures of the giant trees and flowers that look familiar to me, yet strangely feel different as it feels like I'm just seeing them for the first time.

Supposedly, I only need to walk for 15 minutes to arrive at the entrance gate of the village but because I was busy taking pictures, it took me 30 minutes to do so.

I gasps and stares at the giant gate infront of me with sort of nostalgic feeling.

"This place is still incredible as ever." I whispered underneath my breath.

The gate is just infront of me but I don't wanna open it yet because I still want to enjoy the view outside more.

"If you're not going to enter inside, can you move aside?"