Chapter 4: Dancing Flame

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The notification of 'Added' popped out on their screen, indicating the virtual connection of Kazuki and Asu built

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The notification of 'Added' popped out on their screen, indicating the virtual connection of Kazuki and Asu built. None of them would realise that one simple action would change their life- not until 72 hours later.

 None of them would realise that one simple action would change their life- not until 72 hours later

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'One conversation
could shift the direction of change forever.
A small talk
means the world before we know it.
When the emotions of pleasure and anger,
sorrow and joy blended into one conversation,
the simple conversation
is no longer just merely a simple one.'

As the sun had gone to rest, the flamboyant horizon dimmed, announcing the arrival of night

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As the sun had gone to rest, the flamboyant horizon dimmed, announcing the arrival of night. The moon was nowhere to be seen, leaving only the luminous stars illuminated in the dark. The city was brightened up with warm rays from the lamp posts and the cold lights from the neighbourhood.

In one of the thousand lightened-up houses, there was a brunette in an azure blue singlet and white lounge shorts. With her long hair clamped sloppily at the back of her head, she stood on the balcony. Her hazel eyes browsed through the rows of words printed on the monochrome booklet.

"So, I put my right eye on and adjust the lens here..." Asu murmured the instructions that were written on the thin booklet. She closed her left eye and placed her right eye socket on the eyepiece before reaching her slender fingers to scale.

She twisted the ring to the left slowly and to the right swiftly. Her vision through the lens changed from blurred to dimmed, and from dimmed to vagued. Next, she turned the smaller scale ring casually; yet, the vision had not appeared to be any clearer.

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