[ON HOLD] 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗪𝗢𝗥𝗟𝗗. 𝗢𝗡𝗘 𝗢𝗙 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗠𝗔𝗝𝗢𝗥 𝗔𝗥𝗖𝗔𝗡𝗔𝗦.
━━ Upright World represents accomplishing one's long-held goal. The card appears when everything has finally come together, as one had imagined. One should be revelling and f...
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5th of November, 2004.
The frigid wind, coming from outside the room I was staying at which windows I had forgotten to close, came nipping my bare skin, whispering to me to jolt up from my reverie. Little by little the droplets of rain created a small pool on the grimy floor. I was ushered to go outside where the hostile rain clad me. With squinted eyes I looked up to the livid towering clouds in the sky.
I stepped further away from our little refuge and led myself to an alley with a dead end.
Everything I saw was toned-down, gray, and somber.
Everything was so dull. So dull that it would seem like one could never find solace in this place. But I did. Why?
Because I belonged there. A place that's lusterless for someone who had fit the description as well. I always had.
I couldn't go somewhere beautiful or somewhere lively for I wasn't to be fit. And if I did try to, I would eventually find myself thrown to and stuck in the same old place... somewhere it was deprived of colors and life.
Just like that one doll no child pays attention to. That doll you give to someone as a present but they don't appreciate it because that 'present' is too plain. No distinct features, nothing special about it in general. Only mediocre, seemingly pointless, and alone.
But it was fine. At least in that place I found my haven. I didn't have to worry about not being unique.
Because in my life, I learned that the wonderful and the mediocre should be separated. Place the former somewhere the light shines and the latter the opposite, a place deprived of light.
It had been rather foolish of me to have thought that I would someday find my light...I never will. I wasn't special.
But in my mundane world, at least, I had the rain that gave me my long lost serenity. The rain that embraced me like how elation embraced the unique.
I hugged myself and carelessly spun like a ballerina.
Look at me, so alone yet I managed to smile and laugh at the rain I considered my only comfort.
It felt good.
I wondered as I stopped... Was there anyone else doing the same thing as me at the exact same time? Someone who's just enjoying the rain and finding tranquility in it. How many people were out there observing the lovely weather and seeking warmth despite being embraced and drenched by something so cold?
Suddenly, a comrade found me. He furiously told me to go back. And I acquiesced.
I wistfully looked up once more.
In a sky full of clouds and barren of sunshine, a golden ray of light somehow found its way to me.
a/n : you know what happened there in the 58th chapter of the manga... :'D
"taikutsu" just puts me in a mood of loneliness and makes me wanna stroll on the streets at midnight while listening to it. that would be amazing. but obv i can't do that rn because of the virus. i haven't left the house in ages I'M ROTTING. but yeah, stay safe you guys!! put on your face masks and don't leave the house unless it's absolutely necessary for you to!
anyways, i hope you enjoyed this chapter. sorry if it's so short. the real shit hasn't started yet.
