Triggered: Yukari Chikura
Fluorite Fantasia (Looking for my Father…)
My father’s death was too sudden. Before we realized, the cancer attacked from all directions and took him. The time I spent with him had been too short. All I wanted was to sit down with him — talk about his experiences, ask him about his secrets, but before I could gather my will to do so, he was stricken mute, then disappeared into mystery. Why did I have to wait? Why did I not put all my effort into living this precious time with him?
After his death, I walked with tears behind my eyes and bitterness under my heart. One day, I found a beautiful fluorite among my father's belongings — a mineral that catches the light of our star and radiates it back in the darkness of night. In it, innumerable stars glittered and drifted. It was like a myriad of stars twinkling in an infinite universe. The stone brought me into a wonderworld. In that world, I wandered among the stars, searching. Though I am unsure as of why, I believed, deep inside myself, that I could meet father there. Day after day, wandering around in the mystical scenery, I looked for him.
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