Novel: Resonance of Petrichor 32
Chapter 32: Resonance of Petrichor ①
“Kinkuma, we’re here.”
Tatsujun held the backpack he had been carrying in front of his chest, scooped me up from his pocket, and said,
“Something I wanted to show you, Kinkuma.”
Hope seemed to spread from Tatsujun’s palm.
The May sky was a clear, unobstructed blue, and the blue was vast. And then, the sea.
So this is the sea. The sea has a sound.
Not like a string or percussion instrument, but a gentle lapping sound.
The blue of the sky and the azure of the sea formed a line in the far distance, appearing to coexist.
I had only ever lived in pet shops or at Tatsujun’s house until now.
But from Tatsujun’s palm, I saw a beautiful, endless sight I had never seen before.
For me, it was a hope that awakened a longing for the wide world.
“Tatsujun, what I’m seeing is the sea, right?”
“That’s right. It’s your first time seeing it.”
“Is this sandbox a beach? Or a desert?”
“It’s a beach.”
It was full of blue and azure, and from far away, I could hear the high-pitched, happy voices of human children.
Where we were, there was no one else but us.
The lapping of the sea was the main melody.
Tatsujun walked to the water’s edge and stopped where the sand had turned a dark gray.
“Do you want to get down?”
Tatsujun placed me on his left hand, crouched down, and put his right hand on the sand.
Then he said, “It’s not hot, it’s okay.”
He gently set me down on the beach.
It really wasn’t hot. The firmness was completely different from the soil in the woods, and I felt my feet sinking into the dark sand.
I tried running toward where the waves were coming from. The fine sand was mixed with seashells, and the grains were uniform.
The waves weren’t azure, but a transparent water of a green-leaning blue.
When the edge of a wave approached me, it wetted my knees and retreated with a sound, and the next wave that came didn’t reach me before pulling back.
When the wind blew, it smelled like the sea. Unlike the water at home, the sea has a scent.
I turned around and tried running on the desert-colored sand.
It was the first time in my life I had run on such a vast expanse of land.
The small, round pebbles looked gentle, and I felt like I was a very large being.
Even if I ran on all fours, there was no finish line,
and even if I stumbled and fell on my nose, it didn’t hurt.
“What is this?”
When I approached something reflecting the sun, I saw a square shape that was cloudy and had its corners worn off. When I pulled it from the sand, it looked like a jewel.
“Tatsujun, look! I found a jewel!”
From behind me,
“That’s sea glass, it’s glass.”
It’s so pretty, I want to bring it back as a souvenir for Haruka.
“Tatsujun, can I take this home?”
Long ago, I heard from Haruka that there was a paradise.
There was a world filled with peace and happiness, and it seems Haruka was proposed to by Tatsujun in that paradise and they got married.
"I'm sure she was proposed to in a paradise surrounded by this much blue and azure."
I stand up on two legs and look at the sea.
"Hey, Kinkuma! It's time for lunch!"
I wonder where we'll eat out. Looking to the right, there was a road at a high elevation, and I wondered if we would be moving again.