Two People Who Seem Familiar Somehow

“Um, are you all right? ……Mister?”

My breath caught.

In the pause between speaking and breathing in again,

my heart seemed to freeze, and my lungs stopped working.

Rustle…….

I had a guess as to why……

But I couldn’t understand it at all.

Why did something familiar seem to overlap with this man? Why did he carry such a nostalgic scent?

Without asking myself ‘why,’ I couldn’t even continue thinking. My mind simply couldn’t make sense of it.

……My chest feels hot...