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こちらは、新たに書き直した方です Chapter 1 " Ken meets Ron" There was a large park in the city where Ken lived, the park didn't have a playground for the kids, but nonetheless Ken loved going there, since he was a little boy. The park had an old huge cherry tree. He didn't know how old that tree was, but he guesed it was over 500 years old, so, the trunk was mammothlike. Ken came to see the tree, whenever he felt angry, worry or sad at home or school. He loved to lay down under the tree on the lawn with his daydream. He was able to do anything, got everything he wants, went everywhere he wants to go..and he could say clearly " No " to his parents , teachers and friends in his imagination world. Ken was a 15 year old junior highschool student. He was pure Japanese, but he looked like foreigner, because he was the tallest boy in his school, and he had clear skin , hazel eyes, and his hair sometimes looked blonde especially under the sun. He was really handsome boy ,of course he was idolized by the girls, but it was only first impression until the girls learn of his character. He always agreed with everyone. He had no opinion. He had never decided himself everything. He had a lot of friends, but none of them were his close friend. However, he didn't mind it, because he was a reclusive type and he loved being alone with the tree. The tree always wrapped his lonely heart around gently.
One warm spring evening, Ken had being there. Ken looked up and gazed blankly at the pale sky beyond light pink floweres. He slided his right hand into his pocket, pulled out a small stuffed animal and then , he took the animal's tail with his fingers and swang it in front of his face. "Actually, I didn't need you...." he grumbled to the toy. He bought it yesterday when he went down the street on his way home from cram school. He had felt thirsty and was going to look in a convenience store. It was wrong of him in the first place. He turned left at a liquor shop and then he noticed an ancient-looking shop. The shop had lots of marvelous furnishings, strange shape chair, queer ornament, specimens of insects, stuffed bear and so on. Suddenly, the owner who had thin and white hair noticed Ken, and beckoned him into his shop. He looked about 80 years old. He wore spectacles. The very thick glasses made his eyes look bigger. If he straighten his back, he might have been tall, but he was bent with age, so, he was tall as high as Ken's waist. He wore a deepgreen knitted hat and worn-out yellowish thin sweater with queer emblem. Ken thought the owner had poor taste in clothes, strange as same as his shop. Ken went into the shop. Inside of the shop was bigger than he expected. He found a great many clock, pendulum clocks, cuckoo clockes, grandfather clocks, pocket watch, table clock and sandglasses. Some of them turn counterclockwise. Some of them had extra time, " 45:00?! " he gasped, but the owner said calmly " No wonder, the clock was used a country that had 45 hours in a day." |
