"A child will grow up bad, if his parents are good"
- Daniel Mananta
The night after the meeting, he woke up in the middle of a flower garden, when he opened his eyes slowly he tried to stabilize his body, facing the wide grass that was swaying, along with his hair, feeling like everything was just a dream, truly an inexplicable experience
"in loving someone... Is the difference the limit?"
(asked the emptiness, weakly)
"or the feeling that overcomes the difference"
(Aruiwa chigai o norikoeru kimochi)
Slowly Luke tried to get up, looking up, just before a large hot air balloon blocked the sunlight below his feet.
"why are you?, sleeping in the garden "
...said Phillia, Approaching him while smiling softly, in a white dress with torn sleeves, instead of being angry and carrying a rattan stick (which is usually used to beat those who wake up late) she actually appeared with a smile like someone who had just won the Jackpot.
"What a weirdo, how many bottles of alcohol have you drunk? Luke"
(she said with a small laugh)
"You better be careful, drinking too much alcohol will get you fired."
"Don't be like that Phillia, it's not a joke"
"Then who brought an expensive liquor, with the stamp of a Baron class noble?"
"Can you still deny it after this, you're really a naughty, lecherous man, ha"
"Oh, then who drank it all? 'silence for a moment' I just brought it."
"Even though I brought it for your own good, now you want to make me suffer."
(I said this, making Phillia pretend to yawn, with her body looking like it had just been doused with a bucket of ice water)
"Luke, I remembered because last night I finished my shift, I think my body is aching, I'll go to sleep first, okay?"
'sore and sleepy have different meanings, you drunkard' she said turning around, approaching Phillia who seemed to have turned into a heavy stone statue, Grabbing her hand like cotton and saying with a gaze as sharp as a sword, 'I can sew, your torn clothes make you look like a bum, let me sew them', which immediately made Phillia blush even more, as the fake smile on her face turned into one of real joy.
(I love you)
Gios Central Market - 1881
In the past, this was a trading center which was managed by the Aezher family, which is now the only largest economic center among the 19 other floating continents, The sound of consumers bargaining, horse-drawn carriages passing by on the highway, and shouts of promotions, are really thick here, "Finding silk fabric is not so easy", On the other hand, Luke was walking in just a brown robe - filled with the smell of Jasmin perfume, as if the artist was being stared at and surrounded from afar, 'Luke?' he said in surprise, a man behind the crowd, pushing a man with black hair, and elegant clothes on the same frequency, 'sorry, I'm in a hurry'.