Hiroshi Shimizu says he has always tried to choose a severer way at the crossroads of his life. The choice isolated him and made him deny himself. He said that he is weak. He said he would not change himself. Various excuses would across his mind and take away the courage to reform himself. That is why he should deny himself who resists the change. The rule to choose a severer way can remove his hesitation.
I was in the waiting room. From the glass door, I had a view of a stairs road to the altar. A big cotton candy and a small cotton candy holding hands were coming down the stairs.
Chills ran through my body. The man who closed in upon me was just aiming to pounce on me. The man raising his arms was about to hang a leather strip to my neck. I narrowly evaded it.
The man was marked with a Chinese character representing a spine on the forehead. The man not clinging to me faced a boy in front of an entry stand. The boy spread wings on his back as if he was an angel. The metal wings were suggestive of an aircraft carrier.
"I will tear your wings off," Spine said. Aircraft carrier looked at Spine's forehead and said, "It is easy to pierce your forehead because it has the mark."
Spine and Aircraft carrier were seeing each other how they will move. They were somehow managing their savage souls. Aircraft carrier not only dodged Spine coming near to him, but spread wings on his back and threatened the enemy. The unexpected fight back infuriated Spine who did not cling to my supine manner. Spine, however, was not able to get into an attack easily, measuring the enemy's ability. Spine was suppressing his intense anger, but it tried to rush out from his arms, shoulders, and back continuously. On the other hand, Aircraft carrier seemed to have regained fairly his composure, but his doubtful gloomy eyes still made me uncomfortable.
I looked at people who sit on chairs small. An immense wilderness had appeared before their eyes. The end of the quarrel would get their stiff cheeks and fingers relieved immediately. They would put away the wilderness lightheartedly and would resume a chat. I took my stand nearer the front. The strain of confrontation was getting closer to me so as to burn my nose.
In short, I am worthless. The gloomy eyes of Aircraft carrier enraged Spine. If I had not escaped Spine, Aircraft carrier would not have be involved in the incident. The trouble would not have occurred.
In the other side of the glass door, all was still. It differed from the strained silence in the waiting room clearly. The couples of big cotton candy and small cotton candy had appeared abundantly on the stairs road as well as a street terminating it, as if they were mushrooms. I fingered a pigeon feed I had thrust into my pocket. The shadows of cotton candies like shoji paper on twilight turned dark pink all at once.
