Winter

The Sirius High school, Where julius graduated.

Here began his second year, The school bell rang and they were on lunch break, Julius with his friends Were heading on the cafeteria.

Sakuzi asked julius about on how special this girl was that he is so interested on, Julius response in a sweet tone of manner.

“The feeling is.. Weird and hard to explain… I guess You will one day understand how i feel!”

Sakuzi response in a intrigued way—

“Really??!! Am i really ganna experience that?!!”

“Sakuzi… Not everyone can experience it! Which in the matter, falling for the woman you like or love.”

He gets amazed and curious if he will really experience it, His other friends also wonder if they will experience it.

As they mumble upon normal talks about “love”, Julius sits down on the table chair and yet about to eat his food — Appears a girl which a beauty and personality could never be replaced nor disliked and has his heart set on, Her name was Tatsuya Miyuki.

As he hear footsteps getting closer, His heart roused as a flower blooming in the summer his face was red as the sunrise, Julius in hopes that he wont do anything embarrassing in front of her.

As Tatsuya walks pass him, Julius has yet take a deep exhale from that experience—.

“—Julius!! How have you been?!!”

As she goes to his shoulder, Follows a scream that is loud and heard by the cafeteria hallway, she gets confused but doesn’t mind at all and thinks its normal for her, He then moves him and his chair in somewhere else and covers his face in shock and embarrassment, He responds in a shy way.

“I-I’am feeling tired from the P.A class…. B-But i’am energetic today!!! I-I feel like i can run a thousand laps!!”

She smiles in response to him in a cheerful manner.

“Ahhh Good to know!. And also i have a favor to ask you!, Could you follow me to the entrance of the library?”

He gets confused on to why she is asking him for a favor, The class yet to be in shock and intrigued and jumps to conclusion to think those two are dating, Sakuzi wraps around his hand in Julius, And smiles in excitement.

“Ah.. So you two are dating?”

Julius, with a shock on his face blushes and pushes Sakuzi back.

He makes them think its nothing sort of like that, While Tatsuya, Deep in her mind and feelings, does have an affection towards julius, but still has yet to reveal her feelings till this day, Since they had been friends since childhood.

They walk out of the crowd and cafeteria, And as to be in the entrance of the library, An awkward silence is stopping them from speaking.

Julius yet has to speak out his feelings to her one day, wonders when will be the right time to speak out to her, And so he ask about how she feels about him, Tatsuya in shock response in confusion—.

“A-ahh…… —I-I think that you are a really kind and considerate person and a reliable one perhaps.. A-And the favor i asked is about a certain thing.”

He wonders what it is, But then gets interrupted by Sakuzi and his other friends coincidentally.

They were on their way to the english class, And the library were happen to be close-by, Julius again dismayed think they did it on purpose.

“Ah Julius!! What are you doing he—?…..”

As Sakuzi and his other friends coincidentally meet up, They scream in confusion and huddle around to speak.

“What do we do??!! We just ruined the two special moment!!” 

“Why is the english class even close to library anyway?!!! I blame the class for being close to the library!!!??!”

“Hey nimble head!! Dont blame the class blame the place!!!”

As they scream in the huddle to think on how to get out of the situation right away, She awkwardly takes the first leave.

As she is about to leave, she looks at Julius with a kind face.

“I will tell you what the favor is tomorrow!!—”

She runs away in the hall, And as they were about to speak — They see Julius speechless, Then screamed.

“WHAT WERE YOU DOING?!!! DID YOU INTENTIONALLY CAME HERE??!!”

“IT WASN’T BECAUSE WE CAME HERE TO BARGE IN YOUR DATE WE CAME HERE BECAUSE ENGLISH CLASS WAS NEAR THE LIBRARY!!”

“I TOLD YOU FOR THE LAST TIME ITS NOT A DATE!!!”

After awhile of screaming, Julius with the look of despair and shock in his face.

Faints in despair as to think they barged in on purpose to ruin them just for fun.

“JULIUS!!!!!!!!!!”

(Poor julius he was just curious on what the favor was and wanted the right timing to confess. He was taken to the infirmary afterwards.)

After they went home, Julius in his room, Wonders earlier about that favor, He imagines it to be a date, But then again his other side thinks its just another normal help.

Julius then again cant decide what it is which, takes a toll in his brain, He pushes himself to the bed and really wonders on how will he express his feelings for her.

“When will the time i confess, Be that day?”

He got the idea of confessing in winter, Which is tomorrow, Julius in his mind think its weird for Tatsuya to ask Julius a favor in winter which is tomorrow.

He finds it strange and in his head thought it was planned — Julius wobbles around the bed in confusion.

“Why did she ask me to help her tomorrow??!! Isn’t tomorrow winter break??!”

After thinking for a long time now, His phone rings.

“Who is this?”

Julius looks in his phone, Turns out to be Tatsuya on the phone, He ask to himself on why she would again call him out of nowhere.

“Hello Tatsuya?”

“—J-Julius, About the favor i was asking…. we could meet at 12 AM….”

“Alright! So since its at late evening i could invite Sakuzi for a hangout!—“

“—N-No need… Its just.. The two of us. Its the favor i’m asking….”

Julius again in shock, Left speechless.

After a moment he agreed to meet her in the specific time and location.

After awhile of walking to the location said by Tatsuya, He imagines on how will confess to her in the right timing, As he walks to the location, Julius looks up and notices a constellation that looks like Hercules.

Julius finds it Amazing as it is the first ever constellation he sees, It puts his mind as ease and gives him the courage to confess to her.

But deep inside he still is quite nervous about it, As he arrives at the place Tatsuya mentioned, He sees Her waiting near the handrail, As he approaches her and meets Tatsuya, An outstanding view from above was greeted to him.

He walks near the handrail to see the outstanding view, He talks about Tatsuya on the view and says on how he thinks the best moments with her were precious as a jewelry.

To his surprise, Was also the same thing on how Tatsuya feels.

Silence was for a moment, But after awhile now, Julius gains the courage to express his feelings for her, He screams in a courageous way.

“Tatsuya!!. T-The moment where we met Ever since childhood!, The feelings of me with you are mutual! — And the moments we spent back then was sweet as honey!!, Tatsuya!!! I have fallen in love with you!”

Tatsuya speechless as he confessed first rather than her, Both blushed.

“We did spend alot of our memories back then! They were as you said… precious!!”

They expressed to each other and got into quite certain conversations to Each other, But then were still shocked by them both confessing.

“This winter was the greatest! I-If you dont mind… We could stop by and enjoy winter in midnight by the shop?”

Julius asks Tatsuya with a blushing face, She agrees and spends the winter by the shop.

Its late at night and they part-ways, Julius still cant forget about earlier, He is again speechless and cant say anything.

He jumps to the bed in and rolls and huddles in excitement for tomorrow as they will date for the first time.

“I wonder what will we do tomorrow!”

He is still smiling after all that, Julius looks in the ceiling and begans closing his eyes to sleep.

Then a voice was calling him all of a sudden—.

“—My liege! My liege!”

Said by a man in an armor with a spear in his hand, Julius wakes up out of nowhere and finds himself in a gold fancy room, Then asks.

“Where in the world are we?”

Then man in armor kneels responds in a respectful manner.

“My liege, We are in Cyclos, The kingdom under your rule.” 

Julius Jaw drop as he asks to himself, Confused to why he ended up out of nowhere, He started looking around and find himself in a said to be a kings room.

“WHERE THE HECK AM I???!!!!”

(In the real world)

Julius has gone missing over the past few days, On to why he mysteriously disappeared.

Tatsuya is shocked to find the news and is deeply worried for him.

As to people who know him are shocked to the heart In that on why he mysteriously disappeared, The crowds in the mist think he got took by the devil, Others thought he was abducted. 

But in truth….

“This is where it all began, The beginning, And the end.”