Ren tries to remember

Study time at the shelter works differently than at a highschool. Here, each one chooses to learn or investigate on their own or simply read a book of interest to them. And in case of have any questions, they always have a teacher or other students in the library to ask without problem.

Raku had inadvertently lost sight of Ren.

Ren was at a shelf full of travel books and seemed to be searching for something with great interest. Specifically, a place.

Raku is not quite sure about where to start so she grabbed a crime novel. Because, although she may not seem like it, under that fragile body, a possible future detective is hiding.

Raku found Ren again, and sat down next to him. But she noticed that Ren seemed very focused.

Ren is looking at books with photos of landscapes and trips from their country while he held a photograph of a woman with a very serious face holding a baby with a face just as serious and impossible not to recognize it. The expression on their faces were the same as Ren's.

Raku realized that it was possible that he was looking for the person in the photo, and that this woman was very possibly his mother, since they were really identical.

Raku put her hand on Ren's shoulder and looked at him when he turned around.

-Do you need help?

Raku ask with a smile.

Ren returned the smile and nodded.

Raku activated her detective instincts to start her investigation, but she knew full well that with Ren had to go slow.

-How much do you know about the woman in the photo?

Ren shrugged his shoulders showing that he didn't know anything about that woman, so it was very likely that his supposed mother had abandoned him or died when Ren was still a baby.

But suddenly, Ren's face showed an expression that he remembered something.

From his pocket he takes out the keys to his room where he brought a small wooden doll as a key ring.

-A toy? she gave you that? Was she with you before entering the shelter? So you went through the orphanage… Have you asked there if they know anything?

Ren nodded, but from his expression it seems that he didn't get any information.

From his bag he took out a photo album. They were all Ren's when he was little and he lived in the orphanage. And all the same with the same face as usual.

At the beginning of the album there was a hole that was where the photograph that Ren was holding went and the second photo that was in the album was of him at the age of 6 entering at the orphanage.

There was something very strange in this case. There were 6 years between the first photograph and the second. And the fact that Ren didn't remember his supposed mother.

Raku came to the same conclusion that Ren was doing. She tries to find the place of photography. The only ones who could know the truth were the inhabitants of that place.

Raku took her phone and she also searched on the internet.

When Ren saw Raku's phone, he got scared, as if he believed that this was some kind of witchcraft.

-You do not have a phone? It already seemed strange to me that you hadn't asked my number yet...

Ren looked scared at Raku and raised his hands believing that he was going to kill him with that object that he did not know.

-Calm down Ren, it's not a weapon, look...

Raku grabbed Ren's hand and brought it closer to the phone to make him swipe the screen.

Ren's face turned very pale for a few moments, but seeing that he wasn't dead he took a deep breath and tried to look at the phone.

Looking at the phone, he could also see that his hand was being touched by Raku's, and his face turned red.

Raku, seeing that Ren was nervous, decided to leave his hand.

-I guess it wasn't a good idea to do this all at once. I'm sorry Ren...

Although, for a moment, something occurred to Raku in his head.

Ren's behavior and his poor knowledge of the world could be because he came from a village far from the city.

-Ren, I think I have a theory of what kind of place may be the one that appears in the photograph, but I need your help. Close your eyes and try to remember, there must be something you remember about the place where you were before arriving at the orphanage.

Ren closed his eyes and tried to remember.

Suddenly, he got up from his chair and began to run with a smile throughout the library, waving to the air while keeping his eyes closed.

It seems that Ren managed to get inside his memories.

Ren kept running happily until he bumped into the door, which coincidentally woke him up from his mind trip.

Ren returned to his seat as if nothing had happened and with a bump on his forehead.

Raku chuckled slightly and then looked at Ren.

-Well... Did you remember something?

She said stroking his bump for comfort.

Ren grabbed from his bag, a paper and his pencil case. Then began to sketch in detail what he saw. It was a drawing so perfect and full of colours. It looked like a photograph.

The drawing showed some fields, some old houses and people working in the fields.

-A town with fields… Is that where you lived before?

Ren nods, but suddenly, a woman walks into the library looking for Ren.