Three Days of Happiness

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Chapter 5: Everything To Come
I turned out the light and kept drinking. Thankfully, today I was able
to get drunk in a more peaceful fashion.
At times like these, the quickest way to get back on your feet is to
not resist the flow of your emotions, but jump into a pool of your
own despair and wallow in self-pity.
My familiar apartment began to feel a bit different than usual.
With the moonlight through the window coloring the room a deep
blue, the night summer breeze blowing in, and the presence of
Miyagi in the corner staring like a sentinel, it felt like a much more
eerie place than before. I didn’t know my apartment had this side to
it.
I had a sense of being in the wing of a stage. Like as soon as I
stepped away from here, it would be time for my performance.
All of a sudden, I felt like I could do anything. It was nothing more
than me temporarily forgetting my lack of talent in my
drunkenness, but I mistook it for something inside me changing.
I turned to Miyagi and proudly proclaimed:
“In my last three months, with my 300,000 yen, I’m gonna change
something!”
With that, I finished off the last of the beer in the can and slammed
it down on the table.
Miyagi seemed unimpressed. Raising her gaze a few centimeters at
best, she said “Ah,” and her eyes dropped back to her notebook.
I paid it no mind and continued. “It’s not a helluva lot, but it’s my