[Short Fiction] Sunrise in Japan

Walking upon the streets within Chiyoda near The Palace perhaps is normal for an overseas tourist. Though, this occasion is slightly different this time.

I have been planned to visit Akihabara for hunting a rare material I can use later in my future project. As I heard that the item is sold in a store, where locates between 3 animation franchise markets. To make it worse, today’s 31^st December and the stores are supposed to be closed earlier in preparation for communion prayer tomorrow. At that moment, I have no option but to visit the Fuji, southern of Tokyo this late evening.

As I travelled throughout the southern of this big city, many people seemed to enjoy themselves. There are some, for example, who lit up a stick that ignites a spark, or enjoying a bottle of sake wine singing their favourite songs. That’s because tonight’s the 64^th Song Contest which shows numerous renowned singers, ranged from bubble-gum pop to theme songs, competing each other. I dunno what would be the price if either Red of White Team won this match. But I’d best to rush than watching other people having fun as I didn’t get enough time for that.

Step on the feet of Fuji feels much different today. Maybe due to winter breeze greeting me as the sky is cooler and quite adaptable for me to live in. Climbing upon the hills ain’t seem easy as I have an average strength and I didn’t do exercise very often. There are a few also who climbed as well, but they have immersive endurance and overlapped me.

I finally made onto the summit of Fuji by the time at 5 AM. As I walked the summit, I see the blinding yellowish light stroking the very eyes of all climbers. This is the first day sunrise of the year, the new hope, the man’s resolution to be achieved this newly year. Those are what I can understand from the people here talking about it. As for me, though I don’t seem to celebrate like the others do in evenings, I prefer to walk on my own adventure to being stagnant in vicinity. Why bother holding your own desire to go outside where you have your only chance to shine, mate? As I see the sun rising above its horizon, I may have thought the World has ended its lifespan, yet the circulation of human dynamics carried on through the time I’ve spent. We maybe forgot what mistakes we had in yesteryear, but our willing to move on is still there inside our hearts. This is how “ganbarimasu” expression means about, right?

Anyway, Happy New Year everybody. I pray for your tranquillity and more prosperous as well as your closeness to your beloved ones. Aamiin.

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