talking to people... But I approached him and stood by his side, he didn't even look at me until I spoke up

Fuuka: "... Excuse me... Are you okay?"

The moment he turned to me, he seemed... Surprised, but his look quickly went back to the tracks, and he spoke with such a low voice...

Yin: "... No..."

Fuuka: "M-May I ask why?"

Yin: "... I wouldn't want to inconvenience you..."

Fuuka: "N-No! It's totally okay... The train is still not here, so you can talk to me..."

He seemed to be struggling to speak up, like if he expected nothing about it anymore...

Yin: "... It's... Everything, everything's wrong... My life is going nowhere, I don't know how to do anything... Hell, I don't even know who I am... It's all just going nowhere and... I'm tired, so... So tired... I just want everything to go right or... To simply stop..."

The way he clutched his head with a hand as he spoke, and the way his eyes started to water up... It became clear to me what he wanted to do, I was really nervous, I felt like I had a life in my hands...

Fuuka: "... Everything will be okay..."

Yin: "... How can you be so sure...?"

Fuuka: "... I can't, I really don't, but... I would like to believe that everything will be okay for you, that... You won't have to do this..."

He stayed quiet for a few seconds, he seemed to be deep in thought again, and then... His eyes gained a small glint, a glint of hope...

Yin: "... I... I would like to believe that as well..."

When he took a step back from the tracks, I felt a wave of relief wash over me, and I turned to him again.

Fuuka: "... I'm Fuuka Yamagishi, may I... Know your name?"

Yin: "... Yin, Yin Tahara... That's the only name I remember... And now, yours as well..."

I didn't hear about him for a few weeks, when suddenly one day, when I was in class the teacher spoke up, telling everyone that we would be having a new transfer student, and when they told him to enter...

The camera is focusing on the student's back, not letting the viewer see more features of him other than the black hair he has, and in the moment he starts talking...

???: "... My name... Is Yin Tahara... I... Hope we can get along, this year and the rest to come"

It was him, Yin had transferred to Gekkoukan, and he seemed much better, happier... And when he saw me in the class, he only seemed to gleam even more...

[Back to the present]

Fuuka: "And from that moment, we started to grow closer, until this day, he's... My best friend, I want what's best for him, and he wants the same for me... He still doesn't know a lot of his past, but I want to be by his side every step of the way..."

Makoto stayed quiet the whole time, and once he was back in the dorm, he got in bed and thought of what Fuuka had told him.

Over with Yin it wasn't so different, laying in bed and gazing up at the roof, not realizing the Dark Hour had started some moments ago, until...

???: "... Hey"

Yin got startled hearing the sudden voice speaking to him, quickly jumping off bed and reaching for his Driver until he saw who had spoken to him...

Yin: ".... A kid?"

???: "Eheh... You are a curious one, you got immediately up, instead of your friend~"

Yin: "Friend? You mean Makoto?.... Yeah, I guess we are friends huh?"

He straightened his back, putting his Driver back on the nightstand it rested on.

Yin: "... So what are you doing here? Last I checked there wasn't a kid living here"

???: "Oh no, I don't live here, I just came by to talk with your friend... But now that you know you two are connected, I thought that I could come visit you as well"

Connected?... He knows of the Ace and Wild Card?

???: "A full moon is approaching, and a test for you two will arrive... Will you be able to overcome it?"

Yin: "Test?... Hey wait! What do you-!?"

But before he could ask the kid, he was gone, leaving behind nothing but silence...

Yin: "Full moon, tests... Why does this all start happening the moment I arrive here?... Is it just all distracting me from figuring out what happened to me... Or maybe... Maybe it's my journey to finally figuring that out?... Ugh, I'll think about it in the morning"

And so he got in bed again and drifted off to sleep...

Yin: "... Now that I think about it... I stopped having that dream some weeks ago... What does it all mean?"

With this final question in mind, sleep quickly came to him...

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See you next chapter, Ace of Spades