by Asuka Komai -- inspired by a true story -- ------------------------ One She is a mysterious girl. The way she thinks is beyond me. I am not sure if she is peculiar or not. Probably it is just a typical girl’s thing that I am not familiar with. Anyway her behaviors very often baffle me. She is beautiful. She told me she is 28 years old, but as other Asian people, she looks much younger than she really is. Her fragile body gives you an impression of transience, as if it was transparent so you could see through it. At the same time it implies a desperate urgency. There’s not much time left, her elegantly iffy smile is telling so, I can feel her doom. I sometimes become tempted to ask her what she hurries about. But I don’t because I know she would laugh it off—-funny question, young boy... —- Her delicate white skin is so elusive that it will never be possible to catch her real intention. She looks bigger and stronger than I am, most likely because of what she ha...
