Project Schemer - Salvatore Trilogy: Prelude

Prologue: Hiroshige 36 - A normal breakfast.

"All abroad, last call for Hiroshige 36, all abroad."

"Hurry up, Higeki, we don't have much time."

"Right after you."

We abroad the Hiroshige number 36 to goes to Kyoto to visit our old school for no particular reason. It will be demolished soon so we want to see it for the last time beside, the school is abandoned for a very long time so there would be no other reason for its existence. The demolition can allow more house to be built and everything maybe better than the past. But the trip took an hour and there is nothing to do on this train.

"Enjoy your little moment, grand musician ?"

"Maybe a little bit. And stop calling me that, it is just so wierd."

"So how do you feel about the new scene."

"No one can do it like those artists, they can create worlds after worlds in their own canvas, they are those i admire. Not just these scrolls of fake view based on the past."

"Well, we don't really know if they are real or fake right ?"

"I know they are fake, this is nothing more than replication of the true world, amusing but not worth the time to watch."

Tokaido in the past have 53 stations, now the journey become 53 minutes but are they different, time is depend on people's perception. 53 days can be 53 hours and it also can be 53 minutes. On a quiet trip like this, only two of us on this train, the scroll of scenes keep scrolling from scene to scene then repeat, longing for something unique is a wierd thing to desire in this world. Everyday, waking up, working them goes to sleep, everyone acting like a script until the moment they took their last breath. What is the meaning of our existance, what is the meaning of this world.

"Hey Sou, I am always curious, how can we sustain our life even we basically do nothing to live ?"

"I don't think making music and act as composer is doing nothing to you but people enjoy your song and when they enjoy it, they will pay for it."

"It sound kinda like they pay for me to write them songs they want to heard, a salaryman ?"

"I won't say that you are wrong. But you gather a lot of fame for that, they even want you to make a tour."

"I don't know, i don't like showing myself in public, just making songs is good enough. I think it is breakfast time."

"I do make something for this trip."

The breakfast is nothing anything too complicated but it is not bad, i don't remember the last time my breakfast is not  made by Sousuke. Actually i don't remember anyone else except Sou, maybe it is not wrong to say we only care for ourselves. But i will never know how can Sou truly sustain our lives but i know i will always trust him, we will always trust each other. 

"Sometime, life is just cruel and scary. Lending some power of the dream and ease up your mind is not something too bad or shameful. Sometime, people's mind need to take a rest."

"You mean running from reality and hiding in the dream ?"

"I just think like that, we shouldn't putting weight on our own mind, live a live with happiness is not a stupid or naive option."

"I like to see this world for what it is, a true world filled with real color and real light, not these fake thing."

The world outside that window, i don't even know they are fake or real. Is this one of those lucid dream ? I can control myself but i don't know if this is a dream and i have to ask for these question. The train has no one on it is something normal, it is 5 in the morning afterall, everything around is a little bit hazy. 

"You still keep it ?"

"You make this clock for me, of course i have to take care of it, not a single stain, not a single scratch."

"Even if you broke it, i can make you a new one you know, there is no need to care that much for an old object like it."

"An unique pocket watch, a pocket watch which can show the smallest latency between ticks, isn't it wonderful doctor Pseudia."

"Now you are making me shy doctor Alcadia, the one and the only man who know every location he is standing in. A living atlas, you talents seem to be better because no one really care about those small ticks."

"Don't say it like that, it is a wonderful invention. Watching how fast every ticks goes by remind us to enjoy our life and never waste and moment even a single tick."

"It also remind you that time flow so slow and this trip is just boring."

"Relax and enjoy the trip Higeki, we will be there soon. How about some fruit, i do bought some of them."

The fruit is apple and orange, quite simple but still lovely, Sou also give me his newspaper, on the front page is just something about the new, quite fascinating, a few next page is not that all interesting. They gave a small section to talk about me, how fancy of them to act like that, but if i start my voice like mocking i will get a scold from Sou for wasting my talent and don't accept the advice for the tour so i will stay silent and keep my voice to my own. 

"They are fresh so don't worry about the quality, still remember the nightmare you have ?"

"Sometime i guess, but it is something i can believe, you fell on your knees before some figure and all i can do is watching from afar. It's much more of a nightmare, how much time before we reach the..."

I felt asleep again, it is not a nightmare this time, a great dream where i see firework on a city, more like four cities and each quarter, they are beautiful, each quarter is a different kind of culture and everyone is happy. I want to goes there, i want to live there, a place where i can be happy.

"We are here Higeki, wake up."

We arrived the school, but in my head is something i want, to goes to that lovely place in my dream, having an impossible dream may help me find my purpose of living but let done with this trip first.