Orchids

Let us keep on remembering.


"Who's there?"

Yiernoshi turned towards the source of the voice, and found herself face-to-face with a fgure that was familiar yet strange at the same time.

Could it be...?

The figure walked forwards, and Yiernoshi saw her face.

It was Christine.

This Christine was wearing formal clothes. Tailored black jacket, white dress shirt, slim black pants, and a tie. She carried a leather satchel on one shoulder.

She stopped short.

"No...it can't be..."

She knelt down at the side of the coffin, and grabbed Yiernoshi's shoulders.

"Fourteenth!"

Christine let go of Yiernoshi's shoulders, and bowed her head.

"I'm sorry."

"Eh?"

Yiernoshi tried to explain the situation.

"Well...you see...I got zapped by Se Ern's Ten Year Pencilcase by accident..."

"I see...only five minutes..."

"Huh?"

"Boss, please listen carefully. When you return to the past, you must remember this moment and do exactly as I say."

"Huh? What?"

"There's no time for details! When you get back to the past, please eliminate this person immediately!"

Christine held out a photograph. In it was a man wearing glasses and a heavy white jacket.

"This is a picture of him from this era. You should know him as a trainee teacher in your school."

"Wait...by eliminate, you mean kill, right?"

"If that guy didn't exist, the world wouldn't be in this state..."

Yiernoshi absorbed all of this silently.

"Umm...one thing that's been bugging me...why is the future me in a coffin?"

Christine looked uncomfortable.

"Well...that's because..."

Poof. A thick cloud of yellow smoke appeared.

"Wha?"

The figure within the smoke cloud blinked.

"Fourteenth?"

Standing in front of her, was Christine. Fourteen-year-old Christine. And Christine's 24-year-old self had vanished.
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"Oh, it's the normal Fourteenth! But I thought I went ten years into the future?"

"You did. I got zapped too."

"Really? I was going to Se Ern's house, but her pencilcase thingy flew out of her window and zapped me."

Christine bent down.

"Hmm, what's this? Looks like a coffin."

"It doesn't only look like one..."

Christine sat down on the forest floor, a dark aura covering her.

"Er...Christine?"

Suddenly, Christine stood up and yelled to the trees.

"What has the future me been up to! Why is Boss in a coffin?! GAH! I let the Fourteenth die! I'm not fit to be her right hand!"

Yiernoshi tried to calm down Christine, who was now pounding the floor in agony.

"Nobody said I died! Though I've been trying to avoid that fact...Anyway, there is a way to stop this scenario from happening."

And so she explained what the future Christine had just explained to her.

Christine nodded.

"So we just have to kill the man in the photograph."

"No! Wait! The first thing we should do when we get back in five minutes is...hang on..."

"Fourteenth?"

"I've been here more than five minutes! Why haven't I returned to the past?"

Christine blinked.

"Come to think of it, I think I've been here for over five minutes too!"

"Then why haven't we returned to the past yet?" Yiernoshi wailed.

Christine shrugged.

"The only reason I can think of is that the Ten Year Pencilcase has gone kaput. We may not be able to return."

"That's terrible! What should we do??"

Christine grinned, and held up a plastic bag.

"In any case, let's eat cake!"
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"Where is this place, anyway?"

They had finished the cake.

Christine bent down and picked up Future Christine's satchel.

"This was left by the older me, right?"

"Yep."

Christine emptied the bag.

"Let's check it out."

"Wait...Christine...you just can't open it like that!"

"There's no problem, is there? It's mine anyway!"

Among the things that had tumbled out of the satchel were a reddish-black box, a pen, and a letter.

Christine picked up the letter, and opened it.

Yiernoshi looked over Christine's shoulder.

"It looks like swirly stuff."

"This...this is C-Code!"

"C-Code?"

"Yeah, I created this Christine-Code last year in class."

"Let's see...'Guardians...gather...'"

"As I expected."

A footstep sounded behind them.

Christine spun around.

"Who's there?"

Behind them stood a figure in a full-length gray cloak and goggles.

"Hello, ladies."

The figure slipped something onto its?her?his? finger.

"Goodbye."

It?He?She? took out a box.

"Die."

Several little bullets flew into the air, and pinned Christine to a tree.

"Christine!"

Yienoshi removed from her pocket the little bottle Alene had given her.

She swallowed one of the pills from the bottle.

The orange flame began to blaze on her head.

"Let's go."

The figure stood on a branch.

"I've been waiting for this. You in the Hyper Dying Will mode."

The figure removed a bullet-holder and loaded it into a gun-like appendage on his?her? arm.

"This bullet is different from the previous one. Now, die."

The bullet flew towards Yiernoshi.

There was a loud bang.

"Fourteenth!"

"Is that all you've got?"

Yiernoshi landed behind the figure.

Her lollipop was shaped as a square.

The figure smiled.

"It seems, that even at my full strength, I cannot defeat you. But only at the old levels."

"Huh?"

The figure clicked a ring on his?her? finger into a box hanging at his?her? waist.

A huge rabbit leapt out. It pinned Yiernoshi down in one hop.

"Urgh...get off me..."

Yiernoshi struggled with the rabbit.

It refused to get off.

Slowly, the flame on Yiernoshi's head faded.

"Why...?"

The figure sighed.

"Defeated already? What a deplorable Corbonara Fourteenth."

She?He? sighed. Waving a hand, the bullets holding Christine disintegrated, freeing her.

"You pass. I'll waive killing you for now."

The figure removed the heavy cloak and goggles.

Yiernoshi and Christine stared.

"You...you're a girl? You sounded like a guy!"

The girl in front of them scowled. She wore a pale gray t-shirt with a rabbit on it, and jeans.

"I had a cold. So there."

"Right...I believe you."

Yiernoshi didn't miss the obvious sarcasm in Christine's answer. The girl either didn't, or chose to ignore it. Probably the former.

"I'm Kah Yunn."


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