542 – The Meaning of Scar

Shoru climbed the stairs of the windlet post office carefully. She had seen Jai going to the second floor and he had not gone back down yet. The windlet that is full of energy, the one with brown hair and likes to move around so much, had come back with paper bags full of food. She realized then that it was the time for lunch, and she wanted Jai to get one too.

When she finally reached the second floor, she saw a pair of dark shoes in front of her. Then the familiar voice of the one she remembered as Gilbert, echoed above her. “Oh, Shoru-chan.”

Shoru looked up at him as he knelt down. “It’s dangerous to climb the stairs alone, you know?”

She didn’t answer and only looked at him. This man was always smiling. Sometimes he is smiling fine, while other times, he is smiling mysteriously. But right now, he was only calmly smiling and it was genuine. Shoru understood something about this human after spending some time in the post office. When people come to use their service (Jai was always