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The fact that we're interested in strangers who can barely remember their faces? Is this considered strange?

One morning of an ordinary day After doing her daily routine every morning, the young woman stepped out of her room, not forgetting to lock the door. Before walking through a corridor that has many doors on the left and right, spaced apart, lined up to the end of the corridor.

Inside the elevator was none other than the young woman. She took a few seconds before the elevator reached the ground floor and picked up her phone to unlock the screen to check the time. When he finished checking the time, the elevator had just gone down to the ground floor.

Because it's not a day to wake up late. So there's no need to hurry. The young woman was waiting for the bus that was usually called a 'pickup truck' in her seat inside the dormitory. Not even 10 minutes had passed, a pickup truck with no passengers stopped in front of the dormitory. There were no passengers in the pickup truck. Because the girl's dormitory was at the end of the alley.

The pickup truck will drive from the front of the alley to the end of the alley. The young woman chose to sit in the innermost seat. When the bus stops to pick up other passengers, there is no need to move for space because they are already seated at the end.

The car began to move at normal speed, not very fast. This alley is full of student dormitories, restaurants, and small grocery stores. From the front of the alley to the end of the alley. The highlight of this end of the alley is the place where students gather at night to eat and drink. 'The only liquor store' next to the university fence

The car drove past a liquor store a short distance and had to stop. The woman knew that the bus had stopped because a passenger was about to join her. When you feel someone stepping up The young woman glanced at him as usual. The passenger who had just boarded was a tall man with glasses. has messy bangs

and tie up hair that is not very long He sat on the opposite side, a little to the girl's left.

Surprisingly, this strange man caught her attention. But looking at him directly might not be very good manners. and that during this time there was a virus outbreak situation Make people have to wear masks Half of his face was obscured, making it difficult to recognize at first glance.

But even then, what I can remember Besides glasses and hairstyle is to dress He was wearing a long-sleeved black turtleneck shirt. Cream-colored straight-leg pants Carrying a black backpack

When the car stopped, a man wearing glasses walked down first. After paying the driver He walked out. The girl who saw that So he walked the other way, which was a roundabout way to meet another way. because I intended that if I walked this way You might be able to see his face clearly.

The plan appears to be smooth. When I walked around, I saw a man wearing glasses. But I didn't get to look at his face anyway.

A man wearing glasses walked into the university, which was the same way the young woman had to go. So she could only follow behind. He stared at every detail he could remember until the bespectacled man walked up the stairs to the coffee shop on the upper floor of the university building. which made her disappear from view because it was a different direction from where she had to go.

I don't know what attraction it is that makes people who are not interested in look at the opposite sex. Instead, I was interested in the man wearing glasses. People who have never seen a real face without a mask. People who have only seen it once have various thoughts running through their heads trying to find an explanation for those events.

because of his appearance Is that similar to your favorite cartoon character?

Because he's a tall guy with glasses?

Or because you thought you were interested in him?

The more I thought about it, the more I didn't understand. The young woman let her doubts go on like that. Even if you try to find the answer now. So what to do next? To find a person whose face I can barely remember Plus I don't know the name. In a university with a student population many times larger than the student population in a high school. And even more so as someone who doesn't have many friends.

I don't really know anyone like you. The probability of being found is almost zero.

No matter how many times you try to get on the bus on the same day and time. I didn't see him again. Or try to observe the people in the buildings of each faculty throughout the university, but there is no sign.

The fact that people can do things like this for days at a time. From several days to several months Until years have passed like this, what should I call it? The girl pondered as she stared at the same old atmosphere, same old place, only the people had changed.

Will there be a chance to meet again?