“She watches over the children who wish to receive gifts.

She keeps an eye on the wishes that are being sent to her.

She keeps a list of people looking forward to Christmas time.

And now she's looking to see if there's a house that has a chimney that she can go down into.”

......This is what she told me like that....

"...Haha...Haha..." The sound of his breathing expressed his exhaustion.

“Just a little more…” The two legs slowly walked up the stairs as the atmosphere around them was completely dark, their eyes focused on the little light emanating from the goal door above.

“Just a little more,” he tried to encourage himself as he wiped away the sweat that was dripping into his eyes, trying to open his mouth as wide as possible so he could take a deep breath. The backpack he was carrying on his back was starting to take its toll on his legs. He was exhausted from climbing the stairs for a long time and began to tremble. He used his other hand to hold onto the railing to support his body, which looked like it was about to fall.

Choll Chaonithi was once a fun-loving little boy who liked to walk around everywhere. As long as his two little legs could move forward, every time it was an exciting journey, everything seemed strange. All for the child who was born without even knowing the faces of his parents like him.

From the orphanage he used to live in, which has now turned into a luxurious high school with all kinds of equipment and sports fields to play in, from swimming pools to courts. Tennis students all have different uniforms in middle school and high school, and each uniform is carefully designed by a famous designer, so that no matter who sees it, it is worth mentioning. Pak Chom Makes you able to wear it and proudly show off to anyone.

He was once a middle school student who was given the opportunity to study at this school. At that time, he encountered only new experiences. Met new friends and joined the music club, which is considered one of the most famous clubs at school. But Chon had to give it up when he entered his second year of high school due to problems from doing activities until finishing late at night.

I don't know when the novelty began to turn into familiarity and I started going to school in the morning. Gather together to eat with friends during lunch break, waving goodbye at the end of class. Since he left the music club, he kept going in and out of various clubs. But after staying for a short time, he had to leave the club every time until he realized that his time had passed. The first year of high school has passed away.

The school has a rule prohibiting senior high school students from participating in any club activities, so if any high school students don't want to continue with club activities after school, they just go straight to tutoring school for university. that is their future goal

Like other high school students, he made his own Kanchal, which had no club activities, so he chose to continue his studies. Tutoring schools are both a source of knowledge and a good place to relax for them. Strangely enough, at these schools they rarely teach on time. Most of them teach from after school until late in the evening, even more so. During the month of December, when exams are approaching, it will be especially late. Chonburi has been entering the full study cycle for several months now.

“But this time it will be different,” Chall intended.

The incident had happened a few days ago when he had left tutoring school and was returning to his residence. The little night lights on the road that stretched all along the way seemed to guide him to his destination. Chon looked up at the sky that was so dark that he couldn't even see the moon, but...

"...What kind of light is that..." Chall narrowed his eyes in curiosity. He saw a light glowing from the top of a building in the darkness of the night. Even though it was only a faint light, it was a soft golden yellow light that gave off a feeling of warmth.

It was only a few seconds before the lights on the top of the building disappeared, but that was enough to arouse the young man's curiosity.

What happened? What is it? And then it disappeared like that?

No matter how hard he tried to reason, nothing could answer his question. Perhaps this was the fantasy he had been searching for all his life.

After that, every day he returned home, he would always stare at the top of the building to see the lights appear for a few seconds and then disappear. day after day He watched until he finally realized that the light was coming from the roof of his school building.

"...It wouldn't hurt to stop by and take a look..." He turned from curiosity into curiosity when principles and reason couldn't stop his surging feelings of longing for adventure. Finally went through one of the biggest decisions of his life. The day I stepped away from my old life. My heart was pounding as if it might burst out.

Today, instead of traveling back to the accommodation Instead, he took a different route and headed towards the place where the light was. A flashlight and a bag of prepared food and other tools in his bag had been prepared specifically for this purpose, and this was the reason why he had originally stopped on the stairs inside the school building.

“Knowing this, it's probably a good idea to exercise a little.” I couldn't imagine that climbing just a few floors of school stairs would make me exhausted like this, even though in the past we were people who really liked sports.

Damn it, how high would this school's building be? He used his eyes to roughly calculate the distance before reaching the rooftop door.

No, it was completely dark. Sneaking into the school in the middle of the night alone like this was such a stupid idea. The heart that had been excited had long since calmed down, leaving only the negative feelings that came in. cover the mind

‘What if nothing actually happened!?’

'What if all of this happened because of my blindness!?'

‘Or is that really just the work of a light repairman working at night!?’

“Like a crazy person.” That's right. We're crazy. Really crazy. Why do we have to do crazy things alone in the middle of December when his sense of adventure is gone?

This was completely different from what I had thought at first. In the beginning it seemed quite exciting, having to dodge every time I saw the flashlight from. Security guards patrolling the area But now even the last security guard who was guarding the building had all left and had to walk alone in the dark. Who would have thought that the flashlight he had prepared would run out of batteries?

“When will we get there?” He almost counted every step he took. When he tried to look down at the ground floor, all he could see was a black hole so dark that he couldn't see the ground below. His body was wet with sweat but his lips. He became parched and exhaustion began to creep into his heart.

“Huh...?” Golden yellow light streamed through the doors on all four sides, which led to the rooftop of the school building, and his heart started to become excited again.

Well, this is exactly what we've been waiting for. We'll finally know the true nature of that light.

Chall opened the door, and light slowly shone from the open door, so bright that he couldn't see for a moment. He instinctively raised his hand to block the light. As his eyes adjusted, the first thing he saw was a girl with short dark blue hair who was dressed all in a white one-piece. She came with a telescope at her side and surrounded by many glowing light bulbs. The woman slightly turned her head to look at the young man.

“What are you... doing here?” Ah, that was the real light I saw. In fact, it was just a light bulb decorating the trees that were often seen.

"....." The woman didn't say anything, just gave her a small smile before turning her eyes to the telescope. Instead of turning up to look at the stars in the sky, she used it to look at the people below. The young man sighed and saying that he was not disappointed at all would be a lie. Perhaps Chol's willingness to sneak into the school in the middle of the night like this was because he hoped to find something more than just lights.

“Who are you...”

“I am... Santa Claus...”

She watched as the children longed for gifts.

She kept her eyes on the wishes that were being sent to her.

She keeps a list of people looking forward to Christmas.

And now she was watching to see if there were any houses that had chimneys that she could dive into.

This is what she said to me.

"....." I didn't say anything in response. Maybe I should laugh too? But with the serious look in her eyes and the words hidden in her smile, I might not be able to laugh.

“So what exactly do you do with these decorative light bulbs?”

“Let's decorate it. Asked something strange." Got one.

“And who are you?”

“I already told you that I am Santa Claus. You already asked me.” The second one came in.

“Are you a student at our school? Or where exactly did she come from?”

“I must be from the North Pole anyway. Come take a sleigh.” The third hit.

“!!..!!..” Even though he had prepared himself somewhat, playing quizzes with strangers like this was bound to cause some resentment.

“True, I don't even know you yet. Please introduce yourself to me.”

“My name is...” Chall was silent for a moment. "...Better not tell..." She still hadn't introduced herself. So why do I have to introduce myself to you?

“...So... By the way, would you like to come sit and have some tea with me? I saw you stopped by a convenience store before coming here.” Did you see me too? With that telescope?

“Can't help it…” Chall dropped his bag to the ground and picked up a bag of snacks and a packet of instant noodles to share among them.

“Thank you, then I'll give you some flashlight batteries as a reward.”

“...You know that too?” His flashlight that he had prepared was running out of batteries.

“Of course, I can feel the wishes made in this city.” And since when did I pray to Santa Claus?

“And what is Santa like you doing at this time? There are still several days left until Christmas Eve, isn't there?”

“Come and get ready. I'll wait until Christmas Eve before it's too late.”

But I heard that Santa Claus spends just one night delivering gifts to children all over the world.

After that, strangely, I traveled home. Even though I should have completely gotten rid of my doubts about the light, after that day, every time I traveled home, I would always go up to the school rooftop, and every time I would carry a bag of snacks. Or a deck of cards to play with at all times. The first image that is seen every time is that she is using a telescope to look at the people below, as if she is God who cares for everyone in the city. this

“...Look over there...” She motioned for me to use her telescope to look at the stars.

“That man was drunk every time he came home. He started like this from the moment he caught his wife cheating on her with someone else. Before coming home, he would sit and cry alone in the playground like this. Every time..."

"....." I would like to change my words. This girl was more like a stoker who was involved in the affairs of the villagers.

“....!!! That's it.” My eyes fell on a small building inside the school. It was the only building that still had lights on in the school right now.

“That orphanage in the past donated a certain amount of land to build a school building. Later, the school became very successful and expanded. With respect to the orphanage, it was renovated and children in the orphanage had the opportunity to enter. Study here without conditions..” The young woman explained in scenes which he already knew because he had lived there as well.

One day while on my way to tutoring after class at school.

"What's up, Chall? How are you?"

“Oh, is that a gate? It's been a long time since we've seen each other.”

“Um, since you resigned from the music club. We've barely seen each other." What Kate said made Chall's face twitch.

“I'm sorry, Gate. Even though I was the one who invited you to join the club with me, I was the one who resigned first.”

“It's okay. Because now I have resigned as well.”

“Eh, so now you are a student preparing for the exam like me?”

“No, right now I'm in a small music club with just a few people, but my life is happier than before.”

“So, you're in the music club... Oh, really, can I borrow a musical instrument now?”

...Christmas Eve draws closer and closer...

Today is the 21st. In December, Princess Santa Claus and I were sitting together playing cards after she brought in a bunch of additional light bulbs. That's when I realized that every day she brings in loads of light bulbs to test to see if they're still working. Is it working well? At first I didn't even know what was going on but now after seeing the pile of decorative lights I was able to understand immediately.

“Now there are only two cards left…” Santa Claus challenged as I took a moment to think about the two remaining cards in her hand. I reached out and grabbed the card on my left, which was my dominant hand. hair immediately

The two of them smiled slightly at each other.

“...Please let go of your hand, Mr. Santa Claus.” She clamped down on the card I picked up so hard that the card in her hand began to distort.

“Don't you care about the cards on the right?” She smiled through gritted teeth. I could feel that she was fearing her fingers.

Can't help it, probably have to use this stick.

'Hold on'

“Wait..wait a minute. What are you doing?!” Chall reached out and grabbed her head and rubbed her hair back and forth to break her concentration. He immediately took the opportunity to pull out a card from her hand.

“I won..” Chall placed the last pair of cards on the ground.

“...This is a cheat...” Miss Santa Claus frowned and cheeks puffed out.

"However, winning is winning all day long."

After playing cards, the two of us lay down and looked at the stars in the sky. Unfortunately, with this atmosphere in the city, no matter how hard we tried to look, we could hardly see any stars. It was like looking at a dark sky.

“It's so quiet.” It was really too quiet.

“Bizarrely creepy.”

“There should be some music to help make the atmosphere a little better.” She turned to look at my face. It was true. Today we brought it with us. Nani, do you even know things that other people have forgotten?

Chall picked up a harmonica. This was something Chall had borrowed from a friend at the music club, and of course there weren't many songs that came to mind for him these days.

The sound of the song playing

Christmascarols 

Every song that sounded familiar was a song that sounded familiar. The young woman chuckled.

“...I said you had to play this song...”

Let's just argue. Anyway, we can't think of any other songs. The song continues to play happily until the end of the song.

“..This... tomorrow after school. Can you please come over here? This Santa Claus has a favor to ask.”

“Tomorrow? I don't know. Tomorrow, if I'm free, I might come." It's just a lie. The truth is, we're definitely coming tomorrow, but if I tell you directly, I'm sure she'll think that we're like reindeer for her to lead and play with.

A little boy once woke up during the night on Christmas Day when a golden light streamed through the window, turning into a long path. The sound of bells resounded in the quiet night. The soft yellow light was pleasing to the eyes and the little boy rubbed his eyes before slowly moving his feet away one step at a time.

One step...

Two steps...

Three steps...

“Add... Bang!” The door opened and outside the little boy stared at the stars competing to sparkle with a golden yellow light. Lined up in a long line, the soft music that warmed his heart was heard before his legs slowly moved again.

Fourth step...

Fifth step...

Sixth step...

...arrived...

On Christmas Day, a little child stood in front of a tree that stood amidst stars, surrounded by golden yellow lights that made the tree shine. And more beautiful than anything Little boy yawns until his mouth opens wide

A person appeared nearby and a large, warm hand gently touched his cheek. The child's eyes closed. The person placed the hand that the child was using to rub his eyes close to him before using both hands to hold him in the most comfortable position.

..Sleep now...

...Don't be afraid of anything at all...

...I'll help take you home...

December 22nd...

“What do you say, Mr. Reindeer?”

“What's wrong? Why are you frowning like that?” The young woman was the first to greet him as soon as the young man arrived for his appointment. This time, she changed her clothes into a dark blue one-piece, complete with gloves and stockings. Completely black Making her now seem to blend in with the darkness around her. But next to her was a sleigh laden with many decorative lights.

"....." Now he began to understand his duties.

“It's good that you're here, just today. Please be my reindeer and start transporting these things to the places I tell you.” Before Chall could say a word, Miss Santa Claus explained her duties. Came to complete everything.

“So... where do you want me to take you?” Chol could only sigh before he complied politely.

"Where are you going? It's all over this school."

And tonight I had to push the sled to the various places she ordered to install some light bulbs on the trees. There are some hanging on the side of buildings in the air. Most importantly, you still have to avoid the security guards who keep watch late at night.

“It looks like it's gone...”

“Okay, let's go to that side,” Miss Santa Claus pointed out.

“...Do you know where you're pointing?” Chol tried to see where it was pointing, but the destination he saw was complete darkness.

“Come on, come on, I will never lead my little deer to a bad place,” she said confidently.

“Look at how happy you look.”

“Of course. As for you, just follow my senior and everything will be fine.”

"....."Just now, she let out the word senior.

After I met her my nights became longer than ever. Not because I stayed up late, but because everything I did made my life seem more colorful. Most importantly, pulling a sled back and forth like this is hard work and can be very sweaty.

“For today, it's all set.”

“There's still a lot left.” I looked at the pile of light bulbs left in the bag.

"That's for tomorrow." Ah, I'll have to do it again tomorrow.

“Tomorrow. You can call it the climax.”

December 23rd...the night before Christmas Eve.

...Why are there more bags added?...

I kept looking at the same sleigh that was filled with bags of decorative light bulbs that I don't know what they were in. And a few more empty bags.

3.. 4..No, there were 5 bags in total.

This time, where else in the school will it be posted?

“Wrong, this time we will go out, follow me.” It was incredible for me to do something like this in the middle of the night. Like yesterday, she was always there to guide me like I had a purpose. Even though it was the same city where I actually lived, the places she took me to made me feel like a tourist who didn't know anything at all. Both ducked into that alley and walked out of this alley...

“Then why do we have to sneak off next to a convenience store like this?”

“Shhh, sit quietly and wait…” It must have seemed strange to have two men and women sitting and guarding the trash can next to a convenience store like this.

"....Here it comes." She motioned for me to see a store employee taking out a garbage bag of food scraps.

“Hide quickly, our target has arrived.” Target... Do you have business with his employee....

She waited until the employee had gone back into the store before “getting her permission,” and then she walked straight to the trash can.

"....." ...Hey... ...don't tell me that...

“Okay, let's continue.” She picked up a garbage bag.

“Wait a minute. Wait a minute.”

“What's the matter, Mr. Reindeer?”

“What exactly are you planning to do? Please explain carefully.”

“Every day at this time This convenience store has garbage such as food scraps and items that cannot be stored, so I picked them up.” That seemed like an explanation, but it didn't explain anything at all. Something

“Stop,” she ordered me to stop in front of a street corner.

What is she planning to do this time?

Miss Santa Claus picked up an empty plastic bowl and placed it on the floor. In the blink of an eye, I saw a group of cats and dogs slowly approaching her from various places. I finally understood as she took out the bag of food scraps and emptied it. into the container. The hungry animals immediately swarmed over to eat the food scraps. Miss Santa Claus looked back and forth before standing up.

“Alright, let's continue.”

Today must have been a happy day for all the animals in the city as the girl continued to go to many places to give them water and food, and every time she kept an eye on the animals. before walking away

“...Found it...” At that time, there was a cat that looked different. The cat had a collar and looked clean, unlike any other stray cat. It also refused to eat food, just waited. Just by looking at the outside, you could feel that it was being extremely careful.

“Stay still.” Miss Santa Claus slowly extended her hand and when she reached the distance she quickly grabbed it.

“Whoosh..” The cat regained its control and immediately jumped away before running quickly.

"fast!!! Please help capture 'Happy'.” You're begging me, right? You've even given him the name Happy.

The chase didn't take long. It seemed like it wasn't really a stray cat because the cat ran astray and ran into a dead end. Santa Claus and I helped surround it until there was no escape. before finally being caught

"Wow, I finally caught you." Having to run around like this was a waste of energy. This night would definitely become the longest night for me, but it made me understand many things. Especially about this girl, at least she's not the type who does things without reason.

“It's more difficult than I thought. Come on, let's go somewhere else.”

There's something else going on here!!!!

I once dreamed that day was the day that all kindergarteners had to stand in front of the class and tell their dreams and explain their reasons. I saw many people wanting to be superheroes who uphold justice. I saw many people wanting to Being a teacher teaching children I saw many people wanting to become famous stars in my time. Without hesitation, I told the story about the man in red who brought happiness to children all over the world, who was a symbol of peace and tranquility, who turned children's dreams into reality. true

December 24, Christmas Eve

Today finally arrived, after school I almost rushed straight up to the rooftop. Now all the decorative light bulbs that had been cluttered up had disappeared, leaving only the young woman standing. Today, she was wearing a full-length red one-piece dress with white tassels adorning the edges. Her short, shoulder-length blue hair was topped off with a red conical hat that had a white tassel on the end.

She was finally wearing the well-known outfit she had always called herself since the day I met her. Up until now, I had completely cleared up all my doubts about this girl.

“What... Mr. Santa Claus...”

As she told me this Christmas She was going to find all 112 children. I was still helping her push the sleigh as usual, but now my heart was swelling with excitement thinking of the expressions of the children who would receive her gifts. She had prepared bags. Gifts filled with teddy bears from brands I didn't know and special gift bags unique to each child.

“Alright, it's about time.” She looked up at the pitch-black sky and walked towards the fire switch immediately after.

All at once

“...It's so beautiful...” The picture in front of us was of bright decorative lights competing to shine on the trees or in the air as if they were stars in the sky, not like the golden yellow lights, so inviting. Passion is looming in the night sky above all of our heads.

“Everything is ready. Then let's go.”

"um..."

Santa Claus is flying among the stars.

He walked towards the children who were longing for gifts.

He accepted every plea that was sent to her.

You can remember the names of every little kid in town who wanted a Christmas present.

“That's.. Happy, hey, happy is back.” The girl cried out when she saw her white cat, which disappeared several days ago, running towards her. Her mother and father opened the door and bowed their heads. We were so thankful that I felt a little embarrassed.

“Huh, Mr. Santa Claus, thank you very much.” A little child cried with a bulging nose and immediately rushed to hug Santa Claus on the thigh. She smiled softly at him before picking up another teddy bear to give as a gift.

"Huh, Mr. Santa Claus, why do you have to come only on Christmas Day? Can't you just come and see me every day?" The little boy gave him a pleading look.

“Don't be stubborn, child. Santa Claus is busy too.” Mom came to comfort him.

"That's right, child. Let's celebrate Christmas on the occasion of your happy return home." Father said consolingly before taking the little boy into the house. Before leaving, Father also bowed his head to us once again.

“..This.. Santa Claus.” Honestly, we had never thought of that before.

“Huh?”

“After today is over... what are you going to do next...” Actually, everything in the past was prepared specifically for today. And after today

“Today...is the last day...”

“Will I see you on the rooftop again?”

"...Probably not..."

“And where will you go after this?”

“It's the North Pole. Let's take the sleigh back." Watch her say.

“And after this When will we meet again?” I secretly saw a smile at the corner of her mouth.

“When a lost little reindeer steps through the chamber of music onto the star path...”

“See you later…” She turned and smiled at me. As she said, she distributed gifts to every child in the city. Every child was happy to get their Christmas wish. That day, she was Santa Claus in everyone's hearts. And it was the last day that I met her.

three weeks later

Christmas is over and the New Year has been celebrated as well. My life has returned to its original form again. I study in the morning and in the evening I study at a tutoring school until late at night. Every day on the way back I would keep my eyes peeled to the top of one of the buildings in case I might see some light shining on it. Sometimes I would even secretly go up to the roof of the school just to see the rooftop. Empty

There were no lightbulbs lined up on the ground, no telescopes to look at the people below, no girl with short blue hair who was full of charming charm...

“Ring!” The school break signal sounded the next day.

Chall picked up his bag and waved a little greeting to his friends in the room.

It's true, we haven't been up to the rooftop in this time. When the sun has not yet set over the horizon..

“Bang!!!” The young man opened the door and what he saw was still an empty rooftop that was stained with orange light.

So how is that possible? The young man picked up a harmonica and played the same tune. After blowing until the end, the young man laughed softly.

It's true, we haven't returned the harmonica yet.

The sound of music emanated from outside the room. The young man walked straight, intending to knock on the door.

"..... Heh..heh.." The young man smiled. before laughing softly

...When a lost little reindeer steps through the chamber of music onto the star path...

“Heh heh heh.” The young man laughed and lowered his hands before both legs moved forward. First step, second step…

The room next to the music club was quiet or because it was completely drowned out by the music in the next room. I don't know. There was a club sign above that said, 'Star Research Club for the Persistence of Legendary Stories'

“A club with a strange name...” He would never enter a club like this...for sure. If it were in the past, he would definitely think like that...

“Knock.” He knocked on the door a few times before opening it. Entering the room, he saw a short-haired, blue-haired girl in a school uniform sitting sewing a teddy bear that he had seen recently. Surrounding the room were boxes that were full. With many decorative light bulbs lined up, the young man smiled.

"Hello, my name is Chon Chaonithi. Would you like to come visit the club?" The woman turned around. A smiling face that he was very familiar with.

"Hello, my name is Christmas. Nice to meet you."

“ The boy who’s finding christmas. ”