#23

Tatsumi opened up the black box to see what mystery holds inside.

Tatsumi had a lot guesses of what could be inside. Antiques, secret files, archaic treatures and things like that, but the thing is, none of his guesses were right.

Tatsumi found a bunch of pictures to him when he was little and his family. Tatsumi should had see that coming since it stated explicitly 'Old memories'.

Tatsumi ruffled through the pictures and examined them as if there was a secret hidden in somewhere.

Thirty minutes had passed and tatsumi couldn't find anything suspicious. Tatsumi refused to accept this, he believed there must be something somewhere.

But the truth is there was nothing of that sort. Tatsumi was filled with disappointment, he expected some secret kind of secret waiting to be unraveled.

After accepting the reality, tatsumi looked over the pictures. He saw photos of him along with his parents in various events as a happy family. He stared at them with a complicated expression. Although tatsumi wasn't the type to care about others, even he longed for a happy family.

Tatsumi gaze focused on his father.

If his father hadn't abandoned them, his mother wouldn't had to work until too late at night and as result tatsumi was forced to stay alone at home.

Tatsumi blamed his father for everything he had gone through.

It was easy to find an excuse to blame his own setbacks on. Tatsumi lived his days thinking like that until recently, he realized that running from the reality won't get him anywhere, and so he decided to change, but that's easy said than done.

Tatsumi cultivated some habits back then which weren't that easy to get rid of, like playing games.

And so, his days as loser continued.

That's why when he found where his father was, he turned awfully upset.

Seeing his father having a good time with his new family made him extremely irritated.

But that's all in the past, right now tatsumi had gone over him. Given his newly succeed life, what his father did didn't concern him anymore.

Tatsumi self-realization made feel good,

As if he finally got rid of the heavy weight of his shoulders.

Tatsumi started putting the photos which were scattered all over the room back into the box. The pictures weren't that heavy at all so it seems the heaviness came from the box.

Who the hell would put a bunch of pictures inside a box originally created to hold valuable items.

As tatsumi was putting back the pictures one by one, he stumbled upon a picture. In the picture, there was him as well as his parents and there was also a woman with what appear to be her child, a young boy who was holding his hands with him and they all were smiling.

Tatsumi was puzzled, He couldn't recall seeing a family like them.

Tatsumi thought there were just his parent's friend or something.

As he stared at it one more time before he put it back along with the others.

Tatsumi decided to not tell his mother about what he discovered, he felt it would cause unnecessary trouble.

What tatsumi didn't know is that this picture was the reason his family got separated.