Arashi's health was getting worse day by day. He was in the state where he couldn't even open his eyes. Everyone knew that his condition is beyond saving including Ryuusei. But what could've they done in the that situation? They were just waiting for the moment to come any second.
It was Ryuusei's chores day, In the kitchen he was alone, mopping the floor. There was a wall in between the kitchen, the wall was very thin, no one could see through but could hear on the other side. Ryuusei was cleaning without making any noise. Some two teens came in the other side of the kitchen. They were talking to each other. Ryuusei was able to hear them, but didn't seem to care. But then they started talking about Arashi.
???: Man, chief's health is not that good... Doctors were saying anything could happen anytime.
???: ....hey, do you what's the reason for that??
One of these teens looked around for anyone to be around but they couldn't see ryuusei on the other side. Hearing the word " reason " for the health of Arashi, it made ryuusei curious but at the same time he didn't want to hear that. But he had to.
???: I heard some higher up teachers talking, one day about chief health problem.
???: What did they say??
???: I heard them saying that " the chief doesn't have a heart".
Hearing this sent ryuusei to shock, Ryuusei started shaking and started to sweat, because then he remembered all those years ago the incident, where he "supposedly" got killed by that woman . He looked at his heart and puts his hand on it. He was afraid to listening what they are going to say after this.
??? : Don't have a heart? How is that possible? Where did his heart go?
??? : Apparently, 5 years ago when he found Ryuusei, his heart was so damaged that it was beyond repair...so he gave his own heart to him at that moment..
Hearing this ryuusei knew that they were not lying. He quickly ran to the room where Arashi was , Choji was also there. Seeing Arashi in that state, the only thought that came up to the mind of ryuusei was that he is the reason Arashi is in that state and there is no fixing it. Seeing ryuusei like that Choji knew something was off. Choji stands up and gets closer to ryuusei to ask him what's going on. But Ryuusei was not in his right mind right now. When he saw Choji coming his way, he got scared. Now that he knew the truth he thought that choji might do something to him.There was a window on the right side of the room, he quickly ran towards the window and jumps through it. Breaking it and jumping from the second floor. He fell down to the ground but he immediately stands up and runs towards the entrance gate. Choji got confused when he saw ryuusei act like that.
Choji: Ryuusei, what are you doing? Come back here.
He saw ryuusei running toward the entrance gate. He was not sure but he thought that there might be a chance of ryuusei knows the truth now. In the temple it was forbidden to talk about that to ryuusei and many students also didn't knew about that.
Hearing Choji , ryuusei started running more fastly. The guards at the gate got confused of the situation and didn't even move from there places. Ryuusei got out of the temple's gate and started running down where the stairs were leading. He was crying loudly and was keep saying " sorry again and again.
When he reached the end of the stairs, there was a gate and outside the gate there was a road. He didn't stop running and just folled the road where it was going. While running on the road he stumbled and fell down to the stream that was next to the road . He fell down and started crying there. He got up again the fear of someone catching him didn't let him stay at one place. He keeps going on with road many vehicles went by but none of them stopped for him. Eventually he reached the city, it was now night time, nowhere to go ryuusei didn't even try to find something to eat or drink. He saw many peoples there , because it was so long that he saw so many people around him , he got scared. Bumping into people's here and there , them he bumped into an old lady carrying some things . When she saw ryuusei in that state, Ryuusei's face was filled with tears and dust. And his clothes that were also like a temple uniform, was in bad condition, she felt pity for the kid. She thought that someone left him alone in the night here. She leaned down and clears Ryuusei's face with her hands.
???: ahh, what happened? Why are you crying? Are you lost?
Ryuusei didn't say anything and started crying more and more.
???: it's going to be okay... Come with me..
She said this and takes Ryuusei's hand and started walking to her house probably.