8: Aruku-san

Master's girl friend was a little strange. Master described her like, "She's greater than I am." 

Well, I'm going to call her Aruku-san for now. She belonged to literature department. I can't remember the specific course, though. 

One day, I had become alone with her in the clubroom when I had just entered this university. She was beautiful. But to be honest, I didn't like her because she rarely reflected her emotion on her face. Besides, it was hard to read what she was thinking. 

While typing something with her laptop, she suddenly looked up and said weird thing. 

"Letters come into my mouth." 

 What? 

 "Sometimes when I write something in the midnight, the letters float up in the air and stream into my mouth." 

 "D-Do they?" 

 W-What the hell was she saying? 

 "Do you see? They don't stop. They are more than I wrote. They keep streaming into my mouth like forever. That's the scarest thing for me,"  She said it with quite serious face. I had no word to describe her at that time though, now I think she definitely was a kind of people called 'Denpa', who had a wild fantasy. 

However, she wasn't just a crazy girl. She was amaizingly smart. I often saw her talk Master down. Also, Aruku-san had a good intuition. She had foretold that a bus would be late. And when she told me "Change the channel," I saw Matsui, a.k.a Godilla, had just hit a homerun right after changing the channel. These kind of things often happened. 

One day, I asked Master about Aruku-san. 

"Do you know Edgar Cayce?" Master said.  

"Of course, I do. He foretells with foresight dreams or hypnotic trans or whatever." 

 "Right. Probably, Aruku is the same." 

 "What do you mean?" 

 "I want you to see her asleep. It's traumatic, really," I didn't understand what would be traumatic but did that Master fudged my question. 

 "I don't know much about Edgar Cayce but I guess Aruku's ability isn't learned or acquired like his case. It's congenital constitution." 

 "Constitution for foresight dreams?" 

 "Dunno. Don't even know if she's awake or not. I only know her foresight dreams can either hit or miss the mark. It might be similar to your simulated experience while the sleep paralysis." 

I often experienced relatively common phenomenon of sleep paralysis like ; 'I was still in my bed while I assumed to be awake.' Sometimes I spent a few hours or even whole day in the experience and in the end, I truely woke up and started over the day again. I used to make 'Sleep paralysis diary' and individually studied about it. 

I'd givven the diary to Master before as he seemed to like it very much and kept telling me to give him. Now I guess he wanted it for data to study Aruku's constitution. 

"So, you intend to keep her to yourself," As I said, Master smirked and took out a floppy disc from the breast pocket, flipping it. The timing was too good. I supposed the floppy was just a bluff but still, I was pretty sure he owned some study files of Aruku-san.

Rather than that, what freezed my blood was what Aruku-san told me  when she graduated the university; "Be careful of a flood." 

I've totally forgotten about that but now I'm in my home town since I failed to find work. And my house is located in an area where could be submerged if a huge erthquake like Nankai Great Earthquake strikes. Recently, it is  predicted that the victims of the erthquake will reach 30 thousand people at most.  

What the fuck. Seriously, it's scary. I wonder how many years are left till it happens.