“Here you go! A present as a token of your win.”
With a face full of smiles, the girl handed over a scrap of paper.
The boy, who accepted that piece of paper and looked over it, took off his mask of smiles, and revealed a surprised face.
“…”
From the girl’s next words, the boy knew defeat for the first time since birth.
Glancing backwards at the absentminded boy, “Farewell!”, the girl said energetically, waving her hand as she disappeared into the alleyway.
Panicked, the boy chased after but in the alleyway in front of him, instead of the girl’s figure, there was only the spreading hustle and bustle of people.
The boy simply tightly clutched the clue (the scrap of paper).