sure it really happened, and neither is he. Nobody else saw it, and the only thing I know for certain is that we both got soaked. That day, club had just ended, and I was getting ready to head home. Yeah, it’s summer vacation, but we still have club… Huh? What…? Uh, it doesn’t really matter which club, does it? …I mean, it’s the shogi club, but… Pfft, no way, girls don’t care at all if you do shogi in real life… You think? Uh, well, that’s kinda nice to hear. Anyway, I was in club, and my friend came into the room all excited. He was like, “Come look! I found something really cool!” He’s one of the more chill people in our class, so I was like, Huh, this is surprising. If he was saying it was cool, it probably was. I followed him, and we opened our umbrellas and ran along the railway tracks. “So what’s really cool?” I asked him, but he said he couldn’t explain it, and I’d have to see it to understand. We went into an alley that was only wide enough for one car. There were buildings under construction on either side, covered with sound reduction sheets, but nobody was around at all. “See? Right there!” My friend pointed up through the power lines at the clouds between the buildings. “Huh? C’mon, there’s nothing there.” “No, there is! Look closer!” He was so intense about it, I figured I might as well. So I started staring at the sky, and then something seemed…off. After a little bit, I realized what it was. I could hear the rain, but there wasn’t any falling on us. It was like there was an invisible roof or something over the spot where we were. That was when I saw something moving, flickering in the sky—these little ring-shaped ripples. Ripples were appearing in the sky, then vanishing, as if we were looking up at the surface of a pool on a rainy day. “What is that…?!” I backed up a few steps, but I couldn’t take my eyes off it. As I did, the sky warped. It’s water, I thought. It was like…some huge thing made out of water was stuck between the buildings. “A fish?” my friend muttered next to me, and I thought so, too. It was shaped kinda like a dolphin or a whale. And the next instant, the water fish suddenly collapsed and fell on us. We were like, “Waugh!” It was a quick, heavy downpour, like a guerilla rainstorm times ten, or like Page 49 Goldenagato | mp4directs.com