(Riku: Roxas – Somewhere In Time continued…)

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“This actually might have been what our mission was…”

As Axel tilted his head as there was a sound of fluttering of wings above them.

“What’s that?”

Roxas craned his neck upwards and noticed a single bird-cage suspended from the ceiling. It seemed to be the source of the fluttering sound.

“Shall we let it go?”

Axel responded to Roxas’ question by throwing a Chakram upwards which brought the cage down. A single crow flew out of its broken prison.

“Well then, shall we get going?”

“…Yeah,” replied Roxas, as he glanced at the crow flying off into the distance before staring at the broken cage.

As the sun was setting in Twilight Town, the sound of playing children could be heard. Ice-cream in hand, the two walked towards the station.

“We’re going there, right?”

“Yep.”

Roxas nibbled his ice-cream.

“Hey, don’t you start eating that yet,” complained Axel.

A ball rolled to a halt at Roxas’ feet.

“Sorry!” yelled a boy.

“Dammit, Hayner!” shouted a girl from behind him, with another, slightly chubby boy trailing her.

Roxas picked up the ball and threw it to them. The three thanked him, took the ball and ran off.

“……They seem about your age.”

“What?”

Axel looked away.

“Nothing.”

Roxas looked puzzled for a moment before walking forward again.

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He gazed at a flock of birds which took off into the sky ahead of him.

The castle in which the Organization had taken residence felt like a bird’s cage. He spent his days at a loss about everything and he had been given a role he knew nothing about…

Yes… never told anything.

Am I really supposed to be here?

“Don’t just stand there. Sit down.”

“What? Oh, right.”

The two had arrived at the clock-tower above the station. From there it was possible to look out onto the whole town. It was an important place for Roxas and Axel; it was where they had eaten ice-cream on the day they first met.

“Your ice-cream’s gonna melt.”

Roxas hurriedly put his ice-cream in his mouth.

“I didn’t quite understand that mission…”

“Yeah…” replied Roxas, dimly.

“I wonder what that crow was?”

“Yeah…”

Faced with nothing but short, glum answers, Axel let out a sigh.

“Don’t tell me you’re still worried about what Xigbar said?”

“Not really…”

As Roxas rubbed his nose, a flock of birds flew past.

“I suppose it must be fun, being able to fly like that.”

“…It certainly looks like it,” said Axel as he had some more of his ice-cream.

“I wonder how long we can stay like this…”

As Roxas spoke, Axel looked up at him. Roxas probably felt like all he had to do, day after day, was missions to defeat Heartless. To be fair, all the missions that were given to him were precisely nothing but Heartless extermination. However, Axel felt this couldn’t be helped. Roxas was special, both in the eyes of the Organization as well as his own. In the same way that the Organization didn’t want to tell Roxas anything, he didn’t want to tell Roxas anything either.

Is that the same as betraying Roxas?

“We might not always be together.”

Thanks to KHUltimania’s Mors for translating this, and thanks to our forum member Kh3fan02 for posting it. I edited and corrected spelling and grammar. It continues on the next pages.