ends+beginnings

“Weeeeeelllllll... You know what I think is way scarier than stupid stuff like that?” Ouma questioned, playfully exaggerating his words with a crooked grin. “What?” Saihara asked.Ouma paused, staring intensely up at him, stepping forward so that they are less than a foot apart, face devoid of any sort of emotion just like his voice when he finally answered soft enough for no one else to hear, “Time.” Saihara tilted his head, suddenly feeling way too warm despite the winter chill in the air around them, “Like in general?”Ouma giggled and pressed a finger to the detective's chest, “Silly Saihara-chan. Don’t you think time is the most precious thing we have? And yet it's so easy to waste and just slides on by without you even noticing. It's far more sneaky than I am, which is saying something.” -----Saihara and the rest of his class go to the shrine for their last New Years' as Hopes Peak Academy Students.