Farewell,My Artist

1.

Right now,we are heading on a bar.Im with two good pals.

One is a young man named Daisuke Satoshi.

He is twenty-one years old who have a good poature with good qualities.He has a brown hair,fair eyes straight nose.He is afriendly and joyful man.Although he doesn have a look of a handsome actor,he was popular in the industry.But the most important thing is that he had been following me since then.We are prioritizing diffferent stories so I don know why.

The other one is a middle-age man,past thirty years old named Yakeru Itamura.Even though he was older than me,he had a good-looking face.When I first met him,I thought he was only a teenager.No lies.Black hair and sharp eyes.He was also friendly but he was always on guard to women.Afterall,he has already a wife and son.They are good family you see.And we have been acquainted more than years now.A long bond.

We have been walking for a while now like a three bad boys in the middle of the breezy night.Then after some time,we finally arrived at the place we are searching.Actually,I don know that this bar exist.And the only reason why Im here is because Satoshi invited me here.I think it was also the same for Itamura.

”This is the place?. ” Itamura asked

”Yes!. ” Satoshi answered.

We entered the bar and saw what Im expecting.Rounded chairs,slightly dim atmosphere,the drinks and the alcohol placed in a huge cabinet.And a bartender.Oh,no blonde girls dancing in a pole here.A good thing actually.

”Not bad. ”

I said and looked around.I noticed that there were no other customers except us.Compared to the bar I usuallythis one seems not popular.

”How did you find this place,Satoshi?. ” asked by the middle-aged man

”Actually,I know the bartender here.But it seems like he doesn know me.Its a long story but don ask anymore questions and lets dive in to the alcohol,Itamura-sensei!. ”

We sat on the table.I looked at the bartender.

He was probably in his fifties.He was wearing a nice uniform with his white long sleeve and black nectie.He has narrowed eyes with few wrinkles in his face.He seems reserve.His giving me of an impression of a good pal.I think we can get along well if we talked about each other lives.

”What drink you want,gentlemen?. ” asked ny the bartender.

”A gin.Full cup.No mix.Five glasses.The strongest one if possible. ” I said.

”A lemon whiskey for me,Oribe-san. ” said Satoshi

”A beer for me. ” said Itamura

The bartender,which seem to had a name if Oribe,turned his body around,roll up his sleeves and start preparing the beverages in a skillful manner.

”Is it okay to smoke here?. ” I asked,directing the question to the bartender.

He didn answer but instead,he just nod his head up.

I pulled out a box of cigarette and lighter from my left hip pocket.But I realized something wrong as I only managed to pull out the small box.

”Ah.I think I forgot the lighter. ”

I doubled check all the pockets in my outfit and learned that it was no use.

”Not good.Itamura,you have a lighter?. ”

He checks his pocket a pulled out his own lighter.He slide it towards me to the table in front of us.

”Thanks,man ”

I pulled one cigarette from the box,put it in my mouth,lit it,took a sip and blew the smoke in my side.

”You want one,kid?. ” I asked as I offered the box to Satoshi.

”Didn I tell you Im not smoking,Harakiri-

senpai?. ”

”Is that so?. ”

I sipped from the cigarette and blew the smoke again.

”Didn I said to not call Senpai me kid.You look stupid by saying that. ”

”But you are four years older than me so it is just natural right?. ”

”Well theres one more person here who is better to be called by that. ” I said as I shifted my look to Itamura.

”No,Harakiri.Im not used to be called by that. ” he replied as he shook his head slightly.

I smiled and finished the stick that I have been consuming in my mouth.

”Ah,by the way,Harakiri-senpai.There is an ashtray besides you. ”

I looked at the side part of the table saw the thing.

”You
e right. ”

I stomped the cigarette there and get another one form the box.I see.I quite liking this bar already.Most of the bars I visited so far didn allow to smoke inside but this one is different.

After consuming two sticks of cigarettes,the bartender finally presents to us the beverages.

”Heres your order,gentlemen. ” he said as he handed to us the alcohol we chose.

”By the way,its my treat.So order whatever you want!. ” Satoshi declared.

What a good news.I drunk two cups of gin straightly.Then took again a cigarette from the box and lit it.

”You really love alcohol don you,Harakiri?. ”

”And cigarette,man. ”

I drunk the third and fourth cups of pure gin.

Ah,it was burning to my esophagus.I feel like I just swallow a long molten sword.The best feeling.

”Five more,bartender. ”

”Same drink sir?. ”

”Yeah. ”

He turned around and did my request.

”Woaah.That was fast,Harakiri-senpai. ”

”That was just normal. ”

”Isn supposed you drink an alcohol slowly?.I mean,you must savor its taste to the fullest?. ”

”That only works on whiskey and champagne.

But if you are drinking gin or beer,you must drink as much as you can right,Itamura?. ”

”Yeah.Although you must controlled yourself.

You must not get to the point where you can possibly cause problems to other.Two more beers please,bartender. ”

”See?. ”

I drunk the final cup in the table and took a sip from the cigarette.Then he turned around again to prepare Itamuras additional beers.

There,we started talking each other lives.It was usual thing we do when we are going in a bar.We consulted each others health and it seems like they are very concern about it when it comes to me.But I immediately said that Im okay.I said that I can at least still twnenty more years and we laughed.

We also talked the good things and the bad things we experienced recently.

”Well thats the story.We broke up. ” Satoshi said in a mournful voice.

Itamura tapped his back few times and said.

”Well you
e still young man.You will still meet other women out there. ”

”Well…yeah. ”

”But for now,let your heart to be filled by beer. ”

”Eh?. ”

”Right now,you are heartbroken.The only way

to forget that and move on is to get hangover.

And to get hangover you need to be drunk.And you need to take alcohol to become drunk.

Right,Harakiri?. ”

”Are you the one who is more alcoholic than me,man?. ”

We laughed and Satoshi immediately drunk the glass of beer from Itamura.

”Alcohol is like love. ” I said suddenly while spinning around the glass of gin Im holding.

”The first kiss is sensual,the second is romantic,the third is habit.After that,you will spread the girls legs like opening a big scissor. ”

”Uhmmm,isn some kind of comfort or advice,Harakiri-senpai?. ”

”That only applies for people who currently had girlfriend,kid. ”

Me and Itamura both laughed.Satoshi turned his head for a second then eventually laughed afterwards.

”You should told to her how hard to

accomplish a manga chapter per week. ” I said giving a serious advice this time.

”I already tried that to know why I can put so much to her but it she was not satisfied with it.So if she will not accept how the way I am,it was better to end of our relationship. ”

I didn reply back and just drank a glass of gin.

Basically,Satoshi said that he broke to her girlfriend on which,as far as I remember from what he shared last time,he have relationship for a year now.Im actually already saw the said girl.She was quite of beauty but since they already broke up,there no meaning to decsribe her anymore.

If romance is a business,trust will be the capital.It was just a matter of how much you trust your partner.Of course,each couple have different opinion about that.But in Satoshi case,trust is the reason why they broke up.

Romance was a complicated thing.There were some people who ended up to the least person they think.It was as unexpected as the plot twist in mystery stories.

And there were some people who they thought they are fated to each other but after some time,they will realize that was not the case.

Just like us.

”Well thats what happen. ” Itamura also said in a mournful voice and drank the beer in front of him.

”Condolences,man. ” I said in a cheap voice

”Uhhhhmmm.My condelences,Itamura-san. ”

”Don worry.It already a week have passed. ” Itamura replied

For Itamuras story,her grandmother passed away due to old age.Well that was already an expected thing to happen.We born,we study,we get job,we get family,we get old.

Then die.

But to think that her grandmother reached the age of ninety-five,that was quite impresssive.

Well Itamura have been saying us for few times how his own familly really take care her.

It just happen that all the sand from the hourglass already went down.

”Farewells were only meant to say if it sad,lonely and final huh… ”

”Hmmm.Did you say something,Harakiri-

senpai?. ”

”Ah.No,nothing. ”

I tried to dodge his question by puffing to my cigarette.I said some unusual words.

Afterall,those words were something she will say.

”By the way,Harakiri-senpai. ” he said as he shifted the topic.

”Hmmm?. ”

”Well first of all,congratulations to the success of the anime adaption of your masterpiece work,Harakiri-senpai!. ”

Satoshi said as he raised his glass of whiskey in the air.Itamura also did the same.I followed.

We then said ”cheers ” and drunk our own alcohol.

”Masterpiece huh.You
e exaggerating,kid. ”

”Ehhh?.But no matter how many times I rewatched,it doesn fail to make me cry. ”

”So you watched it more than once?. ”

”Of course!!. ”

”Well,that was because the directors who did that the adaption. ”

”That reason again. ” he reacted in dismayed.

He was surely talking about what happened in the interview.

”Im not agree with that,Harakiri. ” Itamura suddenly butt in ”Even without the anime adaption,I already shred in tears in the original

source,which is the novel.Specifically lm the one of the few first people who read your work.And you know what I mean right?. ”

”Well,you
e my editor afterall. ”

He finished the beer he was drinking for a while now and continue.

”You were only supposed to write murder mystery stories.How come you wrote a romance story and end it like that?. ” he said as if blaming why I made him c