Mizuno's Adventure - Part 2 & Project CupCake

#Cave of Old Man Saleh

Mizuno curiously looked at the shadow, which looked like a boy of his age and height.

"Hey! I'm Mizuno! What's your name?" Mizuno waited for his reply. But it never came.

"Can't you talk?" Mizuno asked, but got no answer.

He sighed. "At last, I got a friend of my age, but he can't talk." But Mizuno was not disappointed; at least he had a shadow friend who listened to him!

"Do you live in this cave all the time? This is my first time seeing you!" Mizuno asked again but did not expect any answer. To his surprise, the shadow spoke in a childlike voice, "You WISHED to talk to me!"

Mizuno suddenly felt like seeing a Deja Vu! The word 'WISH' seemed awfully familiar! "Where have I heard it before?"

"Wow! You really were here all the time."

"I've always been with you." It was seriously shocking to Mizuno. He felt a chill of an unknown expectation down his spine. Was it fear? Excitement?

"What do you mean always? Always, as in, since I arrived here?"