Saga2 is the game software of my memories. …… I still think about it often and feel sad.
I was born with severe childhood asthma. I would often wake my mom up in the middle of the night to take me to the hospital.
When I started elementary school, my condition got even worse. Of course, I couldn’t participate in physical education, and I couldn’t even play outside with everyone.
Then, in the fifth grade, my condition worsened to the point where I had to go to the hospital almost every day for inhalation, and I was hospitalized for three weeks.
I was in a four-patient room, two of them were old lady and old man, and the other one was a girl about my age.
I have always been very shy and also very shy, so I had a hard time getting along with my roommates.
I was either studying or playing Game Boy by myself.
A week after I was hospitalized, I noticed that the girl who shared the room with me was staring at me while I was playing Game Boy.
When I looked at her, she would look away in a hurry. I wondered if she might want to try it. I thought to myself.
“Would you like to borrow this?” I asked her if she wanted to try it. Then her eyes lit up and she said, “Really?” I said, “I’m tired of it.
I lent it to her, but as I expected, she didn’t know how to operate it.
So I decided to play the game with him while I taught him the controls.
The party consisted of a human male protagonist, “Lyota (my name),” with a human female companion, “Sayaka” (my name).
I also named the Esper Girl and the robot after old lady and old man who shared the room with me.
After that, I got to know her better and better, and we not only played Game Boy together, but also talked about many things.
We talked about school, family, favorite music, summer vacation coming up…and the time passed quickly.
Soon it was time for me to leave the hospital.
While the nurses and my room-mate’s old man and old lady were all saying “congratulations,” she was the only one crying.
Seeing that, I almost cried too. But I held it together and said, “I’m going to lent this until you get out of the hospital.”
“Call me when you get out of the hospital.” I left my Game Boy and Saga 2.
After that, I thought about going to visit him many times. But when I thought about going to visit him, I felt embarrassed and couldn’t go.
A year and a half passed without hearing from him, and it was around the time I was graduating from elementary school.
I wanted to see her at least one more time before graduation, so I decided to go visit her.
I went to the hospital room, but she was not there. Her name was not on the list of names at the entrance of the room.
I wondered if she had already been discharged…? So I went to the nurses’ center to ask.
It was obvious from the atmosphere of the room and the nurse behind me who started to cry.
While I was stunned and in a state of shock, the nurse said to me
She handed me something that Sayaka-chan had told me to give her when Lyota-kun arrived.
It was a Game Boy and Saga 2 that I had lent to her.
I took it and went home.
As soon as I got home, I turned on the Game Boy in my dark room without eating.
I heard the nostalgic OP music. The loading screen appeared along with it.
One was the data that she and I had played together. Almost nothing has changed since then.
My heart was filled with nostalgia and sadness. The other data was a very low level data.
I loaded that data, wondering if she had started from the beginning and got bored right away. So I loaded that data.
The names of the four members of the party were as follows.
“Kille”
“dbynu”
“urseh”
“elpme”
