"Why are you in Hokkaido ? "

Kei Tokita's voice sounded tinny coming from the handset

"Hey , relax, it's okay."

Nagare Tokita was hearing his wife's for the first time in 14 years! He was in Hokkaido.

The city Hokkaido is full of western style houses. Those houses have unique architectural style dotted throughout the city !

Kei, on the other end of the phone line , was far away in Tokyo, at a certain cafe that offered it's customers the chance to travel throughout the time . It was called Funiculi Funicula. She had travelled 15 years into the future from the past in order to meet her daughter.

In that Tokyo café, she only had a brief time before she had to drink her cooling coffee.

On the other hand, In Hokkaido, Nagare had no idea how far her coffee had cooled already. He was therefore careful to stick to the matter at hand.

"There's no time to explain why I am in Hokkaido! Please, try to understand."

Kei was well aware that there was no time .

"What's that ? There's no time ? I'm the one with no time !"

She sounded upset.

But Nagare paid no attention.

"A girl is there, right ? Who looks like she might be in middle school. "

"What ? A school girl? Yes, she's here. The same one who visited the café about two weeks ago ; She came from the future to get a photo with me. "

It had been two weeks ago for Kei, but she was referring to something that for Nagare happened a whole 15 years ago.

" She's got big round eyes & she's wearing a turtle-neck ?"

"Yes, yes. What about her ? "

" Okay, just calm down and listen. You have accidentally travelled 15 years into future!"

"Like I told you, I can hardly hear anything you are saying! "

A howling gust of wind had struck Nagare just as he was about to tell her something crucial. It was blowing a gale down his phone, making it next to impossible to communicate. Pressed by the lack of time, Nagare hurried.

" Anyway, That girl you are looking at, " he said, louder.

"Eh ? What ? That girl? "

" She's our daughter!"

"What?"

The phone in Nagare's hands fell completely silent. Then instead of Kei's voice, he heard the middle pendulum clock in Funiculi Funicula begin chiming a familiar dong dong.

Letting out a small sigh, he began explaining calmly.

"You agreed to travel ten years into the future, so you think that your child will be about ten, but there was some kind of mistake,, and you traveled for 15 years !"

It seems ten years fifteen hours and fifteen years 10 hours got mixed up. Just look at the time of the middle pendulum clock. It says ten o'clock, right ?

" Uh-huh."

" We heard about it when you got back. But right now, we are in Hokkaido for unavoidable reasons that I won't go into because there's no time."

Nagare had rattled through this explanation. But now he paused.