335 332. Only the days with her.txt (2/2)

I can't help it, I'm irritated with Lagne Kaikwola on those days .......

'Huh. Your sister. You're awesome at that age .......

...... You mean Yangtaki?

'Yes. He's smaller than I am, but he's a hell of a lot more awesome than I am, and he's super famous than I am!

...... Right.

''So, Uzumi-kun, you're Yotaki-san: ......, er, .......''

...... what?

'...... Ah, ah!　Let's play a game today!　It's the holidays!　I don't mind the one you recommended, Uzumi-kun!

'What, you play the game ......?　Mr. ■■?

”Let's play this out!　Today, I'm heartbroken to be reminded of the difference in strength between the Aikawa family and me!　I'll have you healed to the hilt!

...... Thanks. ■■.

Those days would last for a year or so.

-- only, of course, that fateful day will come.

Just like me, Kanami will be able to reach out to them.

When Kanami's 'ideal' of being a 'child who doesn't cause problems', the limit of his performance, came to an end, his childhood friend, a girl, faced him with her true feelings.

In a room in the academy where the sunset was shining, the girl was holding Kanami's hand and shouting.

''--Nay, please don't cry!　From now on, I won't be alone anymore!

Kanami was crying in response to that heartfelt appeal.

It seems to be a little different from me here.

No, in the first place, Kanami and I are just going down the same path like a mirror, there is no part of us that was exactly the same. However, I think I felt the same way as Uzurinami that day, even without the tears.

The evidence of what has been swirling around in my chest from earlier is unstoppable.

'...... Yeah. We'll be together from now on. ...... I want you to be with me.

Kanami speaks for it.

The girl tells me the answer to 'what if'.

'Yes. I'm not going to disappear from Uzuraha-kun's presence. ...... From now on, we are 'all together'. So please don't cry anymore. ......

If I had been just a little more honest then, would we have been able to hold hands like this? If I had done so, would I have been able to avoid the goodbyes that would follow? Would I have been able to be myself in the true sense of the word?

As I watch the two youngsters progress, I think about the person I was not long ago.

'I'll see you later!'

'Yeah, see you at ....... ■■chan ......

”......!　See you later, Kana-chan!

The two men, having become honest, say their temporary goodbyes and return to each other's homes.

On a stone road, under a red sunset.

It's a new beginning for two promising people.

--But looking at their backs, I can't stop having a bad premonition.

No, not a premonition, but a conviction.

That's the only unavoidable 'affinity', the so-called 'logic' of the world.

So now I am connected and reaffirmed with Kanami.

What awaits at the end of that new path--

'Dead ......?　■ ■■ is ......?

The news of her childhood friend's death.

Kanami is told by a man who seems to be an instructor at the academy, and she is left in a state of desperation. While everyone around her is in a state of panic, she is unable to acknowledge the reality of the situation and attends the funeral as she is swept away.

Thanks to the interaction between the parents, they are very close to the coffin.

There, Kanami continues to sit, not moving slightly.

People are busy walking around the hall.

From what I overheard, it seems to be an accidental death. However, Kanami doesn't have the energy to confirm the details.

'■■-san: ......'

All day long, I've been calling you by name only and waiting for a response.

Speaking of which, you said: .......

We all want our loved ones to be alive.

We dream of the moment when the dead person comes back to life and says ”good morning” again.

But that's a dream is a dream.

Every time you call his name and he doesn't answer, Kanami learns the reality. She learns that [dead people don't come back to life] and becomes stronger as a 'person'.

'■■san, why are you ......!　Why ......!!!

Like me, Kanami comes to understand the meaning of death. She learns that those left behind have no choice but to take on the lives of those who have died and move on.

Honestly, I expected this scene from the beginning when I was doing ”Affinity”.

This is an unfortunate event, but it's not a bad one.

It's not a bad thing .......

Inevitably, there was one thing that bothered me.

'■■, ■■, ■■, ......'

It's a 'name'.

I'm not asking you to change the past.

I don't want to see a girl come back to life from here, and I don't want to see a stinky thing.

But a name.

But I wanted her to at least say her name to mourn her death clearly.

Even if I die, I want to keep the three letters of ”Lagne”. I've been living my life avoiding becoming something that isn't there, so I strongly believe that.

At least, a name.

A name, a name, a name, a name!

When you're dying, I want you to at least call your name from someone you care about.

Even I have not forgotten my name.

The only thing I've decided not to lose is the three letters Riel until I die.

So, Kanami, don't just pretend she wasn't there--!

...... Kanami's brother (・・・・・・・・)!

I was exhausted by the long 'affinity', but I was able to make that voice.

I was confident.

I was.

Only now I was.

I could do it.

The reversal of that which isn't there.

I'm here...

That's where I am....

I was proud of that assertion in its own way.

”- 'I am the phantom that chased the phantom'.

'I can't even exist in the world (you)' -!

The subject is a girl's ”name”.

Time is the distant past. The place is someone else's memory.

Normally, it is impossible to interfere.

But it reaches.

The stolen ri and 'affinity' will ignore all barriers.

''--Huh?

There was a definite response to that 'reversal'.

But it was so heavy that I was surprised.

It was as if I had lost all the blood in my body, even though I had only heard the name.

It was proof that 'forgetting' was not a half-hearted attempt to 'flip' 'forgetting' into 'recall'.

The thing that had been ”forgotten” is now ”reversed” and ”reborn” in the world with such an amount of heat.

I felt a tremendous amount of heat from the ”reversal”. That heat did not take the red form of fire, but became pure power (energy) that interfered with the world, and then -

Konagi-san: ......!

Hear the name.

The girl's name is Conagi.

Clearly, now, I - as well as Kanami - will get it back.

'Uh-uh ......!　Lake Nagi: ......!　Why ......!

A thousand years later. Another world. The same nature. Affinity. And death.

Many coincidences come together, and in a really far, far away place, Kanami finally gets her childhood friend's time back.