Chapter 79
【You stayed in your hometown longer than planned, deciding to return on the eighth day after the New Year.】
【Your father had a case to handle, and your mother and sister saw you off at the station. The snow that fell on the second day of the New Year had not yet melted completely; it had been swept into dirty piles of ice in the corners by the cleaning staff.】
【At the ticket gate, you and Ibuki Yuko waved goodbye to them and boarded the train back to Misaki.】
【Honoka told her daughter that she would return in three days. You thought returning three days early was a very prudent decision, but you didn’t expect Ibuki Honoka to come back earlier than anticipated.】
【Upon arriving at the apartment, Ibuki Yuko parted ways with you and went back to her own home, where she found her mother sitting on the sofa watching TV.】
A brief memory scene appears,
Showing a conversation between the mother and daughter in the living room.
“Where did you go?”
“Ino Prefecture.”