Chapter 137
[Your gaze at the sky is distant. The fireworks no longer bring you the shock and emotion they did two years ago. In the interplay of light and shadow, you remember something.]
[Time and expectations made you overlook it, but now, the unease in your heart helps you rediscover that memory.]
[In another worldline, in a future where you stayed at Chikusa University Hospital for surgery, Reina Nakajima passed away during your second semester of freshman year.]
[In just over half a month, the second semester is about to begin.]
[Whether you’ve changed the future, whether fate has shown mercy to Reina, will soon be revealed.]
[On the hillside path, you carried her on your back. She said she wanted to have a child with you, but you refused, unwilling to let her take such a risk.]
[She mentioned Yoshida Town again. That name, tied to a specific moment in time, falls within the second semester. You feel uneasy.]
[After spending a week in a small town, the two of you returned to Misaki.]
Stopping his reading, Yuuki Minami tilted his head back to look at the fluorescent light on the ceiling. He reached out and turned off the light, letting the bedroom return to darkness.