Do you remember that I once loved you?
She and he had known each other for years. She thought that even if he didn't love her, he would still keep a place for her in his heart. She thought he simply didn't love her, never realizing that he hurt her because he didn't love her.
Later, another man stood by her side. She smiled, finally at peace. Among the yellowed pages of a book, he found a note she had left behind: Niou Masaharu, time has grown wings, and we have lost each other.
Then he looked up, and something seemed ready to fall from his eyes.
I've always loved you.
There was nothing dramatic about her and him. Though they were still young, they were like an old married couple. But they had always known they loved each other.
The little, ordinary things became unique and radiant because you were there.
Years later, she finally married him, fulfilling the words she had often said as a child: "Shusuke, I want to marry you."
If two hearts are joined for the long haul, what does it matter if they cannot be together every day?
At first, she and he thought the other was in love with someone else. But after all the twists and turns, all they wanted was for that person to be there wherever they looked.
She always remembered that afternoon, when that man smiled with gentle grace and said, "If it's what you want, then it's what I, Yukimura Seiichi, want too."
Whatever became of them, they would always remember: when we were young, you warmed the years of my life.
