One Piece: What Remains

"Why are you sitting here?" "...Because I have nowhere else to go." On an ordinary rainy day, she huddled beneath a roadside awning, holding a puppy. Homeless after her parents abandoned her, she received an invitation from a young man holding an umbrella, who offered it with a smile. "Ah, then... would you like to come to my house?" And so, quite naturally, she became part of that family. Everyone in that household was special, and that was why they were so attached to a family bound together without any blood ties. But she was different. Compared to her siblings, what she had been through could hardly be called "painful." Perhaps my feelings for everyone are the weakest of all. For a long time, that's what she believed. But much, much later, years after she and her family had been scattered to different corners of another world, the moment they reunited, she finally realized [Ah... that's not it.] [I was only forcing myself to ignore that thing in my heart because I was afraid of the pain of losing everyone.] The tears on her cheeks were proof enough. They weren't a sign of sorrow, but proof of "love."