Essays in Idleness (Hirako/Shimizu/Short Stories)

"The wind has not yet died down, but the flowers have already fallen.

The human heart is no different.

When I think of the years held dear in my heart,

I have not forgotten those moving, heartfelt words,

but that person soon grew distant and left me, as is so often the way of the world.

It is more heartbreaking than death parting us forever."

It took me a hundred years to understand.

What governs a person is belief. What governs belief is habit. And what governs habit is forgetting.

Mako, you understood all along, didn't you?

A gentle, understated story, [No CP], original female protagonist, short story

Dedicated to you, whom I have pursued with all my heart.

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