They were together for four years.
Go to the library together and enjoy the sunny afternoon quietly. The cooks learned to cook together, laughing at each other's bruised faces and clumsy movements. Watch a movie together, and cover Akaashi with his coat when he falls asleep due to exhaustion during the middle of the movie. They never went to the amusement park together and rarely talked about love. They are more like partners who have grown old together than young lovers. Their love has no grand flavor, only plain warmth.
Just like drinking a glass of water, if you feel like it and feel comfortable, you will stick to it.
And Akashi, who is about to graduate from college, leaves Kuroko as a graduation gift to break up.
He is no longer the boy with secondary school syndrome in junior high school. He has something he wants to protect, which is more important than anything else.
It's a pity that there was no winner in this gamble from the beginning. He couldn't keep him after all.
Miss. Madness. Obsession. Despair.
Time passed, and when he stood in front of Kuroko again, what he was waiting for was a simple "Thank you, excuse me." Two years of desolate time could not wait for the stars. For Tetsuya now, Akashi Seijuro was just a passerby who could pass by calmly in the vast sea of people, and no matter how deeply he loved him, it had passed. And those past, not even the memory remains. From the beginning to the end, Akashi himself was the only one thinking about the past and growing old by reminiscing.
It hurts.
They didn't know each other at first, and finally they didn't recognize each other.
This is the most powerless, heartbreaking and sad feeling.