[Bungo Stray Dogs] If We Had Never Met

If I had never met you, what would I have become? Perhaps I would still be wandering through a hail of bullets and a sea of blood as before, wearing an innocent, childlike smile. That summer, on that familiar shore, a girl named Miki Mie, who had just arrived in Yokohama, stepped into his world. From that moment on, light began to shine into his seventeen years of darkness. And because he longed to be loved, he would keep trying to reach for it, even if it meant ending up utterly broken. "If I had never met you... Aeda, I wouldn't even know what it feels like to love someone."