[Prince of Tennis] The Journey Home

In 2009, she lay on the desk and watched his profile, secretly writing on a piece of paper: "Tezuka, so the ocean isn't made of tears. It's warmth, hope, and love. It's the rippling surface of the sea and the melodious song rising from its deep blue depths. It's clarity, it's refinement, it's everything that is you."

On New Year's Day in 2010, they danced together beside a bonfire on campus. Xijiu wrote: "A deep blue glass slipper cast into the depths of the sea, a little patch of blue sky above the silent, bald roofs of the old street. Without love, what is love? It's tolerance and resilience, a heart trembling without end beneath the strain of nerves."

Then, in April 2010, after they parted at the hospital entrance, all he left behind was his retreating figure. Only a few lines remained on the page: "At last, you have left me behind."

[Revised from Chapter One onward]

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