Confess Before I Forget You

When Chen Yan awoke, the rain in Tokyo had been falling for three hours.

He remembered being eighteen, remembered that he had an entrance exam at a new school tomorrow, and remembered... another eighteen years. His previous life had ended in a heavy snowfall and a last train he failed to catch.

There had never been a way back in this world. He had only remembered what he had always carried with him.

Then he saw things he should never have seen: a person with no shadow standing at the end of the corridor; a transfer student who refused to shelter under an umbrella, even in the rain; an old scar on his childhood friend's wrist, one she never explained.

Borrowed eyes followed no rules. The more he saw, the faster he forgot. First the convenience store loyalty number, then his classmates' faces, then the words "Long time no see." All he could reply was, "Nice to meet you."

Everyone knew more clearly than he did who he had once been. Some waited for him to fulfill a promise he couldn't remember. Some were willing to die again just to make him remember.

So before he forgot the last name, he had to settle the score of his youth.