Chapter 117
"I thought so... you must be Ryosaku Takada-san. It was just as Isao-san said. Ryosaku-san, do you know what is going on with Mieko-chan and Isao-san right now..."
"Ryoko-san..."
"Judging from your expression, you already know... Ryosaku-san, it must have been hard for you. I can imagine how you are feeling right now."
Saying this, Ryoko sat next to Ryosaku and gently stroked his back.
At that moment, something hot welled up in Ryosaku's heart... and tears were flowing endlessly from his eyes.
(Mieko-chan... you... you're really dead. I... I didn't get to see your last face or your adorable appearance, and this time I'm really separated from you forever... Mieko-chan... Ah... Mieko-chan...)
Ryosaku read the letter he received from Mieko's mother, Tokiko, and the "Mieko's death" that he had only received as "information" at the time now hit him as a heart-rending reality.
Since he learned the fact of her "death", his heart and eyes finally swelled with his sad, sad tears of mourning for Mieko's death, hot and intense, as if they were welling up one after another from the bottom of a dried-up spring, wetting his cheeks.
... He'll never be able to embrace her again.
He'll never be able to kiss her again.
He'll never be able to talk about love with her again, forever.
Never again... Yes.
Never again.
