"Do you think it'll get any better?"
"..."
I'm here. Following Minamoto's footsteps, I end up in a park. She's currently talking to the man who I presume is Denjirou Taira.
"Answer me."
"The hell would I know? I'm not you."
It seems that they're quarreling.
"Can't we just go somewhere? Live in another town?"
"I have a family, do you think I'll be happy to just ditch them like that?"
"They're being taken care of by the hospital anyway. Please, just do something!"
"I can't leave their home behind either. It's not mine, it's grandpa's. I can't just sell it out willy-nilly."
"How come you have become so stalwart..."
The man snaps.
"Because it's family business! Do you think your hatred of your own folks extends to me?! And do you think I can just defy your folks will?! A man disgraced?! You keep asking unreasonable things, as if some miraculous intervention would happen. As if *I'm* able to will the miracle into existence. I am not willing to betray people who had saved me, nurtured me - for the sake of you. I'm trying to think rationally here.
...
... Do you think I'm happy with that arrangement? Do you think I'm not angry at how things have turned out? Of course I'm angry. However I am powerless to change things. I'm only left with myself. Cease your tantrums right now."
Minamoto began to cry and I was about to step in, however it would only blow my cover: and from my understanding - Taira understands his position as an unworthy suitor. He sighs and lets her cry on his chest.
"Hrk..."
"... Sorry. The stress of that situation also affects me. I would if I could, but that's how it is. I do not belong there, therefore I do not own anything. And I can't leave them behind either. They still want to see me for the final time, to be their final memory in case they give in.
The only solace of for us to spend our time together for the final time."
"I'm sorry too..."
She wipes her tears, sneezing into the handkerchief.
"That was improper of me. I'm sorry. I shouldn't have yelled at you like that. I'm—"
"It's alright. I get it. You're overwhelmed, that is all. Hey, let's buy something to cheer you up."
"... Yeah... Sorry."
Both of them walk around the park for quite some time and that's when I see it.
Her smile.
Before, she only regarded me with a look of indifference at best, indicating that she didn't want to be there. And yet when I see her radiant smile with him... Could I make her smile like he does?
Clutching his arm, walking alongside him in tact, leaning into him. It felt like I was staring at what could've been. And that man is living in that reality.
It's not fair. I was made into her special one, and yet the man they're trying to separate her from - is able to create nothing short of miracles.
Just as I longed to belong to such reality... I've been spotted by him.
That's when his tender russet brown eyes had turned red, like a demon. Of course, I do not belong, not yet.
"Yukino... Let's go to the closed off ramen store, I think the atmosphere might make you feel better."
"Ah—right. Maybe that sorrow might accentuate the taste of it all, besides I am craving something salty after all those sweets."
Ms. Minamoto stayed none-the-wiser while Mr. Taira... He kept staring. Warning me to stay away.
I must do something.
"So this is what they've been doing..."
I must erase him from this history.