A girl with short brown hair, glasses slightly crooked, stops beside the bench. She’s holding a photograph—the one from under her floorboard.
“Excuse me,” Mirai says, her voice trembling. “I don’t know why, but… I think I was supposed to meet someone here.” beyond the boundary light novel ending
And he said the words that had been erased from the world for one year: “I love you, Mirai Kuriyama.” Mirai opened her eyes. A girl with short brown hair, glasses slightly
In her closet, hidden behind old shoes, is a journal she doesn’t remember writing. The handwriting is hers, but the words describe a life she never lived: arguments with a perverted classmate, stolen glances in a clubroom, a promise to kill each other one day. The last page simply says: “I don’t know why, but… I think I
The statue did not move. But the thread pulsed.
“Hey,” she says quietly. “Why do I feel like we’ve done this before?”
She doesn’t remember taking this picture. She doesn’t remember the boy. But tears are streaming down her face, and she doesn’t know why. Akihito Kanbara sits on a bench by the river where they first met. He is twenty-one now, though he looks older—the loss of his youmu blood has aged him. He works at a small bookstore. No one remembers his name. His mother sees him on the street and looks through him. Mitsuki passes him every Thursday and never glances twice.