Before Mitsuo can respond, appears at the station entrance. She’s holding an umbrella, even though it’s not raining. She looks at Banri, then at Mitsuo. The three of them stand in a triangle of silence.
Banri finds himself at a disused train station—the same one from his memory. He’s hyperventilating. Mitsuo catches up to him first. “Hey, idiot. You can’t just run off.”
He turns to Kouko. “And I choose you. Not because I don’t have a past. But because you’re the one holding my hand in the present.” Golden Time Episode 5
Banri stares at her. “Who are you to me?”
“I don’t remember loving you,” he says to Linda. It’s brutal and honest. “But my body remembers the pain of losing you.” Before Mitsuo can respond, appears at the station entrance
She doesn’t call. She just stares at the name as the rain fills the silence.
It’s . She’s wearing a dark coat, her hair longer now, her face unreadable. She pulls out her phone, scrolls past a contact name “Tada-kun (Now)”, and stops on a different, older entry: Banri-chan . The three of them stand in a triangle of silence
Linda opens her mouth, but Kouko’s voice cuts through the night. She’s standing on the platform above, her face half-lit by a distant firework. She’s not crying. She’s furious—and terrified.