"﻿Hiro-san!" "﻿Enough!" "Don't pester me anymore!" "﻿Hiro-san!" "in front of the usual restaurant" "﻿I'll be waiting for you." "﻿However long it takes." "I'll be waiting!" "my sweet honey!" "Were you lonely?" "﻿Kusama!" "Kusama!" "Professor." "﻿What's the matter?" "You seem dazed." "﻿Still feeling jet lagged?" "I'm fine." "﻿Are your classes finished for the day?" "﻿Yes." "﻿Then I'd like you to come with me to Narita right now." "﻿Huh?" "﻿Dr. Carter is coming to Japan." "He's very eager to meet you!" "I don't think I can make it today." "you already have plans?" "at seven o'clock." "﻿Seven?" "Then it should be fine." "His flight arrives at* two." "but today I really have to... don't you?" "﻿Hello." "Hiro-san?" "It's Nowaki." "﻿Huh?" "if you want please." "Kamijou. lust now." "﻿These are the last of your materials." "﻿Now would you please do your own work already?" "if you don't mind." "﻿There you go again... it sounded like that kid from this morning." "﻿"Nowaki"... feels like I've heard that somewhere before." "that's right" "has the 2 o'clock from New York still not arrived?" "I'm very sorry." "The departure was ﻿delayed because of bad weather." "﻿It should be arriving shortly." "I won't make it back in time." "but they just ﻿told me he'd already gone home..." "I'm very sorry!" "﻿I really do have a very important appointment tonight" "﻿Don't you think this should take precedence?" "﻿if you want to make it in this field a good relationship with him would be very advantageous" "﻿I'm truly thankful for everything he's done for me ﻿and I promise I'll greet him properly tomorrow." "but I really must be going." "﻿Wait It's finally here!" "﻿What is it I'm so hopeful for?" "﻿What the hell am I doing here an hour early... ﻿This is it and we'll talk" "﻿and if I feel even the slightest hint that ﻿it's not going to work out." "I'll end it" "﻿I don't want this!" "I won't accept it!" "﻿I've never seen Nowaki raise his voice like that before." "but.." "I was happy." "when he gets here." "I'm sure he'll apologize." "﻿And I won't harp on it anymore." "I'll ﻿lust forgive him and that'll be that." "﻿Brow wrinkles... ﻿Watch where you're going!" "﻿I'm sorry!" "or the telephone may be switched off." "﻿The number yomhave dialed cannot ﻿be reached." "It may be outside the... it's raining?" "!" "it just started all of a sudden!" "﻿This is his answer." "but.." "how happy I would be... ﻿It's not a big deal." "﻿I simply wasn't that person." "this kind of thing." "Happens every day." "﻿Hiro-san!" "﻿I was the one who kept pushing him away still in love with him... it's done!" "﻿Kamijou?" "﻿What happened to you?" "You're drenched!" "﻿Wait here a sec." "﻿This must be what they call a drowned rat!" "too." "﻿It's fine." "﻿What's wrong?" "Get dumped?" "﻿Excuse me?" "﻿What are you talking about?" "Stop making everything into a joke." "﻿I'm..." "﻿Sorry!" "﻿Wow; what the hell am I doing... it's really nothing at all" "you know... ﻿You still havenit realized that this "perfect armor" you've ﻿got yourself wrapped in is actually full of chinks... let go of me." "﻿Don't!" "﻿You idiot!" "Stop that!" "are you all right?" "﻿Are you hurt anywhere?" "that hurt!" "﻿What the fuck are you doing?" "!" "Hey1 let go!" "﻿Are you going out with that man?" "﻿What?" "!" "﻿I won't accept it!" "I will not accept it!" "﻿Let go of my hand!" "It hurts!" "﻿What happened today was entirely my fault" "﻿A professor who had been very kind to me while I was ﻿studying abroad in the U.S. arrived in Japan today" "﻿and I went to meet him at the airport but his flight was delayed ﻿and I ended up leaving you out there to get soaked." "no matter the reason!" "that's none of my business." "﻿I've already broken up with you." "Go off to America ﻿or Europe or wherever the hell you want!" "﻿Hiro-san!" "﻿You vanish without a word to go study in another country ﻿then reappear one day with all freaking smiles" "﻿next you're telling me you ditched me for some last-minute meeting?" "﻿Don't treat me like I'm an idiot!" "﻿I told you that I was going abroad!" "sure you did!" "﻿I told you!" "I never heard a thing!" "﻿You've just forgotten!" "﻿Don't fuck with me!" "﻿Hiro-san!" "﻿Hiro-san!" "﻿Don't come in!" "﻿I won't leave!" "﻿I'm telling you to go away!" "﻿Hiro-san!" "﻿Watch out!" "don't touch me!" "﻿Hiro-san!" "﻿I told you to let gal" "﻿You..." "You don't have a damn clue how I felt this past year." "﻿I'm sorry." "﻿But it's no good like this." "I can't leave things like this!" "you've made ﻿consistent progress towards your goals." "step by step." "﻿You really are an incredible person!" "just a student" "﻿I claim to be studying to become a doctor ﻿but I honestly don't even know if I can." "﻿And I'm four years younger than you are." "but at least I want ﻿to be a man who deserves to stand by your side!" "deserves"?" "﻿The study abroad program was originally supposed to last two years" "﻿but I managed to finish the curriculum ﻿in one." "I wanted to see you so badly... you had already become an associate ﻿professor and the gap between us had only widened again." "﻿So I have to work harder!" "I have to pour in all of ﻿my effort or you'll leave me behind!" "﻿I want to catch up to you!" "﻿I want to become the kind of man who ﻿can be together with you forever" "﻿a man who can stand beside you as an equal!" "﻿Thi-This is the first time I'm hearing any of this." "﻿It wasn't exactly something I could tell you." "﻿Why are you so compelled to feel that way...?" "﻿Because ever since the first time I saw you ﻿you've been more important than anyone." "﻿More important to me than even myself." "but ﻿actually I was the one being chased." "but actually." "you asshole!" "﻿Hiro-san!" "just stop already!" "I met you and my life turned into a mess!" "and it's all because of you!" "﻿I'd be a much more calm and collected ﻿person if I'd just never met you!" "﻿Why the hell should someone like you be getting me so upset.." "﻿Hiro-san." "﻿getting me so... ﻿I love you." "﻿I love you damn it you asshole!" "﻿Why someone like you?" "!" "the total complete worst..!" "﻿Maybe it's impossible to be absolutely sure of anything." "﻿But I can tell you one thing - there's no one in this ﻿world I could ever love more than I love you." "how happy I would be... ﻿It can't be anybody else but him." "﻿If it's not him." "﻿I'm sorry." "I really can't hold back right now." "﻿Is there a limit to how much you can love somebody?" "﻿No matter how much I hurt him and get hurt by him like burns..." "﻿because then you can never forget me." "ever be able to leave my side." "﻿Loving someone so madly and helplessly like this... ﻿I will never love like this again." "but why do you have this much stuff?" "!" "we won't ﻿be able to both fit our things!" "actually." "﻿Is this something you're going to use?" "you can just stash that away somewhere above the closet" "﻿Airmail for me?" "﻿What's it doing here?" "﻿Dear Hiro-san... ﻿but recently my longing to see'you has ﻿been growing more and more'intense" "﻿and I can't help but laugh a bitwryly at myself." "I miss you." "I miss you." "I miss you!" "﻿I love you." "﻿Kusama Nowaki." "these are the last of the boxes." "﻿Why did you open those?" "﻿1-1 can't believe you wrote such embarrassingiletters... so they're mine!" "why didn't ﻿you ever put them in the mailbox?" "!" "﻿Getting in touch with you would have made ﻿me want to go immediately back home!" "﻿Then throw them away!" "not with your name written on them!" "﻿What the hell?" "!" "please!" "I'll go throw them out right now!" "﻿No!" "They're mine!" "﻿Hiro-san... so please let that be the end of it." "how are you?" "We had ﻿our first snowfall over here today." "﻿Nowaki would write these letters whenever ﻿he felt the urge to see me thinking to wait until ﻿he had finished what he'had set out to do." "he couldn't suppress his longing... ﻿Oh God... ﻿I think I'll live to 150 with just these" "﻿I'm going to throw them away." "Please give them back." "you can't!" "They're mine now." "I'm not giving them to anyone!" "wait a minute!" "﻿Shut up!" "﻿Hiro-san!" "﻿Shut up!" "Stay away from me!" "Get away!" "generous boss!" "I don't mind as long as you're happy." "don't mind at all!" "medical residents are very busy people!" "﻿Don't you worry about that!" "﻿We'll be just fine." "It's all a matter of attitude." "﻿That's right" "I finally realized ﻿we have a serious lack of communication." "all we need to do is start from the beginning." "I!" "m home!" "﻿W-Welcome back." "﻿Starting from the very first greeting... when did you ever tell me ﻿you were going to study abroad?" "﻿When we were eating together at that family restaurant." "﻿You'd been working on a paper... ﻿Study abroad?" "﻿Yes." "One of the world authorities in pediatrics ﻿is a professor at my university's sister school" "﻿and I think it's an amazing chance to ﻿be able to have him as a teacher." "﻿But I'm not sure if I should go or not.." "I'd go if I were you." "shit!" "I messed up!" "wouldn't you be lonely?" "﻿Eh?" "Why?" "who's going to?" "﻿Other people have nothing to do with it just go." "don't bother thinking about it." "I messed up again!" "﻿I see" "﻿I said that?" "﻿Yes" "I was able to make up my mind to go abroad." "﻿Thank you!" "I do vaguely ﻿remember saying something like that... there's no "might" about it." "that means the real cause of this whole fiasco was... me"