【☆★Notice★☆】 The afterword,
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Akari and the others boarded a train from Matsumoto Station and headed north.
They arrived at a station within Azumino City. ”…It’s cold, as usual.” “Yeah…”
Akari gripped her sister’s hand tightly. Sure enough, it was cold. She looked around.
In this day and age, the fare gates of an unmanned station. There were only rice paddies all around. And in the distance, a range of mountains could be seen stretching out.
Facing the desolate landscape of nothing but mountains and rice paddies, Akari let out a sigh.
“I didn’t really want to come, you know…” ”…………Yeah”
Akari and her sister began walking side by side. And then, they headed for their parents’ house.
From here, it takes about an hour’s walk to get home.
If we were in the city, we could use buses or taxis to get around.
You could even take the train anywhere you wanted.
But that was not the case here. The car was the fundamental means of transportation.
Traveling by train or bus was essentially not an option.
That is why the frequency of trains and buses was extremely low.
… Youths who did not own a car had no choice but to move around by bicycle or on foot.
And since Akari and the others had no bicycles, they were forced to keep walking endlessly on foot like this.
”……It really is inconvenient, isn’t it.”
Only because Akari had lived in both a big city and the countryside did she understand how inconvenient this place was. ”……”
As they made their way home, Akari recalled things from days gone by.
Akari Ina, as well as Nanako, were originally from Nagano Prefecture. It was because their mother was from there.
The girls had lived in Nagano until just before they entered elementary school.
After that, their mother divorced and moved to the city upon remarrying. That is where she met Okaya.
But then, her mother divorced again and ended up moving back to the countryside.
And there, in Nagano, she snagged a man… which is how things stand now. ”……” Akari hated her mother.
For constantly swapping out men, for dragging the kids around on her own terms.
Because they kept bouncing between the city and the countryside, none of them ever made real friends, not here or there. ”……”
Leaving the countryside behind, coming to Okaya’s side, Akari and the others finally got what they truly wanted.
Joyful living, friends, and… a real family.
Everything they had desperately yearned for… they found it with Okaya.
And they absolutely never want to let go of what they’ve seized in their hands.
Before long, the two arrived in front of their family home.
It was a single-story wooden house. It wasn’t exactly full of good memories.
But they had to face it.
To make the happiness grasped in their hands last forever. “Let’s go, Onii-san.” ”……Yeah.” 【★Important Notice】 I’ve posted a new work!
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