Always By Your Side | S.M. (ENG)

18.

*PRESENT*

Takemitchy believed that with Kisaki's removal from Toman, the future he came from changed for the better. However... It wasn't like that at all.

The present has worsened even more than before. Hina also died in this future, but she wasn't the only victim. At the present time, all Toman captains are dead. Annie disappeared without a trace, and so did all the information. As if it ceased to exist.

The perpetrator of all this was someone Hanagaki wouldn't have suspected. It was Mikey.

The boy broke down when he found out about all this, he didn't know how it all happened or what he should do at the moment. He thought everything would end well now, but he was disappointed.

Takemichi and Naoto thought through the situation and found a photo he had taken with his friends before returning to the future. There was a letter next to him. A letter from Mikey. Hanagaki immediately wanted to go to that place, and right now he was at the airport when suddenly someone stopped him.

"Takemitchy?" He heard a woman's voice, and when he turned around he saw someone he didn't expect.

"A-ami-chan?!" He exclaimed in shock. "Is that really you?!" He ran up to her.

The women was slightly skinny and her hair was black at the present time. Her eyesight was sad and her face was hard to read.

"I've finally found you." She came up to the surprised boy. "He contacted you, right?" She asked what surprised her companion even more.

"Who?" He asked.

"Manjiro." She said with tears in her eyes.

"Not really..." He scratched his head. "But I found a letter from him..."

"A letter?!" Girl was surprised. "Show it to me!"

Hanagaki showed her the message, and the girl said that she would go with Hanagaki.

"Ami-chan? Forgive my confusion, but... You're not with Mikey?"

"You don't remember?" Woman asked surprised at which the other shook his head, she sighed softly.

"We were together..." She said. "For a long time... But then... Something has changed. He has changed too... Before me he always pretended that everything was fine but I knew he was lying. I wanted to reach him somehow... And when it seemed to me that I managed to do it... I was wrong about it." She lowered her head sadly. "We were engaged..." Ami said, and Takemitchy opened his mouth in surprise. "Manji bought a house... And he didn't tell anyone where it was. We spent one night there together... A day later... He disappeared..." She wiped her tears. "He only left me documents with a new identity and money so that I would've enough to live on... And he himself... He left... Probably everything was beyond him and he wanted to protect me, but..." She cried. "I can't live without him." Said honestly. "I was looking for him, all this time... I tried to find him but I failed. And then everyone started to leave... I thought that if I could at least get to you, and then I would find Mikey as well... After all, only you're still alive... You're the last surviving division captain."

"What will you do when we find him?" Hanagaki asked sadly.

"I'll hit him." She replied wiping her tears. "And II'll yell at him. He promised me something..." She lowered her head sadly.

After a long journey, they finally got there. They both decided that Takemitchy should show up there first, Ami hid and until some time of their conversation, only stood and listened, trying to suppress a cry.

Everything started to change when Hanagaki left Toman. Everything started to break down, and Sano was unable to control everything. After that, things only got worse and that has led to the present future. Manjiro had killed them, and now he asked Takemitchi to meet him as he had one last request for him.