You Are Loved (IDENTITY extras)

Unfeatured #1: Arina's skating career

After her father shot her legs, Arina was forced to sit in a wheelchair for months. It was the worst injury she had ever had until now. She got one bullet shattered her left thigh's bones and another right through her knee.

After battling through a series of depressions. Even though there were times she felt as if there would be no bottom that was lower than this one, eventually, she still pulled herself up and overcame it.

"Isn't it just wonderful that you're allowed to fully express how dear a wheelchair is to you? Oh, a wheelchair — a chair with wheels — God bless that one who invented it as it helped people like me exceedingly," sighed Arina while talking to a random plant friend placed by the window.

She lowered and patted her wheelchair friend.

A few months passed, and her legs somehow healed enough to say goodbye to the wheelchair ('for now', everyone thinks) and finally was able to walk around like usual (thank god).

Arina also started dating Asano at around this time, and slowly adjusted her habit from calling him 'Asano-kun' to 'Gakushuu'.

One day she suggested they revisit the ice rink, and they did, only for Arina to meet her greatest disappointment.

No matter how hard she tried, she couldn't jump a quad anymore. Why? Why though? Is it because her legs can no longer heal?

Gakushuu watched her jump into the air, and do a four-rotation, only to slip and fall on the hard ice for the fiftieth time already.

Outrage of frustration, she didn't get up but slapped the ice with her palm and tears began to stream down her face.

"Gakushuu...I think my legs won't ever behave the same again..."

Out of distress she had mumbled. Gakushuu hurried toward and pulled her into a hug.

He rubbed her back, "Don't give up just yet. We will find a way to fix this. We will," he said gently and lifted her chin, wiping her tears away.

"Oooh, I DON'T know about that!"

Arina only burst out crying louder.

"It's over for me, oh Gakushuu, it's ovee-e-e-er—"

She slipped away from his arms and lay down on the ice in defeat, moaning in distress.

No matter how hard Gakushuu tried to console her, she acted the same way until the next day. He suddenly found her bubbly all of a sudden again.

"It will be alright, Arina! I always find myself telling me that — It will be alright! There are so many ways in this world to solve a problem, my dear Arina! I will keep trying again every day until I can regain my quads! And even if in the end I won't ever find myself getting them back, oh my, then I will still find a way to win a tournament if I ever can compete again! Amid adversity there is always a glimpse of hope that's glittering, isn't it? Oh, isn't it?" she chuckled happily and whirled around to skip toward the memorial rink.

"No matter what, Arina," Gakushuu told his girlfriend heartily while trailing after her, "you will also be the number one in everything within my heart."