Haru closed his eyes. The city loved him, and he loved the city. Girls,parties and more girls. Usually, he'd pick a girl and spend the night with her, but lately he had been spending time with a special girl. She had a voice of gold and a name that sent shivers of happiness up his spine. The girl was called Yui Ito.
He had never seen her face, but never questioned why. Maybe it was a pride thing, you don't question a lady of course. So every night, he wished his friends goodbye and headed to the outskirts of town where Yui lived. He had learnt a lot about Yui, she had a grandmother which she looked after all day and night and sang a song to send Yui's grandmother to sleep.
That had been how Haru started speaking to her, through her beautiful song. He was walking home from a weekend in another town where he had slept with a number of women and had a wonderful time when he walked past her house and felt like he didn't need to sleep with those women anymore because it seemed unnecessary . Haru had found her. The key to his lock, the missing piece of his puzzle, his world, his everything.
And yet; he had never seen her face. Haru looked into the mirror, the cracks were starting to show and the smears of dirt made it difficult to see. From the mirrors blurry reflection he could see last nights love affair in his bed. For the first time, Haru felt guilt.
So he would see her tonight, Yui, and ask her. The question to bind all worlds. He didn't have a ring, but words would have to do and after all words meant a lot. How did that poem go?
Sticks and stones can break my bones
But words will break my heart
Haru hoped, that words could fix whatever broken heart lay inside the creaky house on the outskirts of Nagasaki.
