All of his life, Kousei Arima was a boy that was just about automatic as you could get when playing the piano. Then, one day, a free-spirited violinist comes into her life......
....but then, Kousei finds out his fate may be in jeopardy. What will b...
Meanwhile, that same night, on this warm 68 degree F/20 degree C night, in another part of Tokyo, near the city's famed Rainbow Bridge, was another girl who was in a different school's uniform, just crying her eyes out over the suicide of Kousei Arima. She looked at a news article on her phone which said Kousei Arima's death ruled a suicide by overdose.
~NEWS ARTICLE~ The death of teenage piano prodigy Kousei Arima on September 10 at the age of 14 has been confirmed as a suicide by overdose. The doctor that had left the pills of Chlorpromazine that were intended for another patient, whose name has not been disclosed, has resigned from the hospital to atone for this oversight; the doctor was also fined 100000 yen as well, and banned from any medical practice for five years for this act of negligence. Mr. Arima had suffered three different episodes of head trauma prior to his death, and it is confirmed that he had Crutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, which was inherited by his mother, Saki Arima, another famous musician..... ~END NEWS ARTICLE~
As she looked at the phone and read the news story, the girl said to herself, sobbing, "Kousei Arima..... you don't know how much you meant to me.... you helped me get into the piano, and I can't believe you're gone.... well, I've made it to the Rainbow Bridge. This is the place.... where I shall end.... my life. Goodbye, mom, and dad, goodbye, cruel world..... life is unfair...."
Just as the girl put her feet near the fence of the bridge's sidewalk, the girl's mother and father, came up to her and looked shocked. They grabbed her immediately.
"Keiko, darling, what the hell? You're going to kill yourself because of Kousei Arima?" It was Keiko Tamura, the pianist who had performed at the Gala and Kousei's memorial concert, who was just very frazzled over Kousei's suicide. Keiko's mother and father, Seiko and Masahiro, found her trying to jump off the bridge. Masahiro, Keiko's father, said "Please, Keiko! I know you are heartbroken over Kousei Arima, but don't even think about jumping off that bridge!" Keiko was now being restrained by her parents, who pleaded with her not to take her life. "Keiko, darling, don't leave your younger brother behind all because someone you liked died! It would be foolish and cowardly! You aren't terminally ill like Kousei was! We love you too much for you to do this!"
As Keiko's parents pleaded with her to not and her life and restrained her, two police officers, one male, one female noticed what was going on and came over to intervene and help. The male officer said "What is going on? Another suicide attempt?" The female officer said "You two, we'll help out." The male officer said to Keiko, "Come over here, please." She then approached the two officers. "What's your name?" Keiko said "Keiko Tamura." The female one then said "What brought you here on this bridge? To end your life? Why?" Keiko said, "Yes, and I wanted to end my life because Kousei Arima killed himself. He meant a lot to me, and there's this big hole in my heart that's just too big to mend. I'm heartbroken."
The two police officers became sympathetic. The female one said to Keiko "Miss Tamura, we're with the police. We want you to know, that what you were trying to do, was just bad. Please, you are not alone in this world. We are aware of what happened to Kousei Arima, and we've had to stop a few musicians in this city, successfully, I should add, from doing what you did." The male officer said "A lot of people love you. You are not alone. But please, by doing what you were about to do would not only hurt you, but everyone around you emotionally. Think of all the emotional scars you would leave, not just on your family, but your friends as well." About 30 minutes and three other police officers showing up to the scene later, Keiko decided that it would not be worth it to end her life by jumping off the Rainbow Bridge.
She started to break down and cry, saying "You're freaking right..... I can't jump off. I'm a freaking emotional mess. I want to take myself to wherever the hell I can fix myself up emotionally. A mental hospital will be the only place where I can go now...." The first female officer that showed up on the scene hugged her. The four other police officers then reported the incident back to their headquarters. They would not arrest Keiko, but rather, they would instead send her to the nearest psych ward in Tokyo.
The female officer said to Keiko "It'll be alright, sweetie. That is the choice, a mental hospital. Well let's get you fixed up, shall we?" The police then briefed Seiko and Masahiro on the situation. "We're not going to arrest your daughter, Keiko, Mr. and Mrs. Tamura. We're going to try and send her to a mental hospital instead. She's in a state of severe emotional distress over Kousei Arima, and we've also successfully talked her out of committing suicide by jumping off the bridge. She will be taken to the mental ward shortly, for her sake."
The parents nodded. They knew that their daughter, Keiko, who was an excellent, happy-go-lucky pianist, whose whole world was turned upside-down over Kousei's death, was in a state of emotional disarray, and she needed to go somewhere to get her straightened out. Little did she know, that she would meet a new friend at the mental ward.....
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BONUS: In case you missed Chapter 37, A Crystal Clear Destiny/The Ghost of His Mother, this is Keiko Tamura:
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