Arima Kousei gets trapped in a treacherous hidden world in a very young age after he was brought in Las Vegas, Nevada by force. It was at that time that he met his uncle who secretly works under CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) wherein he is the so...
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Miyazono Kaori POV:
The innocent Kousei that I once knew is gone as he became too different from the boy I loved long ago. He's different, now, but that's understandable as he was raised by a dangerous man for three years. It's obvious that he would absorb whatever he was teaching him. I survived my surgery but by the time I had woken up, he's gone. No one knew where he had gone to. We were never able to play the piano together again. At the time we met again, he was too different. I can't even recognize if he's really Arima Kousei or someone pretending to be him. He called himself 'Friend A' in front of Watari Ryota when he visited him in his suite.
Could it be because I didn't say 'Yes' to him, yet? I was slowly feeling so much guilt that I said a lie at him when we were fourteen. Kousei was distancing himself from me when his best friend arrived as he seemed to give his best friend space to talk to me. I stopped walking when we were already in the lobby to tell Watari Ryota about the truth of my feelings. "Watari Ryota, I know you're happy right now that you're- we're released from any kind of surveillance but I'll cut everything I have to say as I can't make excuses. I don't love you. I'm sorry."
Watari Ryota swallowed the truth painfully. "That's fine. I know you're in love with Kousei. It's obvious that you used me to get close to him."
I was about to leave and return to Kousei's room to give the letter he should have read if I did pass away in my surgery when Watari Ryota held my hand. "I'm sorry for lying for so long, Watari Ryota. I'm so sorry that I used you."
"You're in love with him. I know and I will respect that," he told me. "Even so, are you sure that you know the man who's living here? I was happy when I was released and I wasn't a hostage anymore. I was excited to see him but when I was finally able to see him here... I can't recognize and feel that I know him. He's not the Kousei we know."
"You do misunderstand, Watari Ryota. Something changed him," I said as I lower down my eyes. "We have to understand."
"Don't worry," he said to me. "I'll try to understand why you still love him."
"He's still the pianist I know but he was being raised closely by a treacherous man! He kept telling me about his fear towards his uncle," I told him. "I know that he had changed but that was understandable. He's seen things and he experienced considerable trauma. He was stolen from his father! It's obvious that it will take a huge toll on Kousei's psyche!"
"That man who had him threatened me upon the time I arrived in Las Vegas," he told me. "At those times, Kousei was still Kousei."
"What do you mean?" I asked him.
"He was still the innocent boy we all know," he answered me. "He was still the boy who wanted to leave the man that detained him here in Las Vegas, Nevada! I don't even know if I know him anymore now that he had adopted in his world!"
