Together Forever 《Happy Sugar Life》

Together Forever

Flashbacks.

Shio realized that she lied on the hospital bed after she woke up. The things that she remembered is their marriage vows, their castle burned by flames, her older brother came suddenly in front of her to remind her forgotten promise with her mother, Satou-chan's last words and a sound of a broken jar falling to the floor.

At that day.
She realized that Satou-chan is already dead.
Lying lifeless in the pool of blood under her.
However, she was still smiling and hugging her.

Her palms twisted because of the crash of their fall. At the first, Shio didn't believe of what she was saw. In the other side, she also glad that she still hold her in her arms and never let it go.

It hurts.
But it more hurt when she found that Satou-chan's died before her.

Her mind aches but she didn't care and afraid. Her world feels like to become monochrome. Shio look around and find Satou-chan's ribbon and her ring beside the vase on the desk. At that time, she tried to grab it with her right hand and try to remember of what she said before.

Shio-chan, I hope you still love me when we're reborn.
I'm sorry.
Thank you.

Satou-chan hugs her tightly and almost covering her face to her chest. Shio's eyes were widen after she heard her words and a sound of broken jar echoing between them. It was all that incident before everything blacked out.

Shio spacing out her blank mind at the hospital window with empty eyes. She wonders why Satou-chan kept her alive instead of dying together. At that time, her older brother named Asahi came in her room with a flower bouquet and started his own conversation. "Shio, how are your condition?"

Rather than answering his question, Shio remained calm but tried to listen what he wants for once.

"I-It's okay! There is nothing to be afraid. Because we are here. That's why, please live with us, Shio?"

Those words from him makes her feels nothing when she saw her mother real appearance through the hospital window. From all this time after she lived with Satou-chan, her shadow haunted her because Shio forgot her. She was tired to repairing her relationship with her mother again. Because she realized that their previous promise to lived together as a family were already broken right before her mother thrown her alone at the alleyway.

"... I'm sorry. I don't do that stuff anymore."
"Because I'm already reborn."

Shio turned toward Asahi with a small smile and sharp eyes. For an instance, Satou's shadow mirroring her image in Asahi's eyes. "W-What are you saying?"

"My love, my happiness, is already inside of me."

Asahi shocked after he saw Satou's image brainwashing her little sister eyes. Shio's smile looks exactly like Satou's. He suddenly dropped his flower bouquet. Shio didn't care about him anymore and then went to the hospital lobby to take a walk. Shio's palm stroking the window glasses and suddenly stopped to holding Satou-chan's ribbon and the rings. Her empty eyes sharpened by her thoughts about Satou-chan.

Shio keep thinking why Satou-chan's save her life, although she wants both of them just died. Since the first time they met, Satou-chan always saving Shio instead of herself. She is her savior from the prisoned life of her family. She then realized of what she wished only for her.

Shio saw Satou-chan's image in front of her and hold their hands each other through the lobby window. They both smiling together, reflecting their happiness still connected even death do them apart.

Because of that, Shio puts their rings in her left finger and she still saw Satou-chan's. Satou-chan still smiling like usual as always. Smiling only for her.