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At 24, Hiromi met Yuuji Itadori on a rainy Thursday night, in a small jazz bar hidden beneath the noise of the city. Yuuji was 18 - too bright, too kind, too young to carry the sadness in his eyes. He drank his coffee too sweet, laughed like he still believed the world could be saved, and never answered the questions that mattered most.
For 12 years, Hit romi tried to forget him.
Older now, quieter and carrying secrets Hiromi may never be allowed to know, Yuuji returns like a song left playing in an empty room. His presence awakens everything Higuruma thought he had buried: desire, guilt, longing, and the unbearable question of whether he has been living his own life, or merely, surviving without the only person who ever made him feel real.
But some people do not return to stay. Some people return only to remind you where the sun used to be.