Epilogue | The Deep Forest

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“Once it’s repaid—we’ll go back to being strangers.”

I wasn’t so pure that I didn’t understand what those words meant.

For someone as dense as Yuu, I thought his breakup line was a bit too poetic.

The sense of loss, like the most important thing in the world slipping away, wraps around me from behind in a tight embrace.

It felt like standing in a deep forest.

My vision blocked.

No idea where to go.

A helpless loneliness, like waiting for rescue.

“Since we’re lovers, I’m your number one, right?”

Of course not.

If we were the type to live prioritizing only love, Yuu and I wouldn’t have connected in the first place.

In other words, I messed up again.

Drunk on my first love, I got carried away thinking I could have it all.

Even though the world isn’t something prepared just for me…

I’m forced to face, once again, something I’d known all along.

Ah, seriously…