[Kamikaze Chinchilla]

Love for eternity. The mere mention of it hit Yuu like a lead brick as a memory violently flashed before his eyes. A memory that didn't come from his life, but another. And one that ended horribly. His love for Toshi was almost a reflection, but he didn't dare speak of it and only hinted it through a brief moment of changed expression in his face. He didn't want to lose Toshi, but at the same time he didn't want her to continue living and regretting the moment she could have gotten her answers, "Toshi..I..I'll try my best to be your support.." His arms went around Toshi, feeling like it might be the last one he could give her with all of his heart poured into it.

He didn't understand why it came so suddenly. Maybe it was Nobuo trying to manipulate him into one direction, trying to make Yuu stop loving. And then he didn't know whether or not the vision he saw was a true memory or a fabricated one. But what remained true, and what he felt really mattered the most was Toshi after all.

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"Both lines, you say?" she stood up and turned to face him. Her expression was stern, but still marked with curiosity about all the things that were in his head. Things that he wouldn't let on, at least not without drawing them out by some form of question of sorts. She would follow him and keep her distance, as she didn't want to approach too closely to the entrance, "Don't tell me that you have somehow had a hand in putting these two families together."