All dreams... must have an ending...
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And like all good dreams...
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They must start from somewhere...
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Just like how much...
He wanted it...
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A better life...
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For his family...
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And lastly...
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At the end of the war...
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A life after all of THAT...
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A life as a... happily married man...
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WITH HIS TRUE LOVE...
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But alas...
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Time had other plans...
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And so he stood by the edge of the hill, with stones erected with those names...
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Of those he loved the most...
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Ako...
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Waka...
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Ishigami...
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For the first time... here...
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At the very place where he buried those dearest to him...
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He didn't hold back tears...
Clear streams of his liquids flowed, his hands trembled at the thought-
His knees knelt...
His soul...
Wept for everything he went through...
For everything the entire Japanese people... had to go through...
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And even if he was glad, the war had finally ended...
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With his own hands...
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His vision couldn't help but blur, his skin felt the slight tinge of the cool summer wind...
The heat was chilling, the sun radiating...
And his very being ached for not having her...
Stand right beside him...
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Right at this very moment...
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"I-Ino..."

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Kyouka (強化)
ActionA bitter conflict turns sour when former student: Kuroke Mutsu attempts to kill his mentor figure: Suzushii Kakomi. After multiple attacks in Tokyo, Japan. Jisei Suzuto agrees to become an Ishiin! Along with tomboyish Manaka Yukinari, secluded Koyo...