SuNNY-ShO-ShUN 黒潮

~Washed ashore~

Some memories are like teardrops. They come sliding out to drop, evaporate, and disappear without leaving a trace. Sunny's childhood was like a teardrop memory. She tried to grasp them in her hands, but they dried off and went leaving an emptiness.

Shota is Shun

Shun is Shota

Shota is dead; Shun plays Shota,

but Shun is his name.

There was no information about an eventual twin. The Matsumoto could camouflage anything, especially since the events were more than ten years old. The boys Sunny saw looked like they were five, maybe six years old. Now the question which tormented her was how she came to be with the Matsumoto twins. Sunny was obviously in the vision. Why didn't she have memories of the boys or these events?

A part of her childhood was missing, and it was only now she realized.

"Obaasan."

"Hai."

"Do you have photos of when I came on vacation when I was little?"

"Why?"

"I just wanted to see how I looked."

"Oh, there must be photos somewhere. I'll look."

"How was I? I mean as a child?"

"Your hair was lighter, you had more freckles, and you clung to your mother's skirt like a baby Kangaroo. You were such a scaredy-cat. They used to-."

The older woman stopped, and for the first time, Sunny was suspicious about her grandmother's behavior, suddenly remembering how she forbid her to have a relationship with Shun.

Did she know?

Sunny was cautious. After seeing how the name Matsumoto shook her grandmother, she preferred to keep her in the dark about her returning memory.

"Where did we use to go on vacation?"

"Eh, Jeju."

"You mean Jeju in Korea?"

It was odd, why would her parents visit a Korean island when it would be more logical for them to go to Okinawa, Kyushu, etc. Sunny suspected her grandmother, but the woman's mask was as perfect as a Kabuki actor.

The teenager felt lost; there were the dreams where she was with her parents at the seaside. So many landscapes filled her mind; it seemed there was not one holiday they did not spend by the ocean.

Every vision had planes, airports, and finally, the sea. All of Sunny's childhood memories drowned in water; this was a contradiction for the girl who could not swim.

Trauma.

At that instant, it became the only explanation possible. Something happened which Sunny could not put the finger on, an event that even her grandmother refused to tell her. Whatever it was, it involved the Matsumoto family.

Sunny recalled her grandmother's reaction when she saw Shun. Never had Satsuki been so stern with her grandchild.

The secret must be terrible Sunny thought at last, so horrifying that Shun hated her.

No matter how dreadful and painful the truth was, the mystery had to be uncovered.

What happened to Shota, and why was Shun pretending to be his brother?

Shota, Shun both boys were part of her past, suddenly she remembered the 3rd boy.

Who was he?

He, too, had to know what happened; Sunny needed to find Kuro.