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towards Koyama and Utsunomiya,

...will be arriving around

8 minutes late due to the snow.

We offer our sincerest apologies

to passengers who are in a hurry.

Until that moment, the possibility

that the trains could be delayed

had not even crossed my mind.

My uneasiness suddenly increased.

Due to the snow, this train is

currently around 10 minutes late.

Our sincerest apologies to those who

were in a hurry to catch this train.

A little while after we

passed Oomiya station,

in the blink of an eye, the buildings

in the scenery became sparse.

The next stop is Kuki, Kuki.

Our sincerest apologies for

the late arrival to this station.

Passengers transferring to the Toubuisezaki

line, please approach the number 5 exit.

Due to the following train being delayed,

this train will be temporarily

stopping here for 10 minutes.

We offer our sincerest apologies

for the trouble we are causing...

... to passengers in a hurry,

but please wait here for a while.

I'm sorry.

Due to the following train being delayed,

this train will be temporarily

stopping here for 10 minutes.

We offer our sincerest apologies

for the trouble...

we are causing to passengers in a hurry...

Nogi, Nogi...

We offer our sincerest apologies

to our passengers,

Due to delays in the following train, this

train will be temporarily stopping here...

We appreciate the difficulty that this

is causing for passengers in a hurry...

The time it took to go from station

to station was unbelievably long.

And the train stopped at each

station for an unbelievably long time.

The invisible winter wasteland

outside the window,

the flowing away of time,

the painful hunger,

all these things gradually

wore down my heart.

The promised time came and went.

By this time, Akari must

have started worrying.

On that day... that day the phone call came,

The fact that I could not offer Akari

even a single word of kindness,

even though she was beset by a

far greater sadness than I was,

is something that I was very ashamed of.

So...

it's goodbye for us today.

Akari's first letter arrived

half a year after that.

During the summer of

my first secondary year.

I remember everything

she wrote in that letter.

2 weeks before today, the promised date,

I wrote the letter that I was

going to give her in person.

Things that I couldn't not tell Akari,

things that I wanted her to hear:

In truth, I had a lot of them.

We sincerely apologize for

the trouble.

In a moment, this train will start

moving towards Utsunomiya.

Koyama, Koyama...

Passengers using the Touho

bullet train, please transfer here.

Passengers getting on the

Touho bullet train outgoing from Morioka...

please go to the first platform...

Passengers boarding the train headed

towards Tokyo, please go to platform 5.

Attention please, passengers,

due to the snow, the Ryoumo line is

...currently suffering a

major operational delay.

We are terribly sorry for the trouble.

Until such time when the train arrives,

please wait.

In any case,

I have no choice but to forge forward

to the station where Akari is waiting.

The train arriving on track number 8

heading towards Ashikaga-Maebashi...

...will be going to Takasaki.

Please stand behind the white line.

Attention please, passengers,

Due to the current snowstorm, this

train will be temporarily stopping.

We apologize for the inconvenience caused.

We are currently unable to provide

a time for the resumption of service.

Repeat:

Due to the current snowstorm, this

train will be temporarily stopping.

We apologize for the inconvenience caused.

We are currently unable to provide

a time for the resumption of service.

Takaki-kun, are you well?

Club activities have recently

started earlier in the morning.

That's why I'm currently

writing this letter on the train.

For some reason, the Akari I imagine

from the letters was always alone.

Just like that, the train ended up

stopping there without a

sound for nearly two hours.

Every minute felt like an eternity.

Time, clearly as if it had

a malicious intent,

slowly ebbed away above me.

I clenched my teeth,

and keeping myself from crying

was the only thing I could do.

Akari...

Please... just...

...return...

...return home already!

The train arriving on track number 3

heading towards Ashikaga-Maebashi...

...will be going to Takasaki.

This train will be stopping here

momentarily due to the snow.

Akari...

Delicious...

Really? It's just normal Houji tea.

Houji tea? It's my first time drinking this.

No way, you must have drunk it before.

Really?

Yes.

And after that, we have this... I made

it, so I can't guarantee the taste, but...

if it's alright with you, please eat some.

Thank you!

I was really hungry.

How was it?

It's the most delicious out of all

the things I have eaten up to now.

You exaggerate!

It's true!

It must be because you are hungry.

Really?

Yes.

I'm going to eat some too.

You're going to be moving soon, right?

Yes... next week.

Kagoshima, huh...

It's far away.

But Tochigi is pretty far away too.

Heh, so far away that you can't return home.

We'll be closing the station soon. There

are no more trains running anyway.

Ah. Yes.

Since it's snowing this much,

please take care of yourself.

Yes sir.

Can you see it? That tree.

The tree from the letter?

Yes. The cherry blossom tree.

Hey...

Doesn't it... somehow resemble snow?

Yes, it does.

In that moment,

the dwelling place of

eternity, hearts and souls...

became clear to me.

It was as if I understood

everything that...

...had happened in my life

these last thirteen years,

and... the time which was to come.

I became unbearably... sad.

Akari's warmth, her spirit,

how should I treat them,

where can I bring them?

That was something I did not know.

That we could not be

together forever after this

was a fact I clearly grasped.

The vast lives we had ahead of us,

the boundless amount of time which laid

unavoidably stretched out in front of us.

But...

the anxieties which I had caught

sight of soon melted away.

And after that, only Akari's

tender lips remained.

That night,

we stayed at a small barn beside a field.

Sharing an old blanket, we

talked long into the night.

And before we knew it, we had fallen asleep.

In the morning, I boarded the train

which had started running again.

Akari and I parted.

Takaki-kun...

Takaki-kun, you'll...

be alright from now on. I'm sure of it!

Thank you.

Akari, you too, be well!

We'll write letters... and telephone too!

I did not tell Akari

that I had lost the letter

which I had written to her.

From before to after that kiss...

it seemed as though everything

in the world had changed.

I strongly wished for the

strength to protect her.

Just thinking that, as always,

I continued watching the

scenery outside the window.

Chapter 1:
Oukashou: End

Chapter 2

Kanae, are you going after school too?

Yeah. Are you alright with that?

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