Toshikazu Kawaguchi

I finally understand.

The present didn’t change for Kohtake, but she banned everyone from using her maiden name and changed her attitude towards Fusagi. She would be with Fusagi to continue being his wife, even though she had vanished from his memory. Hirai abandoned her successful bar to rejoin her family. While repairing her relationship with her parents, she was learning the traditional ways of the inn from square one.

The present doesn’t change.

The present hadn’t changed – but those two people had. Both Kohtake and Hirai returned to the present with a changed heart.

no matter what difficulties people face, they will always have the strength to overcome them. It just takes heart. And if the chair can change someone’s heart, it clearly has its purpose.

If you can’t change anything, why would anyone want to go back?

They are the result of something passing through the filter that is Picasso.

. In a word, she was inconspicuous. She had no presence. She didn’t have many friends either.

Tough luck,’ she said, exhaling a plume of smoke with obvious pleasure.

She had drafted that line earlier when Fumiko had begun her explanation, and had been waiting to deliver it ever since.

she let herself slouch limply into her chair,

Life doesn’t get served to you on a plate.

In that moment, Fusagi remembered that he had a wife, but he didn’t remember that Kohtake, standing before him, was his wife