Three Days of Happiness

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left to acknowledge my own faults.
“And in my original life, Himeno succeeded in her objective. Is that
right?”
“Correct,” Miyagi said. “Ms. Himeno... did it right in front of your
eyes, Mr. Kusunoki.”
To show it to me.
To clear up years and years of resentment.
I read through the letter again.
This is what it said.
To my one and only childhood friend.
I had intended to die right in front of you.
At the viewing platform, I had meant to have you wait below
and fall right next to you.
Maybe you never quite realized, but I always despised you.
Never responding to my cries for help, then casually
appearing before me now, I couldn’t hate you more.
So now that I’m useless to you, I thought I’d kill myself.
But it seems like you’ve gone even more insane than me in
these ten years.
It doesn’t seem like it’ll do any good getting revenge on you
now.
So I’m going to just quietly vanish.
Goodbye.
I only hope that what you said about having little time to live