Three Days of Happiness

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Chapter 7: Time Capsule Raiding
When I decided to write my will, I soon noticed that I couldn’t start
writing anything at all without an assumption of who was going to
be reading it.
Holding a pen over stationery I bought from a nearby shop, I
thought about what to write for a long time.
Cicadas were stopped on the power poles outside, and they were
noisy enough that it felt like they were inside.
While the cicadas were there, I could blame them for not being able
to move my pen - but even after they flew off, I still hadn’t written a
single word.
Who was I hoping would read this will in the first place? A will is
fundamentally a means of communication. I had to write to tell
someone something about me that they couldn’t see otherwise.
I asked myself, what did I have to tell anyone? Of course, I
immediately thought of my childhood friend, Himeno. So should
this will contain my thanks toward Himeno, or a confession of my
love?
As a test, I took about an hour carefully writing a letter to her. To
summarize what it looked like when I was done:
I don’t know what you think of me by now, but I’ve kept
loving you since that day ten years ago.
I survived until twenty because of my memories from when I
was with you, and I won’t survive beyond twenty because I