Being together is so torturous, it's the first time between the two of them, but this torment is like a bashful writer having to go on stage tomorrow to deliver an acceptance speech for the Nobel Prize in Literature.
As long as he is with Kiyono Lin, even if it's torturous, it's a happy kind of torture—Dubian Che really wants to know if Kiyono Lin feels the same.
The beech trees on both sides of the road have entered the leaf-falling period.
As long as they endure this winter, with the south wind blowing next year, they will be able to sprout and leaf again.
The two stand behind the yellow line, waiting for the trains they are about to take.
Dubian Che is heading to "Shinano Town," west of Shibuya Station; Kiyono Lin is going to "Nishioi Town," east of Shibuya Station.
If he hadn't gone to "Ochazuke" that night, he wouldn't have moved out; he would have continued living in that rental with a balcony too small to stand on.
