When the music begins, the scene shows the view out of a window at night-it is raining so hard that what is actually outside can barely be seen, apart from the vague outlines of tower blocks and houses, and blurred lights coming from these and the traffic on the streets below. The camera then moves away from the window to reveal Mizuki's bedroom, the only light coming from the view of the window, which is enough to reveal two figures sleeping in the bed. Though to viewers it would probably be fairly obvious who the two are anyway (Mizuki and Mokomichi), the two remain unidentifiable until the camera is close enough to pick up on their features while sleeping. They are facing each other, and Mokomichi appears to be frowning in his sleep, while Mizuki's hair is messy enough that some of covers her face slightly, obscuring whatever expression she has. The camera lingers on them for only a moment, before the screen turns to white, and the vocals start

Fui ni ori dasu ame no oto
Koe wo agete naku kumotachi
The sound of sudden rain
From the crying clouds

Bright splashes of colour, akin to watercolour paint, splatter across the white background, and in the larger splatters, a still image of Mizuki sitting with Minah, Keiko and Yuna under the willow tree forms. In the smaller splatters around, abstract flowers and hearts and stars form, before the camera pans to another while space, and different coloured paint splashes fall onto it, and while the smaller ones again form patterns, the large splashes show a picture of Mizuki and Mokomichi walking along a street together. Though the two are shown to not even be holding hands, the closeness is obvious.

Doushite darou
Anata no inai hibi wa
Nareta hazu na no ni
Why?
I should have gotten used to
Days without you

Moving to another space, the next bright splashes of colour reveal an image of Mizuki, now a few years older, at her high school graduation, posing for a photograph with her class, and one of her then going to greet Emiko and Shino. The image that is revealed next to that shows Mizuki exiting the school gates, and Mokomichi waiting for her. The camera moves away slightly, and the next paint splatters reveal Mizuki and Mokomichi kissing in a bedroom-though it is unclear whose it is.

Mune ni shizumeta akuma ga
Koushite kao wo arawasu no wa
Nanimo kamo wo oite korenakatta
Batsu na no deshou ka
The demon sinking my heart
Has reared its head like this
Is it my punishment for not
Leaving it all behind?

A new paint splatter shows Mokomichi in a university accommodation-type dorm room, flicking through a textbook while on the phone, and one slightly below and off to the side shows Mizuki at a meeting of some sort with Sosuke. The two paint splatters below this fall side by side, slightly overlapping, and one shows Mokomichi wearing a suit and placing a photograph of Mizuki on a desk, while the other shows Mizuki doing the same, with a photo of Mokomichi. Another paint splatter falls below this one to show Mizuki and Mokomichi at a restaurant with Hana and Riku, apparently on a double date of sorts.

Aoi sora no shita sono fuchi de
Anata wa dareka to iki wo suru
Shiawase desu ka
Watashi no kodoku wa
Omotakatta deshou ka
In that abyss below the blue sky
You're breathing with someone else
Are you happy?
Is my loneliness
Weighing you down?

The next image shows Yuna and Kumori exiting a church, he as smart as always in a sharp looking suit with a rose in the lapel, and Yuna resplendent in a modest but beautiful wedding gown with a sparkling veil. She is holding a large mixed bouquet in her hands, and she appears to be about to throw it into the crowd. The camera pans off to the left, and the smaller paint splatters show the bouquet on its journey through the air, spinning, and eventually landing in a pair of hands. The next paint splatter is a large one, and it shows that Mizuki is the surprised recipient of the bouquet, much to the clear amusement and joy of Sho, Emiko, Hana and the others that are with her. Smaller splatters appear around the picture and turn into roses as the music builds up to the chorus, and then it goes white to create a new canvas as the chorus kicks in.

Naki nagara
Waratte waratte arukimashita
Hidamari ni saku niji sagashite
Anata nado oi tsukenai tokoro made
Watashi wa ikitakatta
While crying
I smiled and smiled as I walked on
Searching for the rainbow blooming in the sun
I wanted to go
To a place where you can't follow

This time, colour swishes across the page in small sections, as if an invisible paintbrush is applying them, and the patterns that appear and keep appearing throughout the rest of the sequence, surrounding each picture, look as if they are being drawn by an invisible rainbow pain. The first picture shows Mokomichi and Mizuki looking out at a rising sun through a window, their arms around each other, and then one below that shows them going on a walk in the streets. The camera pans off to the side, and the next colour swish reveals an image of the two of them cooking together in the kitchen.

The camera then continues to move down so that not even a small section of the previous colour swishes or patterns can be seen, and then a new, larger colour swish that seems somehow larger and brighter than any of them.

Ame no naka hashiru hashiru kakato no oto
Anata ni wa kikoeru deshou ka
Mou nidoto modorenai kaerimichi de
Watashi wa samayou
Running in the rain, can you hear
The sound of running footsteps?
I hesitate on the road home
Which I can't take anymore

The image that is shown at first seems slightly out of focus, of Mizuki and Mokomichi standing in the doorway of a building, but it zooms in, and the picture gradually becomes clearer, revealing details: They are facing each other, leaning in slightly, the building whose doorway they are standing in is a hospital's, Mizuki looking tired but happy while Mokomichi's expression leaning more towards wondrous. But the most important detail is that Mizuki is holding something-or rather, someone-in her arms. A tightly swaddled baby. From the angle of the picture, the baby's face is not clear, but their eyes are closed and they appear to be asleep. There are no giveaways to its gender from the blankets swaddling it or anything else, but what is clear is that the baby is very loved.

Watashi wa mada furi sosogu ame no naka de
Anata wo mattemasu

In the falling rain, I still
Wait for you

Anata wo mattemasu
Wait for you

The camera lingers on this for a moment for the last words of the chorus, but then the image fades and returns back to Mizuki and Mokomichi in the dark bedroom, the rain still pouring outside the window. Mizuki has awoken now, and brushes the hair away from her face, revealing there are tears forming in her eyes. Mokomichi stirs slightly, and though he doesn't open his eyes at first, his mouth moves, presumably asking Mizuki something. Her response is to point at the small space between them, and Mokomichi's eyes open just as the colourful images shown throughout the rest of the song flash between them-almost transparent now, and shimmering in a way that looks unreal, each fading away quickly to be replaced by the next.

But even with this, it is the final image, of the two of them with the baby, that lingers the longest, before it too fades out, leaving the two of them in the present scene in the dark, just as the last bars of the song finish.


If anyone on the Discord was wondering, this isn't the technically unnecessary ED song chapter that I decided to write anyway. That'll be the next ED song so keep your eyes peeled for that. And for everything, actually, because lots of things are going to go down.