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"Father." Satoshi acknowledge.
"I had completely forgotten what your step dad looked like Sato." Mia told him. She was dressed in a tee shirt and pajama pants. It was a few days later. Satoshi had gotten permission to eat dinner with Mia and her family, when it had started to downpour outside. Mia's parents had absolutely refused to let him go home in such dangerous conditions, so he was spending the night.

He was very, very happy, life seemed almost… normal.

Then, it happened.

The boy had woken up to the sound of sobbing. Confused and curious, Satoshi headed toward the source of the noise. Seeing that the door was cracked open, he decided to look in.

There was Mia, crying while her father tried to comfort her. 'What's wrong?' Satoshi wondered. 'Why is she crying?' He leaned in to listen as Eda spoke to his daughter.

"Shh… it's ok…your safe."

Mia sobbed. "Why? Why won't they stop?"

"Stop what dear?"

Mia wiped her eyes. "I still see them, they won't stop. They keep bleeding!" She buried her face in her hands.

"I can't forget then. Some of them where just kids, fresh out of boot camp. They'll never see their families or friends again…" She stopped, unable to go on.

"Drink this." Said her father, pushing a glass into her hand. Mia obliged and drank it. A few minutes later, she was asleep.

Satoshi was in shock. She had been… crying? The Mia he knew didn't cry, his Mia was always strong.

"Satoshi?" The boy whirled around at the sound of his name. He had been caught.


Satoshi had insisted on knowing what had happened to Mia and reluctantly the story was let out.

Medical leave.

Under stress.

He could not even begin to phantom the horrible things she'd seen in war. And it upset him. She had practically been his surrogated mother during collage. She was his idol. An untouchable, flawless statue. But Satoshi had started to see the cracks in the statue. It frightened him. If she left next time, would she come back?

End Flashback


Present-day Satoshi reached over and punched in the code for his apartment. After getting inside, he decided to be lazy and flopped onto the couch.

What happened next? Krad asked Satoshi.

/She… died in a bombing two months later.The boy relayed quietly to his other self.

It seemes that you have learned that not all stories have happy endings.

Satoshi agreed with him, for once. He had lost something that day when he got the phone call, and it might never come back.

And speaking of phone calls...

Ring Ring!

"Hello, Hiwatari speaking."

"Hiwatari-san? It's Daisuke. Did you get Friday's homework?"

"Never say never Sato. You're just itching to prove yourself wrong." It was one of Mia's favorite sayings.

"Yeah, hold on a minute..."

END


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