The First Step
– Minori doesn't remember, even though the squeaking of wheels and the cold handles of metal haunt her memory.
She doesn't remember much before coming here. After all, there's no need to. She has a new life here, alongside her brother.
Her precious, wounded, brave, fragile, strong brother.
Minori doesn't remember much before coming to this world, but she remembers white-washed rooms and the stench of antiseptics. She remembers the clang of metal and rubber wheels on tiled floors. She remembers the wheelchair all too well.
It is the only thing she remembers from that past life – or perhaps a dream... Was that truly her fearless Toya withering away and unable to take a single step without collapsing to the floor? It just couldn't be him.
Toya can walk just fine here, he can run and dance just like every other person on the street. There's no need for crutches and wheelchairs and gazing out hospital windows as the world passed Toya by.
Maybe that's why she'd given him a video game for his birthday. And, as Toya himself had said "It was the best birthday ever!"
There's no need to return to that past white-washed world if it means taking this freedom away from her brother.
She remembers how hard the first step had been for him, and he didn't deserve to go through that pain again.
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