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    "... Frieren?"

    A soft, melodic voice. His voice. She didn't realise how much it danced in her ears until she heard it again. She faced him, the torrential anxiety within her disappearing in a blink.

    A calming smile was plastered on both of their faces, an expression they weren't expecting to wear upon their reunion. But there were no other expressions to make, because neither of them were particularly theatrical actors. As she thought, a tearful reunion didn't suit them at all.

    "It's been a while," Himmel said.

    The party reaches Aureole, and each of them split off to the people they needed to talk to the most, the dearest people in their lives that had long passed.

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    22 Mar 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 3

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    It’s Christmas Eve, and Kamado Tanjiro has decided to take his girlfriend, Tsuyuri Kanao on a date. The Couple had been dating for a few months, and the boy’s ultimate goal is to spew out the Three Magic Words!

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    21 Mar 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 6

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    When you tend to a garden, do you nurture every plant in the same way?

    Do you hope for chrysanthemums to bloom alone as lilies do? Will you drown a cactus in cool, refreshing water, like a fern? Might you burn the delicate petals of a primrose in direct sunlight, next to a bright field of sunflowers?

    Would you want the rigorous blooms of wisteria to never grow tall and beautiful for fear of using a trellis?

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    On the hilly outskirts of Kobe, in the spring of 1923, Tsuyuri Kanao enjoys a gentle and comfortable life with her adoptive family. Working as a junior pharmacist in her family's business, trading her herbalist crafts for food or gadgets from her friends, and giving a few extra kind words to the familiar faces at her market stall composes the beautiful and steady rhythm of her life.

    When new feelings and faces turn her world upside down, will Kanao heed the voice that has kept her safe yet invisible?

    Or will the tiny embers shining in her heart allow her to bloom?

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    21 Mar 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 30

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    His raging fire is out. It leaves a blackened stain in his chest, and he feels the oxygen seep into his fresh burns to continue that same scorching pain inside. The gray of the ash covers the clean slate he once offered to someone for the future. His words continue to mean nothing. They continue to fall on deaf ears, and all he receives in return is a mask to wear for the sake of reputation.

    “I’m sorry, sir, I forgot to ask for the name of the reservation.”

    The train arrives. Yuki watches the other civilians board with friends or by themselves, some with luggage and some without. They all have different lives they continue to live. As the moon settles into the sky, these people head home to rest, so they can journey forward the next day. But Yuki remains unmoving on the bench, opting to observe others — just like back then, when he peered through the window of that dark, dark room.

    “Um, sir?”

    “I’m sorry,” he apologizes. “I think… Let me think about it more.”

    Yuki fought with his mother. He doesn’t know where to draw the line. After missing the train with nowhere else to go, he arrives at the main house. And Akito helps as best as she can.

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    10 Mar 2026

  5. Public Bookmark 10

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    He recalls the version of himself so tiny and helpless standing in his pile of clothes that were much too big in that moment. He watched as the other children screamed at his hideous form and ran away from him, deserting him to be left in the darkness. He understands why they would do that and never held it against them. He also understands that times are different; Machi and Kakeru are different and has never given him a reason to doubt them. But what sticks with Yuki the most from that memory is the sense of feebleness, the meek version of himself that could only watch as everything slips out of his hands.
    He hates that version of himself – he never wants to look back on that. But, despite fighting for change all this time, despite fighting for the chance to move forward after all those years of torture in the stagnancy of it all, it feels incredibly lonely. And the contradiction within himself makes him sick to his stomach.

    Yuki is moving back to Tokyo after his graduation. However, through a certain incident and an unwanted voicemail, he and Machi fight. And Yuki has to decide whether he will tell Machi about the past or lock it away forever.

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    10 Mar 2026