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VOLUME 5 – CONNECTED FEELINGS epilogue

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– Because of the case, I didn’t have a lot of time to practise

However, in the two days before the perfor and was able to finish the perfornal, she stood up and bowed at the audience

In the very back seat, Keiko waved her hand

Sitting next to her, Yaku with his arms crossed

Keiko kneed Yakumo and woke him up

– My , Yakuht have just been stretching

Haruka thought the sight of Yakue

Keiko must have taken Yaku at Haruka’s flat ever since that day Kazuhiroaround at home

Keiko’s interest seemed to have been piqued by Yakumo, the son of her old friend, and she’d sneaked into his hospital room

Then, she’d met Isshin and ended up interested in him too Finally, she said that both would be hard to throhich was cryptic to Haruka

If Kazuhiro heard that, he’d definitely faint

Though the case this tiain orth it

A bond that had been cut for fifteen years had been connected again –

Haruka gave a slight wave and then left for the wings of the stage

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After she finished cleaning up, she left the school, only to hear the sound of a car horn

She spotted Keiko waiting there with her car Yakumo was in the backseat too

‘What is it?’ asked Haruka as she approached Keiko stuck her face out of the

’Yakuot, so I’ there anywhere What will you do, Haruka?’

Of course –

’I’ll go!’

There was actually ato skip that today

Haruka quickly stepped into the passenger seat Right after she did, the car started

’Hey, Yakuet?’ asked Haruka as she turned around

Yaku bothered

’So for this whole ti well, because after he yawned like he always did, he lay down in the backseat and shut his eyes

Within five

’Haruka, Yakumo-kun really is such a nice boy,’ said Keiko earnestly

Haruka looked at the backseat through the rear-view mirror Yakumo’s eyes were shut, completely still

’He is But Yakuirl’s heart at all He’s too thick-headed’

Yakumo’s eyebroitched He see

Since he was pretending to sleep, it felt like Haruka shouldn’t wake hiaze and smiled

Ishii had so e as this, the police had to present some sort of opinion

However, the situation made it difficult to present, and fifteen years had passed There had been a search at the scene, but since the house had burnt down, that wasn’t certain either

Ishii thought that the case wasn’t exeation had beenanybody now, but if they had focussed more on why the testimony had been off, this wouldn’t have happened

However, that was just what people did, not just police The people in charge weren’t perfect

They couldn’t charge Miyuki with the case that occurred fifteen years ago

Partly it was because the statute of limitations was up, but at the tied for a crio hadn’t been Miyuki’s only cri with the attempted murder of Yakumo, she had put her hand to ether cases for each of those

If possible, Ishii wanted Miyuki to spend the rest of her life in prison

In any case, if he didn’t hurry to finish these reports, Miyagaould yell at hiain Ishii focussed on his work

– I wish Gotou would help a little

Ishii looked up at Gotou, who had an unlit cigarette in his mouth

Ever since that case, Gotou would often sit like this to think

At first, Ishii had thought that Gotou was thinking over what had happened, but recently, Ishii started to believe that wasn’t the case

Still, Ishii had no way of knohat Gotou was thinking

Suddenly, Gotou stood up

’Ishii I’ve decided,’ declared Gotou loudly

’What have you decided?’