This drabble is dedicated to my best friend who introduced me to this manga. Hope you enjoy it, Azu! ;)
Remember that cute little reincarnated Yuca at the end of the story? This is the expansion of the ending.
To all readers, I hope you like it.
He had forgotten everything. Thrown it all away, for the sake of moving forward.
He runs down the pathway, nimbly swerving around slow-moving pedestrians before finally turning down a quieter road and coming to a stop in front of a house with white walls and flowers blooming all about. He sees a man, with short light-coloured hair, watering the potted plants at the front of the house. He slows, creeping towards his prey with silent steps, the cheerfully whistling man unaware of his impending attack.
A pounce, a battle cry; and victory is almost claimed. But at the last moment the man turns and catches him mid-leap, immobilizing him. He squirms to get free but fails – the arm locked around his waist is too strong. His master plan thus thwarted, all he could do was grin rather sheepishly up at the man who held him firmly tucked under his arm.
His intended victim and now captor chuckles, and suddenly he finds himself airborne, high above the tall man's head. Yet he knows that he will not fall, and that security makes him laugh as well. Soon he is placed on strong, broad shoulders; his arms automatically wrap around the top of the man's head, not for fear of falling, but to fulfil the desire to be closer.
He ducks together with the man as they pass through the doorway, careful of the door frame. The smell of food greets them, along with the back of a slim short-haired woman at the stove. A lovely, radiant smile, one like the sun, is all he can see as the woman turns.
"Welcome back, Yuu!"
The little boy, sitting perched on his father's shoulders, pauses for the slightest moment, as if suddenly recalling something. But the memory passes almost as if it had never been there, and his grin widens even more as he beams at his mother with all the beautiful innocence of a child who had only known love and never suffering.
"I'm home!"
He had forgotten everything. Cast away the fear of not remembering, and the fear of not being remembered. Because he had finally realized the most important truth – they could forget the world, their lives, and everything in it, but no matter what…
They would still remember.
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