Author’s Note – Thank You

This story was never about happiness, but about the kind of love that twists, clings, and refuses to die. If you felt something — sadness, unease, beauty in the ruin — then it lived as it was meant to.

Thank you for walking beside Himari and Mizuki, even as the sea took them.

Their love may have drowned, but your eyes kept it alive.

— Suhei Nakamura