Please... Grab onto the ledge...

5:43 PM. The narrow, windy concrete ledge beneath the Community Bridge railing. Fifty meters of empty air above the dark river.

(Visual Montage: The world moves in agonizingly slow frames.)

(FRAME 1: Yuta's feet leave the concrete ledge, tilting forward.)

(FRAME 2: His arms open slightly, a gesture of final surrender.)

(FRAME 3: His body begins its initial, silent descent.)

(SOUND: A loud, jarring BANG—not the sound of water, but the sickening impact of a body slamming into the bridge railing.)

(It was Rin. She was sprinting at full, desperate speed, and had reached the top of the railing. Unable to stop or climb over safely, she had slammed her body into the metal barrier to make it and lurched forward, her arms blindly reaching down.)

(With a desperate, vice-like grip, she catches Yuta's right blazer sleeve with both her hands. The sudden, violent check of his momentum yanks Yuta back. He hangs for a fraction of a second, his body recoiled and suspended by the fabric.)

(SOUND: The thin, agonizing sound of the sleeve stretching taut under his full weight, threatening to tear.)

(Yuta is completely blindsided. The transition from acceptance to violent, chaotic survival is immediate. He immediately stares up at the railing, immensely shocked by the impact and the strength holding him.)

(Rin is tilted precariously over the railing, her torso pinned against the metal, her weight pulling Yuta. Her face is streaming with hot, desperate tears that are falling, splattering onto Yuta's shocked face.)

(Her body is barely balancing, and she is slowly beginning to slip, pulled forward by the combined weight and the slickness of the railing.)

HASHIMURA YUTA

(His voice is a barely audible, immense whisper, strained with effort and shock) Rin... let go. You'll fall. Let go! Slowly... let go!

(Rin doesn't listen to his instruction to save herself. Her terror and rage at his attempt to leave her—and the guilt of her own final, cruel words—overrides all fear.)

KARUIZAWA RIN

(She cuts him off with an angry shout, the sound raw and broken, fueled by adrenaline and sorrow) NO! You idiot! You stupid, selfish, worthless, idiot! How dare you do this?! How dare you leave me alone after I finally wanted a restart?!

(Her grip tightens, her knuckles white. Her body shakes with the effort.)

KARUIZAWA RIN

(Her voice cracks, dissolving into ragged sobs) I'm sorry! I'm sorry! I didn't mean it! I'm the worthless one! I'm the one who ruined it! Please, Yuta! I forgive you! I forgive all of it! Everything can change! Just.. hold on! Hold on to the ledge!

(The forgiveness she had withheld for years, the truth he needed to hear, is screamed out under the most desperate circumstances. The word "forgive" is her final, desperate anchor. Yuta's eyes, wide with shock, look directly at her face, seeing the pure, unadulterated terror and love in her expression.)

(The sleeve gives a final, ominous stretch. Rin needs to move quickly.)

(Rin hangs over the railing, grasping Yuta's blazer sleeve, screaming her apology and forgiveness. Yuta's entire focus is now on the agonizing situation above him.)

(He glances at the sleeve, already taut and beginning to tear near the shoulder seam. Then he glances at Rin's body: she is tilted at a drastic, unstable angle, her muscles screaming under the strain. He recognizes the terrible truth instantly: she is going to fall before the fabric gives, or even if he climbs up, the angle will throw her off alone.)

HASHIMURA YUTA

(He raises his voice, making it audible over the wind, yet keeping it steady—a voice of desperate reason.) Rin! Let go! You... you're going to fall down with me!

(Rin replies almost instantly, her eyes squeezed shut, tears streaming down her face, accepting the worst possible fate rather than enduring his loss.)

KARUIZAWA RIN

(Wailing) I don't care! I'll fall with you! Please, Yuta! Don't fall! At least not without me!

(Her words—a declaration of desperate, undeniable love and dependence—pierce through his final walls of self-hatred, but they also solidify his course of action. He cannot allow her sacrifice. His final act must be to save her, even from herself.)

(Yuta's eyes close briefly. He makes his final, terrible sacrifice. He uses his weight and strength, not to climb, but to rip the already tearing sleeve.)

(SOUND: A sudden, violent RIIIPPP! of tearing cloth, deafening in the wind, followed by a sickening sound of momentum released.)

(The sudden severance sends Rin flying backward off the railing. Her body's course will slam onto the cold concrete of the pavement above, safe from the drop. But in the fraction of a second before after the sleeve ripped, she looked down.)

(She saw Yuta's face one last time. His lips moved. She lip-read the two final words, spoken with acceptance and profound peace.)

YUTA'S LIPS

"Thank you." (A-ri-ga-to)

(Yuta's body drops away from the bridge. The sound of his fall is immediately swallowed by the howling wind and the distant traffic.)

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