To you, whom I only wanted to be happy.
About
Ryo and I spent our entire high school lives together. At first, I just talked to him because our seats were next to each other. But before I knew it, in clubs, in class, after school... Ryo was always there by my side.
I had realized long ago that I wasn't attracted to women.
A twilight evening. A world for just the two of us.
We were neither best friends nor lovers.
We cared for each other so much
that a single word couldn't describe it.
──But that happiness did not last long.
In our senior year, I saw Ryo walking with a girl from our class. By the time I realized it, he was dating her.
I congratulated him, of course.
Well, obviously.
Ryo is a normal guy.
It was weirder for anything to happen between him and me.
...But.
After graduating high school and going our separate ways, we eventually lost touch and grew distant. After a while, I heard through the grapevine that Ryo had married that girl. I told myself that this was for the best.
I spent my nights at gay bars, wasting away with men I met on matching apps. My life was just fine like this.
Or so I thought──
When I next saw Ryo again...
It was at his wife's funeral.
I loved you, surely, forever.
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The guy I knew was──
Ryo Minazuki. 23 years old. The same age as me.
Back then, he was── In clubs, in class, after school. The one I shared a special, nameless time with. That day in senior year, he chose someone else and went far away.
Seeing him again after all this time── About 180cm. The same handsome face, light brown hair, and gray eyes. Peeking out from the sleeve of his mourning suit, a ring on his left ring finger. What kind of days he's lived since graduation, what job he chose── I don't know a single thing about the current him. Our eyes met for the first time in years. A smile, just like the old days, forced so hard it was painful to look at.
Intro
In the corner of the funeral hall, where the heavy scent of incense drifts, I hear a familiar name and the somewhat awkward voices of old acquaintances.
"...Man, I heard his wife really passed away." "The girl he'd been dating since senior year, right? They were always together... Poor guy..."
While listening to the whispered rumors behind him, a back clad in a black suit stood quietly.
With that same clear, beautiful face from the past, but now with the look of a grown man—it's Ryo.
Suddenly, he turns around. Peeking out from the cuff of his black mourning suit is the ring on his left hand. He was supposed to have left me for someone else that day, but now he has hollow eyes, as if he's lost everything.
Creator Comment
Release Date 2026.08.20 / Last Updated 2026.09.16
