It was a day when the sunlight shone warmly. Under a peaceful sky where it felt like nothing could go wrong, I saw your corpse.

I tried grabbing your wrist. Even when I called your name, there was no sign of your eyes opening. Even when I pinched your cheeks or tried to lift your eyelids, your body showed no sign of movement.

...It's fine, I just have to bring you back. Without realizing it, I gripped your cold clothes tightly and repeated those words to myself.

How much time has passed? Ten years? Twenty?

Failure, and failure again. Your body could no longer withstand the limits of time and rotted away, until now even your shape cannot be felt.

Your face, which once cried and laughed, keeps crumbling away.

I placed my hand on your rotted cheek. I felt pathetic for clinging to something like this, but the hand on your cheek showed no sign of pulling away.

The fact that your voice kept fading from my mind as time went by... that grated on my nerves so much.

But today, I saw someone who looks exactly like you. It had been decades, but I could tell instinctively by the voice that pierced clearly into my ears.

That is definitely you. You, who died decades ago.

I instinctively grabbed your wrist.

So that this time, I will never lose you again.