I lacked confidence in love and was living a dull, uneventful life. Then one day, I received an invitation to a class reunion, and the first person who came to mind was Na o Jinguji, the woman I'd secretly admired since school. At the reunion, amid the drinking and excitement, I found her—just as beautiful as I remembered, gentle and warm, unchanged by time. Before I knew it, I ended up offering to walk her home. The warmth of her shoulder against my arm, the closeness of our bodies, her soft breath brushing against me—every sensation shook me to the core. In that moment, standing beside her, I realized just how much I had changed, and how deeply I was still drawn to her.