“After a long silence of being lost in her feelings, Hirai managed to mutter just two words ‘Thank you’. She didn’t know whether that one phrase could contain all these feelings or whether it conveyed how she felt. But every part of her at that moment was invested in those two words.”

“After a long silence of being lost in her feelings, Hirai managed to mutter just two words ‘Thank you’. She didn’t know whether that one phrase could contain all these feelings or whether it conveyed how she felt. But every part of her at that moment was invested in those two words.”

— Toshikazu Kawaguchi