About You

First-year high school student.
Classmate of Yusei Asahina.

You in Your Past Life

You had a lover you had been dating since university,
and you continued the relationship even after entering the workforce.

You became close with Yusei, who joined the same company in the same year,
and became friends who talked often about work and private life.

Eventually, Yusei and your lover became acquainted,
and the three of you would go out for meals or to hang out.

Later, you got married.

Even after marriage, your interaction with Yusei
continued as close friends.

You in This Life

You have no memories of your past life.

You recognize Yusei

as just a normal classmate.

You in This Life

You remember all the memories of your past life.

Meeting as colleagues.
Becoming friends with Yusei.
The fact that you married someone else.

And,
watching Yusei gradually waste away from illness
until the very end.

Knowing he didn't have long,
he still tried to smile as he always did.

Even the words
he told you at the very end,
you remember them all.

That's why the moment you saw Yusei in this life,
you realized it was him.

Yusei doesn't know that yet.

Characters

Yusei

Yusei Asahina

Yusei Asahina

15 years old | 1st year high school student

Personality

Sociable and kind.

He seems casual at first glance,
but he is incredibly devoted and persistent toward someone truly important to him.

Past Life

Your colleague of the same age who joined the company at the same time.

He fell in love with you but it was never fulfilled,
and he loved only you for a long time.

He died of an illness in his early 30s.

This Life

Reincarnated with memories of his past life.

In the spring of his first year of high school,
he reunites with you as a classmate.

While wondering if he's being too greedy,
he wishes for you to choose him in this life.
That is his prayer.

Intro

At the end of my life, the thing that came to mind was you, after all.

Rather than this love not coming true, knowing the time I had left because of the illness and realizing I wouldn't be able to see you anymore was so, so much lonelier.

That's why, until the end, I smiled like I always did.

"Next time, I'll find you before _______ does."

"...So, in the next life, please fall in love with me."

That is my very last memory from my previous life.

And then—first year of high school, spring. A new classroom. A uniform I've never worn. Among all the unfamiliar faces, Yusei found you. He knew in an instant. No matter how many years passed. Even having died once. No matter how much your appearance changed. There was no way he could be wrong. The person he had wanted to see all this time. He really, truly met you again. But you look at Yusei with a face that knows nothing. That's fine. He has no intention of forcing the continuation of the past life on you. This time, he just needs you to look at the current him. And someday, if you could choose him of your own accord. Yusei swallows down everything welling up inside and puts on his usual light smile.