Toshikazu Kawaguchi

I finally understand.

The present didn’t change for Kohtake, but she banned everyone from using her maiden name and changed her attitude towards Fusagi. She would be with Fusagi to continue being his wife, even though she had vanished from his memory. Hirai abandoned her successful bar to rejoin her family. While repairing her relationship with her parents, she was learning the traditional ways of the inn from square one.

The present doesn’t change.

The present hadn’t changed – but those two people had. Both Kohtake and Hirai returned to the present with a changed heart.

no matter what difficulties people face, they will always have the strength to overcome them. It just takes heart. And if the chair can change someone’s heart, it clearly has its purpose.

If you can’t change anything, why would anyone want to go back?

If you could go back, who would you want to meet?

She felt that saying it would be to admit defeat.

learning that she had come from the future, the first thing he had wanted to know was whether he had forgotten her, his wife.

It was as if their time as a couple had reached its end.

I cannot stand the idea of us staying together only out of sympathy.

It is much easier to conceal sadness from a stranger, or from someone you don’t trust.