"That's it... it's over?"
Mu listened to the song, free and unburdened yet tinged with sorrow, hesitated for a moment, then quietly asked Shinkai Seiko.
"Yes. Five stories in all." Shinkai Seiko nodded.
She often watched the movies she had made herself.
Even the most perfect film would have flaws. She would find her shortcomings and correct them in the next movie.
Shinkai Seiko was working hard to improve.
Mu held it in for a while before finally speaking again. "Why?"
She could not understand it.
It could clearly have been like the first movie.
The girls who had passed each other recognized one another, stopped in their tracks, and turned back to look at each other in silent understanding.
That would have been the perfect ending.
But what about the second movie?
The plot before that had all been similar, so why, at the very end, did there have to be such a roaring train?
It blocked their line of sight and brought the past to an end.
She could not accept it.
Mu felt her heartbeat quicken slightly as irritation began to breed in her heart.
It had been a long time since she had felt such emotional turbulence.
"What do you mean, why?" Shinkai Seiko tilted her head, puzzled by Mu's question.
Mu took a deep breath. "What was with that train?"
The mysterious power of the director made her feel dislike for the first time.
If it had not been for that train, could Xiao Qiu, who had stopped walking, have seen Xiao Ying looking back at her as well?
"Then tell me, if there had been no train, would they have been like the first movie after seeing each other?" Shinkai Seiko asked in return.
"Of course they w—"
Mu blurted it out, but abruptly