Nodoka Toyohama watched the video on her phone. Accompanied by the song's tearful vocals, she simply could not stop crying, her eyes red and swollen.
"What's wrong, Nodoka? Did someone bully you?"
At that moment, another beautiful girl walked in. Seeing Nodoka Toyohama like this, she hesitantly asked.
She was a member of the same group as Nodoka Toyohama.
"No, it's not that... It's because of a video."
Hearing her companion's voice, Nodoka Toyohama paused the video, then looked up at the girl and shook her head.
"A video? What kind of video could make you cry like that?"
"Want to watch it with me?"
Thinking of something, Nodoka Toyohama raised her phone and invited the girl.
"Sure!"
The girl agreed without much thought, then sat down beside Nodoka Toyohama and watched with her.
Nodoka Toyohama dragged the video back to the beginning and started it over. Although the girl had never seen Yae Sakura's story in Honkai, under the influence of the music... her initially indifferent expression gradually fell silent.
Sung by Eden, the song was exceptionally moving. The moment listeners heard it, they were drawn into that sorrowful mood.
As she listened to the song and watched the comic panels in the video, the girl felt as if she were standing in a forest of cherry blossoms. A gentle breeze brushed over her cheeks. Pale pink blossoms drifted down from the trees, fluttering like pink butterflies.
Suddenly, the wind grew stronger.
Then she saw the figure of a girl with long pale pink hair. The girl instinctively called out to her and ran toward her, but the other girl merely turned, smiled, and vanished into the rain of pale pink blossoms.
Everything was so dreamlike and unreal...
Before she realized it, her eyes had grown a little red