In the daytime, Kanzaki Kumo and Shinobu Kocho walked hand in hand through the streets of Asakusa.
The two admired the photos they had just received.
They had gone to a photography studio to take them that very day.
Kanzaki Kumo had actually wanted to capture the moment they had embraced beneath the fireworks last night, but unfortunately, the cameras of the time could not manage that yet.
Even in a photography studio, the quality fell well short of a casual phone snapshot from Kanzaki Kumo's previous life.
But at least their faces had come out clearly.
The photos captured their intimate interactions, leaving them something to commemorate this birthday.
Before this, Kanzaki Kumo had kept feeling that this little something seemed no match for the gifts he had previously given Kanae and Makomo, and he had worried that Shinobu Kocho would be disappointed.
But looking at the girl smiling like a flower in the photos, then at the girl beside him wearing the same smile, the trace of worry in Kanzaki Kumo's heart quietly faded away.
For them now, an item's sentimental value mattered far more than its monetary worth.
"Come on, let's go home."
"Mm, let's go home." Shinobu Kocho nodded, put the photos safely back in the album, and set off home with Kanzaki Kumo.
As for what they would do once they got home, naturally, they would do what needed to be done.
It was only because Kanzaki Kumo did not want the girl beside him to have her first time somewhere like an inn that they had not already done everything last night in the heat of the moment.
Shinobu Kocho naturally knew what the person beside her was thinking, but she had actually been waiting for this day for a long time too.
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