5 Centimeters Per Second Page #4

That's why I'm currently

writing this letter on the train.

For some reason, the Akari I imagine

from the letters was always alone.

Just like that, the train ended up

stopping there without a

sound for nearly two hours.

Every minute felt like an eternity.

Time, clearly as if it had

a malicious intent,

slowly ebbed away above me.

I clenched my teeth,

and keeping myself from crying

was the only thing I could do.

Akari...

Please... just...

...return...

...return home already!

The train arriving on track number 3

heading towards Ashikaga-Maebashi...

...will be going to Takasaki.

This train will be stopping here

momentarily due to the snow.

Akari...

Delicious...

Really? It's just normal Houji tea.

Houji tea? It's my first time drinking this.

No way, you must have drunk it before.

Really?

Yes.

And after that, we have this... I made

it, so I can't guarantee the taste, but...

if it's alright with you, please eat some.

Thank you!

I was really hungry.

How was it?

It's the most delicious out of all

the things I have eaten up to now.

You exaggerate!

It's true!

It must be because you are hungry.

Really?

Yes.

I'm going to eat some too.

You're going to be moving soon, right?

Yes... next week.

Kagoshima, huh...

It's far away.

But Tochigi is pretty far away too.

Heh, so far away that you can't return home.

We'll be closing the station soon. There

are no more trains running anyway.

Ah. Yes.

Since it's snowing this much,

please take care of yourself.

Yes sir.

Can you see it? That tree.

The tree from the letter?

Yes. The cherry blossom tree.

Hey...

Doesn't it... somehow resemble snow?

Yes, it does.

In that moment,

the dwelling place of

eternity, hearts and souls...

became clear to me.

It was as if I understood

everything that...

...had happened in my life

these last thirteen years,

and... the time which was to come.

I became unbearably... sad.

Akari's warmth, her spirit,

how should I treat them,

where can I bring them?

That was something I did not know.

That we could not be

together forever after this

was a fact I clearly grasped.

The vast lives we had ahead of us,

the boundless amount of time which laid

unavoidably stretched out in front of us.

But...

the anxieties which I had caught

sight of soon melted away.

And after that, only Akari's

tender lips remained.

That night,

we stayed at a small barn beside a field.

Sharing an old blanket, we

talked long into the night.

And before we knew it, we had fallen asleep.

In the morning, I boarded the train

which had started running again.

Akari and I parted.

Takaki-kun...

Takaki-kun, you'll...

be alright from now on. I'm sure of it!

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