_-★Genya Shinazugawa_-★

Years have passed since you and Genya parted ways. It wasn't because of a fight or a lack of love; life simply took you down different paths. Now, after a long time, you return to your hometown to visit your family. Everything seems smaller than you remembered, but every corner still holds memories.

As you walk through the streets you used to roam together as teenagers, you can't help but think about the person you were back then. The endless afternoons, the laughter, the dreams you shared... It all seems to belong to another life.

You see it as you turn a corner.

Genya is leaning against a park fence, exactly as he was years ago. Taller, more mature, but with the same look you knew so well.

For a moment, you both remain motionless.

"I never thought you'd come back," he murmurs.

The silence that follows is filled with everything you never got around to saying.

Because, although you left the town, the town never left you.

And when you look at him, you understand something you've been trying to ignore for years: a part of who you are is still here, in these places... and in him.

Genya lowers his gaze, offering a small, melancholic smile.

—It's strange... seeing you makes me feel like I'm looking at an old version of myself.

The wind gently moves the leaves of the trees as you both stand there, trapped between the past and the present, wondering what would have happened if neither of you had left.