Before the Coffee Gets Cold (Before the Coffee Gets Cold, #1)

by Toshikazu Kawaguchi

“It will be your turn to be the ghost sitting in this seat.”

Apparently, he just allowed his eyes to wander over them. Then he just wrote in his reply the vague impression he got from this gazing.

“You’re from the future...aren’t you?”

On learning that she had come from the future, the first thing he had wanted to know was whether he had forgotten her, his wife. This realization filled her with both joy and sorrow.

When in the presence of someone with whom you have a bond, and to whom you have entrusted your feelings, it is hard to lie and get away with it. The truth just wants to come flowing out.

It is much easier to conceal sadness from a stranger, or from someone you don’t trust.

Oh...the girl from the other day.

The present hadn’t changed—but those two people had. Both Kohtake and Hirai returned to the present with a changed heart.