“Please, Aki. I’m . . . in the future. In the future, where you are too. Where you’re all grown up!” The voice came closer. In her confused mind, Aki suddenly thought, What the hell? Kokoro sounded as though she was crying. Crying and pounding on the door. “The times we all live in—the years—they’re all different!” Kokoro said. “We’re not in parallel worlds at all. We’re all students at Yukishina No. 5 Junior High, but we live in different time periods. We are all living in the same world!”
