Only with Your Heart

The building is twelve stories long, and the company that works for Chizuru is shaped to use all the floors on its eighth floor. When the on-board electronic display referred to the number 8, Chizuru got off the elevator so that it would accompany Tanzawa.

There was a polished glass door at the entrance to the company, and Tanzawa opened it for me for a thousand cranes.

"Thank you. But it's okay now."

Even if it was just a favor, he didn't feel any sweeter, and Chizuru tried to leave by thanking Tanzawa just through the door. There are already employees in the workplace, each of whom can be expected to start their own work. One or two employees with a desk close to the door have greeted Chizuru and Tanzawa.

Tangzawa was a morsel, so I don't want other women employees to see me with him and misunderstand him. When Chizuru returned his greeting early, he hurried to flee straight to his place without ascertaining Tanzawa's reaction.

On the desk of Chizuru, there were already piles of documents that needed copies and fresh books, and they had to forget about everything else and focus on their work, at least until about lunch break.

Still, I can't forget just about the 'voice' I just heard, and Chizuru, sitting in his chair, took his phone out of the back and opened it up gently. Hurry up and write a short email to the dance.

"Thanks for last night. Glad you asked.

Actually, it may be empty ears, but I just heard a sound similar to the 'voice' of that time.

I guess I'm just excited...... What do you think? '

When I looked at the clock, I received a reply from the dance quite quickly, even though it seemed like a good time for the class to start.

"Really!? That could be a precursor to something!

It lasted a few times before, didn't it?

Maybe I'll come back......

If anything happens next time, let me know!

Chizuru immediately hit a short affirmative reply and closed his phone.

Unexpectedly, uh, the sigh leaked, but Chizuru quickly put his phone back in the back and decided to focus on the job in front of him. Otherwise, he was going to freak out about the excitement coming up from the back of his body somewhere.

Fortunately, Chizuru, who is only a contractor, has a lot of chores, and most of the work that just needs to be mechanically moving his hands. Usually that's not even boring, but it all seemed appreciated at this time. If you are carelessly giving the given instructions, just a little bit, your head will get cold too.

(What if... what if, really, you can go home...?

Thousands of cranes have been thinking about that all along while doing simple excel input.

Chizuru is back in this world, and it's already been a year and a little while.

When I just got back, I didn't even have time to worry about the processing regarding the search application that was being put out while it was missing or the nursing of my grandmother, who was feeling ill more than that. I still had my high school life, and I couldn't even be depressed right away.

My grandmother died some time after I graduated from high school, but this time I started an unfamiliar job and the first month or two I was busy looking around...... it was actually only recently here that I hesitated to think back slowly about Lucroff and his world.

So no matter how much you wish to return, there has never been much time to clearly imagine what would happen after you could return.

Luklov......

In a year of cross-world life, there are many who have become close. Some people have become friends. But the only person I want to see until I abandon the current world was still Luklov.

Will he be waiting for Chizuru?

I didn't even promise to come home to myself. The relationship between the two of us, which was only a one-year relationship. I wonder how protective he is.

He loved Chizuru.

And he's not the kind of person who easily forgets the woman he loved once.

But against Chizuru, who disappeared silently, there's a good chance he's angry. I didn't mean to be hairy, but if it came from him, it wouldn't be weird if he felt betrayed.

Yes, I'm home, it's good to see you again, let's get back together, and it may not be monotonous.

In the first place, there is no compensation for going straight back to Ruklov himself. Last time, Luklov and the others found me a thousand cranes that were suddenly thrown out into different worlds and frightened.

But this time...?

The other side, unlike the modern world, didn't even have a solid address, let alone locate it with the functionality of a cell phone. That's all we're talking about about in a world of different dimensions. Not even ordinary maps were very popular.

When I think about it like that again, I feel like even if I can go back to the original world now, that doesn't mean I can't have a happy ending right away. Of course, I'm prepared to pay the price if I have to. I wouldn't mind making an effort to find him and beg for forgiveness.

It's all about, if I could go home, though.

At that time, something that I had never thought of before floated behind Chizuru's brain, and the hitter stopped hitting the keyboard.

(a year and a few months…)

That's the years since Chizuru returned to this world.

(But it was a year that I was over there, and when I got back here, it was only a month...)

Wait, wait, and Chizuru tried to stop his head from hurrying to start calculating. But the answer came out easy and quick.

If we consider this one month to be the other, it will be at least fourteen years over there now, exactly after a year and two months. Especially since I wasn't keeping a diary or counting the days, it's suspicious if the other year's unit is exactly the same 365 days as this one, but there were four similar seasons, and the others were counting this as a year.

(Fourteen years...?

This, too, is a number as if we could go back now.

If we could go home, if we had another month before then, it would be fifteen years. Fifteen years. Is there a man who could dedicate all these years to someone he just spent a year with... to a lover who broke up like he was betrayed too from him?

Fifteen years is a long time.

At the time, he was twenty-two, four years older than Chizuru, so now he's thirty-six. Even more so given that the times were medieval, I'm already married and of my natural age. Sure, the common folk in particular remember a lot of people getting married and starting having kids in their late teens.

I threw away everything in this real world and went back over there, and Ruklov was already married and had kids, and Chizuru was already just a memory, and now it's no wonder he's only a troublemaker. Rather, that might be natural.

Because it is a different world with completely different dimensions, this distortion of time is just a coincidence, and it can change depending on that time.

But.

Chizuru felt his eyes tickle and hurt staring at the screen.

My fingers, they don't move.

(But... still)

Chizuru will surely respond if called to 'voice' again.

I'd like to apologize for not being able to say anything about it, even if that just makes Luklov look happy with someone else. That's all for. But Chizuru is sure to jump in.

(Fool, looks like...)

But maybe that's love.

Maybe that means you will love someone wholeheartedly......

It was already dark outside by the time one paragraph of work had arrived and it was time to go home, due to the fact that I could not reach much of a hand in proceeding with the work. I didn't care at all, but it's raining too.

Looking over the workplace, the remaining employees were a little less than half.

"I'm done with the work, so you're leaving. Do you need anything?

Speaking to my immediate female boss a few desks away, she opened up Chizuru with pleasure, saying she didn't need it particularly yet today. On the contrary, he even added thanks to Chizuru, who was not a full-time employee, for staying and continuing his work. Overall, it's a young workplace, so it's very probable around here. When I'm blessed, I sincerely think.

Though it was later than usual, it was still far from the time to worry about the end of the electricity, so Chizuru slowly made a comeback move and left the workplace behind.

Unlike in the morning, the elevator was also empty, and down to the entrance floor on the ground floor, Chizuru took out his mobile umbrella in the back and glanced at the front door.

Then, just next to the door, I could see the back of one man roaring around the edge of an automatic door sensor not responding. I'm staring at the rain outside, shrugging my shoulders.

"Chief Tangzawa...?

When Chizuru rang his voice, Tanzawa quickly turned around like he had been played by a spring.

When he found Thousand Cranes, he was looking all over her body with some tranced, blurred look.

I could have just said hello and passed by like this...... but wherever the sincerity was, it was painful to let go of someone who cared about Chizuru's health this morning.

"Umbrella, don't you?

"Oh...... I was in a hurry a little late this morning and I forgot"

Speaking of which, Chizuru also went to work a little late this morning. That's where he stayed, so I guess he came later than usual, too.

It was about five minutes on foot from the company building to the nearest station. Many people go through downtown, and if you get to the station, there's a convenience store, so you can buy a plastic umbrella there.

Chizuru put his conscience and physical safety on the scale, and decided that this should be okay.

"This is an umbrella for my phone. Why is it small, but to the station...... do you want to join me?

Tangzawa seemed surprised by Chizuru's suggestion.

There was a brief silence by the time I heard the answer. Ultimately, however, Tangzawa shrugged, "It would help if you could do that," and approached Chizuru one step closer.