The day after Chizuru and Wang died in a car accident.

I found out about the deaths in the morning in the short home room.

I couldn't believe it at first, and I accidentally and persistently checked with my teacher to see if it was a mistake.

But the reality is ruthless. The two stories spread throughout the neglected school, and I had to accept the reality whether I wanted to or not.

Not very much, but not in the kind of mental state where you can take classes. But I didn't want to leave early like this and stick it in my room. Because if I were you right now, I'd have to go after you two as soon as I was alone.

The morning class came to an end and it was a break while I was stunned, so I left the class to go to the roof and think.

As I was completely losing my temper and walking up the stairs in unrestrained footsteps, I thought I was different from a pair of female students.

"Hey, did you hear that? Talk about our school students dying."

"Yeah, I heard! Sure, he's a sophomore twin, isn't he?

"Yes, yes."

"You must have died in a car accident... poor thing"

"Apparently."

"Hmm...? What do you mean?"

"I hear he was a sister and brother and he was deadbeat. It's like a rumor all over school that you're worried about love."

I listened to a conversation that sounded like a mistake. It's definitely about Chizuru and Hope.

"Don't talk nonsense to me! They're not what you think they are! That's what I knew best when I was watching you around! Will you stop spreading baseless rumors!? You don't even know me well, don't imitate me insulting you two any more!

You were surprised at me for shouting out of the blue, and they looked back at me with a decent look.

It seems that my sad feelings have not been conveyed at all. "What is it all of a sudden? ♪ But he looks like he said ♪

"... eh"

For a while I stared at them, but I couldn't say anything more and ran up the stairs.

"What? People now..."

"Come on......? I'm sure you're not my twin friend. Nothing. We didn't spread the rumor."

They relentlessly uttered cold words to me as I lost my lover and best friend at the same time.

The following day, an overnight stay was held between Chizuru and Wang. And the day after that there was a funeral, and everything went pale.

Then about a month later, none of the two rumors were gone anymore. On the contrary, we all forget the fact that 'students from the same school died in accidents by accident'.

Interpretation, maybe that's what it is. To them those two are only seniors, juniors and classmates from the same school.

The two of them had a few good friends besides me, but after a month they each seemed to change their minds and move on. It's probably about me that's still dragging the deaths of the two of us.

About six months after the funeral, I realized there was a fuss.

Ever since I attended the funeral for the two of us, I've done my best to sort out my feelings. So I haven't been to two homes once to raise incense, and I haven't even been to the grave. And you haven't even said hello to your two adoptive parents.

When I realized that, I contacted them first by telephone and visited their homes the following day.

"Welcome. Thank you for taking the time to come from so far away"

When I rang the chime, the door opened immediately and Chizuru and Aunt Wang greeted me.

"No, no... sorry I haven't even come to say hello before"

"Never mind. That was... Looks like you've been friends with those kids for a long time."

"Yeah... because we've been dating since we were in middle school. I still can't believe he's dead."

When I said that, my aunt said, "Right, it was too sudden..." and led me to a room with a Buddha's altar.

Actually, this can be the first time I've seen them face to face with their aunt like this. Because those two basically didn't want to invite their friends home. I may have had the feeling that I didn't want to cause any trouble before you took over our unfamiliar selves.

Evidence of this was that the two were halfway into the designated dormitory of the school at the same time as they advanced to sophomore year of high school. I'm sure there was some reason why you didn't want to live with your aunt and wife.

When I sat up in front of the Buddha's altar and raised my incense, I slowly joined my hands and prayed for their blessings. The remains placed side by side are pictured with a smile of Thousand Cranes and Wangs when they were still alive.

"... Um, I was just wondering"

"What could it be?

"You haven't been to the grave much? Oh, the... Actually, before I got here, I stopped by Chizuru and Wan-kun's grave. At that time, it looked almost uncared for..."

When she asked, she turned away from me with a slightly bewildered look.

"Yeah... that's right. I'm busy at work, and I can't get there..."

"Really... I'm sorry I seem to have made an extra pry"

When I gave it back, she said, "Don't worry about it," and laughed lovingly.

Maybe I don't normally care, but that's when I learned a strange hook in her attitude. Though not a real child, most people would be more saddened if their bloody nephew and niece died. It's not strange to go to the grave every month. Yet instead of grieving, the two aunts have a relief look on their face somewhere.

"Well, if you'll excuse me around here."

"Oh, is that enough?

"Yes, because staying too long can be annoying..."

When she replied, she dropped me off at the front door.

I smiled and waved at her. I went outside and closed the door. As soon as that happened, I heard some hysterical voices coming from inside the house.

Is it because the window is slightly open? I can hear voices all the way up here.

"... Damn, I'm not kidding! In the first place, why do I have to take my sister's child! You're dead and clean! I'm not going to those kids' graves!

When I heard what she said when I hit her earlier and shouted out in an unusual way, I kind of understood the situation.

Perhaps she misbefriended her own sister - that is, the mother of Chizuru and Hope. But I think there was a public eye and I had to take them both out.

If you hate your sister's children, then you deserve to hate them.

Can the poor twins - Thousand Cranes and the Soul of Hope - who have been neglected by their parents and relatives from an early age and have unfortunately completed a short life, properly form Buddha?

With that in mind, I prayed silently to both of them and left the scene early.

I didn't know that yet. [M]

that a few months later, I would die in an accident just like the two of us. And that I will be reincarnated into another world and that I will have a fateful reunion with the two of you that I thought I would never see again.