Promises

"I will. I'll come running home as soon as I'm done with work…"

Homura Ryuu's promise, even if it was something she really didn't want as she preferred for him not to leave at all, warmed her heart.

"I will miss you," Suzuki Ara murmured, and her husband placed a kiss on her forehead.

"I will miss you too."

Since they married, she was happy that he had become unabashed when telling her about these sweet nothings. When she had first met him, she hadn't expected him to be such a sweet, sweet guy.

 "Is it possible for you to call me?"

Ara was worried that the thing he needed to settle in Hakone would take too much of his time and energy, and so she quickly added.

"But if you're totally busy and exhausted after, you don't have to force yourself okay?"

Even if she wanted to at least hear his voice every day when they're apart, she didn't want to obligate him when he's already very tired.