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Calm snowflakes landed on a black tombstone engraved with the name Ayumi Ito. The air was still and the temperature had dropped below freezing, making it an unusually cold February day. The ground was covered in a thick layer of ice and the trees were coated in a thick layer of frost.

It was around six o'clock and the sky was slowly turning a deep shade of pink as the sun began to set.

Natsuo stood in front of his friend's grave, his eyes filled with grief. Ayumi had been buried that day and Natsuo was the only one attending the funeral since Ayumi had been estranged from her family for many years. He looked up at the sky, watching the sun slowly dip below the horizon.