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Akari Shinohara tells Takaki Tono that she is moving and can no longer go to school with him.

Takaki Tono had no choice but to accept it.

The two then parted ways.

Amidst a lengthy monologue from Takaki Tono, it is revealed that in the summer, Takaki Tono received a letter from Akari Shinohara, asking if he still remembered her.

After that, they began to communicate by letter.

The contents of the letter are like a gentle breeze carrying cherry blossom petals, carrying a touch of youthful innocence that makes one smile involuntarily.

Takaki Tono also has to transfer schools and move.

The distance between them will only grow further and further...

So, before Takaki Tono moved to a more distant place, they decided to meet.

That day, snow was falling heavily.

Takaki Tono boarded the carriage and headed towards Akari Shinohara's location.

They agreed to meet at the post station.

Before setting off, Takaki Tono wrote a love letter, which he wanted to give to Akari Shinohara when they met.

However, the heavy snow delayed their arrival, and the letter in Tono Takaki's hand was lost when the carriage changed horses at a post station along the way.

By the time Takaki Tono arrived, it was already very late.

Apart from the staff, there was no one left at the inn.

Tension, regret, self-blame, sadness—Takaki Tono's emotions erupt instantly under Fang Qiu's delicate brushstrokes, like a surging tide, as if about to burst off the paper.

"Am I going to miss out?"

Li Yao murmured.

Bai Qing and another editor continued reading.

However, when she arrived at the post station, she found Shinohara Akari waiting for her.

That night.

They embraced and kissed.

Then they spent the night in a warehouse, and they talked a lot that night.

However, Takaki Tono had to go back the next day.

As the carriage carrying Takaki Tono gradually drove away, Akari Shinohara took out a letter she had prepared long ago.

The letter she was unable to send...

This volume also ends with the protagonist's inner monologue.

Just when Bai Qing and the other two thought they would meet again after their first meeting, it turned out that Tono Takaki had moved to a place that was too far away this time.

Even by the fastest carriage, it would take several days to arrive.

They were still children, and there was no way they could meet.

They contacted each other less and less, and the letters became shorter and shorter.

Later, the letters that were sent out did not receive a reply.

Their contact was lost.

These contents were all written by Fang Qiu based on Tono Takaki's inner monologue.

When the monologue ended, Bai Qing felt only loneliness in her heart.

Hollow.

"Disconnected?"

The two people standing nearby were also stunned.

As the story progresses, the scene they envisioned of Takaki Tono and Akari Shinohara meeting again does not occur.

They each went on to live their own lives.

It's another mundane description of daily life.

However, given the preceding events, this daily routine seems so oppressive.

It makes me want to cry.

In a somber atmosphere, Volume Two came to an end.

With a heavy and depressed feeling, Bai Qing turned to the next page.

Volume Three, which is also the final volume.

Unlike the oppressive contrast of Volume Two, in Volume Three, Fang Qiu renders the atmosphere extremely oppressive.

Takaki Tono has grown up, has a job, and has a lover.

Akari Shinohara is also getting married soon.

She sat in the carriage, gazing at the scenery along the way, lost in reminiscence.

While tidying up, I came across a letter from my childhood that I never managed to send.

While at work, Takaki Tono received a breakup letter from his lover.

The letter reads.

Even if we exchange a thousand letters and say ten thousand words, our hearts have only grown closer by one centimeter.

So, Takaki Tono, who had quit his job, traveled through the city.

He returned to the street he had walked with Akari Shinohara.

The street where Akari Shinohara told him that cherry blossoms fall at a speed of five centimeters per second.

He walked forward along the path of memory.

As I walked, memories flooded back to me.

He arrived at that familiar trade route, the trade route that had separated him from Akari Shinohara when he was a child.

The surrounding cherry blossom trees swayed in the wind, and the cherry blossoms fell softly like snow.

Akari Shinohara happened to be passing by, and their figures crossed paths.

Having crossed the trade route, they stopped in their tracks and became aware of each other's presence.

So they looked back.

"It's here! Finally!"

Li Yao was so excited that she couldn't help but shout it out, which drew the attention of her colleagues around her.

She stuck out her tongue.

After such a tense atmosphere, Takaki Tono and Akari Shinohara are finally going to meet!

The suppressed emotions are finally about to explode.

"Oh, yes."

Bai Qing couldn't help but nod.

As expected of Fang Qiu, even without any foreshadowing, she managed to write a level of anticipation comparable to the anticipation felt by Miyamizu Mitsuha and Tachibana Taki after building up almost half the book in "Your Name" before finally meeting on the mountaintop.

No, Fang Qiu may seem to have no foreshadowing, but the entire book actually uses the foreshadowing of their final meeting.

The feeling of oppression in my heart will be released in the next moment.

So she hurriedly turned to the next page.

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P.S.: 5 Centimeters Per Second, slightly modified.

Chapter 170 Fang Qiu, who never learns his lesson

As they turned around, the convoy of carriages rushing past blocked the view of Takaki Tono and Akari Shinohara.

"I didn't expect there to be a connection between the beginning and the end."

Li Yao smiled knowingly.

"Ah."

Bai Qing smiled and nodded.

In the chapter about cherry blossoms, Shinohara Akari was the first to cross the trade route. Their view was also blocked by the speeding carriage caravan, but after the carriage caravan passed by...

Akari Shinohara was waiting for him across the street.

Let's keep watching.

This time, the caravan was particularly long, and the sound of horses' hooves and wheels rolling on the ground echoed all around.

The wind whipped up by the horses pulling the carriage as they sped by sent cherry blossom petals flying far away.

Takaki Tono's hair was also blown about by the wind that swept up as the carriage passed by.

Then another caravan sped past in the opposite direction.

Finally, the convoy drove past.

However, the other side of the trade route was deserted.

For a fleeting moment, Takaki Tono wore a heartbreaking expression, which was quickly followed by a relieved smile.

Then he turned and left.

All that remained were cherry blossoms falling at a speed of five centimeters per second, continuously drifting down at that intersection.

The book ends here.

"Huh? The end of the book? How come it's the end already? What happened to the plot twist?"