"I don't think I can take it anymore,
so I'll send this goodbye off to you."

×××

From then on, Neku was not on the rooftop anymore. But Joshua was, waiting each and every day while looking out.

On the roof, stretching far off in the night
Silhouette disappearing from sight, that's right.

He sat down as he watched the cars past by his school building and mumbled.

“That's right - all the words I said before,
Guess you won't ever hear them anymore,”

There was a reason for Neku's disappearance on the rooftop. When he went home that night, he received a love letter from a classmate in his class, namely Shiki Misaki.

[I can't get it from you anymore]
[Who did you borrow those words from?]
[Even that crying voice act]
[Is some backward compatibility of someone somewhere]
[Aaaah!]

It was the first time someone besides Joshua and Hanekoma made him felt he was loved.

Joshua decided to head back to the cafe after staying for quite some time.

It's gonna decay
[Those patchwork thoughts, it's gonna decay]
For decades, all the same, replicants remain insane
Reminiscent of my past compensatin' what I had done
I wish that wasn't fake

By the time he returned, it was already late at night, Neku was then asleep.

(Aaaah!)
[It's all the same even if you skip this sick verse]
[A noble mission drenched in hypocrisy]
[Everything dissolves and is transmitted]
[And the raw sound is released to this arrival point]

Joshua then noticed the letter that Neku had by accident left on the table, he read it and was shocked.

He turned his head to Neku's face, he was smiling in his sleep. That never happened before.

Words won't come out, they stay and get in the way!

Even though I was, I was there, I just couldn't get through.

Joshua quietly kept the letter, wanting to get the truth out of Neku.

Because in truth, for as long as he could remember, he loved Neku, romantically.

I'll ignore
you more
and more, cause you know-
Even now, I can't even think of letting go of you!

However, his memories rewound back to that day when Neku stopped coming to the rooftop.

"Fuck! It hurts! Enough is enough!"

Joshua cursed in his own room as tears flowed down from his eyes.

The next day, he did what he promised, to get the truth out of Neku.

Ringing inside my ears,
every single word you said that day and-

"What is it, Josh?"

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