Sorry for the wait, Kohane!

We had a lot more customers than usual today.

No, that's okay.

We still have plenty of time until the doors open for the event.

Thank goodness. That means all we have to do now is meet up with Akito and the others and perform!

Hehe. Alright, shall we?

Yeah!

Oh, An, that reminds me. Do you have any albums with photos of you when you were little?

Huh? I'm sure we do at home somewhere, but what's this all the sudden?

You told us that story the other day from when you were little, right? I was hoping to see what you looked like back then.

Would that be okay?

Yeah, totally.

I'll try looking for some when I get home.

Really?! Thank you so much, An!

Hello.

Hey, there you are!

Kohane, over here!

Here you are! These are the albums you asked for the other day!

Wow, this is more than I was expecting! Hang on... One, two... Five?!

Hehe. I was surprised too.

But you'll see why there are so many once you start flipping through them.

Really? In that case, if you don't mind...

Knock yourself out...

Oh, An, here's one with you and Ken. And this one... Is this your mom?

Yeah, that's her!

Also, Aunt Nagi's the one who took this picture.

Wow, you guys all seem so close!

Yup!

Oh, the next page has photos of Nagi and Taiga. Also...

Huh? This man in the hat...

He seems awfully familiar...

Oh, can you guess?

That's actually the manager of the live house from yesterday.

What?!

The person next to him is the old manager of RED, the live house we performed at the other day. And...

...which is why we have so many albums. There're as many photos of our family as there are of people from around town.

Hehe. I really had no idea.

Yeah...

Going through all these albums kinda made me see why Aunt Nagi said she loves everyone from around here so much.

They're all really nice and friendly...

And, well...

Um... Comforting?

Yeah, that's exactly it!

How did you know?!

Hehe. The photos with you and Nagi made me think that.

At the same time, there was a point where your mom stopped showing up in these photos.

Oh, that was probably when she started going back to work.

No one was usually home back then, so I was usually with Aunt Nagi and everyone.

Looking back, I guess I wanted my dad and Aunt Nagi to pay more attention to me since it was so lonely not always having my mom around.

I see...

But I haven't felt lonely at all since that time I decided to run away.

I got to know how Aunt Nagi and my dad really felt about me, and...

I know that I have everyone from around town on my side....

So as long as I'm here, I'll never be alone!

Right...!

This really is a wonderful city.

Isn't it?!

Now I totally get why Aunt Nagi said she'd never get tired of this place...

Because I want you to keep loving this city too, Kohane.

An...

Hehe. I will. I love this city a lot too.

Because it's where I met you and got into street music. This place means so much to me now.

K-Koohaanee...!!

Wah! A-An!

You always throw yourself at me like that...

Hehe. That's because what you said made me so happy.