"Living Together Until Goodbye"

Mornings were just coffee. Nights were convenience store bentos. Saijou Mizuki (26) repeated such tasteless days. Until one night, when words were spoken to her across a convenience store register. "Shall I cook you a meal?" An offer from a girl whose name she didn't know—so sudden, yet so kind. From the day she accepted it, hesitantly, The gloomy world she had lived in alone began to quietly come to an end. Freshly cooked rice, a dining table filled with laughter, Each word exchanged seeping gently into her heart. It was neither mere cohabitation, nor family, nor lovers, But a nameless form of "living for two." To the loneliness that had become ordinary, a quiet "end" arrives. A story that is just a little strange, and warm.