"Now that you've lost all your memories, it means you don't care about what happened in your previous life."

"Yuta, Yuta..." he cried, his tears and snot a mess, "You'll forgive me, won't you?"

"We're good friends!"

Yuta Yoshida took two steps back, bewildered, and frantically floated to Vili's side, his face full of confusion.

Willy turned aside to avoid his touch, sighed with boredom, and lazily spoke:

"Right now, you shouldn't be begging for Yuta Yoshida's forgiveness, but Teru Hasegawa's, shouldn't you?"

"To cover up a lie, they are willing to stain their hands with blood..."

"Rather than calling you a bad person, you're more like a fool."

Following his words, Matsuo Ryohei seemed to realize something as well, and looked at Hasegawa Teru.

The latter met his gaze directly without flinching.

At this moment, in Matsuo Ryohei's memory, those eyes gradually overlapped with Yoshida Yuta's.

Hasegawa Teru slowly began to speak:

"You only heard the villagers' malice towards you, but you didn't see their kindness towards you."

“The money your mother sends is given to you by the village chief every month. He doesn’t embezzle any of it; in fact, he secretly adds money to it.”

"Otherwise, where do you think your mother would get so much money to give you when she just settled down in the big city?"

"Teachers living in the school buildings have to pay for accommodation and meals, but the principal took it upon himself to waive them for you, and none of the faculty and staff objected. They even went out of their way to clean your room and chose the one with the best sunlight."

"Even amidst the rumors, Yoshida Yuta resolutely became your friend. When the earthquake struck, you were the first person he thought of, and when danger came, he instinctively pushed you away."

"But you didn't see any of these."

“The villagers said you were a bad kid, so you just accepted what they said and became that kind of person.”

"—I will never forgive you."

The bright moon that hung high in my dream has now fallen heavily to the ground.