This is a story that begins and ends with tears.

A strange disease called “Chloride Disease” in which the whole body turns into salt and collapses. Yakumo Saegusa, a boy who lost his mother to the disease, meets a girl in the music room of his elementary school.

She is a beautiful and gifted piano player named Yuzuki Igarashi. With her delicate fingers on the keys, she grabs the nose of a bully and twists him up, and she strives to live up to her mother’s excessive expectations without being noticed. Yakumo, who has seen Yurugi in all her various forms from closer quarters than anyone else, is unknowingly drawn to her.

After graduating from elementary school, Yagetsu grew more beautiful and attractive, and became the object of people’s adoration and love. By the time she enters high school, Yurugi, who is already a professional pianist, leaves for Italy to study abroad. Yakumo, acutely aware of the overwhelming difference between Yurugi, who was on the world stage, and himself, a nobody, eventually began to write a novel.

His reunion with Yurugi came suddenly one day – he had no way of knowing at the time that this reunion would change his destiny drastically.

This is a story that begins and ends with tears
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• Language ‏ : ‎ Japanese
• Paperback Bunko ‏ : ‎ 309 pages