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As Sayu begins to feel more and more at ease with Yoshida, she finally works up the courage to face her future and, for the first time, considers going back to Hokkaido. Meanwhile, the newest employee at Yoshida’s workplace turns out to be his highschool girlfriend Kanda, throwing Sayu’s heart into chaos. And then an expensive, unfamiliar car pulls up at Sayu’s part-time job…Time is running out, but is she really ready to leave her new home behind?

ONE WEEK TO SAY GOOD-BYE... When her brother, Issa, arrives on Yoshida’s doorstep, Sayu is given only one week to prepare herself to return to Hokkaido. Now, as their time together runs out, she decides to tell Yoshida all the things she’skept hidden. About her school, her friend, her family. About how she wound up so far from home, and what her life with Yoshida has meant to her. But is this really the end?

A TEARFUL FAREWELL It’s finally time for Sayu to head back to her family home in Hokkaido, and Yoshida has come along to support her. But when she opens the door to her old house, she’s met with a slap in the face. While Sayu confronts both her own trauma and the accusations of her furious mother, Yoshida must decide how best to help her. What awaits this strange pair, neither lovers nor family, at the end of their journey?…And is it truly over?

AN UNCONVENTIONAL ARRANGEMENT Yoshida was just rejected by his crush of five years. On the way home after drowning his sorrows, he runs across a girl crouching in the middle of the road, and she offers him a deal—let her crash at his place, and he can do whatever he wants with her. But when he refuses, she asks to stay for free. How will Yoshida, a twenty-six-year-old office worker, manage to share a roof with Sayu, a runaway high school girl?

At rock bottom after being rejected by his crush, office worker Yoshida reluctantly agreed to take in Sayu, a runaway high school girl he met on the street. Now, as the pair are finally settling into their unusual living situation, Sayu has a request—she’d like to get a part-time job! Sayu has always been reluctant to voice what she wants, and her roommate is overjoyed at her progress. Meanwhile, Yoshida’s crush invites him to dinner, just the two of them...and now she wants to come over?!

A second chance at love... Yuzuru Asada is filled with regret. In junior high, he dated a girl named Ai Mizuno, but her free-spirited nature, the very part of her he fell in love with, ultimately drove them apart. After Ai moved away, their love should have faded into a bitter memory. But during the summer of Yuzuru’s first year in high school, she suddenly reappears in his life and, without a trace of resentment, tells him that her feelings haven’t changed. Yet old wounds and misunderstandings resurface. Can the two of them overcome their past, or are they destined to carry this regret forever?

When universes collide... Yuzuru has begun to mend things with his ex-girlfriend Ai, finally overcoming his long-held regret. But this relief proves to be short-lived when fellow literature club member Kaoru stops coming to school. Concerned and aware of her situation, Yuzuru tries his best to help, but she refuses him at every turn. Can he keep their friendship from falling to pieces as loneliness and regret take root in Kaoru’s heart?