Shopping Guide
The lead-heavy rain falling in the pitch-black night
Was vehemently knocking on the glass windows,
And the summer moisture that mercilessly tortures
The dying sinner gloomily followed on its trail,
Taking away the freedom of his body
And shutting him up in a cage of written laws
That don’t allow even the slightest error.
Thus his sorry soul, alienated from this world,
Has submerged into eternal silence
In the darkness of infinite hell,
Carrying only pure solitude
(from the official episode guide)
The summer reached them not having found the “way to the other side.” Takao became an empty shell of his soul, leading empty days. Unable to confront himself for not being able to go anywhere, not being able to become anything, he merely lives on. As he couldn’t respond to Saeki’s feelings, who sought him despite knowing everything, he brakes up with Saeki. Maybe he was only trying to escape from the cruel reality by giving up like that. Then, Takao, wandering around in his inner heart, finds the lonely Nakamura. That time, after seeing Nakamura’s loneliness for the first time, he makes a decision...