It feels like it's been a thousand years, and yet also only a few seconds since the last time he saw Mizuki. Death has a way of blending time together so it feels both eternal and instantaneous.

Fifty-four years after he last saw her, she walks up to the gate, her smile the same as it ever was, and this time she walks to him with her arms outstretched, no hesitation in her steps, ready this time to join him in eternity together.