Chapter 5: The One I Didn’t Show

Kasumi’s smartphone held a multitude of photos from her trip to Italy.
The Roman sky, the garden in Grassina, the social gathering where she wore a yukata—and one photo she never sent to Minato.
She couldn’t quite put into words why she hadn’t shown it to him, nor could she articulate the urge to explain it.
Back home at Ariake Beach, that single photograph would begin to shift the distance between the two of them, just a little.