Or had she been erased?
She reached into her raincoat and pulled out a small, folded paper crane. “Search for Yuki again. This time, add ‘survivor’s guilt’ to the keywords. You’ll find 1,248 results. The one I hid.” Searching for- hikari ninomiya in-All Categorie...
She clicked the drop-down menu. All Categories. Or had she been erased
But Emi knew better.
And that, Emi realized, was the only category that truly mattered. 247 results: memorials
Emi turned, trembling. “I thought you died. After Yuki… you just vanished.”
Yuki had died in the tsunami. Everyone knew that. Her name brought up 1,247 results: memorials, news articles, a Wikipedia stub. But Hikari? Hikari had simply… slipped through the cracks of the database.