Shirahime-syo
CLAMP
Koori-no-hana
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30 years before
Kaya's beloved: You're not going to tell me not to go?
Kaya: Even if I begged, you'd still go.
Kaya's beloved: You're not going to cry for me?
Kaya: Even if I cry, you won't come back to me.
Kaya's beloved: Kaya, of course I'll come back to you.
In this snowy village, you
Are the only person whom I can't leave behind.
No matter how many months and years go by,
I will, without fail, come back to your side.
Kaya: Snow is
Said to be the tears of the goddess of the snow, Shirahime.
Even in Spring, this lake is cold enough to steal the life of any who are submerged within it.
I've heard that Shirahime visits this lake, to purify those bodies.
Let's make a vow on this lake.
Like this lake that doesn't thaw even in the Spring, I will wait for you unchangingly.
Like the woman in the fairy tale, who turned into a flower when she grew weary
Waiting for her husband to return,
If it comes to be that my life is exhausted,
Then my body will turn into a flower, and I will wait for you.
Return to me safe and sound.
I'll be waiting right here.
Always...and forever.
Kaya's beloved: Already, over thirty years have passed since the promise we made that day.
My beloved Kaya probably isn't waiting for me anymore.
But if that's so, why am I going to the place where she made that promise?
If
If Kaya's waiting for me...
If she's waiting for me, 'tho I've grown old...
Kaya said that snow is Shirahime's tears.
If Kaya's words--Kaya, who said she would wait for me--were sincere...
If her tears on the day I was sent away were sincere...
Nothing has changed since that day.
Not the landscape, not the frozen lake...
The only thing that's different is that you aren't here.
Like I thought...you couldn't wait.
Kaya's words: I will be waiting right here.
Always...and forever.
Kaya's beloved: Kaya--the girl as beautiful as a winter flower--
I don't blame you for breaking your promise to me.
Over thrity years was too long for a seventeen-year-old to imagine.
I wonder what you're doing now.
I wonder--were you able to be happy with a man you loved?
Kaya!
Kaya!
Kaya's beloved: ...Kaya...
Kaya's words: If it comes to be that my life is exhausted,
Then my body will turn into a flower,
And I will wait for you.