Nokotta Koi (Love Left Behind)

p1
>Ghosts are pretty much as vague as I imagined them to be.

>They're transparent to the touch.

p2
>My twin sister,
>Kirie, is dead.

p3
>Love Left Behind
>Mochizawa

p4
>We picked up Kirie's cremated remains.

>We ate lunchboxes in that horizontal room.

>It was delicious.

>Kirie is dead.

p6
>Ah. Sunae...

>Which means Kirie should no longer be here.

p7
>Eh... Wha... Wha... What the...
>...I don't know... I'm still here...
>There's something on your head.
>Maybe it's a sign that I've turned into a star?

>I think I have some regrets.

>Eh? What is it...

>I fell in love...

p8
>I-It was my first time...
>I wanted... to tell them...
>that I...
>really...
>l-l-l..
>loved them... I think...
>So there was someone like that.
>I had no idea...

>Well, nothing you can do about it now.
>Yup...

>Too bad...
>Sunae.

>Hm?

p9
>Please confess in my place.

p10
>No way!!!
>I see...

>Can't you do something...?
>...
>Are you fine with that?

>I mean, we look pretty much identical.
>Eeeh...

>Since you look like me, it'd be like I was the one confessing.
>This girl...

p11
>No good...?
>I wonder if her mind's gone all weird cos she's dead...

>Wouldn't confessing just be rude to her partner?

>But Kirie can no longer make that confession...

>Alright.

p12
>Uwooooooh
>Sunaeeeee, for reeeeeeeal!?

>Thank you! Thank you!

>...Enough already...
>Aren't you gonna go to sleep, Kirie?
>Hmm...
>The person Kirie likes...

>Do ghosts need to sleep?

>I wonder what they're like?

p13
>That's Fumi-chan.

>My best friend from when I was still alive.
>Eh?
>I know that.

>Now!
>Get going!
>Heh?
>Right now!?

>Yup.
>Yup, you say...
>Who knows when I'll pass on?
>Hrm...

p14
>Just what the heck am I even doing?

>Why did I agree to this...?

p15
>I want to got out with you as lovers.

p16
>Okay.

>eh?

>Please take care of me.
>Ah
>S-
>Same here.

p17
>It was a success.
>An easy one at that.

>You satisfied?
>I am neither satisfied
>nor pleased.
>Figured as much.

>For now, I promised that we'd walk home together.
>Yeah...

p18
>S-
>Sorry to keep you waiting.
>Ah, it's fine.

>Erm...
>I guess at times like these...I should...act like a... l-lover... erm...
>Ah, yes...

p19
>It's warm.

>Huh?
>Ah... Y'know... I've never really
>felt someone's warmth so earnestly like this...

>Um...but... You don't... really like me, do you...?
>Eh!?

p20
>Ah...
>I was so happy that I just kinda said "okay" on reflex...

>But after that, I figured there was no meaning to it.

>I wonder if it's because you're related to Kiri-chan...

>Um...Erm...
>I truly apologise for springing this on you...
>I hope we can continue to get along...

p21
>I think what made me happy was how you and Kiri-chan look alike, Sunae-san.
>I'm impure, too.

p22
>I don't really wanna talk about it
>but I don't wanna force myself to digest all of this so I'll talk.

>If I hadn't died and managed to confess
>would Fumi-chan still go out with me?
>Eh...
>I wonder...

>Uuuh...

>A bit late for that...

p23
>It's so cold...

>I wanna die...
>Such a pitiful ghost...

>That's right. I'm pitiful.
>I could disappear any moment.
>In any case, go flirt some more.
>Stupid dumbass.

>Go for it, Sunae-sama!
>You piece of shit!
>Huh?

>Ghosts... don't need to take baths, do they...
>I can't help that I'm impure.
>It's great~

p24
>Kirie's words will never reach Fumi-san.

>she can't touch her.

>There must be something she could do.

p25
>Ah...

p28
>Sunae-san...
>Y-
>Yes?

p29
>Son of a bitch...

p31
>I wonder where Kirie went...

>It's warm.

p32
>Kirie

>was also warm...

p33
>Hm?

>Huh...?

>It's raining...
>and yet...

>Maybe it's a sign that I've turned into a star?

>Eh?

p34
>You're wrong.

>You're not...
>saying goodbye again, are you...?

p35
>Kirie.

>Yes? Whaddaya want?
>Hah.

>It's nothing.