Five years... may sound like a long time. But when considered carefully, it’s merely five moments fleeting in the blink of an eye, five rounds of the cycle of seasons. If we are to go into even more detail, the time we’ve spent together is, at best, only 1800 days and nights. This, of course, doesn’t include the days when we don’t get to see each other because of business trips.
You often lament that we don’t have enough time, always envying my ability to pause time. And you even always yell at me to use this ability to buy you more time before the proposal deadlines.
Normally, I wouldn’t say yes because time is precious precisely for the reason that it cannot be brought back.
Looking back on it, the time we’ve spent together over the years and everything that we’ve done together – it’s all sufficiently enriching and colorful. So much so that it makes one want to experience it all over again. But today, I suddenly understand your feelings to some extent.
I can still remember the very first time I saw you. You were so bold, and how you were willing to pay any price – all so you could save that little kitten. The way you were so absent-minded and were breaking your way right through... it was a very fortunate thing that I ran into you.
In case you’ve never heard me say this before, you can hear it while we are still on this special day. The Victor from that day, that version of me who met you, was very lucky.
There has never been anyone who, so silently and without so much as a warning, has been able to be integrated into my life. You’ve made me used to your presence, used to the coffee you bring for me. I’ve also gotten used to the clamor you and Pudding make when running all over the house, and to the smiling face of a certain dummy I get to see every early morning.
But I will not be satisfied with only these past five years. Even long before, even from that day I actually met you in the park – the gears of time belonging to Victor have been given more special meaning.
The reason anniversaries are important is not only because they allow us to look back on the past, but also because therein lies the lessons of how we are to tread onto the future.
And, the one and only thing I want for the future is the entirety of your time from beginning to end.
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It’s December 7th. My preparations for the “surprises” for a certain dummy are still in progress.
But by the time you receive this VCR, you should have already seen the things I’ve prepared for you.
I’ve prepared these, of course, to satisfy a certain someone’s sense of ritual on this special day.
Spending the anniversary with you has already been an annual habit of mine since a long time ago.
But this year, I prepared a little in advance. It wasn’t too much. Though, it did take me some time and effort beyond my expectation.
I can now more or less understand how a certain someone had felt when she racked her brain to make all those plans and arrangements before.
In every moment of my imagination, I’ve wanted to see the silly smile of a certain dummy.
And when the plans were implemented, I couldn’t help but watch your each and every movement, wondering whether you’d like them or not.
But all those things aren’t important for now. Now, I can directly accept my answer.
Tell me, do you like it?
We seemed to have had a bit of role reversal. This time, I’m the one who did the planning, and you’re the one in charge of inspection and approval.
But I wasn’t the least bit worried that someone would seize this opportunity to “take revenge” and say, “not original enough, lack of inventiveness,” or some such words as I often tell you in the annotations...
I was sure that you’d like it.
Is a certain someone now mumbling to herself that it’s the capitalist’s confidence talking?
No. For me, confidence has nothing to do with this; it’s the tacit understanding we’ve had over these five years.
Don’t you always complain that time flows like running water?
So, I carved the winter we’ve walked together into roses, using this to have time preserved in front of you.
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[Tidbits]: He’s referencing to their fifth anniv. final segment~
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It’s our fifth anniversary, and I wanted to give you a gift.
Now, you’ve already received it.
But this is still only the beginning of the next phase. Everything about us goes beyond all this.
You can fervently look forward to everything that is to come next. I won’t let it fall short.