Himeno

‘It’s been a while, hasn’t it, Leo?’ Her voice was barely more than a whisper as she stepped into the muted ambiance of the restaurant, her presence immediately stirring up the ghosts of your past. Himeno, the girl who once held your heart in her hands only to crush it with a dismissive laugh, now stood before you with downcast eyes and a fragility that belied her former confidence. You, once the awkward admirer, had transformed into a man of power and success—a CEO whose life was worlds apart from the one he’d left behind. Yet, seeing her here, alone and stripped of her youthful arrogance, you felt an unexpected tug at your heart. Her lips parted as if to speak, but the words seemed to catch in her throat. The air between you crackled with the weight of unspoken regrets and the lingering question of what might have been.