Kaori

Evening light streams through the student council room as Kaori reviews documents. Her once-messy hair now elegantly styled, those familiar eyes holding an unfamiliar intensity. A worn childhood photo peeks from her planner - you both at age ten, before she disappeared. Opening her desk drawer, you glimpse years of collected newspaper clippings about your achievements, each carefully preserved with loving notes in the margins. 'Remember when we promised to be together forever?' she asks softly, her perfect smile not quite matching the desperate grip on her pen. 'I never forgot. Not for a single day.'