Saikai - Story (english) Called back to consciousness by a faint light, by the memory of a fleeting dream and the fading remnant of your voice, the vivid stirring of that far-distant past keeps reflecting a scene that now I can no longer see: Ah... clear as though it were but yesterday, I still remember it! That one glance which touched me more deeply than anyone else ever had... The joy of what we shared and that near-miraculous encounter and even the last traces of what we were together -- all of it, deserted, vanishing away... From within those vanishing memories, I yearn to hold you just one more time. To the verge of pain, I keep crying out your name until my voice is worn to silence. "Where is it that people come from, and where do they go? My precious, gentle one-- you alone are no longer here..."* I want to hold you in my arms as you stand there trembling, head downcast. Because I've realized that what I want is to protect you, more than anyone else in all this world. Soon now, very soon, I too will disappear, yet... even so... you are the one last thing I cannot bear to let go. Those days when you held me to the verge of pain-- I will never forget...