In that moment, I felt that, unlike myself, there was no way that Akiyoshi was not going to leave something behind in this world when she died. She was going to live an accomplished, fulfilled life. Or so I hoped, anyway. DzŠƒ–ǯs why, should anything ever happen to me, I want you to carry ‘›ƒ†‘ƒ‹ǯ•‹••‹‘ǡƒ‡†‡Ǥdz Dz‘ǯ–•ƒ›‘‹‘—••–—ˆˆŽ‹‡–Šƒ–Ǥdz Dz‘—‡˜‡”‘™Ǩ‘–Š‹‰‹–Š‹•™‘”Ž†‹•…‡”–ƒ‹Ǥ—–†‘‡•ǯ––Šƒ– just mean that we have to live every day to its fullestǫdzŠ‡Ž‘‘‡†‡ straight in the eye, and I averted my gaze, unable to voice any further opinion on the matter. And yet, even now, in my fourth year, I had yet to live up to this important role that Akiyoshi had thrust upon me. *** All that said, despite this new impulse of mine, I was currently without any direction, unsure of what I should do, what I could do. So, for now, I just decided to hit up my buddy Tousuke. He had received a job offer one step ahead of me, having devoted himself to job hunting since the end of his third year, previously having mainly busied himself with part-time work and seminars. I figured that if there was anyone I could consult, it would be Tousuke, who had far more activities, more opportunities than me, who at least ostensibly did not avoid people or loathe to set foot in new environments. I also just wanted to tell him face-to-face about the end of my job hunt. We decided to meet up at a karaoke place, which I was convinced was only doing so well at the moment because of the amount of money we students dropped there. The location was my idea. Tousuke had previously suggested that we go to karaoke to celebrate the job offers, so I decided to piggyback off of that. We would be meeting up that evening after my last class of the day was over. Typically, students took a lot fewer classes in their senior year, but as I had had no particular plans for the first three years of my university career, I had now cracked down on my studies, finding myself in classes alongside mostly underclassmen. It would be no laughing matter if I ended up having to stay on another term because I was short a few credits despite already having a solid job offer, so I was pretty serious about things.