Years later, visitors to The Open Shore Museum in Tokyo would stand before Aoi Nakamura's final painting, Home at Dusk.
The inscription beneath it read:
> "For Miyako — the light that never left the shore."
No one knew who added the second line that appeared years later, written in neat, trembling script:
> "And for Aoi — the tide that carried me home."
No one removed it.
Because together, the two lines said everything.
And even now, when the sea wind blows through Kirishima Bay, it carries with it the faint echo of laughter — a reminder that some loves are too vast for a single lifetime to contain.
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