“We’re rejecting it,” Ritsu said firmly.
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“N-nothing! Just a rejection pile.”
Ritsu wanted to strangle him. But late one night, alone in the office, he found an old sticky note inside the manuscript’s envelope. Not his. Takano’s handwriting, years old, faded: “You threw this away. I kept it. Always.”
That resolve shattered on a rainy Tuesday when a manuscript landed on his desk.
It was his manuscript. From ten years ago.
