SHORTLISTED FOR THE J-NOVEL CLUB ORIGINAL LIGHT NOVEL 2025 CONTEST
“Will you walk with me? One last time?”
A story of youth, heartbreak and haunting ghosts.
Yamato Haruto and Aoi Chisato start dating at the end of their second year of high school.
Just one year before graduation.
They live in a small town in the mountains, a place where the snow falls every year – a place that students leave after graduating.
These two childhood friends decide to become lovers, knowing that they only have one year together. They are confident that they can figure things out after graduation. But time and space are vast obstacles to overcome. Their relationship eventually breaks, but –
Their fates are interwoven – even as one of them dies.
What could be bigger than life and death?
A deeply moving, first-person light novel from Oniisanbomber, author of “See You When the Snow Falls” and “I Met You After the End of the World.”
The pain of losing someone not through adversaries, but through distance and the fork in our path of life, is a great pain. This book explored this pain in a bittersweet, heart-breaking way that will stay with me for a while.
These two characters are both endearing yet flawed, in the end, even if they were just words on a screen, their life somehow gave me a new look on how I can approach my own pain.
If you love a story that will hit your soul, this one is a must-read.
A good story is a story that can break one’s heart, isn’t it? I hate this book as it breaks my heart, where sweetness comes only as memories… A really, really great story :’)