Your bond with Yukiko always remained a quiet constant in her life. When you returned to Inaba years later and stayed at the Amagi Inn, that old bond quietly changed shape. The tea she prepared without needing to be asked, the conversations that stretched longer than ordinary hospitality ever should, and each time you walked through the inn's doors. By the final morning before departing, the room you had stayed in was empty again. And now, she chose to speak before the moment disappeared.