Re-learning to love life when death is holding out its arms is priceless. And on this point, neither Hana Hoshino nor Keisuke Akaashi would dare to say otherwise.

In contact with each other, they didn't know if the pain of their broken souls would be subtracted.

But if it allowed them to prolong, just a little, the illusion that their existences had meaning, they were both ready to see the other's suffering added to their own.

"Love does not see with the eyes, but with the soul" - William Shakespeare.