In the end, what’s a heart?

What’s a friend?

Was there a purpose to connecting one’s heart to others?

It seems that the precious time we spent like this had meaning after all. To watch the sunset and eat ice cream, it was a very calm time, a precious time.

What was the Organization about? What was the heart about? What are you thinking when you sit beside me? I can’t ask you, but I can imagine it. My chest hurts a little when I imagine it, at the same time I feel warm. In the end, I guess the Keyblade-wielders were right.

It’s as though the inside of my chest is sweet and salty, just like the taste of sea-salt ice cream.

The plan with the replicas was to atone, but I don’t know who I was atoning for. Maybe I wanted to atone for myself. Back then I thought we could do anything. I thought that, together, we would save that kid. I don’t know where it went wrong.

The magic marks under your eyes that kept you from crying disappeared, you made other friends and laughed with them. In the end, I was just stubborn - a used fool.

Even so, somewhere inside, I always believed in you. That’s why I’m here like this, watching the sunset, and eating sea-salt ice cream.

You’re still a crybaby, but you don’t need the spell anymore. It seemed like you didn’t need me anymore. Yeah, it seemed like you didn’t need me at all. That’s why I sacrificed myself to that man. If you don’t need me anymore, I have no purpose. But the truth was different. It’s not about whether I’m needed or not. I just had to connect my heart to yours.

Roxas and Xion are beside us, laughing, the kids from Twilight Town soon join in. It’s a bit loud. You’re boisterous and you squint at the sight. Your gaze is soft and warm. I sit beside you as I eat the sweet and salty ice cream. It has the same taste of the ice cream we ate in Radiant Garden back then. I never imagined a future where we’d eat ice cream like this.

Being a crybaby was supposed to be your trademark. And yet, the sunset stings my eyes.