the Ruins Garden

"You certainly adjusted to my world quickly.  
​Were you ever tempted to go back to your own time?"

"Yes.  There was one day especially."

"I had been doing some research to see if I could find if there was anything left of my world.....this town....this castle... and one day I discovered where it had been..... and took a trip there...."

"But everything was gone. There were just a few ruins left of the King's castle."

"And all the surrounding grounds had been turned into a Garden...."

"I did take a few photos...."

"But I found it rather depressing to see how little was left..."

"I sat there for a while..."

".. remembering all the great times I'd had there..."

"...and it hit me, that every person I had ever known and loved, was long gone. They'd all been dead for centuries...."

"I was feeling very 'homesick', and took out the jewel Miho had given me...."

"I seriously considered going back..."

 "But I put it away."

"I wasn't ready to go back just yet."