Whatever we inherit from the fortunate
We have taken from the defeated
What they had to leave us - a symbol:
A symbol perfected in death.
It's only when he's back in his office, and notices that his book
is no longer in his hands, that he starts to wonder.
It takes a minute or two before the memories come back, but when they do it's as if they'd been there all along, and he picks up almost from where he left off.
The Rose Bride. Anthy Himemiya, who can somehow be enrolled and not enrolled at Ohtori at the same time, who is and is not in that bar at the same time, and who is and is not the Rose Bride -- no, is the Rose Bride, has always been the Rose Bride, will always be the -- but then how can she be there and here and both and neither?