Chapter 21 — Good Days

Saturday should have felt normal.

Instead, it feels like a held breath.

While the city keeps moving around them, Emiko reveals she has been quietly preparing for something Sara barely lets herself believe in: help for Liora. Not a cure. Not a miracle. But support. Real supplies. Real planning. Real hope.

A trip to the pharmacy becomes something heavier than shopping, as Sara is forced to look at an ordinary modern world where medicine can be bought in aisles, ordered to a door, and measured in dates, quantities, and cost. Back at the apartment, lists become plans, plans become orders, and one small message from Daichi turns uncertainty into the first real step forward.

For Sara, fear has always meant survival.

But hope may be harder to carry.