Once a Day Keep The Loneliness Away
I Drink Every Night With a Lookalike of a Popular Idol on the Riverbank The December streets were buzzing with the excitement of year-end parties. After the first round and second round, I was finally free. Beside me, Chisato Narumi, staggering drunkenly, was clinging to me in an unusually cheerful mood. “Hey, Aikawa! You hear…
I Drink Every Night With a Lookalike of a Popular Idol on the Riverbank Today was bitterly cold, and the wind blowing was no longer just wind. It mercilessly stole away body heat, making us shiver uncontrollably. Even drinking by the riverbank was getting tough. “It’s… cold…” “Yeah… I know… I’m losing feeling in my…
I Drink Every Night With a Lookalike of a Popular Idol on the Riverbank My conversation with Nanase-san continued quietly and aimlessly, as usual. We’d gathered a little earlier than dusk to beat the cold, and on the field a short distance away, young baseball players were desperately chasing a white ball. “Kids… why are…
I Drink Every Night With a Lookalike of a Popular Idol on the Riverbank One day when the capricious weather sent temperatures plummeting into the single digits, Nanase-san and I sat on the riverbank as usual, though our conversation kept faltering. Every time I spoke, it felt like even the warm air inside my mouth…
I Drink Every Night With a Lookalike of a Popular Idol on the Riverbank The moment I closed the sliding door to the private room at the izakaya, the hustle and bustle of the station square faded away as if it had been a dream. The warm lighting illuminated the space, which now belonged only…
I Drink Every Night With a Lookalike of a Popular Idol on the Riverbank As November drew to a close and the cold grew even more intense, the riverbank that night had become a place of ascetic training. “It’s cold… It’s definitely getting too cold for canned chu-hi now.” “Yeah. The coldness of the can…
I Drink Every Night With a Lookalike of a Popular Idol on the Riverbank After finishing my conversation with Manager Kuroda, my head was filled with one big question mark. “She’s lying because she doesn’t want to be recognized.” Kuroda’s words kept replaying in my mind. It was ridiculous. Nanase was Yunagi Nagi, the national…
I Drink Every Night With a Lookalike of a Popular Idol on the Riverbank It was Friday night after work. As I left the company building, feeling a sense of liberation, a woman was standing in front of me as if waiting for someone. She was wearing black pantsuit and thin-framed glasses. “Aikawa Yosuke, right?…
I Drink Every Night With a Lookalike of a Popular Idol on the Riverbank On a night when the cold had started to set in, the biting night wind mercilessly stole away our body heat. Nanase and I were sitting on the riverbank as usual, dressed a little more warmly than usual. The lemon was…
I Drink Every Night With a Lookalike of a Popular Idol on the Riverbank With earphones in my ears, I listened to Luminas Tears songs as I headed toward the riverbank. Since the festival, thanks to Narumi’s evangelism, I had begun to listen to Luminas Tears songs in earnest. At first, it was just to…