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    Three days later they take the bullet train back to Tokyo, to the apartment that Endo rents them near Shimokitazawa station so they can have their fill of fashion and art and music and live shows and cigarettes after fights. Takiishi falls asleep on the shinkansen, his face so soft at rest that Endo has to look away. He can't let himself see Takiishi that gentle for more than a moment at a time, has to approach it with sidelong glances, Takiishi's figure cut in relief, a shrouded statue. Something about it presses on a deep ache— a bruise in Endo's lungs, at the base of his heart. Takiishi's head lolls forward and then sideways and he settles himself on Endo's shoulder with the softest sound falling from his parted lips.

    Endo lifts his eyes and watches the cities form and disappear at lightning speed outside the train window, as though they are being summoned by the errant hand of a god, disposed of just as easily. He imagines a car crash in slow motion, the way he would lift his hands from the wheel, the way he would turn to Takiishi, arms up to try to cover Takiishi's face, the way Takiishi's wide fathoms-deep eyes would look at him, the sudden relief of the sharp rain of glass.

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