“HAPPY BIRTHDAY!”
“TANJOUBI OMEDETOU!”
“O-HISASHIBURI DESU NEH! GENKI DESU KA?”
“It's been so long! How you've grown up, even in just a few months!”
“We missed you, Momo-chan! But we're so happy to be here for your birthday!”
Momo could not believe her eyes when she finally reopened them. Dan-O was next to her, but before her, they weren't her parents, were they? And Dan-O’s parents, of course, and her best (and only) friend from home Mariya! And her brother, and—and she could not believe what she saw, they could not be here, and she was so glad when her eyes teared over, blurring the whole room into a watery mess, like she had come too close to an impressionist's painting. She did not want to believe they were all here, it was not real, she was just being tricked, it was the mobile device—
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