Before the Coffee Gets Cold

‘At the end of the day, whether one returns to the past or travels to the future, the present does not change. So it raises the question: just what is the point of that chair?’

But Kazu still goes on believing that, no matter what difficulties people face, they will always have the strength to overcome them. It just takes heart. And if the chair can change someone’s heart, it clearly has its purpose.

But with her cool expression, she will just say, ‘Drink the coffee before it gets cold.’

no matter what difficulties people face, they will always have the strength to overcome them. It just takes heart. And if the chair can change someone’s heart, it clearly has its purpose.

The present hadn’t changed – but those two people had. Both Kohtake and Hirai returned to the present with a changed heart.

I finally understand.

The present didn’t change for Kohtake, but she banned everyone from using her maiden name and changed her attitude towards Fusagi. She would be with Fusagi to continue being his wife, even though she had vanished from his memory. Hirai abandoned her successful bar to rejoin her family. While repairing her relationship with her parents, she was learning the traditional ways of the inn from square one.

The present doesn’t change.

Yes, she was a woman who combined intelligence and beauty. But whether she realized this was a different matter

Water flows from high places to low places. That is the nature of gravity. Emotions also seem to act according to gravity.

When in the presence of someone with whom you have a bond, and to whom you have entrusted your feelings, it is hard to lie and get away with it.

The commonly accepted date for the appearance of the modern cafe in Japan is around 1888 — a whole fourteen years later. Coffee was introduced to Japan in the Edo period, around the late seventeenth century.

The cafe has no air conditioning. It opened in 1874, more than a hundred and forty years ago.

When his dream comes true, which will he choose: his dream or me?