Shoetsu Otomo | Reona 44

His stage name. His past.

She continued: “My mother played your cassette until it broke. ‘44 Days of Rain,’ she said it saved her.” Shoetsu Otomo Reona 44

Shōetsu didn’t answer.

She smiled. “Then play it. For one person.” His stage name

“That song,” he said, voice dry as autumn leaves, “was about a woman who left. Never came back. Ironic, isn’t it? The singer stayed. The audience left.” ” he said

He finally looked up. Gray hair. Tired eyes. Forty-four years old, and still running from a song he wrote at 24.

The café was empty except for them.