dlfk;lasjkf I was waiting to read this until it was done, and then swtjemz flailed at me today, and --

I don't have any words. This is so amazingly amazing. All of the different threads that you wove together and all of the different characters that even in their different incarnations were still so quintessentially Ryo and Shige and Koyama and Pi and Jin and asdlkjfal;ksd; I was so so so content at the end. Like everything in the world was exactly as it should be.

This is so so so wonderful. *______________________*