Good evening
Thank you for your hard work today.
I went to watch today.
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From here on, please allow me to talk about my feelings toward Sari-chan
while looking back.
Before I realized it, Sari-chan and I had become really close friends
ever since she joined the group.
At the time, we both put a bit of a barrier
to our surroundings,
such as how we both
has no idea when to strike up a conversation with others.
As I watched her from a distance, I somewhat sensed a familiarity,
and wondering if we both were the same kind of person,
I thought, “Let’s go to her side”,
and perhaps that’s why I started going to her side.
I don’t remember it very clearly,
but before I realized we had become truly good friends.
Every time we met, we would stand and talk for a long time even though we could just take a seat,
During handshake events, we would sit next to each other,
Wear matching costumes for Halloween,
and even wearing matching outfits.
There was a time when we shared a lane too, didn’t we?
The fans gave us a nickname,
“Usushio Potechi”
and there were also many people
who supported us both.
When we go out,
It feels as if that we have gone beyond
mere friends who are working hard
in the same industry, in the same place.
I feel that we are more than just “friends”
I remember how much I sincerely had fun and enjoyed
the time I spent going out with Sari-chan.
When it’s night and already pitch black,
even though it’s time for both of us to go home already
we would sit down and talk about each other,
talk about the future.
When we couldn’t really go out during COVID,
we would do video calls and talk about trivial things,
play games that we could play while on video calls,
and sometimes we would find ourselves speaking for more than four hours already.
Since a long time ago, I have always
had a hard time building relationships
where I could talk about my worries freely
But for me, Sari-chan
is one of the people with whom I managed to build that kind of relationship.
I wonder if, without realizing it,
the warmth that is unique to Sari-chan
has broken through the invisible barrier inside me.
Thank you.
Even when we are no longer in the same group,
she always treated me the same way,
and whenever we meet during a music show we would always see each other and talk.
When I announced my hiatus.
she was the first to give me a call.
And she sent me a long text
with sincere, reassuring words.
I am sure that all of you are aware of it already,
but Sari-chan is someone who prioritizes
other before herself
She is truly kind, warm, and embracing.
She is truly like a Holy Mother.
That’s why
there is also a worry
that she might have absorbed a lot of things
and it piles up without her realizing it.
From now on, I would like to pay her back
including for all the things that she has given to me,
and I hope to be someone that Sari-chan could feel at ease with
even for just a little.
Let’s continue to be on each other’s side from now on.
Let’s go to many, many different places.
Truly, thank you very much.
Let’s continue to be friends from now on.
When we happened to meet at the office.
A person who makes me smile from the bottom of my heart.
I love you.
Mii.
Translator: toomuchidea
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