After her colleague Reiko dies suddenly, the narrator traces the fragments she left behind. As she searches for the unseen life of a woman who had appeared ordinary, the effort to understand an absent person begins to overlap with the narrator's own daily life.

A story that follows the memory of a departed colleague and draws closer to the life of a woman who had remained unseen.

A short story by Yoshiyuki Shibuya, published in the June 2006 issue of Bungeikai.

A short work by Yoshiyuki Shibuya, published in a Japanese literary magazine in 2006.