: After a night of frustration where she finds Paul unresponsive (he is sleeping or "out cold"), Marie chooses to turn on the gas in their apartment before leaving for the hospital.
There was tenderness in their smallness—how Kaito would fold the corners of Maru’s pages so the weather wouldn’t curl them, how Maru would hum under her breath when Kaito worked, as if matching his hands to the steady rhythm of tape. It was a love that did not know the word “future” but could recognize the gesture: two people pointing the same way by accident. ROMANCE X -1999-
Then Kaito handed her a capsule: a cassette rewind tool that had been modified—over time he had become a tinkerer of such things; his fingers had an architecture to them now. "I fixed that motor you liked," he said, and there was something folded in his voice she could not read. REPORT: ROMANCE X -1999- The Gas Leak :