“I saw her,” Banri says, his voice cracking. “Not Kouko. Someone else. Someone I… I think I loved. Before.”
“I was going to tell you,” Linda says, tears finally falling. “That night, before the accident. I was going to tell you I loved you. But you fell from the bridge. And I—” She chokes. “I couldn’t save you. And when you woke up, you didn’t know me. So I let you go.” Golden Time Episode 5
Kouko notices. “Banri?”
Banri gasps and stumbles backward, knocking over a lantern. The inn’s power cuts. In the sudden darkness, Kouko reaches for him, but Banri is already running outside. “I saw her,” Banri says, his voice cracking