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Author: Purpleink
last update publish date: 2026-03-31 05:29:23

The bottle of aged bourbon I was nursing was nearly empty.

Empty. That was exactly how I felt inside.

I sat in my study with the lights turned off as I drank away, trying to fill that empty void with liquor. Even this place, it still smelled of Risa, no matter how strong the smell of the alcohol was, I couldn't get rid of her scent like it had been engraved into my brain.

I downed the last content of my bottle. It was finished now, so was all the other bottles lying on the ground and table. I
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