However, there is no widely known public figure, celebrity, or historical person directly named or with that exact combination of names in major databases (Japanese entertainment, history, literature, or sports).
Shōetsu didn’t answer.
The café was empty except for them.
“That song,” he said, voice dry as autumn leaves, “was about a woman who left. Never came back. Ironic, isn’t it? The singer stayed. The audience left.” Shoetsu Otomo Reona 44
Behind him, on the wall, a faded poster:
A young woman sat at the counter. She pointed at the poster. “You’re Reona, aren’t you?”
He set down the glass. For the first time in a decade, Shōetsu Otomo – Reona – walked to the small upright piano. However, there is no widely known public figure,
His stage name. His past.
He finally looked up. Gray hair. Tired eyes. Forty-four years old, and still running from a song he wrote at 24.
She continued: “My mother played your cassette until it broke. ‘44 Days of Rain,’ she said it saved her.” “That song,” he said, voice dry as autumn
She smiled. “Then play it. For one person.”
Ōtomo Shōetsu wiped the same whiskey glass for the third time. He wasn't cleaning it – he was hiding.