After the Best Actor award, the ceremony continued with the Best Actress award, Best Supporting Actor and Actress awards, and so forth.
By the time it ended, it was around two o'clock in the afternoon.
As Caroline Edwin stepped out of the hall, she glanced around and noticed Rachel Eleanor standing thin-clad at the entrance, gazing at the snowflakes drifting from the sky.
In Giga City, December had brought snow, and the flakes fluttered down in a beautiful, romantic manner.
Loneliness, sadness, dejection.
All sorts of emotions seemed to linger in the air.
Caroline moved forward, raising her eyes to the swirling snowflakes and reaching out to catch them, feeling them melt coldly in her hand.
"It's cold, head back early."
She didn't say anything dismissive or recite the adage "there are plenty more fish in the sea." She simply remarked that the cold weather made it easy to catch a chill.
"Okay."
Rachel Eleanor was briefly stunned, then nodded lightly.
"Screech—"
