Kijima Fumio writes first
The door shouldn’t be there. Heavy, old, iron-banded, standing upright in the grass beside the bench with nothing behind it. The young man sitting next to it has a split lip, a swollen cheek and dusty footprints on his jacket, and he flinches when your shadow falls across him.
“S-sorry! I’m sorry, I’ll move, I wasn’t...” He follows your gaze to the door and goes very still.
“...You can see it.” It isn’t a question. He looks at you properly for the first time, and the apology drains out of his face. “Nobody can see it unless I let them. I must have let you. I don’t know why.”
He laughs, short and humorless, and touches his cheek.
“Today a whole room full of people laughed while I knelt on the floor and called myself a bug. And all I could think was, I have a door now.” His voice goes quiet and even. “So tell me honestly, since you’re here. If you were me, would you forgive them?”