The boy lived outside of her time, outside the imaginary sphere of life described in the novel.

To the boy: the novel was written as a proof of her love. He believed reading the novel as was his expression of unrequited love.

Fiction: the novel reminisced itself with a song at the beginning of the story. It was a song of transience and nostalgia, as time was part of the fundamental mechanism of living and forgetting.

The girl in the story has lucid nightmares. She was branching out with self-destruction driven by alienation.

The story of the girl and her nightmares was so vivid the boy stopped reading halfway never knowing what will happen to the girl.

The girl committed suicide. She believed that breaking your neck is the best way to die. She finally surpassed life one evening in a sanatorium standing at the top of the magic mountain. She has only one last wish.

The death of a girl was a beautiful mystery never revealed to the boy. The girl and the boy never met each other.

Fact: the boy never existed. He was only a speck of light, a creation sprung from individual depression of the imaginary writer. The romantic realism of the boy took shape after the imaginary writer has done reading the novel.

The title of the novel was also the title of a song.

The imaginary writer, in contrast, knew the whole story of the novel. He knew what had happened to the girl. The mystery was revealed to him through the title of the song.

He knew and understood the girl’s last wish: remember that I existed.

The girl’s name was Naoko.

The novel was written by a Japanese author.