Amane stands on the rooftop, looking uninterested. He sighs.

"I was hoping that I made myself clear. This goes for No. 3 and No. 4 as well.

He then smiles.

"I don't intend to let you all leave this place. You must be thick-headed."

...

"HE..." Mitsuba, Kou and Nene both shout at the same time in awe,

"HE'S REALLY HERE!"

"E-Eh?" Amane, Mei and I all sweat-drop.

"So we meet, Hanako-kun! I didn't think you would show yourself!"

"I'll get you for sure this time, Hanako!"

"D-DON'T COME NEAR ME! I DIDN'T DO ANYTHING!"

They all ramble on.

Amane seems to be quite famous.

"One at a time, if you don't mind..."

Yashiro makes her grand speech, getting us ready to follow the plan.

"OKAY, FOLLOW THE PLAN, GUYS!"

"Roger, senpai!"

"Kay!"

"You got it!" I send her a thumbs up.

"HERE I COME, HANAKO!" Kou readies his exorcism staff, then bursting out a mass amount of power. Lightning strikes the tower, shaking it violently.

"YOU SEE THAT? THIS IS THE REAL STRENGTH OF MY WEAPON! JUST 'CAUSE YOU SEALED IT OFF IN THE REAL WORLD, DOESN'T MEAN WE CAN'T REMOVE IT IN THIS FAKE ONE!"

Yet, you still don't know how to control it in the real world...

While I wear this cloak, anti-spirit items won't hurt me."

Amane slashes his knife at Kou, as if he has a killing intent.

"For real? Then-" Kou's words get cut off.

No. 7 breaks through Kou's weapon with ease.

"GIVE ME BACK MY FAMILY'S RELIC!"

"No way~!"

"STOP RIGHT THERE!"

Mei?

Shijima Mei walks confidently towards the two. "While in this drawing, the fake world belongs to me, it's also my territory, and my 'shrine'. Please control your Haku-Joudai, No. 7."

His hand gets burnt from the staff as Mei draws in her sketchbook.

"With this, you're unable to use Haku-Joudai."

"...No. 4..."

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I just have to wait.

If anything goes wrong, I'm the secret weapon against him.

Kou and Amane have been fighting for a while now, and the clouds are getting thicker.

"You won't be able to move soon, right, Boy?"

Even Hanako seems to be at his limit. Mei's power must be working.

"So this is your limit even with No. 4's power... Then how...

You need to think through it more."

Kou freezes.

"Everyone keeps talking about how they can save her, or how they won't give up. That sort of thing. I don't mind it... But...

He smiles, letting go of Kou.

"Amane..." I whisper, but I doubt he can hear me.

"See, the moon's nearly covered. You're out of time, it seems."

What he didn't notice is that Yashiro and Mitsuba both went to get a form of transportation while we were distracting him with fighting.

Mitsuba's apparition power flings us into the train, including Amane, rather uncomfortably. I land face first.

"Alright! You're all in! Now full speed ahead! Yashiro Nene, here I go!"

"Gee, thanks for the safe landing..." I whisper to myself.

"To the moon, LET'S GO!"

...

"Why is she using a rear car...?" Shijima deadpans.

"Haha... How come it's flying...?" Mitsuba sweat-drops.

"A rear car that flies...?" I question.

Kou looks at his senpai in awe. "As expected, senpai! You're so cool!"

"I said... I wanted a pumpkin carriage... But I couldn't convey the image well." Yashiro huffs, having to pedal all 5 people in the rear car.

"Do you wanna switch?" Kou asks.

"I-It's okay.. If I don't pedal, we'll fall...

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"We're almost to the exit! Hanako-"

"You've done a good job of coming all this way, but I really can't let you go any further than this."

Amane steps on the connector, making the bicycle and the cart separate. Yashiro, only getting more angry at him, pushes him off the car.

But for some reason, she grabs onto him.

"Amane! Yashiro-san!" I scream as they plummet into the clouds. I look at the other 3 still sitting in the car.

"I'll go get them. Meet you back at the exit!"

"I- Alright! We'll see you there!" Kou shouts at me. I give him a thumbs up.

I jump out of the moving car and fall into the clouds.

...

The impact hurts my head, but I manage to keep my vision.

"(Y-Y/N)?!"

I grasp my head and look up.

Yashiro was in the middle of giving Amane a big scolding it seems...

"Amane... Yashiro..."

"A-Anyway! Jistatsu-san, back me up on how annoying Hanako-kun is, please!"

I blink. What's going on?

"Uh... Sure... Let's see..." I look at Amane, who is staring at me. I start putting my fingers up and count. "You're loud, you're annoying, you're a complete jerk, you never stop talking, you're selfish, you only think for yourself, you-"

"Alright, I get it, I get it!" He nervously smiles, looking at Yashiro. "But, your life is-"

"ARGH! SO WHAT IF I'M NOT GONNA LIFE MUCH LONGER?"

I've never seen her so fierce before. She's just pouring it all out now.

"I...I was going to plant new veggies next year! And when I finish all my studies, I'd go on to become a stunning college student! I wanna to become an adult and go out to drink! I want to wear a snow white wedding dress when I get married!

I don't want to stay here forever!

I WANT TO LIVE MY LIFE AS BEST AS I CAN!"

...

"Not for my sake, but tell me what you want to do. Do you just want to stay here and never leave this place?!"

"T-THAT'S NOT IT!" Amane's hat falls off as he grabs onto Yashiro's shoulders.

"It's not like... I want you to stay here..."

"You're the same as us, without a future. Me, who's only here to atone for my sins... And (Y/N), who's stuck here, with the memories she can't even erase...!"

"Yashiro... You're... Idealistic, easy to mess with... Kinda clumsy, with super fat ankles.

We all knew about your lifespan from the very start. I mean, we're dead, after all.

I never cared who died...

Really, I didn't...

I didn't...

I thought that I didn't.

"Amane..."

He's starting to tear up now.

I can't help but think in this situation...

What's so special about Yashiro Nene?

What's so special about her... That he wants to abandon his family?

I brush the thought away.

"Hey, guys, take a look. The moon's real close up here." I say. I can't explain why, but I start to cry.

My sobs echo through the night sky.

I'm such a crybaby, aren't I?

When I hadn't realised, Amane started rubbing his hand on my back, as if saying, "It's ok."

He probably doesn't know, but it comforts me. A lot.

"Y'know... earlier..." Yashiro quietly starts talking, "Sensei told me that when humanity first made it to the moon, everyone started to think...

What is she trying to say...?

"How about..." Yashiro grabs one of our hands each. "We all just go together... To the moon...!"

"...What...?"

"Jisatsu-san... We can be together, letting go of the past... Build a new life! And...

I want to keep living, in the real world! Next year, the year after... for the next 90 years!"

She leans closer to us.

"Dear Hanako-san, Hanako-san...

Then she starts humming Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star off-tune.

"Jisatsu-san... I wonder... If we can all stay together happily, forever... To my grave?"

We stare at her.

"Erm... Is that no good?"

"Yashiro..."

"Y'know... It's hard for me to say no when you ask like that... It can't be helped...

For a second there, he looked just like the old Amane, all those years ago.

"And my answer... To your first question...

"H-Hanako-kun! Jisatsu-san!"

"Now, Yashiro, close your eyes.

"H-Huh?" I exclaim as Yashiro obeys. "A-Amane-!?"

He leans closer to her, and...

"BAMM!" Amane lets go of Yashiro, making her plummet to her death.

"H-HUHH?! A-AAHH!"

I wave her goodbye as she falls.

"Say, Amane... You and Yashiro...?"

He smiles back at me. "Not telling~!"

We both laugh together, for the first time in 50 years.

...

I watch as my brother sends our friends to the moon. He looks up and begins to speak.

"Sorry, Yashiro... But we won't be going to the moon.

I'm not able to fulfill my wish from when I was alive, now that I'm dead. But... You want to live for another ninety years? Isn't that a bit selfish?

Fine... I'll grant your wish. I'll prove to you that I can.

"And Yashiro... I'll prove to you my answer is true."

Yashiro and everyone else fall towards the moon.

We both wave at them from afar with a smile.

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Apparently, Yashiro has taken off No. 4's Yorishiro, along with the fake world.

And with that...

The fake world of fabrication comes to a close.

All of us were back and our lives in the real world went on.

Hanako-kun, Mitsuba-kun and I go back to our supernatural selves.

Yashiro's lifespan... still seems to be short...

But this is her world. This is the place where she want to keep living, so we have to do our best.