Isolation.

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They parted. Wonderlandsxshowtime was no more. Kusanagi Nene was especially affected by the outcome leading to Rui ceasing contact with her. Slowly Rui stopped attending his highschool due to the incident. Mizuki tried to warn him that if he kept isolating himself he'd only get worse and worse. He didn't listen.

Emu constantly tried to reach him to no expense. So did Nene, his childhood friend and the one that knows him best, she knew what happened wasn't anyone's fault and he was blaming himself only for being in charge of robonene. He didn't listen to her.

Tsukasa came to his house to apologize, along with confessing his feelings to Rui. Rui felt the same way, but he could not answer the door, he promised he would isolate himself completely. Tsukasa left, not knowing what to feel he started crying and ran away regretting what he had done, even though he knew he wasn't the victim.

Mizuki went to check on him, not expecting an answer. "I told you this would happen Rui. You know what you're doing isn't healthy and you're going to end up doing something you'll regret." They left.

Rui had mixed feelings. He had gone too far to open the door and go back to living his normal life. He felt a sense of commitment to his isolation.

He missed Tsukasa, he wanted to apologize too, Rui knew how he felt. He missed Emu. He missed listening to her energetic voice always cheering everyone up. He missed Nene, he missed their daily check ups on robonene and their special bond.

After a month he decided to open the door and leave his house to apologize to everybody, starting with Mizuki. They understood. They know him well and forgave him as they knew what he felt.

He went to the wonder stage after getting weird looks from the guards, he could tell he wasn't welcome there. He saw everyone performing together without him, and the smiles the children had on their faces. They betrayed him.

He was enraged and confused, it has only been a month. He didn't have the guts no confront everyone so he just talked to nene. "Do you all not need me anymore? Am i that replaceable?" He said "Rui you don't understand! YOU were the one who abandoned us without a warning! Emu has been worried sick about you, you can't just show up out of nowhere!"

A single tear drop falls from Rui's eyes. He left with a heavy step. "Rui? What are you doing here?!" Tsukasa stopped him. Rui's heart started racing, the same feeling he had before the accident happened.

Then he remembered what just happened and his smile turned upside down "Don't talk to me again." Rui said with a sad frown. "I—Is this because of what i said through the door? Listen i don't.. care if you don't feel the same way."

The silence was killing both of them. Tsukasa let go of Rui "I don't know what you think i'm gonna say after you forgot about me like this. I don't want to see any of you again!!" Rui ran away sobbing.

He got to his apartment and collapsed to the floor. He had so many feelings to process and all he could feel was rage. He hated everything. He hated the wonder stage. He hated Emu. He hated Nene. He... Hated Tsukasa.

He had no one left to go except for Mizuki. "Hey! A—Are you okay?!" Said Mizuki "I.. I dont know what i feel anymore. I just want everything to burn." Rui looked pale and Mizuki was speechless "What do you mean by that..." Mizuki jumped at the worst conclusion possible.

Rui left. Everything was over for him. Back at his apartment he looked at his phone for the first time in a month. Everyone seemed better without him. It was his own fault after all. He needed revenge. He no longer felt anything for them except for hatred. Rui spent the night overthinking, he thought everybody hated him, maybe they did..

The cheap memories of youth, the tears, everything's over. Paper all scattered around his apartment, Broken glass of his broken memories. And after hours of planning Rui went outside to look at the wonder stage. It was midnight, he was tired and the thoughts of self hatred and regret were overwhelming.

It hurt. Seeing posters of their next show and seeing the stage renewed hurt more than anything. He destroyed every single thing he didn't recognize. All he felt was rage, he knew what to do. He went back to his apartment.

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