Blank Dream

Finishing The Dream

We were back in the entrance. Ryotaro and Yuzu stood in front of the door that was previously unopenable. 

I took a deep breath and opened the large door.

"Wait!" Yuzu shouted. A shadow figure in the form of a girl began running towards us.

"Get... out!" She shouted, "Give back my world!"

"Run, you two! Through the door!" I shouted. We began to run away from that... thing...

"Is it chasing us?" Ryotaro asked.

"We'll talk later! Just run to somewhere you can hide!"

We ran into another room. It was small, but the door locked so we were safe.

"Don't make a guy going on thirty run for it," Ryotaro muttered, out of breath, "I'm gonna die..."

"Mishiro...," Yuzu said, "I need to tell you something..." I nodded signaling for her to continue. "I know who that is. I'm Yuzu Hanasaki. A middle school student who committed suicide at age fifteen at Mirror Lake. The reason I killed myself was, to put it bluntly, to meet a girl I loved. She had been murdered. It made me extremely sad. So I read all these books on Black Magic... And killed myself to go to the afterlife. To die at the same place, exactly a year later... It said that would work. I think it's a different afterlife than what the book meant, but ultimately, I came to this world... But it seems there was something to be gained here. That girl, she always said... She was someone who "shouldn't have existed." I always wondered why that was. But I've found out now.
She was born between a girl and her own father... Between Tamaki Hinohara and Rinzou Usui. Her very birth was taboo. That shadow was Utsuro Hinohara. Even as she is, I can tell clearly. Because my wish was to meet Utsuro one last time."

"Utsuro Hinohara... That's Ayato's..."

"Give it back!" I was interrupted by Utsuro. The door broke down and we continued to run. After locking the door of another room, Ryotaro began to tell his story.

"I'm Ryotaro Sengoku. Younger brother of Chika Usui, Mishiro's mother. And subordinate to her dad, Shinji Usui. I knew about you a while back from a New Years card sis sent to me. To be honest, I found you cute. Not exactly a romantic thing. I was captivated by your latent beauty, I suppose. But when I asked my boss about you, I learned that you've been glum and moping as of late. I know why. You injured someone in middle school, and sis kept you shackled ever since. My boss invited me over to your house, and I was honestly pumped to try and help you. It made me sad to imagine such a beautiful girl moping around. I died before it happened. We got caught in a fire in a building at work. Partly by will, I became a soul. I flew around to where you were... So for the year or so between my death and yours, I was basically haunting you. I was hardly even conscious of anything. I vaguely know that's what happened. I considered you someone worth protecting. So even through death, I had the wish of getting to talk to you at least once. It's been granted. This is a door you're able to open. There's something important to you here."

If you're telling me that then... Where should my wish go?

We entered through the large door.

"Huh?"

"...Hey..." Ayato smiled. He stood before us.

"Ayato... why are you here?"

"Because this soul is necessary for granting your wish."

We jumped as a blue flame appeared beside me. It spoke.

"Hello me. You've broken all the mirrors. Your wish will come true. And this world's purpose will be concluded."