Shota is surrounded by monsters!

My classmate, Isayama...

"The Underworld".

The ghostly underworld that once stayed in my house...

"sorry."

I'm sorry, I've done many outrageous things to you in the past...

"Thank you."

Thank you for the wonderful smile you gave me, a smile I'll remember for a lifetime...

"And... goodbye, no, perhaps this really is goodbye forever."

Drizzle, drizzle—

Raindrops fell from the clouds, onto the branches, onto the leaves, onto Shota's body, and into Shota's heart.

"What perfect weather for a date, Yomi."

It rained, and then it stopped.

Shota looked up in surprise.

The black umbrella... it wasn't a black umbrella... it wasn't the black umbrella that Shota had hoped for, the one that suddenly appeared above his head.

It's just that the rain happened to stop.

"A real man..."

Suddenly, Shota realized something, slowly stood up from the ground, turned his head, and began to run wildly.

A real man must personally convey what he wants to say to the other person.

Chapter 111. Goodbye (Part 2)

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Where is it! Where is it at all!

Shota runs through the bustling city, trying to find the scent of the Yellow Springs, which no longer exists.

Kagura... at Tsuchimiya Kagura's house!

After roughly guessing where Huang Quan might have gone last, Shota gritted his teeth and started running towards that place.

If she hasn't disappeared yet, if she hasn't become a Buddha yet, she will definitely be there.

She had told herself that Kagura was her last treasure.

So even if she had to leave, that would be her last stop.

What kind of person is Yomi Isayama? She is incredibly strong both outwardly and inwardly. Otherwise, she couldn't have defeated the Sesshoseki and switched the blade to the back of the sword when delivering the final blow.

She...hates being hurt, yet because of her duty, she is destined to be caught in an endless cycle between protecting and hurting.

This was a mission imposed on her by others, but she did not complain at all and did her best to do it.

Even if, in the end, what awaits her is suspicion, betrayal, and the death of her loved ones.

But in the very end... she held no grudge against anyone. In the very last moment, all she could think about was how to protect that girl.

That smile is something no one harboring hatred could possess.

Please wait for me a moment, just a moment...

Don't leave so quickly and cleanly.

I dislike, absolutely dislike, this kind of forced, feigned reconciliation during a separation.

What is that?

"Well, who knows?"

Passersby looked on with puzzlement as Shota darted past.

"that……"

As if sensing something, Noriyuki Iitsuna raised his head, looking at the golden creature that had disappeared from his sight, and then looked up at the sun that had once again peeked out from behind the dark clouds.

He quietly put away the umbrellas on his stall.

"As expected, in the end..." Noriyuki Iitsuna muttered to himself with a hint of amusement, "Did I still not even have the courage to say goodbye properly and take care?"

"You won, Shota Kousaka."

"What's wrong, brother?"

Another young female high school student sat down opposite Iizuna Noriyuki.

“No, it’s nothing. Life always has its share of bittersweet memories.” Noriyuki Iitsuna said with a world-weary smile that could charm young female students. “If you want to know more, we can chat for a while longer.”

"Kagura".

Looking at Kagura, who was smiling but with tears streaming down her face, Huang Quan said, "Can you call me 'sister' again?"

"Yes, sister."

Kagura nodded, letting her tears fall to the ground, then looked at Yomi and called out again, "Sister."

Upon hearing Kagura's address, the gentle light emanating from Yomi shone even brighter, as if it were about to take her away, slowly disintegrating her body.

But there was no sign of pain on her face.

"What an excellent younger sister."

Huang Quan wanted to reach out and touch Kagura's head again, but then realized she no longer had a hand...

"Oh, right, POCKY... is there any more?"

Like a willful child, Huang Quan made his request.

"Yes, there are many..."

Kagura nodded vigorously and said, "Wait for me, one minute, no, thirty seconds..."

As she spoke, she started running, stumbling and falling like a child, but she still ran very fast. She didn't want to find that there was no one there when she got her POCKY back.

"No rush, I can wait a minute."

Kagura returned quickly, holding a bag of Pocky in her hand, pressing her hand to her chest and panting heavily.

"My sister's favorite... chocolate-coated POCKY."

Her normally nimble hands trembled slightly as she unwrapped the packaging, but Kagura quickly tore open the inner wrapping paper and took out a long POCKY.

"Oh dear, what should I do now? My hands are useless."

Yomi winked at Kagura, hinting at something.

Kagura, meanwhile, put the uncoated side of the cookie in her mouth, slowly tiptoed, and stretched the POCKY towards Yomi's mouth.

"Click".

With a soft sound, Huang Quan bit into the Pocky.

The two girls took that moment as the starting point of their competition, simultaneously opening and closing their silver teeth like two little hamsters, chewing the biscuits as they closed the distance between them.

Eight centimeters... five centimeters... three centimeters... two centimeters... one centimeter...

The distance between the two girls' lips was just one centimeter.

But POCKY suddenly fell to the ground.

"It's almost time." Huang Quan, who no longer had the strength to materialize and bite POCKY, raised his head again and said, "Let's say goodbye."

"……elder sister……"

"Don't cry anymore. If you cry, I'll feel sad too. You don't want me to leave this world unhappy, do you?"

Huang Quan's voice also became weak.

"But...tears..."

Kagura quickly wiped her face clean, forced a wry smile with all her might, and looked at Yomi, taking a deep breath.

"Have a safe journey, Sister Huangquan."

"Ah, take good care of yourself, Kagura."

Under Kagura's watchful gaze, Yomi's disappearance began to accelerate...

"Yellow Spring!"

"Bam—"

With a loud bang, a hole was breached in the wall surrounding the Kagura family's residence, and a golden, kitten-like creature leaped out from the dust.

"Kosaka...kun?"

Huang Quan's face, which had been quite relieved, was now filled with disbelief.

"...Phew. I made it..."

Shota's body was still slightly heaving from the intense running. He looked up at Yomi, who was almost disappearing, and said, "I have something to tell you."

"What...what did you say?"

"That!" Shota shouted loudly at Yomi in his childish voice, "If we both have a next life, please go out with me!"

These were the last words Shota wanted to say to Yomi.

He originally admired her, but this admiration quickly fermented and mutated into liking after Huang Quan's recovery and departure.

Although he already had Rei.

But he still felt that even in the next life, if he could date this girl, it would be a beautiful memory forever.

This is the message that Shota wanted to convey to Yomi in the end.

"what……"

"Hahahahahaha..."

Upon hearing Shota's words, Yomi laughed. Unlike her previous smile, she laughed heartily, loudly, and boldly.

"This... could it be a confession? You're such an idiot, a complete and utter idiot..."