Epilogue
Nothing was harder than saying goodbye to Ryoko. If I inhaled deeply enough, I could still smell the faint trace of summer but I knew that would be gone soon. It was for the best. What I was about to do was something I had to do on my own.
As much as I wished Ryoko could have come on this adventure with me, it was too dangerous. She was the only thing I had left to lose and the only thing I couldn’t. And yet…
I paused in the shadows and stared at the tall building in the distance. The Afterlife Academy. The place where it all started. It was strange seeing it again. I vividly remembered the first time I came here, the excitement, the prospects. It had been a place of hope, now it was the place I visited in my nightmares.
Careful not to be spotted, I kept a safe distance. This
