Let's do it again, Yukino.

The girl, her face streaked with tears, seemed to have thought of something. She looked at the boy in front of her and said something unconsciously.

But before she could finish speaking, her delicate figure vanished from Chunri's sight in an instant.

The last trace of warmth remaining in the boy's palm gradually disappeared into the air.

After a while,

The entire pure white world was left with only the boy.

He looked up and raised his head, and cold snowflakes fell one by one onto his face.

Kneeling in the cold snow

His long bangs covered his eyes, which were beginning to feel slightly sore.

"I think I vaguely heard something, or maybe I misheard something? Xiaoxue seemed to say to me at the end that I regretted it? She only regretted it after putting on the ring... Xiaoxue, you're ruthless, you've left me with the biggest regret."

"Is that all? Everything will be back to normal, right?"

Most of the campus of Zongwu High School began to disappear.

And in the end, Kasuga was the only one who disappeared along with this world.

……

"Hey, are you afraid of death, young man?"

Springtime, who had originally planned to quietly accompany the world to its demise, suddenly heard a voice that seemed familiar.

The sound was somewhat familiar, and Chunri unconsciously opened her eyes.

Dressed in red and white, the beautiful, elegant, and otherworldly shrine maiden appeared before him, who was kneeling on the ground.

"That unscrupulous witch who cheated me out of my money? Give it back to me!! If it weren't for you, I wouldn't have ended up buying that cheap junk as a ring for Xue!!!"

With her lips pouting, the priestess hummed somewhat unhappily.

"What do you mean by lying! Can what we, the shrine maiden Kagura, do be called lying? That little bit of money is barely enough for the brokerage fee. Back then, Brother Kimito paid a full 500,000 yen to save a certain woman. Besides, wasn't the one who made a wish to me in the very first place, young man, yourself?"

"When did I make a wish to you? I only had—"

Haruhi opened his mouth as if to refute the charlatan priestess, but as soon as the words reached his lips, his face changed, and he pointed a trembling finger at the priestess in front of him.

"Could it be that you are—"

"Hehe, anyway, young man, I have fulfilled your wish. Now, I will take back what I need."

The priestess smiled and nodded, then counted on her fingers.

"Your seven-year bond with Yukino Yukinoshita, your devotion to the gods, and the future that we can never know—before we part, I want these three things from you, young man."

With a chilling smile playing on her lips, the shrine maiden slowly approached the boy.

At this final moment, the world also shattered into nothingness.

…………

Who is the person you hate the most?

It was a sunny spring day.

So who is the person you love the most?

It was a sunny spring day.

If you had to choose between your child and Haruhi, who would you choose?

Choose A-Qing.

No regrets?

No regrets.

If you could trade seven years of memories with him for a second chance with the person you love, would you agree?

I agree.

Even if the future is an unknown direction?

It doesn't matter.

Because I'm sure I'll see that idiot again, I'm absolutely certain.

You're all idiots, really.

……

…………

There was a strong smell of disinfectant in the air.

In addition, the light was somewhat glaring.

Spring seemed to hear a voice calling out to her incessantly.

My head is spinning. Did I drink too much last night?

The unconscious boy couldn't help but cover his throbbing, dizzy brain with his hand.

"Xiao Qing, wake up, wake up! What will Junko do if something happens to you?"

"Dude, wake up! Otherwise, I won't be able to explain to Xiao Ai."

It felt as if two women were chattering away in my ear like flies.

It's so noisy!!!

At that moment, the young man, feeling inexplicably irritated, was about to use harsh words to stop the two women who had appeared beside his bed...

However, the words that were about to come out of her throat inexplicably turned into—

"Junko and Kaguya, why are you two shouting so loudly?"

amount……

Springtime was speechless.

Looking at the snow-white space around him, he suddenly realized that he seemed to be living in a hospital.

"That's great. Dr. Shizuka just said you might never wake up again. Junko thought she was really going to lose her son in middle age."

Older women, however, burst into laughter the moment they opened their eyes in spring.

What is Junko saying? Does she have to curse herself like that?

The girl, who was about the same age as him, threw herself into his arms and burst into tears.

"Thank goodness you're alright, bro. If you had died, Kaguya would have been in deep trouble!!!"

The young girl cries, the young woman laughs.

Only he knows the crimes committed by the juvenile offender.

……

By the way, who is this Dr. Shizuka that Junko is talking about?

Springtime felt a strange unease creeping into her heart.

Click,

The door not far away was pushed open.

A long-haired woman dressed in a white coat, resembling a doctor, walked in from outside, a cigarette dangling from her mouth, and leisurely approached the young man's bedside.

The female doctor scoffed as she watched the boy open his eyes.

"Tch, so you've finally woken up? I was thinking I could take this opportunity to squeeze a hefty sum out of the Shinomiya family."

"Hey, did you just inadvertently say something that goes against your medical ethics?"

"It's just an auditory hallucination. It seems that young master Shinomiya's head may have suffered quite a shock in this accident."

The female doctor laughed and held up a finger towards the boy.

"This is?"

"one?"

"Wrong, it's the index finger."

The doctor then asked the boy.

Do you remember your surname?

"Spring day? What's wrong?"

The female doctor sighed as if in regret, and frowned at the two family members sitting around the young boy's bedside.

"Madam Shinomiya, and Miss Shinomiya, it seems that your young master Shinomiya did indeed accidentally hit his head in that accident, and his memory is slightly impaired. He may need to stay in the hospital for observation for a while."

Kasuga: "..."

"Can't I take Junko's surname since I was little? Who says the eldest son of the Shinomiya family has to have the surname Shinomiya? Are you trying to make things difficult for me, Kasuga Gian?"

The young man, speechless, muttered to himself about the older woman who seemed to have some prejudice against him, scratching the back of his head.

At one point, the boy felt that the doctor was inexplicably unreliable.

But it also feels strangely familiar.

……

…………

My name is Haruhi Kasuga, but my friends sometimes call me Shinomiya Haru.

Shinomiya is the famous head of the Shinomiya family in Tokyo.

Of course, my name is Haruhi Kasuga, and I'm also called Shinomiya Haru. This doesn't mean I have two fathers.

It was my grumpy father, the current head of the Shinomiya family, who demanded that I take my mother's surname.

Well, those two were almost forty years old, who knows what he was thinking at the time.

Fortunately, Junko gave birth to Kaguya soon after, and her younger sister Kaguya took their father's surname as usual.

This is the true meaning of male chauvinism, isn't it?