Shuya looked at Noriko, they had made it through the 'Program', and finally revealed his thoughts about her.
"Let's go, Noriko." He whispered to her.
"What?" She asked.
"Just run." Shuya demanded.
"To where?" Noriko was full of questions.
"Anywhere, just run."
"Now?"
"Yeah, RUN!"
The two lovers ran into the streets of an unknown town.
Every step Shuya became weaker, until he collapsed on the streets...
He suddenly opened his eyes in a white room.
"What?" Shuya questioned what was happening.
"Finally, you've woken up!"
Shuya's vision was blurry, he knew he was lying in bed but didn't know who the female was that was sitting next to him.
"Who are--" Shuya asked, but the girl had pulled a green bag from her the cot.
"Relax; I marked your map for you."
His vision came back to him, there sitting was a smiling Yukie Utsumi.
"Utsumi...why are you here?" Shuya had thoughts racing around in his head, because Utsumi was supposedly dead.
"Oh, do you remember what happened?" Utsumi asked.
"No." Shuya replied.
Utsumi took a deep breath, and then began to explain the mystery.
"Well, in the first day of the 'Program' you had an accident with Ooki, right?"
"Yeah. An accident."
"After that you got attacked by Motobuchi. He threw a huge stick at you, and banged your head. You were unconscious since."
"Really? What about Kawada and Noriko?"
"They're okay. They're here."
Shuya lied in the comfort, of knowing that Noriko and Kawada were okay, but the uncomforting feeling of not knowing if Shinji, Yutaka, and the rest of the surviving students were survivors.
Utsumi cut into his thoughts.
"You seem worried. What's wrong?"
"I had a dream. It was about the 'Program', you died."
"Really? Who else?" Utsumi looked shocked knowing this terrifying dream.
"Everyone but me and Noriko. It seemed so real."
"Dreams can feel like they're real, but we are alive."
"What day is it?" Shuya changed the subject.
"Second day of the 'Program', its 6:40 in the evening."
Shuya's stomach made an extremely long and loud gurgle.
Utsumi laughed.
"Hungry, eh? Chisato is making spaghetti."
Shuya looked toward Yukie.
"Who is here?"
Utsumi smiled, as if she waited to tell him.
"On the first day, I was with Haruka Tanizawa, Yuka Nakagawa, Chisato Matsui, and Satomi Noda, but we ran into a lot of people! Yuka was on guard-duty this afternoon when she saw Hiroki Sugimura with Takako Chigusa, they're with us."
"Sugimura and Chigusa?" Shuya asked, as he knew they both died, and Chigusa's death was supposed to be this day.
"Yep, he had seen her with Kazushi Niida, he pulled her quickly away because he knew something would stir up! And it would be something bad!" Utsumi laughed.
Shuya smiled with her.
"We also had seen Yuko Sakaki; she's not too well though."
"What's wrong with her?" Shuya asked, sounding concerned.
"I don't know. She doesn't talk."
Utsumi sighed, but then turned to Shuya.
"Oh yeah, Sugimura told us about Mimura, Seto, and Iijima, so we made Haruka,
Satomi and Yuka go with Sugimura to bring them here. They're with us too!"
Shuya sat up immediately.
"Mimura?"
He felt a surge of pain in his stomach.
"Please lay back down!" Utsumi demanded him too, but when she did , Shuya was already down!
"My stomach, what happened?"
"Motobuchi shot you, right above the bellybutton. With some miracle, you lived."
Utsumi explain.
Shuya felt his stomach, he found out he didn't have any top on, and realized he had been bandaged,
"Who bandaged me?" Shuya asked.
Utsumi started to laugh.
"Utsumi? Did you?"
"Yeah, I never really touched a guy before." She laughed harder.
Shuya stared at the ceiling, relieved about the fact that Chigusa had an extra shot at life.
Utsumi wanted to make conversation, so she asked him a question.
"Do you know who has a crush on you?"
"What?"
"Do you?"
"Kitano did, I think."
Utsumi jumped back, the Kitano she thought it was, was the teacher Kitano.
"Sensei Kitano?"
Shuya also jumped back.
"No, no! Kitano Yukiko! Kusaka told me."
They both laughed together.
"Shuya, I know ALOT about you." Utsumi smiled, but a different smile than she usually did.
"Do you know what that means?"
Shuya looked at her oddly.
"Utsumi, why are you--"
"Forget about it!"
Utsumi stood up and walked toward the door.
"Utsumi, wait!" Shuya yelled slightly.
Yukie thought he would answer her, but he threw her a question.
"Utsumi, who died?" Shuya asked.
She walked to his map.
"Okay...Just today? Or all the days?"
"All, please?"
"Okay then..."
She took another deep breath.
"...Tendou Mayumi, Akamatsu Yoshio, Kuronaga Hiroshi, Sasagawa Ryuhei, Tsukioka Sho, Numai Mitsuru, Yahagi Yoshimi, Kuramoto Yoji, Eto Megumi, Ooki
Tatsumichi, Motobuchi Kyouichi, Kitano Yukiko, Kusaka Yumiko, and Shimizu Hirono."
Utsumi walked over to the door.
"Have a good rest. Do you want me to lock you in?"
"Sure, why not?"
Utsumi smiled.
SURVIVING STUDENTS
GIRL #1 Mizuho Inada
GIRL #2 Yukie Utsumi
GIRL #4 Sakura Ogawa
GIRL #5 Izumi Kanai
GIRL #8 Kayoko Kotohiki
GIRL #9 Yuko Sakaki
GIRL #11 Mitsuko Souma
GIRL #12 Haruka Tanizawa
GIRL #13 Takako Chigusa
GIRL #15 Noriko Nakagawa
GIRL #16 Yuka Nakagawa
GIRL #17 Satomi Noda
GIRL #19 Chisato Matsui
GIRL #20 Kaori Minami
BOY #2 Keita Iijima
BOY #5 Shougo Kawada
BOY #6 Kazuo Kiriyama
BOY #11 Hiroki Sugimura
BOY #12 Yutaka Seto
BOY #13 Yuuichirou Takiguchi
BOY #15 Shuya Nanahara
BOY #16 Kazushi Niida
BOY #18 Tadakatsu Hatagami
BOY #19 Shinji Mimura
BOY #21 Kazuhiko Yamamoto