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- This is pretty short and more of a prologue than anything. The next chapter will begin everything. -


"OTONASHI YUZURU!" I yelled. He looked up, tears in his brown eyes, to see me storming out of the school building. I'm sure my long, sea foam green hair being whipped around in the wind and my eyes bearing a slight trace of tears. "What the heck do you think you're doing here?!" I asked, anger rising in my voice.

"I.. it's you." He said surprised to see me still here. His beloved angel had just vanished in his arms. It was completely plausible for him to be crying his eyes out. However, he was still here after three hours and it was now dark, with only stars lighting up the sky. He had stopped screaming out her name once he realized she wasn't coming back. However, his tears never stopped. He tried to regain his composure by standing, but was still crying when he asked, "Why are you still here? Didn't you leave with the rest of Battlefront?"

I folded my arms and popped out my hip in a slightly sassy style. "I told you before, I'm not from Battlefront. The real question is, why are you still here?" I replied.

"I wanna help the next people that come through." He answered rubbing the tears away from his eyes. "Starting with you."

I laughed, it was forced of course but Otonashi wouldn't have been able to figure that out. After gradually bringing my laughter to a stop, I ask, "What do you mean starting with me? I've already overcome everything and except it." I eyed him very carefully. "So have you not left yet? I can take care of things here. You've got people waiting for you."

"You have people too." He said with a sense of urgency.

"But the people you saved want to see your smile. They'll be left with no memory of you but their hearts won't forget what you did for them." I make sure he's looking in my eyes when I say, "You are a much more urgent matter than I am Otonashi. You have to find her right?" The starlight shimmers off the silver hand rail as I lean on it. "Even if I did leave, what would the point be. You can't help other people if you're depressed.

"But I-" He cut himself off, "Are you really okay being alone?"

I give him a happy, yet slightly smug smile. "What do you mean alone? There should be more recruits coming in and it would be fun to mess with the NPC's. Heck, I wanna beat Angel's high score on the mid-term test and become student body president." I shrugged before continuing, "I guess you could stay here if you really wanted to, but Tachibanna is waiting for you. Do you really wanna to leave her hanging like that?"

He looked at me, noticably shocked that I had said Tachibanna's name for the first time he had known me. He quickly shook it off and said with the first smile of gratitude I had ever seen, "Thank you, for everything. You helped everyone a lot." He gave me a hug similar to one that an older brother would give to their sister. Letting go, he looked at me as though he was giving some internal monologue.

"Hey," I said grabbing his attention. "It was you saved everyone, thanks."

"Well, take care!" He said after stepping back and with a wave, he vanished.

I removed my smile shoved my hands in my pockets and stared at the stars, my gaze slowly drifted to the full moon. The moon must be so lonely. I thought to myself. The stars are just close enough for the moon to admire their beauty, but when the closest one is just in view it retreats to the shadows. Sighing I mutter to myself, "Just like me." With that, I retreat to my assigned dorm room.