After Yui's death. the Sakamaki brothers stood silently around her body. They simply stared at the vessel that had once held the girl whom they all loved.
The first to break the silence was, unusually, Shuu. "We need to bury her. We didn't do that for the other sacrificial brides, but she was different. She would want to be buried."
After this decision was made the six of them found a spot in their family's cemetery right next to a rose bush. but where the sun would shine on her tombstone. They all agreed that she would enjoy being bathed in light.
After this, the brothers went back to the house at varying times. However, they all eventually ended up in the hallway outside of Yui's room. None of them could bear the thought that they would open that door and it would be devoid of Yui's warmth, but they knew that they had to do something.
Eventually, Kanato opened the door and they all looked at the room that had so recently belonged to the only human that they had all cared about. They had come into her room dozens of times before, almost always without Yui's permission, but just now it struck them how little freedom they had given her. The room was filled with Yui's possessions but all of the furniture and wallpaper had been chosen by another.
It saddened them. The six stood in that room, connected by their morning for the little human girl who had been different from all the others. The girl who had always been afraid of them, but had also been brave enough to try to learn about them.
Occasionally, one of the brothers would brush his hands over one of her things, maybe a hairbrush or a piece of her clothing, but none of them tried to make any changes to the room until Raito stepped up to the table next to her bed, and picked up Yui's cross.
"We forgot to bury this with her. She would be sad."
This caused Subaru to speak up. "We shouldn't touch her things. Yui believed that she might go to Heaven, but she also believed that she would see us again one day. We should leave her room just as it is, so that when she comes back, she won't have to start all over again."
The brothers all agreed with this, mostly because the thought of passing this room and finding another guest room was more painful to them than the thought of seeing all of Yui's belongings here without her.
After this decision was made they slowly left the room and continued on with their lives. Raito still had sex with anything that looked vaguely alive, Reiji still made his potions, Shuu still slept often, Subaru still had a bad temper, Ayato was still narcissistic, Kanato still made dolls. But things had changed.
Raito never had sex with another blonde girl and he never allowed any other person to hear him play the piano again. Reiji stopped experimenting on humans to honor her belief that humans were better than that. Shuu often skipped songs on his playlists, not wanting to remember how he and Yui had listened or discussed them. Subaru only allowed himself to break things outside the house, remembering how she had always nagged him about the mess and the fear in her eyes whenever he went on a rampage. Ayato didn't care about girls with large breasts anymore. Kanato never made another woman's dress again.
It took the brothers a few years before they realized that nothing had actually changed. Things had gone back to the way that they were before Yui had lived with them. This was further shown by the arrival of several more sacrificial brides.
The only thing that had changed was the Sakamaki brothers. Now they didn't bother to taunt the brides anymore. In many cases, they allowed them to escape or ignored them entirely. But what had changed most about them was that one part of the house was off-limits to all of them. None of them could bring themselves to enter Yui's room for very long and so it was avoided with the exception of servants entering to clean it. But even they were under strict orders to change nothing.
Occasionally the brothers would look inside her room, but it was a rare occurrence especially as Yui's scent began to fade from her room. Despite this, the room was kept in perfect order, as though its owner had simply stepped out and would be back in a few hours. But this was only an illusion.
Several times, the brothers tried to move out of that house, but they never could. It was the place that Yui had lived with them, and, more importantly, Yui had wanted them to stay together. They couldn't disobey that wish, especially while they prayed that maybe one day Yui really would come back to see them, just as she had believed that she would.
And so, the Sakamaki brothers lived in this fashion for many years.
