Battle Royale: Epilogue

~Three months later~

Kirisawa Fuuko's Memoirs:

Those three days were the worst of my life. Hokage is now reduced to only Mikagami and I, with the lost of Recca, Domon, and Yanagi during that time. I really regret not treasuring my friends more, but now, everything is too late, and I can only look ahead.

Life has gone on for me, rather normally. Yamato surprisingly volunteered to take the rap for killing Minamoto-Sensei, and he escaped with Mikagami on a speedboat. I think he was trying to live up to Eriko. He's still on the run now, and I don't know how he's getting along, but I believe he is living every moment well. Mikagami, has carried on his normal life in the university as the authorities are unaware that he is involved.

I returned home as the survivor, graduated, and carried on as a normal school student, studying meteorology in the Tokyo University. I don't know how I got the grades to make it there, but I did anyway. Still, my life is lonely, and I feel that Mi-chan is my only friend. Every keeps a distance from me, thinking that I'm a murderer, knowing that I'm the survivor of a Battle Royale game. At least, it's comforting that Mi-chan often keeps me company, trying to relieve me from the trauma of those days.

The memories of those days are still fresh and vivid in my mind. The deaths of my friends. The sacrifice of Eriko. Sakura's unfulfilled life. Aizawa and Miyuki's love. Domon's death after the exhausting fight with Minamoto. I can never forget all these. I dream of my classmates and friends every night, and often cry myself to sleep. Still, I try my best to go on ahead in life.

That chapter of my life is over, but I can never forget. Right now, I know I must try my best to go on. Within me, are the hopes of the dead Hokage members. I will never forget this episode. Yet, right at this time, another episode is going on, and I will try to make this and the following episodes to become the best of my life.

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Kimura Yamato's Memoirs:

Fuuko and her friend have continued their normal living, but I now live the life of a vagrant, a runaway, a fugitive. I volunteered to take the rap for killing Minamoto-Sensei, so that Fuuko could go on normally, also to not let Eriko down.

Those days, three months ago, were traumatic. I was always so afraid and frightened. I was really a coward then. I dared not even help my friends. One by one, people around me died, and I could only stand there in fear. I relied only on Eriko. I sometimes think what kind of person am I? Wasn't I lowly, being so afraid? I always had to rely on others. If not for Eriko, I would have been killed at the beginning of the game. After that, I relied on Fuuko on Domon. I was so lame.

I think of myself as shallow. Chizuro's death made me sad, but no tears came out. Eriko helped me so much and I never realized how much she still loved me until the moment she died. I was never able to bring her happiness, yet she willingly died for me, and even then I did not shed a tear. Compared to the two of them, my love was nothing. Or did I even have love in the first place? I really despise myself.

That incident made me mature a lot. Witnessing the deaths of my classmates, I realized many things, which I know but do not wish to say. I've willed myself to be independent and brave. It was my lack of these two qualities that caused Eriko's death. Eriko died for me and I can't let her efforts go to waste.

Now, in my present runaway life, things are unpredictable, and I must be able to adapt to change. I missed my parents and dropped them a note that I was safe and sound. Life is hard, but whenever I think of Eriko, I tell myself to go on, to live my life to its fullest, to not let Eriko's sacrifice come to naught. I try my best to live everyday meaningful. I remind myself constantly of my dead friends, mainly Eriko, and know how important it is for me to continue my life.

Those days have been etched permanently on my mind. They are a traumatic yet valuable part of me. I wonder how Fuuko and her friend are doing now and hope that they, too, are living to their best extent.

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Ending Note: Hamasaki Eriko's Song

This was self-composed by Hamasaki Eriko (obviously its by the author), portraying her feelings towards Kimura Yamato.

~Judgment Day~

*When this world becomes Hell or Heaven

That is the time when I should leave

*If I had an unfulfilled dream

That would be to be together with you

But if there was anything that could replace that

I'd be most willing to

The future is clouded without a clue

But that does not mean that I will lose myself

*When this world becomes Hell or Heaven

That is the time when I face judgment

Being able to smile as I leave is a sort of happiness

I will always pray

*Everything here

Will face destruction one day

You and I are not excluded as well

But believe these words of mine

When my tears flow out

You will be released from darkness

*Because my birth is a curse

I should go along and disappear

The harsh laws of realities

But dreams are like beautiful flowers

*I will always be here praying

Shooting out my last remaining light in moments

When this earth evolves

When people are no longer weak

That time no longer needs my existence

Please complete your journey

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So, how is this? Sucks, right? R&R please! This is the FINAL installment of Battle Royale and I don't know when I'll be continuing my other fics or starting a new one.