Well I specifically put Shintaro's death as chapters 13 and 14 for a reason. 13 is an unlucky number, as many people know. In China (other East Asia countries too) 4 is an unlucky number because when you say it in their language it sounds similar or identical to 'death' (in their language of course) and for 14 it's an unlucky number too since those countries try to avoid any other digital uses of 4 (I used 14 since it's after 13... also because I wanted to do the Tanabata festival). That's how I planned it out.
Momo fell down again and started crying some more.
"May we go see him, one last time?" Ayano asked.
The doctor nodded his head as Ayano entered.
She walked in and closed the door.
"Shintaro, why would you kill yourself if I'm not dead?" Ayano sighed as she walked over to his corpse.
"Then again, how are you suppose to answer me right now?"
"In one of the routes, you killed yourself after I died, in the rest of the routes, he kills you and everyone else. In this route," she held her throat, "You killed yourself even though I lived, you stabbed your own throat with a red pair of scissors."
Ayano lets go of her throat, "I almost died when my dad came at the moment somehow, as though he knew where I was."
She soon stopped when she heard a hiss. Ayano looked at Shintaro who she saw was eaten by a black snake.
She tried to reach him but it was too late. When she heard the door open she looked at it to see Kido.
"Did... you see that... too?" Ayano asked.
Kido slowly nodded her head, "What happened to Shintaro?"
"What...?!"
Ayano turned her head back to the bed to not see Shintaro.
"Don't tell me... he was actually eaten?" Ayano said.
"We followed the ambulance as quick as we could!" Hibiya yelled while running down the hall.
"Hibiya and Hiyori! What are you doing here?" Kano asked as Hibiya and Hiyori came to them and fell down from exhaustion.
"We saw Shintaro," Hiyori said, "When the ambulance left we followed it, what happened?"
The two waited for Kano to answer but he just looked at the others.
Momo was crying with her head down, Seto was hugging Mary while she cried too, he tried to hold back his tears but a few came out, Takane was covering her face with her hands, stifling a few sniffles, and Haruka was sitting in a fetal position.
"I really want to know too, but..." Hibiya could tell that asking what would happen would bring up unwanted memories.
"Right..." Hiyori said while putting on her earring.
Ayano and Kido came out of the room.
"Kano, Seto, we need to talk to you," Ayano said as she grabbed Kano and walked over and turned into a different hall.
Kido tugged at Seto softly, "Come on."
Seto slowly let go of Mary and followed Kido who went to the same hall as Ayano and Kano.
"We... saw it," Ayano put her hands behind her back and swung her foot a bit.
"'It'?" Kano questioned.
"A black snake," Kido answered.
"Eh? Was it venomous or something?" Seto asked.
"It wasn't a small snake, more like a giant snake, " Kido looked down, "It ate Shintaro."
"HAH?!" Kano and Seto yelled in unison who were clamped by Kido who said, "Shh!"
"I know, I know, we're confused too," Ayano said, "I tried to reach Shintaro but Kido came in and I looked at her and when I turned back, he was gone."
"So he was eaten by the snake and there were no traces of him left?" Seto couldn't believe that Shintaro was literally gone now.
"No traces. Just an empty bed with a white blanket, as though it was never touched before," Kido said.
"I never thought that I would get to see it in real life," Ayano murmured but Kido and Seto heard.
"Wait, you know what's going on with the black snake?!" Kido said while Seto nodded in agreement.
"Yeah, I only told Kano though," Ayano said.
The two looked at Kano, who just shrugged his shoulders.
"I can show you the book later, but for now the question is," Ayano stopped swinging her foot, "Why did Shintaro kill himself?"