Chapter three: The Forgotten Wound

So it was decided.
Akaito loved Dell, and Dell had realised he loved the red-head in return.
The others had seemed to have disappeared, so they had time on their own, and now, they talked all day in the infirmary, leaving ending up being 'too dangerous' according to Akaito.

He loved spending time with the red-head more than he had ever imagined was even slightly possible with Mikuo.
He still adored the teen, but his feelings for him had completely vanished. He didn't even remember he had ever loved him, even if it was fake all along.
Yet the doctor still didn't understand how he could have lost such a strong emotion so quickly. With the intensity of which he loved Akaito, he didn't understand how something so strong could simply vanish.
"It's because you've never felt anything for him in the first place." Akaito explained, "It's also normal if you feel like it's a more powerful feeling than what you might have felt for Mikuo, because love is a feeling that can't be produced perfectly."
He had kissed Dell then. "That's why I know you love me more."

Frankly it didn't really sound right to the white-haired, because he remembered wanting the teen very badly. He hadn't told Akaito, but he also felt bad for the teen. Dell knew how it was being in love, and he had felt the memories of his "past-self" of when Mikuo died, but losing Akaito…he didn't even want to believe it could be true.
"Hey Akaito." He asked him. "You told me that I was always searching for Mikuo…what was I acting like?"
Akaito thought for a moment then smiled at him.
"You were acting like this bratty kid." He answered, "You were always calling for him. It was so annoying…"

Dell listened to Akaito's deep voice and smiled. His love for the red-head grew continuously, at every passing second.
But then, he realized something important.
"Akaito!" he called, grabbing the red-head's attention. "What that ghost said…he said I had to put things right. He said that I had to get Mikuo in love with me, and that I…and that I had to fall out of "love" with him. This means that you're the one I was supposed to be in love with in the first place, right?"
Akaito blushed and nodded, urging the elder-one on.
"But that means…that there's still something to be done, isn't there…?"
"What do you mean?" the red-head asked nervously, turning away slightly.

Dell winced at the younger-one's reaction and sneered with suspicion.
"There were two twins including Luki, a blonde girl and a donkey. Where are those two girls?" He asked, keeping a watchful eye on Akaito's face.
As he had suspected, the red-head gulped and looked around nervously, jumping slightly at every noise.
"It's not…something you need to know now." He said quickly. "And…yes. We need to find Luka. No one knows if she's been brought back or not…but if Luki is here, she probably is around somewhere close. But I…sometimes I feel as if Miku-"
he stopped as the said teen and his twin burst into the room without warning, glancing at both of the men without really looking at them.

"Glad to see you're both back and happy." Mikuo said coldly as Miku watched without a word. "Because now that's done. We have to get things back to the way they were, so we can go to that…place. I know that, but I don't want to go back, and so I'll do everything to break you two up, you know that now, right?"
Dell was speechless for a while, so Akaito spoke first, his nervousness heard by everyone.
"I know that you don't want to go back there—none of us do." He said softly, "But if I can be happy with Dell, then I don't care."
"Stop it!" Miku yelled suddenly, surprising them all.
She had tears swelling at the base of her eyes. She looked like she was about to scream, but instead she cried, wiping her endless tears with the back of her hands.
"I don't care about loving Dell anymore…" she hiccupped. "I just want to be happy…be happy with my brother and my friends! So please stop it…please just forgive us! We'll forget about all this and go there all together!"

The green-haired teen stared at her in shock, not able to understand what she had just said.
"I thought you were with me on this!" he yelled back eventually. "I thought…we were going to do this together! When we were up there, you told me you hated that place…!"
Miku shook her head and took her brother in his arms. "No more, brother mine."
He calmed instantly and let himself be gently pushed outside by Miku, who nodded at him and closed the door, walking back to the bewildered men.
"What is this 'place' you keep on talking about?" Dell asked, trying to understand what sort of situation he had gotten himself stuck in now, "it's not around here, is it?"
"You've been there before." Akaito said softly.
He looked at Miku, and they both pointed upwards, smiling nervously.
"Heaven." Miku said. "Paradise. The Angel's sanctuary. The golden meadow where souls ere forever. We all went there together, you, me, my brother and Akaito. We were never supposed to come back…resurrection doesn't exist."
"But you said you "brought us back"" Dell said, wondering. "Didn't you say it was Mikuo? So, who brought Mikuo back? It wasn't Miku, or the twins, and I can't have been Akaito…so who…?"
The red-head frowned.
"It was me." A sweet voice said, stunning the three.

Inside the infirmary stepped a beautiful blonde woman, around twenty, holding a small, ugly looking donkey doll.
"Hello Dell." She said softly, with a large strain in her voice, as if every word was causing her immense pain. "I believe we've never met in this world. I'm Lily. Do you remember me?"
The doctor nodded slowly, desperately trying to look away from her aqua coloured eyes.
This woman was worse than Medusa, one look into her beautiful eyes and you were ready to spill everything you had ever done wrong during your entire life…her eyes were that powerful.
The white-haired managed to grasp his attention elsewhere and stuttered slightly:
"Y-You seem different than what I remember…" was what he said, his voice nearly silenced.

The blonde laughed gently.
"I am different, my dear." She said, "You knew me as a human. I am no longer…the one you knew."
Dell looked at Miku for answers, and he winced as she stood and undid her top, revealing a huge scar that looked extremely painful to the elder one's eyes.
"I did a…a little switch with Lily." Miku said calmly, re-buttoning her shirt. "Exchanged her heart for my own. She has the powers now…"
"And they're killing her." Akaito said softly, not daring to look at the woman. "Dell, Lily brought Mikuo back, and he had brought back the rest of us, but…the heritage. It's killing her slowly."

The white-haired looked at the blonde desperately, searching for something he knew he could not find.
"Why are you enduring it?" He cried, "Why do you have to suffer when you could have stayed in that place, where you could have been happy and not have to suffer anymore?"
Lily shook her head slowly and sighed.
"The same that happened to Luki happened to me." She explained carefully, "I…even in that place, I remembered everything. Every sensation…it was just awful. Even now, as we speak, I remember how it felt when they beheaded me. I still feel the pain of having to watch Luki die over and over again. But…I was given the chance to help put things right and stop suffering, so I exchanged my heart with Miku's, and I brought Mikuo back to life."
"What about that ghost?" Dell asked. "Why does he…I…what does it come here? Why does it help me? And why do I feel like a completely different version of myself?"
Lily chuckled nervously.
"I'm sorry Dell, I really don't know. I've been watching what's been going on since the beginning of this tragic story, but I don't know why the ghost comes back here…"
"I know why."

All heads turned towards Mikuo.
"You do?" Lily said excitedly, taking her friend's hand in her own soft, white hands. "Do tell!"
The teen looked up and smiled nervously, patting Lily's hands.
"That ghost is a mix of the "you" of the past." He said sadly. "That time where everything went completely wrong. Not when we were in that Victorian era…no. Something happened before that. In an alternative timeline, it was something that happened in this era, but after that, some stuff happened, and…to be clear, it all started when Akaito fell in love with you, and you loved him back. It all started then."
Miku winced behind him, her stare getting darker by the second. She knew about this. And the more she thought about it, the more she realised it was her fault. If she hadn't been so stupid…If she hadn't made that agreement with that witch…Dell wouldn't be in this position. None of them would.
"I'm sorry…" she said softly, tears starting to flow out of her eyes. "I'm so sorry…Mikuo, please forgive me…"
But the teen ignored her.

Dell winced.
Sure, he knew what had happened in that Victorian era, but, well, now he didn't feel like he held any sort of grudge against the girl. Sure, she was crazy, but in the end, everyone was alive.
He knew that Mikuo was in love with him, and that since they had been brought back, he had less chance of having the white-haired fall in love with him again, but it had turned into Dell realising he had been tricked the entire time.
Did the green-haired feel embarrassed? Was he annoyed? No one could tell, not even Miku.
He turned his gaze to Akaito, who was looking back at him.
"I don't think it's anyone's fault." He said, surprising Mikuo, "I believe that we're all just stuck in a giant mess, and we all have to fight our way out of it. It's mostly my concern, because everyone seems to be fighting because of me. And besides, Luki, don't you remember when Luka and—"

He froze.
In his mind, just saying the girl's name made his mind explode and spark.
He stared with horror at the blue-eyed boy and shook slightly. He felt something pulling him, killing him from the inside of his heart.
He heard whispers of a person in pain in his head that got louder and louder, ending with him on his knees, yelling at it to stop.
The others around him, surprised by the sudden outburst, rushed to him, calling his name, checking his eyes, but it was useless. Dell had fainted.

Red eyes opened carefully to the sunny view of the window and the man got up slowly, wincing at the pain in his head.
"Dell!" He heard, making him smile as the red-head took him into a tight embrace. "Oh my god, I was so worried! I thought you had died!"
The white-haired smiled again and wrapped his arms around Akaito.
"What happened?" he asked slowly, realising talking hurt made his headache worse. "I feel like I've been stampeded by a herd of cows…"
"Hmm, close, but not quite." Akaito chuckled, releasing the embrace a little. "What happened? You just fainted, just like that."

Dell shook his head.
"I don't know what happened." He said slowly, "All I remember is…some whispering in my head. But really loud! I-"
He froze once more.
"Dell?" Akaito asked softly, his hand on Dell's forehead. "You…you okay?"
"I'm fine." He answered slowly. "I just…I've forgotten what made me like that in the first place. I know I had thought of something concerning Luki…I don't remember what it was. It was so important!"
Akaito watched the white-haired continue to struggle with his poor memory, frowning.
If Dell had thought of something important and someone else had stopped him from saying it, then that "someone" had to have known he was going to say it. But that was impossible, so it must have been something he had already said.
But what? Akaito stared into Dell's dark red eyes, who stared back at him nervously, wondering why the red-head was so quiet all of a sudden. What had he…?

"Oh my god." The man said suddenly, a spark lighting itself in his mind. Of course! It was so logic from that point of view! It must have been…yes!
"Dell!" Akaito cried out happily, "I think…I think I know what's going on!"
The white-haired's good mood came back in an instant, his face illuminated with glee.
"Are you sure?" Dell asked quickly, "a-hundred-per-cent certain?"
"Well, I'm not a hundred per cent…but doubts are the start of discovery, eh? I know where to get information, and I know of a person I can interrogate for proof, might be easy, right about now."

Dell obviously seemed completely lost, so Akaito ruffled his hair.
"You know about the control Mikuo was having over you and Miku over me? I have…suspicions about a third person being controlled. And the witch is losing her emprise over this third person right now, so I'll be able to convince them…"
Suddenly, the conversation Dell had heard in the air vent came back to him.
The voices he had heard…when he thought about them carefully, he hadn't yet been able to recognize one of the voices he had heard, yet was a hundred per cent sure that the smaller, stuttering voice was of someone he knew pretty well. He just couldn't place whose it was.

They heard Mikuo and his sister coming towards the room and Akaito sighed deeply.
"I wanted to spend more time with you alone…" he said sadly. Looking away, he noticed the sky change colour and sighed again, a sadder, even deeper sigh. "But when this is all over, we'll be able to be together forever…I guess…"
Dell was about to rant, when he heard the twins' voices in the corridor and his mind went in turmoil.

That voice…
That was the stuttering voice he had heard in the air vent that day! Remembering briefly their conversation and what Akaito had just told him, then that meant that that person was…the third person being controlled!
As the said person opened the door, Dell was now certain about what he had said. There was no mistaking it…
The voice…

Had been Miku Hatsune's!
*

"Yes…I admit it's true…" Miku sighed, stroking her long hair nervously. "I was being controlled. I was a spy."
The others stayed silent for a bit. Luki was sitting in a corner close to Dell, whilst Mikuo stood away from them.
"Why are you telling us something that we could bring up against you…?" Dell asked kindly, his hand on her shoulder.
"Because I was spying against my will!" She yelled. "It was horrible! They were so cruel…every time I didn't get enough information from you they'd…they'd…"
Miku burst into a fit of tears, unable to stop.
Her brother took her in his arms delicately, rocking her back and forth.
"Who was doing this to you?" Akaito asked slowly, ignoring Mikuo's glare. "You said they. There was more than one?"
"i-I'm sorry, I…" Miku hiccupped, trying to get a little more dignity, "I don't remember. My memories of them are erased."
"That's probably why I can't remember whose voice I heard in the vent." Dell said thoughtfully. "I can't even remember if it was male or female."
"Simply said, yes." Lily said suddenly, surprising Dell for being so silent. "Another thing that can be said simply is that one of us is lying, and no one else knows who put the one actually pulling the strings." She coughed, each word causing her immense pain.
Mikuo froze and started to get nervous, fidgeting with the end of his shirt and looking around carefully.
"Well it can't be you, Lil`" Miku said softly, ignoring her brother's weird reactions. "You're…I mean you're…"
"Dying? I know." She chuckled slightly as Dell, Akaito and Luki's eyes all widened at the announcement. "Oh don't…don't look so surprised. I'm a human, I can't be a witch. It's my…it's my punishment. I actually only have a few weeks to live, so if you'll excuse me…"
"Lil! Luki called out, "Shall I come with you?"

Lily froze.
She turned slowly towards the blushing teen and smirked evilly.
"I'd rather die than have you accompany me, I'm afraid. I wouldn't want anything bad to happen. I don't want to die before it's my time, Luki Megurine."
The pink-haired frowned and sat back down as she left, glaring furiously at Dell.
"This is not your fault, you know." He whispered harshly to him, "I've already told you the opposite haven't I? I found something out recently. I'll talk about it to you privately. I'll come back when everyone is gone."
He shot a glare to Miku and got up, grabbing her and Mikuo and left without another word, leaving Akaito and Dell alone.
A little nervous, the red-head looked at Dell and asked him what the teen had told him, but Dell refused to answer, saying it was nothing really important.

An awkward silence fell upon them, Akaito blushing crazily, eventually making Dell blush himself.
"H-Hey…" Dell said slowly, lifting the red-head's chin towards him, "Later…okay?"
Akaito smirked and pulled him into a deep kiss, the white-haired kissing him back gently.
"I think I'm obsessed with you." Akaito said in the elder's ear softly. "You'll have to show me a good time so that I'm satisfied, okay?"
Dell blushed and his eyes closed when Akaito's lips kissed his forehead lightly, his hand going through the silver hair.
"I love you more than anything." The younger one said, "I love you so much."
The elder one smiled gently and placed his lips on Akaito's a last time before sending him out, his heart fluttering.
Argh, idiot. He thought to himself, watching him run down the corridor through the glass window of the door. How could you be obsessed with me? Stupid.
He thought he had seen Luki's pink hair through that same glass, so he opened the door, expecting the young one to arrive shortly.
But as soon as the door was opened, the boy had disappeared.
Dell felt a cold shiver throughout his entire body.
Somehow…he knew that that was the last he would ever see of Luki Megurine.

"Dell!" the voice said. "Dell wake up! For goodness sake…"
The white-haired opened his eyes slowly, realising he had fainted again.
"Mikuo…" he said slowly, unsure if it was actually him or his twin, "What…?"
"It's terrible…!" the teen cried, "I…What have I done…"

He broke down crying, hiding his face in Dell's shoulder, his arms around him.
The elder one was stunned.
Luki…how much time had he been out? He moved Mikuo gently, his mind in turmoil. That feeling he had had when he had seen the pink-haired in the corridor…
"You what?" Dell said quickly, "What have you done?"
Mikuo hiccupped and took Dell's hand gently.
"Can you come out?" He asked softly "Can you come out of here?"
Dell shook his head. "Akaito said it was too dangerous for me to come out of here."
Mikuo seemed to think for a moment, but sighed and took Dell in his arms again.
"When I saw you collapsed like that, I…" he hiccupped again and rested his head in the crook of Dell's shoulder, "I was so scared…"
The elder one blushed slightly.
He remembered the time he had spent with Mikuo as if it had been yesterday, and it hurt. It hurt because he no longer loved him like he had thought he had. It hurt him because he still adored the teen just as before never less.
He lifted Mikuo's chin and stared into his teal eyes.
"The things I've said…they must have hurt you so much…" he said slowly, "I must have hurt you so much…I'm really sorry."

Mikuo smiled genuinely.
He leaned forwards and placed his lips on Dell's gently, surprised when the Doctor pushed him back immediately.
"What are you doing?" He half-yelled, moving away from the green-haired, "I haven't said I wanted to get back with you!"
The green-haired smiled again and pushed Dell to the ground with force he didn't know he had.
Smirking now, the teen bit the skin of Dell's neck as his hand went up his shirt slowly, hearing the elder one's soft yelps only making him want to go even further.
"You've never let me top, eh?" he whispered into Dell's ear, ending the sentence with a small nip on his ear lobe.
"Mikuo, stop." Dell sighed, pushing the teen off with a little difficulty, "As if I hardly had any time for you anymore. I feel sorry for you because of what you've lost, but that doesn't mean I'm just going to sleep with you again just because you felt like it."

Mikuo smirked and pinned the doctor back down.
"I don't think you're in a position where you can choose, Dell Honne." He said simply, starting to undo the buttons of his shirt, "And right now I don't care if later on you say this wasn't consensual."
Dell started to panic. Where had this sudden burst of strength come from? As he caught the eyes of the teen and locked them with his, he noticed something that made his heart freeze.
"You're not Mikuo." He whispered, surprised his own voice refused to give out. "When you said that I had never let you top. It was a question, because you don't know whether Mikuo has or not."
"He's a cold, heart-breaking monster, but hey! The guy's intelligent!" the fake Mikuo laughs, gripping onto Dell's neck suddenly.
His fingers tightened around his neck, blocking his captive's breath as he laughed hysterically. He noticed Dell was trying to pry his fingers off, unable to breathe, his face slowly changing colour.
"Aww, what's wrong, doc?" Mikuo asked innocently "Having a bit of trouble catching your breath? Here, let me help you."
He slammed Dell's head against the floor and crushed his lips against Dell's, bruising him.
Eventually, the man's fingers stopped tearing at the hands on his neck and fell to the ground, the lack of oxygen putting him on the verge of death.

The teen took his hands off, frowning.
"I know you're still alive, get up this instant." He said harshly, pulling him up by the hair, "I don't have time for this. I was going to kill you now, but it seems that your lover-boy doesn't want it that way. Are you listening to me?! Akaito, Luki and Mikuo...even Miku! Everyone loves you; I'm the only one who thinks that you'd better be off dead, like the rest of us!"
Dell gave no reaction. He was on the verge of unconsciousness, blinking in and out of the world weakly. He had heard everything, but did it even matter? Whoever this was, they were going to kill him. Right now all that mattered was being alive.

He winced ever so slightly when he was thrown to the ground again, more brutally than before, and gave out a small cry when his clothes were ripped into small pieces.
"I'm going to kill you…" The fake Mikuo said, taking a knife out if his pocket, "I'm going to murder you all…then we'll be happy. It'll be just us two…me and her. We'll be happy."
The knife was raised, ready to plunge into Dell's flesh and kill him.
There was a bright light and a shout, then someone yelling his name.
So that's what it was… The white-haired thought as he felt himself being picked up by strong arms, the one behind all this…it was…what Luki wanted to say…it must be that.
Dell closed his eyes and fell asleep.

He inhaled and exhaled, then did it again. Good. Alive…not forcefully well…but alive.
Akaito had found both Lily and Luki, dead, in a dark room down the corridor, frightfully close to where Dell was, trapped inside the infirmary.
It confirmed Dell's suspicions.
The red-head explained to him that the fake Mikuo had disappeared, since he had let him get away to take care of the white-haired. It was all complicated.
"I'm sorry…" Miku said softly. "If I had been there…" She froze; obviously not knowing what could have happened if she had been there. But Dell knew.
He tried to sit up, but Akaito stopped him.
"You have to rest, love." He said softly, kissing the doctor's forehead, "You'll get dizzy."
"No! I need to…I know what's happening here. I know everything. From the past to the present, I know…everything."
Everyone froze.
"A-Are you sure?" Mikuo stuttered, glee illuminating his face, "Will we…be able to get out of here?"
"I don't know." Dell answered, sitting up without listening to Akaito's protests, "But listen to this. I…I believe that in those times, there were those two kids, right?"
Everyone nodded.
"Yeah." Dell continued "This is the story of those two. They were orphans, abandoned by their parents and left to take care of a field of flower cultures ten times the size of their house, on their own. They were ten. And they were so lonely…well, as you know, one day, Mikuo and Miku show up, and suddenly everything seems brighter. First Miss Lily comes to play with Luki, who starts to love her, and for Luka, who falls in love…with Miku."

Without noticing, Mikuo was sitting on his bed, leaning in, captivated by the man's voice. Miku, on the other hand, had shied away, looking down.
At the mention of Luka's love, she had twitched, exactly as Dell had expected.
"But there's a problem." The Doctor says, staring at Miku, "Miku is so much older, and all the rumours say that she is a witch. And she already loves the Prince…so what does she do? Please, Miku, go ahead and tell us what she does."
Akaito and Mikuo's eyes turn to Miku, who had paled in an instant.
She sighed and smiled.
"You're such an intelligent man, Dell. I think that's why I hate you."

She stood and placed a hand on her head, pulling at her hair.
But as soon as she does, the 'hair' falls, leaving short, pink hair instead.
"So what did you do…Luka?"
The teen laughed. She threw her head back and laughed even louder, tears forming at the base of her eyes.
"You got me! Hahaha! Whoever knew Dell Honne could be so intelligent?! Hahaha!"
She calmed a little and snickered darkly, letting herself fall into the chair slowly.
"I loved Miku." She explained, gripping the edge of her chair, "I loved her more than anything. But what does she do? Falls in love with a prat, that's what she does! I did everything for her! I told her about Mikuo's treachery and told her to make this world! And she listened! Hahaha! What an idiot! But you know what? I don't care anymore. You're all going to die very soon, so I don't care!"
She threw herself into a hysterical laughing fit and took a few steps back towards the door.

She trodded over her own foot, slipped and cracked her head open on the table, her blood seeping from the edge as Mikuo started to scream, burying his face in his hands.
"No more!" He screamed, "Please Miku! Stop! No more!"
Dell tapped his back gently, unsure of what to do, as Akaito tried to check Luka for a pulse.
He turned to the Doctor and shook his head, only managing to make Mikuo cry even louder.
"Why?" Why do all my friends have to die like this? It's so unfair!" He screamed, throwing his arms around Dell's neck, sobbing loudly, "Why do you have to kill them like this? Why couldn't we just be like in that place…?"
"That place…!" Dell's mind exploded, "Akaito, we…we aren't…"
The red-head stared at him, unsure about what he was saying, "What is it…?"
"We're…already dead…"

Mikuo had stopped sobbing and stared at him with wide eyes.
"…what…?"
"We're already dead. We weren't resurrected back into this world." He continued, gently pushing Mikuo away, "When I was unconscious…the fake Mikuo I saw was probably Miku. She said something about it, I'm sure! That means that when we die here, he go back to that place, right?"
Mikuo frowned and looked at Akaito, on the verge of crying again.
"Actually…we do." He said softly, taking Dell's face in his hands, "When we die, we…go back there. But you…when you die, you come back here. Miku wanted to keep you forever, and she can't come here. If we die, you'll…you'll be all alone, forever. You won't be able to leave this room for all eternity. That's why I didn't want anyone to die, even if they go to a nice place. I don't want you to be alone."
He was going to add something, but when he saw the tears that were flowing from Dell's face freely, he felt he didn't have the heart.
The teen moved away and let Akaito take the man in his arms, Dell now crying loudly, hiding his face in Akaito's shoulder, holding on so tightly to the man he loved that he could never let go.
It was a touching scene for Mikuo, even if he loved Dell. Even if he wasn't Dell's lover anymore. Even so…he wanted them to be happy.
He headed out towards the corridor, knowing that was the last he would see of them, as the short, shadowy figure of Miku, Luki, Lily and Luka waved at him from a huge light-filled oval.
"Here I am, my sister." He said as he walked towards them, "My friends…my family…I choose you over my love."
He ran towards them without a single look back, without regretting a thing.

"I'm bored." The red-head yelled again for the fifth time that day.
"Naturally." Dell said softly, hugging close to him.
"Sometimes I wonder why Mikuo just left us like that…" Akaito snuggled closer to him to stare into Dell's eyes, "It was kind of mean."
"Akaito, that was three centuries ago."

Dell pushed the red-head away playfully and got up, staring at the light outside of the room.
He frowned.
Looking back at the red-head, he knew it was the right decision. Akaito was tired. Tired of staying in the same room all the time. If he left into the corridor, was killed and didn't come back, Dell would wait forever for him to come see him, and he would never know that he would never see his lover again. It would be too much…so the decision was taken. This time…
"Akaito, I've done a lot of thinking, and…maybe it's about time you go to that place."

The red-head froze.
"What are you saying?" he laughed gently, getting up to take the elder one in a hug, "Why would you say that? We've been together what seems like forever. Why stop now?"
"That's the problem." He answered softly.
Behind them, a hole opened up, it's bright white light illuminating the entire room.
In the light, Akaito could see their friends, waving at him, yelling at him to come over. And it was tempting.

"Maybe you're right." He said softly, feeling awful at every word. "Maybe…if you can come with me."
"Akaito, it's been three centuries. Three centuries since you've been here. I can't see this hole you talk about and I never will. I need to stay here, so you go. Go now!"
The younger one shook his head "No! I won't go. I'll stay with you."
"I love you. Now go."
He pushed the red-head into the light and watched him vanish slowly as he faded rapidly, yelling Dell's name.
Then there was a huge silence.

Dell had expected something to happen by then. Like in those stories that always end up finishing well, with a happy ending.
He sat in his chair and waited.
Days went by. Months.
He didn't need food or water. He didn't need the usual vital things a human needed.
He had tried killing himself more times than he could remember. He would always wake up in bed.
Years went by.
Dell eventually found out he could actually go into the corridor and explore now that everyone was gone. It was nice.
Repetition started to get boring after a while, though.
Repetition is boring after all.
Repetition
Repeat
Repeat
Repeat
Repeat
Repeat
Repeat

Six Trillion and One Tears /end.

This wasn't supposed to end that way. It was supposed to be a happy ending actually. In the original, Luka was the one behind everything. She was doing all the bad stuff because she wanted to avenge her brother and lost love for Miku/Dell (what is this reverse Harem?!)
but it turned out otherwise. I'm really proud of this actually.
What do you think would happen to you if you were in dell's place, in the end, all alone for all eternity?