A/N: Thanks for the review Annoymas and Partial Insanity! Hope your finals (and everyone else's) went well. I know the paragraphs are longer now, but I have been trying to split them up at appropriate points so they're less of a strain to read. Don't worry though. It won't be all just episode summations.

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The flash appeared and left. Rena was crying from the love and trust her friends had shown to the other her.

"Don't cry, Rena," said Rika, her cute, young voice back. Rena looked up to her, smiled and nodded.

Keiichi was walking in the junkyard toward Rena's bus late at night. He was holding a shining flashlight and shined it on Rena. Rena asked what he wanted and that she needed to leave since it wasn't safe. She held a backpack and her machete. She said not to follow and walked a bit away from him. She stopped when he asked about her bloody neck. Rena said she was fine. She had gone to the burial ground and found the bones missing; someone dug them up. Keiichi started to stutter and she guessed it was Mion, that she had betrayed her. Keiichi objected and said she wouldn't do that. They were gone since Mion moved them before the area was deforested. Rena said that she lied and she would tell him the real truth.

The parasites were actually Aliens that controlled the human body, but a perceptive person found out and tried to tell others. They killed the person, Takano, and cloned her and Rena, who Takano had told. Rena scratched her throat, causing blood to fall. Keiichi told her to get a hold of herself; there were no Aliens and she needed to trust her friends. Rena whispered to shut up, Keiichi reminded her of the promise they made earlier between them. Rena said shut up again, but louder. Keiichi yelled at Rena to respond and she yelled shut up multiple times until she fell to the ground, clutching her head. Keiichi got closer, but she smacked him away.

They reopened their eyes and were now at school. Mion told Rika and Keiichi that Chie-sensei got a call from Rena and went to meet her. Two young girls ran out of the classroom and screamed a second later, catching the class' attention. Rena walked in with her machete held to one of the girls' neck calling for attention and for everyone to gather in the center of the room. When no one did, Rena told Mion to make them do so. Mion tried to ask why, but Rena hit the podium with the machete, cracking it. They gathered and Rena tied all their hands with jump rope. Police started to arrive and, after a while, Rena called one of the cars and spoke to Ooishi. Rena asked if he was her ally. Ooishi confirmed and Rena told him that Keiichi hadn't believed, but now did. Keiichi sat next to her, untied, but had his hands behind his head. Ooishi asked to speak to her new ally. Keiichi told him that she was near the hostages.

Ooishi told him to say yes for yes and yeah for no. He asked if he knew the demands and answered negative. He asked if he was being threatened and confirmed. Rena took the phone after Keiichi only Rena was attacking and told Ooishi it was his turn to talk. She questioned the status of the Sonozaki investigation. He said others were handling it, but yelled it was taking too long. He told her he needed more evidence and she responded that she would give them Takano's scrapbooks. She was scratching her neck and letting drip. Ooishi asked to be allowed inside to get them, but she said Keiichi would bring them out. She hung up and gave him the scrapbook. Keiichi walked to Ooishi and handed them over. Ooishi put a listening device in his hand with pepper spray and instruction on their usage.

He walked back to class and saw Rena spreading accelerant around the room. Rena said she was doing it, just in case. The police heard it over the device and got worried. Rena took her machete from the podium, turned it with the blunt side down, dragged Mion to the wall and smacked her forehead, over and over again. Keiichi told her to stop, but she said that Mion betrayed her. Mion was bleeding and not moving anymore. Keiichi got closer and told her to stop. Rena pulled out a lighter and threatened to flick it. The phone rang and Rena picked it up. While she talked to Ooishi, Keiichi put the device in his ear. The police told him about a timer bomb inside the school set for 15 minutes. They told him to find it within the school. Rika and Satoko overheard, so Keiichi asked Satoko, the Trap Master, where the bomb was. She said there was a cord, but needed confirmation. Keiichi told Rena he heard a noise and she gave him permission to look for it.

He bolted down the hall into a closet with a cord leading out of it. The closer had fireworks and an alarm clock. He picked it up, but Rena came up from behind him and asked him why he had it. She said he trusted him and raised her machete. Suddenly Rika came from behind and tackled her. The lighter fell from Rena's grasp and Keiichi grabbed it. Satoko called from another room that she had found the bomb. Rika told him to go and that this wasn't her first time, so she needed to try. Rena told her she was going to die, but Rika retorted, in her adult voice, that she would play. Satoko said that kids had smelled gas this morning from the rain gutter, meaning the bomb was on the roof. Keiichi patted her head and ran off after Satoko gave him her brother's bat. He told the police the location and tried to go through a window to the roof, but since they were all locked, he broke it open with the bat.

With a minute left, he bound across the roof and pushed the off button with one second left. The police cheered and the hostages came through the windows on the bottom floor. A policeman said that Ooishi needed to call back the entry team since the gas vapors were dangerously explosive. Rena came onto the roof and said that her plan failed even though she fought hard. She commented that if humanity perished, it was his fault. Keiichi said that no one believed in aliens, but if she wanted him to believe, she needed to win. She ran at him, but he blocked with the bat. Keiichi said if she lost, she would be his maid. Rena laughed and agreed it was expected of him. They started to parry each other's blows with no one landing a hit. The other students cheered Keiichi on and gave him advice on how to win.

Rika suddenly walked out of the school doors, holding her arm. She walked a few feet and collapsed, catching some armed policemen's attention. Mion and Satoko rushed up to her and made sure she was alright, then brought her over to where they were standing before. On the roof, Keiichi reminded Rena of the time they had a water gun battle and compared the tension to that. Keiichi and Rena stopped battling for a minute for Keiichi to confirm with her the terms of their deal. Rena said that prize was boring and wanted the same one as Keiichi. They both agreed that this was fun, and ran at each other for the final blow. Keiichi's bat flew out of his hands and off the roof.

Rena sat atop him wither machete raised. Keiichi told her that she wouldn't finish the match until she swung the machete down, but Rena started to cry and said she didn't want to. She questioned what had gone wrong and why her belief had shattered. Keiichi was shocked that she could recognize her mistake and congratulated her. Rena commented on her mistreatment of Mion, but Keiichi said she could apologize later. Keiichi shuffled over to her and hugged her while reassuring it was all fine. On the ground, Rika began to cry.

Another flash of landed them inside Ooishi's car with Rika in the backseat. They could somehow her what Rika was thinking.

'The key to everything. To forgive each other, to promise each other. That should have been the magic key to defeat those demons of suspicion that lurk within. However, even armed with that key, there is still a mystery in Hinamizawa that remains locked. Yes, that's how it is. All right. I'll play the game with this endless June. As much as you please.'

A/N: Sorry this took so long to get out, but I've had no time and just haven't had the energy to type it up.