The newly risen sun softly glowed into Yui's dark dorm room. Yui was nestled in a loose ball sleeping while small soft kitten like sounds escaped her mouth. This peace was disrupted when the door to her room was abruptly opened and slammed into the wall. Yui jerked into sitting position and looked at the door to see Hisako standing there eyes closed. She slowly opened them, revealing silver orbs of pure anger.

She slowly walked to Yui's bed and locked on Yui's eyes with hers. "Where is she," she asked in a quiet growl.

Yui looked away with a tired expression. "After the painful torture and death you gave me the last time I helped Shiorin hide from you, I swore I'd never help her again. I have no idea where she is."

Hisako relaxed momentarily and gave Yui a gleeful closed-eye smile while petting her on the head. "I'm glad at least one of my kouhai respects my authority," she said before turning to exit the room.

"Since Sekine will be brutally murdered today, practice is cancelled, work on your guitar rhythm," the door closed.

Yui sighed in relief and fell back on her bed, she pouted. Poor Shiorin. If only those morons hadn't asked her to throw the baseball they threw back at them, she wouldn't have hit Hisako square in the head, killing her. Hisako would never believe that was an accident so innocent Shiorin will be getting punished. No wonder she's hiding. Yui thought. You know, in this world we can be brutally murdered one day, and then wake up half an hour later good as new. Life here, never ends; it just goes on in an endless loop. I hate that I can't see Mom anymore, but still, I could eventually find happiness in being able to use my body, joy in running around, playing sports, and even just eating food all by myself, and I found a hobby in playing guitar. I was completely content with this.

Then Iwasawa vanished on that stage. Gone without a trace.

Everyone in GilDeMo was devastated. I was desperate to find out where she had gone. We never talked much, but I admired her so much, and I really wanted to be her friend. I marched up to Yurippe and demanded she told me what had happened. Yuri looked away and said "She fulfilled the purpose she was sent here for," she replied.

Purpose. Yui thought in the present, does that mean we all are sent here to fulfill a purpose and God will just rip us out once we're done? What a horrible God . . . Yui clenched her fists. I don't matter to God I guess. I was just born to get hit by some damn car and make Mom's life a living hell. Watch her slowly fall apart on the inside while pretending to be happy on the outside. Then have me get pneumonia that my fucked up body couldn't fight off and allow me to die from that. And only now that I'm dead and separated from Mom, He allows me to use my body and lure me into this false sense of happiness. The minute I'm happy enough He'll just throw me somewhere else. So fucked up. Now enraged, Yui shoves all of the papers off of her desk.

"I'm not your damn tool!" She yelled. Her arms began shaking, then her body trembled as she fell to the floor. So this Yui thought, is what my existence is- I'm just a doll who will get thrown around into whatever place, and given whatever condition God deems feelings, don't matter. I'll have to keep leaving people, and watching them leave. But I keep meeting, such amazing people like my mom, and GilDeMo. If I keep having to be separated from them though what's the point in getting close to them? Even Senpai . . . we may argue a lot, but I like him, I really like being around him. One day, I'll have to leave him too. The minute Yui thought this, her mouth trembled, opening and closing multiple times as her face wrinkled and melted into a shade of red. Tears soon gushed out of Yui's eyes as sounds came out of Yui's mouth that she did not know she could make. As she sobbed her hands moved to the sides of her head. She stayed like this for a long time, allowing herself to weep as loud as she could.

Eventually she stopped crying and wiped away the tears still on her face. She then became aware of the mess of papers that surrounded her on the floor and sighed as she began reorganizing the papers.

That's when she found a folded paper with her name on it. Confused, Yui picked it up, unfolded it, and began reading.

Dear Yui,

Sekine is right I'm afraid, I truly am hopeless when it comes to talking to people. Otherwise I would have talked to you to respond to your letter rather than sneak into your room during classes and leave this written reply as I plan to do. I grew up in a broken home with parents who always fought. I had to toughen up or I would have lost my sanity at home. Because of this, my peers kept away from me and saw me as distant and a loner when in reality I was just dealing with my home situation the only way I knew how, and never learned how to interact with people properly from my parents.

I discovered a band called "Sad Machine and that band, saved me. It healed me and helped me find the courage to express what was on my mind. I began playing gigs and was planning to move to Tokyo and live off my music, that plan was ruined when I died from a blow to the head in one of my parents fights. I got a stroke and spent my last days paralyzed and with apasia.

I ended up in the afterlife and started a band with Hisako. I had the most fun with her and the rest of the band I'd had my whole life. In the back of my mind, I would wonder from time to time what the ultimate purpose of my unfair earthly life had been. I loved playing music but I felt like I was missing something.

That's when you gave me the adorable rabbit for Christmas. (That was the first wrapped present I ever received, so I'm all the more grateful for it." With that gift though was your letter. In it you told me that GilDeMo saved you when you were being bullied and were upset about your death.

And with that, I understood what my life's purpose was.

I realized that my purpose in life was to save someone with my music like "Sad Machine" saved me. I died, paralyzed in a hospital, knowing that there were things I still wanted to do. Through playing in GilDeMo I found I could still do that, and through you I finally realized and achieved the last ultimate goal of my life.

I'm not just some unlucky girl born into unlucky circumstances that doomed me. I refused to be, and I knew that I was on earth and in the afterlife to change this world, through making memories with awesome people, through writing songs that will live on in other people's hearts far after I'm gone, andI was here to save somebody.

Yui, words can't even express how grateful I am. They can't convey the level of happiness and peace my heart is currently feeling. Thank you, so very much Yui, for helping me connect the dots and understand the purpose of my life. Thank you, for helping me discover the beauty music and life can offer. I know this is not the end. I know we'll meet again no matter what lies beyond this afterlife.

We'll be friends there, because we're already friends now. I won't forget that,

Iwasawa, Masami

Yui was slack jawed as her body shook. Warm tears ran down her face as one of her hands slowly combed through her hair.

"She knew, she was going to disappear, because of that letter I gave her. She was, happy that she disappeared. She disappeared because she wanted to, because she did everything she wanted to do . . ." Yui mumbled in amazement. "That's why Otonashi has been helping me do things I wanted to do! He knows how this world works too and is trying to help me find happiness and move on," Yui nodded. She then looked at the sky.

"God," she said, "You gave me a pretty horrible life. The pain you gave me and mom was horrible. However, if I really can do all of the things I wanted to do then, I can be happy like Iwasawa right? Maybe I'll get another chance at life. I understand that life can be cruel and painfully lonely, but in that pain, if I can find beauty like Iwasawa could, then I could be happy like her.

Yui changed her clothes and put on her baseball cap.

"I only have one last wish God. You know what it is, if you can show me that even a paralyzed girl could have found love in this world, I will no longer regret having been born."

IM ALIVE! Yes OBAOS will continue soon, I apologize for he long Hiatus. Hope you all enjoyed thi sequel though. Plese comment your thoughts~!