Kiyoe: She is your father's sister, or at least that is what she claims.

I guess you can talk to her right?

Michika sighed

Michika: Fine.

Michika entered the living room, where Ayane was waiting for her.

Ayane: You must be Naoki's daughter right?

Michika: First of all, introduce yourself.

Ayane: Oh, okay.
My name is Ayane Kravić.

Michika: Muneyoshi Michika.

Ayane: Oh, sorry I got used to the European system already

Michika: Anyway, why you came here?

Ayane: I recently found out what happened, you know with your father.

Michika: Are you related to him?

Ayane: Yes, I'm his sister.

Michika: Seriously? Then why weren't you there before?

Ayane: In the papers we have a little different, it's a long story.

Michika: Are you referring to Akira Kobayashi/Shion Muneyoshi?

Ayane: Yes, In addition, I did not keep in constant contact with him.

Sorry, I didn't know

Michika: Then why did you come here?

Ayane: To meet with you, and also with my friends from the old years.
So how are you feeling?

Michika: Neutral

Ayane: Oh, I see…
Are you sure you're okay?

Michika: Yeah..

Ayane: How old are you turning this year?

Michika: I turned 15 in May.

Ayane: Which middle school do you attend?

Michika: North

Ayane: Which class?

Michika: The cursed one.

Ayane was slightly shocked, and she saddened

Ayane: Oh, it must be difficult right?

Michika: The extra is dead, so theoretically there should be no curse right?

Ayane: So did you manage?

I'm glad to hear that.

Michika: And could you tell me more about yourself?

Did you go to this middle school and the same class as me?

Ayane: Yes, I went to class 3-3 in 2007 and 2008.

I also had to confront the curse.

Michika: And?

Ayane: And I and my friends lifted it, however many of my friends died that day, it is usually the case that the curse at its end claims the most lives.
I don't even remember how they died anymore.

Michika: Did the curse modify your memories?

Ayane: He modifies everyone's memories except one person.

Michika: Are you talking about Mei Sakakibara?

Ayane was shocked

Ayane: Do you know her?

Michika: No, but I go to class with her daughters Misaki and Naomi.

Ayane: Sakakibara-san let them go to this class?
Seriously?

Michika: She had to explain all the rules to them, as they knew everything upon arrival.

Anyway, by June no one had died.

Ayane: What happened?

Michika: Good question, in theory no one broke the rules, none of the non-existent ones kept in touch with the class and vice-versa.

However, I don't know if this year is different.

Ayane: What do you mean?

Michika: It seems to me that this year there are 2 extras, instead of one.

In addition, the second extra came in June, and was welcomed into the class with open arms.

This could have been a trigger.

Ayane: Two extra you say?
As far as I know, the curse began with the denial of the death of one of the students, so it would seem logical that someone must have recognized the other dead person as alive.

Unless ...

*Ayane grabbed her head in pain*.

Nevermind.
I probably shouldn't recall those times, it's probably superfluous anyway.

Michika: Do you mean that an extra can have a split ego?

Ayane: Yes, I no longer remember how it was with the extra in 2007
But I have a theory, just I would need confirmation from Sakakibara-san, could you ask your friend to ask her mother about it?

Michika: What theory?

Ayane: What if, in fact, the second additional one was actually the second self for the first one?

And recognizing his self as living somehow created a new body for the second soul?

If so, I wonder who the second soul originally belonged to.

Because it is possible that I also dealt with the same person in 2007, unfortunately I do not remember it, and I can neither confirm nor deny.

Michika: What if that body belonged to someone who once attended that class.

And due to the death of the first extra, the soul of the person to whom the body belonged now used by the second extra returned to that body causing the intruder's soul to be replaced?

Ayane: Let's hope so, for some reason I am afraid and sad as I try to remember the extra from 2007. However, it should also be taken into account that the second extra may now have a split ego.
Michika and Ayane talked for another two hours before Ayane left.

Michika now didn't know if torturing Shion was right, and whether it was still Shion or Izumi.
However, she did not know that Ayane's objections were true.

Since Tohru's death, Shion's personality had not manifested itself among other people.

Everyone began to consider Shion strange as she forgot all her connections with other class members.

Ayane, on the other hand, still wanted to visit Rika - her old friend.

However, she was unaware of her recent death.

They last saw each other five years ago, when Ichijirou and Rika got married, and have rarely kept in touch since then, as Ayane lived in Sweden

Unaware of anything, Ayane knocked on the door.
She was opened by Ichijirou who avoided eye contact with his former student.

Ichijirou: Good morning, Kobayashi-san...

You probably already know about Rika right?

Ayane: Eh? Something happened?

Ichijirou tried to hide his sadness
Ichijirou: She died in June….

Ayane: Oh, I really don't know about that, I'm really sorry.
Ayane felt really stupid, she didn't think her friend would fall victim to the curse.

Ichijirou: I understand, you didn't need to know that.

Ayane: I think I'll go now.

Goodbye Honma-sensei.

Michika was about to go to bed when Chitose called her.

In a rude, demanding tone, she announced to Michika.

Chitose: I want to see you the day after tomorrow at my office.

Michika: What if I refuse?

Chitose: Are you sure about that?

You owe me your life.

Michika: In two days, yes?

Chitose: Yes, and you must come.
Understood?

Michika: Are you threatening me?

Chitose: No, but your reputation with him will go down with me, and you know what I do with disloyal people.

Michika: Yeah, I know.
I'm doing it for you.

Chitose: Great, so I think we reached the agreement right?

Michika: Yes.

Shion/Izumi couldn't sleep, Izumi knew that tomorrow she would have to kill innocent people, and she also knew, because today she talked to Chika Sekiguchi, who casually worked at the hotel, that she might have to kill her own colleague.

Shion and Izumi's thoughts collided with each other.

Shion was ruthless, while Izumi considered murder a last resort.

It turned out that the crew sent to Japan by the Mafia would stay longer in Yomiyama, so the action was postponed.

Izumi eventually fell asleep, however, even in the dream world she was doomed to the company of Shion

Shion: You are afraid that you will have to kill Sekiguchi right?

Izumi: After all, she is not guilty of anything!

Why should I kill her!

Shion: What if Sekiguchi had testified to the police?

What would you have done?

Izumi: I would think about explaining it to myself somehow.

I certainly wouldn't kill an innocent person!

Shion: Are you sure?

Shion showed Izumi's memories when she killed Kazami and during her attempt to kill Mei.

Izumi: W-wait….
Are these my memories?
These people seem familiar to me.

Shion: Of course you do, The truth is that we both died during the 3-3 class of 1998-1999.

I must say that Naomi and Misaki's parents were lucky to survive, supposedly the whole class wanted to kill them in the summer of 1998.

Izumi: So, I am dead?

Shion: Yeah, just like me, however…

Izumi: However what?

Shion: Even if we are killed this year, I will still be reborn in three years, and unfortunately you will die.

Izumi: Why are you telling me this?

Shion: Because I can, and so you will forget our conversation, because I used your memories of death, which you should not have.

Izumi all the moments from Class 3-3 suddenly went through her head, however, then Shion's memories of Izumi also crossed her mind.

Izumi: I know who you are!

Shion: Congratulations, unfortunately you will forget about it when you will wake up, you regained all of your memories to the moment of your death in 1998

Izumi: You're not even a woman, And you're not even affiliated with Class 3-3 at all!

Shion: Am I not?

Are you sure about that?

Shion began to change his body from his pre-mortal form through all the extras from 2001 to his current form.

This year I took a different tactic.

That's why I brought you back to life, normally no one comes back to life twice.

Izumi: Don't think you're going to control me!

Shion: Oh yeah?
Now I will have total control over you, in previous years it was difficult for me to take control of someone, however, know that someone's death, preferably from grade 3-3 is like fuel for me.

So far you feel quite comfortable in your own body?

That will soon change.

I remember such a case in 2007.
The extra one ended up in a psychiatric hospital because I forced her to.

And then I took control of her.

Suddenly, everything for Izumi began to blur, she slowly began to get up, and with that she began to lose the just-recovered memories of the past.
Izumi woke up abruptly, she thought she had a nightmare, however, after a while she forgot everything.

However, she noticed Shion sitting on the coffee table next to her bed.

Shion: Are you ready? Today we probably have the riskiest contract from Chitose to complete.

Izumi: I guess I have no choice.