Teiichi-kun!
Yuuko-san...
Have I been
here this whole time?
Yes, the whole time.
A while ago, you fainted and fell over.
So then, no time has passed?
No.
What about Shadow Yuuko?!
Shadow Yuuko?
The one chasing us earlier.
I guess she's made herself forget again.
She's banished it from her consciousness,
and discarded its existence from her mind.
Teiichi-kun,
can you stand?
Yes...
What just happened?
Teiichi-kun, you...
My past...
You...
My memories of the past...
Yuuko-san...
Yuuko-san! Yuuko-san!
Teiichi-kun,
where are you?
Teiichi-kun, where are you?!
What's going on, Yuuko-san?
Teiichi-kun, where are you?
Over here... I'm over here!
Teiichi-kun, answer me!
What's going on, Yuuko-san?
Answer me!
Please...
Don't leave me here alone!
Teiichi-kun...
Yuuko-san...
Maiden of Bitter Tears
Yuuko-san.
Teiichi-kun...
I guess he isn't here yet.
I'm sure he's right there...
He has to be.
That must have happened
because you found out...
about Yuuko's past.
Yuuko's excised the memory
of the time immediately before her death.
It was very sad.
It's too much sorrow for one person.
Seeing that memory created a copy of the memory in you.
But that's...
And so, Yuuko has shut you out of her consciousness, too.
I'm saying that
you've become a being just like Shadow Yuuko.
No...
Yuuko can't see Shadow Yuuko.
Sometimes, a trigger can render her visible for a moment,
but Yuuko represses it right away, becoming unable to see her again.
I'm afraid that's what has happened to you.
Huh? Aren't you eating lunch today?
No, I don't have much appetite.
Hmm? Oh, really?
Teiichi-kun...
I'm right here.
What?
Oh, nothing!
Teiichi-kun...
It's you, isn't it?
Niiya-san, what's wrong?
I knew it.
It's like he's become a ghost...
I'm a ghost.
No one is aware of my existence.
No one...
No one.
That's not true.
No one sees me.
I see you.
No one hears my voice.
I hear it.
No one touches me.
No!
It's like I've become the ghost.
I see.
At this rate,
Yuuko-san might even forget me someday.
Generally, humans and ghosts shouldn't mingle like that anyway.
It was probably just time for it to end.
What? No reaction?
You may be right...
If my touch causes Yuuko-san to suffer,
I shouldn't go near her.
If my existence forces her to remember her bitter past, making her sad...
Do you seriously believe that?
Don't lie and say you're pulling away for her sake!
The truth is that you're just too frightened!
But...
Do you really think she wants that?
You know what pisses me off?
Having to watch
you two all over each other because you think no one else can see!
Kirie-san...
But you know what's even worse?
That neither of you is doing anything!
Th-That's ridiculous...
Yes, it is...
Just decide what you want!
You love her, right?
You don't want to lose her, right?
Then don't use BS rhetoric to deceive yourself!
I-I never meant to do that...
You two need to take responsibility...
You worked so hard together on all those cases.
Kirie-san...
I won't let you two split up over something this petty!
If you open this, you'll be cursed!!
Teiichi-kun, don't push yourself too hard.
Yuuko | Teiichi-kun I miss you.
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Yuuko-san...
I miss you, too.
Teiichi-kun...
I'm lonely.
I'm lonely, too.
I want to see your face.
I want to see you smile.
I want to hear your voice.
I want to talk to you.
I want you to touch me.
I want to touch you.
I want you to touch
It's so warm.
Teiichi-kun...
Yes, Yuuko-san?
Thank you.
I'm having fun, too.
Even if you can't see me,
I can see you.
I can hear your voice.
And we can even exchange feelings this way...
No.
I'm so lonely...
It hurts so much.
I thought I'd forgotten all of this.
I thought I'd left all of these emotions behind, and yet...
Yuuko-san...
Someone, help me.
Good morning!
G-Good morning, Okonogi-san!
What's wrong?
Nothing, nothing at all...
I brought a present for you today.
Here you go!
This is...
The legendary candy, Okonogi Ceremony Drops,
sporD
from the Okonogi Confectionery!
The Okonogi Confectionery?
Revival
We make them at home.
We'll be releasing some old favorites again,
and this is the first item!
It's true.
They really do taste like they used to.
Huh?
You mean you've had them before?
But this candy hasn't been out for decades.
sporD
Uh, I mean...
It just has a really nostalgic flavor.
Yuuko-san ate these with Asa-chan, didn't she?
Asa-chan...
Asa-chan?
That reminds me...
What is it?
Thank you, Okonogi-san...
Uh, I don't really understand what's going on,
but I'm honored if I could help.
I'm sorry for asking you to do this.
Don't mention it.
This is nothing.
This is...
Yes.
My grandmother is the academy's chairman of the board.
Really?
Please don't tell anyone.
It wouldn't be good for the other students
and teachers to start treating me differently.
That's why it's a secret.
A-All right.
Until today,
I hadn't told my grandmother that I could see Yuuko...
Why not?
Because she'd get really sad.
Come in.
I'm sorry to bother you.
This is my grandmother, Kanoe Yukariko.
So this is Yuuko-san's younger sister.
You've grown up so much, Teiichi-kun.
Kirie told me the story.
Is it true?
That you can also see Yuuko?
Also?
You mean that...
Yes.
I've been able to see my older sister's ghost all this time.
I've been able to see that horrifying form,
stained with rage and hatred.
It seems that the people
who buried my sister also saw that form, and it terrified them.
For a long time, any talk of it was forbidden in the village.
I see.
After the adults died,
though I was still young, I was tasked to lead this school.
Knowing that my sister's body was buried in the old school wing,
I never had it torn down, preserving it as a memorial.
However,
my sister's spirit cannot rest,
and it continues to haunt the school grounds.
There's nothing I can do for her...
That's not true.
Yuuko-san is doing fine.
She's kind and pretty...
She does get peeved easily,
but she's always cheerful.
Is that really how you see her?
Yes.
She's the same nice, pretty older sister
as when she nursed Asa-chan back then.
How do you know about that?
I...
I want to talk to that Yuuko-san again.
The reason I wanted to see you today
is that I wanted to learn more about Asa-chan.
About her?
I suppose her feelings have been transferred to you.
Huh?
Why don't I show you.
Asa-chan...
You haven't noticed yet, have you?
This picture is...
Yuuko-san,
I'm sorry!
What?
Is that snow?
What's happening?
Why?
What is that?
What is this?
No...
No... No... No... No... No...
No... No!
Stop!
Teiichi-kun?
You can see me, Yuuko-san?
How?
I thought if I did this, you might become aware of me.
From your memories, all these items were important to you.
Teiichi-kun...
And then I thought that if you were aware of my existence,
you might also be able to see the other Yuuko-san.
You can, right?
You're wrong, Teiichi-kun!
That's not me! That isn't me!
Yuuko-san...
That's right.
All the memories you wanted to forget...
All the feelings you didn't want to acknowledge...
Stop, please!
You have to remember me.
Let's suffer through that day together.
No!
I've wanted to meet you, too.
When I touched you,
I saw your memories of the past.
And then, I knew what had happened.
You don't know anything.
You don't know the real truth...
That wasn't everything...
That wasn't the end!
Don't think you know what happened just because you saw that!
Teiichi-kun...
You don't know my suffering.
You don't know my sorrow...
You don't know the faces that trembled in fear, even though they were murderers.
The terrified look in my younger sister's eyes when she saw me...
The people who stir up all the boiling negative emotions,
and my own self who forced all that suffering onto me!
All that hate, that pain, that sadness, that suffering!
I haven't done anything wrong,
but I still had to suffer that fate.
I was forced to bear
all these horrible feelings!
So how can you even pretend to understand me at all?!
I don't understand those things.
I don't.
But still,
it's painful!
I mean, it's so sad...
It hurts so much.
To only be able to hate...
To only be able to curse...
To be capable of feeling nothing but those emotions for all this time...
It's just too painful.
If anything, not hating is what's impossible...
You can't possibly not hate in that situation!
When you showed me that memory, it hurt me too.
I was terrified.
And I felt so horrible...
Being unable to do anything while you suffered...
Nothing but watch, powerless...
That was what I hated the most.
That was just unthinkable.
How...
How can you touch me?
This lump of hatred?
This horrid form?
Because you're Yuuko-san, too!
Because you're also the Yuuko-san I love...
That's why... That's why...
Stop.
You have to stop crying.
Yuuko-san?
That's right.
If you cry for me...
If you hold me tight...
Even though I suffered so much...
Even though I wanted to discard it...
Everything will disappear.
I've been living these emotions for so long...
I've been shutting them out for so long...
But that
will all become irrelevant.
Yuuko-san.
Teiichi-kun, is this really all right?
Am I all right?
Yes.
After all, you're both my beloved Yuuko-san.
I...
It'll be scary.
It's okay now.
If Teiichi-kun will accept me,
there are no more regrets.
Welcome back, me.
Yuuko-san?
I'm back, Teiichi-kun.
Apparently,
all the names of those who secretly plotted the human sacrifice
were carved onto the stone of curses memorial.
I see.
In the end, the epidemic was the root cause.
I don't care anymore.
I'm going to leave
all my sad memories and all my happy memories
right here.
Oh, yeah.
I wanted to show you this.
It's Asa-chan...
Yukariko-san let me borrow these from her album.
Asa-chan's real name was Asagi, right?
The character is the color "asagi,"
the light blue
you see between the bands of red and purple
at sunset.
Asagi is actually my grandmother's name.
What?
Then, could that mean...
Yes.
It looks like I'm Asa-chan's grandson.
Yuuko-san?
It wasn't for nothing.
Huh?
I didn't suffer for nothing...
Asa-chan was able to survive,
and I was able to meet you like this!
I don't mind being a human sacrifice over and over
if it means that I can be united with you!
What do you mean by united?
Yuuko-san!
What's wrong, Yuuko-san?
Nothing.
The cracked heart is whole.
The lost time is rewound.
To relive it again...
In its true form.
Ghost Story Twelve:
The Dusk Maiden
The Dusk Maiden.