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<This entire chapter is the play they are performing>
Tsumugi: “Woow, this year too, my altar has been decorated splendidly.”
Itaru: “Ah, it’s my little sister. I’m glad she seems well…”
Azuma: “Today, everyone can’t take their eyes off the present world TV, huh.”
Sakyo: “That’s because it’s the festival of the dead that only happens once a year. After all, it’s a nice thing to see those who are alive remembering us.”
Taichi: “Look! Isn’t my altar that’s decorated with flowers and candles super, super cute and pretty!?”
Tenma: “It’s mine that’s amazing! It’s colourful and showy, it’s got taste.”
Itaru: “Huh? That light…”
Kazunari: “Ahh, I guess another guy who died has come.”
Azuma: “I wonder what kind of person they are this time.”
Masumi: “…? Where… is this?”
Tsumugi: “Welcome, it’s the world of the dead.”
Masumi: “Huh?”
Taichi: “It’s cause you died.”
Masumi: “Don’t say something so absurd. I don’t get what you mean.”
Sakyo: “Apparently he can’t seem to comprehend that he himself has died.”
Masumi: “Words like that, there’s no way I can believe them, you know?”
Tsumugi: “In that case, please try touching me. I don’t think you can though.”
Masumi: “Haa? Such an easy thing…”
“Uh!? …My hand went through your body…!?
What is this, it’s as if there’s no sense of touch…”
Tenma: “See, you understand, right?”
Masumi: “No way… I really died.”
Taichi: “That’s why, weren’t we saying that just before?”
Masumi: “No way… no way…!
This isn’t the time to be dead in a place like this!”
Kazunari: “You say that, but it’s impossible to be revived, you know?”
Masumi: “Something, there has to be 1 or 2 ways, right!?”
Itaru: “It’s a shame, but there’s none. When you were alive you've never seen any dead person that came back to life, right?”
Masumi: “Even so! There’s a girl that I have to go back home to!”
Sakyo: “Girl?”
Masumi: “I was supposed to get married in 3 days."
“To die while leaving my loved one behind, something like that…!”
Tenma: “Oh it was like that.”
Masumi: “Look here, the outfit that I’m wearing is the suit that I was planning to wear at the wedding.”
Taichi: “Oh my, what kind of situation is this, dying in that suit.”
Sakyo: “Still, even though you were greatly looking forward to your wedding, the case of you dying is something that probably can’t be changed.”
Masumi: “Anyways I can’t just stay dead like this! I’ll search for some way…!”
Azuma: “…Hmmm. That reminds me there’s something that I heard long ago…”
“On the day of the festival of the dead, somewhere in the world of the dead when you light a candle wrapped in marigolds—”
“There’s a way to connect to the living world or something.”
Masumi: “!! Really!?”
Azuma: “It’s not that you will come back to life, but it seems you will be able to meet the one person you want to meet.”
“Well it was just a story that I heard hundreds of years ago though.”
Kazunari: “Eeh~, what kind of lie~…”
Taichi: “You can’t trust in such a superstitious story.”
Masumi: “No, I’ll search.
If that’s the only way, then I will try to go out and find it.”
“I have to go back to the other world, and have my wedding.
You guys! All of you help!!”
Tenma: “Ha!? Why us?”
Itaru: “We got involved…”
Masumi: “You’re free anyways, stop complaining!”
Tsumugi: “Hmmm, it seems we’ve gone too far to turn back now*…”
Sakyo: “That story, I’m a bit interested.
Shall we go check it out?”
Tenma: “Gyaa—!? There’s a trap in a place like this—!!”
Taichi: “Hey hey, what are you…”
“Eek, there’s one here too!?
Gya—!!”
Kazunari: “Ge-get it together—!”
Itaru: “Isn’t it too unreasonable being trapped even though they’re dead and can’t touch each other’s bodies!?”
Masumi: “Ugh, don’t just give up with this!”
Masumi: “At last…I got it! This is the legendary candle…!”
Azuma: “…? Say, doesn’t it have a sweet smell?”
Tsumugi: “It does. Or rather this candle, if you look closely it somehow doesn’t seem like a candle at all…”
Sakyo: “…Hm, it can’t light.
This is a candle-like candy.”
Masumi: “It’s a fake!!”
Taichi: “It’s been 1 year since then, huh”
Tenma: “It’s finally the day of the festival of the dead.
Hey, are the preparations for the candle done?”
Masumi: “Yeah, of course.”
Itaru: “Unbelievable, so it really was possible to obtain the legendary candle.”
Kazunari: “We thought we found it but it was just a fake, we fell for various traps… Geez a lot of things sure happened.”
Tsumugi: “But, in this way we were able to find the candle.
Then today on the day of the festival of the dead, if you light it, you can go to the living world.”
Masumi: “…Everyone, thank you for cooperating for my sake.
At first, sorry for saying something like ‘whatever, just help me’."
Sakyo: “Heh, what are you saying now.”
Taichi: “Well then, properly straighten up your clothes. It’s your specially-prepared suit after all.”
Kazunari: “The girl you love, quickly go to meet her.”
Masumi: “Ahh…!”
Azuma: “Hey, you. Once you meet your beloved person, I think you will come to hate returning back here.”
“Even so, don’t forget the fact that you are dead, and the other person is alive.”
Masumi: “…I understand.”
“It’s alright. I… I’ve started to think that this world where I spend time with you guys isn’t so bad either.”
Tsumugi: “Fufu… I see.”
Masumi: “She should live her own life to its fullest and survive… and then after let’s meet again in this world, that is what I will convey to her.”
Tenma: “Ahh, then get going.”
Kazunari: “…! Could it be that he..”
Masumi: “…”
Tsumugi: “Welcome back.”
Masumi: “I’m back. …I properly met her and came back.”
Itaru: “I see…”
Masumi: “Thank you. It’s all thanks to you guys—”
Taichi: “Alright! Then next I’ll be using it!”
Tenma: “What are you saying, it was already decided it was me!
Hand over the candle!”
Itaru: “No no, it’s me. When we were getting the candle,
Wasn’t I the one who spotted the traps?”
Kazunari: “If you say that, then even I played a huge role!”
Sakyo: “Good grief…
But of course, please allow me to use it as well.”
Tsumugi: “I also want to use it.”
Masumi: “W-what’s going on?”
Azuma: “It’s because everyone has their own person they want to meet.”
“That candle that we finally got, could it really be the candle spoken in the legend…”
“You were just being used as the test subject to see if you could really meet the person you wanted to meet.”
Masumi: “What…!? Even though I felt friendship, those guys…!”
Dead guys: “Hand over the candle—!!”
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