| <This entire chapter is the play they are performing>
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| 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.” |
| *flash* |
| 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[1]…” |
| Sakyo | “That story, I’m a bit interested. |
| Shall we go check it out?” |
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| 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!” |
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| “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!!” |
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| 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.” |
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| *flash* |
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| 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 of 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—!!” |
