Furukawa Maya and Maki were in the Director’s room.

The atmosphere was gloomy and heavy.

No one said a word but they both knew what was on their minds.

“So we failed to save him.” Maki was the one to say that sentence. She clenched her fists and bit her lips. She had failed to save the person her dear sister had been trying to protect. As a sister, she had failed to fulfill her duties and that realization left a bitter taste in her mouth.

“No point in beating yourself over that. The moment Kaya died, everything was as good as hopeless.”

That had been the last straw.

Kaya had been the one to have held Kageyama down to this world. She had cast chains on him and shackled him. But when she died, the chains came off and he plunged to his doom.

No, even after that, there was still a chance to save him. If not for the girl, Hayami. The girl that didn’t exist. The girl that never existed in the first place.

“Hallucination, was it?” Maki spoke.

After Kageyama’s death, the Director told her abo