Editing Mushi Uta:Volume 8 Chapter 5 (section)

== 5.04 The Others ==
Wails echoed in the alley lit by the morning sunlight.

When Daisuke dragged his feet there, he saw Ikarino Kirari sitting down and crying.

Standing next to Kirari, he looked inside the alley.

The glow of the burning signal red carmine still remained.

As if to remind them that the boy who was Kusuriya Daisuke and the girl called Tanaka Momo have existed, a black scrap of cloth and a marker were consumed together by the flames.

"Sorry… I wasn't able to save them."

After Daisuke muttered this, Kirari raised her face toward him. It took everything she had to endure the sobbing rising from her. She couldn't speak, so she just strongly shook her head.

Daisuke looked at the burning traces they left, biting his lips.

Have they been happy?

Have they fulfilled their dream?

That answer could only come out of those two who weren't there anymore.

"I'll go back to Ouka City…"

Daisuke said.

The Kusuriya Daisuke that had run to this town vanished along with the person he loved.

So the surviving Kusuriya Daisuke had to keep moving forward.

Keep living, keep going, and see the one important to him.

He still didn't know if what waited ahead was the same destiny as the Kusuriya Daisuke that vanished in this town—or whether he'd be able to gain an ending of a different kind.

"I can probably fight at my full power only once more… but that's the only place I can go to."

Kirari nodded.

"Thanks for everything, Kirari."

Leaving this behind, he turned on his heels—

"—I'm sure that other Kusuriya Daisuke said the same, though."

He added.

The boy called Kusuriya Daisuke in this town thanked Kirari as well.

There was no need for the kind handyman to cry.

Everyone had been saved by her.

Because of that, the one left should face forward again.

"Say, Daisuke-san—"

Ikarino Kirari spoke.

"In the end… which of you was the real Kusuriya Daisuke?"

The fact that she uttered this question not with a frown but with a slight smile was the sole salvation.

Daisuke smiled too.

''—I'll die in your place.''

The boy who said that while smiling, was without a doubt himself.

"The one who'd been saved in this town."

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