Final Chapter: What If

Eventually, the doctor came out of the operating room and told me.

「Miraculously, her life was saved. She'll need to rest for a while, but she's going to be okay.」

I bit down hard on the boundless, voiceless joy overflowing within me.

My knees hurt somehow, and my vision is blurry too.

「Are you alright?」

The doctor extends his hand to me.

Ahh, I had collapsed to my knees.

I wipe the tears pooled in my eyes with my hand and grasp the doctor's hand.

「Thank you so much.」

After that, Runa recovered smoothly.

Now she walks to school with me every morning as my girlfriend.

The bullying of Runa stopped after that, and Yui transferred schools.

Apparently Yui is having quite a hard time at her new school.

But I felt not a shred of sympathy.

If I hadn't stopped chasing Yui that day, what would have become of me?

It would have been a bad ending no matter what.

Well, I can't imagine anyone but Runa anyway.

「Hey, Rei-niichan. I love you.」

Runa says that without any embarrassment.

I can't manage that.

「...I love you too, Runa.」

I'm glad it was sunset time.

My whole face is hot.

If it were under the blue sky, it would definitely be obvious...

「Fufu, you're embarrassed~」

Runa pokes my cheek with her finger.

Uhh, she noticed.

Poke, poke, poke, Runa kept poking and laughed mischievously.

I'll protect that smile with my life.

That was the sunset when I made that strong vow in my heart.

「「「「「We'll always be together」」」」」

Afterword

Hello, this is Yoyotokai.

Thank you for reading this far.

Please look forward to my next work.

About this work.

I've written various novels as a hobby until now, but this is the first work I've been able to complete! It was still a rough work, but I'm glad I was able to finish it without disappearing!

However, I'm frustrated that I couldn't exceed my goal of 50,000 characters. It became a much shorter work than originally planned (under 20,000 characters, so this is a short story).

Moreover, by not properly organizing the plot, the main storyline as well as the character settings for Yui, Runa, and Rei became quite vague (regarding the story, I forgot various things about the ending I had originally decided, which made it a shaky story ahhh).

Well, I hope you'll look forward to my next work.

Thanks for reading this far!

Let's meet again somewhere!