You were Miyano Akemi's classmate. You wanted to find her.
She had helped you, giving you the kind of help that felt like fishing the moon out of a well, or pulling a whole life up from the sea. You wanted to find her.
If you could, you would trade everything you had for the chance to have her appear before you. You said it was nothing, since you had everything because she existed in the first place.
But you couldn't. You couldn't anymore.
Let me see you. Your name is Hanawa Suzumi. You are a woman, and a forensic pathologist. While wandering on a rooftop, you longed for a vacation as ordinary people do, and so you were able to look forward to one just like an ordinary person. But you had an even more thrilling, joyful reason to look forward to it: Akemi, who had brought you salvation, said she would bring her younger sister to the reunion.
She didn't come. You decided to find her.
All you knew was that she was Miyano Akemi. You didn't know she was Shiho's older sister, the daughter of Hell Angel, or that she was the bank robber Hirota Masami.
So you didn't know that if you turned over the newspaper carrying your missing-person notice, you would see her obituary.
But in the end, you found her. The body registered as Hirota Masami concealed the secrets of Miyano Akemi and bore witness to the resolve passed down through the Miyano family.
And you were grateful that you could understand what it all meant.
"It's a good thing, at least, that I chose work that lets me communicate with the dead. I suppose that's... fate looking out for me once again?"
You didn't believe in fate. You thought she had looked out for you once again.
Then you leapt from the roof. Because she would never look out for you again.
She was a liar. When she tried to stop you, she said falling to your death would hurt and look awful, and that you should never do something like that. She was a liar.
Whatever she was, she was a liar, an angel, the salvation of you, him, her, or anyone else. She was a news story, a piece of newspaper. She was a letter you would never receive.
But you really were lucky to have met her. That's why you're standing here now.
As a ghost given another chance, you're here.
You ask who they are? Oh, they're Akemi's parents. Go say hello. Why hide? As a ghost, surely you aren't afraid of ghosts?
* Yuri, female lead, paired with Akemi
* A tragic bad ending in the first life, a happy ending in the second
* Since she's Suzumi, she has three squirrels as guardian spirits
* Half-human, half-ghost, first and foremost a forensic pathologist
Theme: Protecting a bright, warm smile
