The midday sun ebbed beautifully alongside the water trail of steel where the conduct of the train would undergo.

At a normal and steady pace, the train kept moving forward in its track, as it contained eight carriages. Plenty of people in it would hog the semi-open windows in order to get a glance at the shimmering horizon where the ocean water and the faraway islands; colliding with sea creatures----played in harmony.

In particular, she was eager and would bend her posture forward as the wind blew her large light brown straw-hat backwards.

"It's so beautiful!!" Although he wanted to pay attention to her radiant smile, he placed importance in recovering the straw-hat as he knelt down on the ground in order to pick it up "Don't go forgetting about your hat now, you were so happy when you bought it." He remarked as he gave her back the straw-hat; her vision and his ultimately colliding "I know, I know!! But look, Daniel!! The whales sometimes jump----" As she happily said those words, a whale of 30 meters just so happened to perform a high jump and splashed to the surface of the ocean faraway "SEE!?" Completely absorbed, she admired the scenery even further, once again allowing the straw-hat to fall flat on the ground again "Seriously-----" Daniel sighed "Oh well, as long as you're happy, Yulia..." Daniel let out a small smile as he picked the straw-hat again.

After a few minutes, as the train stopped in the middle of a station that was surrounded by nothing except sparkly bright ocean water, a few passengers left.

Yulia sat on the seat next to the window and Daniel sat on the parallel seat in front of her. Her left leg intertwined with his right leg and Daniel could notice her long yellow dress flutter with the wind minimally. His black jeans, on the other hand, remained grounded.

The train would move forward to the next stop as the train station started to become a mirage.

Midst this, Yulia sighed as her head navigated down.

"What's wrong? That's the third sigh now." Daniel noticed "Ahhh, it's just..." Yulia didn't want to bother him "Come on, Yulia. What did we agree on? Don't tell me you forgot." Daniel became worried that she might have "No way I forgot, silly! We always have to tell our worries to one another, no matter how ridiculous because that's the best way we can expand our love for each other!" Daniel felt relieved as Yulia flashed a confident grin "Well, ok, ok..." Yulia took a deep breath and then told her worry "I... kinda miss them?!" She couldn't believe her own words "Them?" Daniel had a hunch but asked just in case "Yes, them. Our classmates! Well, former classmates..." Yulia seemed saddened "Hmhmm..." Daniel thought about it as he placed his right index finger on the soft surface of his lips "I also do miss some of them, but all of them? That's a bit of a stretch." He confessed "I know, I know! But it just kinda clicked now that we are on our trip!" She said "Oh? How so then?" Daniel was curious about her thoughts.

A faraway train station surrounded by nothing but water was visible faraway from Daniel's point of view.

"It was... a surreal experience for me. I never thought that I would say this but... After all those three years, I kinda grew attached to all of them. Even to the ones I hated at first." Yulia's face became serious "Even Kawahara?" Daniel laughed lowly "I----" She wasn't expecting to be confronted so suddenly "Well, yeah!! I always hated that asshole Kawahara because he was never up to any good!! Always lying and getting the better of others, also that annoying attitude of his----he thinks he's better than anyone!!" Yulia demonstrated intense fiery rage "I can testify to that. I don't think he'll ever change, but maybe he can become a better person thanks to her." Daniel told "I hope so... I mean, she's not perfect and can be very argumentative most of the time, but I think that she can do it." Yulia sighed "But yes, I have learned that I hold no longer a grudge against any of them and I wish them the best." Yulia added "I'm going to miss Sana a lot too..." Yulia became sad "Don't you two literally talk all the time though? Aren't you two texting each other right now?!" Daniel became exasperated as he had a feeling that Yulia was being melodramatic.

Yulia quickly rose from her seat and jumped to Daniel's right side, where her body became rapidly adjoined to his, though he didn't mind this at all.

"We ARE!!" She showed the text logs from her phone to Daniel "They are pretty recent. It's like you two can't live without each other. Are you going to become lesbian for Sana and leave me to die when I get old and grumpy?" Daniel mocked her "As if!! We already agreed that we are going to grow old together!! Alsoooooooooooo...!!" Yulia wanted to say something as she slightly blushed "I've been thinking about it and... Well, since..." She tucked her phone inside her dress' right pocket and whispered to Daniel's left ear "Since we are going to live together, do you-----" Daniel finished her sentence "Want to start a family?" She was momentarily stunned "The answer is yes, you fucking idiot." Subsequently, Daniel's lips dived right into Yulia's---who was still stunned but thoroughly embraced the sensation effortlessly afterwards.

They arrived to yet another train station and some passengers started to leave as well.

Not too long after, the train departed forward once again as the midday sun started to descend down south slowly.

"Kinda of a shame that I can't get your mother's blessings though. I really wanted her to know that her daughter has succeeded in life and will have a son and a daughter soon ahead of her life..." Daniel demonstrated regret and Yulia was somewhat saddened but kept a soft transparent smile nevertheless as she wrapped her arms around Daniel's right arm "That's-----alright, I think. I'm sure that somewhere, she's watching us and she already approves that-----after all, I got such an amazing boyfriend waaahh!!" She squished his right arm even though he didn't mind it at all "Though... What about your parents?" Yulia asked as she looked at Daniel's face "Hm... To be really honest with you, as long as I have you and only you, I really don't give a f-----" Yulia released her arms from Daniel's and interrupted him as she got angry "You always say THAT!" Her facial expression was dissatisfied and bitter "...." Daniel scratched the back of his head "But it's the truth, Yulia. I love you so much that nothing else compares." Daniel couldn't hide it "I know, you have stressed this point quite a lot of times. Far too many, actually, but I'm not complaining." She giggled transiently but didn't digress "I want other people to know what it feels like to be loved by you! Of course, your love for me is everything and will always be mine, but think about your mother and your father! You don't even know them or where they are!" Yulia's words made Daniel feel a bit uncomfortable "But that's because... I really don't know---or rather, haven't seen them in years..." Daniel's expression darkened.

Yulia felt as if this was something that Daniel didn't want to talk about, but even so, she persisted.

"And that's completely fine...!" She was hesitant but delivered it "You know how I said that my real father is still out there...?" She brought some old memories back "Yeah, you told me three years ago back in the abandoned classroom. I could never forget that conversation." Daniel gulped "...I'm glad to know you still remember it..." Yulia smiled "Well---I don't want to meet him, but-----I WILL!!" Daniel's eyes widened "And you will be there for me to give me your supernatural strength because... I alone can't do it... And NO, don't tell me----I know I don't have to, but I need that son of a bitch to know that I won't be a failure like him and that my life is great! And it's all thanks to you, Daniel..." Once again, her smile emitted an ebullient radiance to it "That's why, I have to do the same to you. And I am not taking no for an answer." Yulia refused to budge "......." Daniel was hoping to argue back.

He sighed and released a relieved smile as he thought greatly of Yulia.

"Really----you are the best thing that has happened to me." Daniel confessed "The same goes for me." Yulia added "Hey, if we are going to have a family and all that, then we can't really keep that promise, can we?" Daniel reminded Yulia of an old promise they made at the end of their first year "Wooooooooow!" Yulia was shocked "I---I didn't forget about it!!" Yulia lied "Uh-huh..." Daniel was slightly disappointed "I'm sorry, but----I obviously didn't think about it because it's such a nihilistic promise! I mean, the promise was; we would kill ourselves when we grew too old. But if you think about it... We only made that promise because of what was happening at the time! We didn't think about having a family back then!" Yulia realized "It's a NO!! Whoever dies first must watch over our children and make sure that everything goes right for them!!" Yulia instantly crossed it "I thought so..." Daniel agreed "That was a pretty hectic first year though. Yikes..." Yulia remembered some bad memories from it.

Once again, a far away station surrounded by nothing but water was at sight from Daniel's perspective.

"I really thought we wouldn't be together anymore back then..." Yulia reminisced "Yulia... It's in the past..." Daniel didn't feel like she needed to reminisce that much "I know but... I---I was so scared... When you broke up with me and made that whole lie up, I thought you hated me from the start and I saw no meaning in life..." Yulia began to cry and Daniel brought her head closer to his chest with his right hand "I felt so horrible I tried to kill myself, but then... Just as I was about to, you showed up and stopped me from pulling the trigger... I could never forget your words..." She smiled as the intensity of her tears increased "Idiot... I would never let you die... Besides, it was that bastard's fault. Everything; his endgame too." Daniel demonstrated rage "Mhm..." Yulia felt comfortable as she dove into his chest deeper with her head "Promise me you'll never let me go?" Yulia said as she lowly whispered those words "I promise..." Daniel adjoined his chin to Yulia's head below "No matter what happens, I will never let go of you. Even if you stop loving me one day, I will still love you. Even if you die, I will still love you. Even if you come back a totally different person, I will love you and only you. Even if------" Daniel halted his words for a second "Well, I think you got the point. It's only you." Daniel finalized as he closed his eyes in happiness.

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The next train station saw the highest drop rate of passengers leaving the train, to the point where most carriages were actually empty.

Furthermore, there were some bizarre changes in the weather that Daniel didn't fail to notice as he opened his eyes.

"......What... the...?" He looked to his left and saw the horizon which was bathed in scarlet red alongside the falling black sun "That can't be right... The sun is black---Hey, Yulia---" He turned his head to his right side as he talked to Yulia but he had not noticed that the weight of her body was already gone "...Yulia...?!" His body moved and he noticed that there were no people in the carriage where he and Yulia were.

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However, he did notice a trail of blood that mysteriously started from Yulia's seat, next to his right.

"Huh...?!" He followed the trail with his eyes and saw that it stretched all the way to the closed door that would allow any passenger to advance to the next carriage "Yulia! Hey, where did you go?!" He began to feel frightened as he looked in every direction "Shit, our bags are gone too, what the fuck?!" He looked above to the ceiling where the passengers kept their travelling bags, but there were absolutely none.

Even so, the train kept moving forward; he however, could not see any station up and beyond from the window-----where the black sun and the supernatural red ocean would align.

"This is fucking nonsense..." He took a step to his right and analyzed the trail of blood "I must've fallen asleep and this is a nightmare. I guess I'll just have to figure it out on my own then." He came to that conclusion and decided to follow the trail of blood which led him to the door "Hey, Yuliaaaaaaaaaa!!" Daniel kept shouting "Wake me up, I think I fell asleep and I'm not liking this nightmare! We should be arriving soon and we got a plane to catch!" Daniel was finally face to face with the door, which unknowingly opened itself, further revealing a trail of blood down the line of the next carriage, where there were no passengers.

Except for one, which happened to be crossing to the other door further ahead.

"....Yulia...?" He couldn't fail to recognize her blonde hair strands fluttering across the brazen winds within the carriage "Seriously... What is this..." Daniel was getting frustrated by this scenery that he didn't ask for as he went forward to follow Yulia.

The vagrant soul had a window of awakening, at last. Through the inner turmoil, it tried to take a form, regardless of what it could be, as long as it could perceive and understand the context of the current scenery.

It began to absorb the blood stained on the ground as well as the surrounding nitrogen alongside its hydrogen. By accumulating living atoms, it started to form, slowly but surely. It grasped the nature of this scenery and by that notion, it was able to form an even far perceivable version of what it wished to be.

"Ahhh..." Daniel was getting annoyed as he was on the seventh carriage; with only one left "If you're bleeding then come here and let me see your wound, Yulia!" Every time he would cross to another carriage, the end of the next carriage would have Yulia cross the door "I gotta say though, I've never felt this much control over a dream. It's usually so surreal and beyond my control, but I can clearly feel my limbs and even the oxygen around me..." Daniel found it strange as he advanced to the final carriage.

Shrouded in a darker tone, the sky had turned vastly black and the sun was nowhere at sight. The illumination was poor and the only source was the faraway full red moon, that specifically aimed at her figure, as she remained grounded------with tears overflowing her pale expression.

Daniel advanced slowly as he noticed that the train was no longer moving.

"It stopped moving, why?" He looked outside from all directions but saw nothing except the dark water engulfed in aggravating dark shades "You know, it saddens me, every time I think about it..." Yulia kept looking outside as the trail of blood led to her "What... does...?" Daniel reluctantly asked as Yulia went to the window on her left and put her right bloody palm on the window "Yulia, you're bleeding so much------!!!" The shock came from the fact that Yulia turned her head to her left side, where Daniel could fully see it.

The imagery of her head showing the scattered brain and missing skin sent shivers of horror to Daniel's spine.

"I loved you, but all this time, you just used me for the sake of your little ploy and when you finally decide that it's alright for you to love me... You let me die----you fucking coward." Her words became shrouded with glacial coldness "N-Noo...!!" A wave of memories began to surge to Daniel's brain as he felt tremendous pain; to the point where he had to support it with his two hands "Oh yes." She removed her palm from the window and began to walk in Daniel's direction as he began to feel limp from the brain pain "You terrorized me by faking so many emotions and you thought that you had the right to live happily ever after with me...?" Yulia slowly crunched down to Daniel's position as he kept trembling in pain, on the ground "There's no fucking way you can, you goddamn psychopath." She forcefully placed her bloody hands on Daniel's head's later sides "YOU KNEW ALL ALONG WHO WAS BEHIND IT AND YOU DIDN'T STOP IT FROM HAPPENING!! YOU LET ME DIE, IT'S ALL YOUR FAULT!! YOU KEEP PRETENDING THAT YOU DON'T KNOW IN ORDER TO EASE YOUR INNER GUILT, BUT YOU KNOW!! OH YES, YOU KNOW, YOU KNOW EVERYTHING, DON'T YOU, DANIEL?!" Yulia's face became distorted with madness and bitterness as she forced Daniel to watch every single word she uttered "A-AHHHHHHHH!!!!" In fear, Daniel retreated backwards, attempting to reach the door.

Multiple attempts were made from him, but the lock didn't budge.

"You are such a fucking coward, Daniel... And hey, haven't you been getting closer to a lot of girls recently?" Yulia slowly began to close distance "Fuck, fuck, fuck---Why isn't it----" Daniel started to panic as he kept looking back and forth, afraid of Yulia "You have... My dear----emotionless, cold, ruthless----Daniel, is secretly a womanizer who likes to feel needed by the female whores around him as he pledges his undying loyalty to his one and only in his mind..." Yulia's expression darkened "That's not right. When did I give you the permission to look at another woman? Didn't you say that you'd continue to love me even after I am dead? That's cheating, Daniel." The distance was closed as Daniel had nowhere to run "N-NO!! I DIDN'T DO IT!! I NEVER STOPPED THINKING ABOUT YOU EVEN FOR A SECOND, YULIA!! THE ISLAND---I---I DID THOSE THINGS BECAUSE THEY WOULD BRING ME CLOSER TO YOU---!!!" Daniel gave up on the door lock and faced Yulia.

The unexpected occur as Daniel could no longer feel the majority of his legs; his body tumbled forward impulsively.

"?!?!?" His face splattered on the cold ground as the turbulent winds started to infiltrate the atmosphere "A-AHHHHHHHHH!??!" Noticing the tremendous pain from his legs, he noticed that his two calves were gone and that he was heavily bleeding from the pits "That's the excuse you bank on your brain? Come on now, Daniel..." The calf abruptly clashed with her upper teeth as the bite was performed "You did those things---to those innocent people---because you enjoyed it, not because you thought they would bring you closer to me!!" Daniel watched the sight of his caves being devoured by a Yulia that he could not recognize anymore "AHHHHHHH!!! WHAT THE HELL IS THIS?!" Perplexed and beyond afraid, Daniel started to claw his way up to the door, but it was to no avail.

The blood from his nails began to show as the desperation further emerged.

"You're a bad boy, Daniel~" She munched over the other calf as her aptitude only increased in magnitude "I need to teach you a lesson, since you've been lying to me all this time, it seems!!" Yulia tossed the caves aside and mounted on all fours in the direction of the scared Daniel.

Daniel tried to halt her movements by using his right arm, but Yulia softly pushed that arm in her direction, which caused it to be removed from his right shoulder.

"A-AHHHH?! HOW?! AGHHHH!!" Yelling in agony, Daniel was unable to understand how it was possible "YOU TASTE SO GOOD, DANIEL!!!" Devouring his arm in a savage manner, Yulia didn't deny it as she rapidly went for his left arm "STOP IT!! YULIA, STOP IT!! I'M SORRY I LIED AND MANIPULATED YOU!!! I DIDN'T KNOW ANY BETTE-----AGHHHHHHHH!!!" Tears of pain began to show as his left arm was removed with ease once again "PLEASE, JUST--------" The rampage went on as Yulia began to perform all sorts of inane acts on the helpless and defenseless Daniel.

Left with nothing but his own head, Daniel was still breathing fine as she watched Yulia eat his intestines.

"I'm sorry.... I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm so sorryyyy...." With pure grief, Daniel begged Yulia for forgiveness "Hum?!" Interrupted on her meal, Yulia grabbed Daniel's head up high with her soiled hands "It's alright!! You learned your lesson, didn't you?!" Yulia smiled with blood on her teeth as well as a distinctive trail all over her face "I'm sorry... I won't do it again... I promise..." His eyes no longer could emit any life "You say that, but you still let me die, didn't you though?" Yulia questioned "I was indecisive and thought that you deserved better so I didn't interfere..." He confessed "Which led me to taking my own life." She followed "Yes..." He couldn't deny it "It saddens me every time. I'm the idol of your mind but there's so much contradiction. Do you even love me, Daniel?" Yulia looked at him with hollow eyes "You're all that matters to m------!!" With brute force, Yulia pierced his lips as she kissed him.

By performing the kiss, Daniel's brain began to overflow with memories of Yulia's thoughts; majorly those in regard to Daniel.

The truth he had no way of knowing, was revealed to him. And likewise, to Yulia, the opposite was achieved.

"Oh... That's... sad..." Yulia dropped Daniel's head on the ground as it began to tumble "From day one, you just manipulated me... Even after I shared all my life with you, Daniel..." Red tears began to ebb and flow "But I guess I already knew this! HAHAHAH!!" She placed her fingers on her stained face "There's nothing new to be gained about you. You are and will always be the same piece of shit, Daniel." A gun suddenly appeared in her right hand as her head began to grow back to normal "Y-Yulia?! NO, THAT'S-----" Daniel was frightened to the maximum as he couldn't move whatsoever "Hey, did you know? When you said that you weren't good enough for me? I really hated that. Such a weak attitude. But now that I think about it..." She cocked the gun to the right side of her brain, as Daniel's eyes widened "You were right." The loud gunshot was the sufficient trigger for Yulia's body to fall flat on the floor to the right side with an ever increasing blood pool swirling from her head.

It took about two seconds for Daniel to process what had happened.

"No... No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no..." He was unable to move from his position as he had the notion of the fact that he had no other limbs besides his head "You can't do this to me...!! NOT AGAIN!!" First came the upper body pieces, as they gave him the necessary movement to advance in the direction of Yulia's dead body "You can't die on me! Not like this! NO, I WON'T ALLOW IT!!" The middle and lower body pieces swiftly regenerated with ease "I LOVE YOU!! I SWEAR I DO!! I'M NOT BEYOND SAVING BUT I NEED YOU SO SAVE ME, YULIA!! I DON'T CARE IF YOU HATE ME, I WILL ALWAYS LOVE YOU EVEN SO!!!" Now with his entire body at his disposal, Daniel was quick to take hold of Yulia's body albeit it was unresponsive.

Daniel didn't notice, but the ocean water was starting to be drained in the horizon's left direction at an alarming pace.

"Yulia, please answer." He shook her head "Please." He insisted and shook her head until a cracking noise was made "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! GODDAMN IT, WHY?! THIS WASN'T SUPPOSED TO HAPPEN A SECOND TIME!!!" Yulia's head became bent backwards as her neck snapped; her hollow lifeless eyes were at full display "I promised you that I wouldn't let you die... That wasn't a lie and yet, you died again, on my watch... No... That can't happen... We are meant to be. We have to. Yeah. Even if, you, well, don't... like me as much as I remembered, that's... fine..." The ocean water drained took the form of an inevitable gigantic tidal wave approaching the train rapidly "If we are ever together again... I will never let you die, Yulia..." With his right hand, Daniel adjusted Yulia's head and gave her a kiss as the tidal wave crashed the two of them, alongside the train and everything in the way.

After destruction, came recreation.

Seeds were planted and eventually sowed. Trees grew, civilizations built themselves, and times advanced greatly.

The mirage of the sun that day, gave the light for the path where they would be.

It followed the impulsive current of water ebbing in the direction of the ravine. Though it started with immense width, it would ultimately be reduced to a small canal connecting to the inside. However, once inside the ravine, where the sun would shy away at the top, the current revealed a larger pond.

This pond was unknown to any civilization. It would be the sanctuary where two skeletons would lay beneath calm palm trees alongside their fading compositions in a small beach within the pond.

After taking everything into account, he felt that it was time.

On the bottom of the pond, where darkness habituates, the awakening was performed as he began to swim upwards.

"Ahhh---Ahhh...!!" He gasped for some air the moment he reached the surface of the warm pond "........" Then rotated his head back and forth in every direction possible----hearing the noises of seagulls and the ricochet of the small waves hitting the small beach up ahead.

He held his arms up high while floating and saw his caucasian skin, but also noticed that his body had an undoubtable retained youth to it.

"Oh..." He kept checking his hands and even took a dive in order to see how his legs looked "I get it. This is, a first, then?" He realized "Huh!" He decided to take another dive but would soon navigate towards the beach itself where his feet would meet seashells "Most creative. I can see why our compatibility is valid!" He noted as he kept on marching forward towards the serene palm trees with his naked body.

Face to face with the two skeletons that are seated next to each other, with their hands intertwined with one another, he saw the connection right away.

"It looks like... I am here again." The echo of his words caused Daniel's head to immediately erupt from the surface of his table "!!!!!!" Once again, he was brought back to reality "Well, well, look who's back!" He recognized Basara's words immediately "Daniel! Hey, Daniel, can you hear me?!" He recognized Lus' voice as well as the fact that she was waving his left sleeve.

Midst the organization of his thoughts, only a single thought remained imperial to every order.

With his vision, he scoured through every seat where his classmates are seated and only after looking at the center, did he notice her.

Her expression had rage but as well as a clear level of distress.

"Goddamn it...!! How unlucky did I have to be to be chosen as the judgment round target when I have no points?! Fuck------!!" Yulia clenched her teeth "Huh...?" In pure disbelief, Daniel didn't understand why something like this was happening to her in the first place "Rejoice, Dan!" Kawahara clapped in Daniel's direction "Your tactic was a massive success! It's the ninth round and this bitch is done for. After we're done with her, we'll buy another player and it's all done!" Kawahara flashed a smirk "Done... with... her...?" Lus became highly alerted by Daniel's hollow words "No, Daniel...! That's not her! You can't believe it!!" More opinions started to bubble around Daniel, coming from all directions.

But Daniel pierced his glaze to the center, where Yulia remains.

"Please... Please, save me!!" Crying, Yulia cried out for help towards Daniel "I don't have any way of gaining points and they all are planning to kill me... It's unfair...!!" The turmoil grew expediently "You won't die." The conviction resonated "Never again, on my watch. Even if----I have to face the whole world, I promise that you won't die, Yulia!" The conflict began.