Far Shore Bound (Part 3) (
Summary[]
Hanako and Nene have run away from the train, traveling alongside the submerged train tracks. Nene is pulling him along behind her and breathing hard, and one of Hanako's Hakujoudai are missing. Hanako is yelling to get her attention.
He eventually breaks free from her grasp, stopping them both in their tracks, and asks why she came here. He begins to say it would have been fine if Teru and Akane came and exorcised him, but before he can finish his sentence, Nene slaps him across the face.
Frustrated, she grabs his shoulders and yells at him, saying that she had only come to see the person that she loves. Hanako, stunned and unable to speak, listens as she goes on, noting all the trouble she had to go through to get here. She talks about how they were unable to come to the boundary, about her being trapped in the strange Red House, and about the weird pizza she had to eat to enter the boundary. She further notes that she got Kou to help her once she learned that Teru was planning to exorcise him, and that they then had to run for their lives to get out of there. Pushing him onto the ground, she asks him why, then, that the first words out of his mouth are complaints.
Hanako counters her words by saying he doesn't matter, and that Nene had wished for this in the first place. She made a wish to him to live for ninety more years in the real world, and he says that if they save Aoi now, then Nene will die.
Interrupting him again, Nene screams at him to stop, and that she doesn't want her wish to be granted anymore. She asks him why it ended up like this, and why he's always doing things on his own. Crying, she hugs him on the floor, calling him an idiot and saying she hates him.
Later, they arrive at some sort of indoor pool building, where Nene and Hanako are sitting on a spiral staircase. While Nene is dabbing her eyes with a handkerchief, Hanako begins to apologize. He says that he knew Nene would never have agreed to him extending her lifespan like this, not by him sacrificing her best friend to do so, but he wanted to do something for her. As he's both a ghost and a murderer, he can't live alongside her normally, so he wanted their meeting to have meant something. He says that he wanted her to continue living, but by his own hand. He had to be the one to give her life.
After he apologizes once more, Nene considers what he said. She deduces that he's saying that he wants to have her all to himself, and that his words were an indirect love confession. Careful to not get too carried away, like in The Confession Tree, she tries to pry a proper confession out of him by slyly asking him why he'd do all of that for her.
When he continues to neglect giving her the answer she's gunning for, she worries that she really had misinterpreted what he was saying. Suddenly, he gets up, and hugs her from behind.
Hanako says that he never thought he'd see her again, but says he's glad that he did. Staring into her eyes now, he wonders what's wrong with him to be feeling this way. Cupping her cheek, hugging her once more, then threading their fingers, they gaze into each other's eyes... lean in... and smooch.
After the fact, Nene clutches him tight, crying once more, and says that she's happy she got to see him again, too.
Characters in Order of Appearance[]
- Yashiro Nene
- Hanako
- Aoi Akane (mentioned)
- Minamoto Teru (flashback)
- Akane Aoi (mentioned)
- Minamoto Kou (mentioned)
Events[]
- Nene slaps Hanako.
- Nene and Hanako kissed on the lips.