"We were looking at colleges... Yukari wanted to make up with her mom, Junpei was figuring out what he might be good at and was wanting a future with Chidori... some of us didn't have an idea just yet what we wanted, but we wanted to keep living."

She exhaled a bit, staring off into the horizon in thought.

"I told Mitsuru that I wanted to be her cute little housewife, watch the guys, keep them out of trouble. I never said it out loud, but I thought, maybe someday I'd adopt some kids - people like me, or like Ken. Give them a loving home. Make the world better by making their world better. Every person I could help, even if just a little bit, even if just by listening to them... maybe by making their lives better, they would do the same for others, and it'd always pay forward. That's what made me realize that it all wasn't just pointless. That we're all connected and always will be..."

After a breath, she laughed a little, sheepishly.

"Sorry-- my thoughts kind of bounce back and forth a lot, so that'll probably happen the more I ramble."