On that cold night before Christmas, the most magnificent and largest building in the city was destroyed in flames. More than five fire trucks were deployed at the scene. The flames soared twenty meters high, licking the sky and blowing away the ashes. The heat can be felt up to dozens of meters away, it can even be said that winter that year is the warmest winter.

Sakurazaka Academy's bell tower collapsed, the giant bell that had been on top of the tower for a dozen years for the first time descended to the ground — being the only thing intact from the heartbreaking event.

The police managed to arrest the three perpetrators with a little resistance, two policemen were killed in the act of under the flames. Ozono Rei, Endo Hikari, Takemoto Yui were immediately arrested and taken to the police station. They were apparently about to burn something that was in the hole — what appeared to be humans, and corpses.

The survivor of the assassination attempt was rushed to the hospital for immediate treatment. The medics who brought the victims to the ambulance seemed to hide their horror, seeing the victims' poor condition. On the sidelines of the tight police guard, Akane was able to see Yui, Risa and Yuuka taking turns. She didn't stop to ask herself, what kind of human could injure another human to that extent? But wait, why does she feel sorry? In fact, they should deserve all of that.

Akane can't help but cry as her junior, Yamasaki Ten, screams in shock when medics mention Morita Hikaru's name in one of the most irregularly shaped body bags. Her tears got worse when they lifted Karin's body and head, then put her in a body bag.

No more bright smiles, vinegar-dipped pancake jokes and the experience of riding under a rainstorm with Hikaru for Yamasaki Ten.

No more the cold baseball player who helped her pick up the net in the Gym Warehouse and accompanied her at the convenience store when The Elites pressed her.

Three other bodies were lifted up. Akane remembers very well that it is another member of The Elites and a second year student whom she met accidentally in the school toilet with one of the perpetrators — Takemoto Yui. The lifting of the bodies apparently did not stop there, because the officers who were in the hole shouted that they found four other bodies that had turned into bones.

Koike led Habu closer, let Habu see what was happening and asked her to tell her. Another officer entered the hole with several body bags, a few minutes later she picked up a body bag while shouting,

"There are still four others down here!"

Yuuka was the only one who was conscious, even though her whole body was badly injured, her eyes were still open and moving around looking around her. Their eyes met just before the ambulance door Yuuka entered was closed and left the Sakurazaka Academy area alongside another ambulance.

Yuuka's last gaze at Akane ... yes, she did not miss the change in light that was in Yuuka's brown iris. Those eyes that had lost their soul seemed to come back to life as soon as she caught Akane's figure in her sight. Makes Akane remember that Yuuka doesn't have anyone in her life anymore.

Seeing Yuuka's small joy at seeing her seemed to be enough to explain how important her presence was in her life. There was a feeling of warmth and relief that had arisen in between the feelings of grief.

It is a fact that Yuuka survived that bloody incident.

People say wounds will heal with time. However, the mass murder incident left deep wounds and trauma that would never be healed even though time tried hard to hide it. The dead victims — Fujiyoshi Karin, Seki Yumiko, Inoue Rina, Kosaka Marino — were taken to the police for an autopsy before being returned to their families for cremation and funeral processions.

The intense fire left nothing left of the magnificent Sakurazaka Academy building. In January, students who were still active students were forced to move to another foundation to continue their education, while the reconstruction of the Sakurazaka Academy building was carried out on land that had been burned.

The perpetrators; Ozono Rei, Endo Hikari, Takemoto Yui were reportedly sent to prison for high-level criminals. Given that they are a group of assassins with a different caste with normal and very dangerous killers. Killed more than five people and mutilated them. They were confronted with a special psychologist from the police and the answers they gave really convinced them that they were not normal teenagers.

Rei with her personality that always wants to dominate, manipulates others by exploiting the psychological gap in the victim, and with no expression other than a proud smile says — kill to satisfy her heart. Keeping the victim's head for decoration. Meanwhile, Endo Hikari and Takemoto Yui were not much sadistically different from Rei. The three of them were placed in three different cells with safety equivalent to the red zone.

After undergoing surgery, Kobayashi Yui remained unable to regain the vision in her right eye. Even the transplant was not possible. All of her muscles and nerves had lost their function, so no matter how hard the doctor tried to restore her vision, it would be in vain.

Knowing that her multiple personality disorder was getting worse, she must continue her treatment in a rehabilitation facility for a minimum of three years. The personality disorder arises due to the trauma she has experienced in the past, Rei recovers memories that she should have forgotten and makes the alter that had been hidden in her come out of the shell.

Watanabe Risa received dozens of stitches and gunshot wounds to her infected shoulder that need further monitoring. She was unconscious from the first day in the hospital, was declared in a coma for about two weeks. Life depends on the engine clinking and oxygen cylinders.

Tamura Hono was brought by her parents to get medical treatment abroad. Based on the news circulating, the family decided to move to England to avoid the press, media and of course; police.

Meanwhile, Yuuka has a grievous fate than the other three of her colleagues who are required to attend the trial to account for the murder of the five female students she did a year ago. That determines whether she should receive a life sentence or fifteen years in juvenile prison. She has no other family who can provide her with support or something to ease the law or clear her of charge.

She came a week after receiving intensive care at the hospital. Accompanied by a doctor and a police officer, she sat in the defendant's chair.

Akane attended the trial accompanied by Ten, Koike, Habu and .. Fuyuka. The trial was not conducive because many people shouted at the defendant, some even dared to break through police guard to swear right in front of Yuuka's face. Said that the death penalty deserved her.

When the hammer was knocked three times and the presiding judge finished reading out the verdict, everyone present in the courtroom shouted. Sugai Yuuka was sentenced to ten years in prison. There were those who cursed, saying that the punishment she had received was not worth what she had done. There is also consent and silence without speaking.

Akane didn't know which side she was on. So among her colleagues who were smiling and nodding at each other, she was just stunned as she watched Yuuka who was standing accompanied by a policeman to leave the room. Before Yuuka was taken away, she paused for a moment to face the ranks of judges, then slowly bowed her body — saluting.

Twenty seconds later, Yuuka turned around and faced everyone who had come. She bowed again, with the aim of apologizing profusely to each victim's family who were present there. Yuuka didn't stop and continued to bend over until the police officer grabbed her shoulder and took her away.

Once again, their gazes met.

Akane realizes that Yuuka flinched when she found out she'd come to the trial. Without realizing it, tears began to roll down her eyes and streamed down her cheeks, making her vision blurry. Akane moved from her place, trying to get rid of the people who were blocking her way. Koike grabbed Akane's hand but the girl immediately brushed her hand away and continued to move forward.

"Moriya .. Akane!" Yuuka shouted. She smiled broadly, even though her thin face looked gloomy, Yuuka still smiled. The same smile Yuuka had given her when they first met and talked in the school library — annoying but easy to remember.

Akane wanted to shout for Yuuka's name but her mouth was still tight, trembling. She couldn't, something held her from calling her. Her eyes were dazzled by the flash of the camera flash. Until in the end she could only wave her hand right before Yuuka disappeared behind the door, covered by the many reporters who flooded out there.

"Senior..." Ten touched Akane's hand hesitantly, afraid that the girl would occasionally wave her hand and refused. But Akane didn't do that and instead returned the touch of Ten's hand. So she continued, "come on ... let's go back."

"Yes.." Akane wiped her tears, looked at the tall girl beside her then at her friends who had gathered a few steps behind Ten. Fuyuka raised her hand awkwardly at Akane and she replied with the same thing. "I'll help you tidy up Morita's apartment. You want to live there, right?"

Ten nodded slowly as she brought Akane back to her friends. Akane looked at the faces of her friends one by one. They smile, laugh, make jokes and hit each other on the back when one makes a small mistake. Suddenly she felt homesick, imagining Matsuda Rina among them. It will definitely be more lively with her humor and cheerful personality.

She never expected to experience things like this at Sakurazaka Academy. Found many dark secrets covered by the holy white uniform. Her parents hope that by going to school at Sakurazaka she will become a better person than before. But in reality she was involved in big trouble.

In six months she had seen countless fights, deaths, and experienced feelings of grief — things she would never have experienced at any other school. But even so, she was grateful to have been saved from death. If Yuuka didn't come to her apartment, maybe she and her friends were killed too.

"Akane? Hey, what do you think?" Fuyuka waved her hand in front of Akane's face. startled her and jerked back. "Are you coming? Ten said she will treay us to eat grilled meat at that expensive restaurant!"

Akane was surprised, immediately fixed her eyes on Ten. "Hey, you're not being bullied by them, are you?"

"Oh, no. Don't worry. Dad gave me all you can eat coupons at the restaurant. Apparently the owner was an acquaintance of him. So he gave more coupons." Ten reached into her pocket and pulled out several coupons. "I can't spend this much. At first I wanted to go with Hikaru but .. "

Oh. No. Not again.

Akane smiled, quickly snatching away all the coupons in Ten's hand. "Come on! You guys prepare a little plastic bag, as usual, we will carry a lot of meat quietly."

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"Please, I want to be alone."

The girl said to the police officer who got out of the car and wanted to follow her into the cemetery area. At first the officer was a bit hesitant and still insisted, but as soon as she saw two other people she often saw coming to the prison to visit, finally the officer no longer forced her to come and chose to stand, guard at the entrance to the cemetery.

With that, Yuuka immediately walked over while carrying a bouquet of white carnation flowers that had been given to her by a young guard who was her partner in prison. She said that her best friend was a victim of Morita Hikaru and that was what made them both close and often chat.

A girl wearing a black crewneck and long black blazer, heard Yuuka's footsteps in the grass. She turned her head, smiled briefly as Yuuka took a few steps away from her and stopped beside her.

"I thought you wouldn't come." She said. The girl wore the eyepatch on her right eye, apart from her only one eye, nothing has changed from Kobayashi Yui.

Yuuka shook her head, watching the row of tombstones in front of her. "There's no way I'm not coming. I'm even willing that they cut my food rations to get permission to come here. " She then turned to the side, "hey, Risa. Why are you silent?"

"No, I just .. thought."

The tall girl who was called Risa shook her head slowly, she fell to her knees in front of the tombstone with the name Fujiyoshi Karin etched neatly on its surface. Yui and Yuuka watched Risa with trembling hands put her hands on the stone, then she looked down until her forehead touched the rock.

She cried, clutching the flower bouquet tightly in her hand. A cold wind blew, creating the sound of leaves and twigs touching each other. But that can't hide the cries of a Watanabe Risa.

"I'm sorry. I'm so sorry." Her lips couldn't stop whispering these words even though three years had passed. "I'm sorry, Karin."

Yui sighed heavily, walked over to Risa and stopped behind her. Put her arms around the girl's body and hugging her tight, gently stroked her hair. Yuuka watched the two of them quietly, she had been holding back tears. She felt very embarrassed when she cried in front of her two friends. Yuuka... just felt unworthy.

Finally she knelt by them, placed the flower on the stone tray. Then she grabbed the water bottle she was carrying with a plastic bag, wet the entire surface of Karin's tombstone with half of the bottle, then she stood up and did the same with Seki's tombstone. Yuuka put flowers there too, knelt down for a moment while praying.

She looked back, Risa now stood up straight and put her Mysotic flower on Karin and Seki's place. Yuuka watched that with a broken heart, just as Risa felt. So far, Risa has always been cruel to Karin, accusing her and opposing her violently and even injuring her. But then Karin gave up her life tragically to save Risa, asking her to continue the life she wanted.

Live for her. Live for those who died before them.

Yuuka walked past the four tombstones, stopping in front of the stone inscribed with Morita Hikaru. Hikaru's tomb looks clean and well-groomed, besides that there is a bouquet of fresh red roses placed there. Yuuka noticed a small card tucked between the flower petals. It was a card that Ten had written herself, and Yuuka didn't need to read it because the flowers themselves explained the contents of the letter.

Ah, it turns out that your relationship is difficult too. Yuuka smiled sadly, "Morita, Yamasaki came here often to give you these flowers. I never saw her again, but I'm sure she really missed you." She stood up, about to walk back to her two friends. "Thank you, you've saved me."

When Yuuka returned, Risa had stopped crying and was touching Karin's and Seki's stones. Yui noticed Yuuka's arrival, her hand had touched the eyepatch on her right eye.

Yuuka paused for a moment and said, "I have to come back soon. Are you planning on staying here longer?"

Yui gave Risa a glance before looking back at Yuuka, she shook her head, "No, I have to go back to the rehabilitation facility. And she has to go complete the final test to join the Police Academy. "

"Glad to hear that. How about your eyes?"

"That's how it is. I have to keep wearing the eyepatch to protect my eye socket." Yui answered curtly, her hand tucked into the pocket of the blazer. "It's been three years, huh? That means seven more years left?"

Yuuka nodded. "And after that I will come out of prison. I hope you will come when that time comes." She looked at Yui awkwardly, and it seemed that Yui herself was also aware of Yuuka's awkwardness so she immediately turned her gaze to another direction. "What about you — I mean, your relationship with Risa?"

"Okay, I guess? We were just dating anyway. Hmm, about Moriya .. I met her for some business. She asked me not to tell you this, but because now is the right time then .. "Yui paused, giving Yuuka a small smile. "Moriya said, she will come back to you when she finishes her education in England."

"EH?" Yuuka shrieked, making Risa who was behind them turn around curious about what had caused the girl to scream.

"What did you say to her?" Risa asked, staring at Yuuka with a searching gaze.

"Nothing important." Yui replied briefly. "You're not going to give that thing to her?"

Risa tilted her head, as if trying to remember something. She then reached into her jacket pocket and pulled out a large brown envelope, giving it to Yuuka. "I found the file on the computer, we save one each." Risa explained as they walked towards the main gate of the cemetery. Yuuka opened the envelope and took out a photo from inside. "I-if you don't want to, you can throw it away, burn it, or whatever."

The photo Risa gave to Yuuka was the first photo of The Elites, exactly the same as the photo that burned in the student council room at that time. Risa and Karin who stood side by side, Seki and Hono stood upright beside them, herself and Yui who sat in front as chairman and vice chairman. They wore the white Sakurazaka Academy uniforms, showing great dignity and honor.

Yuuka seemed to be brought to the memory of the past when she saw the photo until finally reality slapped her face again. She immediately put the photo back in and gave it to the police officer to check.

"Thank you." Yuuka smiled at Risa. She then walked over to her, holding her tightly. At first Risa was surprised, but in the end she also hugged Yuuka. Yui smiled a little, joining the two of them. They hugged for a while before Yuuka let go of her embrace. Gaze at Yui and Yuuka alternately.

"Seven years from now, I hope we can meet again."

Here is the meaning behind their flowers:
- The red rose that Ten left for Hikaru symbolizes Ten's feelings that she didn't have the chance to tell Hikaru when she was alive. She still leaves the flower there even though she knows her feelings will never be repaid.
- Risa put each forget me not flower or myosotis flower on Karin and Seki's graves. This flower has a symbol of memories. Even though a person's body can no longer be seen and touched, it will still remain in memory.
- The flowers that Yuuka brought were white carnations which in the language of flowers symbolize deep sorrow, sadness, love, and loyalty.