"Step..."

At the cultural festival, Ye Shiyu anxiously embraced Yan Huan tightly.

"Step..."

In the high-end restaurant, Ye Shiyu and Yan Huan stood by the glass, watching jellyfish floating in the ocean.

"Step..."

Inside Sakuragi Hitomi's Barrier, Ye Shiyu's eyes were red, as she held up her phone in a world that was gradually collapsing.

She said, "I will save Xiao Huan!!"

Ye Shiyu walked step by step, as if another path to the other shore had already appeared before her.

"Step..."

Ye Shiyu stepped into the darkness, but just as she was about to lift her other foot, the phone behind her called out once more.

"Ye Shiyu... You've taken the wrong path..."

"..."

"Why not turn around and take a look?"

Ye Shiyu turned back blankly...

And saw, on the other shore, in the warmly lit station, Sakuragi Hitomi in her dance dress embracing Yan Huan.

Amidst the sky filled with sparkling fireworks, the two were illuminated in that glow...

But in the darkness, Ye Shiyu had just begun to step down, yet once again...

she stepped into an abyss.

"Buzz!"

She quickly retracted her foot and stood stunned in place.

"I understand your fear, understand your hesitation... So, let me illuminate the path for you."

The phone slowly flew over, speaking thus.

On the precipice, a purple glow spread across the ground.

"You're already very close to him. Just a few more steps, a few more steps..."

The purple light bridge extended straight from beneath Ye Shiyu's feet to the other shore.

Ye Shiyu lowered her gaze and once again stepped onto the light bridge.

"Step..."

This time, with each step, she genuinely felt closer to that bright other shore.

"Step..."

But, as she got even closer, Yan Huan's frowning face appeared in front of her.

"Step..."

Another step, and he looked at her with a face full of disgust.

"I, Yan Huan, would never fall for you, Ye Shiyu, even in death!!"

"..."

In her mind, she recalled his disgust, recalled Xiao Huan's pale face at death...

Ye Shiyu finally followed the light bridge and arrived just before the other shore.

Before her eyes, everything shifted back to that quiet and peaceful station from that night.

Under the station, a young boy smiled, looking at her.

"Sister Shiyu..."

"Buzz..."

The phone gently flew over beside her.

Offering her a pen.

"Just step further, and you'll be there; you can do anything you want!

"You will have each other, grow old together, and build a haven-like family!!

"You can completely make up for what your mom and dad couldn't do!"

Ye Shiyu gently held that pen, while before her, the young boy under the station also held a pen.

He looked at Ye Shiyu and slowly raised his pen toward her face.

Ye Shiyu also picked up her pen in a daze, reaching toward the boy's face, writing down something.

"Rustle... rustle..."

The boy also gently extended his hand, writing his name with a water-based pen on Ye Shiyu's face.

"..."

Feeling the writing left on her face, Ye Shiyu's eyes slightly widened.

She blankly raised her hand, touched her face.

Through the light, she seemed to see the symbol on her face.

"Yan Huan"

"..."

She bowed her head slightly, whispered,

"It's already... enough..."

In front of her, the young boy under the station tilted his head, looking at Ye Shiyu in confusion.

But Ye Shiyu raised her head, looking back at him.

"I always thought... I was trapped in this darkness...

"As long as I could work hard to reach the other shore, board this train of light, I could leave here...

"No longer afraid, gaining a happy future...

"Now I realize... that's not the case..."

She thought, as long as she put in effort, her parents would reconcile and stay together.

But...

If her parents truly were forced to stay together because of her, would they really find the happiness she imagined?

She thought, as long as she relied on hypnosis, she could be with Xiao Huan.

But...

Would Xiao Huan really be happy being with her?

"Turns out I... was always the darkness itself..."

Ye Shiyu spoke with such relief, causing the young boy in front of her to look a bit stunned.

That night, under the station, the boy touched his face...

Through that glow, the words written by Ye Shiyu on his face grew brighter.

Above, it wasn't Ye Shiyu's name.

But four other words.

"Be Happy For Me"

Feeling the words on his face, the boy under the station wide-eyed.

He raised his eyes to look at the girl before him, and saw her slightly upturned lips, outlining a faint smile.

In an instant, those words began to glow, as if merging with the happy other shore...

Under Ye Shiyu's feet, on the purple light bridge, and beside her, the phone gradually appeared with fine fragments.

Seeing this, the voice of Ye Zi AI in the phone gradually became distorted and twisted.

Until, in the next moment, an index finger suddenly emerged from inside, painfully dropping one fragment after another...

"Ye Shiyu!!!"

In reality, amid the countless darkness, Ye Shiyu's eyes, suspended in mid-air, had countless threads snapping at once.

In mid-air, numerous displays bearing the bodies of gods fell down one after another...

Bringing Yan Huan tumbling onto the ground as well.

As Ye Shiyu's resolve to give up reached its peak, the index finger within her was instantly extracted, set to fall into a wormhole, exiled to this world.

But...

Because they had already fused most of the way, forming a foundation, they couldn't be separated.

Thus, behind Ye Shiyu, a twisted index finger pulled her straight into the urge toward the Different World.

"Buzz!!"

At this moment, when the modifier was stripped away, Ye Shiyu's gaze finally cleared somewhat.

She stared dumbly at the gradually brightening surroundings, in the moment before falling, seeing her mother and Yan Huan lying on the ground.

"Drip..."

She opened her mouth, not uttering a word.

A clear tear slid down from the corner of her eye like that.

Passed over her cheek, marked with "Yan Huan"...

Until the last moment, it fell from her chin.

With her and the index finger together, falling into a wormhole constructed by countless phones around.

Falling straight down, the phones in the wormhole around lit up, as if countless eyes were watching her...

Yet for some reason, they appeared so dim.

Only in the sky above, a last remaining glimmer in the reality where darkness receded.

"Ah... the other shore..."

Ye Shiyu expressionlessly looked upwards, gently extending her hand.

"Ye Shiyu!!"

Until the next moment, from that "other shore," suddenly came a shout.

"!!"

Ye Shiyu was slightly startled, yet she saw that light falling straight into the entrance of the wormhole.

Until, in her incredulous gaze...

That other shore gradually took form, becoming a boy she was all too familiar with, clutching a crab medicine in rage...

Falling into the darkness with her.