"Now... If you care enough to tell us what happened between you two while we were busy with our schoolwork..." Mio said to Ayumi in a scary tone.
"M-Mio-chan! I didn't know you had this side all along!" Kanade is also scared of Mio's demeanour.
"Oh, my bad." Mio returned to her normal self. (As if it was that easy...)
"I just mistakenly called him that..." Ayumi said.
"That doesn't sound convincing..." Kanade said.
"Eh?!" Ayumi reacted.
"Could the two of you stop doing this? Ayumi seemed uncomfortable over there." Keita said.
"Dropping the honorifics already?!" Kanade said.
"Huh? Kana-nee, what happened?" Keita witnessed the wrath of Kanade.
"Kei-kun... Mind telling us why Ayumi-chan called you Kei-kun just now?"
"Oh... It's just some name she called me in the middle of our mission." Keita responded.
"I feel that there is more to this story..." Kanade said.
"Mind telling us what is it?" Mio asked.
"... It was because I heard you called him that name... So I picked it up..." Ayumi said.
"Oh, I see!" Kanade and Mio said.
"What's up with the names?" Itsuki said.
"Yeah, tell us more!" Himeko joined the conversation as well.
"Sure, Himeko-chan!" Kanade said.
While the children got their own serious conversations, the adults were talking about something as they watched over their children.
"It looks like our children got along very well." Yuuki said.
"It almost surprises me to know you returned to Hoshido." Yamato said.
"I'm sorry... It can't be helped." Mikoto said.
"At least she is doing well right now. That is all I can tell from here. If her condition remained just like how when she was younger, I don't think she would have lived this long." Ryujii said.
"She said she wanted to spend the rest of her life here." Mikoto said.
"Then where is your husband?" Yamato asked. Mikoto lowered her head and fell silent.
"Is there something happened between you two?" Aoi asked.
"Truth to be told, I got divorced with my husband, and we struggled to live there. So she asked me to bring her back to where she grew up as a child." Mikoto explained.
"By the way it seems, you are asking us to keep that child's identity a secret, why is that?" Ryujii asked.
"She said she wanted to know why Keita didn't see her off when we went overseas for her treatment." Mikoto said.
"Oh... On that day, he got into an accident and turned into coma for a few days. I believe we need to apologize for not showing up on that day." Aoi said.
"What? I never knew about this... I didn't know... I'm sorry..." Mikoto fell silent.
"To think that Keita lost his memories about his friends specifically makes me kind of wonder if this is some god's work..." Yamato sighed.
"I see... I should tell her that after this." Mikoto said.
"Hmmm... To make things fun... Why not let them find out themselves?" Yuuki said.
"Huh? I suppose she could do that... I'm sure she had her plans..." Mikoto said.
"Cut it out, Mikoto. She's just a child." Yamato stepped in.
"Eh...? Then what should I do...?" Mikoto is very unsure about what to do.
"What happens if she suddenly... without telling Keita what happened that time?" Yamato said.
"Yamato... Could you just have a proper look at your own child?" Yuuki pointed at Keita.
"Hmm... They appear to be getting along very well." Yamato said.
"There won't be long for her to finally tell him how she feel, so please give them some time okay?" Yuuki said.
"... Well, us adults can step in if anything goes wrong..." Yamato said.
"Yay, things are getting interesting from now on!" Yuuki cheered.
"Hey Ryujii, why is your wife like this?" Yamato asked.
"I'm sure she has her own reasons. I know her well enough to know that she is indirectly helping Ayumi-chan." Ryujii said.
"Hey Ryujii, why do you sound so proud?" Yamato asked.
"Oh, really? Ahaha..." Ryujii laughed.
"You really are hopeless..." Yamato said.
"Well... It was a long time since we meet up like this. Too bad the kids were busy..." Yamato said.
"Yeah... What a good occasion for a reunion party. We have a few hours more to go, I think it is the time we watch over our children growing up into adults." Aoi said.
"Yeah, I'd feel the same, Aoi." Ryujii smiled.
"Now, now... I'm already a married woman, stop pulling your charms on me." Aoi teased.
"Oh right, I'm sorr... Wait, I didn't do anything!" Ryujii is confused.
"Come on, stop with the teasing now, Aoi." Yamato said.
"Alright, alright... It sure feels nostalgic when we're no longer the teenagers we used to be." Aoi lamented.
"That is why we pass the baton to the young ones, isn't it?" Yuuki said.
"Yuuki..." The others said...
"We'll become their guardians, and watch over them from afar. So that they will write a better story than ours." Yuuki smiled.
"Heh... Well, that's our president for you." Yamato said.
"Ah, that was sure nostalgic..." Ryujii and Yuuki looked at each other and smiled together.
"Dang... That radiance of a couple...!" Yamato said.
"Hahaha" The adults started laughing.
As the hours passed, the night of reunion finally ends. Where will the children's journey lead us to? The adults altogether decided to watch over them as they draw their own saga of youth.