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Chapter 18 - The World Where Sarah Disappears

🕯️ Day One – Missing

Kentarō woke up alone.That wasn't new.

But what was?The emptiness.His phone had no messages.His wallpaper had changed.The sketch Reika gave him—the one of him and Sarah on the rooftop—now showed only him.Smiling at no one.

He ran outside.

"Sarah?""Sarah-chan??"

He said the name aloud—once, twice—

But people turned, confused.

"Who's that?"

📚 The Erasure is Real

He stormed into the university records office.

Searched class files.

No Sarah.

No enrollment ID.

Her desk in the classroom was empty.

Her dorm room was locked—and erased from the housing registry.

Kentarō sat on the bench outside her building.

A tear fell.It hit the ground.But it didn't make a sound.

As if reality itself refused to acknowledge his grief.

🎨 Even Reika Forgot

He went to Reika.Held her sketchbook up.

"You drew this. Where is she?"

Reika squinted.

"I don't remember drawing… anyone there."

"Was someone next to you?"

She shook her head, slowly.

"Kentarō… are you okay?"

"You've been talking to yourself lately."

He walked away in silence.She watched him go, frowning, disturbed—but no name came to her lips.

💎 Only One Thing Remains

Back at home, Kentarō sat at his desk.

His hands trembled as he took out the cracked memory crystal—the one Sarah gave him back in Volume 2.

It pulsed faintly.Flickered.Then played one last recording:

"Kentarō... if you're hearing this, I'm gone.But this isn't another death.This is... the world forgetting I ever was."

"You might be the only one who remembers.So please—don't waste that gift."

"Write me a world where I still belong."

"Even if no one else believes it… you will."

📓 The Rewrite Begins

He opened his journal.Wrote on the first blank page:

"Sarah-chan.The girl who came from nowhere.Who argued over apple prices.Who once placed her forehead against mine to learn the world."

"The one who smiled at broken stars, and fought Chronos with a blade made of memories."

"She existed.She loved.She mattered."

The more he wrote, the more his room changed.

A photograph blinked into existence on his desk—faded, but two shadows stood side by side.

🕊️ Final Scene – A Voice in the Wind

Outside, the wind blew across the rooftop.

A paper with Kentarō's writing on it fluttered, then lifted into the sky.

And as it rose—

For just a second—

He heard her laugh.

Soft.Brief.Familiar.

"Idiot… Don't you dare forget me."

He looked up at the moon.And smiled through his tears.

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