☁️ Opening Scene – The World They Finally Earned
For the first time in what felt like lifetimes, there was no echo of ticking clocks in Kentarō's mind.No memory crystal pulsing.No Watcher standing at the edge of reality.
Just a quiet sky above them, stretching wide and clean.Just Sarah's hand in his.
"It's really over?" she whispered.
Kentarō nodded slowly. "The Watcher accepted your choice. That means we're not being observed anymore."
"So this is it. Our final world."
He looked down at her — eyes tired but peaceful.
"Then we have to protect it. Even from ourselves."
🕰️ Scene 1 – The Watcher's Last Gift
That night, a single item remained from the Watcher.
A box. Left where it vanished.No locks. No markings.
Inside, they found two things:
A golden pocketwatch — unlike the broken ones Kentarō had carried before. This one ticked forward.
A single note, handwritten by someone Kentarō never thought he'd hear from again:
"To truly break the loop, destroy the versions of yourself that made it necessary. — Daichi"
🧠 Scene 2 – Daichi's Secret Redemption
Kentarō hadn't spoken of Daichi since Volume 3.
The friend who betrayed him.The friend who died trying to undo what he'd done.
But now he realized…Daichi hadn't vanished.
He had escaped into memory. Into the cracks between timelines.And while everyone else fought to survive, Daichi had worked to unmake the very reason the loops began.
Sarah traced her fingers along the watch.
"If we follow this… we're going back. Not to a timeline. To you."
"To every version of me who couldn't let go."
🔥 Scene 3 – Entering the Fracture
That night, the watch ticked backward once.And the sky… split.
Not in space — but in memory.
Kentarō and Sarah stepped through the fracture and entered a version of his past he'd never shown anyone — not even her.
Timeline Zero.
💀 Scene 4 – The Boy Who Couldn't Say Goodbye
In this world, Kentarō was sixteen.
Lonely. Distant.Staring out from a hospital window at a sky he never believed he'd escape.
His mother lay dying inside Room 407.His father was long gone.
No Sarah. No friends.Just pain, solitude, and the day he made a wish.
The wish that started it all:
"If I could go back just once…"
And that's when it happened.
A Chronos loop was born.
Not from a machine. Not from a scientist.
From a heart that couldn't let go.
🕳️ Scene 5 – The Loop Was Never Technology. It Was Trauma.
Sarah realized it first.
"Kent… You created Chronos."
Not literally. Not by invention.
By emotion.
His grief fractured time.His regret built the loops.And Chronos, the Watchers, the timelines — they were all born from that single moment.
"To break the loop," Kentarō whispered, "I don't need to destroy the past…"
"I need to forgive it."
💫 Scene 6 – The Final Goodbye
He entered the hospital room.
Saw his mother — pale, smiling, waiting.
She looked up and saw not the 16-year-old Kentarō… but all of him.
Every version.
She didn't speak. She didn't need to.
He knelt beside her, laid the golden watch on the table, and whispered:
"You can rest now."
"I'm not stuck anymore."
🧨 Scene 7 – Collapse of Timeline Zero
The moment he stood up, the hospital began to fade.
Room by room.Memory by memory.
Timeline Zero unraveled — peacefully.It didn't shatter.It simply let go.
Kentarō and Sarah emerged back into their world — the one they chose.Their watch ticked forward now.
🌓 Final Scene – The Morning After
They stood beneath a quiet sky.
"Is it over?" she asked.
"Yeah," he said, placing the watch gently in the river.
"Then what do we do now?"
Kentarō smiled.
"We live. One version. One chance."
"No loops. No regrets. Just this."