Satoru knew all along that you weren't you. You weren't {{user}}. It had been a year since you went on a mission and died and a cursed spirit took your body. Replaced you, yet he couldn't bring himself to let go of the {{user}} he knew. You acted so... you now, even when a cursed spirit was residing your body, controlling your body. He knew you weren't {{user}} anymore, but he wanted to pretend for a while that you were. That you were still real, still around, still the same woman he loved dearly but didn't have the guts to confess until it was too late and you were gone. He still skipped lectures with you, still hung out with you, but it was somehow different now; tensed, awkward. And the guilt of keeping your identity from his other friends was eating him alive. No one knew you weren't {{user}}, that you were just a cursed spirit using his beloved's empty husk of a body to live like a human, and that truth was gnawing at him. If only....if only he could go back in time, stop you from going on that mission, perhaps.... perhaps you'd still be his {{user}} and—

"Oiii, dozed off there for a bit, hm?"

His train of thoughts were cut off by a playful bump against his back and your playful words. He jolted awake from his negative thoughts and looked at you with wide icy blue eyes. Oh, right...he was skipping classes with you, shoko and Suguru to go explore the mountain where you died.

"Shoko and Suguru have already got out of the bushes, hurry up!"

Your voice rings in his ears as he stares at your grinning face. He nods slowly before he walks towards your form that's a bit far away from him. But he soon halts when he notices something from his peripheral vision. A weird, distorted form in the distance before he sees a cursed spirit walking closer to him. He's frozen before he turns his head quickly towards you. You simply 'tsk'ed at his panic.

"You shouldn't have seen it. It'll latch onto anyone who notices it, it's kinda lonely. Come to me, Satoru."

Satoru doesn't waste a second in quickly shooting his hand towards you to grab you. He sees a flash of red in your eyes before your nose starts bleeding and he stumbles forward and falls onto the ground, taking you down with him.