9 Progress (2/2)

”...um? Faster Takeyama-kun. We don't have much time”, hearing the song played in school's loudspeaker, Yuri urged Takeyama to be faster.

”Yes. And it is Chris...”

...

Iwasawa's concert was still ongoing when several teachers came to subdue the concert. The concert was stopped forcefully and the band was captured. Her old guitar was about to be seized, when she broke free from her capture and snatched her old guitar. As she was cornered by a teacher, she started to play her new ballad. Her song was ringing throughout the school, reaching even to Kanade's dorm.

(My Song - GirlDeMo playing)

”...kujiketa kimi ni wa mou ichido tatakaeru tsuyosa to jishin to kono uta o

otoshita namida ga kou iu yo

konna ni mo yogorete minikui sekai de deaeta kiseki ni arigatou. . .”

'Is he watching?', Iwasawa thought.

As her song relieved her, because she felt that her life isn't a meaningless one. She wanted to see him for a last time, before she was gone. Looking around, she found him near the gate smiling calmly at her, beside him was Kanade.

'That lolicon bastard...even after he said that to me...but, I will not lose to her next time. In my next life, I will find you, Rafi.' Iwasawa smiled back at him silently as she disappeared from the podium.

'I hope you will have a better life, Iwasawa-san. When I am strong enough, I will find you and Kanade-chan later', Rafi vowed silently in his heart as he watched Iwasawa's disappearance.

...

Several days after Iwasawa disappeared, GirlDeMo got another lead vocal and guitarist, Yui. She kept clashing and quarreling with Hinata everytime they met.

Yuri found out that Tenshi she always fought actually made her skills using a program. Those skills weren't one given by God. She thought deeply over his words at that time. She found it hard to believe that there was no God in Afterlife.

When she thought of her life, her siblings, her friends in SSS, their goal of rebelling againts God, it was harder for her to calm down. If there was no God in Afterlife, then what's the use of their struggle and their fights all those times.

As her thought wandered, she remembered someone that recently became SSS member. She felt that whenever he was around her, she felt strangely at peace. At his first mission with SSS, she even told her about her past life without much scrupple on her part. She found it strange that she trusted him so much.

Even if she still couldn't let go of her guilts, at least she found his presence brought a new flavor to her usual life in Afterlife. It was not saying that her time with her friends wasn't fun, but being with him brought her a new sensation she hadn't felt even when she was alive. All in all, it was a first time feeling it for her.