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Ayumu pulled his head back.

I missed this… it feels so nostalgic! In this place, we looked at each other through the windows… moved from room to room.

“Big Sis!”
“…Sakura!”

She had come over from the neighboring room. Somehow, she already changed her clothes.
I need to do so, too.

For now, I shooed her out of my room and put on my school uniform.

“Sorry to keep you waiting.”
“Quickly, let’s go talk to Mom and Dad…!
“You’re right… hm?”

Something was off. Something with her face. Not that she looked bad… her face was as cute as always.
Something is missing… oh, her glasses¹!

“Is something wrong, Big Sis?”
“No, Sakura… what about your glasses? Can you see without them in this world?”
“Ah!?”

Maybe because she had only noticed now, she brought her hands to her eyes in surprise.

“Are you fine? Can you see?”
“I can… just like over there… looks like I no longer need my glasses…”

That’s great! Sakura’s eyes have been healed in both worlds. This is all thanks to Kanata. It is all but settled that she will become his wife.

“Sakura… make sure to show Kanata your gratitude, will you?”
“Sure.”

For now, we had to put Sakura’s happy present from the other world aside and tell our parents that we were back. We descended to the first floor towards the living room, where they likely were at this time. Although I couldn’t remember them doing that on this day, for some reason, they were deep in talk with awfully serious looks.

When we saw that, we decided to hide behind a wall for now and observe what was going on. Only… it was a bit hard to observe them from here.

“(Sakura, can’t you use Clairvoyance?)”
“(…It won’t work. Oh, but apparently, I can use Stealth. Maybe it works because it doesn’t affect the world that much?)”

The explanation told us that we could use some of our skills, so clairvoyance doesn’t work, while Stealth does…? Maybe things like True Cooking will work, too. Well, I’ll leave figuring out these things to Kanata.

What were our parents talking about? I pricked up my ears.

“Say… today should be the –, shouldn’t it?”
“It should… Maybe the calendar has desynched?”
“No… this feels different. For now, let’s check the TV.”

Dad turned on the television. The weirdly named program “Good Morninja” was running. I didn’t like it much, since they were always way too hyped up.

“It will likely get chilly, so make sure to put on a light jacked, my fellow ninjas! This brings us to today’s horoscope. Rank eleven!-“

The TV screen showed both a ninja performing strange gestures and today’s date. It was the – of –. Without a doubt, the day Ayumu had died.

“As I thought… Did we go back to the day Ayumu died…?”
“It seems so… b-but that can’t be real!?”

As Dad made that hypothesis, Sakura and I nodded at each other, and we entered the living room. When they noticed, they looked at us in wide-eyed surprise.

“Eh-heh-heh… uhm, we’re back, Mom, Dad.”
“We’re sorry we made you worry.”

We apologized to our parents, who were still frozen in shock.

“Ha-ha… ha-ha-ha! Is… is this a dream?”
“A dream… it might be… uhm…”

With them still baffled by the events, I lunged at Mom, while Sakura threw herself at Dad.
Eh-heh-heh… eh-heh-heh-heh!

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“I’m not sure I understand, but you’re saying that you’ve returned from somewhere?”
“Yeah.”

The four of us ended up crying. Although we managed to calm down after a short while.

We had finished giving them a brief explanation.

“…I guess with time having reversed, we can only believe what you’re saying… Is this a dream, after all?”
“Dad, you hugged me, didn’t you? You felt that, right? I thought it was a dream too, but in my dream, you wouldn’t say such a thing Dad, so it can’t be one.”
“Ah-ha-ha, yes… I guess?”

Sakura showed a somewhat miffed smile. At any rate, those words didn’t sound like hers. She probably copied them from Kanata or someone else.

“In that case… did our neighbors’ sons, Ayumu and Kanata, and the son of the Hinos, Shuu, also come back?”
“They did. We’re all back.”

When Mom and Dad heard that, it looked like years of worry fell from their shoulders.

“That’s wonderful! I still can’t really believe it, but as your mother, just you coming back, Mika, Sakura…! By the way, where are your glasses, Sakura?” Mom asked, seemingly having noticed only now.

It looked like Dad also hadn’t noticed until she mentioned it, and he added an “It’s true.”

“About that… it’s because my eyes were healed in the other world…”
“That’s right, it was all thanks to Kanata,” I added.
“Hang on, Sis…!”

Sakura turned red in embarrassment. Mom and Dad looked at us with smiles.

1. Shouldn’t she have gotten used to her without the glasses in Anazumu? It’s not like she looks different over there.

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