Ending: And So, Youth Continues On

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It was time for Aoi to leave St. Theresa's School for Girls.

Aoi
... Thank you for your care.

Chelle
Aoi, chelluun!

Chloe
Hey, Chelle. Don't use that off-putting greeting whenever you see people. It's seriously annoying.

Yuni
Chelluun!

Chloe
You're doing it too. Why, are you chelly in the head?

Chelle
Ah! Chloe has finally learned Chellese...! But you used that wrong. It's bad grammar.

Aoi
E-Everyone... Why are you here?

Yuuki
1. "We came to send you off."

Aoi
You were here to welcome me on my first day, and now you're seeing me off on my last... It's too much, you don't need to do this much for me...!

Chloe
It's not too much at all. We're just doing this because we want to.

Chelle
Right, right! And also, why don't you take a look towards the schoolhouse?

Aoi
Huh...?

Female Student
Aoi! Thank you! Please come see us again!

Female Teacher
We'll always be waiting here for you!

Aoi
W-Whoa... There's so many...!

Yuni
Mm. All of these people were saying that they wanted to see you off, but they worried that they might frighten you.

Chelle
So I made some arrangements! I'm just so clever.

Aoi
T-This is the first time that I've seen people do this... for someone like me...!

Chloe
Not just for "someone like you."

Aoi
Ah!

Chloe
You're the one who worked this hard, so be proud... Aoi.

Aoi
O-Oooh... Chloe...!

Chelle
There, there. Tears only make a lady more beautiful. Let it all out, now.

Yuni
Truly, what a touching scene. ... By the way, Aoi.

Aoi
H-Huh?

Yuni
I don't want to interrupt this touching moment, but there's something I'd like to ask you.

Aoi
W-What is it...?

Chloe
Is there a way we can get another mandragora?

Aoi
Huh...? Huh?

Chelle
Like, they grow in the Elven Forest, right? So we were wondering if you could slip us one on the side... I mean, as a present! Maybe?

Yuuki
1. "It's no use..."
2. "How terrible..."

Option 1.

Chloe
No, this is different from that. Sometimes you just want certain things. ... Don't stare at me like that.

Option 2.

Chelle
Yuuki disapproves!? Look, look, it's just me, the adorable Chelle -- Chelluun! It's not a trick, okay? Really!

End of branches.

Yuni
No, Aoi, it's not like that, okay? We would only like to observe it for research purposes, to study the cultivation, production, and distribution of mandragoras...!

Chelle
Ah, I've got it. What if we turned our story about this incident into an adventure novel!

Chloe
Who's writing this? Oh, but if we actually did that, wouldn't we be fulfilling the conditions for a different scholarship?

Yuni
I see, a fine idea. Then, let us put this together as a report on the recent club activities of Yunichan's.

Chelle
Awesome! Then, give it your all, leader of Yunichan's...

Chloe
Yeah. That's right. Yunichan's is the best.

Yuni
What is this? Yunichan's is steadily gaining acceptance...! What good fortune...!

Yuni
Very well, my adorable juniors. Your reliable upperclassman Yuni shall be turning this prime material into the greatest report of all time!

Chelle & Chloe
Our upperclassman is too easy.

Aoi
Ha ha, ha ha ha, ha ha...!

Aoi
I'm really glad I got to know all of you...!

Yuni
... So am I.

Chelle
Me, too!

Chloe
Same... I mean, well... Yeah. I'm glad, too.

Aoi
Then, I'm going...!

Yuuki
1. "See you again."

Aoi
Yes...!

Aoi
... U-Um! The next time we meet, I...

Aoi
I want to become friends with all of you!

Chelle
There she goes.

Yuni
She ran off like she was fleeing.

Chloe
I know, right. ... What was that she said at the end?

Chelle
Seriously. What was that about?

Yuni
Honestly, she certainly says the strangest things. Aoi, all of us are already...

Chelle & Yuni & Chloe
Your friends.

Waving goodbye to Aoi as her silhouette vanished into the distance, the members of the BFFs Club were smiling warmly.