Report 116

Plot
After asking Chizuru if she wanted to continue the ReLIFE experiment for another year, Ryō continued that he cannot promise that the company will agree to the extension but that he would do anything he could to make it happen. When she did not respond, he provoked her high-performing nature by asking if she is willing to give up and accept being considered a failure.

Ryō's plan to reframe the experiment in Chizuru's mind as a task where she could succeed or fail worked. After thinking it over Chizuru told Ryō that she wanted to give the experiment another try, and had also already started her attempt to change herself by changing her hairstyle into one fitting for a high school girl.

In order to find answers to the questions she has after the fireworks festival, Chizuru meets with Ryō at school while they are taking supplementary lessons and asks him if Arata is also a ReLIFE subject. Ryō wonders what makes her think so, and besides Arata being a transfer student Chizuru has noted that he sometimes speaks and acts in an adult-like manner, lives alone, smokes, has an outdated minidisc player at his home, and is below a high school student's level of knowledge and physical condition. While Ryō responds that he cannot confirm or deny, he reminds Chizuru that in the hypothetical case that Arata is a subject, her finding out the truth will cause his experiment to end and all his memories of her to be erased.

As Chizuru is fazed by the realization, Ryō changes the topic, telling her that while he is happy that she has started to show interest in other people, he will no longer be her support starting from the second term. He then calls out to An, who he has guessed has been listening to their conversation and introduces her to the very surprised Chizuru as her new support.

Trivia

 * The first part of this chapter took place sometime in the first two months of 2013. The latter part of this chapter took place on August 19th, 2013, right where Report 111 left off.