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Plot
Taking a guess about what kind of reward might be on Chizuru's mind, Arata hastily reminds her that a kiss is out of the question. However, she just asks him to give her a hug. After a moment's hesitation Arata walks up to Chizuru and takes her in his arms. As he does so, Chizuru asks him not to forget her but thinks to herself that it is going to happen anyway since she is a ReLIFE subject, and assuming Arata is one as well, that she will also forget him and neither of them will even know it.

The thought is finally too much for Chizuru and she breaks into tears. She tells Arata she doesn't want to forget him, and not wanting their time together to end yet, holds him tighter. Arata tries to comfort Chizuru but as he asks her not to forget him either the moment gets to him too. However, he fights back the tears and tells her that this is not a farewell and they will be together again next year in university. Though Chizuru believes it is yet another lie she agrees, and smiling through her tears thinks to herself that the lies Arata tells are always very gentle lies.

Ryō and An have been listening behind the corner. Witnessing their subjects' final moments together before the end of the experiment has been hard for both of them, but particularly rough to An.

Trivia

 * The events in this chapter took place on Saturday March 1st, 2014.
 * The Advance Reading of this chapter was made available one week ahead of the scheduled release date on January 5th.