Three Cups of Coffee

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Kotarou wakes up in his room at night, with a deserted Kazamatsuri overgrown with greenery. Without a sense of purpose, he wanders to a hill of daisies, where he finds Kagari crouching over a board researching. He barely gets within a mile of her when he collapses in fright, waking up in his bed. It is night again, and he goes back to the hill, where his heart gets pulled out and gruesomely squashed instead. The next few weeks follow a similar pattern, with several failed proposals and minor variations of dying, after which Kotarou finally confesses that he just wanted a place where he could belong and not feel lonely. He then begs Kagari to kill him but finds her standing in front of him again. Kotarou finally learns her name, and with that new trust building up between them, is able to come a few inches closer everyday, until he is finally able to sit just outside the board. When getting a good look at the board, all his memories, including ones that he had been dreaming of nightly, come rushing to his mind, and he collapses, waking up in his room again. This time he decides to do something different and journeys to Kotori's secret base, where he finds the remnants of her monster moulds, to Lucia's orphanage, where he finds a statue covered in cloth resembling her, to Akane's club room, where he finds shikigami on the table, to Sizuru's old house, where he finds saury being grilled, and finally to Chihaya's large terrace house, where he finds the necklace he bought for her lying on a table. Following that, Kotarou goes back to the hill. After watching Kagari's research hit a brick wall, he wonders if he could do something to help her, and goes back to his house, where he makes coffee and brings to her. Time passes by quickly, and as Kagari drinks her first cup and declines seconds, Kotarou is reminded of the old Kagari, who would scoff at "such muddy liquid" made by "an insignificant human". Following three cups of coffee, Kagari pulls him gently onto the board, and Kotarou realizes that he loves Kagari and sobs freely that she has accepted him.