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Stabbed the tree.

Yuuko closed her eyes, her tears falling to the ground, together with her sword, still couldn't beleive...
"Am I...?"

"Better get you away from this at least." Riyu said, picking up Yuuko's sword, and throwing it away.

"W-Why didn't you finish me... I'm your opponent, no?" Yuuko said, opening her eyes slowly, looking at Riyu.

Riyu didn't say a thing, except pulling his sword out of the tree, which started to make noises like fast heartbeats. Suddenly, Yuuko felt something which was like a heart attack.

"T-This pain... The tree! Quickly, get down!" Yuuko said, pulling Riyu to the ground. Right after that, a very strong wind came out of the hole Riyu made in the tree. It was strange, as the wind itself could be seen.

'so she doesn't really want me to die or what...?'

The tree's petals then all fell to the ground, simultaneously, above Riyu and Yuuko, and after a few more seconds... The tree itself, was dying again, this time getting completely black, as if it was stained in black ink. The hole Riyu's sword left in the tree, suddenly shined, and with a great light, just like earlier, they couldn't see a thing, nor Yuuko. However, Yuuko's scream was able to be heard through the whole area.

The four students were at the door of the school building again. It was like time had stopped just for them to beat the final ordeal, and with a grand success at that. Riyu looked around him, and found... Yuuko lying on the ground beside him. She was now in the world of the living.
"Are you all allright?" Riyu asked the other three students and Yuuko at the same time.
"I'm allright, but is SHE allright...?" Sherry asked, as she pointed towards Yuuko.

"I'm... living again. now I can... 'T rest in peace. Not that I could while I was a haunting ghost anyway. Now, can anyone give me a hand...?" Yuuko asked, after trying to get up without much success.
"Not in the world." Riyu answered with an angry tone.
"Oh come o~n! Its not like I can kill you now that I don't have that sword! And I don't even want to kill you now..."
"Now, should I beleive you? You should thank me that you're even existing; I could finish you back then, and instead I only stabbed that tree." Riyu was being mean to Yuuko in purpose, but he wanted to see what will be the other three's responses.
"Umm... maybe you should punish her in other ways, Riyu?" Sherry asked.
"Like what? forcing her to be my butler?"
"Don't know..."
"You're mean..." Yuuko said, pouting.