Illustration for Afterwards, from the adult visual novel The Anchors

She does not go to sleep and does not get dressed and sits up in the bed with the blanket round her and her hair entirely ruined.

MioneI am going to say the true thing now and I would like you to not make a face.

She says it. It is short, and it is about all three of them, and it is not the sort of thing that gets written on a list.

MioneThere. Was that willing enough for the seal, do you think, or do I have to say it at midnight as well.

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