Illustration for Ending — Same Hour, from the adult visual novel The Proving

Nothing is decided in the morning and nothing is dropped either. They leave the rug where it is and they do not move the chair back to the wall.

MalfoidThe clause is satisfied. There is no reason for any of this to happen again.

MioneThere was never a reason the first time. You read it as a reason because you wanted one.

The chair stays in the middle of the hall for the rest of the year and nobody ever asks why it is there.

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