Miku: Sigh~
Shino: Was it really necessary to leave is behind?
Yuuka: Kotori-san did told us it was for our safety.
Shino, Yuuka and Miku were still inside Kotori's room depressed after she left to investigate Mato High.
To possibly find the one who was responsible for the failure of Operation Reconciliation.
Miku: I wonder how Sachi-Oneechan, Chi-chan and Natsuki are holding up?
Yuuka: Obviously Natsuki hates us now... And as for those two, they're probably feeling the same way...
Shino: Yeah... Even though we might not be solely responsible, it won't be easy to convince them.
Miku: Yeah that's right... I wonder if Mo-chan and the others heard about it as well?
Yuuka: They definitely did...
Shino: They're probably disappointed in us, they wanted us to fix our relationship with Kaneki and even helped us quite a lot... Yet everything was ruined.
Miku & Yuuka: ...
All 3: Sigh~
Miku: Maybe things would've been different we've told Natsuki everything from the beginning.
Shino & Yuuka: What?
Miku: I mean... If we had told her she definitely would have been mad, but maybe Natsuki would've hated us less...
With Miku's words all three of them started to imagine how everything would have probably went if they were honest with Natsuki at the beginning.
Yuuka: Yeah... Maybe... She would have tried to get Kaneki to talk to us.
Shino: And Maybe we could have succeeded in apologizing and reconciling with Kaneki... Without using her.
Miku: Yeah and we could have talked to her more about our past with Onii-chan.
Shino: And when Chi-chan and Sachi came around maybe we could've formed Project Kizuna again with her and Chi-chan joining.
Miku & Yuuka: Hehe~ That would've been nice.
Shino: Hehe~ Yeah... Maybe... It did happen.
Yuuka: Huh? What are you talking about?
Shino: Remember when Kaneki and Kotori-san fought? Near the end he used that kick that showed many lines with visions of even one of them showing Natsuki and Chi-chan dancing with all of us on a stage as Project Kizuna.
Miku: Oh yeah we did saw those.
Yuuka: And when Kaneki kicked that guy... He said "A better world shall be born, from the bond we share. I make this world for you." And that golden line... Maybe it was a new timeline?
Miku: That doesn't sound too far fetch, I mean Onii-chan does have creation and time and reality manipulation powers.
Shino: If so then... Maybe he created a timeline where we had been more honest during his fight with Kotori-san.
Miku: Or even one where we never abandoned him in the first place.
Yuuka: Yeah... It sucks that we made the worse possible decisions that led us here, maybe our timeline.
As their imaginations of the possibility of Kaneki creating timelines where everything went right.
(Author: Which definitely did)
Ding~ Dong~
The door bell suddenly rang, surprising the three.
Miku: Huh? The Doorbell?
Shino: Someone's in the front door.
Ding~ Dong~
Yuuka: ... Who could it be?
As they were worrying about who could possibly be at the door.
"It's alright, they're safe and only here to talk"
Kotori talked through the camera and reassured them.
"Just don't panic okay?"
Hearing this, Miku looked at Shino and Yuuka before standing up.
Shino: Where are you going?
Miku: If Onee-chan says whoever's in the front door safe, then I'll trust her.
Hearing Miku's reason, the two didn't argued and trusted Kotori as well and stood up.
Miku: Let's go.
The three walked to the front door to see who was ringing the doorbell.
Miku: Alright here I go.
After arriving at the door, Miku grabbed the doorknob and opened the door.
Katsuki & Natsuki: Good morning, sorry for the intru- Oh.
And immediately they were greeted by Natsuki's parents.
Shino, Yuuka & Miku: !!!
The three of them were immediately scared thinking they came to yell at them for their betrayal against Natsuki.
Katsuki: Good morning girls. Um.... Why aren't you three at school?
Satsuki: Can we come in?
But it seems like they were clueless to everything.
Miku: C-Come in.
Miku opened the door completely and allowed the two to enter her home.
Miku: Take a seat on the sofa.
Katsuki: Thank you Miku-chan.
After getting Natsuki's parents to sit down on the sofa, Miku began offering drinks to them.
Miku: Do any of you want some tea? Or coffee?
Katsuki: No thanks.
Satsuki: It's alright, you don't need to do that.
Miku: O-Oh... Okay.
Now that they were seated, Shino asked them for their purpose of coming to the Higanbana residence.
Shino: So... What brings you two here?
Katsuki: Well... It's about Natsuki.
Shino, Yuuka & Miku: !!!
The three girls shuddered when they heard Natsuki's name.
Miku: W-Why? Did something happened?
Katsuki & Satsuki: Nod~
Satsuki: Yes, she was in a very bad mood yesterday when she came home very early and just a few hours ago she was yelling in her room something about someone using her? We don't exactly know much. But we're very worried.
Katsuki: Did Kaneki-kun and Natsuki-chan have a fight or something?
Seeing that the two really had no idea what's going on, the three hesitantly asked to make sure.
Miku: Y-You two really don't know what happened?
Both parents shook their heads, confirming that they really didn't know anything.
Katsuki: She had calmed down and had left her room, but... Our daughter hasn't eaten anything yet ever since she hot home yesterday.
Satsuki: She even refused the sweets I would usually give her...
Katsuki: And before we left... She was just staring at the fish tank that Kaneki-kun made for her with all of the goldfish you all got for her.
Satsuki: And she looked very sad as well...
Hearing how much Natsuki was affected and seeing how her parents are so worried about her.
Shino, Yuuka and Miku were overwhelmed with guilt.
Thud!
Katsuki & Satsuki: Huh?!
They knelt on the floor and lowered their heads in a dogeza position with tears forming in their eyes, which surprised Katsuki and Satsuki.
Katsuki: W-What are you girls doing?!
Miku: Sorry... It's our fault...
Yuuka: We've hurt Natsuki in the worst possible way...
Shino: Please forgive us...
They began to shed tears as they apologized to Natsuki's parents.
Satsuki: H-Hold on! Please raise your raise your heads!
Katsuki: There's no need to do all this! Please raise your heads!!!
But their actions only left the two confused.
Seeing this they raised their heads but still sat on their knees.
Katsuki: Could you please explain everything? What do you girls mean by it was all your fault?
Satsuki: Yeah, please explain to us everything to us in complete detail. Oh! But before that please wipe your tears and drink some water to calm down.
Shino, Yuuka & Miku: Eh?
Katsuki: You heard my husband, go wipe your tears and drink some water to calm yourselves down. We'll wait here until you're ready to talk.
Surprisingly the two didn't showed any slight sign of being angry at them, they were more or less worried about them.
Shino, Yuuka & Miku: S-Sure...
Following their suggestion the three went to wipe away their tears and drank some water.
Shino, Yuuka & Miku: Haa~
Katsuki: Are you girls feeling better now?
Shino, Yuuka & Miku: ...
Satsuki: Don't push yourselves, okay? We'll wait until you're all ready to talk.
Seeing how considerate Natsuki's parents were despite seeing how the three of them apologized confused Shino, Yuuka and Miku.
Miku: Why... Why aren't they angry?
Shino: I don't know... I'm as surprised as you two.
Yuuka: Well... They'll definitely be mad at us when we tell them everything... But that's better than hiding it.
Shino & Miku: Agreed.
Miku: So? Shall we tell them now?
Shino: I'm still a bit shaken, but... Yeah I think I can manage.
Yuuka: Nod~ Same here.
Miku: Well then...
The three them went back to Natsuki's parents.
Katsuki: Are you girls sure you're okay to talk now?
Shino, Yuuka & Miku: Yes.
Satsuki: Good. Tell us everything carefully.
Seeing that they were willing to listen, the three girls began revealing everything to Natsuki's parents.
A while later~
Katsuki & Satsuki: Wow... That's a lot to take in.
After telling Natsuki's parents everything they were processing all the information they got.
Katsuki: So you three pretty much ghosted Kaneki-kun at th entrance ceremony and stopped interacting with him since then.
Satsuki: But you all realized how much you've hurt him and secretly tried to fix your relationship with him but failed many times.
Katsuki: But when our daughter became friends with Kaneki-kun, you all decided to become friends with her and use her to get closer and eventually apologize to Kaneki-kun.
Miku: That's just about right, and we're so sorry...
Shino: We did feel bad for using her, so we decided to apologize to her and reveal everything to her once we've fixed things between us and Kaneki...
Yuuka: We're truly sorry for what we've done to your daughter...
The three waited patiently for Natsuki's parents to burst out in anger and yell at them for hurting their daughter.
Katsuki: Well you're definitely right, and I am angry at you three for hurting her.
Satsuki: And lied to hurt this whole time.
But they didn't, instead.
Katsuki & Satsuki: But we forgive you girls.
They had forgiven them.
Shino, Yuuka & Miku: Eh?!
Miku: B-But we've hurt Natsuki so much!
Shino: W-Why would you forgive us that quickly?! Shouldn't you hate us by now?
Yuuka: That's right! Shouldn't you be cursing us?
The three of them were completely confused, they couldn't believe that Natsuki's parents has easily forgiven them despite hurting their daughter.
Katsuki: While it's true that we are angry at you girls for hurting our daughter, we kinda understand why you did it.
Shino, Yuuka & Miku: Eh?
Katsuki: You girls didn't have any other option at the time right? You must've been desperate.
Satsuki: That's right, we understand why you did it. Besides how can we really hate our daughter's friends.
Shino, Yuuka & Miku: Friends...
They still couldn't understand why Natsuki's parents still trusted them, Miku looked into their eyes and asked.
Miku: Even though we had used her?
She thought they wouldn't reply, but Katsuki asked her a different question.
Katsuki: But you girls did think of her as a friend right?
Miku: T-That's...
Facing Katsuki's question, the three began looking back at the fun times they had with Natsuki.
The times when they hang out in the very house they were standing in, the times when ate lunch with her.
The times when she helped them, and many more.
Their answer was obvious.
Shino, Yuuka & Miku: Of course... She is an irreplaceable friend of ours...
Satsuki: Heh! I knew it, Natsuki really had found some decent friends.
Shino: But we-
Shino tried to argue that they weren't good friends at all, but she was immediately cut off by Natsuki's father.
Satsuki: But you also wanted to tell her the truth and apologize right? You girls realized your mistakes and wanted to fix them. Although you three definitely should've been more honest with Natsuki at the beginning.
Shino, Yuuka & Miku: ...
Katsuki: You girls still want to be friends with our daughter right?
Hearing this question, they immediately answered.
Shino, Yuuka & Miku: Of course!
Katsuki & Satsuki: Then go talk to her.
Miku: But... She wouldn't want to talk to us.
Shino: Sachi and Chi-chan might try to avoid us as well.
Katsuki: Oh yeah you girls talked about them as well, well in their cases might be a little easier since they might only be confused.
Satsuki: In that case, why not try facing them first before Natsuki?
Shino, Yuuka & Miku: But.
Katsuki: Listen if you want to repair your relationship with our daughter, you'll have to repair your relationship with your other friends first.
Satsuki: And you can't do that if you're just hiding here.
Shino: But can we really do it? Sachi loved Kaneki so much since we were kids, and she might not believe us.
Yuuka: Same goes for Chi-chan ever since she was saved by him, Chi-chan is madly in love with Kaneki and the thought of us hurting him would make it hard for her to believe us.
Satsuki: But doing nothing won't help, wouldn't it?
Shino & Yuuka: ...
Shino and Yuuka were hesitant on facing Sachi and Chikaoblet alone Natsuki.
Miku: Yeah you're right.
But Miku made up her mind.
Shino & Yuuka: Miku?
Miku: They're right... Hiding from them won't help, and even if they don't believe us. Wouldn't it be better that we face them head on?
Miku wanted to fix her relationship with all her friends.
Miku: Sachi-Oneechan and Chi-chan would probably believe us with Onee-chan trying to prove our innocence.
Yuuka: That might be so but Natsuki-
Miku: We talk and apologize to her, that's by far the only thing we can do now.
Shino & Yuuka: ... That's kind of reckless.
Miku: You have any better ideas?
Shino & Yuuka: ...
With that it was decided, they would go and talk with their friends face to face and eventually apologize to Natsuki.
Clap!
Katsuki: In that case, why don't you all start now?
Shino: N-Now?
Katsuki: That's right. You three will have to talk to your friends first, once you're all done, you all could come to our house for dinner.
Shino, Yuuka & Miku: What?!
Satsuki: Good idea dear, once you're all done talking to your two other friends come to our home for dinner.
Katsuki: Well obviously the reason why we are inviting you is for you girls to talk to our daughter. So you better prepare yourselves!
Will they be able to fix their relationship with their friends?
Meanwhile~
Shake~!
Atsuo: Kaneki...
Aiya: C'mon dear... Let's go get lunch first...
Atsuo: Fine...
Creak~
Shut!
Azuna: TQCD OEK! XEM TQHU OEK XKHJ CO VHYUDTI!!! Y MYBB AYBB OEK!!!
Shake~!
Kaneki: Y'BB TUIJHEO UHQIU OEK! YJQTEHY!!!
SHAKE~!
Kaneki: Guys... Please stay safe...
SHAKE~!
Kaneki: AAAAAAAARGH!!!
BURST!