Inb4 the final chapter is...
another timeskip, with a slightly older Shinobu having turned into a tanned gyaru-o director with a dead gaze having a call w/ Ryusei bc of some class meeting. The call happens while he's dogging a faceless girl (his stable actress). When Ryusei mentions Fumi also bring there, he suddenly stops slamming the NPC's asscheeks and has a flashback of the confrontation w/ Fumi at the set for going off script, and how Fumi destroyed Shinobu's psyche by pointing everything wrong with him and why he'll never be able to be in a relationship, finally deciding to cut ties with him. Ryusei and his hookah ask him what's wrong and he says nothing, but he just had a bad memory.
Short scene w/ Sakura at the crest of her career, empty, having distanced from Yuma and Katsura's mouthpiece, but still keeping going with some roles, but holding too tight to the necklace. Asspulled flashback w Fumi and her crossing each other after the latter dumped Shinobu, she says the whole truth, but aldo says Shinobu may not want anything from her anymore, do she should spare herself from clearing things with a bad person like him. Sakura starts lamenting her decision of cutting ties with Shinobu and may wonder if the reason she feels empty despite of succeeding is because Shinobu isn't there.
Class meeting happens, everybody gets impressed at Shinobu's success as a director and his image change, but said admiration turns into disapproval after he begins to say misogynistic shit and throwing nasty indirects about Fumi, wondering if the person in front of them is actually Shinobu. Ryusei and Chico lower their heads in shame. They also notice Shinobu's holding to that pen after all those years.
Scene shifts to Sakura coming out from a set after finishing some shootings, holding a letter, and demanding her manager to have a talk. The letter has the kanjis of "resignation letter", but the talk isn't shown.
Class Meeting ends, Ryusei tells him that he shall face his past because it's obvious the person he has in front of him is not the Shinobu he was friends with. While he walkd alone back to his apartment-office, he crosses paths with Sakura who was also leaving from work (and using his necklace), but he pretends to not having noticed her, trusting himself she may confuse him with another person due to his look change. Walks past her, but to his bad luck, Sskura notices his pen and turns back. Final page is her calling his name, him having no options, but to turn back, and him saying. SLong time no see each other, Sakura.
End and notification of the final volume having extra pages and an extrnded ending