Ashita Shinu Shoujo no Saigo no Houkago - Oneshot

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She most likely did not kill herself. If she did, the teachers would have informed the students so. I guess the message is that if someone wants to kill themselves, we hang out with them...? And talk about themselves?
 
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What a sad tale for this girl. Only one boy ever talked to her, and the next day she died. How did she die? I don't know. If only the boy had been more observant, or caring, perhaps he could have been there for her.
 
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Asshole move to involve a total stranger, now the guy have to bear whatever they got from the exchange but in a way, that's life...
 
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She most likely did not kill herself. If she did, the teachers would have informed the students so. I guess the message is that if someone wants to kill themselves, we hang out with them...? And talk about themselves?
What a sad tale for this girl. Only one boy ever talked to her, and the next day she died. How did she die? I don't know. If only the boy had been more observant, or caring, perhaps he could have been there for her.
Was she even there to start with?
 
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mother of open-ended story...
kind of the short version of the "pancreas" story
 
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maybe she transferred schools and asked the teachers not to mention it. she could have just wanted to make a connection with someone before she left
 
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This showed up in my feed as "Plan to Read" but I don't remember setting the status?
 
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This is a reminder to check up on your homies and talk to them. Sometimes just having someone listen to your troubles can make a bad day turn good.
 
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Hmmm... Not too sure what to make of this one.
She brought him along and spoke to him because she felt that he wouldn't be burdened by her and not hinder her plans (for possibly suicide), as he's apparently apathetic and distanced from other people - this is represented well by how they always sat some distance from each other when talking.

However, he seemingly does care, since he went out of his way to push the car around for her, and then revealed he never needed her assignment... So the visual representation kinda seems silly now, since they never sat closer to each other as he allowed her to open up more (perhaps it was to say he was listening, but he himself wasn't opening up?)...

But then again, he didn't do anything to stop her from disappearing, and seems to not be concerned with what actually happened, and leaves us with the mystery of what happened to her - which could be said to be a great way of conveying the questions left to survivors when someone does disappear like this... but he still doesn't care, so that message kinda falls flat.

It feels so disjointed, like it's trying to say something, but I have no idea what.

On another note, these two characters made me think of people who try so hard to make others think they're special. You're not deep or interesting because you forgoed having fun, or don't think the ocean is special. If anything, not being able to get meaning from the beauty of nature kinda shows a lack of critical thinking (ironic given that I'm perplexed by this story, but whatevs). But I suppose this style of thinking is a very teenage thing.
 
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A couple corrections:
1. The thing someone (at their age) would do on their last day is not what she said. They would want to "try out that sex thing, and see if it is all it's been hyped up to be".
2. They forgot to explain how she died. The sole reason anyone was reading the story in the first place. It's not suicide as then it would not have been described as inevitable with limited TTL. It's not illness as such forecasts are not that exact. It's not any accident or such. Can't be a prophecy or time travel or whatever, as that's not realistic (also she didn't know exact extent of her time).
No, the only explanation that fits properly to a situation where you can diagnose someone to not live to the day after tomorrow, know the time is that limited, but not know exact TTL, is probably radiation poisoning. Odds are she stumbled upon an orphan source (maybe from her hobby of entering abandoned ruins, like an abandoned hospital and finding their old ct scanner), got diagnosed, escaped the palliative care, and this chapter happened. Would also explain why she was so healthy and happy until end of chapter, but by the time the sun had risen again she's starting to feel really really bad and starting to melt.

Finally: if someone ever comes up to you with a completed assignment in return for spending your time with them on their last day... expect that assignment to be a trap. Either it is filled with admissions to incriminating things to frame you when the teacher reads it, or it is a suicide letter directed at the teacher (or you), or simply wrong so you get poor grades. Even if they didn't intend it as a trap, the different handwriting is going to have you accused of cheating.

I hope the canned juice she gave him wasn't from some 10 years abandoned vending machine.
My thought was similar: "why the hell is there a stocked vending machine in a ruined amusement park?!?"
 
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She decided to kill herself after seeing how her father was growing weaker, she is smart so is a pretty stupid move, she was a reason for him to live.
She suppressed her feelings from when she was small as she didn't want to bother her parents with a child whims, unfortunately that made her get detached to life.
To the user that said how the school would have notified the kids, they should have to discover the body first, most likely MC monologue was after seeing she didn't come in the first hour.
MC was half interested and half super didn't want to be connected to a suicide, if he had a little of humanity he would contacted the school, a teacher, followed her home and talked with her father, he simply let her die, and to who thinks he respected her feelings, he knew nothing about her, so changing her totally useless death would have been the same.
And for her being detached to life...funny enough a trip to a active luna park would have likely gave her soul the shock it needed.
 

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