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Or had she been erased?

Hikari tilted her head. “I didn’t vanish. I deleted. Every photo, every record, every mention. Even from memories, if I could. But yours held.” She touched the cracked screen. “Searching for me in ‘All Categories’ was the only way to find the one place I left myself—the delete command. A ghost in the machine.” Searching for- hikari ninomiya in-All Categorie...

Emi turned, trembling. “I thought you died. After Yuki… you just vanished.” Or had she been erased

Outside, the library’s automatic locks clicked open. The first gray light of dawn bled through the windows. I deleted

Emi took the crane. When she looked up, the woman in the yellow coat was gone.

Hikari Ninomiya wasn’t missing. She was the search itself—the longing, the empty result, the refusal to stop looking.

The terminal screen glowed again.