"Just One More Time Before It Ends" Work Introduction | To You Who Haven't Read It Yet

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In the place the world called "the end," there was still warmth remaining.

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There is a world where creation is no longer a prayer.

A manuscript left unfinished.
A painting stopped halfway.
A project that could be shown to no one.
Words that were never sent.

These are no longer "things that might take shape someday," but things to be evaluated, classified, and processed.

Save?
Re-evaluate?
Complete?

In this world, even incompleteness has a way of ending.

But is ending it truly a salvation?

Is leaving it behind truly an act of kindness?

"Just One More Time Before It Ends" is a story about unfinished works.

In the place the world called "the end," there is still warmth remaining.
There are those who see it.

And when that hand reaches out, salvation does not always take the form of salvation.

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The Entrance to This Story

Episode 1 begins with a girl trying to erase her own work.

The title of the work is "The Blank Lighthouse."

Commercial success rate: 0.01%.

That is why the world decided that erasing it was the correct answer.

In front of the girl standing in the center of the platform, a transparent approval panel floats.

Personal consent.
Completion processing.
Permanent deletion of incomplete data.

Do you confirm?

The girl's right hand reaches toward it.

Her left hand stops that hand.

For just a moment.

Toru Kanzaki is the only one who notices that small resistance.

That is where this story begins.

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Toru Kanzaki

A person who thinks things the world calls trash are beautiful.

An assistant staff member at the Completion Bureau.
He is someone who sees nameless fragments in unfinished works just before they are erased.

He cannot leave other people's unfinished work alone.

But is that kindness truly for the other person?

Or is it to look away from something he himself has not yet faced?

There are nights Toru still cannot face head-on.

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Sawa Hinata

It wasn't just her work that she was trying to erase.

The central figure of Episode 1.

The work is "The Blank Lighthouse."

An unfinished story about trying to build a lighthouse in a town without a sea.

Sawa was trying to end the work, which had been judged to have a 0.01% commercial success rate, with her own hands.

But her hand stopped for just a moment.

Toru, having seen that, reaches out to her unfinished work.

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Elena Shirase

She offers an "end" with a gentle voice.

A creative arbiter at the Completion Bureau.

Elena is not a straightforward villain.

Holding onto unfinished work can sometimes prevent people from moving forward.

If so, isn't ending it also a form of salvation?

Her words are not just cold.

Rather, they are gently polished.

That is exactly why she is scary.

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Sosuke Minase

A single word can move a person for years.

A person who is standing before the choice of whether to erase or keep his own work.

Does he want to erase it?
Does he want to keep it?

Even that answer is no longer his alone.

He poses a different question to Toru's stance of "waiting."

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Kanau Asakura

There are nights he still pretends not to see.

Kanau Asakura is a person deeply involved in Toru's past.

She was a creator who continued to hold onto unfinished work.

Why can't Toru help but touch unfinished work?

The reason lies in his past with Kanau.

However, what happened on that night is something I want you to discover in the main story.

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Maho Hiiragi

Kindness sometimes turns into a place one must return to.

The central figure of Episode 5.

Keeping a seat open.
Waiting for someone to return.
You can come back anytime.

Those are words that usually sound like kindness.

But sometimes, that kindness becomes a burden for the person themselves.

Waiting.
Those words made her a place where she could not end.

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Itsuki

There is only a name so far.

An existence that appeared for just a moment as a name related to the frozen folder "Things That Were Not Yet the World."

It does not remain in Toru's memory.

But at that name alone, his right hand ached.

Who is Itsuki?

That is not yet known.

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What is happening in this world

In this world, there are procedures even for ending dreams.

The Completion Bureau processes unfinished works and dreams by saving, re-evaluating, or completing them.

They do not call it deletion.

Completion.
Processing.
An end to protect the person's future.

With white, polished words, the unfinished is tidied away.

But what if there is still warmth remaining there?

What if someone has not yet been able to finish?

Toru Kanzaki is the only one who sees what the world should have processed.

At that moment, the story begins to quietly shift.

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There are no answers yet

Why does Toru's right hand shake even things he hasn't touched?

What is sleeping in the frozen folder "Things That Were Not Yet the World"?

Who is Itsuki?

There are no answers yet.

Unfinished work does not necessarily end if you erase it.

And keeping it does not necessarily save it.

That is precisely why this story is still continuing.

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If you are reading from here

First, I would be happy if you read from Episode 1.

A girl trying to erase an unfinished work.
A young man who saw it.
And a place where the world made "erasing" the correct answer.

From here, this story begins.

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