N-Noooooooo...!!!!

Huh? That sounded like Ena!
We should go back!!

Ena! Are you okay?! What happened?!

Gh-Gh-Gh-Gh-Ghost...!

Really...?

Yes, really! I just saw...

Huh...?

Sorry about that...

Something startled me and I just started running. I ended up outside but...

You did?! But you didn't answer when I called your name...!

Um... I sort of twisted my ankle while I was running, and kind of couldn't...

Oh...

That's what that was?!

Hahahaha!
Now, I get it!

D-Don't laugh!!

Okay, sorry.
How do you feel, Kanade?

I think I can walk now...

Thank goodness!
That means we can keep going!

Wait, there's more...?
Can't we just call it a day?

If Kanade thinks she can make her song now, then okay...

No, I'm not sure I can yet...

Okay...

Okay, but can we just get out of here already?! I can tell you this tunnel's not doing me any favors!

Haha. Sure.
You two seem like you've had your fill, so off to our next stop!

*Sigh*... Finally...

(I feel bad for letting them be all by themselves like that. It's probably best to just stick together from now on.)

(But...)

(I got to see a part of them that I usually never would.)

Alright, here's stop #2!

A shrine...?

This place is pretty creepy too...
At least we're outside and not in that tunnel anymore.

It looks like a normal shrine.
How is it haunted?

Ah, excellent question!

This place is also known as the Cursed Shrine of Separation!

Cursed Shrine of Separation?

Yeah!

A long time ago, a big influential family with a pair of sisters used to live here...

They were totally inseparable and meant everything to each other, but...

One day, while they were out playing hide and seek, a fire broke out.

The two sisters desperately looked for one another, but before they could, they were gone...

Another spooky story...?

That's so sad...

They say that because these two sisters died while still separated, they hate those that can be with their loved ones...

They say that if two people who really care about each other come here, they end up drifting apart...

To try to put their souls to rest, this shrine was build.

Wait, even after everyone put all this work into building this shrine, those girls still want to curse people...?

That doesn't make any sense. I find it hard to believe that any pair of siblings would end up cursing people in death because they were so close in life.

Oh, really?
Me and big sis are pretty close.

That's right, you mentioned that you have an older sister. She lives overseas, right?

Yup! She's a lot older than me, but we get along really well!

But Ena might be right. I doubt we'd end up cursing anyone like those sisters from that story.

Right?
Even with my little brother, I really can't imagine anything like...

Yeah, absolutely nothing like that will ever happen...

Haha! Yeah, I doubt your li'l bro would!

But it is kinda sweet that they want to be together that much even in death...

Do you guys have anyone like that?

What do you mean...?

Someone you don't ever want to be away from! Someone that you want to be with so much that you'd curse anyone that made you be away from them!

I respect someone quite a lot, but not to the point of cursing other people...

Yeah. I have some close friends, but not to that degree...

Right.
How about you, Mafuyu?

I don't know...

I guess you wouldn't right now...

Haha. The same goes for me too...

So that means we shouldn't be cursed then...

Yup, exactly!
I guess we should thank our stars that we don't have anyone in our lives like that!

Are you sure we should be celebrating...?

I guess the silver lining is that we're all kind of alike, right?

Anyways, Kanade...
Do you know what you want to do?

No, not yet...

I've gotten some ideas, but nothing I can turn into a song...

Right, okay...
How about we head to our last stop then?

We just gotta keep trying!