Jay: Hey, everyone! Welcome to the epilogue! (plods around in his penguin outfit)

Yukari: (has Kaorin in a headlock) So go ahead, ask him!

Kaorin: Umm...Jay..uhh...is the suit..acceptable?

Jay: (stares) ...yes...yes it is...

Yukari: YES! Saki factory here I come! (scampers off)

Jay: (hands Chihiro one bill of the highest denomination from every country on the planet) Here you go, trade that in for some yen. Ya never know how much money it'll be!

Chihiro: Umm..thanks..but what about Kaorin?

Jay: She gets a special reward... (pulls out the nail clippers)

Kaorin: YOU STAY AWAY!

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Regardless of the recent events, 'Team Alien Sea Slug with New Special Guest Kaorin' needed to get Osaka to the nearest hospital to make sure she got the proper care that was needed to repair the damage to her ribcage. The group limped along the roadways, heading toward the hospital that stood on the outskirts of downtown Tokyo. Along the way they contemplated the chain of events the cumulated in the general destruction of Katsu/Chomiel.

"So, let me get this straight, you saw a monster in that wooded area near your house?", Tomo asked.

"Yes, now I believe that it may have been Kats...erm..Chomiel that I saw.", Kaorin responded.

"That would make sense then that he probably saw you that night and chose you to prey upon.", Sakaki concluded.

"Chomiel said that Katsu was a host. What does that mean?", Tomo asked.

"That means like..he used Katsu's body..right?", Kagura said.

"Yea, I guess. Like...a parasite or something.", said Kaorin, nodding.

In a somber mood, the group entered the emergency room of the hospital. It was not overly crowded at this early hour so they managed to get Osaka signed in and off to a triage room quite quickly. The other girls took seats and awaited the return of their friend.

"I wonder...", Sakaki mused after a few minutes.

"Hmm?", Kagura asked.

"Do you guys think that Katsu was a real person or...was he fully Chomiel?", asked Sakaki.

"Well, if he was only a host for Chomiel he must have been real at some point.", Kaorin said.

"Why did Katsu become that host do you think?", Kagura asked.

A veil of general quietude hung above the group. Seeing the normally wacked-out girls having an intelligent conversation seemed to stretch the boundries of space and time, if even only a little.

"Since Chomiel is obviously not human, not that I really know what he is, he had to have gotten into Katsu's body somehow.", Tomo answered.

Many options were then proposed. Ranging from demonic summoning to alien mind-ray invasion. Regardless, a solid conclusion was never hit upon so the subject simply went mute and the true contemplation of it stayed in each girl's mind.

After nearly an hour Osaka returned to the lobby, smiling and seemingly without pain.

"Tha doctors said it wasn't that bad so they wrapped my chest and give me some pills and now I feel great!", she bounced around, obviously under the influence of heavy painkillers.

"So what did you tell them happened?", questioned Tomo.

"I said I fell outta a car window.", she giggled. "They said I must have a thick skull."

The other girls sighed and as one group walked out of the hospital. Along the way Kaorin walke dup next to Sakaki and gathered the courage to ask the question she had wanted to ask for over a year.

"Sakaki, umm..."

"Yes, Kaorin?"

"...Would you like to hang out tomorrow?", she asked with a noticable blush.

"Ok, that would be nice.", Sakaki returned the smile.

And from the ashes a brilliant friendship was born like yet another pheonix.

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For all those reading this recollection, the Great Eye of the Universe is certain you must have lingering questions. The great Cosmic Codex shall answer them for even the girls, to this day, have not found the answers.

Most importantly, Katsu Takamura was a real human at one time. Had the girls looked in newspapers from Tokyo dating seven years previous they would have discovered that Katsu Takamura was a sixteen year old boy that was infamous for a short period of time after a brutal quadruple murder/suicide in which he murdered, disemblowled and butchered his mother, father and younger sister before engraving symbols upon his chest and killing himself with a knife to his own heart. The newspapers called the murder/suicide "Evil." or "Satanic.". Even so, the Great Eye of the Universe does not think ill of the girls for not figuring this factor out. Even if they had mentioned the name, people alive during that murders would not have remembered.

Now, The Great Eye of the Universe asks the readers to contemplate that such things may exist. What do humans know of the universe? They barely know anything outside their own planet. The idea of spirits and extraterrestrials is thought about but not truly realized. The more those points are investigated the further humanity will come to understanding how every living being is but a mote of the vast universal wave.

And thus the Great Eye of the Universe closes once more upon another chapter in the Cosmic Codex.

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Hope that cleared everything up. I'll be finishing "When Keeping It Daioh Goes Wrong" very soon and then I'll begin "Yukari and the Saki Factory" which is quite the obvious parody.

Kaorin: Please don't put me in either story!

Jay: Geez, you're just asking for it aren't you?