True Lapis-Colored Snow, Part Three

Story

Through the streets sparkling as Christmas nears, the professor walks off alone, lonely. A week had already passed since Ruri left the professor's side. Before such a professor, another woman, "Koruri," appears from within the jar in which Ruri had been sealed. She insists that she too is Ruri, but Ruri's whereabouts are unknown even to her... Yoko, unable to bear watching the crestfallen professor, admonishes him to be honest with his own heart. "If you really love Ruri, you should go looking for her," she says. The professor nods at those words. He resolves what he must do now—to go and search for Ruri.