Bocchi was cleared of any suspicion fairly quickly. Nevermind the murder of her childhood best friend, the stress of being arrested, court and speaking to lawyers was bad enough, but the straw that truly broke the camel's back was losing both Kita and Nijika at the same time. The band that she dreamt of since she was a child, the one that she wanted to stay together forever with, ripped away from her in a single night. She lost her job, dropped out, her social anxiety reached it's peak, and she started undergoing heavy medication even just to function as a normal human being. As much as they tried, Hirori and Seika couldn't stop her from a sharp decent into drug abuse and alcoholism.

She felt her tired, sad eyes droop as she spoke to an imprisoned Nijika on their monthly phone call. "Hang in there Bocchi-chan! It'll just be another 10 years or so! then we can start another band! We can find another guitarist... maybe even Ryou will come back!"

As Hitori watched the bath water turn red, her voice softly wavered.

"I wanted to be a constellation..."