>Speaking about growing up and coming closer to goals and whatnot, I
>sort of have to ask: Are Juri and Shiori going to be reunited at some
>point?

Well, you ought to know by now that I don't answer questions like this one, either because the answers give away things I would prefer to keep as surprises or because I don't want to lock things into a solid path ahead of time and prefer to let them evolve at their own pace.

But in this case, I'll break with that. No, no they aren't. ("Reunited" is a bad choice of words anyway, since they were never together in the first place.)

Why not? Well, assuming for the sake of argument that our Cephirean friends are going to get the opportunity to go home at some point, it's really very simple: However much she might have grown and matured, Shiori's just plain not interested. She might be nicer about it than she's been in the past, now that she's not... well, you know, a mindless puppet of Evil... but she simply doesn't wanna go there. It's too bad for Juri, but that's the way it goes sometimes.

--G.
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