The Labyrinth of Grisaia: Yumiko's Afterstory

Of the now four stories I have played through this one was slightly a bit disappointing in the fact that I felt it didn't go far enough with the ending shown on Fruits of Grisaia. That said I won't say it was a horrible Afterstory but I do think it felt a bit rushed and heavily focused on a short span of time.

The events of this Afterstory takes place over a few days or possibly a week or so. It is based right after Yuuji and Yumiko make their way back to the dorm and school after being on the run for a year from the company that Yuuji works for and from Yumiko's father's company. After having Yumiko's father removed as head of the East Beach Company she is now in a position of deciding the future of her own life. 

With the removal of her father the school, they are currently attending has been notified that they will be closing down. As it was considered a project by him alone the new heads see that it doesn't make any money and therefore it will be shut down and the students will be transferring out.

Yumiko has always been a shut-in of sorts, and she has always had an abrasive personality. However, after returning to the dorms she realizes her own weakness, and realizing the time they have left with everyone is short she works hard to come out of her shell and really spends time with everyone. She decides to also focus on skills that would help her with Yuuji as she felt like over the past year she was more of a burden to him than anything else.

 Each of the girls has something they are special at and through observation Yumiko decides to have each girl help in those fields of interest. First, she starts learning to cook from Amane who is extremely proficient in cooking and doing so extremely healthy, as well as learning to make every yen count on supplies. She then seeks out Sachi's advice and help on learning to clean properly and how to do the basic of household chores. 

Later she has Michiru teach her the way of a Tsundere as well as how to use those situations to help others around her to get past situations that may be hard to otherwise. Lastly, she has Makina help her learn how to read movements and anticipate those movements to then counter them. This of course is used more so to allow her to catch Yuuji by surprise so he doesn't try to dodge her when she wants some affection.

With all this in mind, Yuuji begins to help her understand that even though they will soon be parting with everyone that she needs to share the moments they have with one another now and cherish them. Overtime Yumiko realizes that she was the one that had placed a barrier between her and the others and the others knew eventually those barriers would come down and when they did she finally released the emotions she held back for so long. 

Sachi and Michiru would be transferring to another private academy, Makina would be heading home with Amane and live with her and her family. This would leave Yuuji and her to be together but she wasn't sure what she wanted to do. Yuuji was allowed to come back to his job and the past year was removed from his record. As far as anyone knew I-9029 was on a mission over the past year and that was just that.

Yuuji takes Yumiko on an overnight date to a hot spring town where they spend time just walking, shopping, and spending the day with one another. With the school closing the Principle had quite a bit of funds leftover and no one knew how to spend it before the school closed. So Yuuji unknown to Yumiko had asked everyone about one thing in particular and they all agreed.  With the arrangements sat up Yuuji took Yumiko to a beach and there he asked her what was something she wanted from her childhood that she never got. After spending time at an Amusement park while they were on the run she stated the only thing left was fireworks show up close. 

With that, he simply looked at his watch and said, "well, keep looking up and here we go" with that statement the night sky was filled with fireworks. Smiling Yuuji simply said that the class had voted to use the last of the money to put on the fireworks show just for her. And with that, the story ended.

Like I stated at the beginning I'm not upset so much at the ending as it was very mild and nice all things considering and it at least filled in a small amount of the gap between what happened in the Fruits of Grisaia and the ending of her story there. However, I do feel that it left out a great deal of more information that could have been put in. I think this one was forced through and may have been a last-minute call on the production side. 

To that end I am still happy with it and I think you would be too.