#like koko insisting inui come with them to the library that night and insisting they all stay out longer

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Girl, I just realised that at the end of manga, we see everybody healthy and happy. Mikey and Takemichi saved everybody in the end. But we don't have any information about only one person. Inui Akane. What happened to her? Did they prevent the fire? Seishu doesn't have the scar at the end.

Ah that is one of the big mysteries about the ending! Just because she isn't there doesn't mean she's dead since there's also no Luna or Mana and we don't even see Yasuda or Yumi. And as you said Inui doesn't have his scar so that means either Takemichi and Mikey completely prevented the fire or they made sure Inui wasn't at home during the fire.

I feel like this comes down to if Takemichi and Mikey purposely tried to stop the fire or not. See obviously they would if theu knew but the problem is at no point do we see Inui or even Koko talk to them about the fire and even if they did they'd have to know the house location and the specific date at the very least. Though obviously they could've been told this at some point that we didn't see. We're also never told the cause of the fire so I'm not sure how you prevent that exactly so just getting Inui out of the house would've been the easier option. And of course Mikey and Takemichi would've somehow made sure Akane didn't go home too if they knew. But if they didn't know? If they changed the timeline enough meaning Inui wasn't home that night and it was all a coincidence? That of course raises further questions too though like if Inui wasn't home would Koko have searched longer and found Akane and rescued her???? It's a mystery!