#sorry for the long sigcorp explanation i just have a feeling most people haven't played to the moon

[mari-lair]

To the moon AU, where Hanako and Kou work at Sigmon Corps, a technological corporation whose clients are the dying, people filled with doubts and regrets, wishing for a different life. Their job is to rewrite their clients' memories so that their ideal life becomes true, diving into their memories, getting to know strangers' lives from the end to how it started so that they can tweak it all, inserting fabricated memories as naturally as they can to give their clients a believable dream life during the minutes before their death.

Hanako is a veteran in the job, the poster boy for the corporation and the one who came up with the 'we grant people wishes!' slogan. Despite his competence, he can't keep a partner for long, tending to isolate himself and overall be hard to work with. Kou is a newbie that was paired with Hanako to get some experience. It was a tough pair-up at first, since Kou gets attached easily to the patients, having trouble staying professionally detached and more than once making himself interactable in memories he doesn't belong to, for he wishes he could be of 'real help'.

Hanako is as charmed as he is annoyed by Kou's meddling at the start, having grown apathetic to people's lives after so many years on the job, so he is mostly dismissive of Kou's struggles, being a good teacher when teaching him how everything works, but not a good friend.

To everyone's surprise, Hanako and Kou, who could always be seen arguing over how the other decided to solve a case, eventually grew inseparable, a fixed pair. Hanako could even be seen trailing after Kou instead of lockng himself in his office, able to smile with genuine joy.

It was a miracle!

Nene is one of their youngest clients, only 27 years old, only two years older than Hanako and Kou, and already on her deathbed. Her request form tells them her wish is to fall in love with a handsome and princely man and be able to live happily with him until they are 100 years old.

She is so young, her case hits Kou hard, but Hanako doesn't care, flipantly commenting that Nene is cute and treating her memory as carelessly as most patients.

At least not at first, but as they walk through Nene's memory, watching her make bad love decisions after bad love decision while trying to stay hopeful and being able to give the people around her all the love she has, they grow attached to.

They fall in love so easily, it scares Hanako, who, for once in his life, has trouble ignoring that this girl is at death door, sleeping for now, and never waking up again. 

Hanako considers making her meet him in high school and make her fall in love with him. Kou is highly against it, claiming it isn't ethical to insert themselve into a patient's life (something Hanako always tells him!!) and that Hanako isn't 'a handsome and princely man' as requested, which Hanako takes some offense to despite Kou being correct. 

Kou wanted to do the patient wishes, insert an incredible boy much better than himself to sweep Nene off her feet during one of her lowest memories and start off their happy love story. Hanako claims Nene would be happy with anyone's love anyways, and is overall acting 'weird', enough for Kou to worry a bit.

Turn out, in one of Nene's earlier memories, she had met Hanako before. When he was a small kid lost in a festival, the younger version of Hanako clearly awestruck by Nene.

Hanako is embarrassed, claiming he didn't remember this, and Kou become more exasperated than angry with Hanako, giving him an earfull 'dude don't use our job to fulfil your dream to get with your childhood crush, this should be about Nene's wish.'

In the end, they fulfill end up fulfilling her wishes and give her a wonderful made-up husband who is rich and popular and beautiful and some of this made up prince charming personality is suspiciously similar to Hanako, but he treat her well. And she is happy. Nene dies in a picture perfect world, happy, but they both feel empty, attending her funeral.