What happens at the end of Yuuna and the Haunted Hot Springs?

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• The concept of peering into the future and all possibilities is often useful, but in many cases it's still a sad thing. One of the variants, a Black Mercy-styled dream giving you the chance to peek into your ideal future, comes up repeatedly:
  • The school festival is brutal to Chisaki. On the second day, she's put into a dream looking at possible future events, and it's not quite great; Yuuna passes on without anyone ever knowing why, Kogarashi loses his powers, and every single girl gets rejected in the aftermath of the final battle. However, Chisaki managed to run into Kogarashi again years later, and they're able to reconnect and even have a fulfilling relationship together... but as soon as he proposes, she's pulled back into reality, having spent one year (but with eleven years worth of memories) in the dream where two minutes have passed in the real world. She lived a full chapter of her life with the man she loved only to rediscover it wasn't even real. Damn.
    • To add insult to injury, she only wins Kogarashi's heart by virtue of being his only option left after a string of tragedies and sadness, and she can choose to make it come true provided she never tells anyone the exact circumstances of Kogarashi losing his powers. As the dream world breaks apart, she tells Future Kogarashi as much, saying she doesn't want to live in a future where only she gets to be happy, and willingly gives up that future while tearfully embracing her Kogarashi one last time. The only consolation she got is having the experience erased from her mind, but the feelings remain.
    • This comes back with a vengeance after she and the girls are put to sleep to recover Kogarashi's spirit— she's once again pulled into a dream of an ideal future with him, but this time she's well aware of the previous experience and that she's stuck in another dream. On top of all that, she's slowly sinking into depression because her memories from life are blending in with her memories from both dream worlds. This is only alleviated by Kogarashi figuring out about the whole arc from Ryuuzen and asks for the same memories to understand what she went through. He proposes again, and, accepting that she'll only have this happiness in her dream, Chisaki says yes.
  • The other girls have sweet dreams of their time with Kogarashi, but all of them hinge on the fact that Yuuna has to pass on in order to make him theirs. Kogarashi even mentions as much in the final chapter, pointing out that he'd never want a future in which he could never meet her again.
  • Unexpectedly, Yuuna, or rather Genryuusai, has gone through an even worse version. When Ryuuzen gives her the visions, she goes through what has to be hundreds of possible futures in which she gets together with him and stays in the Yuuragi inn, but all variations end with him dying to Nonko's father and some misfortune befalling the rest of the cast. Genryuusai comes to the conclusion that she is the root cause of their suffering, and has her mind wiped to alleviate her accumulated mental anguish.
• Chapter 155 gives out the detail on why Kogarashi has such a massive debt on him that he's forced to stay at the inn because of how cheap it is. Back when he was still in grade 5, he assaulted one of the teachers because he ended up being possessed by an aggressive dog. While the teacher tries to comfort him, Kogarashi ends up running away to the streets where he ends up encountering a ghost who deals with stock trades. An entire month passes and the ghost ends up departing for the afterlife and asks Kogarashi to finish up the last few details when he's gone. Only for Kogarashi to see that the stock market will crash in the near future. He then ignores the warning thinking that it wasn't his problem but ends up finding out that the child of the ghost was the same teacher that he accidentally assaulted, who ends up having a massive debt on her shoulders. Kogarashi ends up feeling guilty that he ignored what the ghost said and the warning signs of the stock market crash and ends up shouldering the debt as a form of atonement towards the horrible things he did towards her.
• The epilogue is not kind to a lot of people:
  • Karura lapses back into her old ways, becoming a ruthless and all powerful leader of her clan and waging a war against the Yoinozaka, in part because she's still upset that Kogarashi didn't pick her. A repeat of her arc happens some time in between the end and Yuuna's wedding, where all the inn's companions have to take her down and get her back to normal.
  • Chisaki takes a long time to get over the end, to the point where her studies abroad were, in part, due to her not wanting to open up old wounds seeing the inn gang again. Heck, her mother's epilogue picture is just of her comforting a weeping Chisaki immediately after the events of the final chapter!
  • Poor Koyuzu figures out that her mother long since replaced her after she left her village. Now the young tanuki has to live with the knowledge that her own mother abandoned her for not keeping her powers under control, and from the epilogue text she was not happy about it.

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