Shuuen no Shiori 4: Lost -Re:code-

Shuuen no Shiori 4: Lost -Re:code- (終焉ノ栞詩 欠落-Re:code-) is the fourth novel adaptation of 150-P's vocaloid series, published by Media Factory.
==Summary==
E-ki and the others had succeeded in releasing the self-produced movie safely, and enjoyed the remaining day of school festival. And so, the five of them had started to film again. To shoot another ending, they snuck into the school at night, but... 
===Prologue===
E-ki can't move or wake up, but he is still somewhat conscious of what goes on around him. In his hospital room, he hears someone talk to him, though he doesn't know who it is. However, one day, a group that reminds him of the Film Club shows up and begins to talk about what happened 10 years ago. He listens, realizes that they're talking about the incident with the Bookmark of Demise, and thinks that everything will be ending soon.
===Our Days===
This chapter focuses on the Film Club at the festival after premiering their movie, each part having E-ki hang out with a different member of the Film Club.
==== Part I: Hungry Ballad ====
The day after the premiere, E-ki was relaxing after the successful day they had and reflecting on how after they noticed a weird static in the movie that they would use it as an excuse to have fun re-filming the movie together. After running into a seemingly drunk W-Sensei, he confirmed that the Film Club didn't make any plans to be together and that they would simply bump into each other here and there. 
E-ki would proceed to look at all the food stalls and run into D-suke, who was deciding whether he wanted to sign up for a Food eating competition. He manages to convince E-ki to join since it would mean free food. When the competition begins, E-ki is surprised to find out that this competition is far more serious than he anticipated, seemingly famous competitive eaters having come to this competition and competing hard against one another. E-ki could not eat much and was mostly just watching the serious combatants, but then he noticed that despite D-suke's casual attitude with his food that D-suke was eating faster than everyone else. In the end D-suke (The "Food Warrior of Legend") won the competition, winning a free pass to eat whatever he wished from the food booths while E-ki decided to split off to relax after such a competition.
==== Part II: Carbonated Retro ====
==== Part III: Smiling Summit ====
==== Part IV: Oncoming Sweets ====
===Schrödinger’s Cat Cries Out===
After the festival was over, the Film Club began to film again, wanting to fix their movie and make it even better. However, E-ki felt like this new version, while it was more polished, didn't bring him as much excitement as the first version had. They reached the final scene that they needed to film, and they didn't want it to end. They knew, however, that they really wanted to film it at school during nighttime; that was the only way the scene would turn out as perfect as they wanted it to be. E-ki pesters W-sensei into letting them come to school at night, and though he protests, he eventually agrees to turn a blind eye to their actions. 
On the day of the recording, they had dinner at D-suke's house and then headed to the school. As they walk to the music room, they chat about how they want to film it, and also decide to come up with a secret code so that if anyone comes by, they'll know if it's one of them or a security guard. They decide on one, but the reader doesn't get to know it. 
As they set up to film in the room, E-ki thinks about all the ideas he has for movies he wants to make once they're done filming this one. But for now, he feels like he absolutely has to give The Bookmark of Demise a proper ending. The scene is shot from the perspective of a fifth person, who had watched the demise game go down and was bored of it repeating over and over, always ending with everyone dead. However, when they entered the room, everyone was alive and pointing at them, claiming that they understand the truth of the story now. With that section of the scene done, they take a break, and B-ka says he needs to go to the bathroom. He doesn't come back.
D-suke goes to look for him, but he doesn't come back, either. The remaining three are terrified, but C-na says she'll go look for them. E-ki argues that he can't let her go alone, but C-na replies that since someone has to stay in the classroom to wait for the others to come back just in case, if E-ki went with her, he'd be leaving A-no here all alone. C-na goes, and E-ki prays that she'll be alright. However, they hear a scream that's obviously C-na, and A-no panics, running out the door. E-ki tries to follow her, but he trips over an equipment bag and is slowed down.
E-ki remembers his dream as a headache strikes him. How it progressed. He feels like he's in the dream as he wobbles down the hallway, holding his video camera and crying out for the others to be alright, to just be playing a prank on him. He hears a noise, and realizes that there's a light coming from the music room. He runs back, slamming the door open to see the others as soon as possible, and steps into a pool of something on the ground. Something feels wrong, and as he raises his head, he sees everyone pointing at him, their bodies mangled, just as he had seen in his dream. He goes up to all of their bodies, touching them and trying to wake them up, before he crouches down onto the floor and is hit into a coma. 
Since then, in the hospital, caught in an endlessly repeating dream, E-ki is trapped in both nightmare and joy from seeing his friends.
===Greetings from Backstage===
The Occult Club sits together, discussing what they think about the case. They know a lot, but there are also things they haven't figured out. They're trying to understand how many people were involved; you can't just add one for the culprit, since the culprit could be inside the group, but you also can't assume there would be only one culprit. They discuss the differences in the Revival Arc and decide to bet on the existence of that last missing puzzle piece that would allow them to move forward.
===Lost -Re:code-===
A-ya is having a normal school day until his classmate comes by and asks him if he knew about the transfer student. A-ya is taken by surprise; he was expecting a rumor that he knew, but he hadn't heard of a transfer student. It made him uneasy, but he didn't have any concrete information. As he walked to the classroom, he saw someone watching him, wordlessly staring at him. A-ya was about to just leave if he didn't need anything, but the mysterious boy mentioned that he knew that they were looking into the Bookmark of Demise. 
A-ya brought E-noru to the old music room, unnerving the other three, who weren't expecting someone new. Once A-ya mentioned that he knew about the Bookmark of Demise, the others clammed up. A-ya thinks about the old diary they had found, and other information they had on the incident from 10 years ago. E-noru asks the others to come with him to the hospital.
===Hospital Room #1713===
E-noru brings the Occult Club to the hospital to go see E-ki. He sleeps there, connected to wires and surrounded by beeping. Something about the smell of the room bothers B-ko, but she doesn't elaborate. E-noru tells them that not everyone involved in the incident 10 years ago, and that E-ki was, more than a victim, the creator of the Bookmark of Demise. A-ya asks who E-noru is, and he's about to respond when the chapter cuts off.
===You, Reflected in the Setting Sun...===
B-ka is helping his class make decorations for the play they were going to perform during the festival when he realizes that he forgot something in the music room. He didn't expect anyone to be there, but as he approached the room, he saw E-ki fussing about with where things should go in the room to make their movie screening perfect. B-ka offers to help, surprising him, and the two of them work on fixing up the room. B-ka admires E-ki's hard work, and as the sun sets and paints the room orange, he thinks he'll remember that beautiful image.
==Involved Characters==
*A-no
*B-ka
*C-na
*D-suke
*E-ki
*W-sensei
*A-ya
*B-ko
*C-ta
*D-ne
*Unknown (E-noru)
== Trivia ==
* Due to time constraints, the mid-chapter black and white artwork was not included in the novel proper. Instead, the artwork was included as a loose leaflet, the artwork containing the page it belongs to alongside the text that was relevant to the artwork.
** As an apology, Suzumu wrote the bonus chapter "You, Reflected in the Setting Sun..." to include with the novel as well.
* In the Afterword, Suzumu stated that the fifth novel was going to be named 『終焉ノ栞伍〜結末ユメロディ〜』, or "Shuuen no Shiori 5: Conclusion Dreamelody" and several parts of the novel proper implied that Novel 5 would have been the ending of Shuuen no Shiori.
* Due to the Manga's time constraints and need to close the story early, its adaption of this novel diverges significantly from the source material. Our Days was mostly simplified down to just a few pages, Schrödinger's Cat Cries Out was largely adapted accurately, and everything after that was completely changed to close the story.
* Despite no cat being present in this novel, the maid cafe illustration includes a cat with the characters. Potentially this cat could represent Scrödinger's Cat, either specifically the instance of it in this novel in Chapter 2's title or as a reference to the Occult Club's multiple uses of it (notably, Novel 2's chapter Retribution Heroes or how the -Re:mind- track "Schrödinger's Cat" seems to be from the Occult Club's perspective according to the crossfade). Or, given the nature of the cat, both.
==Illustrations==
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