Light Novel Chapter 16

幸福な王子 (Koufuku na Ouji, lit: The Happy Prince) is the sixteenth chapter of the light novel series of The "Hentai" Prince and the Stony Cat.
==Plot==
Later that night, Youto receives a brief, uncharacteristically succinct email from Azusa informing him that she's found Ponta's rabbit. The email also includes a mysterious link to a website. Ponta calls to thank him and say the person who delivered it was none other than the member of the church choir they talked about earlier, the one with the dirty mouth and bad attitude. The website sent by Azusa turns out to be the homepage for the church choir. Youto confronts Emi the next morning, the day of the sports festival, with the homepage, where Emi has written that she was looking forward to going to the sports festival with "Onii-chan," wondering if he remembered their promise. He says he'll help her as best as he can, believing the Onii-chan to be a different person. Hearing this, Emi finally gives up. She takes out the cat plush and cancels all of her wishes, and then throws it off into the distance.
Emi starts talking like her true self, acting in a tsundere fashion and calling Youto a pumpkinhead. As the ribbons Emi was using to make her trademark twintails were part of the wish of appealing to Youto as a pure-hearted younger sister, they too disappear upon cancelling those wishes. As Emi does her hair again with normal ribbons, she launches several caustic remarks. Youto finally starts remembering that this is the kind of girl she was. Emi promises she'll exact revenge and runs off.
After the sports festival, Youto takes a few days off from school and has the same dream as usual those nights. A young boy and girl, getting along well. The girl says that everything's boring, but maybe the sports festival would be fun, so she makes the boy promise to take her there in the future. One is, of course, Emi. And reflected in Emi's eyes is... Youto's face.
Tsukiko arrives at his house early one morning to go to school with him. It was the first time she came by since the day they met Emi. Tsukiko converses a little, about how she lost the wager with her sister, and how Youto only gave pictures to her sister and not her, etc., but Youto isn't listening. Tsukiko tries to make a smile with her hands, saying that Youto likes girls that smile a lot more. But he shouldn't worry only about a girl who has disappeared, since things are still messed up.
Apparently, the school buildings are still Italian. Youto wonders why this is, but goes on about his day. He returns the vice president's sports bra, who is confounded as to how that string of events played out. Also around this time, Youto talks to the Steel King, who says that she has suddenly been accepted as a transfer student to Italy. Though unwilling, she doesn't have a choice. Finally, he finds a commotion in his classroom. It appears some young girl who isn't from the school is sitting precariously on the rail of one of the towers. Youto knows who it must be, and the line she left with, that she'll exact revenge, echoes in the back of his head.
Youto finds that it is indeed Emi up there. She's tossing pictures — pictures of Youto rubbing his face against Emi, for example, which could destroy what reputation he had left. He also meets Azusa in the crowd that has gathered there. Now, the entrances are being guarded by teachers, so Youto can't exactly stroll in. He tells Azusa his plan: if all of the female students suddenly started taking off their underwears, he'd be able to sneak in! Of course, she doesn't buy this plan, but does draw attention long enough for him to get inside.
With teachers gathered at the door to the room Emi is locked in, Youto takes an alternate route involving the ladder Tsukushi broke when she assaulted him on the rooftop days earlier. He manages to get in the room and talks to Emi. Though Youto still doesn't remember too much about their shared past, he vows to remember Emi anew and create new memories with her. Moved by his words, Emi gives Youto a warm hug. As the converse, Emi reveals that after she returned to Japan, she was approached by the Cat God, who gave her the cat plush and told her about a girl Youto liked, who possesses a "100% smile." It offered to grant Emi any wish, starting with granting her such a smile that would appeal to Youto. Youto is confused, knowing that the Stony Cat shouldn't be capable of speech. The mention of this supposed girl however, reminds Youto of a distant memory, involving a children's playground, a tunnel through a hedge, a cat mask, a chance meeting, and a "100% laughing voice."
They hear footsteps — Azusa has climbed up the stairs to the room, and Emi hides behind Youto. Azusa starts talking, but Youto soon realizes that this isn't Azusa; she's using a different form of "I" from the real Azusa. The fake Azusa reveals that it is actually the Stony Cat itself. Azusa, who can talk to animals, was able to talk to the Stony Cat. When she wished for a "new her," the Stony Cat granted her wish by taking up residence in her body. It also took care of the letter Youto put in Azusa's locker.
Youto asks why it hasn't cancelled the wish that changed the buildings and why it's sending Tsukushi to Italy. Emi has cancelled her wishes, and the Steel King has also been trying to cancel any wishes she might have inadvertently wished for herself. The Stony Cat says that he follows his contracts completely. After all, the person who made that wish was Youto himself. Youto doesn't remember, of course, but that has to do with the price he paid for the wish.
Youto has the option to cancel the wish, but in order to grant that wish, the Stony Cat had to bring Emi over to Japan. This means that once he cancels the wish, Emi will be forced to go back to Italy. To further add to the fine mess of the situation, the Stony Cat corners Emi with its words, and Emi "wishes" for it to "get away from her." The Stony Cat grants this wish by slowly walking towards the balcony. Youto is forced between choosing to cancel the wish, saving Tsukushi from going to Italy and Azusa from jumping off of the balcony, but losing Emi, or doing nothing and watching while Azusa falls.
Remembering the line about the prince in the shoujo manga, Youto does the best he can think of; he cancels the wish, but before Emi is sent away, he kisses the possessed Azusa. The Stony Cat, confused and shocked by this action, runs away, leaving the real Azusa, who is just as confused, but happy at the same time. 
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