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Originally Posted by kuromitsu

Spoiler for Shun:

I don't think that's an open question. He's dead. One, he needs to be dead for plot purposes: it would seriously cheapen everything if he was alive after all that drama. Two, gouma aren't allowed to exist, Shun understood this better than anyone else. His condition was incurable and uncontrollable, and presented a deadly danger to everyone and everything around him. (It also put a huge, unbearable strain on his psyche.) Three, if he's not dead then where is he? The story spans 10+ years after his death, what with his condition there's no way he wouldn't have been discovered. Four, if he was alive how would you explain his own explanation for showing up in Saki's mind? Even if we argue that it wasn't really Shun but Saki going a bit crazy, we were presented with an explanation of why Shun and how, and it made sense. And besides, if he was alive there would've been no need for all that.

Also, Saki says that Shun never "showed up" again in her mind after the akki incident. ("十年前の事件以来、瞬は、一度も現れていない。")

In short, Shun is dead, let the poor boy rest in peace.

Spoiler for Maria & Mamoru:

That's one option, but I think it's more likely that the bakenezumi killed them after their son was born. (Power or not, Maria must've been weak after giving birth, and Mamoru is well, Mamoru.)

Spoiler for Satoru:

Now I totally disagree with this. For one, he and Saki clearly love each other, both as friends and later on as a couple. Maybe, if things happened in a different way, they wouldn't have considered each other as a romantic partner. (Maybe.) But things being as they are, they have a very strong bond and an understanding that's deeper than they have with anyone else. It's not a burning, passionate romance, but something that grew out of friendship, trust and a deep, mutual understanding.

And yes, they're both hung up over Shun for an appallingly long time, and there's the "making love to a ghost" scene (god, that hurt so much...) because they were never given closure with Shun. They were never given the chance to accept his death, mourn him and move on. All they know is that there was someone they loved but they don't know what he was called or even what he looked like, and this screws with their mind and their feelings big time. They have a revealing conversation during Saki's little breakdown, when Saki tells Satoru that she does love him, but there's also this faceless, unknown boy whom she knows she had loved from the bottom of her heart, and she can't move on until she remembers him and sorts out her feelings for him. And Satoru answers that he's in the exact same boat.* So when their memories of Shun return they can finally lay him to rest, in a manner of speaking, and move on with their lives and their feelings.

Even after she remembered Shun Saki never once mentions that she wishes she would be with him, nor that she wishes that Shun would "appear" for her as he did during the akki incident so they could be together that way. She's happy and content with Satoru, and while we rarely learn anything about how things are on Satoru's side, he also seems to be happy and content with Saki. Shun was their first love, but you don't always end up with your first love for the rest of your life. (Especially if he dies when he's like 14...)

*if someone wants to read it:

Spoiler for the relevant bit:

「それだけじゃないわ。わたしたちの大切な仲間だった、顔のない少年に対してしたことも」
胸が詰まって、わたしは、言葉を切らずにはいられなかった。
「わたしは、彼が好きだった。心の底から、愛してたわ。だから、彼の名前も思い出せないまま、死ぬのは厭な の。…あなたのことも、大好きよ。覚。でも、わたしは、まだ、彼について、気持ちの整理ができないの。それ ができないうちは、一歩も前に進めない。だから…」
覚は、わたしを見た。
「僕も、同じ気持ちだよ。早季。いい大人になって、こんなことを言うのは恥ずかしいんだけど、記憶を奪われ たせいで、僕もまだ、彼への気持ちは踏ん切りが付かないんだ。」
「覚…」
「だから、ここでは死ねない。(…)」

Spoiler:

Well, Shun did try to kill himself unsuccessfully, even the poison cannot kill him. It is possible that he did not die during the sand storm... Well I really cannot say too much about why he didnt get discover during those 10+ years. As for the Shun in Saki's mind, there are too many explanations to this. She has gone mad, she missed Shun so much that she used her psychic power to make up one in her mind, She is timid and Shun is the smartest in the group so she always use Shun as a way of thinking. Or Shun is remotely helping her. etc

For maria and mamoru's death, then how do you explain that their corpse are discovered in different times, not together? and i think they have a daughter not a son?

For satoru and saki, not much to add as this rly depends on personal preference.