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Mitsuki never really left the ring behind. She's wearing it in her final scene, set in the future, in episode 14. Watch her hand when she wipes away her tears (induced by reading Akane's glowing praise of her) - she wearing it then.
The ring essentially symbolises Takayuki and Mitsuki's relationship. Nothing more, nothing less. Notice that when Mitsuki is embarassed or ashamed of her relationship, she covers her ring with her free hand (like when Akane gives her death glares, or when she and Taka don't communicate), as close as she can get to physically denying their love. When the relationship truly snaps and they are no longer 'together', she deposits the ring in the only other symbol of their relationship, the dolphin mug, and walks out.
Taka takes the ring with him to the tree on the hill when he tries to find her in episode 14. Although he drops it when he is startled by her presence, they must have salvaged it in order for her to be wearing it in the future.
The ring's design is quite interesting - it's two intersecting bands of silver. It looks pretty straightforward but such a design was probably chosen to show the intersecting of the two life lines, the joining of the two at one point only.
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