Down the Rabbit Hole 2 is the first chapter of Subarashiki Hibi, and the true start of the main story. We're put into Minakami Yuki's perspective again as this time, Yuki's everyday life is flipped upside down upon the suicide of one of her schoolmates, Takashima Zakuro.
Due to a mysterious encounter with Zakuro right before she headed off to her death, Yuki becomes personally wrapped up in the case of her suicide, and the mysteries surrounding the prophecy of one of her classmates, that tell of the worlds end on July 20th, 2012.
This chapter only has one ending, the Down the Rabbit Hole II End.
Plot summary[]
The chapter begins with a replay of Yuki and Takujis dialogue from DTRH1 before switching to a scene of Yuki riding a train and rambling about her day to day life. Yuki leaves the train and heads towards a CD store in Suginomiya where she encounters an oddly behaving Zakuro. Yuki does not have any previous memory of Zakuro whereas Zakuro claims to have previously met Yuki, Zakuro then kisses Yuki and begins to speak about the End Sky, she also claims that the world will end soon but she has the power to save it. Zakuro abruptly exits the scene after being beckoned by two girls, a confused Yuki then departs with the Wakatsuki sisters to walk home.
The ensuing scenes are essentially a reiteration of the wholesome Yuki-Wakatsuki relationship shown in DTRH1, the three walk to school together on the following day where the story begins to ramp up. Upon entering the classroom, Yuki learns that Zakuro has committed suicide along with the aforementioned two girls, after discussing the situation with her classmates, Yuki heads to the rooftop where she encounters the enigmatic Ayana. Following a philosophical discussion with Ayana, Yuki heads to Zakuros classroom and discusses the suicide with Yui, a teacher, before returning to the rooftop to talk with Ayana again. However, upon leaving, Yuki experiences an intense sensastion of vertigo and dizziness. She ends up by the schools pool and has a brief discussion with a nervous and timid Takuji.
The next day Yuki learns of the web bot project is an AI rumored to be able to predict future events, with the most important prediction stating that the world will end on the 20th of July 2012, around 2 weeks from the current time in the story. The Wakatsuki sisters and Yuki eat lunch on the rooftop while conversing about the web bot project. Upon returning to the classroom, Yuki engages in a conversation with a fellow classmate named Kiyoshi, she learns of and recieves an invite to an anonymous underground messaging forum where many of the schools students regularly talk. Following this, she enters Zakuros classroom with a detective kit and uncovers fingerprints and cryptic words on Zakuros desk. Yuki then encounters Ayana once again on the rooftop and spots Takuji near the pool, she then decides to approach Takuji.