On Thu, 16 Oct 1997, David Johnston wrote:

Douglas A. Reeves wrote:

Don't read this if you haven't yet read Bubblegum Collapse!  You've been
warned!

	Seconded.

And yet, consider this... when I wrote Bubblegum Collapse, I considered
as an alternate ending allowing Nene to live.  Then I realized that the
story would be much, MUCH darker if I had done that... forcing her to
witness the consequences of what she had done firsthand, to see the
devastation she had wreaked, the lives she had taken... *shudder*

I couldn't do it.  It was too much.  There are fates worse than death...

I assume that even if she'd stayed alive, someone important
would have died?

	Ano... did you read BGCollapse?
	Unless you think the only important person in MegaTokyo _was_
Nene-chan, someone important dies at the end or earlier. 

HTG