So is it that she abandons her in the end or am I misreading
The end leans into visual metaphor, I think (what normal train would still be going like this, under these conditions?).
Koma realizes Yura asked her to come along on a double suicide, and that in some sense, Yura has been readying herself for it for a year, but she can't bring herself to go along with it. And so they're separated. Yura takes her own life - on top of everything else, disappointed that even Koma wouldn't accompany her.
The water rising in the train might "just" be Koma getting swallowed up by grief, but in light of "It's the same for me"... I can't make up my mind on whether I think she followed suit moments later or not.
Anyway, that's when I went a few pages back back and realized the ocean comes up as a visual for suicidal tendencies as early as page 18.
And that on page 3, the waves are "following" Yura as if they were at the beach, despite the playground equipment moments earlier - and then again on page 31, they're still at the playground, but the water rises to their ankles (a page later, they're completely dry. It's not literally water..!)
I really liked this one.
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