Returns
Stay
Stay verb - To continue to be in a place for a significant amount of time.
Both words in one sentence
- In Flushed Away, after Roddy finally returns to his home, upon realizing that the Toad plans to destroy the city of rodents in the sewer, he decides to go back to both save the city, and to stay.
Source: Send Me Back -
Nanako's parents returns and finds out the truth, but decides they love Akira very much begging him to stay with them with Nanako's father even becoming overprotective of him.
Source: Manga / Your and My Secret -
When Shouichi returns to Japan in shame, his father practically disowns him, setting the events for Shouichi's eventual stay at Live House 696.
Source: Visual Novel / Deardrops
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