Editing City Series:Volume7 Layer 8 (section)

===Record 5: He Tells Me Something===
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'''03/04/1997

'''18:56

I ran into Senpai on the way back from school and we stopped by our usual ramen place. He was in high school and already the Chancellor. I was still in middle school. We were only one year apart, but we lived in completely different worlds. I tried various tricks to try and get him to pay, but nothing worked.

Anyway, a classmate’s family ran this ramen place. It wasn’t deserted, but it was pretty quiet.

We slurped our ramen at the counter while we chatted.

“The daughter of this ramen shop is the one from that accident, isn’t she?” he asked.

I made sure the mustache man behind the counter was chatting with another customer before answering.

“Yeah. She was caught in the mess with the rest of us when I punched that auto three wheeler. She used to help out here, but now she’s in Kansai. They have better tech for prosthetic eyes there.”

Senpai paused his eating, nodded, and muttered “Kansai”.

More than a year had passed since the east and west were unified. I had even heard our middle school would be going to Nara, Kyoto, and Osaka for their school trips.

But even a middle schooler like me heard the concerning rumors.

Senpai led the Chancellor’s Officers, so he had to hear even more than me. So I asked about it.

“Is something worrying you?”

“Yes,” he honestly replied. “For example…”

He looked to me, smiled bitterly, and said “never mind”.

“The most important worries are best kept a secret.”

'''Author Comment:

Again with the ramen.

In my day, we would generally stop at ramen shops on the way home from school, but do kids go to convenience stores now?

I feel like there are a lot of those small differences, but I still think a restaurant like this suits the sunset mood better.