Horizon:Volume 1 Chapter 07

Chapter 07: Philosophers Atop the Stairs

If there is a person who should be able to speak.

Speak of a person who should speak.

Speak together of the person who should speak.

Point Allocation (Dissertation)

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"Alright, with that, we will be having the special Student Council and Chancellor's Board meeting."

A boy's voice was brought to life at a high position. Atop a wooden bridge under the sky, which had slightly past noon.

On the frontal bridge of Ariadust Academy in Musashi's Center Trailing Ship - Inner Tama, atop the stairs which descended towards the front door, figures clad in uniforms were numerous.

The companions, Toori being at the center, were Kimi and Tenzou as well as Shirojiro and Heidi. The boy who had let forth the voice from just now, Neshinbara, while tapping on the Torii-design keyboard which was displaying in the air-

"The meeting topic of today is: 'Let's make Aoi-kun's confession succeed! meeting." This is brought to you with the sponsorship of me, Neshinbara, the secretary--Everyone, you can just slam him however you like you know? Then, Aoi-kun, it's all yours."

"Mmm, if we suddenly just think about the ratings, it'd be more interesting if I get rejected, right?"

"Is that what the person himself says from the beginning!?"

'Aah?' Toori glanced around at everybody-

"The hell is this, all of you!? Can't I be rejected!? I get it. That's th-the repression of results-oriented behaviour isn't it!? Faced with that kind of society who doesn't acknowledge a guy who's down on his luck, I want to firmly object! Is that alright?--Don't think that anybody can get married alright!? You too! And you too!!"

Everybody held down Toori, who had started pointing at people returning home as a result of his rampage, and stopped him. Sanyou, who had been pointed at approximately the fifth time had run away while crying, but everyone was unable to follow-up until that point.

Anyways, Toori, who had been made to sit, took a breath and looked at Tenzou, sitting next to him, who was wearing a ninja cap. And-

"Hey, Tenzou, fundamentally, how does somebody confess? In terms of number, you're pretty used to it right?"

"Ri-right now, I have been rejected a lot, you know!? It is that way, you know!?"

"It's fine, just try saying it."

"Mmm', Tenzou folded his arms and nodded. Afterward, he raised his right index finger-

"Suddenly confessing being completely honest is the admirable road. No matter who it is, they have the thing called preparation of the heart; Toori-dono, in the morning, if a girl you do not know is standing in front of your house and you are told 'I love you,'--wouldn't that be amazing! --You do not need it! Preparation of the heart, you do not need it!"

"Yes. However, if that girl was Tenzou, I'd be pretty disgusted. After you stand in front of my house for the sake of confessing to me, nervously hoping, I'd run away before your sanity level drops. Without a doubt."

"You're horrible!!"

"--Hey, this is the opinion of the secretary. The two of you, take this seriously!"

At the voice of Neshinbara, continuing to tap at the keyboard, taking down the meeting log, the two folded their arms.

After a while, once again, Tenzou raised his right index finger-

"...This is one, how would a 'letter operation' be?"

Tenzou took out a pen and notepad from his chest.

'What?' at the destination of everyone's gazes, Tenzou passed the pen and notepad to Toori's hands.

"Would that be alright? When confessing, a person will always get flustered. For example, you thought you were saying 'I love you,' but you panic and, 'I love your man!' explodes out, or if you seriously stutter and 'I w-wuvee you!' bursts out, or if you force yourself to do it cheerfully 'Watashiii loooveess kimiiiii yoou knowwww---!?';you will say one of those kinds of fail honest confessions."

"You really have a lot of experience. You're reassuring, but be a little tolerant, since you're a ninja."

"Lectured! In this kind of timing, I was lectured!"

"Don't worry about it, Tenzou, or rather, what does this notepad and pen have to do with your happy failure stories?"

'Ah', Tenzou cracked his finger.

"It is simple-Write down what you want to tell her in advance, and in place of a confession put that into a letter and hand it to her."

"Mmm', Tenzou nodded.

"If you do so, it has absolutely no relationship with getting flustered, and if you are embarrassed, it is fine if you return home just like that. Furthermore, if it ends without the other person responding immediately, even a response by letter is good, so it is thoroughly caring--"

"Hey, hey, are the failure stories of getting rejected by that method going to start now? It's a good atmosphere right now!"

"I-I am sorry! The atmosphere has become awkward!"

However, Toori looked at the memopad, and he said 'But, y'know' to Tenzou. "Y'know', he introduced further-

"In short, write how I fell in love with the other person on this?"

"Well, officially a piece of paper, but it should be fine to summarize what you think up here."

"Mmmmm...Don't really want to do it. Y'know why? This kind of, workings of the emotions of love or hate, it can't really be put into words well, can it?"

Responding to those words was not Tenzou. It was Kimi, curling her body up against the railing of the bridge. While her hair fluttered int he wind, she looked at Toori-

"Fufufu, idiot brother, there's no good way to put emotions, things like love or hate, into words? What a cute line. If that's so, as a test, try to write down what you dislike about the eroge-ninja."

"No Sis, things like what I dislike about my friend, there's no way I could put that into words well, can I?"

● As for what I think about how he is as a human, hiding his face all the time, I can't put it into words very well.

● I wonder whether using 'gozaru' as a sentence ending is meant to be a gag, but I can't put it into words very well.

● I really wish he'd do something about the fact that sometimes a smell like the smell of a dog comes from his clothes, but I can't put it into words very well.

"Like I thought, it's something that I can't really put into words, the bad areas of my friend."

"Yo-you just wrote it down without any trouble! You did! And in bullet points!"

"Hmm? That's weird. I can't write anything about your good areas though. ファー..."

"The hell is 'ファー...'! This guy is the worst!!"

Tenzou grabbed Toori's collar and shook him, but Toori continued smirking. As if in his place, Kimi peeled her body from the railing and stood behind Toori-

"Fufufu, idiot brother, putting that aside, haven't we been able to practice at a good stepping stone? If that's so, try writing down the good areas of the she who is inside your heart."

"Eeh? Again, Sis is asking me to do a really difficult thing. Tenzou's hateful areas are direct, as in already apparent, so I can do it easily, but she is--that's right, it's the heart, you know!? The heart! Do you think that the workings of my pure soul can be easily put into words well!?"

● That her face rather fits my tastes is something that I can't put into words very well.

● That I can peek at the part inside her apron, what looks like panties, from the fringe when she squats is something I can't put into words very well.

● That the lines at the area from her waist till her butt are amazing is something that I can't put into words very well.

"Mmm, like I thought, my pure soul is something that I can't put into words very well."

"--Th-this is really specific! Yet it is practical!"

"Don't be so noisy, Tenzou. If I were to seriously get specific, it wouldn't end with just this...!"

"Wait, waitwait...those bullet points, for Toori, an important thing is missing."

The person who formed those words was a massive figure seated two steps down, the half-dragon Ulquiaga.

Bending his arms, which were also frontal wings, he rubbed his chin with the small hand within the wing-

"As far as I can see...there is a mystery to Toori's affection."

"Eh? There's something missing from Toori-kun's practical affections?"

At Heidi, who asked that, 'Yeah', Ulquiaga nodded. And, he-

"--Why hasn't this citizen of the boob camp mentioned anything about boobs directed to the other person?"

At Ulquiaga's words, everyone drew a breath of surprise and looked at Toori.

In the surroundings, even the students going home from school slightly stopped the movements of their bodies in response to the words just now.

"Have I, by any chance become the authority of that path?"

While speaking, Toori nodded with a serious face. And when he slowly sucked in a breath, his expression stilled and he began to run his pen down the paper-

"I have done it. In short--If I do not try to/Fondle those breasts which she holds/I won't understand."

"Don't just read the first line of a poem indifferently!!"

At everyone's tsukkomi, Toori frowned. 'Hey you guys, you know,' he folded his arms.

"What should I do for the word about the seasons?"

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