Sakurasou no Pet na Kanojo:Volume 10 Final Chapter: Under The Sakura Tree

After walking out of the hall of Suiko University of the Arts, a warm autumn breeze passed by.

Sorata who was in his full suit gently loosened his tie and gazed upon the dazzling sky.

It was a blue and clear sky.

Clouds that were like cotton candy floated by.

Gentle sunlight.

Because of the soothing sunshine, the Sakura trees have blossomed a week earlier than usual.

At the front of the hall used for the graduation ceremony, the beautiful Yoshino Sakura flowers bloomed as well.

There isn’t a weather more suitable for graduations.

There were students taking memorial pictures everywhere.

The boys were dressed in formal suits, while the girls wore prominent kimonos.

Exactly like how a university graduation scene should be.

After graduating from Suiko……The 22 year old Sorata was peacefully welcoming his graduation days. “Sorata-sempai~!”

After hearing his name being called out, he naturally looked for the owner of the voice.

He saw Iori waving his hands, running towards him from the boulevard.

A white shirt that was suitable for autumn, along with black jeans. The hem of the shirt was hanging out. Sorata noticed the headphones hanging from his head, after he came closer.

“You came specially to congratulate me?”

“I, have finally found the truth. I must say it no matter what.”

He didn’t look like he was here for congratulations.

“Oppai that are far away are not better off than pettanko that are near.”

Suiko students that were walking back and forth from the halls were all like ‘What is Iori saying.’ Even Sorata felt suspicious eyes staring at him. Sorata really hoped that he could stop it. Even the girl with short hair beside him shot a nasty look and backed off from him.

“Man…What dumb things are you saying”

Sorata stuck his hand out and whole-heartedly pinched Iori’s face, making it seem stretched. “OuchOuchOuch, wha-what are you doing!”

The person who came over was Kanna.

She was in a light-looking shirt with a short skirt.

Her legs were wrapped in black tights, and she wore boots that were slightly higher than her ankle. Kanna shot unhappy looks to Iori through the glasses of her spectacles. <--Pretty redundant, but still.-->

But even after this, she still said,

“Congratulations on graduating.”

“Thank you. Looks like Iori and Kanna are still like usual eh.”

Both are currently students of the Suiko University of the Arts.

They are going to be third-years starting from next month.

Kanna enrolled in the Literature department.

As a novelist, she continued writing novels. Iori didn’t enrol in the music department, instead enrolling into the Games SFX section in the Media Arts department, manipulating original soundtracks and training up on his DTM skills. (Trans note: DTM, or Digital Terrain Model. Check wiki for more info.)

“What do you mean, ‘as usual’?”

Kanna shot her cold eyes towards Sorata.

“Meaning good relationship.”

“Not at all.”

Kanna said flatly.

“No, it’s very good. Extremely good. Really.”

Iori’s view was completely the opposite.

“Not at all.”

Although it looks like this on the surface, the two were in fact dating.

The two began dating starting from their third year during high school.

Although Kanna seemed to have set conditions for the Iori whose feelings did not weaver for two years.

--If you win at the Japanese National Piano Competition, I’ll go out with you

Sorata attended the competition as well, and saw Iori’s recital attract standing ovations. It was indeed a spectacular performance.

Sorata met Iori’s sister Saori by coincidence.

“Even I never did receive an applause like that eh.”

Saori said with a tad bit of exaggeration. She might have returned to Japan temporarily from her overseas study in Australia. Together with Saori stood the previous Student Council President, Soichiro Tatebayashi.

“Is it regret?” He coldly said.

From Saori’s speechless stare at Soichiro, one could tell that this was not a baseless accusation.

“I do not feel that achieving first is always a target. A wonderful performance cannot be equated with a performance that can grasp a person’s heart.”

The meaning behind those words could only be understood after listening to Iori’s recital.

The Iori who even after fracturing his arm, announced that he would be facing another challenge again.

Beautifully completing his determination, Iori performed not as [Himemiya’s brother], but showed the audience his own performance. Furthermore, he was also surrounded by warm applauses.

Judging from the results…It was still a pity that he did not win…

Frustrating defeat.

“My youth is over…” The Iori who had lost the chance to go out with Kanna was absolutely depressed.

“I don’t wanna do anything anymore. If only I could disappear from the surface of the Earth this moment…”

Burned to absolute nothingness.

The Kanna who saw that decided, “Haiz…Ok. Let’s go out.” Though it had a forceful feel to it, both of them started their relationship.

To think that two years have already passed like this…

“Looks like it is going successfully, I’m happy oh.”

Sorata poked at them with a jesting tone.

“Because there isn’t a satisfying man around, I’m temporarily using him to make up for it.”

Kanna’s tsundere side was still in tact.

“Ehhh, I’m also making up with your flat chest eh.”

“Iori I remembered that you said something along the lines of ‘something far away is not as good as something near, something something ’?”

“Can you stop repeating those unclassy words?” Kanna glared at him with cold eyes.

“Ah, speaking of which, are you not together with Ryuunosuke-senpai?” Iori clearly shifted the topic.

As though he was afraid of being reprimanded by Kanna.

“Un? I thought Akasaka said that he was going to attend the graduation ceremony?”

“This morning before Sorata-senpai left, Rita-senpai came to fetch him as well. After which, she forcefully dragged DRAGON-senpai away.”

“Was it like that?”

At this moment, Sorata, Ryuunosuke and Iori was living together as a group of three. After graduating from Suiko, Sorata and Ryuunosuke rented an old building not far away from university, and used it as their development lab.

A place which was across the other side of the University from Sakurasou. <--Er…don’t ask me.-->Although it was on the same street, at least the scenery was different by a tad. For a fresh start, this was considered okay.

The Iori who had planned to enrol in Suiko University of The Arts started living there as well.

Over at the side on game production, although there were all sorts of difficulties, it has been going well successfully.

The dream Sorata had to establish a game production company before Iori arrived in year two was achieved as well.

The three-man team consisted of Sorata, Ryuunosuke and Iori.

If there was a lack of members, every time when a new project started, they would beg Rita and Misaki, and the Fukaya Shiho from the University’s CG production course to take charge.

“I’ll go look for DRAGON-senpai!”

“Ah, wait!”

The rushing Iori disappeared amongst the crowd of graduating students.

Kanna chased after Iori after slightly nodding to Sorata.

“You can use the phone...”

Sorata mumbled towards the two who have disappeared. He took out his cellphone from his pocket.

“…”

But there was no reply, so he put it back into his pocket.

After detailed considerations, Sorata realised there was no need to meet up exclusively with the Ryuunosuke he is seeing everyday.

Even if it was not like that, we promised to meet each other after today. A meeting with buddies who went through the same times together, at Sakurasou.

Sorata, Ryuunosuke, Iori, Kanna, Misaki, Jin, Nanami, Chihiro, and, Mashiro…