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Hidan no Aria:Volume10 Chapter2

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Late that night, I received a notification from Watson.

Her inspections had revealed no major injuries to Aria and the others.

Having been struck both by debris and the concussive blast of a grenade, and yet suffering only minor injuries, the girls' stubborn vitality was truly worthy of the name Baskerville. Despite being left at a loss for words, I nonetheless heaved a sigh of relief.

Nevertheless, erring on the side of safety, those four were to be interned at Butei hospitals for a week. Haimaki, who had been twice hit by cars, faced a similar situation.

The following day-

Without leaving me sufficient time for recovery, Jeanne contacted me, saying, "In light of the GIII and GIV incident, we're convening a gathering of Deen."

Adding to that, after school today, the Halloween celebration begins (I'd heard that because of the break at the end of October, the festival had been changed to today). Masters had directed that all students leaving campus must be appropriately dressed. Simply speaking, we were to dress up as ghouls and goblins and the like.

Even though I was hardly in the mood to play along, but if one of our horrifying teachers caught me in my uniform, I'd be beaten 'til I nigh looked the part. That being the case, meeting aside, I'd find myself in the hospital if I wasn't careful.

Consequently, I'd better at least borrow a hermit's robe and hood from Amdo, dressing up as an obake before attending the meeting. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obake]

The meeting place was the family restaurant Roxi, and in its shaded outdoor terrace-

Deen's members had already assembled.

Though I'd walked here without difficulty, my knee, which had been given a painful kick by GIV, continued to throb.

Because of the need to change clothing, I'd been running slightly behind schedule, but my knee had kept me from running, and I found myself unable to make our 3 o'clock meeting time, arriving just a little late at the appointed place.

"Sorry I'm late. In case you couldn't tell, it's me."

I announced myself, the sole remaining representative of Baskerville. Face nearly covered by my hood, I ordered a cup of Oolong tea before approaching the round table.

"You're late, Tohyama. Normally, you're already gloomy enough, but to go so far as to wear such drab garments..."

Jeanne d'Arc of IU's Daio Nomad turned to me, coffee cup in hand.

Under her right eye was a brilliant, snowflake-shaped sticker, on her head, a pointy black hat, and in her hand, a star-tipped wand. In short, a witch.

Hey, since she's a real witch, what's the point in dressing up as one? Why don't you try a little creativity every now and then?

"One of Tohyama, thou hast encountered some difficulty. Dost thine knee trouble thee?"

The one with even less of an imagination would be-

Bending her exposed tail into a "?", Tamamo inquired this of me. She wore a hakama, disguising herself as a fox spirit. You might also say she hadn't bothered to disguise herself at all, as she was a fox spirit to begin with. Just how relaxed can you be?

Even though she normally wears a hat to hide her ears, they're now in plain sight for all to see; is that really okay?

The only thing she's really done is to stick three black lines as whiskers on each cheek, but having done a poor job, the mere act of her turning has already resulted in the casualty of a single whisker.

On the other hand, the Liberty Mason representative Watson...

"Tohyama, the same goes for me. In case you couldn't tell, it's me."

She'd raced down a completely different path of mistaken creativity, having taken a Jack-o'-lantern - a real, hollowed-out pumpkin - for a mask, covering her head in this manner.

... Wearing something like that, isn't the pumpkin smell hard to bear?

From the neck down, she wore something like a white raincoat. This was undoubtedly a costume that would leave one clueless as to her true identity. Until she opened her mouth to speak, I had had no idea it was her.

"Oh my, everyone. What ominous appearances, though I must admit, quite cute indeed, hehe."

Hearing this light laughter, I turned to look at the laptop resting upon the tabletop.

On the screen was Meiya, apparently employing some Skype-like video functionality to take part in the meeting.

She was the envoy from the Vatican in this "Far East Warfare", and also a junior of Kana during her time as an exchange student at Rome's Butei High.

Meiya looked at the dubious-looking crowd that was us, revealing a smile as if a caretaker at a nursery. How utterly irritating.

Looking carefully, the window behind Meiya showed darkness, affirming the difference in time between our two locations.

"Disregarding the wait, let's begin our meeting. Yesterday, four members of the group belonging to Deen, Baskerville, including also a member of Ulus, were attacked and beaten by the supposedly 'unaffiliated' GIII and his subordinate GIV."

Jeanne skillfully began to explain the situation. She almost seemed to be the leader of the group, or perhaps a capable cabinet member.

"Yesterday, on the road home, I asked GIV for her reasons. Apparently the reason they fought in the Shinagawa River geofront was simply because they'd discovered Reki's presence. Reki included, before being ambushed, neither Aria nor any of the others had ever encountered GIII's group before. In brief, it was completely a surprise attack,"

Watson-the-human-pumpkin added.

"Even if they're lacking in numbers, this kind of sneak attack is still hard to countenance."

Jeanne's blue eyes blinked, and she shifted her legs beneath her hard tulle and satin panier.

"They seem to think nothing of contemptible, shameful tactics, an ideology where the ends justify the means."

Without appearing to recall what things she had done previously, Watson-the-pumpkin spoke thusly.

"What should we do now? GIII and GIV are currently operating separately. Should we seize this opportunity?"

As I cut to the heart of the matter-

Hmm...?

What? Everyone seems to have averted their gaze, including even Meiya on the computer screen.

What's going on with you guys?

"..."

The only response came from Tamamo, who closed both eyes, sipped her melon soda, and spoke,

"I understand thou art disturbed on behalf of thine companions, but despair not, little one. I ask thee, one of Tohyama, canst thou obtain victory?"

She opened her eyes, exposing a penetrating, inhuman perception.

"That's..."

"Now, from what Watson hast shared, those young ladies of Baskerville could do but naught against GIV. Their leader - GIII - is yet greater still. If thou still believest thou canst win, then share thine plan."

Tamamo's tail arched, pressing lightly against the back of the chair. I could only stutter.

"...Er, when it comes to specifics...I can't really think of anything on the spot..."

"One of Tohyama, stand not upon custom. In 'Warfare', no matter the time, regardless of who has challenged whom, all is permitted. Though such a tactic may be vile indeed, they have nonetheless committed no sin."

"You mean we shouldn't retaliate?! Our companions have been ambushed by despicable means!"

Though I frowned in heated emotion,

"Ambush? How was it an ambush? This is war."

Tamamo casually replied as she had before.

"What...!?"

"This thing called war is even so. It is utterly and altogether different from the spirit of fair competition in sports. Once more, war is not a mere scuffle. From times long past, reconciliation has only come after blood-soaked struggle."

Tamamo spoke, staring at me all the while, leaving me without rejoinder.

This...contemptible fox.

While looking like an elementary school student, she dares to talk back to a high school student.

"One of Tohyama, canst thou not understand this one point? Why there remains but one member left of Baskerville? This is their message to us, 'We are strong,' even going so far as to leave a messenger - GIV."

"But they're the enemy! Are you fine with letting the enemy run free?"

"Enemy? Then I ask thee, hast GIV bared enmity before thee? Didst she not cast off her armor and lay down her weapons? They have not as of yet shown true hostility towards Deen, instead giving room for negotiation. We must not, of ourselves, make ruin of this opportunity."

"That's...hmm, that's not wrong..."

"Moreover, it seems the weapon they employ is 'science', truly a peculiar existence."

Yours is the peculiar existence!

Nearly blurting this out, I instead swallowed my reply.

"The disciples of science and us - witches and spirits - a hard battle indeed. Worse，currently Ririirokane's particles are particularly dense."

Tamamo's puffed her cheeks unhappily.

"Ririirokane...?"

I remember, it ought to be a kind of Irokane located in Reki's homeland.

Before, when the three Koko sisters of Ranban had seized control of the Shinkansen, I'd heard something like "its anger has scattered invisible particles, rendering the ability of all the ability users in the world unstable." Is this related to that?

Jeanne turned her head to look at me, whose knowledge only skimmed the surface.

"Though this might be difficult to grasp, but Ririirokane looses particles that disturb the abilities of ability users. It's similar to how metallic chaff can render radar ineffectual, except only causing complications...the range of its effect is very broad."

"How broad?"

"Sufficient to cover a third of the Earth's surface area. At the time of the cultural festival, it again intensified. Japan now falls within its realm of influence."

Jeanne had declared this a hard thing to grasp, as it most certainly was.

A phenomenon that disturbed supernatural abilities on a global scale?

Speaking from the perspective of someone without supernatural ability, the scope of this was almost beyond belief, like something from science fiction or fantasy.

In any case, thinking back on the video we saw yesterday, Shirayuki's badminton-like kidoujutsu had certainly failed her.

If a similar phenomenon presented itself before Tamamo or Jeanne, then Deen's fighting strength would decrease dramatically.

"Spoken differently, current conditions naught but troublesome. Were we to engage in battle, perchance it is we who face destruction."

"So what do you suggest we do, Tamamo?"

"We entice them."

"What?"

"First GIII, and then GIV - we shall entice them to join Deen."

"What're you...saying?"

"In 'Warfare', persuading a powerful 'neutral' or 'unaffiliated' party to join is most advantageous. This is no different from true war."

"Stop playing around! How do you plan on convincing people like that to join us?"

"The methods of persuasion are not limited to just dialogue. From time immemorial, money, power, sex, and more have been used to achieve this goal. There have even been times when those seeking these benefits have loudly proclaimed their neutrality. There is a terribly rude saying which goes, 'If you wish to catch a fox, use aburaage.' [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aburaage] If we can but discover what it is GIV desires, perchance she may yet join us in Deen."

What she likes?

As I tilted my head in thought, Watson raised her pumpkin head.

"Tohyama, regarding this, there's something we need to discuss."

"What's up?"

"Well, that GIV girl, yesterday in the car, talked over and over about how happy she was to finally meet you. To be honest, it was to the point where even I started to feel embarrassed. In other words, she seems to like you a lot."

"And your point is? You want me to sneak up on her?"

"No, no. What I mean is, to put it simply, Romeo."

"Romeo?"

I just about upturned my cup of Oolong.

This Romeo was a Butei term, referring to male seduction.

In order to deal with women difficult to overcome through direct conflict, they would instead send attractive men to get close to them...

And via seduction, get the opponent to either change sides or give up classified information.

The level of difficulty surpassed that of normal seduction, and Tokyo Butei High offered no courses in this specialization. Actually, if I remembered correctly, with the exception of Berlin and Bangkok, no Butei schools ''anywhere'' taught this.

It goes without saying that I haven't the least clue how to go about doing such a thing. Because of my HSS-ridden physiology, I've never so much as glanced at titillating material.

In any event, throwing this kind of thing at me, you're not that normal either, are you, Watson?

"Cut the crap, pumpkin head. Baskerville's been attacked and directly victimized by GIV. Even setting that aside, with regards to that dangerous individual-"

"Do you have any other ideas? This is all we're left with. Anyway, even if you don't look the part, in reality, you're quite proficient at tempting women, right? If we count, starting from Aria, there's Shirayuki, Riko, Reki, and who knows who else."

After Watson had finished speaking, her voice biting with sarcasm, the others...Um, about that...

Why are you all looking at me?

It's almost like you're looking at a habitual offender.

"Wow. That many, huh? You are truly Kana's brother; you seem most popular."

Hey Meiya, mind not using that awe-inspired tone of respect here?

In a plea for help, I turned to Jeanne, only to find a similar aura of complete misunderstanding in her eyes as she said, "Go get 'em".

"That's how it is. One of Tohyama, we entrust this task to thee."

"That's how...wait a moment, what do you mean 'That's how it is'! What do you want from me!"

"Go forth and befriend GIV. Care well for her, and bringest her into Deen. Peradventure, this will determine the life or death of this group. Labor most diligently!"

Tamamo sipped the last of her melon soda, and spoke these words.

Irritated beyond endurance, I gripped the table's edge, and prepared to use the technique which had been passed down by my grandfather, namely <nowiki><<Table Flip>></nowiki>.

"Tohyama-san, at dusk, I - sorry, it should be late last night for you - also saw the video of GIV's attack."

Meiya's sweet, light-hearted voice interrupted my plans.

"I feel she's a very dangerous opponent to approach directly. Accordingly, we must first set about obtaining permission from the Paladins, in order to arrange for the manufacture and distribution of support supplies and the like."

"Support supplies?"

I asked the laptop that I had originally planned on flipping along with the table.

"Correct. I think even if we can't fight to win, we can at least safeguard ourselves."

"This is good, one of Tohyama."

"Good luck, Tohyama. When this is all over, make sure to report back with all the juicy details."

"Tohyama, I leave the rest to you. I need to return to care for Aria and the others."

Looking at Meiya, Tamamo, Jeanne, and Watson delivering their lines one at a time, as if in a play...

(Th, these bastards...)

Undoubtedly, they'd all planned this before my arrival.

It seems from the start, they'd already decided to make handling GIV my responsibility. Damn it!

Ah, it really makes me wholeheartedly regret being even just a little late.

Never again will I be late. In fact, now that I think about it, wasn't the reason why I ran into Aria and had to experience such trying times because I was late and missed the bus?

 

After being tricked by everyone, or rather, after having the meeting proceed exactly as they had planned...

As a parting shot, I'd flipped Tamamo along with the donation box she carried on her back end-over-end, crying "What good luck, give me that back", taking back the 10 yen coin I had previously thrown in. As everyone simultaneously decried my childishness, I turned and headed for the hospital.

Aria, Shirayuki, Riko, and Reki, just how are they doing?

I gave a call to Soumiya, in charge of treating Haimaki, telling her, "This Butei dog is Reki's, so settle any questions of cost with her," to which she responded that he was no dog, but a wolf. I ignored what she said, instead continuing to ask after the condition of the four. It seems they're doing well, and are close to regaining consciousness.

(Let's set aside what we talked about at the meeting for the moment; visiting the injured comes first.)

Accordingly, I bought a few peach buns and Calorie Mates, and rode the elevator to the third floor of the A-wing where they were.

''rustle''...

''rustle'' ''rustle''...

(...?)

''rustle'' ''rustle'' ''rustle''...

On the hallway floor...''rustle'' ''rustle''...a metal tray was moving.

It's abundantly clear there's no one here, but the tray was moving nonetheless.

Under normal circumstances, this sight would frighten someone near to death-

Unfortunately, it's sad to say I've already grown accustomed to seeing such an unnatural scene. My only reaction was mild surprise, and an offhanded "So this kind of thing exists too...", before casually watching the tray.

The tray was a polished, shiny bronze, covered in etchings of thorny vines and spiders...even though it was pretty terrifying, it was likely an antique.

The objects placed upon it seemed to be a paper carton of strawberry milk, a box of Pocky, and a croissant. It's all cheap stuff! Wait a moment, this is all stuff Riko loves.

(Hmm...?)

Underneath the tray seems to be a shadow just a mite larger than the tray itself. This is definitely also out of the norm.

I finally grasped its true nature.

"Hilda?"

Hearing my question, the tray suddenly froze.

It ever so slowly turned in my direction (oh, I didn't realize that way was facing front), before returning to face its original direction, and slid helter-skelter at full speed down the hall.

Moving at a pace similar to that of a person running, it turned the corner.

Since Aria and the others were in the same direction, I followed along behind the tray.

As expected, I saw Hilda.

She'd planned on escaping down the stairs only to realize she couldn't take the stairs while hiding in the shadow of the tray. She emerged from said shadow just in time for me to arrive. From the way things look, this seemed to be the case.

She traveled down one flight of stairs, before stopping in place.

What was particularly confusing was what she did next. Hilda, wearing a nurse's outfit, with her back to the wall, flicked open an ostrich feather fan, and covered her face.

What...What to say about this?

"Hey."

I called out to her.

"..."

She pretended not to hear.

"Hey, Hilda."

"...Who, who did you ask for? Haven't you got the wrong person?"

"Like there's anyone else strange enough to carry an ostrich feather fan? Are you feeling better?"

Hearing this, ''bang!'' Hilda closed her fan.

"Oh, if it isn't Tohyama?"

She's pretending like she just noticed...

"What a coincidence, meeting here. I ''just'' came up these stairs."

What's the point in lying?

A glance was all it took to tell how flustered she was, but that didn't stop Hilda from putting on a cool expression and turning to face me, her shoes clicking against the floor.

She was wearing a pair of white, high-heeled shoes.

(Actually, why is she dressed up as a nurse? It's pretty unbelievable, not to mention what kind of nurse wears high-heels?)

As I pondered this, frowning in the direction of Hilda's feet, she had the mistaken impression that I was staring at the tray at her feet, leading to...

"What's this? How, how unexpected. To have fallen here, completely by chance. A tray, it seems?"

Her cheeks blushing, she rattled off a load of nonsense.

This girl's ability to leave someone utterly mystified is no less than that of Aria's.

(...?)

I pondered for a moment.

This Spark Witch, the vampire Hilda had fought with Aria, Riko, and I last month, and suffered injuries grievous to the point of near-death, before being sent to this hospital.

At the time, she'd nearly died from massive blood loss, but thankfully, Riko's donated blood was able to save her life.

(And now, this tray seems to be full of things that Riko likes, and moreover, for her to be delivering it so sneakily...)

Is it because this time it's Riko's turn to stay in the hospital that she's taken the opportunity to show her appreciation?

But to so vigorously protest "the one delivering this tray is absolutely not me", it seems like "thanking Riko" is quite an embarrassing thing for her?

That would be why she's dressed up as a nurse (even though her skill in disguises is pitiful), in order to allow her to move about unnoticed.

"What 'fallen here', you *brought* this here. To give to Riko."

I signified the tray, at which point Hilda realized the gig was up.

Her entire face turned red as she blushed.

Her skin color is naturally white, perhaps she's originally Caucasian? In any case, because of this, the fact that her face was now all pink stood out all the more.

"Not, not a chance!"

"Moreover, aren't these all things that Riko likes?"

"-Tohyama! Seeing as these have been discarded here, they don't belong to anyone anymore. You should pick them up."

I was only just teasing, but her frown filled me with fear.

God forbid because of this she attack me with electricity or her ball lightning.

"Alright. I'm picking it up."

Taking the tray in my hands, I prepared to hand it back to her.

Except she wasn't willing to take it from me, instead turning her face from me with great gusto.

"Just make it so that that's stuff you bought."

"Why? Can't you just bring them to her yourself? Honestly, you're so roundabout."

"Stop talking so much and do as I asked. Right now, you're the only servant I can rely on."

"At what point did I become your servant?"

"This too, give this to her as well."

From who knows where, Hilda fished out a black, garbage-looking thing which she placed on the tray.

It looked like a piece of charcoal, a thin wire running through it shaped like an S.

"What's this?"

"Roast salamander."

"Gross!"

"-This rude servant! This is a reward bestowed by Countess Dracula, just what do you take it for!"

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''Snap!'' She rapped me on the head with her fan.

"That is the cure-all medicine I spent all night preparing. Give that to Riko."

"You just exposed yourself as having prepared this for Riko, you know?"

"Uuuu-!"

Seeing Hilda's eyes grow large, I couldn't help but sigh.

Unbelievable.

Aria is the same. So is Watson. Don't tell me it's a rule that aristocrats must all be this bad at expressing themselves?

"Toh-, Tohyama. Don't misunderstand. It's because- because I had no choice. In compliance with the rules of 'Warfare', as a captive noble, I have no choice in the matter. Don't get the wrong idea."

"And that's why I've been saying, if you want to apologize to Riko, just do it."

"Uhh, if the opportunity arises, we'll see."

Failing to reject the notion she apologized, she doesn't seem to have realized she's again misspoken.

This girl...From Informa's perspective, she's undoubtedly an E-class.

No, actually, she should be even worse than that, perhaps even the rarely-seen F-class?

"What do you mean 'if the opportunity arises'? Who knows when that will be? Why don't I keep you company, and we'll go together?"

"No can do. I...still can't face her. To be honest, I want to go, but, right now, it's still..."

Hilda shook her head like a willful child.

Her twin drill pigtails, like Aria's, shook like a rattle drum. Due to their spring-like structure, however, shaking her head results in far more extended motion as compared to Aria. This reached the point where Hilda extended her hands to hold her hair in place.

"-Returning to the topic at hand, Baskerville was really beaten quite savagely."

Having recovered her usual stern demeanor, she changed the topic.

"It doesn't matter who the opponent is- If the team that previously defeated me loses, this disgrace reflects upon me as well. Tohyama, the ones who did this, you want to deal with them thoroughly, yes?"

What to say, this really seems to fit Hilda's style, this way of forcing things down other's throats.

"At the moment, because of the issue with Ririirokane, I'm hardly in peak condition. Notwithstanding, given some time to recover- If Riko faces any danger, contact me immediately. I will flay and skewer whoever it is."

Having finished what she had to say, she turned, and heels clicking all the way, descended the stairs.

As she exited-

From the back of her uniform, I saw two holes appear, through which a pair of tiny black wings extended. It seems the wings that had Riko had severed have started grow once more.

Since today was Halloween, no one thought twice about her "costume", but I simply thought, ah, she really isn't human.

Looking carefully, around her neck she carries still the cross that Watson placed there.

A vampire that wears a cross...reality and the movies sure are different.

"From dusk until dawn- leave things to me. If it's you, and I'm in a good mood, it's not like I couldn't lend a hand."

At this double negative Hilda threw out as she exited the stairwell back into the hall, I couldn't help but sigh.

Suddenly, from where the stairway broke line-of-sight to the hall-

(Riko...!)

I saw a forehead, arm, and thigh, covered in bandages, leaning against the wall.

She'd tied her sawed-off shotgun, the Winchester M1887, to her back with a belt.

From here, her profile was visible, her gaze directed this way.

"...Did you hear that?"

"Yes."

"Then take all of this. It's what Hilda brought for you."

I handed the tray to Riko.

She glanced at its contents: strawberry milk, Pocky, roast salamander, etc., before dusting herself off, grabbing the hem of her skirt with one hand like a bag, and filling it with the items atop the tray.

"And what do you think, Riko? It seems Hilda wants to get along with you."

"What a load of garbage. She's killed me once before, like that's something so easily forgiven."

Her mouth said one thing, her hands another. How very Riko-like.

What she said, however, is valid. Reconciliation after intensely striving against one another is not such an easy thing. This I truly understand, since my feelings regarding GIV are similar.

That said...

"Hadn't you tried to shoot me in the head before? In April, during the airplane hijacking. At that time, if I hadn't split your bullet with my knife, right now my name would be engraved on the Butei High Memorial Wall."

"Stop whining, Kinji. I only fired because I knew that Hystekin could handle anything."

Riko forcefully bit down on the straw for her milk, glaring at me all the while.

Hystekin? Oh, I see. In short, Kinji in Hysteria Mode.

Riko, who would use nicknames even for something like this, was actually eating the roasted salamander, alternating bites with gulps of her strawberry milk.

Looks like she's not the least bit skeptical of the food being poisoned.

In many ways, it seems she's quite confident in Hilda's pride as a noble.

"That girl Hilda sure is free. She's already brought stuff a few times already, but always unseen. So strange."

Riko spoke while stealing a glance in my direction.

What do you want me to say?

"Um...Well, why don't you both cool off a bit?"

"..."

"Anyway, she's basically admitted she's now a part of Deen. We are now participating in 'Warfare', which, for all intents and purposes, might as well be a real war. Even if she's that kind of person, but with that kind of power at her disposal, why not use her well? I'm not going to go so far as to demand you become the best of friends, but at the very least, please don't quarrel for no reason, ok?"

I copied what Tamamo had said to me, and after contradicting myself with my own words-

Riko turned around, back towards me, noisily finishing her strawberry milk with a ''slurp'', before nodding her head once.

She then spun back around to face me, and full of pretense, saluted.

"Don't let it trouble you anymore, Kii-kun. Riko will now lead you to the girls' room, A-Wing, room 303!"

"Just gonna skip past what we were talking about before, huh."

"Ayaya is here too!"

"Ayaya...? Oh, Hiraga-san? What for?"

"Fufufu. It's a surprise."

A surprise...?

I've got a bad feeling about this.

When all is said and done, Riko's "surprises" have never been something I've been happy to see.

 

Riko pulled me, full of trepidation, towards Room 303...

"...!"

First, the silhouette of a wolf entered my peripheral vision.

Laying on the white hospital bed was the Lone Wolf girl, accompanied by a real wolf.

She wore her normal uniform, on her head a headset, but also a pair of wolf ears. Haimaki's appearance was unchanged.

In Reki's hand was a half-eaten Calorie Mate, on her face, the usual blank expression.

Aside from a few bandages on her thighs, she didn't seem to have any other external injuries. For the time being, I felt relieved.

"Uhuhuhu. No matter times I see it, still as cute as ever Rekyu! Your costume is adorable!"

Riko threw out a real tongue-twister as she grabbed Reki in a hug. [TN: Tongue-twister because Riko uses a portmanteau of cosplay, "コスプレ" and Rekyu "レキュ", joining on the "レ" kana.]

There's no way Reki thought of wearing those ears on her own...

This was probably the result of Riko assisting Reki, who had likely put no thought into a costume.

"Look, look, Kii-kun. There's even a tail!"

From underneath Reki's skirt, Riko pulled out a fake wolf tail. Reki, of course, gave no reaction whatsoever, but her skirt had been lifted to the point it was almost dangerous-

"The important thing here is, that is, where'd this come from?"

I frantically turned my gaze to look at the large sniper rifle beside the bed.

If at all possible, I wanted to avoid looking at that thing - a Barrett M82.

It was a long range sniper rifle used even in the war in Iraq.

"I purchased it from Amdo's Hiraga-san."

"Why on earth would you buy such a crazy thing?"

"In order to oppose the enemy encountered yesterday,"

Reki replied in an emotionless tone.

Even so, this is a formidable sniper rifle which employs 12.7x99mm rounds, you know?

Even being grazed by a shot could kill someone; a direct hit would probably blow them to pieces.

"This is an anti-materiel rifle. Is it not forbidden by international law?" [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-materiel_rifle]

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[...]

She didn't bother to reply.

Nor did she nod. She simply focused her gaze on me.

...She's serious.

"Fufufu. If you read the terms carefully, it never specifies that 50 caliber rounds aren't allowed, Kii-kun."

In response to Riko, whom, harboring evil intent, squinted her double eyelids,

"That's not the main issue here. That would be Butei Law, Article 9. To be honest, Riko, that shotgun of yours is also not something a Butei should have. In a situation where you absolutely cannot kill, there's no way to fire that gun."

I spoke for a bit longer. The result-

From Riko and Reki both, ''pa''.

They handed me a sheet of A4 sized paper each.

"What is this?"

It was a firearms permit from the Ministry of Public Security firearms inspection division.

...Unexpectedly, they have permission! And both of them!

"This is impossible. These have got to be fake!"

"Ayaya's work is without flaw. Nothing is imposssible!"

Pulling back the hospital bed curtains as she made her appearance was Amdo's Hiraga-san.

Those clothes she's wearing ought to be her Halloween costume, I believe? She wore a pumpkin-colored shirt, a black mantle, with pumpkin-shaped shorts or trousers.

Her hair was even held in place with mini-pumpkin ties. Such a cute child.

"Beginning just this month, Ayaya is willing to act as a surrogate for all firearm applications! Fuhahaha!"

...You're laughing like you won the lottery there, Hiraga-san.

My guess is...about 80 percent of that business is probably helping people obtain permission to use illegal firearms. Of course, that's where the money is.

"What perfect timing Tohyama-kun. Come! Here's the left part of 'Orochi'!"

I took the glove from her.

A few days earlier, I'd borrowed money from my grandparents in Sugamo to pay Hiraga-san with.

In short, I'd bought on credit. I still needed to find a way to pay them back as soon as possible.

"Ooh. Thank you very much."

Um, Hiraga-san. You didn't just pull this Orochi out of those pumpkin pants, did you?

"Speaking of which, Tohyama-kun, didn't you ask before about a wire anchor?"

"Yeah, that's right. Did you find one?"

I'd run into Hiraga-san a few days prior in the cafeteria, and had raised the question.

Having learned my lesson from the fight with Watson, where I'd nearly fallen to my death, I'd asked if she'd find me a safety cable that could be hidden.

"Here, this is a prototype. Though I can't make any guarantees, this is still a pretty revolutionary design!"

Again from within her pumpkin pants, Hiraga-san pulled something out. I sure hope there are pockets in there...

She'd handed me a small vinyl, ziplock bag, within which were bullets, but definitely no wires?

"They seem to be 9mm Lugers?"

"Though the speed is slow, but yep! This is an anchor wire which you fire from a gun <nowiki><<Anchor>></nowiki>!"

"A wire you fire from a gun...?"

"Exactly. As this bullet exits the muzzle, it splits into two, a pellet that resists air and another that shoots forward. As the former encounters the air, its mechanism will activate, trapping it within the gun barrel for around two seconds. At the same time, the latter flies forward, adhering to the target point with carbon particles."

Hiraga-san explained the construction of the bullet while wildly gesticulating like a small child.

"And? Why does this work as a wire anchor?"

"Between the two halves is a diphase liquid aramid fiber. When the halves separate, they create a long filament, like pulling taffy." [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aramid]

So, in other words, firing this bullet creates a length of chemical fiber to the target point?

"There shouldn't be any problems with tensile strength, right?"

"A width of a single micron can support a weight of two tenths of a ton. Even if it become as slender as a string of pulled natto, it should be just fine. Liquid aramid fiber is a creation of Kyoto Synthetics, though the combination with the bullet is an Ayaya original, patent pending."

Patent pending...Hiraga-san really knows how to earn money.

She might just become a millionaire in the future.

"In order to grasp the timing, why don't you fire a few practice rounds? The air resistant pellet's been covered with a paint that releases light in reaction to pressure. After you've fired, just follow the blue light. Its advised range is 25 meters or less, at 50 meters, the filament risks snapping. "

In the midst of Hiraga-san's explanation-

"Kin-chan...?"

"Shi, Shirayuki?"

From my side Shirayuki appeared, dressed in an angel getup - though with her navel exposed.

On her back were two mini-wings, and a matching miniskirt; from top to bottom, the only thing that wasn't "mini" was that chest of hers, which threatened to spill out of her tubetop.

Atop the white ribbon she normally wore on her head, was a golden angel's halo made of wire. Though it looked pretty foolish...

What kind of costume was this?

Like hell there are such sexy angels in Heaven. If there are, then it'd be hell anyway, at least for me.

Shirayuki adopted an embarrassed, feminine pose,

"This, this set of Halloween clothes was prepared by Riko. Um..."

Those twin peaks just about to burst out of their nylon coverings...

Were quickly covered by the gun she held in hand.

Nononono. What you need to cover first is not your chest! I take that back, cover them both up!

As I was about to blurt this out for both my and Shirayuki's sakes-

I saw that which had not been seen for some time, Shirayuki's huge M60 machine gun, and was struck dumb.

The M60 - America's favorite general purpose machine gun.

Even though it was referred to in the same vein as guns like the Uzi, but in truth, they were worlds apart. This gun was intended for use in war!

Though its design was a bit dated given its age, but usage in the Vietnam War ranged not just from infantry but even to helicopters. It's the gun which has caused the single most bloodshed in the world.

Pushing Riko, who'd shouted "Yuki-chan is a true angel!", madly snapping photos left and right, to the side,

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"Shirayuki, it's not me who's telling you not to use that. It's the law!"

"But Hiraga-san helped me get my permit. In any case, Irokane Ayame's been stolen..."

Covering the lower half of her face with her machine gun, her eyes seemed to repeat, "But, but..."

Up to this point, it could still be considered quite adorable. Unfortunately...

"...Furthermore, that whore..."

Her eyes, piercing, narrowed like shamshirs, making me doubt my own eyes. What, what kind of expression is this? Her voice has even lowered a full octave.

"Wh-whore? Do you mean the one who attacked you...GIV?"

"-That person is strange! As we fought, she kept saying over and ''over'' that she is the existence closest to Kin-chan! Completely incomprehensible, isn't it? Absolutely inconceivable, right? Kin-chan? AhahahaHAHAHAHAHA- Simply insanity, isn't it?!"

Shirayuki's eyes glazed over, as she gripped her machine gun and loosed a wild, mad laughter.

Just which gate is this angel guarding? The unimaginable one here is you!

"Hey, Hehi (Reki), Hirafuki (Shirayuki), Hiko (Riko), hook, hook (look, look). That Fedex package just now was <nowiki><<Pastel>></nowiki>."

All of a sudden, a voice, half muffled by a peach bun, drifted over...

This time, making her appearance was, of course, Aria, a pair of twin swallowtail butterfly wings springing forth from her back.

"-ehh, Kinji? What's wrong with you! If you're going to come, it's the least you can do to let us know first!"

Trading stares with me, Aria frantically straightened her clothes.

She seemed to be dressed as a fairy, not unlike Disney's Tinkerbell, though her dress was pink instead. Riko probably made the decision in order to match her hair.

It was almost like watching dress-up in a kindergarten, the look well suited the tiny Aria. Still...

(...Even though this is a hospital, she's still wearing her guns...)

From between the teeth of her sawtooth-edged skirt, her large Government pistols revealed themselves.

This kind of fighting fairy, my guess is Walt Disney wouldn't approve? Her fellow fairies would undoubtedly pelt her with sticks and stones.

On another note, this fairy girl's chest seems to be even flatter than normal. Since her dress is strapless, it seems the pushup bra she normally relies on is not an option.

(...Still, what to make of this...)

All of you, to be willing to room with Riko, you have only yourself to blame.

I'm sure Riko simply took full advantage of Halloween as an excuse to dress everyone up as dolls.

As I was ruminating on Riko being the perpetrator of these events, I noticed a cardboard box aside her shotgun on the bed... I could see at least an obake and a mahou shoujo outfit, which had been haphazardly thrown aside. It seems many different outfits had been tried on since this morning.

It seems she'd already had her fill of Halloween, at least as far as dressing up by herself goes. What a free spirit this girl was.

"You seem lively enough, Aria. I'm not going to say my concern on your behalf was wasted, since I knew beforehand that about 70 percent of the norm was more than enough."

"What are you talking about? Like you could do anything that skillful."

Pretending as if she had no ulterior motive, Aria folded her arms, hiding her chest from view.

"More importantly, Kinji. Have you received <nowiki><<Cocktail>></nowiki> yet? By the way, my set's name is <nowiki><<Pastel>></nowiki>."

"Cocktail? Pastel? What on earth are you talking about?"

Seeing my frown, Aria handed me what appeared to be a crayon box.

"<nowiki><<DALM>> (Butei bullet magazine)</nowiki>. We just received a care package from the Vatican. Because your 9mm Lugers are so small, producing them will require more time."

Aria spoke as she opened the box before her...

Contained within were what almost did seem to be crayons - .45 ACP bullets of every color.

Engraved below the coat of arms of the Vatican - <nowiki><<The Keys of Heaven>> (Key of Saint Peter)</nowiki> - were some words in Italian that I was unable to decipher. Regardless, if they were as required by international law, I nonetheless knew what they read - DAL (Detective Armed Lethal), or Butei bullets.

The so-called Butei bullets were specialized bullets with added functionality.

Looking carefully, in addition to the bullets I'd used on the IU in the battle with Sherlock, grenade bullets, there were armor piercing and fragmentation bullets, as well as scatter shot, in addition to other lethal weaponry. Even included were the bullet types used in the battle between Reki and Koko - flash, cannon, smoke grenade, and flare - as well as other non-lethal bullets of every kind imaginable.

It seems <nowiki><<Pastel>></nowiki> referred to these sets of Butei bullets.

These must be those support supplies Meiya had mentioned earlier.

This is simply ridiculous, sending this kind of thing as a care package to a hospitalized patient. Can't you guys send snacks or fruit or those sorts of things?

"Those Italian gun makers sure know what they're doing. It really makes me want to do a study abroad at least once."

Amdo's Hiraga-san seemed enthralled by those bullets.

I just remembered, aren't Butei bullets prohibitively expensive?

To casually send these over, the Catholic Church sure isn't lacking for money, is it?

"That reminds me, all of you...loading up on ammo, applying for weapons permits, this is a hospital! Can't you just rest, like normal?"

After I chided those assembled-

"This is training camp. Always being the one attacked is no fun."

"The existence closest to Kin-chan has to be me! That kind of woman is no good, no good at all!"

"Fufufu. This kind of girls' gathering is just way too fun. Riko can hardly contain herself."

"Buteis always return an eye for a eye."

If I were to sum up Aria, Shirayuki, Riko, and Reki's arguments-

Simply put, due to having been thoroughly trounced by GIV, under the direction of Aria's aggression, Shirayuki's nonsensical wrath, Riko's desire for fun, and Reki's sense of professional duty-

The four had joined hands to seek retribution.

(...This is bad...)

For the time being, regardless of my feelings on the matter, Deen's group decision had been to bring GIII and GIV into the fold.

Unfortunately the four in front of me are just itching for a fight.

"Kinji, you help too. I've also ordered a jetpack from Hiraga-san."

"I can't take this anymore. Ugh. Aria, come over here for a bit."

In order to discuss things seriously, I grabbed the vice-captain of Baskerville, our little fairy, by her wings, and pulled her off to the side.

I closed the curtain with a ''clang'',

"Wh, wh, what's going on here? What do you think you're doing? Everyone's here!"

Aria frantically muttered something I couldn't understand.

"Aria. I know how the defeat by GIV has all of you feeling pretty discontent. Truth be told, if it were up to me, I'd like to go after them as well. That notwithstanding, as opponents, they're just too much for us. Consequently, just now, Jeanne, and Watson, and..."

"Kinji. The fact that our enemies are strong is something I understand very well. That's why we're having this training camp!"

Saying this, Aria climbed onto the bed like a young child, and reaching her hand through a crack in the curtain, pulled a letter over.

(...Ugh...)

Just...just now, when Aria had climbed onto the bed, her bottom facing me...

From beneath the miniskirt of this wondrous fairy pose...

Pink bloomers, completely exposed.

Fortunately, since their color matched her clothes, my brain seemed to register it as just a part of the rest of her clothes. Aria's actions seemed to show she thought similarly, so I didn't experience any problems with a sudden rise in blood pressure.

Even still, how horrid. Just too cute! Even if only on the outside, this girl was just too cute.

"Look here. This is the letter from the Vatican. Although it's written in Italian, but this part reads, 'One DALM set to Tohyama Kinji under the name <nowiki><<Cocktail>></nowiki>.' My guess is they must have sent them pretty soon after. You didn't happen to sell them because you didn't have any money?"

"Like...like hell!"

"Why are you looking away? Look into my eyes and repeat that!"

"Ignore that for a moment! As leader of this Baskerville team, I'm ordering you not to fight with GIII and GIV. I have no idea why it is they've decided to join this 'Far East Warfare', but at this time, they're neither Deen nor Grenada. That's why, this is the decision of Tamamo and the others- we are to convince GIII and GIV to join us in Deen."

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"-What kind of crap are you spewing? That girl ambushed us!"

''Thump!'' Aria bared her canines and stomped on the ground.

Her swallowtail butterfly wings clapped as she raged. Mutiny!

"They're the enemy! It's so completely obvious! If I can't open holes in their bodies, how am I supposed to calm myself down? And then you say you even want them to join us? Fool! Moron! Just how stupid can you get, idiot Kinji!"

"Hey! Ow! Stop that! Don't always resort to violence!"

Retreating from Aria, whose wings continued to clap, as she chased me with chained hits, I fell backwards onto the bed-

"Wah!" "Yah!"

At that moment, Riko and Shirayuki's yelps of surprise came from the other side of the curtain.

I'd been thinking they'd been too quiet...

"-?"

Aria and I ran out from behind the curtains, quickly taking in the room environment.

What we found in the entrance to the room was-

"GIV...!"

That girl, standing there!

GIV wore a Butei High sailor uniform as if nothing was out of the ordinary, giving off a completely different impression from the armor/underwear combination from before.

Now she completely looks the part of a normal, female middle-school student.

"Like a moth to the flame! Get her, Yuki-chan! Rekyu!"

"Exactly right! Kin-chan, get back. Ricochets could be dangerous."

"..."

''grumble'' ''grumble'' ''grumble''

Riko raised her shotgun, Shirayuki, her machine gun, and Reki, her sniper rifle-

From three different directions, muzzles all turned to point at GIV.

"Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat's going on here?! If you're going to open fire, please wait until Ayaya's not in the room!"

Hiraga-san dove for dear life underneath the bed, tearfully crying out- and to be honest, I want to do the same.

GIV, on the other hand-

As if completely unaware of the guns pointing right at her, displayed a blinding smile, so much like the bloom of fresh flowers.

Towards me.

Her expression seemed so radiant as to even banish the thick aura of bloodlust which permeated the air.

In a flash, the space around her seemed to instead radiate life, carefree innocence, and purity.

A smile that stole away not only the desire to fight from the four around her, but nay, even their very souls.

GIV's demeanor, which seemed to all present to be that of an innocent young girl, led even Aria to reconsider whether or not to holster her weapons, as she took a quick step in my direction.

"I've finally found you, Onii-chan. Let's go, I'm hungry."

Grabbing my arm tightly, she forcefully leaned her weight against me.

To an outsider, we'd look like terribly close siblings, or even lovers.

"Ki, Kii-kun? What's the meaning of this...? Onii-chan...?"

"It, it, it can't be. Ki, Ki, Ki, Kin-chan's...imo....Kimouto? Imo, imouto-san?"

Though Riko and Shirayuki were utterly and thoroughly shocked, mouths agape, but without a doubt, the one who experienced the greatest shock by far was me.

"Not, not a chance! Like I have a little sister! Ever since yesterday, just saying whatever you want!"

I desperately denied her claim, which only made her grab me all the tighter, burying my arm in her chest.

(Uwah...!)

As I fell under the spell of the soft feeling enveloping my arms-

GIV flipped around in front of me-

"-!"

In order to understand what had just happened to me, I froze for a few seconds.

Just now, my lips had been touched by something soft, like the petals of a flower.

From GIV's chestnut, bob cut hair...

A sweet, caramel-like smell drifted deeply into my nostrils.

"-So that's a kiss...However, just that isn't enough,"

GIV murmured as she released my lips.

(...!)

Nya~ Aria let out an anime-ish sound.

Hiiii! Shirayuki loosed a shriek.

Uooooh! Riko panted excitedly.

Reki...'s companion, Haimaki, growled in surprise.

As these sounds mixed together-

(What...what just happened...!?)

I just about had a heart attack, and not just because of what had just happened with GIV.

Even in the face of all that had just happened, my blood pressure hadn't budged an inch. I was shocked.

What just happened...shouldn't it clearly have triggered Hysteria Mode?

In the past, whether it was Aria, Shirayuki, Riko, or Reki, the same response had happened each and every time.

But even after coming into direct contact with this girl in front of me-

I was decidedly ''not'' in Hysteria Mode.

I clearly needed to speak more with this girl, beautiful as a gemstone.

"Now I see...I'd always thought it strange, why would you help speak on behalf of your enemy?"

...''SNARL''...

Hearing the familiar howl of a small lioness, I timidly turned around.

"...KINJI! Are you turning on us!?"

"...Huh...?"

I confusedly glanced around as GIV continued to tightly cling to my arm.

Aria's face flushed red, her camellia irises hung wide, and her pink twin-tails trembled.

I'd originally thought Shirayuki had perished straight away, but she lay on the white hospital bed, where she'd fainted. Riko wore a bitter smile full of ill intent, and the look in Reki's eyes could freeze a man cold.

"Whether or not she's truly your sister, it doesn't change the fact that she's the Achilles heel responsible for your betrayal!"

The fairy which had quickly transformed into a crimson demon drew her gun, and took aim at me.

"Wha, what Achilles heel!"

"-Women! You, you ass! You and, and, and, that woman! Did that! And then you betrayed us!"

Aaaaaaa!

Aria screamed and shouted euphemisms I couldn't decipher, as she grew angrier and angrier.

This girl...she's already grouped GIV and I together as enemies!

"How horrible, Kii-kun! This is really too impressive. One moment you're all kissy-kissy and then the next you're angry, and then all of a sudden she's your little sister? What kind of eroge is this! Even Riko can't help but be attracted too."

Riko placed her forefingers over her head like horns, sputtering nonsense all the while, a sweat drop on her forehead.

In spite of her libertine views, for Riko to have had this sort of reaction- It seemed the act of kissing a self-proclaimed younger sister on the lips had lowered my standing in Baskerville, already at rock bottom, to buried somewhere deep within the Earth.

This time, it doesn't matter what I say, it doesn't seem either Aria or Riko will listen to a word I say.

Having thought through to this point, I realized I needed reinforcements.

"Oi, Reki. Give me a hand, would you? These two have been so pushy-"

"I'm not too sure what's going on, but I currently have no desire to speak with Kinji-san."

Ev, even Reki...!

She finally decides to show her human side now of all times!?

(...ugh...)

Aria, Riko, Reki, and even Shirayuki - who, lying collapsed on the bed, had forced her eyes open - stared daggers at GIV (and me!), emanating a murderous aura.

I hope this is all just one big misunderstanding but-

Everyone's guns...doesn't it look like they're leaning more in my direction?

(No, no way!)

If things continue down this path...worst comes to worst, I may find myself riddled with holes. Me and GIV both.

"Just wait a second and I'll explain!"

As I screamed for dear life, I shoved GIV from behind, preparing to make my exit.

Right as we reached the door, suddenly-

GIV spun around to face the Baskerville girls.

She wore an expression which had taken a full 180 from the smile she'd shown me, just indescribably contemptuous.

"Oi, Runt. Fraud. Goody Two-Shoes. Mute. I'm not sure what kind of romantic comedy you guys had going on here with Onii-chan, but..."

Carrying on with a tone not only utterly lacking in femininity, but one completely crass and masculine-

"Little sisters are best. ''Nothing'' comes between a brother and his younger sister. These sibling bonds are absolute, completely unlike any other relationship with girls."

She wielded her words like a machete, ruthlessly cutting down the competition.

...Um...What?

It seemed as if I wasn't the only one who wanted to ask that question. Aria and the other girls were similarly speechless.

"I've already looked through Onii-chan's room."

"Hey, just when did you..."

"Your guys' stuff is all over the place! My sense of smell is very acute, just by the scent I can tell."

Smell...? What are you, a bloodhound?

"You guys...You've all lived in his room, haven't you! Living with girls who aren't family, this is unforgivable! Only those who share the same blood can live together, so that means you're all out! I'm going to help Onii-chan turn over a new leaf. "

Having spoken her piece, "BAM!"

As if trying to break the door in half, GIV kicked the door shut.

 

This can't be true, right? There's no way that just happened.

There's just one thing I know for sure, the one thing that's been driving me insane. GIV. Is. Not. My. Sister!

For starters, our hair colors are different. This is a judgment method every first year Inquesta student learns: her natural hair color is clearly chestnut, as a quick glance at her eyebrows and eyelashes will reveal.

Her skin color is also slightly more pale than my own. Although at first glance her eyes seem black, but careful inspection exposes patches of blue. Finally, her bone structure is much better than mine.

(But still...Aria and those guys...)

Why is everyone so simple!?

Easily falling for GIV's mad ramblings.

What's more, this and every other time, all my protests went in one ear, and out the other.

(...That's why I've always said, women are honestly...)

This deeply-rooted frustration with women-

Accompanied by ancient grudges bubbled forth from deep within my heart.

When in junior high, because girls had discovered my HSS-plagued physique, I'd been sorely taken advantage of.

Just like back then, the second I'd return to normal and stand up for myself, they'd gang up on me.

Girls are far more likely than guys to break out into mass hysteria the second something happens. Afterwards, they'd all focus their vitriol on me. All of my past experiences were like this.

Though people would probably say this was just the difference between men and women, it didn't change the fact that I was a victim.

Adding on, all of this definitely played a role in my devoted apathy- and Butei High was no different. Girls were always talking behind my back: "Oh, he's so gloomy", "What a waste of talent", "What a womanizer", etc.

I'm always getting screwed over by women. Maybe they hate my personality.

No, I should say that it's likely the case. After all is said and done, there's more than enough evidence to attest to that.

"And? Where do you think you're going?"

As I left the hospital for the bus station to make my way home-

There was GIV, doing the exact same thing, following me as if it were the most normal thing in the world.

"Because I'm your little sister."

Saying this, she tried to lock arms with me.

"You were never my sister to begin with!"

As I roughly brushed her away, she looked at me, pain obvious in her eyes as they pled, "Why? Why act like this?"

Failing, she sneakily and tremblingly tried to hold my hand.

As I slapped her hand away with a ''pa!'', she revealed the disgruntled expression of a child who'd failed to have her way.

"Why are you angry, Onii-chan? Cheer up. Hurray, hurray, Onii-chan!"

Her poor mood was quickly replaced by vim and vigor as she tried to raise my spirits.

She waved my sleeve, forcing herself to be strong in an effort to help me.

What on Earth is she doing?

"Look here. Just look at what you've done, asking me why I'm angry..."

"What I've done? What do you mean?"

"Not even the least bit of self-awareness, great. First you attack all of the girls from Baskerville. Then you say all that stuff that's tantamount to declaring war. This is all because of you calling yourself my little sister that they've pushed me away. Even though I'm supposed to be the team leader, now I'm all alone."

"You're not alone, Onii-chan. From now on, I'll always be there for you. At a place closer to Onii-chan than anyone. Because I'm your sister, because I'm family. That's why there's no reason to be lonely."

GIV replied, raising her adorable face to look at me.

That baby face was innocent and guileless to the point it made one doubt whether or not what had transpired between her and the other girls was just a misunderstanding.

"I never said it was because I was lonely! It's because every time Aria misunderstands something, she goes on a rampage. Because every time, for God knows what reason, Shirayuki loses control. Riko just ''has'' to join in and add fuel to the fire each and every time. And Reki, she's always got to look at things in that strange way of hers. Having to deal with all of them all at once, what do you expect me to do from now on!?"

After hearing me finish my rant-

GIV appeared utterly mortified.

"Onii-chan, give me a moment."

Saying this, her skirt fluttered as she twirled and headed straight back to the hospital.

I was struck with a sense of foreboding, so I grabbed her wrist and called for her to stop.

"What do you think you're doing going back there?"

"You're always talking about those girls. As long as they're still around, you're going to keep worrying about them. That's why I definitely need to kill them. All of them. Give me five minutes or so, and we should be good."

"Kill, kill them- What the hell are you saying!?"

I used force in an attempt to pull her back towards me-

"But but-"

GIV's large eyes brimmed with tears.

"...!"

She's not faking.

She, for some unknown reason, is really crying because of some deep-seated resentment. At Aria and the others.

"Because all you do is talk about them! If they're no longer around, then you'll finally pay attention to me!"

(...!...)

Honestly, what is ''wrong'' with this girl?!

"Onii-chan is just too magnanimous- to show compassion even to those harpies. It's because of them that I still haven't had a chance to feel Onii-chan's affection! If they were to all disappear, I alone would enjoy Onii-chan's love!"

As she sobbed, she screamed, like a little child throwing a tantrum.

I grabbed her close, brow furrowed and said,

"The important thing here is I'm. Not. Your. Brother!"

"NO! Onii-chan is Onii-chan!"

I'm at my wit's end.

There's just no way to communicate with this girl.

"That's why Onii-chan has to live with only me! Love only me! If not, I'll crush all the members of Baskerville!"

"-!"

This girl is bad news. Even compared to Aria, she's bad news. She's insane.

There's no way I can let her run wild.

"-Stop! Don't look for them anymore!"

From the beginning, I've not been a person who gets stirred up very easily-

But that notwithstanding, my face, reflected on the nearby convenience store window, could only be described as furious.

Just like when my brother used to scold me.

"..."

GIV...

Puffed her cheeks ''muuu'', and glared at me, eyes full of tears.

"...Fine, let's compromise. Promise me one thing?"

"...What?"

"I can stay at Onii-chan's side?"

At this proposed condition, I responded-

"...Do whatever you want."

GIV, having heard my answer, wiped her eyes dry with the back of her hand and then smiled once more.

Her cuteness seemed straight out of a shoujo manga, complete with flowers blooming in the background.

"-Can you promise me one more thing?"

"Did you not say 'one thing'?"

At my response, she turned again in the direction of the hospital. Left with no other choice, I spoke,

"Fine, fine. What is it you want me to promise you?"

"Buy me some caramel candy."

...Huh?

At my puzzled expression, GIV raised her hand and pointed at the convenience store.

As the topic suddenly changed from killing people, I was floored for a brief moment.

Even so, if something this small was all it took to ensure the wellbeing of Aria and the other girls, then so be it. I brought GIV into the store with me, and purchased some caramel candies for her.

"...Here you go."

I peeled the Famimart seal off the candy, and handed them to her.

Like a small cat being fed, in a flash, she seized the candy.

Tearing open the bag, she carefully pulled out a piece, and opened the wrapping paper with a fingernail, exactly like a young child.

No, in truth, she ''is'' a young child. She has to be what, two, three years younger than me?

"Here, one for Onii-chan."

Smiling innocently, she handed me a piece.

Despite not really wanting it, I popped the candy in my mouth, and prepared to board the bus.

Because of the large number of students on board, I let go of GIV's hand, but not my sense of caution. She, however, didn't so much as glance back in the direction of the hospital. It seems because I've promised to obey her conditions, she's willing to listen to me.

(Honestly, what an enigmatic person...)

I turned to board the bus. GIV, who it seemed had never taken the bus before, timidly followed me on.

 

There were still quite a few passengers, so GIV and I grabbed the rail, rocking as the bus shook.

Given GIV's strange aversion to other male students, I was forced to accompany her where she stood, near the rear bus door, surrounded by female students.

And speaking of the other students...

It's readily apparent GIV is the center of attention.

Well, it's not like I can't understand. GIV is, after all, dressed in a Butei High sailor uniform.

Even though she was still a middle-school student, and thus not an actual member of Butei High, the fact that no one knew this, combined with her singular beauty, inevitably resulted in such a development.

The problem lay in her company.

I couldn't help but hear. As luck would have it, also seated on the bus were the second year girls Takane, Hayakawa, and Anesaki, the three from Connect who had always swiftly and extensively spread gossip behind my back. They whispered among themselves, "Looks like the playboy's switched girls again." "This time it's a middle-school student?" "It seems our earlier misgivings were well warranted." You guys sure are close. And what earlier misgivings?

"Hey, GIV."

I whispered to her ever so quietly. She tilted her head [?], clearly puzzled, as she lent me her ear.

"Why are you wearing the Butei High uniform? Doesn't this ruin your chances of people believing you're a transfer student?"

"All the Baskerville girls wear this, so I thought Onii-chan liked these kinds of clothes."

She laughed as she raised her head to look at me.

"Still, a transfer student. That idea's not half bad, Onii-chan. Mm. It's decided. I'll study at this school as well. Since I'm Onii-chan's little sister, I really should study up a little on Japanese culture."

And then uttered those words.

Talk about sticking your foot in your mouth. I'd shot myself in the foot this time, what transfer student.

She'll really do it. I'm not sure ''how'' she'll do it, but she's motivated if nothing else.

''chitter-chatter''...

(...Hmm?)

''chitter-chatter'' ''chitter-chatter''

There seemed to be a small commotion.

"Onii-chan?" "Did she just say 'Onii-chan'?" "There's no way Kinji's little sister would be that cute." "The situation seems to still be unclear." "But she definitely just said 'Onii-chan.'" "Is she really his sister?"

This is the worst. Those...idiots...!

Despite never registering a ''thing'' during class, and yet they seemed to have heard everything more than clearly enough just now.

"Hey, listen to me. This is, um, well, it's complicated. There's more to the story."

I was so flustered I didn't even know what I was saying anymore.

"Um, are you Tohyama-kun's little sister?"

Completely disregarding my existence, Connect's Takane went straight to the source.

"That's right. I'm his younger sister."

GIV's smile was blindingly pure.

(...She said it...!)

Whaaaaaaat!

The bus erupted into chaos.

Everyone jumped out of their seats, and swarmed us like so many bees.

"Hey, stop pushing...!"

In order to protect that slender form, I pressed my hand against the bus door, with her in between.

GIV was so surprised by my actions that she simply froze.

"Can, can I ask what's the matter? I'm just like any other little sister, after all."

Though she was still quite stunned, it didn't stop her from deliberately emphasizing the words "little sister", throwing the girls in the back of the bus into an uproar. The boys in front also made a racket, ''click'' ''click'' ''click'', as they wildly snapped photos.

Of course this included Takane and the other two as they completed the change into full interviewing frenzy.

"How old are you?" "14. I'm two years younger than Onii-chan." "Kinji's younger sister is. So. Cute." "I think Onii-chan's pretty dashing himself." "Your skin's so white! Almost like a mix." "That's because half my DNA is of Caucasian descent." "...? And? What are your interests?" "Major League Baseball." "Favorite phrase?" "Immoral."

Anyway, GIV. Using such polite language when in public? How pretentious.

In more ways than one, she's seized the initiative.

Tohyama Kinji has a younger sister.

At this moment in time, it's become the truth.

All of this seemed to be going as planned for GIV. As she was answering questions, she subtly and repeatedly interwove "Onii-chan" and "little sister" into her responses.

"-And what's your name?"

At this point, a girl threw out this question.

"Tohyama Gefo-"

I quickly covered her mouth as she nearly blurted out her real name.

-This idiot!

Tohyama GIV is such a weird name! At least make it "GIV Tohyama". No, I take that back, the problem isn't with the order in the first place! The real problem here is that the brother's name is clearly 100% Japanese, but the younger sister's name most decidedly isn't! This just makes an already inexplicable situation even more incomprehensible!

"Tohyama-kun! Why won't you let her answer!?"

"Exactly right! Kinji, her name! What's her name?!"

"We need to write it in the school paper. Hurry up and let her speak!"

As the bus just about began to riot, I racked my non-Hysteria Mode brain like my life depended on it.

"Uh...Um...Her name is...Uh..."

I need to think of a name that fits!

The Tohyama siblings' names are "Kinichi" (金一) and "Kinji" (金次), so a "金" is necessary. Kinko? No, that's way too weird, like something from a hundred years ago. Think, think!, Kinji.

Looking at this from a different perspective, how about "Kana" (金), the kun'yomi reading? [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanji#Kun.27yomi_.28Japanese_reading.29] But Kana is my older brother's name, so let's change that a little. What to change, though? Well, she's a girl, so how about adding the character for girl (女)?

- 金女 (Kaname).

Not bad, at least it's a person's name now.

"Her, uh, her name is- Tohyama Kaname!"

"Ehh?"

Looking at me in surprise, I immediately hid GIV's expression from view with my hand.

"Tohyama Kaname!" "Kaname-chan!" "So cute!" "Kaname!" "Kaname!"

Calls of "Kaname!" filled the bus as it made its rounds around the campus island.

I felt their twisted stares on me.

What...what have I gotten myself into?

 

Fairly leaping off the bus at the next stop, I found myself at Logi's multi-story parking structure.

Looking around, I saw nary a soul in sight.

No, wait, there seems to be someone. A tall kouhai from Assault, holding a revolver, a S&W M....29, or maybe a 329 or 629, laying asleep on a bench.

She's covered in dirt. My guess is she lost a fight, and after laying down to rest for a moment, fell asleep. Her magnum revolver is out in the open, rather than holstered where it should be...truly a careless individual.

But, seeing as she's asleep, I don't think she'll be able to hear to us speak.

Having thus decided, I had GIV stand in front of me.

"Seriously, just what is it you want? After what you just did, that whole crowd-"

As I started to admonish her-

She suddenly hugged me.

-The smell of a young girl wafted over. With her sticking this closely to me, I felt the softness of her still immature breasts pressed against me.

With my senses of smell and touch under attack at the same time, I was left stunned.

"...Kaname...My name is...Kaname..."

Burying herself in my chest, her tearful voice wavered.

Unlike her tears of frustration earlier, these seemed to be tears of joy. What a strikingly emotional girl.

"Kaname...it's a name, isn't it? A person's name?"

"No kidding. It's not like you left me any choice but to pick one."

"My name...Onii-chan gave me a name. I'm so happy...so happy..."

"What, what's wrong with you now? What're you crying for?"

"Because I'm too happy."

"Happy? What for?"

"A name. A real name. I've never had one before. Onii-chan...gave me a name. This is the first time...I've ever been treated like a person. It's too much. It's just like I'd dreamed...My Onii-chan is such a kindhearted person."

"...huh?"

Just as I was about to call her GIV once more, I felt strongly... that I shouldn't use that name anymore.

I'm not sure why, but that's just how it feels.

(This sucks. Just what is going on...?)

In an effort to clear the raging emotions within, I shook my head forcefully.

Just from the sight of her tears, I'm this shaken up?

Women's tears...what the heck is up with that? Thanks to them, I've been vexed beyond reason.

No matter how many tears this girl sheds, I won't be moved.

This girl, there's no way she's my sister.

"I...I helped you choose a name only because I was left with no choice back there!"

Like Hell I have a little sister.

"You were never my sister. I-"

"-Nn, it's fine. I know Onii-chan won't acknowledge me, because...until now, I've already been rejected so many times. So yes, I know."

She looked at me, eyes brimming with tears, voice choked with sobs.

As if deeply wounded by my words just now, her eyebrows drooped sadly.

But just as before, she nevertheless laughed bravely.

As if to cry, "Say whatever you want to say, just don't hate me."

"Ah...no..."

Why? I know just how dangerous this girl is...but why?

Why can't I treat her with indifference?

Is it because she's a girl? Because she's younger than me?

I can't allow myself to do anything that would truly hurt her.

"Still...I beg you...just promise me one thing?"

"...What...?"

"Please call me 'Kaname' from now on. Don't use that serial number anymore. Even if only when we're alone, that's enough."

What to say to that?

Because of what had transpired, the name "Kaname" has already spread throughout school.

If I continued to call her "GIV", it's possible an already complicated situation would take a turn for the worse.

"...I understand."

"...!"

GIV- Kaname, just from my willingness to do this one thing-

Gave a glowing smile brimming with joy, her body trembling.

As if to directly feel that happiness, she rubbed her forehead against me.

"Onii-chan. I'm Kaname. My name is Kaname. Kaname. My name is Kaname."

Voice still choked, she continued to repeat her name over and over.

Is it really something to be that happy about? It's something I literally spent about five seconds thinking up.

If I'd known it was going to be like this, I'd have put more effort into it.

Seeing her raise her head to look at me, very much like a cat being petted, I couldn't help but feel a slight regret-

"...!"

From the hand of my kouhai, lying on the bench-

The pistol slipped off her body, and fell towards the ground.

"!"

Kaname-

Sprinting faster than humanly possible, she spun in that direction, diving with arms before her.

-''Bang!''

The pistol, having hit the floor, accidentally went off.

Right as I heard the sound of the gunshot-

Kaname's back suddenly crashed into my chest.

"...!"

...A bullet suddenly dropped to the floor at her feet.

"Uh...wha? Hey, are you alright!?"

Reacting to the loud and abrupt noise, my kouhai suddenly awoke.

"If I was anyone else, you'd be facing a murder charge right now, and at the very least, life in prison. Take that safety-less revolver of yours, and empty its chamber. If you leave now, I won't say a word."

Hearing GIV speak thusly,

The first year bowed her head repeatedly as if kowtowing before an empress, frantically picking up her S&W which had rolled away, and exited the scene in a hurry.

"Onii-chan, you're not hurt, are you? I'm sorry, I ran into you."

Kaname turned around, holding the chest of her sailor uniform where she'd been hit.

There's no way it doesn't hurt. Even if her uniform is made of bulletproof material, it was still a .44 magnum bullet that hit her, and it didn't just graze her either.

That kind of impact force, if unlucky, can easily break a rib or two. It could even be fatal.

"I'm the one who should be asking you that!"

"I'm alright. After all, I'm wearing these kinds of clothes. In any case, an attack by a .44 caliber is something I've experienced hundreds of times already during training."

"Training...? More importantly, how did you know it was coming? Your back was turned when the pistol went off."

"In Onii-chan's eyes, I saw the reflection of that girl's gun falling. I saw the muzzle pointed in this direction, and that the hammer would strike the ground. Furthermore, that gun looked very old and very dangerous."

From...from the reflection in my eyes? She saw all that? And in such detail.

This alone was surprising enough, but what really surprised me was something else entirely.

This girl had very clearly-

Just used her own body as a shield-

For me.

Far from trying to take credit for doing as much, she even ignored her own injuries, first worrying on my behalf.

From the depths of her heart, Kaname really wanted to protect me.

An iron resolve which willingly took sacrifice in return for my wellbeing as a more than even trade.

-Deep within my heart, my feelings towards the existence called Kaname grew increasingly more and more muddled.

Kaname.

Just who on Earth are you?

Hidan no Aria:Volume8 Chapter2

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==2nd Ammo: Cosplay Cafeteria -Ristorante Mask- ==

Carrying Aria on my back, on the way back to Academy Island's boys' dormitory, I was wary that those of "Grenada" might make a U-turn and come attack us, but...Tamamo-

"In the end, they are nothing more than emissaries.　From the beginning, I had released Shikigami into this area, and am having them watch. If the 'Kin' were to enter any part of this rectangular island, we will immediately be informed by Shikigami, so be at ease. Also, according to mine ears, they hath all crossed the ocean and skies, disappearing. Fufun."

-laughed at my unease.

As for Sister Meiya, she asked me for where I lived, saying: "I wish to do a little shopping, so please go on ahead first." and entered the convenience store.

I don't know the view of the SSR on the movement pattern of those monsters, but...because those two, who seem like specialists, had completely relaxed any form of alertness, it should probably be alright.

Rather, other than thinking that, I have nothing to base my judgements upon.

And...the next thing I had to worry about was Aria's condition.

Returning to our room, I laid Aria down upon the sofa, and--because it was enormous, It was possible have her lie down completely flat, housed by the three-person sofa--Aria-

"...Nnn...Peach bun avalanche..."

-muttered things like that, sleep-talking, ''Smile'', and as she slept, she smiled.

Certainly, it seemed that Aria had only lost consciousness...rather, it seemed that she was just in a deep sleep.

Her breathing while asleep also seemed to be as usual, and her pulse was also normal.

"Funfun...That there is no shrine here, what matter of house is this? Thine devotion is lacking, one of Tohyama. Funfun."

Suddenly complaining about something about my room and going 'Funfun' with her nose, Tamamo, going into the kitchen...

"Hast thou no syrup? Where is the syrup?"

While saying that, she took some pudding, which had "Riko's" written on it with magic marker, out of the fridge.

And, while muttering "Spoon, spoon, spoon", she took one of the spoon's from the kitchen, ''Nom Nom''

Just by herself...she started eating.

What are you doing?

"Mmmmm. This too, is quite delectable. Tohyama.　I give thee mine praise!"

Licking even the back of the lid of the pudding, Tamamo turned towards me with an innocent smile.

(Riko is going to get angry later...rather, why is she so friendly to me, who she's met for the first time?)

I sighed, and, ''PatterPatterPatter'', Tamamo, scurrying this way-

"Mmmm. Thou art the current generation's Tohyama, art thou not? Thou art wondrously similar to the Tohyama that I had met at Nasuno. I could not have thought it from our first meeting. By the lanterns of midday, thou dost give off a feeling that thou art introverted, but good, good. Then, look here."

While saying something which seemed to hint that she was an acquaintance to one of my ancestors, (and while suddenly seeing through my nickname,) she turned her back to me as if to show off the backpack-like crate she was carrying.

"...?"

"Look. Today, I too hath worked quite hard. Put the offering for the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamagushi Tamagushi] within."

''Shake, Shake'', when Tamamo shook her back, ''Clank, Clank'', because the sound of coins rang out...

I finally understood.

This is an offering box.

She was walking while carrying that sort of thing?

"Tamagushi...?"

I said, stating my confusion,

"Quickly, put it in, put it in!"

Tamamo leaned her body foward, and her tail was completely straightened.

"...!"

--''Swish'''

At that sight, I took a step back.

...Th-this girl, isn't wearing...anything.

Because she was wearing Japanese clothing with a short inseam, and because of her tail, the hem had flipped up, and it became visible.

"He-hey! Wear something!"

"...? Not wearing sandals should be fine, should it not? We are in a house."

"No-not that, w-wear some panties! At least, make a hole for the tail to come out of in those clothes!"

"Pan...ties?"

Tamamo made a "?" symbol with her tail, ''Spin'', and spun this way, "Art thou speaking of undergarments? If one wears such a thing with Japanese clothing, 'tis a loincloth. Do you not know of a thing such as that?" With that, she fixed the flipped skirt.

I wiped off my cold sweat, thanking God that because Tamamo had a childish appearance, I did not go into Hysteria Mode. Well, that's though this girl is probably also a kind of god.

Even so, just in case, I averted my gaze from Tamamo...

"Dost thou worry about Aria, one of Tohyama?"

"Of course."

I'm also worried about your lower body, though. Don't you ever catch colds?

"Do not linger over it. She will not become the Scarlet Blazing God immediately."

"...scarlet blazing god...?"

I frowned, and--

"...I see, do you not know of it? Well, it could not be helped. The Tohyama Samurai are dying out, after all."

Staying in the same place, Tamamo sat straight, her attitude a little careless.

"If nothing in the Tohyama family has been passed down, then I have no choice but to teach you. I am Tamamo--white-snouted golden-furred[http://www.baka-tsuki.org/project/index.php?title=Hidan_no_Aria:Volume8_Translator%27s_Notes#Chapter_2] heavenly fox...by your words, a monster, a demon."

She said it.

This time it's a demon, is it?

Well, ability users, witches, and vampires also exist. As of now, it isn't something to be surprised at.

"My mother too was Tamamo, my grandmother too was Tamamo--since times long past, our race has watched over the relationship between humans and Irokane, and prevented its misuse. For those multitudes of years, we established harmonies and hostilities, reaching up until now. This refers to Irokane, but in this girl's heart too...what I am about to say is not to be said to Aria...it is embedded. Also, an enormous amount of Hihiirokane, rarely seen before in history."

"Ah...ahhh. That, for once, is something that both Aria and I know."

"It is possible that Irokane and humans bond. As for those bonds, there art two types. "Method Bond"--a bond which gives the power of what thou call ability, and "Heart Bond"--a bond of emotions, in other words, were Irokane to bond too tight with a human, the human's heart will intermingle with the Irokane, and in the end, the Irokane will take it over."

Now that she mentions it,

At Hotogi's branch shrine in Kyoto, Shirayuki and Kazayuki had talked about it.

--"Irokane is a metal which communicates with human's hearts," was it?

"Taken over, by the Irokane...what will happen when that occurs?"

"She will become the Scarlet Blazing God. When she does, we kill her."

...!

"Ki-kill, hey...!"

Tamamo fixed her round eyes upon me, who had panicked.

"Do not panic. She will not become such immediately. However...if she doth become it, without hesitation, kill her. You saw her condition earlier, but it seems that that girl hath faith in thou. Well, thou canst do it, canst thou not? Even if thou does not, someone shalt. Even if it were I, 'twould be fine."

"Stop it...to kill or not to kill. That kind of thing--"

"'Tis fine even if war　erupts on this planet?"

"War...?"

"Hihiirokane is a volatile Irokane which enjoys war and love. And, as for those who hath been invaded--the Scarlet Blazing Gods, a heart for war and a heart for love--those two hearts art driven into intense fervor, and the one that hath been affected becomes a Cursed God. In the past, seven centuries ago, there was a human who had become thus. That one seduced an emperor, inciting a war...and finally, she was struck down by the Hotogi Miko and Tohyama Samurai.

"...ch."

"I had said not to linger on it too much, had I not? Aria shalt not become such immediately."

"Is it being...prevented by something? Prevented from becoming like that?"

Still not understanding, I asked an amateurish question, and--

''Nod'', Tamamo nodded.

"So that such a tragedy would not be repeated a second time, what the Mikos of that time conceived was--"The Golden Shell."

"Ka...ra...gane?"

"A shell, 'tis a shell. Laid over the Hirokane as if plating it, a special shell, which only allows "Method Bond" to make its bonds, while "Heart Bond" is isolated. As such, a shell which was fitted for humans had been created. Because 'twas known that if the shell had its seven layers, Heart Bond would be cut off, 'twas also named as "The Seven Stars of the Golden Shell". If the shell is in existence, Method Bond is slowly bonded...if it bonds in the length of three years, Heart Bond is completely cut off."

Three years--at those words, I remembered what had taken place in EU.

Indeed, Sherlock had said that.

As for Hidan's inheritor...until their ability is awakened, there was a need for her to co-exist with the Hidan for, at the very least, a space of ''three years''.

Probably, that meant that that was until the "Method Bond" which Tamamo had spoken of was completed.

"That one, Hilda, used a technique which extracted the Golden Shell from Aria. I did not think that she had progressed her research on Irokane to that level. At least, 'twas not skillfully done. Thanks to that, 2 of the 7 layers of the Golden Shell had been returned."

"Two layers...what will happen?"

"Slowly, this girl will be taken over by the Irokane. Eventually, she will even become the Scarlet Blazing God."

"...ch..."

"Do not panic again and again. 'Tis alright for the moment. In that time, 'twould be well were we to take back the Golden Shell from those of "Grenada" No matter what, they are our opponents in battle. If we gather and return all layers, afterward, Heart Bond will be stopped, and she will return to as she was before."

"New...that, Golden Shell, can't one be newly made?

"A multitude of diamonds, sapphires, rubies, and emeralds...if we assemble a great number of materials, and train a hundred Miko and have them work, we shalt be able to make it. However, though the Golden Shell hath been conformed to the Irokane, there is a need for a hundred years. If we try to cover it, if the remaining five layers art again created, we shalt not be able to make it in the time until the girl becomes the Scarlet Blazing God."

"Then...approximately, what is the period for which the two layers of the Golden Shell can hold it back?"

"I do not know. For there has been no-one who has attempted it. If it is merely mine opinion, then... this is but a guess, however, it should be a few years. 'Tis not something that shalt occur today or tomorrow."

"..."

A few years...huh.

What should I think of that?

If there exists only a postponement, it should probably indeed be possible.

Anyways, it seems that currently, Aria is alright...yes.

"However, Hihiirokane's 'Heart Bond' has slightly started. First, from now on, in regards to war and love, the girl shalt probably start to speak her heart without hiding anything. That is the symptom of the beginning. However, do not panic, and respond. Is that fine?"

War...and love...?

Thinking about it a little, I paused to look at the sleeping Aria...and nodded.

"Yeah. I understand."

War--In regards to fighting, Aria doesn't hide anything that's in her heart, right? Definitely, nothing will change from what has been happening up till now.

And, love--In regards to romance...this should be fine too, right?

Because, ever since the time we first met, whenever she had the chance, "I have no interest in it!" is what she would say. Aria, that is.

At the opening ceremony, "So-something like romance...is completely useless!" starting with that, and when she was fighting with Shirayuki, "Romance--th-that's a waste of time, I've never had it before, and I don't plan on ever having it either!"...Towards Reki, "Things like romance, I-I...don't care about that! Really, really, reaaa--lly, I don't care at all! REALLY, got it!?" She even went that far to deny it.

So, Aria...won't change. At all.

When I thought that, the doorbell for the room rang.

"'Tis Meiya."

As if the outside was visible, Tamamo said those words, but just in case, I walked to the door, Beretta held in one hand...when I looked outside through the peephole, indeed, it was Sister Meiya.

"...Did you buy something back?"

While using polite language to ask her, who seemed to be my senior in age, that question, I opened the door, and-

"Ahh, Tohyama-san. That is a relief. Your room was here, was it not. I, because my strength was not enough, staggered around, and got lost. Ufufufu."

-while laughing with an 'Ahahaha', Meiya entered.

Somehow...she seems completely different from when she was attacking the witch, Katze Grasse, earlier...a friendly attitude. Somehow, it makes me feel a vague fear, at the fact that it kind of resembles the split personality of a certain Miko.

Tonight, that Miko, or rather Shirayuki, had gone out to the festival at [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suitengu Suiten-gū].

She had said that her return would be the morning tomorrow, but..

(Before, had we had Shirayuki's assistance, things might have turned out a little different, wouldn't it...)

I casually looked into the vinyl bag that Meiya, who had not really been of assistance, had brought back, and...huh? What's that?

It was filled with a large amount of liquor.

This is a situation where she had completely bought out everything from the convenience store, right? Also, there were many several pastry buns. What?

Facing me, who was frowning, with a large smile on her face, Meiya...

"Tohyama-san. It is well that you were unhurt at that place, was it not? As expected, true to the rumours, you are a magnificent paladin."

Wearing the slippers reserved for guests, she took the vinyl bag and headed to the living room.

Somehow...besides the massive sword on her back, she radiated the air of the young wife living in an apartment building.

I too returned to the living room, and Meiya sat, straight-backed, upon the side of the sofa.

"Tamamo-san, how is Aria-san?"

While taking the liquor bottles out, she looked at Aria's condition.

"'Tis normal. However, as expected, the Golden Shell is insufficient. We art compelled to take it back from those of 'Grenada'."

"Well, well...''Slurp''"

Ah. She drank. Lejay Creme de Blueberry...she took the sweetly-scented wine, which appeared to be a cocktail base, straight up.

Whether it be Tamamo or this person, I wonder;when they have finished their work, do the people of 'Deen' feast?

"However, to have Tohyama do that, it seems a heavy burden. Let us do something. Meiya, attack Katze Grasse with haste. Take one back and return. She will return to Germany, will she not?"

"Yes."

Suddenly draining the strong liquor like it was water, Meiya nodded.

And, while placing the empty bottle upon the low table, she took Uguisu-bread, thought to be a chaser, and the next bottle of liquor out.

(Ah, that is...)

Bailey's Irish Cream--Medica's Ganaha-sensei had been drinking it during the lesson--giving off a scent reminiscent of sugared pastries, it was a a high calorie, strong liquor.

Meiya emptied the liquor in a full gulps, and again, she opened the bottle of bourbon--Wild Turkey, her lips pursed.

Uuu. I haven't drunk anything like liquor, just looking at it is starting to make me feel sick.

"U-um...that..."

To I, who tried to continue with 'Is bad for your body'...

''Smack'', Meiya stopped me with the hand that was clad in long, white gloves.

With the movement of her shaking her head, her light blond hair shined in the air as it swayed about.

"I know what it is you wish to say. It is true that a nun cannot drink liquor."

"N-no...it's not that..."

"But, there are sisters other than me that are like this. We are exceptions. One type of ability user takes away from her own body, and to disperse the ability, after battle, they have to take in a large amount of something orally, or they will die. Sugar, protein, ascorbic acid--what has to be consumed differs from person to person, but mine is alcohol. However, do not worry. Because in Italy, it is tolerated to start drinking liquor from the age of 16, and as such I have a constitution which will not get drunk. I am sorry that this sin of heavy drinking is so unsightly. Oh Lord, forgive me; ''Gulp Gulp''...Haaaah."

Immediately after having asked for forgiveness from God, she drank again.

Well, this person...other than having breasts more gigantic than Shirayuki, her whole body is slender, no matter how much she drinks these high calorie liquors, she'll be alright. As far as I've seen, she really won't get drunk.

I've gotten used to seeing that level of unnatural phenomenon, from Aria's peach bun scourge and the super pot ramen incident with Reki. It's so sad. These days, if I become surprised at these things one by one, I would lose heart. I've already learned that.

In the room, full of the sweet scent of liqueur--

I too sighed, and sat on the sofa.

I had become worried again, and I checked Aria's temperature with my hand...It's normal...isn't it...

"Tamamo-san. I will definitely kill Katze Grasse. The peace conference at Bandire has failed, and at this rate...She will be tried by the Inquisition, and she will be excommunicated, torn into 8 pieces, and discarded into an unnamed grave without even a cross...I will, to-together with those witches, will go to hell...!"

Trembling where she sat, Meiya-san opened the bag of chasers, ripping it.

"At least, I will show you the completion of the witch hunt! The Canossa denomination too is negligible!"

...Canossa...?

I know of it because Nii-san had studied abroad for a short time at the Rome Butei High, but that is the name of the organization which is called SSR here, isn't it?

Th-this person is a high school Butei student?

If she is, the Butei Highs all over are the same, aren't they. They're full of weirdos.

"...Well, 'tis good that thou art motivated. How was it? Did Kana draw you in?"

Kana.

Towards Tamamo, who had spoken Nii-san's name, I lifted my face.

"I...do not know. Because, Senpai has changed a little from how she was before..."

"Meiya-san. You seem to know Kana--"

I interrupted the conversation, and Meiya, a bottle of Żubrówka in her hand, faced me with a smile.

"Yes. She is your Onee-sama, is she not?"

...Onee-sama...

We-well, I'll just stay silent. Gender is one kind of personal information, after all.

The fact that Nii-san will break every bone in my body if I speak freely is also rather unpleasant.

"I have to introduce myself a little bit to Kana-senpai's little brother, don't I...I am Meiya Romano. 18 years of age. My nationality is the same as my mother's, Italian, but my father is Japanese, and his name..."

On the other side of the long receipt, Meiya wrote the words "明夜",

"It can be written this way."

She showed it to me with a knowing smile.

...Just in case, "Ahh, I see. That was surprising" I made that face.

Apparently satisfied with my reaction, Meiya flashed a sunflower-like smile.

"--As an exorcist in the Vatican, I am inducted by the holy order, in the Rome Butei High I am a Kanossa fifth year--Ah, in Italy, high school is up to five years. I was not held back. Then, during those two years, I had hunted criminals together with Assault's Kana-senpai. I might say that I get along very well with her, or I might say that we are on the same wavelength...It was fun to do my job."

"Ahh..."

I let out a voice which seemed somewhat comprehending.

Indeed, this kind of calm personality would get along well with Kana.

"At that time, whenever I taught her recitations from the Bible, she was able to remember it immediately...I remember that I was very surprised by the quickness of her mind."

I see. The fact that the Nii-san from after his transfer started to occasionally recite verses from the bible is from this person's influence.

"Nii-sa...Kana has a a special ability. When she is Kana, she can remember the entire contents of a book she has read once. That's kind of like cheating. It's not a trait to be surprised about."

In short, it's just being able to memorize it with the power of Hysteria Mode.

That's unfair, Nii-san. Even though you told me, "You can't abuse HSS for studying."

"Now that you mention that, Tamamo. You too started talking to Patra suddenly. Is she an acquaintance?"

I asked Tamamo, who was extracting a cream bun from Meiya's vinyl bag, and-

"Mm? Ah, ahh, Patra? Yes. I hath met her before."

Tamamo, sitting straight again, brought the bun around to her back, and while covering it with her tail, she answered.

"In the war before, I was "Grenada". At that time, I was companions with Patra's great-grandmother. The person who taught her Japanese was me. After the war, in preparation for the next war, it seems that she taught her descendants Japanese as well. Therefore, well. While she hath an accent, Patra's method of speech is akin to mine, is it not?"

Indeed...I remembered that Patra used a rather ancient mode of speech.

That was because, the great-grandmother who had taught her Japanese had in the first place learned ancient Japanese from this Tamamo.

"...The last war, you say. Isn't that a story from a time long past? Around the time of Patra's great-grandmother, whom you spoke of. How old are you exactly?"

Because of Vlad and Sherlock, I was confident that I would not be surprised even if I was told 100 years old by that childish-looking girl, but...

"I? I was born on the second year of Kennin, therefore I count 808 years old."

"What...!?"

Because of my surprise, no other words would leave my mouth.

I-Impossible.

She's been alive since the thirteenth century, the Kamakura period?

"Rather, look, one of Tohyama. Asking a goddess her age is nothing. Thine faith is insufficient!"

No matter how I looked at her, Tamamo, hitting my knee with her tiny hand, was an elementary school student...

Also, she even looked like she was in one of the lower grades.

"I-if that's so, shouldn't you dress up more like a grandma?"

While pulling my knee away, I responded, and-

"Originally, I was a giant fox. I had transformed, taking upon this appearance. When I transform into a human, I cannot change mine mass. If there was a granny that was this small, it wouldst seem suspicious, and I would not be able to be in the city, would I? Therefore, I became a young girl. Understand that much without having to ask!"

While responding with some reasons which I didn't understand even if I heard them, Tamamo continued to hit my knee with a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gohei gohei] which she had procured out of somewhere. It hurts, I said!

"If you don't want to seem suspicious, then get rid of your ears and tail first."

I said the most obvious thing, when...

Was it because that wasn't possible? Tamamo's face went completely crimson-

"That is not something that thou canst understand!"

It seemed as if her sore point had been touched.

"If you're going to look like a child, I'll treat you like a child. If I, for example, use respectful language towards you outside, I'll seem suspicious. Just having a man that uses respectful language to a young girl about seven years old is something that people will report about. In the Japan of today, that is."

While pushing the gohei back, I also got a little irritated-

"Even though thou art a new one...this generation of Tohyama is impertinent! Is this fine, one of Tohyama? I have experienced 'War' countless times, and if I am to say it, a veteran! The way to fight, the way to survive, the way to steal, the way to protect, I knooooowwwwww very well. Therefore, respect thine elders more! Show me some faith!"

-saying that, she caused a clanking noise to ring out as she swung her back this way, got onto all fours, and stuck the offering box outwards.

"Add in thine apologies, and put it in! Put in your faith!"

...In the end, money? Rather, don't swing your tail and butt this way!

I thought that she was really insistent, so putting in about 100 yen should be good, but I shouldn't spoil a ''child''.

So that I could become ''distant'' from this person, I took a ''ten-yen coin'' out of my wallet- [http://www.baka-tsuki.org/project/index.php?title=Hidan_no_Aria:Volume8_Translator%27s_Notes#Chapter_2]

"Alright, alright, I'm sorry, granny."

I put it in.

"Mmm. Tohyama-san, you will definitely profit."

Meiya applauded at that scene.

...It seems that without me knowing it, I've been sucked into a war between monsters, but...

When I looked at these two, apparently the few allies that I have...

My uneasiness increases. By a lot.

Afterward, Meiya said that she was taking the last bus to Narita Airport and went back, Tamamo also left these words: "The boundary field shalt immediately expand. This evening, do not leave this floating isle," and around 2:00 in the morning, she left the room.

The bags of bread had been cleaned up, but...Ah, the empty bottles of liquor were all over the table.

Well, it should be fine if I clean them up tomorrow. Today, I'm already worn out.

The actual bottles were pretty stylish after all; I'll just think of it as some interior design.

"Haaah..."

...The attitude which had intensified at the 'Bandire' had completely relaxed thanks to those two, or rather, as a result of those two.

However, I was worried about Aria, so I covered that small body with a blanket...

The electricity still on, I decided to be like Reki and held my gun, sitting down on the sofa and going to sleep.

Afterward, I did lay my cheek on it and start getting drowsy, but--

I had a dream that Aria became a vampire and went wild, and I couldn't sleep properly.

Even so, I did slip into a mildly deeply sleep, and in the morning...

''Tweet, Tweet''...within the cries of the swallows...

"--Idiot Kinjii!"

--''Smash!''

"--Kuh!?"

Suddenly, my face was kicked by a foot in black knee-socks, and I woke up.

"A...Aria!?"

Had she woken up?

While rubbing my eyes, I turned towards her, and Aria--

"Ki-Ki-Kinji, you...Wh-what!? What is this!? Whatwhatwhat!? WHAT THE HELL IS THIS!"

Despite being in her uniform, she was hiding her body with a blanket, trembling.

She was shaking to an extent where it looked like she was splitting into 2~3 people.

However...within me, who saw that, I breathed a small sigh of relief.

(--She's the normal Aria...!)

I understand.

My face was kicked, and she said something, but her movements and way of talking was as the normal Aria's.

"Aria, that's great..."

While cutting off the words of I who had spoken as usual-

"Wh-Wh-Why am I alone together with you, i-it's already morning, you know! In...In a room with nobody else in it! Just the two of us! St-staying the night!"

''Redden!''--Yes, 0.1 seconds.

The speed of her high-speed-blushing technique was also normal.

(But...what's she getting red at?)

Shuffling backwards from me, who was frowning, Aria, on the other side of the blanket thrust outwards like a matador...

''Rustle Rustle'', she felt around inside her clothes.

What...is she doing...?

I thought, and when I thought it, 'Kching!', she was stretching her hands towards her guns!

"He-hey Aria! It's fine if you're not normal to that extent!"

"You...what did you do to me! Honestly, without hiding anything, lay open the situation in detail! Idiot Kinji is really an idiot! You've skipped way too many steps! A hole! 20 hole combo chain-fire!"

"He-hey, calm down! Even if you put two of your handguns together, you can only go up to a 16 chain-fire! Rather than that, what have you been saying up till just now! Yesterday, you were at Empty Island and--"

"Yesterday...Empty Island? ...? ...? I do-don't have any memory of that--"

Aria, who said that, looked at the empty bottles lined up on the low-table made out of glass and "!" widened her eyes in a perfect circle.

"Kinji...I-I don't remember anything...That, th-that trick...I've seen it in movies and dramas before...!"

Pointing at the multitude of liquor bottles, she glared at me.

What had she understood, and how had she interpreted it? She was glaring at me as if I was some massive criminal.

"He-hey, by 'trick'..."

"I didn't think that you would do things of that level, but I-I was careless...! That's a common method of a womanizer...you really did it, didn't you...? ...? Ouch-"

--''Splish''

Apparently, Aria had noticed something wrong, and she pressed down on the scar left on her nape, bitten by Hilda.

There was mostly no bleeding, and it seemed that the wound had already clotted, but--

There, a lip-shaped scar was left, having been violently sucked by Hilda and clotted.

"No! No! No way!"

And blushing even further, she fountained steam from her head with a 'Choo Choo', and runaway locomotive Number-Aria--

''Thump Thump Thump!''

-ran towards the washroom in massive panic.

"--Gyaaa!"

Raising a scream which I couldn't have thought belonged to an English noble, ''Thump Thump Thump!''

She came back.

More than any monster at the Bandire, it was a terrifying appearance.

"Wh-Wh-What did you do to me!! You Ero-Kinji!! YOU SERIOUSLY ERO-KINJIIi!"

Wh...What is it! This time!

*Aria and I woke up in the morning, just the two of us.
*Aria has no memory of last night. Furthermore, there are many empty liquor bottles on the table.
*On Aria's nape, there is lip-shaped clotting.

Why do I have to be screamed at because of the three of these things combined!

"W-Wi-With this..."

Aria, who was pointing at the lip mark on her neck with a trembling finger-

"With this, today--I CAN'T GO TO SCHOOL, CAN I!! YOU SERIOUSLY STUPID KINJI----!"

Wh-why!

Why is that because of that clotting, you can't go to school!?

"--If you're going to stick something on, at least think a little bit about the consequences! You Ero-Baka-Kinji! EBK!"

Tears in her eyes, Aria, who had stamped her feet in rhythm, (and anger) to that original phrase, had a menacing look, and in response to that I was also just about to break into tears.

One question! What the hell did you think, and what should I stick on! What should I!?

Without even making it in time to stick my hand up to ask that question--this was also normal--Aria, who had used the sofa as a stepping stone and jumped, flipped her skirt--

"HOLE MISSILEEEEEEE!!"

Like a missile, she brought a two-legged drop-kick deep into my face.

Afterward--for some reason, Aria was embarrassed even looking at my face, and with that attitude she shut herself into her own room.

Even when it was time to go to school, she didn't come out.

It seemed that she seriously wished to take a break from school.

This was after what had happened yesterday, so I didn't want to leave Aria, but Tamamo had said that 'Grenada' had crossed the sea and sky--probably with ships or planes--and left this place.

And also, Shikigami....speaking by my interpretation, a net was strung out which acted both as a radar and alarm, she had also said.

Furthermore, Aria is the owner of battle ability enough to suddenly defeat the walking tank LOO; if the I who was not in Hysteria Mode was here...I'd just drag her down.

"Then, I'm going. Just in case, don't let go of your swords and guns. Make sure you've plenty of spare magazines too."

I spoke to the door of the small room which Aria had decided as her own room of her own will, and decided to go to school by myself.

From within the small room-

"...Huh...When did I shoot...Eh...?"

Aria, who was counting her bullets and speaking to herself-

Really had lost all memory of yesterday night.

I had seen this often at Assault, but when people suddenly lose consciousness, the memories of before and thereafter will be blown away.

"Also...I heard this from a certain trustworthy person, but you're being targeted by the remnants of EU, you know. Those guys have a lot of friends. The Koko sisters from a while ago are also one of them. Be especially careful, alright?"

Avoiding the matter of Irokane which I had been told to not speak about by Tamamo, I told her this just in case, and...

"That's the same as what's been happening up till now, right? Qu-Quickly go to school."

With a tone which seemed to be driving me away, she responded with her anime-like voice.

With the beginning of the day, I took the lessons of the subjects English, Chemistry, and Japanese Characters, and--

At the fourth hour, right before the combined long-homeroom of three classes started, Aria finally came to school.

Looking, a band-aid was stuck to her neck. A kitty-patterned one which Riko had brought into our room.

The remnant of the clotting had naturally become small, and it seemed that she had just passed the time until she was able to hide the clot with that.

Getting red again when she looked at me, Aria sat down on the seat next to me, when...

With amazing obviousness, she didn't look in my direction.

But, as for being angry...rather than that, it seemed that she was embarrassed.

I couldn't hear the signal of her rage-mode, the purring of a lion cub, and occasionally, she would glance this way, blush, and resume her stare forward.

I don't really understand the meaning of those movements, so for the time being, I'll ignore her--

(Then...besides all this, should I tell her about what happened last night...)

While everyone moved to the sporthall in which the long-homeroom was being carried out, I thought about that point.

It seems that Aria has no memory of last night.

Even if I suddenly explain about the unbelievable circumstances which had taken place yesterday to that kind of person...she wouldn't believe it. And it seems that Aria has randomly become vigilant against me.

With that, rather than having just me say it, it would be better to bring Jeanne and Reki into this too, and after setting down the direction to go hereafter, talk about it with everyone. It's said to form a tiger of three, after all. As for Shirayuki, Tamamo had said that: "I shalt look for an opportunity and speak with her, so nothing should be said from you, Tohyama," but that was probably also for the sake of preventing the dissemination of information towards Aria.

Also, there is another danger that talking about 'Deen' and 'Grenada' would pose to Aria.

Putting aside that she was about to win the trial, those are the people who had Aria's mother take the fall.

If I told Aria about yesterday, she'd probably say something like: to go arrest Hilda, I'll travel all the way to her base--this is just my imagination, but there's probably even something like a castle in Romania.

(Well, I understand her feelings, but...)

That was something especially dangerous.

--First of all, if a Butei's battle becomes an away-game, it's an overwhelming disadvantage.

This is something which is immediately understood even by feeling.

A direction which should corner the enemy, and conversely a place where oneself can retreat, the home-game where the location ammunition, food, and water is all known is far easier to fight in. Backup coming from Connnect, Logi, Medica will obviously dull if away.

--Next, the battle-ability of the enemy is still indeterminate.

I had heared this from an instructor who had come from the Jietai; in land-war, there exists thing called 'The Law of Treble Attackers'.

Speaking simply, to be victorious in invading an enemy's territory, one needs at least three times the battle-power. Around that much, an exhaustive amount of energy is needed to 'Invade'.

Therefore, for now, I'll just leave the warnings to Aria to the contents of what I had said this morning--

(Let's observe her condition for a while...)

Last month, I had been subjected to being the leader of Team Baskerville.

I had been informed afterward, but for every team leader, there is a required lecture called 'Tactics I', and I had earnestly attended it. Because it was rather easy to get credit from it.

As a result of it, or maybe thanks to it, I had now picked up the habit of thinking about this kind of thing.

"Brats! We're deciding the costumes for 'Ristorante Masque,' which we'll be doing at the culture festival!"

''Clang!''

While quieting the talking students with a warning shot towards the ceiling, Assault Instructor Ranbyou shouted.

The second-year students of A, B, and C-Class are gathered in the sporthall, but...Jeanne of B-Class was...I don't see her. It seems she's absent.

My phone didn't connect either. While avoiding being eavesdropped, she probably was chasing after 'Grenada'.

"Alright, each of the teams gather, and go on standby--*cough cough*!"

Lezzad Instructor Tsuzuri spoke, and because the people of D-Class and E-Class, and X-Class, who rarely showed themselves, weren't here, the members of the same teams started to group together just as they were.

Bloody Tsuzuri, if you're about to choke then don't smoke inside the sporthall.

With that, besides me, who was frowning, wasn't just Riko and Aria from the same A-Class, Shirayuki from B-Class and Reki from C-Class had gathered.

"..."

Because there was that incident from yesterday, I indirectly sent a look to Reki, but...

"..."

Reki was Reki. There wasn't any reaction at all.

Wearing the same headphones as always, she was zoning out.

(Well, this is the wrong place to have that kind of talk. Guess I'll do it after Jeanne comes.)

Rather, those...those headphones.

She isn't receiving any Kinji-sniping orders from Wind-sama, right?

I thought, and lifted the headphones directly off her head. When I put them on, trying to listen--

''Click''. Reki used the remote control attached by a cord, and Fire Starter by the Prodigy became audible, starting with a deafening instrumental which was like air-attack klaxons had started screaming in my ears.

Wh-What the hell is this? What's this supposed to mean? He-hey. Don't turn up the volume! Turn it off!

Bloody Reki. She had me hear a sound which was like a warning. Did she get mad that her headphones were taken?

Reki kept facing forward, in Aria's direction, not looking this way, so I didn't know her expression, but...

"Kin-chan, the lottery box has come around."

"Ah, thanks."

When I realized it, Shirayuki, who was keeping directly by my side, had spoken, so I came back to reality, and returned Reki's headphones to her head with a thump.

The box, brought by a helping first year, had a round hole opened on its top...It was the lottery whichdecided the ''costumes'' each person was to wear there--at the "Ristorante Masque", which one section of us second years were in charge of for Butei High's culture festival.

(This lottery is also me laying my life on the line, huh...)

In a normal school, Ristorante Masque would be something like a cosplay cafe, but this is the abnormal Butei High. Acting out the professions held by the worn costumes, behaviour like that is what is looked for.

''Something like that'' I can't allow.

Looking from Butei High's point of view, this is a chance for students to appeal with their undercover investigative techniques without seeming strange, so if one doesn't do it properly, a terrifying punishment was waiting, coming from the Masters' All-Stars.

In short, this is a grave lottery which is entwined with my life.

"Then, Master, please draw one. This is the male box."

Ah. Isn't this Fuuma? She's carrying the box. I just realized, though.

You, don't call me 'master' in front of people. I'll give you hell with my scramasax.

"Also, only one redraw will be recognized. Then, may the fortunes of war guide your hand."

In response to Fuuma, who was smirking up at me for some reason, I remained silent and inserted my hand into the box. I started to fumble around the innumerable double-folded papers which were inside.

(...Well a good one come out for me...?)

Nothing as good as what I'm praying for will come out, though.

Mmm...the ones at the bottom of the box will probably be my target.

Nobody knows the method of making this lottery, but they wouldn't write the outrageous things straight off the bat.

By the way, among the huge misses, there is the thing called 'Female Clothing'.

If I draw that, I'll commit suicide by pistol right here.

It's a lot better than death by lynching at the hands of the teachers.

"What...What is it...?"

I hesitatingly opened the paper which I had pulled out...

"Shinto Priest"

No, no, no. It'd be difficult to act like this.

Ignoring Shirayuki, who had stolen a glance at my paper and ecstatically burst out with things like "Kin-chan-sama, we really are fated to come together!", I said, "I'll change," and put my hand in the box once again.

"If you are changing, then the first will be declared void. The second costume will be forced upon you."

I knew that, so the second one, which I drew with desperate resolve was--"Policeman (M.P.D. - Patrolman)"

Thank God. If it's this, I think I'll somehow be able to tide it over. I'm always there anyways, and observation is easy.

Exhaling a breath of relief, I sat down right there. With this, one thing is settled.

Looking around, there were many first years holding boxes and walking around...from everywhere in the sporthall, the voices of delight and wails could be heard from boys and girls who had drew their lots.

"Master. Jeanne-dono is absent today, but she had designated Master as the drawing-proxy in advance. Patience."

Fuuma stuck the female box out, so I also drew a lot for Jeanne.

"Waitress (At Home Cafeteria)"

...I don't know the name of the shop, but it should be fine, right?

Rather, it's whatever. At least it's a human.

"Then, next is Riko. I'm goiiing!"

With a composed gesture, Riko, with a frilly uniform, took a piece of paper out from the female box.

Good for you, huh. Dressing up is your specialty after all.

Rather, it seemed that she knew about Bandire since last month, but is it fine to talk to her about yesterday? There weren't any instructions from Tamamo, so I don't know, but...

Looking, Riko's first draw was "Thief (Manga [Cat's Eye] Style)"

Uwah. That's some drawing ability you've got there, Riko. A thief. Isn't that fitting?

Wonder what it'd be like if you became a mahjong player. [http://www.baka-tsuki.org/project/index.php?title=Hidan_no_Aria:Volume8_Translator%27s_Notes#Chapter_2]

Before me, who was stunned-

"Eh...There's no point in cosplaying like this!"

''Flutter''.

Riko threw the piece of paper behind her.

He-hey, you're going to throw that card away?

The second lot which Riko drew was "Gunman (Western Pioneer Age)"

The person herself went, "Oooh! I'll do it, I'll do it!" seemingly overjoyed, but why's there a role which ends in 'man' in the female box? One really can't get careless. In this lottery.

Shirayuki, who continued...

Had the first lot "Chinese Dress", but said "My body's curves will stick out, and it'll be really embarassing, so..." and canceled.

I imagined it...

Th-that's right. Please stop. If you were that, the curves of your large chest will clearly stick out, and furthermore because of the slit of the dress, those plump thighs with snow-white skin will be visible up until your waist.

If I'm showed that, there's the horror that I'll go into Hysteria, and the Ristorante Masque will devolve into chaos.

"That's great, if it's this, then I think I'll be able to do it..."

The second lot of Shirayuki, who spoke, was "Teacher (Arbitrarily Elementary~High School)". Yes. I'll allow that.

"..."

Having stuck her hand into the box silently, Reki drew her first lot, which was "Sorcerer".

In the midst of the entire Baskerville becoming silent, Reki...drew her second lot after looking at the first year girl Mutsu, still not saying anything.

The atmosphere was such that it felt like it was impossible to do a tsukkomi, so nobody did one.

Then, this time, "Chemical Research Lab Staff" came out.

Well...that should be fine, right? That is. She doesn't talk much, so it seems good.

"Fuuu, Haaa..."

Taking deep breaths was Aria, who was extremely bad with dressing up.

Whilst Shirayuki and Riko, who had already entered the safe zone, smirked and looked over her, Aria stuck her hand into the box with an expression which one might have when handling a live bomb...Like pulling out a fuse, ''Rustle''...she withdrew a paper.

Aria, putting in your willpower has no effect on lotteries. Well, I can't really talk about other people.

''Swallow''...Her throat made a sound, and on the opened paper--

"Idol"

Was written.

"I-I-Idol...U-Um, those pretty girls who appear on Japanese TV...?"

Aria, who locked her eyes on the paper even while trembling, was about to break into tears.

'Yes, yesyes,' Shirayuki slightly stooped over and nodded, but at her mouth, there were the dimples which appeared when she was trying not to laugh.

From the side of Riko's mouth, twisted like a cat, (this was a also a sign of her trying not to laugh,) a snort escaped. Ah, you drooled a little. Are you really holding yourself back so much?

This is just for example: I also imagined Aria joining [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AKB48 AKB48]...

He...Hehe...N-no. Don't laugh, me!

Still, don't laugh. I can hold it back. If I laugh, I'll be shot to death.

Rather, no matter what or how they tried to cover up, she'd be the only ''junior idol'', right? That is, if Aria did it.

There's a gap between her and real idols.

Furthermore, in my head, the title "Aria-chan 8 years old" appeared, and it reminded about the unfortunate DVD package-

"He...Hem!"

I laughed for an instant, but followed up by covering it with a faked cough.

Was...Was I found out...? I hesitatingly stole a glance at Aria's expression, but...

Performing the rather troublesome thing of self-imagination, Aria appeared to be imagining that she had a performance where she said things like, "Is everyone having fun!?" and her face was really hot and red, as if she had gotten a fever, the type where one's face heats up like an electric heater. As a result, she didn't seem to have noticed my laugh. Thank God. This finished without my death.

''Sweat''...''Sweat Sweat''...

A large amount of sweat dripped from her forehead, just like in manga, and Aria--

Spoke with a tone that a soldier who was forced to make a bitter decision might use-

"Ch-Chan-Change...!"

She said, and readied her right hand, braced like a talon--

"Ka-Kanzaki-dono...then, the next one will be definite...!"

If it was something like a bird, then Aria's gaze could definitely kill, and Fuuma shuffled slightly back from her.

''Thud!''

Aria, who had stuck her hand inside the box with a force which could have broken Fuuma's arm joints, had gotten what for her second lot?

Opening in slow motion, on the paper which Aria's tiny hands were holding...

On the paper...

"Elementary School Student"

Was there.

Ele.

Elementary School Student!

This time, it really is: "Aria-chan 8 years old," isn't it?

A-Aria. You...

What kind of horrible luck is that? Never gamble in your life.

"You did it----! You did it, Aria! By a certain definition, this definitely suits you! Kyahahahahahah!"

Riko, who shouted that, was rolling around at the feet of Aria, who was restraining herself like she had been frozen solid at the moment she saw the three words, "Elementary School Student", and laughing uncontrollably 'Ahyahyahya,' she clutched her stomach.

Was it that Shirayuki had also reached her limit of tolerance? She had knelt down as if prostrating herself, and leaking a noise of laughter which could not be called a voice, she hit the floor with a thudding noise.

I, who stood there shocked at the depths of horror in which Aria's luck resided, also - unintentionally; really, unintentionally - thought about a elementary school student with sharp eyes, sucking on a lollipop and carrying a red backpack--

"Ha--"

I laughed, and at that moment, I noticed the killing intent of Aria, who seemed to have snapped.

In the middle of my brain, the high-impact song "Firestarter" once again started to stream.

''Boom!''

Aria stuck her hands in the two-sides of her skirt, and drew her Governments!

Th-this is bad! Didn't I say to make sure that your magazines were full this morning!?

"Nothing happened! Nothingnothingnothingnothingnothingnooooooooooooooothing! First, it's the death sentence for you!"

In response to Aria, who had stuck her pistols out, aiming at Fuuma, Riko and I leapt in from the left and right.

"Stop it, Aria, don't shoot! Ranbyou's here! We'll be included and taken care of too!"

"''Aria-chan'', give up! Riko will help you make the costume! Kyahahahahaha!"

"WHO THE HELL IS ARIA-CHAN! A HOLE! HOLE METEOR SHOWER! HOLE BIG BAAAANNNGGGG!"

So, this time it's a series of celestial bodies. There's a lot of them, huh. Hole series, that is.

While thinking that, I protected Fuuma, crying while scattering caltrops behind her and running away, from the barrel of Aria's gun. Even though she's like that, she's still my junior, my Amica.

Continuing to go wild even though her first target had escaped her, Aria was in vicious brat mode. You drew this yourself, so resign yourself to it.　This is nothing more than a childish tantrum.

Just like Riko had said, by a certain definition, this is a really fitting role. "Elementary School Student", that is.

"DIE! DIE! DIEDIEDIEDIEEVERYONEDIE! IF EVERYONE WHO SAW THIS DIES, IT'D BE LIKE THIS NEVER HAPPENS! Gurk!"

Shirayuki put Aria, who was screaming those words, into a Nelson, Riko and I desperately pinned the guns on the left and right, Reki had run outside the sporthall at some point in time, and was now sticking half of her head out of the cover of the bulletproof door, staring this way. Reki, if you knew how things were going to go, then gives us a warning before this actually happened!

From then on, Butei High entered a shortened class for a while, and the preparations for the culture festival went on.

As for Aria...other than forced to take a consecutive 30 german suplexes from Ranbyou up until she said "Please let me be an elementary school student,' she was not attacked by anybody.

The people from 'Deen': Jeanne, Meiya, and Tamamo didn't appear, let alone the enemy...which is to say, 'Grenada'.

The ambassadors to the Bandire who stayed by Aria's side were Reki and I.

It's ominous that I don't know anything about what those guys're doing, but besides the fact that the following days were completely safe, I...couldn't really do anything, and as a result had nothing to do. After all, safe things are by nature good things.

Furthermore, there was one more thing, relevant to my safety, for which I was thankful for...

For some reason, it seemed that Aria was in a good mood. Recently, that is.

This was a trend which I had seen since giving her a ring last month, but ever since the incident with the clot mark on her neck, the number of times she had fired at me had reduced.

Simultaneously, I also felt that the number of times that Aria had had fights with Shirayuki and Riko had decreased. As for this...rather than getting along better, it felt as if she had developed some sort of tolerance. I also felt that she was taking things from other points of view far more than she had up till now.

I had thought that the reduction of the Golden Shell had taken effect, leading up to some sort of hormone imbalance, but because this trend was something which I had seen directly after I gave her a ring for her birthday, I felt that it was unrelated.

I really...don't understand girls.

--It was part of the rules that the costumes for 'Ristorante Masque', which we had decided by drawing lots the other day, had to be prepared by oneself.

The deadline was set to be at at a date quite a long while before the culture festival, but...

If the costumes weren't finished by the time of the deadline, one would be subjected to the full punishment course proffered by the celebrities of Butei,

This was truly a matter of life and death, so everyone would somehow do something to make the deadline.

Therefore, it became a tradition of sorts that everyone would gather in a classroom the night before the deadline and spend all night finishing up.

On the night that this 'meeting to finish up' took place...at nine o'clock.

In the classroom where I was, with a paper bag with a police uniform inside, 5 or 6 teams had gathered and were making conversation while finishing their costumes.

The desks had been kept to the back of the room, and each team had set up a picnic sheet, sat down, and worked.

Because there were people who were already wearing their almost-finished costumes, it had the feeling of a costume party of sorts.

There were those who had brought in small speakers, and were streaming music into the room.

Looking around, Shirayuki and Reki were in a corner, and Haimaki, whose popularity was rising due to commercials by SoftBank, was sitting there as well.

(...?)

Come to think of it...what's with this zone here by the wall, partitioned off from the rest of the room by a screen?

As I thought that and tried to have a look inside, the noise of rustling clothes and--

"Sooo, what kind of guys are you into, Hayakawa-san?"

"Hmmm, I'm...about that...probably somebody that's a bit dark..."

"Who from our class? Come on, tell us!"

--things like that could be heard from within, so I took a step back with a force that rivaled the me in Hysteria Mode.

Is this...a changing room!?

In the small gap at the foot of the screen, fallen skirts could be seen...

These...these goddamn Butei girls, they don't even know the concept of shame!

I get the fact there has to be a place where people can change from their uniforms into their costumes, but don't set up a changing room in this kinda place! It's just asking for trouble.

I can guess from the level of business around, but tensions were high, maybe because we were gathered in a classroom at night? At this kind of time, I need to be more alert of girls' gossiping than ever.

"Kinji, that isn't the best position."

Just as I was wiping away my cold sweat, Mutou, in a fireman outfit, put his arm on my shoulder.

"Over here. From this angle, if you look hard enough, the figure of the girls are thinly visible. Keep your focus. If you do this, you can delight in their silhouettes!"

Mutou whispered that into my ear as he circled around the screen.

"I-I'm not interested in that sort of thing, or rather, get to work!"

I shook myself free, and made my escape towards Team Baskerville.

But...what? Did he say silhouette?

Use your focus on something else, won't you? Like studying. You failed modern literature, didn't you?

"Um, Kin-chan. How far along are you on your uniform?"

A female teacher--Shirayuki, wearing a white blouse with a tight thigh-length dark navy skirt, said.

Cleaning up the space next to her, she cleared a space for me to sit.

Her tone...and feeling, they all feel teacher-like. She's serious even when it comes to roleplaying.

She was obeying the notice from Masters which said: "While wearing the costumes used for Ristoranted Masque inside the classroom, students have to act out their role for at least one hour after entering the classroom, to practice," wasn't she?

"It's nearly done. Could you look at it after to check that there's nothing off?"

"Of course. Hehe...I'm somewhat looking forward to it. What Kin-chan looks like as a patrolman."

Shirayuki, wearing black-rimmed glasses, looked up to me and smiled...a teacher's costume really suits her.

She's had a rather adult body from the beginning after all...she really seems like a new teacher.

She's overflowing with motherly traits, so she feels more like an elementary school teacher.

(About that...if Aria and Riko came, it'd really be like an elementary school, huh.)

...After glancing at Hiraga's back (also like an elementary school student), as she sat upright in a chair with Mutou's supply-type group, Carrier GA, sewing cloth embroidered with gold-thread....I sat down.

And the police costume which I took out of the paper bag...was actually just something made nearly completed that I had bought.

Coincidentally, buying costumes was something that was frowned upon, but because it wasn't against the rules, it's done a lot. People who make their costumes from scratch like Shirayuki are rare indeed.

And the creation/retail of those clothes are handled by the girls of CVR.

They, who close in on criminal groups through so-called 'seduction', also learn how to seduce the other sex through clothing, so they can make any sort of clothing without trouble. There are students who dress as males, so they take orders for male clothing as well.

Because I really had no desire to go and directly negotiate with that squadron of beautiful girls, I ordered through a mail, just like buying it online, but...at this kind of time...Those damned girls stared at the ground as they overcharged me.

However, though it's expensive, the clothing is real. There shouldn't be a problem with this.

But, in regards to Ristorante Masque, it was written on a printout from Masters that: "It is forbidden for real things, such as stains and damages, to not be present."

[[File:Aria08 099.jpg|thumb]]

If one's uniform isn't approved, one is sent to the full course, so I rubbed the new uniform, giving it a sense of being worn, and I pulled on the badge, widening the pinhole, occupying myself with the fine details.

"K-Kin-chan, what...what do you think of my teacher costume? Is there...anything strange?"

Shirayuki, who was shaving away at the edge of the attendance clipboard with a file, turned to face this way and asked me a question, so...

While trying not to look at that massive chest which stuck out--

"--It suits you. You seem like an elementary school teacher."

I answered her vaguely, looking at her out of the corner of my eye.

With that, Shirayuki smiled a love-filled smile...apparently trying to hide it, she suddenly crouched down, as if she was kowtowing.

White Album 2/Script/1003

2012-03-16T16:20:12Z

87.236.6.14: Yeah, I see it now. Sorry, haven't played it yet ^^

Return to the main page [[White Album 2|here]].

== Translation ==
*[[User:YoakeNoHikari|YoakeNoHikari]]

== Editing ==

== Translation Notes ==

== Text ==
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|1|春希|Haruki
|「小木曽…なんで？」
|"Ogiso...why?"
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|2|雪菜|Setsuna
|「っ！\nあ、あ、あの…\nもしかして、聴いてた？」
|"...!\nU-Uh-Umm...\nCould it be, you were listening?"
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|3|春希|Haruki
|「聴いてた？　って…」
|"'Listening?'..."
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|4||
|何の理由もなく、\n息も絶え絶えに屋上に駆け上がってくる人間がいたら、\nそっちの方が怪しいと思うんだけど。
|I think that it'd be more strange if someone were to sprint up to the rooftop until their breath was ragged for no reason whatsoever.
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|5|雪菜|Setsuna
|「ご、ごめんなさい！\n今の、忘れて！」
|"I-I'm sorry!\nPlease forget what happened!"
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|6|春希|Haruki
|「忘れて、って…」
|"'Forget this'..."
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|7||
|ここで歌っていたことを？\nそれとも、間抜けな質問してしまったことを？
|That you were singing here? Or that you asked a stupid question?
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|8|雪菜|Setsuna
|「あ、えっと、その…\nほら、なんていうか、\nちょっとだけ、調子に乗って恥ずかしいことしちゃって」
|"Ah, um...\nWhat I mean to say is,\n I just got a little carried away and did something embarassing."
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|9|春希|Haruki
|「………」
|"........."
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|10|雪菜|Setsuna
|「え、ええと。\n最初はね、校庭を見てたの。\nほら、陸上部とかテニス部とかハンド部とか」
|"U-Umm.\nIn the beginning, I was just looking at the schoolyard.\nYou know, the track team and the tennis and handball team."
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|11|春希|Haruki
|「あ、ああ…」
|"A-Ahh..."
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|12|雪菜|Setsuna
|「そしたらね、下の階から、\nなんだか聞き覚えのある曲が聞こえてきて…」
|"And then, you know...\nFrom the floor below, I could hear a song I had heard before..."
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|13|春希|Haruki
|「うん…」
|"Yeah..."
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|14|雪菜|Setsuna
|「なんだか嬉しくなって来ちゃって。\n実はすっごい好きなんだ『ＷＨＩＴＥ　ＡＬＢＵＭ』。\n…ちょっと古いかもしれないけど」
|"I was a little happy.\nThe truth is, I really love 'WHITE ALBUM'.\n...It may be a little old, though."
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|15|春希|Haruki
|「俺も…\n生まれて初めて自分の小遣いで買ったＣＤ」
|"I...It's the first CD that I even bought with my own pocket money."
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|16|雪菜|Setsuna
|「そうなんだ！　気が合うね。\k\n
|"Is that so! We really get along well, huh.\k\n
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|17|雪菜|Setsuna
|…あ～、そうじゃなくて、えっと、だから」
|...Ahh~, that's not what I mean, um..."
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|18|春希|Haruki
|「あ、あのさ…」
|"Y-Y'know..."
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|19|雪菜|Setsuna
|「は、はいっ！」
|"Y-Yes!?"
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|20|春希|Haruki
|「………」
|"........."
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|21|雪菜|Setsuna
|「………」
|"........."
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|22|春希|Haruki
|「今度の学園祭…」
|"About the school festival this year..."
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|23|雪菜|Setsuna
|「学園祭？\nあ、コンテストのこと？」
|"School festival?\nAh, you mean the contest?"
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|24|春希|Haruki
|「い、いや、\nそうじゃなくて」
|"N-No,\nnot that.
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|25|雪菜|Setsuna
|「？」
|"?"
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|26|春希|Haruki
|「………」
|"........."
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|27|雪菜|Setsuna
|「あ、あの…？」
|"U-Um...?"
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|28|春希|Haruki
|「………忘れた」
|"...I forgot."
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|29|雪菜|Setsuna
|「え…？」
|"Eh...?"
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|30|春希|Haruki
|「いや、小木曽さっき『忘れて』って」
|"No, Ogiso said 'Forget it."
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|31|雪菜|Setsuna
|「あ、あ…あ～！」
|"Ah, ah...Ah~!"
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|32||
|何言おうとしてたんだよ俺…
|What exactly was I trying to say...
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|33|春希|Haruki
|「それじゃ、行くわ。\n邪魔して悪かった」
|"Then, I'll be going.\nSorry for disturbing you."
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|34||
|もう、やめようって決めたんじゃないか。
|Really, didn't I decide that I'd stop?
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|35|雪菜|Setsuna
|「邪魔だなんて…全然思ってないよ」
|"I...don't think of this as an interruption at all."
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|36||
|俺のつたないギターに、完璧なピアノがついて。
|There's a perfect piano to accompany my clumsy guitar.
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|37|春希|Haruki
|「ありがと」
|"Thanks."
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|38||
|しかも最後の最後に綺麗なボーカルまでついて、\nこんな幸せな締め方、ないんじゃないのか？
|And ultimately, a beautiful vocalist has come.\nDoes such a happy stroke fate really exist?
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|39|雪菜|Setsuna
|「ううん、こっちこそ、ありがとう」
|"No, I should be the one saying thank you."
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|40||
|諦めろ。\n小木曽の事情を考えてやれよ。
|Just give up.\nThink about Ogiso.
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|41|春希|Haruki
|「じゃあ、また明日」
|"Then, see you tomorrow."
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|42||
|目立つことが嫌いで、\nミス峰城付属にも参加を渋ったくらいなんだぞ。
|She hates standing out,\nto the point where she hesitates to participate in the Miss Houjou contest.
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|43|雪菜|Setsuna
|「うん、さよなら。\nまた明日」
|"Yes, goodbye.\nSee you tomorrow."
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|44||
|それがステージに立って、\n皆の前で歌うなんて、\nそんな派手すぎる真似ができるわけないだろう？
|Standing on the stage,\nsinging in front of everyone,\nthere's no way she could do something that flashy, right?
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|45|春希|Haruki
|「………っ！\nあ、ちょっと！」
|"...!\nAh, wait!"
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|46|雪菜|Setsuna
|「実行委員さん…のお手伝いさん？」
|"...A helper for a committee member?"
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|47||
|それなのに…
|Even so...
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|48|春希|Haruki
|「あのさ…」
|"Um..."
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|49|雪菜|Setsuna
|「はい？」
|"Yes?"
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|50|春希|Haruki
|「………軽音楽同好会、入らない？\n学園祭、出るんだけど、ボーカルがいなくて」
|"...Won't you join the light music club?\nWe're making an appearance in the school festival, but we don't have a vocalist."
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|51|雪菜|Setsuna
|「………え？」
|"...Eh?"
|}}

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|52||
|[S0何で言っちゃうんだよ。[W120]\n][S0俺の…馬鹿。]
|[S0Why did I say that.[W120]\n][S0I'm...such an idiot.]
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|53||
|………
|.........
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|54|親志|Chikashi
|「じゃ、これがステージプログラムの\n最終稿ってことでいいんだな？\n昼休みには業者に出すぞ？」
|"Then, you're fine with this being the final draft of the stage program?\nI'll be submitting this to the printer during lunch break, alright?"
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{{WA2ScriptLine
|55|春希|Haruki
|「………ああ」
|"...Yeah."
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|56||
|提出期限ギリギリに渡したプログラムを受け取ると、\nある程度の事情を知ってる親志は軽く眉をひそめた。
|Taking the program, which I had handed to her just before the deadline,\nChikashi, who knew what was happening to a certain extent, frowned.
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|57|親志|Chikashi
|「本当に、いいんだな？\nアテ、あるんだな？」
|"This really is fine, right?\nYou've got something, right?"
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|58|春希|Haruki
|「………さあ」
|"...I wonder."
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|59|親志|Chikashi
|「さり気なく一文字すり替えるなよ！\n思いっきり不安になるじゃないか！」
|"Don't just nonchalantly sidestep the issue with a single word!\nWon't I get really uneasy!?"
|}}

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|60||
|エントリーメンバーと順番に、\n何の修正も入っていなかったから。
|There had been no revisions to the entry members and the order.
|}}

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|61|親志|Chikashi
|「最近じゃ武也も諦め気味だったはずだけど…\nこれ、もしかしてお前の独断じゃ…？」
|"Recently, Takeya's also seemed rather resigned, but...\nthis couldn't just be your own selfishness, could it...?"
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|62|春希|Haruki
|「………」
|"........."
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|63|親志|Chikashi
|「さり気なく無言を貫くなよ！\nさらに不安に………え？」
|"Don't just stay silent nonchalantly!\nWon't I become even more un...Eh?"
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|64|春希|Haruki
|「どした親………え？」
|"What's wrong, Chi...Eh?"
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|65|隣席の女子生徒|Neighboring Female Student
|「………」
|"........."
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|66|春希|Haruki
|「え…？」
|"Eh...?"
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|67|親志|Chikashi
|「チャイム…まだ鳴ってないよな？」
|"The bell...hasn't rung yet, right?"
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|68|隣席の女子生徒|Neighboring Female Student
|「………」
|"........."
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|69|春希|Haruki
|「あ…え？」
|"Ah...eh?"
|}}

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|70||
|徹夜明けでしょぼしょぼする目に映ったのは、\nいつも無表情なはずのお隣さんの、\nなんかちょっとだけ感情の浮かんだ表情。
|Reflected in my eyes, which had stayed wide open all through the night,\nwas the expression of the neighboring student, which seemed slightly filled with emotion,\nthough she was always expressionless.
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|71|隣席の女子生徒|Neighboring Female Student
|「………」
|"........."
|}}

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|72||
|さらに驚くべきことは、\n今はまだ、始業時間まで１５分も残ってて。
|And what was even more surprising was,\nthere was still 15 minutes left until the start of our work.
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|73|春希|Haruki
|「な、なに？\nどうしたんだ？」
|"Wh-What?\nWhat's wrong?"
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|74|隣席の女子生徒|Neighboring Female Student
|「………昨日」
|"...Yesterday."
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|75|依緒|Io
|「あ～いたいた！\n春希～！」
|"Ah, you're here!\nHaruki<nowiki>~~~</nowiki>!"
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|76|隣席の女子生徒|Neighboring Female Student
|「っ…」
|"..."
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|77|春希|Haruki
|「依緒…？」
|"Io...?"
|}}

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|78||
|その整い過ぎてる顔が、何か不平を垂れるみたいに\n口を開きかけたところで…
|Just as her mouth, centered in the middle of that overly-tidied face,\n opened as if to spill out complaints...
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|79|隣席の女子生徒|Neighboring Female Student
|「はぁ…」
|"Haah..."
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|80|春希|Haruki
|「っ！？」
|"!?"
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|81||
|今度はあからさまにこっちを睨みつけ、\nそのまま乱暴に席に着いてしまった。
|This time, she was clearly glaring at me,\nand she took her seat rather violently.
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|せっかく久しぶりに\nコミュニケーションが取れそうだったのに…
|Just when it finally seemed as if we could have some form of communication for the first time in a while...
|}}

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|83|依緒|Io
|「春希！　春希～！\nあんたにお客さんだよ～！\nそれも驚天動地の～！」
|"Haruki! Haruki~!\nThere's a visitor for you~!\nAnd a really, really earth-shatteringly surprising one~!"
|}}

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|84|春希|Haruki
|「うるさいな！　もっと静かに騒げ！」
|"You're really noisy! Be a little more quiet when you're making a fuss!"
|}}

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|85|親志|Chikashi
|「無茶言うなよ…」
|"Don't say something so ridiculous..."
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|86|依緒|Io
|「無茶言わないでよ…」
|"Please don't say something so ridiculous..."
|}}

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|87||
|だってお隣が向こうから話しかけてくるなんて…\nこんなチャンス、今年に入ってから二度目だってのに。
|But, that my neighboring student would start talking...\nThis was the second time that such a chance had come this year.
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|88|春希|Haruki
|「大体、依緒はいつも大げさなんだよ。\n驚天動地なんて言葉、いつ覚え…」
|"Io always exaggerates.\nWhen did you learn a word like earth-shatteri..."
|}}

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|89|雪菜|Setsuna
|「あ、あの、おはよう。\n北原くん…って名前なんだってね」
|"U-Um, good morning.\nKitahara-kun...was your name, right?"
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|90|春希|Haruki
|「え？」
|"Eh?"
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|91|親志|Chikashi
|「え？」
|"Eh?"
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|92|隣席の女子生徒|Neighboring Female Student
|「………」
|"........."
|}}

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|93||
|そんな、いつも大げさな依緒にしては珍しく、\n言葉通りの驚天動地な相手を連れてきた。
|Rare for Io, who always exaggerated,\nshe had brought someone who just like she had said, was earth-shatteringly surprising.
|}}

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|94||
|………
|.........
|}}

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|95|武也|Takeya
|「おい待てよ、なんだよなんなんだよ？\n一体あそこでは今何が起こってるんだ？」
|"Hey, wait, what on Earth?\nWhat on Earth happened there?"
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|96|親志|Chikashi
|「ホントこういうネタだと一瞬で嗅ぎつけるな…」
|"You really instantly sniffed out that it was this kind of thing..."
|}}

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|97|依緒|Io
|「人の教室に勝手に入ってきて、\nいきなりその態度ってどうなのよ？」
|"First coming into somebody's classroom without asking,\nwhat kind of attitude are you taking now?"
|}}

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|98|武也|Takeya
|「依緒だって別のクラスじゃねえかよ…」
|"Aren't you from another class, Io...?"
|}}

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|99|親志|Chikashi
|「しっ！\n小木曽が何か話し始めた！\n…すごく気まずそうだ」
|"Shh!\nOgiso started to say something!\n...It seems really awkward."
|}}

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|100|依緒|Io
|「気まず…」
|"Awkward..."
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|101|武也|Takeya
|「ああもう！　段階踏めよ春希！\nそもそもなんでラスボスから攻略しようとしてんだ\nあいつは？」
|"Ahh, geez! Take the step, Haruki!\nIn the first place, why're you trying to start using the walkthrough starting from the last boss?"
|}}

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|102|依緒|Io
|「あんたみたいに経験値稼ぎすぎってのも\nどうかと思うけどね」
|"I wonder about people like you, who grind way too much."
|}}

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|103|雪菜|Setsuna
|「あ、あの…」
|"U-Umm..."
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|104|春希|Haruki
|「うん…」
|"Yeah..."
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|105|雪菜|Setsuna
|「………」
|"........."
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|106|春希|Haruki
|「………」
|"........."
|}}

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|107||
|昨日から話が進まない。
|Nothing had happened since yesterday.
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|108||
|俺の、あまりに突拍子もない誘いに、\nここまで真剣に反応するとは思いもしなかった。
|I didn't think that she would come all the here to respond to my crazy suggestion.
|}}

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|109||
|笑って断られるか、軽蔑の視線で断られるか、\n半泣きで断られるかのどれかだと思ってたのに。
|I was actually wondering whether I would be refused with a smile,\n or with a scornful gaze, or maybe refused with a half-tearful face.
|}}

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|110||
|『一日、待ってもらえますか？』
|'Could you wait a day?'
|}}

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|111||
|昨夜、あの場で彼女が口にしたのは、\nたったそれだけだった。
|What she had said there, yesterday night,\n amounted to that.
|}}

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|112|雪菜|Setsuna
|「その…昨日の返事。\n待たせちゃって、ごめんなさい」
|"Um...about yesterday's answer...\nI'm sorry for making you wait."
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|113|春希|Haruki
|「いや、俺の方こそ突然あんなこと言って。\n驚いたよな、ごめん」
|"No, I should be the one apologizing for suddenly saying something like that.\nYou must've been surprised, I'm sorry."
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|114|雪菜|Setsuna
|「う、ううん！\nだって仕方ないよ！\nそんな大変なことがあったんじゃ」
|"N-Not at all!\nThere was no helping it!'nI mean, didn't you have something troublesome like that to take care of?"
|}}

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|115|春希|Haruki
|「いや、まぁ、そうだけど…\nでもそれは、小木曽にとっては何の関係もない話で」
|"No, well, that's true, but...\nThat's something that has nothing to do with you.
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|116|雪菜|Setsuna
|「それでね…あれから家に帰って、\n一晩中、寝ないで考えたの」
|"And then...after that, I went home,\nand I thought about it the whole night, not going to sleep."
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|117|春希|Haruki
|「ひ、一晩中？」
|"T-The whole night?"
|}}

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|118||
|そんなに真面目に検討…？\nそれって、ひょっとして結構脈ありなんじゃ…？
|She thought about it that seriously...?\nThat means, isn't there some hope...?
|}}

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|119|雪菜|Setsuna
|「だからほら、ちょっと目、腫れぼったいでしょ？\n…北原くんもそんな感じだね？」
|"Well, aren't my eyes a little swollen?\n...You also look like that, you know, Kitahara-kun?"
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|120|春希|Haruki
|「あ、いや、俺のは…」
|"Ah, no, mine is because..."
|}}

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|121||
|単に寝る暇がないくらいの作業があるだけで。
|I simply had so much work that I had no time to sleep.
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|122|雪菜|Setsuna
|「わたしなんかにやれるのか、\n今のわたしがやってもいいことなのか、\nそもそも、わたしはやりたいのか」
|"I was thinking about whether someone like me could do it,\nwhether it'd be fine if I did it,\nand even if I wanted to do it at all.
|}}
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|123||
|本気で真面目に検討してる…
|She was pondering it, seriously and earnestly...
|}}

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|124||
|俺が、女の子をここまで悩ませたことなんて、\n生まれてきて以来、昨日が初めてだっただろうな。
|That I'd trouble a girl this much,\nyesterday must've been the first time I'd ever done something like this.
|}}

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|125||
|それもこんな…\nさっきから大量の突き刺さる視線を感じるくらいに、\n注目度の高い女の子を。
|And also...\na girl who drew everyone's attention,\n to the point where I had been feeling many piercing stares since just now.
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|126|雪菜|Setsuna
|「それでね…ついさっき、\nやっと結論が出たの」
|"And then...just before,'nI finally came to a conclusion."
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|127|春希|Haruki
|「そ、そう…？」
|"D-Did you...?"
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|128|雪菜|Setsuna
|「ごめんね…\nわたしの中では僅差だったけど、やっぱり無理」
|"I'm sorry...\nIt was difficult, but I've decided that it's impossible."
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|129|春希|Haruki
|「………そう」
|"...I see."
|}}

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|130||
|けれど…
|But...
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|131||
|その、高嶺の花の女の子は、\n最終的には、その価値に釣り合った答えを俺にもたらした。
|That girl, the summit's flower,\nultimately gave me an answer which was just like her.
|}}

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|132|武也|Takeya
|「春希っ！\nお、お前、無茶しやがって…」
|"Haruki!\nD-Doing something ridiculous like that..."
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|133|春希|Haruki
|「予鈴鳴ったぞおい。\nいいのかよここにいて？」
|"The warning bell's rung, y'know.\nIs it really OK for you guys to be here?
|}}

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|134|依緒|Io
|「どうだった？\n雪菜、なんて言って断ってきた？」
|"How was it?\nWhat did Setsuna say to blow you off?"
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|135|春希|Haruki
|「いや、さっきの言葉は\n武也にだけ言った訳じゃなくてだなぁ」
|"...What I said just now wasn't just directed to Takeya."
|}}

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|136||
|教室に戻った俺を出迎えたのは、\n二重の意味での部外者である男女二人組だった。
|Greeting me, who had returned to my classroom,\nwas the outsider boy-girl pair, (in more than one way.)
|}}

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|137|親志|Chikashi
|「実際どうだったんだよ？\nあれってどう考えても…」
|"How'd it really go?\nNo matter how I think about it..."
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|138|春希|Haruki
|「ああ…確かに俺の申し出は断られたよ」
|"Yeah...it's true taht my request was refused."
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|139|武也|Takeya
|「やっぱり…」
|"Like I thought..."
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|140|依緒|Io
|「やっぱり…」
|"Just as I thought..."
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|141|親志|Chikashi
|「やっぱり…」
|"I thought so..."
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|142|春希|Haruki
|「けど…\nこれからも友達でいてくれって言われた」
|"But...\nShe asked me to be her friend."
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|143|武也|Takeya
|「ああ、なんてこった」
|"Ahh, what a thing to happen."
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|144|依緒|Io
|「完璧なテンプレート」
|"A perfect template."
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|145|親志|Chikashi
|「あまりにも明確な拒絶」
|"A rather obvious rejection."
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|146|春希|Haruki
|「拒絶なのか…な？」
|"Was it...a rejection?"
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|147||
|『あ、あのね、北原くん。\nそっちの頼みを断っておいて、今こんなお願いするの、\n都合のいいことだってわかってるんだけど』
|'U-Umm, Kitahara-kun.\nRefusing your request and then making one of my own,\nI know that it's kind of convenient for me, but...'
|}}

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|148||
|『でも、今伝えられなくて、\n顔合わせ辛くなったら嫌だし…言っちゃうね』
|'I can't say it now,\nbut I don't want for it to be hard for us to meet...I'm saying it, OK?"
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|149||
|『これからも…\n話しかけて、いいかな？』
|'From now on...\nwould it be fine for me to talk to you?'
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|150||
|『あと、それと…\nこれも図々しいお願いなんだけど』
|'And also...\nthis is also a rather shameless request, but...'
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|151||
|『学園祭…一緒に回れない、かな？』
|'Won't you...go the the school festival with me?'
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|152||
|なんかニュアンスが…まぁいいか。
|It seemed as if some sort of nuance...well, whatever.
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|153|武也|Takeya
|「…放課後カラオケ行くぞ春希。\n今日はめいっぱい騒いで全部忘れようぜ？」
|"...Let's go karaoke after class, Haruki.\nLet's party hard and forget it all, alright?"
|}}

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|154|依緒|Io
|「あたしも付き合うよ…\n今日はみんなでおごるからさ」
|"I'll be coming too...\nEveryone's going to treat today."
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|155|親志|Chikashi
|「そうだな…\n辛いこととか、悲しいことなんて、\n全部忘れさせてやるからな」
|"Yeah...\nPainful, sad things,\nwe'll have you forget them all."
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|156|春希|Haruki
|「急に優しくなるな気持ち悪い」
|"Don't get so nice suddenly, it creeps me out."
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|157|武也|Takeya
|「わかってる。わかってるって。\n何も言わないでいいから」
|"I understand. I understand.\nIt's fine if you don't say anything."
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|158|依緒|Io
|「春希が泣いてる時は、\n全員そっぽ向いてるから安心しなよ」
|"When you're crying,\nwe'll all look away, so don't worry."
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|159|親志|Chikashi
|「なんなら胸貸してやってもいいぞ。\n…泣くだけなら」
|"If you want I'll even lend you my chest...only if you're crying."
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|160|春希|Haruki
|「おぞましいこと言うな。\nそれに今日は駄目。\nまだやらなくちゃならないことがあるんだから」
|"Don't say something so creepy.\nAnd I can't today.\nThere's still something that I have to do."
|}}

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|161||
|そうだ…\nこんなことで落ち込んでなんかいられない。
|That's right...\nI can't get depressed over something like this.
|}}

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|162||
|なぜなら…
|Because...
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|163||
|………
|.........
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|164|春希|Haruki
|「………」
|"........."
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|165||
|学校から二番目に近い末次町駅前は、\n学生たちの歓楽街を最寄り駅の南末次に譲り、\n来るたび代わり映えのしない光景を映し出している。
|The front of Suetsuguchou station, two stops away from the school, had given way to Minamisuetsugu, the closest station to the streets where students hung out, and every time I came, it reflected this unchanging scene.\n
|}}

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|166||
|色鮮やかな店内の照明を一気に落とし、\n駅前の寂しさをさらに増幅させる花屋の女主人。
|Dimming the lighting of the colorful shop interior,\nthe female florist further amplified the loneliness of the station front.
|}}

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|167||
|スーパーの店先で、\n一生懸命品出しに励む三つ編みの少女。
|In front of the supermarket,\na girl with braids did her best to stack goods.
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|168||
|杖をつき、ものすごくゆっくりした足取りで、\n思いっきり目的もなさそうに行き来を繰り返す老人…
|Leaning on a cane, an old man walked back and forth with an amazingly slow gait, no clear aim in mind.
|}}

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|169|春希|Haruki
|「小木曽」
|"Ogiso"
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|170|雪菜|Setsuna
|「っ！？」
|"!?"
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|171||
|いつ来ても、代わり映えのしない光景。
|An unchanging scene, no matter when one came.
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|172||
|スーパーの店先で、\n一生懸命品出しに励む三つ編みの少女。
|In front of the supermarket, a girl with braids did her best to stack goods.
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|173|春希|Haruki
|「もう一度話があるんだけど…いいかな？」
|"There's something else that I have to say...is that fine?"
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|174|雪菜|Setsuna
|「あ…あ…あ…」
|"Ah...ah...ah..."
|}}

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|175||
|一度断られたくらいで、\n落ち込んでなんかいられない。
|Having just been rejected once,\nI have no need to fall into despair.
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|176||
|なぜなら…
|Because...
|}}

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|177||
|まだ、ラストチャンスが残ってるって、\nわかってたから。
|I knew that there was still one last chance left to me.
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|178||
|………
|.........
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|179|雪菜|Setsuna
|「………」
|"........."
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|180|春希|Haruki
|「………」
|"........."
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|181||
|駅のすぐ裏にある公園。
|At the park directly behind the station.
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|182||
|錆びてキーキー音のするブランコに腰掛けて、\nしばし無言でゆっくり漕ぐ俺と小木曽。
|Sitting on the swings, which creaked from rust,\nOgiso and I sat slowly swung back and forth, staying silent.
|}}

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|183||
|小木曽の足もとに置かれたお手製っぽい買い物袋からは、\n長ネギがはみ出し、白菜、椎茸、糸こんにゃくが覗き、\n今夜の献立を想像するだけで身体が温まる気がする。
|A long leek stuck out from the seemingly handmade shopping bag which was placed by Ogiso's feet. Chinese cabbage, shiitake mushrooms, string konnyaku peeked out,\nand just imagining tonight's menu made me feel as if I was getting warmer.
|}}

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|184||
|どうやらスーパーの残り物を貰ってきたらしい。\n………なんという生活感。
|It seemed that she had come to get the leftovers from the supermarket.\n...what a feeling, like she's just trying to make a living.
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|185|雪菜|Setsuna
|「そっか、そっか…\nそういうことだったんだ…」
|"I see...\nIt was something like that..."
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|186|春希|Haruki
|「…何が？」
|"...What was?"
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|187||
|金属の嫌な軋み音が止むと、\n今度は鈴の鳴るような綺麗な声が届く。
|The dissonant noise of creaking metal stopped,\n and this time, a beautiful voice the sound of a bell ringing rung out.
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|188|雪菜|Setsuna
|「初めて北原くんとお話ししたときのこと、\nちょっと引っかかってたんだ」
|"When I first spoke with you,\nI was tricked a little."
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|189||
|…同じ高音でも、耳への触り方が段違いだ。
|...Though it was the same high voice, the way it whispered into my ears was on a different level.
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|190|春希|Haruki
|「なんか言ったっけ、俺？」
|"Did I say something?"
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|191|雪菜|Setsuna
|「『色々気苦労も多い』とか、\n『有名になりすぎても困るんだろ』とか…」
|"'There's a lot of worries,'\nand 'It'd be troubling if you became too popular'..."
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|192|春希|Haruki
|「あ～…」
|"Ahh~..."
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|193|雪菜|Setsuna
|「知ってたんだ…このわたし」
|"So you knew about me all along..."
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|194||
|ちょっとずり下がった眼鏡に指を当てて、\nちょっと恨みがましい目で俺を見つめる小木曽。
|Touching her fingers to her slightly drooping glasses,\nOgiso stared at me with reproachful eyes.
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|195|春希|Haruki
|「いや、本当に悪い。\n墓まで持ってくつもりだったんだけど…」
|"I'm really sorry.\nI was planning on taking it with me to the grave, but..."
|}}

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|196||
|三つ編み眼鏡の女の子が趣味かと聞かれれば、\nちょっと考えた末に『別に』と曖昧な返事をするけれど。
|If I was asked whether I had something for girls with glasses and braids,\n after thinking for a while, I'd respond with a vague answer like: 'Not especially,' though.
|}}

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|197||
|やはりというか、さすがというか、\n今、目の前にいるこの三つ編み眼鏡少女は、\n思いっきりアリだと思ってしまえる。
|Perhaps I should say this was expected?(!)
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|198|雪菜|Setsuna
|「いつから？」
|"Since when?"
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|199|春希|Haruki
|「２年の夏頃かな？\nその先に小さな中古楽器屋があって、\nよく武也に連れてこられてて…」
|"Maybe he summer of second year?\nBefore that, there had been a second-hand music store, and I was brought there often by Takeya..."
|}}

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|夕方の駅前商店街で一生懸命働く、不自然にな少女。
|Working as hard as she could in the evenings at the shopping street in front of the station, she was an unnaturally plain girl.
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|その眼鏡の奥の素顔は、\n細かいことを気にする俺にとって、\n格好のチェック対象だった。
|Her face, hidden behind her glasses,\nwas for me, who paid attention to small details,\nwas something
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|ある日、学校の廊下ですれ違った瞬間、\n突如正体に気づいてしまったときは、\n危うく叫び声を上げ…てしまった。
|That day, the instant we passed each other in one of the school's hallways,\nthe moment I suddenly realized who she was,\nI nearly...shouted.
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|だって、あまりの衝撃と意外性と馬鹿馬鹿しさのせいで、\nどうにも我慢のしようがなかったし。
|I mean, because of the shock, the unexpectedness, and the absurdity,\nI simply couldn't resist.
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|204|雪菜|Setsuna
|「そんなに前から…\n北原くん、わたしのこと知ってたんだ…」
|"You've known about me...from that long before..."
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|205|春希|Haruki
|「いや、小木曽のことだったら、\n同じ学年の男子は全員２年前から知ってるから。\n少なくとも１年のときの学園祭以降なら…あ」
|"No, if we're talking about you,\nthen every boy in the same year has known since 2 years before.\nAt least, ever since the school festival in the first year...Ah..."
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|206|雪菜|Setsuna
|「………」
|"........."
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|207|春希|Haruki
|「すまん」
|"Sorry."
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|『学園祭のせいで有名人になってしまったこと』は、\n本人の前ではどうやら禁句らしい。
|'Becoming famous because of the school festival', it seems that those words are forbidden in front of the person herself.
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|209|雪菜|Setsuna
|「今のわたしの正体が見破られたの、今日が初めて。\nそれこそ一年の頃からずっと、だったのに」
|"Today's the first time that my true identity was seen through.\nAnd yet it's been known since our first year."
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|210|春希|Haruki
|「そうかな？\nみんな気づいてたけど、\nただ黙ってただけなんじゃないか？」
|"Is that so?\nEveryone noticed, but didn't they just keep quiet about it?"
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|なんというか、\n声をかけるのが憚られるような展開のせいで…
|Rather, how should I say this...\nit was because calling out to her would be an unwelcome development.
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|ま、とはいえ、何度すれ違っても、\n武也はまったく気づくそぶりはなかったけど。\nこの前は、同じクラスの依緒もスルーしてたけど。
|Well, no matter how many times he passed by her,\nTakeya hadn't acted like he had noticed.\nAnd before, Io of the same class had also been ignoring it.
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|213|雪菜|Setsuna
|「ううん、絶対に北原くんが初めてだよ。\nわたし、人を見る目はあるつもりなんだ」
|"No, Kitahara-kun was definitely the first.\nI should be able to see through people."
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|214|春希|Haruki
|「そ、そう…？」
|"I-Is that so...?"
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|なんか言ってる意味が微妙にわからない。\n俺はそんなに執念深い人間だと見られてるんだろうか？
|Somehow I don't really understand the nuances of what she's saying.\nDoes she see me as someone so persistent?
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|216|春希|Haruki
|「あ、あの、それでさ…」
|"U-Umm, then..."
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|217|雪菜|Setsuna
|「わたしの家ね…」
|"About my family..."
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|218|春希|Haruki
|「え…」
|"Eh...?
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|俺が本題に入ろうとしたその瞬間…
|The moment I tried to get to the main topic...
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|220|雪菜|Setsuna
|「もともと、そんなにお金持ちって訳じゃないんだ」
|"From the beginning, we weren't rich at all."
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|221|春希|Haruki
|「う…」
|"Uh..."
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|機先を制されてしまった。
|She got the jump on me.
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|223|雪菜|Setsuna
|「ウチ、私立の中でも授業料高い方だし、\n寄付金だって馬鹿みたいに納めてる家もあるし、\nもともと、入学の時からかなり背伸びしてたの」
|"Even among private schools, this place has really high tuition fees,\nand there're families who give donations, just like idiots,\nand in the beginning, I had been struggling, entering the school.
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|小木曽は、多分、\nついさっきまで誰にも話すつもりのなかったことを、\n口に乗せようとしているってわかった。
|I understood that, Ogiso was trying to bring something up that she had no intention of telling anybody up till just now.
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|225|春希|Haruki
|「小木曽…」
|"Ogiso..."
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|まずいな…\nこれは、俺の望まない展開だ。
|This is bad...This development isn't something I wanted.
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|227|雪菜|Setsuna
|「それでも入学当時は普通に遊べてた。\nみんなの寄り道に付き合ってお買い物したり、\nお茶飲んでお喋りしたり、カラオケ行ったり」
|"But even so, I could have fun as normal when I entered the school.\nI'd accompany everyone as they stopped at places on the way home, and I'd go shopping,'nwe'd drink tea and talk, and we'd go karaoke."
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|ここで小木曽の辛い境遇を聞いてしまったら、\nこれ以上踏み込めなくなる。
|If I asked about Ogiso's painful circumstances here,'nI'd be unable to intrude any further.
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|229|雪菜|Setsuna
|「そんな生活が一変したのは、ちょうど２年前…\n１年の秋から冬にかけての頃」
|"The moment that that kind of life changed completely came exactly two years ago...\nthe time from my first year's autumn till its winter."
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|230||
|今からの一月を、\n俺の安っぽい意地のためだけに使ってくれなんて、\nそんな身勝手頼めなくなってしまう。
|'Please use the month ahead just for my insignificant stubbornness,'\n I would become unable to say something that arbitrary.
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|231|春希|Haruki
|「もしかして…家族の人に何か？」
|"Could it be that...something happened to your family?"
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|それでも、聞かなくちゃならない。
|But even so, I had to ask.
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|小木曽が、他の誰にでもないこの俺に、\n大きな覚悟を持って話してくれるんだから…
|Because, Ogiso had steeled herself,\nand come to talk to me, who was nobody to her...
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|234|雪菜|Setsuna
|「ううん、わたしの身に色々と」
|"No, to me."
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|235||
|だから俺も、今は安っぽい作戦なんか忘れて、\n大きな覚悟を持って聞いてあげないと…
|Which is why, now, I have to forget all about my cheap tricks and strategies,\nand steeling myself, ask her...
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|236|雪菜|Setsuna
|「ミス峰城大付で優勝しちゃってから、\n『お嬢様』ってイメージが定着しちゃって、\nそれで大変なことに…」
|"After winning the Miss Houjou competition,\nI became treated like a some sort of 'Lady',\n and things became quite troublesome..."
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|237|春希|Haruki
|「…は？」
|"...Huh?"
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|238|雪菜|Setsuna
|「いえ、その…\n自分でも、決して悪い気分じゃなかったから、\n曖昧に笑ってたら、ますます引っ込みがつかなくなって」
|"No, um...\nI didn't hate it, so I smiled vaguely,\n and before long I could no longer back out.
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{{WA2ScriptLine
|239|春希|Haruki
|「……はい？」
|"...Ah?"
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{{WA2ScriptLine
|240|雪菜|Setsuna
|「そうなると、\n後はそのイメージを守るために見栄に見栄を重ねて…」
|"Things having come to that,\nI tried to look better and better, for the sake of protecting my image..."
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{{WA2ScriptLine
|241|春希|Haruki
|「………」
|"........."
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{{WA2ScriptLine
|242|雪菜|Setsuna
|「遊びの誘いは新しい服が買えるまで絶対に受けなくて、\n新しい服買うために人知れずアルバイトして、\nアルバイトするから皆と遊ぶ時間が取れなくて」
|"I wouldn't accept any invitations to go out until I could buy new clothes,\nand for the sake of buying new clothes I worked part-time without anyone knowing,\nand because I worked part-time, I had no time to hang out with everyone."
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{{WA2ScriptLine
|243|春希|Haruki
|「…はぁ」
|"...Ahh."
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{{WA2ScriptLine
|244|雪菜|Setsuna
|「そりゃ、わたしだってちょっとは考えすぎって思うよ？\nでもね、時々本当にわたしの噂が聞こえてきちゃうのよ。\nどこそこの服着てたとか、今日の髪型はどうとか」
|"I think that I was overthinking it, you know?'nBut, from time to time, I could really hear rumours about me.\nShe was wearing the clothing from that place, what was her hairstyle today..."
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{{WA2ScriptLine
|245|春希|Haruki
|「…それは俺もよく聞いた」
|"...I heard those too."
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{{WA2ScriptLine
|246|雪菜|Setsuna
|「でしょ？\nだからこんなふうに、普段着のままスーパーで働く姿を\n見られるわけにはいかなくなっちゃったの」
|"Right?\nWhich is why, now I can't be seen like this, in casual clothes, working at a supermarket."
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{{WA2ScriptLine
|247|春希|Haruki
|「それでもここで働くんだ？\n制服の可愛いところとかじゃなくて」
|"But, working here?\nThis isn't a place that a uniform would go well with."
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{{WA2ScriptLine
|248|雪菜|Setsuna
|「お父さんの知り合いが経営してるお店だから、\nここでないとバイトを認めてくれなくって」
|"It's a store that one of my father's acquaintances is running, so if it wasn't here, he wouldn't let me."
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{{WA2ScriptLine
|249|春希|Haruki
|「お父さん元気なんだ…」
|"So, your father's doing well..."
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{{WA2ScriptLine
|250|雪菜|Setsuna
|「お母さんも元気だよ？」
|"So's my mother, you know?"
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{{WA2ScriptLine
|251|春希|Haruki
|「それわよかった…」
|"Thank God for that..."
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|252||
|確かに、色々と良かった…
|Really, thank God in so many ways...
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|253||
|両親が健在で、\nバイト一つとっても家族でちゃんと話し合って。
|Her parents are doing well,\nand she talks with her family about taking even one part-time job.
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|254||
|しかも父親がバイト先を探してきてくれて、\nそれが地味な職種でも、娘は一生懸命頑張って。
|And furthermore, her father had sought out a place for her to work.\nEven though it's a rather plain job, her daughter is working as hard as she can.
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|255||
|絵に描いたような平和で温かい家庭が頭に浮かぶ。
|A peaceful and warm family, fit to be in a picture, appeared in my head.
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|256|雪菜|Setsuna
|「難しいよね…そうやって付き合いが悪くなっていくと、\nますますお嬢様っぽく言われちゃって、\n気軽にみんなと遊べなくなって」
|"It's difficult, isn't it...If I get along badly with people,\nthen I'll increasingly be talked of as some sort of 'lady',\nand I won't be able to hang out with everyone carefreely..."
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{{WA2ScriptLine
|257|春希|Haruki
|「そう…か」
|"Is that...so..."
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{{WA2ScriptLine
|258|雪菜|Setsuna
|「そう…」
|"Yes..."
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{{WA2ScriptLine
|259|春希|Haruki
|「………」
|"........."
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{{WA2ScriptLine
|260|雪菜|Setsuna
|「………」
|"........."
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{{WA2ScriptLine
|261||
|だからこそ、小木曽の話が終わっても、\n俺は彼女に掛ける言葉が思いつかなかった。
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|262||
|正直参った…
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{{WA2ScriptLine
|263||
|なにしろ、ここまで微妙な打ち明け話をされると、\n押していいのか引くべきなのか判断できない。
|
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|264||
|小木曽の告白は、重すぎず軽すぎず、\n事情はわからないでもないけれど、\nけどそれがどうしたのって程度にも思え。
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|265||
|俺の望みを押しつけるのか、\n小木曽の事情を鑑みるのか、\n大したことないからこそ難しい決断を迫られて…
|
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|266|雪菜|Setsuna
|「そろそろ帰っていいかな。\n今日、夕食の当番だし」
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|267||
|そんなふうに逡巡してる隙に、\n小木曽は正体がバレてスッキリしてしまったのか、\n結構晴れ晴れとした顔で立ち上がる。
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|268|春希|Haruki
|「晩飯も作ったりするんだ…」
|
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{{WA2ScriptLine
|269|雪菜|Setsuna
|「お母さんも週三でパートなの。\nそれにそろそろ弟がお腹空かせて帰ってくる頃だし」
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{{WA2ScriptLine
|270|春希|Haruki
|「偉いな」
|
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{{WA2ScriptLine
|271|雪菜|Setsuna
|「進学やバイトでワガママ言わせてもらってるし、\n当たり前のことだよ」
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{{WA2ScriptLine
|272|春希|Haruki
|「そか…」
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|273||
|これが学園ナンバー１お嬢様の正体…
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|274||
|下手すると学園で一番庶民的かもしれない、\nある意味身も蓋もないくらい『普通のいい娘』。
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{{WA2ScriptLine
|275|雪菜|Setsuna
|「それで、あの…\n今日のことは」
|
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{{WA2ScriptLine
|276|春希|Haruki
|「言うわけないだろ。\nそれは信用して欲しい」
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|277||
|だからこそ、俺はどんどんいたたまれなくなる。
|
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{{WA2ScriptLine
|278|雪菜|Setsuna
|「ありがと。\n信用してます」
|
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{{WA2ScriptLine
|279|春希|Haruki
|「そんなに簡単に信用するなよ。\n俺がどうしてここに来たかわかってるか？」
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|280|雪菜|Setsuna
|「どうして…って…」
|
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|281||
|人の弱みに付け込む冷徹さと、\n人の事情を考えない卑劣さを持つ人間を、\nそんなに簡単に信じていいわけがないって。
|
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{{WA2ScriptLine
|282|春希|Haruki
|「…なんでもない。\nうん、絶対に言わない。\nそれじゃ…」
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|283||
|『せっかく追い詰めたのに』という後悔と\n『眩しすぎて直視できない』という罪悪感に苛まれ、\n俺は、逃げるように小木曽に背を向ける。
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|284||
|なんというか、小木曽と話してると、\nまるで俺が卑劣で矮小で狭量な人間に思えてしまって…\nいや、そうだと思い知らされてしまうから。
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{{WA2ScriptLine
|285|雪菜|Setsuna
|「北原くん」
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{{WA2ScriptLine
|286|春希|Haruki
|「ん？」
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{{WA2ScriptLine
|287||
|なのに小木曽は、\nまだ無邪気な表情のまま、俺を呼び止めて。
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{{WA2ScriptLine
|288|雪菜|Setsuna
|「あのさ…\n今夜、もう一度話があるんだけど…いいかな？」
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{{WA2ScriptLine
|289|春希|Haruki
|「今夜って…？」
|
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{{WA2ScriptLine
|290|雪菜|Setsuna
|「そうね、南末次駅前に１０時。\n待ってる」
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|291||
|末次町とは違い、\n深夜遅くまで眠らない繁華街、南末次。
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{{WA2ScriptLine
|292|春希|Haruki
|「１０時って…小木曽？」
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|293||
|そんなところにそんな時間に呼び出すってことは…
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{{WA2ScriptLine
|294|雪菜|Setsuna
|「だって北原くん、わたしのことまだ勘違いしてる。\n…ううん、わたしが本当のことを言ってないだけかな」
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{{WA2ScriptLine
|295|春希|Haruki
|「か、勘違い？」
|
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{{WA2ScriptLine
|296|雪菜|Setsuna
|「本当のわたしはね…\n今、あなたが思ってるようないい娘なんかじゃないの」
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{{WA2ScriptLine
|297|春希|Haruki
|「え………？」
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|298||
|夜の繁華街。\n二人きりの待ち合わせ。
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{{WA2ScriptLine
|299||
|そして………本当の小木曽？
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{{WA2ScriptLine
|300||
|………
|.........
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{{WA2ScriptLine
|301||
|……
|......
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{{WA2ScriptLine
|302||
|…
|...
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{{WA2ScriptLine
|303||
|現在時刻　午後１０時４２分。
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{{WA2ScriptLine
|304||
|場所　南末次駅徒歩３分。ダイマチビル５Ｆ
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{{WA2ScriptLine
|305|春希|Haruki
|「は…はは…」
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{{WA2ScriptLine
|306||
|カラオケハウスメイフラワー１５号室。
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{{WA2ScriptLine
|307|春希|Haruki
|「ははははは…あっははははは～…」
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{{WA2ScriptLine
|308|雪菜|Setsuna
|「ふぅぅぅぅ～、とりあえず一区切り。\nご静聴、ありがとうございました～」
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{{WA2ScriptLine
|309|春希|Haruki
|「あは、あははは、あはははははははっ」
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{{WA2ScriptLine
|310|雪菜|Setsuna
|「はぁ、喉乾いた～。\nあ、すいませ～ん、１５号室ですけど、\nウーロン茶と…北原くん何飲む？」
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{{WA2ScriptLine
|311|春希|Haruki
|「いえいえもうお腹いっぱいで！」
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|312||
|８曲連続での熱唱を終えると、\nやっと小木曽がソファーに腰掛けた。\n…当然のように俺のすぐ隣に。
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|313|雪菜|Setsuna
|「ええと…とりあえず新曲一通り行ったから、\n次はいつもの定番を流してみようかな」
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|314|春希|Haruki
|「そ、そう…」
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|315||
|歌本も検索機能も何も使わずに、\nコードを直打ちしてるよこの人…
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|316||
|しかも俺に『何飲む？』とは聞いてきても、\n『何歌う？』とは一言も聞いてこない。
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|317||
|………
|.........
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{{WA2ScriptLine
|318||
|夜の繁華街。\n二人きりの待ち合わせ。
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|319||
|そして………本当の小木曽。
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{{WA2ScriptLine
|320|春希|Haruki
|「はは、ははは…」
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{{WA2ScriptLine
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|やっぱりなぁ。\nこんなことだと思った…訳あるか。
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|どうせオチがつくんだろうとは思っていたが、\nまさかこんな…
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{{WA2ScriptLine
|323|雪菜|Setsuna
|「………退いた？」
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{{WA2ScriptLine
|324|春希|Haruki
|「いいやあんまり！」
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{{WA2ScriptLine
|325||
|いかん、微妙に嘘をつききれない。
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{{WA2ScriptLine
|326|雪菜|Setsuna
|「これが『隠してたわたし』のうちの、最後の最後」
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{{WA2ScriptLine
|327||
|暖房が効きすぎてて汗が止まらない。\n…顔は火照ってるのに出るのは冷や汗だけど。
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{{WA2ScriptLine
|328|雪菜|Setsuna
|「週に一度はここでヒトカラやってるの。\n…やっぱり変かな？」
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|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|329|春希|Haruki
|「いやいやいやわかるから！\nそういうコいるよね！」
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|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|330||
|女の子では初めて会ったけど。
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|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|331|春希|Haruki
|「そ、そうだよな！\nバイト忙しいもんな。\nなかなか友達と一緒って訳にもいかないよなぁ！」
|
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|332|雪菜|Setsuna
|「あ、ううん、これは違うの。\nわたし、カラオケだけは一人で歌いたいの」
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|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|333|春希|Haruki
|「へ…そうなの？」
|
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|334|雪菜|Setsuna
|「だって、みんなで入ると、\n１曲あたりの値段が高くなるでしょ？」
|
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|335|春希|Haruki
|「１曲あたり…」
|
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|336|雪菜|Setsuna
|「しかも、なかなか順番回ってこないから、\n待ってる間に段々イライラしてくるし。\k\n
|
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|337|雪菜|Setsuna
|２時間で１０曲歌えなかったりすると悔しいでしょ？」
|
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|338|春希|Haruki
|「イライラ…悔しい…」
|
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|339|雪菜|Setsuna
|「その点、一人なら２時間あれば３０曲は歌えるし。\n歌い終わってすぐに演奏ストップすれば、\nさらに５曲くらい稼げるし」
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|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|340|春希|Haruki
|「ノンストップ…」
|
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|341|雪菜|Setsuna
|「…それに１年の頃からの友達はもう誘ってくれないし。\n初めてみんなで行ったときに、最初に５曲連続で\nリクエスト入れたら大ひんしゅく買っちゃって…」
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|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|342|春希|Haruki
|「そういうコっているよね………」
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|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|343||
|主にもの凄く評判悪いけど。
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|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|344|雪菜|Setsuna
|「ごめんなさい。\nでも、歌うことに関してだけは、\nどうしても譲れないし、空気読みたくないの」
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|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|345|春希|Haruki
|「あ…」
|
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|346|雪菜|Setsuna
|「だから、自分のレパートリーの…\nしかも一番のお気に入りが流れてきちゃったら、\n我慢なんかしてられる訳、ないの」
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|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|347||
|あれは………ガチか。
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|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|348|雪菜|Setsuna
|「すごく楽しかった。\nすごく嬉しかった。\nすごく…気持ちよかったよ」
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|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|349|春希|Haruki
|「小木曽…」
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|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|350||
|あの時のことを思い出すべく目を閉じた小木曽は、\n本当に嬉しそうな恍惚の表情を浮かべた。
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|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|351|雪菜|Setsuna
|「あのね、北原くん…\nわたし、最初に断ったとき、言ったよね？」
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|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|352||
|彼女の逡巡の中に\n『人前で歌うのが嫌だ』という項目は、\n本当に存在しなかった。
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|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|353|雪菜|Setsuna
|「わたしなんかにやれるのか、\n今のわたしがやってもいいことなのか、\nそもそも、わたしはやりたいのか」
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|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|354|春希|Haruki
|「あ、ああ…確かに」
|
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|355|雪菜|Setsuna
|「わたしなんかにできないと思った。\n今のわたしがやってもいいこととも思えなかった」
|
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|356|雪菜|Setsuna
|「でもね、でも…\nそもそも、わたしはもの凄くやってみたかった」
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|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|357|春希|Haruki
|「え…」
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|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|358||
|人前だろうが、一人だろうが、関係なかった。
|
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|359|雪菜|Setsuna
|「だからあの時、２対１の多数決で断っちゃったけど、\nあれからも、ずっと悩んだり、後悔したりしてた」
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|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|360||
|ただ『歌いたい』という欲望の前には、\n場所も、聴衆も、環境も、小木曽にとっては\nまるっきりどうでもいいことみたいだった。
|
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|361|雪菜|Setsuna
|「ね、北原くん」
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|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|362|春希|Haruki
|「…ん？」
|
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|363|雪菜|Setsuna
|「………またしても、棄権、撤回します。\nごめんね、いつもいつも振り回しちゃって」
|
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|364|春希|Haruki
|「あ…っ」
|
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|365|雪菜|Setsuna
|「では自己紹介行きます。３年Ａ組小木曽雪菜です。\n家族は両親と弟一人の計四人。得意な教科は英語。\n苦手な教科は…えっと、恥ずかしながら古典かな？」
|
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|366||
|ほんの一瞬、ぺろりと舌を出した小木曽は、\n今決まった、色々と重要な事実を覆い隠すかのように、\nマイクを取り、立ち上がった。
|
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|367|雪菜|Setsuna
|「趣味は歌うこと。\n特技は歌い続けること。\n３時間までならノンストップでも平気です」
|
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|368||
|バックに流れるのは、俺たちの再会を記念してなのか、\n俺たちの共通言語にして原点である、あの曲。
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|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|369|雪菜|Setsuna
|「学園祭ステージへの意気込みは…\nええと、なにぶんこういうの初めてなので、\n皆さんの足を引っ張ってしまうかもしれません」
|
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|370||
|彼女の口から零れるのは、\n今日一日、俺がずっと言って欲しくて、\nけれどずっと言わせることのできなかった、言葉。
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|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|371|雪菜|Setsuna
|「でも、もし本番で、力が足りなくて笑われても、\n絶対に最後まで投げ出さずに歌い続けますので、\nどうかよろしくお願いします！」
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|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|372||
|俺の努力が報われた訳じゃないけど。\nたまたま、小木曽が優しくて、\n歌うことが大好きだっただけだけど。
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|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|373||
|それでも、今夜は素直に喜ぼう。\nこんな、冗談みたいな結果オーライを。
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|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|374|雪菜|Setsuna
|「ね、北原くん」
|
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|375|春希|Haruki
|「え？」
|
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|376|雪菜|Setsuna
|「これにて、小木曽雪菜の秘密は、\n一つもなくなってしまいました。\n…あなたに、全部知られてしまったから」
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|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|377|春希|Haruki
|「っ…」
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|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|378||
|暖房が効きすぎてて汗が止まらない。
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|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|379||
|…顔は火照ってるのに出るのは…やっぱり熱い汗。
|
|}}

{{WA2ScriptTableEnd}}

== Script Chart ==
{{:White_Album_2/ScriptChart}}

White Album 2/Script/1003

2012-03-16T10:42:18Z

87.236.6.14: /* Text */

Return to the main page [[White Album 2|here]].

== Translation ==
*[[User:YoakeNoHikari|YoakeNoHikari]]

== Editing ==

== Translation Notes ==

== Text ==
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{{WA2ScriptLine
|1|春希|Haruki
|「小木曽…なんで？」
|"Ogiso...why?"
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|2|雪菜|Setsuna
|「っ！\nあ、あ、あの…\nもしかして、聴いてた？」
|"...!\nU-Uh-Umm...\nCould it be, you were listening?"
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|3|春希|Haruki
|「聴いてた？　って…」
|"'Listening?'..."
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|4||
|何の理由もなく、\n息も絶え絶えに屋上に駆け上がってくる人間がいたら、\nそっちの方が怪しいと思うんだけど。
|I think that it'd be more strange if someone were to sprint up to the rooftop until their breath was ragged for no reason whatsoever.
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|5|雪菜|Setsuna
|「ご、ごめんなさい！\n今の、忘れて！」
|"I-I'm sorry!\nPlease forget what happened!"
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|6|春希|Haruki
|「忘れて、って…」
|"'Forget this'..."
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|7||
|ここで歌っていたことを？\nそれとも、間抜けな質問してしまったことを？
|That you were singing here? Or that you asked a stupid question?
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|8|雪菜|Setsuna
|「あ、えっと、その…\nほら、なんていうか、\nちょっとだけ、調子に乗って恥ずかしいことしちゃって」
|"Ah, um...\nWhat I mean to say is,\n I just got a little carried away and did something embarassing."
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|9|春希|Haruki
|「………」
|"........."
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|10|雪菜|Setsuna
|「え、ええと。\n最初はね、校庭を見てたの。\nほら、陸上部とかテニス部とかハンド部とか」
|"U-Umm.\nIn the beginning, I was just looking at the schoolyard.\nYou know, the track team and the tennis and handball team."
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|11|春希|Haruki
|「あ、ああ…」
|"A-Ahh..."
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|12|雪菜|Setsuna
|「そしたらね、下の階から、\nなんだか聞き覚えのある曲が聞こえてきて…」
|"And then, you know...\nFrom the floor below, I could hear a song I had heard before..."
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|13|春希|Haruki
|「うん…」
|"Yeah..."
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|14|雪菜|Setsuna
|「なんだか嬉しくなって来ちゃって。\n実はすっごい好きなんだ『ＷＨＩＴＥ　ＡＬＢＵＭ』。\n…ちょっと古いかもしれないけど」
|"I was a little happy.\nThe truth is, I really love 'WHITE ALBUM'.\n...It may be a little old, though."
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|15|春希|Haruki
|「俺も…\n生まれて初めて自分の小遣いで買ったＣＤ」
|"I...It's the first CD that I even bought with my own pocket money."
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|16|雪菜|Setsuna
|「そうなんだ！　気が合うね。\k\n
|"Is that so! We really get along well, huh.\k\n
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|17|雪菜|Setsuna
|…あ～、そうじゃなくて、えっと、だから」
|...Ahh~, that's not what I mean, um..."
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|18|春希|Haruki
|「あ、あのさ…」
|"Y-Y'know..."
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|19|雪菜|Setsuna
|「は、はいっ！」
|"Y-Yes!?"
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|20|春希|Haruki
|「………」
|"........."
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|21|雪菜|Setsuna
|「………」
|"........."
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|22|春希|Haruki
|「今度の学園祭…」
|"About the school festival this year..."
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|23|雪菜|Setsuna
|「学園祭？\nあ、コンテストのこと？」
|"School festival?\nAh, you mean the contest?"
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|24|春希|Haruki
|「い、いや、\nそうじゃなくて」
|"N-No,\nnot that.
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|25|雪菜|Setsuna
|「？」
|"?"
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|26|春希|Haruki
|「………」
|"........."
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|27|雪菜|Setsuna
|「あ、あの…？」
|"U-Um...?"
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|28|春希|Haruki
|「………忘れた」
|"...I forgot."
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|29|雪菜|Setsuna
|「え…？」
|"Eh...?"
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|30|春希|Haruki
|「いや、小木曽さっき『忘れて』って」
|"No, Ogiso said 'Forget it."
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|31|雪菜|Setsuna
|「あ、あ…あ～！」
|"Ah, ah...Ah~!"
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|32||
|何言おうとしてたんだよ俺…
|What exactly was I trying to say...
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|33|春希|Haruki
|「それじゃ、行くわ。\n邪魔して悪かった」
|"Then, I'll be going.\nSorry for disturbing you."
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|34||
|もう、やめようって決めたんじゃないか。
|Really, didn't I decide that I'd stop?
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|35|雪菜|Setsuna
|「邪魔だなんて…全然思ってないよ」
|"I...don't think of this as an interruption at all."
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|36||
|俺のつたないギターに、完璧なピアノがついて。
|There's a perfect piano to accompany my clumsy guitar.
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|37|春希|Haruki
|「ありがと」
|"Thanks."
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|38||
|しかも最後の最後に綺麗なボーカルまでついて、\nこんな幸せな締め方、ないんじゃないのか？
|And ultimately, a beautiful vocalist has come.\nDoes such a happy stroke fate really exist?
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|39|雪菜|Setsuna
|「ううん、こっちこそ、ありがとう」
|"No, I should be the one saying thank you."
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|40||
|諦めろ。\n小木曽の事情を考えてやれよ。
|Just give up.\nThink about Ogiso.
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|41|春希|Haruki
|「じゃあ、また明日」
|"Then, see you tomorrow."
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|42||
|目立つことが嫌いで、\nミス峰城付属にも参加を渋ったくらいなんだぞ。
|She hates standing out,\nto the point where she hesitates to participate in the Miss Houjou contest.
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|43|雪菜|Setsuna
|「うん、さよなら。\nまた明日」
|"Yes, goodbye.\nSee you tomorrow."
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|44||
|それがステージに立って、\n皆の前で歌うなんて、\nそんな派手すぎる真似ができるわけないだろう？
|Standing on the stage,\nsinging in front of everyone,\nthere's no way she could do something that flashy, right?
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|45|春希|Haruki
|「………っ！\nあ、ちょっと！」
|"...!\nAh, wait!"
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|46|雪菜|Setsuna
|「実行委員さん…のお手伝いさん？」
|"...A helper for a committee member?"
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|47||
|それなのに…
|Even so...
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|48|春希|Haruki
|「あのさ…」
|"Um..."
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|49|雪菜|Setsuna
|「はい？」
|"Yes?"
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|50|春希|Haruki
|「………軽音楽同好会、入らない？\n学園祭、出るんだけど、ボーカルがいなくて」
|"...Won't you join the light music club?\nWe're making an appearance in the school festival, but we don't have a vocalist."
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|51|雪菜|Setsuna
|「………え？」
|"...Eh?"
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|52||
|[S0何で言っちゃうんだよ。[W120]\n][S0俺の…馬鹿。]
|[S0Why did I say that.[W120]\n][S0I'm...such an idiot.]
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|53||
|………
|.........
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|54|親志|Chikashi
|「じゃ、これがステージプログラムの\n最終稿ってことでいいんだな？\n昼休みには業者に出すぞ？」
|"Then, you're fine with this being the final draft of the stage program?\nI'll be submitting this to the printer during lunch break, alright?"
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|55|春希|Haruki
|「………ああ」
|"...Yeah."
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|56||
|提出期限ギリギリに渡したプログラムを受け取ると、\nある程度の事情を知ってる親志は軽く眉をひそめた。
|Taking the program, which I had handed to her just before the deadline,\nChikashi, who knew what was happening to a certain extent, frowned.
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|57|親志|Chikashi
|「本当に、いいんだな？\nアテ、あるんだな？」
|"This really is fine, right?\nYou've got something, right?"
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|58|春希|Haruki
|「………さあ」
|"...I wonder."
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|59|親志|Chikashi
|「さり気なく一文字すり替えるなよ！\n思いっきり不安になるじゃないか！」
|"Don't just nonchalantly sidestep the issue with a single word!\nWon't I get really uneasy!?"
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|60||
|エントリーメンバーと順番に、\n何の修正も入っていなかったから。
|There had been no revisions to the entry members and the order.
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|61|親志|Chikashi
|「最近じゃ武也も諦め気味だったはずだけど…\nこれ、もしかしてお前の独断じゃ…？」
|"Recently, Takeya's also seemed rather resigned, but...\nthis couldn't just be your own selfishness, could it...?"
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|62|春希|Haruki
|「………」
|"........."
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|63|親志|Chikashi
|「さり気なく無言を貫くなよ！\nさらに不安に………え？」
|"Don't just stay silent nonchalantly!\nWon't I become even more un...Eh?"
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|64|春希|Haruki
|「どした親………え？」
|"What's wrong, Chi...Eh?"
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|65|隣席の女子生徒|Neighboring Female Student
|「………」
|"........."
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|66|春希|Haruki
|「え…？」
|"Eh...?"
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|67|親志|Chikashi
|「チャイム…まだ鳴ってないよな？」
|"The bell...hasn't rung yet, right?"
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|68|隣席の女子生徒|Neighboring Female Student
|「………」
|"........."
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|69|春希|Haruki
|「あ…え？」
|"Ah...eh?"
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|70||
|徹夜明けでしょぼしょぼする目に映ったのは、\nいつも無表情なはずのお隣さんの、\nなんかちょっとだけ感情の浮かんだ表情。
|Reflected in my eyes, which had stayed wide open all through the night,\nwas the expression of the neighboring student, which seemed slightly filled with emotion,\nthough she was always expressionless.
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|71|隣席の女子生徒|Neighboring Female Student
|「………」
|"........."
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|72||
|さらに驚くべきことは、\n今はまだ、始業時間まで１５分も残ってて。
|And what was even more surprising was,\nthere was still 15 minutes left until the start of our work.
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|73|春希|Haruki
|「な、なに？\nどうしたんだ？」
|"Wh-What?\nWhat's wrong?"
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|74|隣席の女子生徒|Neighboring Female Student
|「………昨日」
|"...Yesterday."
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|75|依緒|Io
|「あ～いたいた！\n春希～！」
|"Ah, you're here!\nHaruki<nowiki>~~~</nowiki>!"
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|76|隣席の女子生徒|Neighboring Female Student
|「っ…」
|"..."
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|77|春希|Haruki
|「依緒…？」
|"Io...?"
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|78||
|その整い過ぎてる顔が、何か不平を垂れるみたいに\n口を開きかけたところで…
|Just as her mouth, centered in the middle of that overly-tidied face,\n opened as if to spill out complaints...
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|79|隣席の女子生徒|Neighboring Female Student
|「はぁ…」
|"Haah..."
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|80|春希|Haruki
|「っ！？」
|"!?"
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|81||
|今度はあからさまにこっちを睨みつけ、\nそのまま乱暴に席に着いてしまった。
|This time, she was clearly glaring at me,\nand she took her seat rather violently.
|}}

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|せっかく久しぶりに\nコミュニケーションが取れそうだったのに…
|Just when it finally seemed as if we could have some form of communication for the first time in a while...
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|83|依緒|Io
|「春希！　春希～！\nあんたにお客さんだよ～！\nそれも驚天動地の～！」
|"Haruki! Haruki~!\nThere's a visitor for you~!\nAnd a really, really earth-shatteringly surprising one~!"
|}}

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|84|春希|Haruki
|「うるさいな！　もっと静かに騒げ！」
|"You're really noisy! Be a little more quiet when you're making a fuss!"
|}}

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|85|親志|Chikashi
|「無茶言うなよ…」
|"Don't say something so ridiculous..."
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|86|依緒|Io
|「無茶言わないでよ…」
|"Please don't say something so ridiculous..."
|}}

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|87||
|だってお隣が向こうから話しかけてくるなんて…\nこんなチャンス、今年に入ってから二度目だってのに。
|But, that my neighboring student would start talking...\nThis was the second time that such a chance had come this year.
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|88|春希|Haruki
|「大体、依緒はいつも大げさなんだよ。\n驚天動地なんて言葉、いつ覚え…」
|"Io always exaggerates.\nWhen did you learn a word like earth-shatteri..."
|}}

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|89|雪菜|Setsuna
|「あ、あの、おはよう。\n北原くん…って名前なんだってね」
|"U-Um, good morning.\nKitahara-kun...was your name, right?"
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|90|春希|Haruki
|「え？」
|"Eh?"
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|91|親志|Chikashi
|「え？」
|"Eh?"
|}}

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|92|隣席の女子生徒|Neighboring Female Student
|「………」
|"........."
|}}

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|93||
|そんな、いつも大げさな依緒にしては珍しく、\n言葉通りの驚天動地な相手を連れてきた。
|Rare for Io, who always exaggerated,\nshe had brought someone who just like she had said, was earth-shatteringly surprising.
|}}

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|94||
|………
|.........
|}}

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|95|武也|Takeya
|「おい待てよ、なんだよなんなんだよ？\n一体あそこでは今何が起こってるんだ？」
|"Hey, wait, what on Earth?\nWhat on Earth happened there?"
|}}

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|96|親志|Chikashi
|「ホントこういうネタだと一瞬で嗅ぎつけるな…」
|"You really instantly sniffed out that it was this kind of thing..."
|}}

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|97|依緒|Io
|「人の教室に勝手に入ってきて、\nいきなりその態度ってどうなのよ？」
|"First coming into somebody's classroom without asking,\nwhat kind of attitude are you taking now?"
|}}

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|98|武也|Takeya
|「依緒だって別のクラスじゃねえかよ…」
|"Aren't you from another class, Io...?"
|}}

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|99|親志|Chikashi
|「しっ！\n小木曽が何か話し始めた！\n…すごく気まずそうだ」
|"Shh!\nOgiso started to say something!\n...It seems really awkward."
|}}

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|100|依緒|Io
|「気まず…」
|"Awkward..."
|}}

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|101|武也|Takeya
|「ああもう！　段階踏めよ春希！\nそもそもなんでラスボスから攻略しようとしてんだ\nあいつは？」
|"Ahh, geez! Take the step, Haruki!\nIn the first place, why're you trying to start using the walkthrough starting from the last boss?"
|}}

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|102|依緒|Io
|「あんたみたいに経験値稼ぎすぎってのも\nどうかと思うけどね」
|"I wonder about people like you, who grind way too much."
|}}

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|103|雪菜|Setsuna
|「あ、あの…」
|"U-Umm..."
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|104|春希|Haruki
|「うん…」
|"Yeah..."
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|105|雪菜|Setsuna
|「………」
|"........."
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|106|春希|Haruki
|「………」
|"........."
|}}

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|107||
|昨日から話が進まない。
|Nothing had happened since yesterday.
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|108||
|俺の、あまりに突拍子もない誘いに、\nここまで真剣に反応するとは思いもしなかった。
|I didn't think that she would come all the here to respond to my crazy suggestion.
|}}

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|109||
|笑って断られるか、軽蔑の視線で断られるか、\n半泣きで断られるかのどれかだと思ってたのに。
|I was actually wondering whether I would be refused with a smile,\n or with a scornful gaze, or maybe refused with a half-tearful face.
|}}

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|110||
|『一日、待ってもらえますか？』
|'Could you wait a day?'
|}}

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|111||
|昨夜、あの場で彼女が口にしたのは、\nたったそれだけだった。
|What she had said there, yesterday night,\n amounted to that.
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|112|雪菜|Setsuna
|「その…昨日の返事。\n待たせちゃって、ごめんなさい」
|"Um...about yesterday's answer...\nI'm sorry for making you wait."
|}}

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|113|春希|Haruki
|「いや、俺の方こそ突然あんなこと言って。\n驚いたよな、ごめん」
|"No, I should be the one apologizing for suddenly saying something like that.\nYou must've been surprised, I'm sorry."
|}}

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|114|雪菜|Setsuna
|「う、ううん！\nだって仕方ないよ！\nそんな大変なことがあったんじゃ」
|"N-Not at all!\nThere was no helping it!'nI mean, didn't you have something troublesome like that to take care of?"
|}}

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|115|春希|Haruki
|「いや、まぁ、そうだけど…\nでもそれは、小木曽にとっては何の関係もない話で」
|"No, well, that's true, but...\nThat's something that has nothing to do with you.
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|116|雪菜|Setsuna
|「それでね…あれから家に帰って、\n一晩中、寝ないで考えたの」
|"And then...after that, I went home,\nand I thought about it the whole night, not going to sleep."
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|117|春希|Haruki
|「ひ、一晩中？」
|"T-The whole night?"
|}}

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|118||
|そんなに真面目に検討…？\nそれって、ひょっとして結構脈ありなんじゃ…？
|She thought about it that seriously...?\nThat means, isn't there some hope...?
|}}

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|119|雪菜|Setsuna
|「だからほら、ちょっと目、腫れぼったいでしょ？\n…北原くんもそんな感じだね？」
|"Well, aren't my eyes a little swollen?\n...You also look like that, you know, Kitahara-kun?"
|}}

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|120|春希|Haruki
|「あ、いや、俺のは…」
|"Ah, no, mine is because..."
|}}

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|121||
|単に寝る暇がないくらいの作業があるだけで。
|I simply had so much work that I had no time to sleep.
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|122|雪菜|Setsuna
|「わたしなんかにやれるのか、\n今のわたしがやってもいいことなのか、\nそもそも、わたしはやりたいのか」
|"I was thinking about whether someone like me could do it,\nwhether it'd be fine if I did it,\nand even if I wanted to do it at all.
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|123||
|本気で真面目に検討してる…
|She was pondering it, seriously and earnestly...
|}}

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|124||
|俺が、女の子をここまで悩ませたことなんて、\n生まれてきて以来、昨日が初めてだっただろうな。
|That I'd trouble a girl this much,\nyesterday must've been the first time I'd ever done something like this.
|}}

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|125||
|それもこんな…\nさっきから大量の突き刺さる視線を感じるくらいに、\n注目度の高い女の子を。
|And also...\na girl who drew everyone's attention,\n to the point where I had been feeling many piercing stares since just now.
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|126|雪菜|Setsuna
|「それでね…ついさっき、\nやっと結論が出たの」
|"And then...just before,'nI finally came to a conclusion."
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|127|春希|Haruki
|「そ、そう…？」
|"D-Did you...?"
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|128|雪菜|Setsuna
|「ごめんね…\nわたしの中では僅差だったけど、やっぱり無理」
|"I'm sorry...\nIt was difficult, but I've decided that it's impossible."
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|129|春希|Haruki
|「………そう」
|"...I see."
|}}

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|130||
|けれど…
|But...
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|131||
|その、高嶺の花の女の子は、\n最終的には、その価値に釣り合った答えを俺にもたらした。
|That girl, the summit's flower,\nultimately gave me an answer which was just like her.
|}}

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|132|武也|Takeya
|「春希っ！\nお、お前、無茶しやがって…」
|"Haruki!\nD-Doing something ridiculous like that..."
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|133|春希|Haruki
|「予鈴鳴ったぞおい。\nいいのかよここにいて？」
|"The warning bell's rung, y'know.\nIs it really OK for you guys to be here?
|}}

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|134|依緒|Io
|「どうだった？\n雪菜、なんて言って断ってきた？」
|"How was it?\nWhat did Setsuna say to blow you off?"
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|135|春希|Haruki
|「いや、さっきの言葉は\n武也にだけ言った訳じゃなくてだなぁ」
|"...What I said just now wasn't just directed to Takeya."
|}}

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|136||
|教室に戻った俺を出迎えたのは、\n二重の意味での部外者である男女二人組だった。
|Greeting me, who had returned to my classroom,\nwas the outsider boy-girl pair, (in more than one way.)
|}}

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|137|親志|Chikashi
|「実際どうだったんだよ？\nあれってどう考えても…」
|"How'd it really go?\nNo matter how I think about it..."
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|138|春希|Haruki
|「ああ…確かに俺の申し出は断られたよ」
|"Yeah...it's true taht my request was refused."
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|139|武也|Takeya
|「やっぱり…」
|"Like I thought..."
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|140|依緒|Io
|「やっぱり…」
|"Just as I thought..."
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|141|親志|Chikashi
|「やっぱり…」
|"I thought so..."
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|142|春希|Haruki
|「けど…\nこれからも友達でいてくれって言われた」
|"But...\nShe asked me to be her friend."
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|143|武也|Takeya
|「ああ、なんてこった」
|"Ahh, what a thing to happen."
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|144|依緒|Io
|「完璧なテンプレート」
|"A perfect template."
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|145|親志|Chikashi
|「あまりにも明確な拒絶」
|"A rather obvious rejection."
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|146|春希|Haruki
|「拒絶なのか…な？」
|"Was it...a rejection?"
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|147||
|『あ、あのね、北原くん。\nそっちの頼みを断っておいて、今こんなお願いするの、\n都合のいいことだってわかってるんだけど』
|'U-Umm, Kitahara-kun.\nRefusing your request and then making one of my own,\nI know that it's kind of convenient for me, but...'
|}}

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|148||
|『でも、今伝えられなくて、\n顔合わせ辛くなったら嫌だし…言っちゃうね』
|'I can't say it now,\nbut I don't want for it to be hard for us to meet...I'm saying it, OK?"
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|149||
|『これからも…\n話しかけて、いいかな？』
|'From now on...\nwould it be fine for me to talk to you?'
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|150||
|『あと、それと…\nこれも図々しいお願いなんだけど』
|'And also...\nthis is also a rather shameless request, but...'
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|151||
|『学園祭…一緒に回れない、かな？』
|'Won't you...go the the school festival with me?'
|}}

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|152||
|なんかニュアンスが…まぁいいか。
|It seemed as if some sort of nuance...well, whatever.
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{{WA2ScriptLine
|153|武也|Takeya
|「…放課後カラオケ行くぞ春希。\n今日はめいっぱい騒いで全部忘れようぜ？」
|"...Let's go karaoke after class, Haruki.\nLet's party hard and forget it all, alright?"
|}}

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|154|依緒|Io
|「あたしも付き合うよ…\n今日はみんなでおごるからさ」
|"I'll be coming too...\nEveryone's going to treat today."
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|155|親志|Chikashi
|「そうだな…\n辛いこととか、悲しいことなんて、\n全部忘れさせてやるからな」
|"Yeah...\nPainful, sad things,\nwe'll have you forget them all."
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|156|春希|Haruki
|「急に優しくなるな気持ち悪い」
|"Don't get so nice suddenly, it creeps me out."
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|157|武也|Takeya
|「わかってる。わかってるって。\n何も言わないでいいから」
|"I understand. I understand.\nIt's fine if you don't say anything."
|}}

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|158|依緒|Io
|「春希が泣いてる時は、\n全員そっぽ向いてるから安心しなよ」
|"When you're crying,\nwe'll all look away, so don't worry."
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|159|親志|Chikashi
|「なんなら胸貸してやってもいいぞ。\n…泣くだけなら」
|"If you want I'll even lend you my chest...only if you're crying."
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|160|春希|Haruki
|「おぞましいこと言うな。\nそれに今日は駄目。\nまだやらなくちゃならないことがあるんだから」
|"Don't say something so creepy.\nAnd I can't today.\nThere's still something that I have to do."
|}}

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|161||
|そうだ…\nこんなことで落ち込んでなんかいられない。
|That's right...\nI can't get depressed over something like this.
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|162||
|なぜなら…
|Because...
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|163||
|………
|.........
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|164|春希|Haruki
|「………」
|"........."
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|165||
|学校から二番目に近い末次町駅前は、\n学生たちの歓楽街を最寄り駅の南末次に譲り、\n来るたび代わり映えのしない光景を映し出している。
|The front of Suetsuguchou station, two stops away from the school, had given way to Minamisuetsugu, the closest station to the streets where students hung out, and every time I came, it reflected this unchanging scene.\n
|}}

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|166||
|色鮮やかな店内の照明を一気に落とし、\n駅前の寂しさをさらに増幅させる花屋の女主人。
|Dimming the lighting of the colorful shop interior,\nthe female florist further amplified the loneliness of the station front.
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|167||
|スーパーの店先で、\n一生懸命品出しに励む三つ編みの少女。
|In front of the supermarket,\na girl with braids did her best to stack goods.
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|168||
|杖をつき、ものすごくゆっくりした足取りで、\n思いっきり目的もなさそうに行き来を繰り返す老人…
|Leaning on a cane, an old man walked back and forth with an amazingly slow gait, no clear aim in mind.
|}}

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|169|春希|Haruki
|「小木曽」
|"Ogiso"
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|170|雪菜|Setsuna
|「っ！？」
|"!?"
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|171||
|いつ来ても、代わり映えのしない光景。
|An unchanging scene, no matter when one came.
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{{WA2ScriptLine
|172||
|スーパーの店先で、\n一生懸命品出しに励む三つ編みの少女。
|In front of the supermarket, a girl with braids did her best to stack goods.
|}}

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|173|春希|Haruki
|「もう一度話があるんだけど…いいかな？」
|"There's something else that I have to say...is that fine?"
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|174|雪菜|Setsuna
|「あ…あ…あ…」
|"Ah...ah...ah..."
|}}

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|175||
|一度断られたくらいで、\n落ち込んでなんかいられない。
|Having just been rejected once,\nI have no need to fall into despair.
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|176||
|なぜなら…
|Because...
|}}

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|177||
|まだ、ラストチャンスが残ってるって、\nわかってたから。
|I knew that there was still one last chance left to me.
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|178||
|………
|.........
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|179|雪菜|Setsuna
|「………」
|"........."
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|180|春希|Haruki
|「………」
|"........."
|}}

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|181||
|駅のすぐ裏にある公園。
|At the park directly behind the station.
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|182||
|錆びてキーキー音のするブランコに腰掛けて、\nしばし無言でゆっくり漕ぐ俺と小木曽。
|Sitting on the swings, which creaked from rust,\nOgiso and I sat slowly swung back and forth, staying silent.
|}}

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|183||
|小木曽の足もとに置かれたお手製っぽい買い物袋からは、\n長ネギがはみ出し、白菜、椎茸、糸こんにゃくが覗き、\n今夜の献立を想像するだけで身体が温まる気がする。
|A long leek stuck out from the seemingly handmade shopping bag which was placed by Ogiso's feet. Chinese cabbage, shiitake mushrooms, string konnyaku peeked out,\nand just imagining tonight's menu made me feel as if I was getting warmer.
|}}

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|184||
|どうやらスーパーの残り物を貰ってきたらしい。\n………なんという生活感。
|It seemed that she had come to get the leftovers from the supermarket.\n...what a feeling, like she's just trying to make a living.
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|185|雪菜|Setsuna
|「そっか、そっか…\nそういうことだったんだ…」
|"I see...\nIt was something like that..."
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|186|春希|Haruki
|「…何が？」
|"...What was?"
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|187||
|金属の嫌な軋み音が止むと、\n今度は鈴の鳴るような綺麗な声が届く。
|The dissonant noise of creaking metal stopped,\n and this time, a beautiful voice the sound of a bell ringing rung out.
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|188|雪菜|Setsuna
|「初めて北原くんとお話ししたときのこと、\nちょっと引っかかってたんだ」
|"When I first spoke with you,\nI was tricked a little."
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|189||
|…同じ高音でも、耳への触り方が段違いだ。
|...Though it was the same high voice, the way it whispered into my ears was on a different level.
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{{WA2ScriptLine
|190|春希|Haruki
|「なんか言ったっけ、俺？」
|"Did I say something?"
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|191|雪菜|Setsuna
|「『色々気苦労も多い』とか、\n『有名になりすぎても困るんだろ』とか…」
|"'There's a lot of worries,'\nor 'It'd be troubling if you became too popular'..."
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|192|春希|Haruki
|「あ～…」
|"Ahh~..."
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|193|雪菜|Setsuna
|「知ってたんだ…このわたし」
|"...Knew all along...I did, that is."
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|194||
|ちょっとずり下がった眼鏡に指を当てて、\nちょっと恨みがましい目で俺を見つめる小木曽。
|Touching her fingers to her slightly drooping glasses,\nOgiso stared at me with reproachful eyes.
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|195|春希|Haruki
|「いや、本当に悪い。\n墓まで持ってくつもりだったんだけど…」
|"I'm really sorry.\n
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|196||
|三つ編み眼鏡の女の子が趣味かと聞かれれば、\nちょっと考えた末に『別に』と曖昧な返事をするけれど。
|If I was asked whether I had something for girls with glasses and braids,\n after I had thought a while, I'd respond with a vague answer like: 'Not especially,' though.
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|197||
|やはりというか、さすがというか、\n今、目の前にいるこの三つ編み眼鏡少女は、\n思いっきりアリだと思ってしまえる。
|
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{{WA2ScriptLine
|198|雪菜|Setsuna
|「いつから？」
|
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|199|春希|Haruki
|「２年の夏頃かな？\nその先に小さな中古楽器屋があって、\nよく武也に連れてこられてて…」
|
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|200||
|夕方の駅前商店街で一生懸命働く、不自然に地味な少女。
|
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{{WA2ScriptLine
|201||
|その眼鏡の奥の素顔は、\n細かいことを気にする俺にとって、\n格好のチェック対象だった。
|
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|ある日、学校の廊下ですれ違った瞬間、\n突如正体に気づいてしまったときは、\n危うく叫び声を上げ…てしまった。
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|203||
|だって、あまりの衝撃と意外性と馬鹿馬鹿しさのせいで、\nどうにも我慢のしようがなかったし。
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{{WA2ScriptLine
|204|雪菜|Setsuna
|「そんなに前から…\n北原くん、わたしのこと知ってたんだ…」
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{{WA2ScriptLine
|205|春希|Haruki
|「いや、小木曽のことだったら、\n同じ学年の男子は全員２年前から知ってるから。\n少なくとも１年のときの学園祭以降なら…あ」
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{{WA2ScriptLine
|206|雪菜|Setsuna
|「………」
|"........."
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{{WA2ScriptLine
|207|春希|Haruki
|「すまん」
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{{WA2ScriptLine
|208||
|『学園祭のせいで有名人になってしまったこと』は、\n本人の前ではどうやら禁句らしい。
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{{WA2ScriptLine
|209|雪菜|Setsuna
|「今のわたしの正体が見破られたの、今日が初めて。\nそれこそ一年の頃からずっと、だったのに」
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{{WA2ScriptLine
|210|春希|Haruki
|「そうかな？\nみんな気づいてたけど、\nただ黙ってただけなんじゃないか？」
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|211||
|なんというか、\n声をかけるのが憚られるような展開のせいで…
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{{WA2ScriptLine
|212||
|ま、とはいえ、何度すれ違っても、\n武也はまったく気づくそぶりはなかったけど。\nこの前は、同じクラスの依緒もスルーしてたけど。
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{{WA2ScriptLine
|213|雪菜|Setsuna
|「ううん、絶対に北原くんが初めてだよ。\nわたし、人を見る目はあるつもりなんだ」
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{{WA2ScriptLine
|214|春希|Haruki
|「そ、そう…？」
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{{WA2ScriptLine
|215||
|なんか言ってる意味が微妙にわからない。\n俺はそんなに執念深い人間だと見られてるんだろうか？
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{{WA2ScriptLine
|216|春希|Haruki
|「あ、あの、それでさ…」
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{{WA2ScriptLine
|217|雪菜|Setsuna
|「わたしの家ね…」
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{{WA2ScriptLine
|218|春希|Haruki
|「え…」
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{{WA2ScriptLine
|219||
|俺が本題に入ろうとしたその瞬間…
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{{WA2ScriptLine
|220|雪菜|Setsuna
|「もともと、そんなにお金持ちって訳じゃないんだ」
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{{WA2ScriptLine
|221|春希|Haruki
|「う…」
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{{WA2ScriptLine
|222||
|機先を制されてしまった。
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|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|223|雪菜|Setsuna
|「ウチ、私立の中でも授業料高い方だし、\n寄付金だって馬鹿みたいに納めてる家もあるし、\nもともと、入学の時からかなり背伸びしてたの」
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|224||
|小木曽は、多分、\nついさっきまで誰にも話すつもりのなかったことを、\n口に乗せようとしているってわかった。
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{{WA2ScriptLine
|225|春希|Haruki
|「小木曽…」
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{{WA2ScriptLine
|226||
|まずいな…\nこれは、俺の望まない展開だ。
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{{WA2ScriptLine
|227|雪菜|Setsuna
|「それでも入学当時は普通に遊べてた。\nみんなの寄り道に付き合ってお買い物したり、\nお茶飲んでお喋りしたり、カラオケ行ったり」
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{{WA2ScriptLine
|228||
|ここで小木曽の辛い境遇を聞いてしまったら、\nこれ以上踏み込めなくなる。
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{{WA2ScriptLine
|229|雪菜|Setsuna
|「そんな生活が一変したのは、ちょうど２年前…\n１年の秋から冬にかけての頃」
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{{WA2ScriptLine
|230||
|今からの一月を、\n俺の安っぽい意地のためだけに使ってくれなんて、\nそんな身勝手頼めなくなってしまう。
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{{WA2ScriptLine
|231|春希|Haruki
|「もしかして…家族の人に何か？」
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{{WA2ScriptLine
|232||
|それでも、聞かなくちゃならない。
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{{WA2ScriptLine
|233||
|小木曽が、他の誰にでもないこの俺に、\n大きな覚悟を持って話してくれるんだから…
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{{WA2ScriptLine
|234|雪菜|Setsuna
|「ううん、わたしの身に色々と」
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{{WA2ScriptLine
|235||
|だから俺も、今は安っぽい作戦なんか忘れて、\n大きな覚悟を持って聞いてあげないと…
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{{WA2ScriptLine
|236|雪菜|Setsuna
|「ミス峰城大付で優勝しちゃってから、\n『お嬢様』ってイメージが定着しちゃって、\nそれで大変なことに…」
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|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|237|春希|Haruki
|「…は？」
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|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|238|雪菜|Setsuna
|「いえ、その…\n自分でも、決して悪い気分じゃなかったから、\n曖昧に笑ってたら、ますます引っ込みがつかなくなって」
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|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|239|春希|Haruki
|「……はい？」
|
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|240|雪菜|Setsuna
|「そうなると、\n後はそのイメージを守るために見栄に見栄を重ねて…」
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|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|241|春希|Haruki
|「………」
|"........."
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|242|雪菜|Setsuna
|「遊びの誘いは新しい服が買えるまで絶対に受けなくて、\n新しい服買うために人知れずアルバイトして、\nアルバイトするから皆と遊ぶ時間が取れなくて」
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{{WA2ScriptLine
|243|春希|Haruki
|「…はぁ」
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{{WA2ScriptLine
|244|雪菜|Setsuna
|「そりゃ、わたしだってちょっとは考えすぎって思うよ？\nでもね、時々本当にわたしの噂が聞こえてきちゃうのよ。\nどこそこの服着てたとか、今日の髪型はどうとか」
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{{WA2ScriptLine
|245|春希|Haruki
|「…それは俺もよく聞いた」
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{{WA2ScriptLine
|246|雪菜|Setsuna
|「でしょ？\nだからこんなふうに、普段着のままスーパーで働く姿を\n見られるわけにはいかなくなっちゃったの」
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{{WA2ScriptLine
|247|春希|Haruki
|「それでもここで働くんだ？\n制服の可愛いところとかじゃなくて」
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{{WA2ScriptLine
|248|雪菜|Setsuna
|「お父さんの知り合いが経営してるお店だから、\nここでないとバイトを認めてくれなくって」
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{{WA2ScriptLine
|249|春希|Haruki
|「お父さん元気なんだ…」
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|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|250|雪菜|Setsuna
|「お母さんも元気だよ？」
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|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|251|春希|Haruki
|「それわよかった…」
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|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|252||
|確かに、色々と良かった…
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{{WA2ScriptLine
|253||
|両親が健在で、\nバイト一つとっても家族でちゃんと話し合って。
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{{WA2ScriptLine
|254||
|しかも父親がバイト先を探してきてくれて、\nそれが地味な職種でも、娘は一生懸命頑張って。
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{{WA2ScriptLine
|255||
|絵に描いたような平和で温かい家庭が頭に浮かぶ。
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{{WA2ScriptLine
|256|雪菜|Setsuna
|「難しいよね…そうやって付き合いが悪くなっていくと、\nますますお嬢様っぽく言われちゃって、\n気軽にみんなと遊べなくなって」
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|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|257|春希|Haruki
|「そう…か」
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|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|258|雪菜|Setsuna
|「そう…」
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|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|259|春希|Haruki
|「………」
|"........."
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|260|雪菜|Setsuna
|「………」
|"........."
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|261||
|だからこそ、小木曽の話が終わっても、\n俺は彼女に掛ける言葉が思いつかなかった。
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{{WA2ScriptLine
|262||
|正直参った…
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{{WA2ScriptLine
|263||
|なにしろ、ここまで微妙な打ち明け話をされると、\n押していいのか引くべきなのか判断できない。
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{{WA2ScriptLine
|264||
|小木曽の告白は、重すぎず軽すぎず、\n事情はわからないでもないけれど、\nけどそれがどうしたのって程度にも思え。
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{{WA2ScriptLine
|265||
|俺の望みを押しつけるのか、\n小木曽の事情を鑑みるのか、\n大したことないからこそ難しい決断を迫られて…
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|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|266|雪菜|Setsuna
|「そろそろ帰っていいかな。\n今日、夕食の当番だし」
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{{WA2ScriptLine
|267||
|そんなふうに逡巡してる隙に、\n小木曽は正体がバレてスッキリしてしまったのか、\n結構晴れ晴れとした顔で立ち上がる。
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{{WA2ScriptLine
|268|春希|Haruki
|「晩飯も作ったりするんだ…」
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{{WA2ScriptLine
|269|雪菜|Setsuna
|「お母さんも週三でパートなの。\nそれにそろそろ弟がお腹空かせて帰ってくる頃だし」
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{{WA2ScriptLine
|270|春希|Haruki
|「偉いな」
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|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|271|雪菜|Setsuna
|「進学やバイトでワガママ言わせてもらってるし、\n当たり前のことだよ」
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{{WA2ScriptLine
|272|春希|Haruki
|「そか…」
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{{WA2ScriptLine
|273||
|これが学園ナンバー１お嬢様の正体…
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{{WA2ScriptLine
|274||
|下手すると学園で一番庶民的かもしれない、\nある意味身も蓋もないくらい『普通のいい娘』。
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{{WA2ScriptLine
|275|雪菜|Setsuna
|「それで、あの…\n今日のことは」
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|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|276|春希|Haruki
|「言うわけないだろ。\nそれは信用して欲しい」
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{{WA2ScriptLine
|277||
|だからこそ、俺はどんどんいたたまれなくなる。
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{{WA2ScriptLine
|278|雪菜|Setsuna
|「ありがと。\n信用してます」
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{{WA2ScriptLine
|279|春希|Haruki
|「そんなに簡単に信用するなよ。\n俺がどうしてここに来たかわかってるか？」
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{{WA2ScriptLine
|280|雪菜|Setsuna
|「どうして…って…」
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{{WA2ScriptLine
|281||
|人の弱みに付け込む冷徹さと、\n人の事情を考えない卑劣さを持つ人間を、\nそんなに簡単に信じていいわけがないって。
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{{WA2ScriptLine
|282|春希|Haruki
|「…なんでもない。\nうん、絶対に言わない。\nそれじゃ…」
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{{WA2ScriptLine
|283||
|『せっかく追い詰めたのに』という後悔と\n『眩しすぎて直視できない』という罪悪感に苛まれ、\n俺は、逃げるように小木曽に背を向ける。
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{{WA2ScriptLine
|284||
|なんというか、小木曽と話してると、\nまるで俺が卑劣で矮小で狭量な人間に思えてしまって…\nいや、そうだと思い知らされてしまうから。
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{{WA2ScriptLine
|285|雪菜|Setsuna
|「北原くん」
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{{WA2ScriptLine
|286|春希|Haruki
|「ん？」
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{{WA2ScriptLine
|287||
|なのに小木曽は、\nまだ無邪気な表情のまま、俺を呼び止めて。
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{{WA2ScriptLine
|288|雪菜|Setsuna
|「あのさ…\n今夜、もう一度話があるんだけど…いいかな？」
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{{WA2ScriptLine
|289|春希|Haruki
|「今夜って…？」
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|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|290|雪菜|Setsuna
|「そうね、南末次駅前に１０時。\n待ってる」
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{{WA2ScriptLine
|291||
|末次町とは違い、\n深夜遅くまで眠らない繁華街、南末次。
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{{WA2ScriptLine
|292|春希|Haruki
|「１０時って…小木曽？」
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{{WA2ScriptLine
|293||
|そんなところにそんな時間に呼び出すってことは…
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{{WA2ScriptLine
|294|雪菜|Setsuna
|「だって北原くん、わたしのことまだ勘違いしてる。\n…ううん、わたしが本当のことを言ってないだけかな」
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{{WA2ScriptLine
|295|春希|Haruki
|「か、勘違い？」
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{{WA2ScriptLine
|296|雪菜|Setsuna
|「本当のわたしはね…\n今、あなたが思ってるようないい娘なんかじゃないの」
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{{WA2ScriptLine
|297|春希|Haruki
|「え………？」
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{{WA2ScriptLine
|298||
|夜の繁華街。\n二人きりの待ち合わせ。
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{{WA2ScriptLine
|299||
|そして………本当の小木曽？
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{{WA2ScriptLine
|300||
|………
|.........
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|301||
|……
|......
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|302||
|…
|...
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|303||
|現在時刻　午後１０時４２分。
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{{WA2ScriptLine
|304||
|場所　南末次駅徒歩３分。ダイマチビル５Ｆ
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{{WA2ScriptLine
|305|春希|Haruki
|「は…はは…」
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{{WA2ScriptLine
|306||
|カラオケハウスメイフラワー１５号室。
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{{WA2ScriptLine
|307|春希|Haruki
|「ははははは…あっははははは～…」
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{{WA2ScriptLine
|308|雪菜|Setsuna
|「ふぅぅぅぅ～、とりあえず一区切り。\nご静聴、ありがとうございました～」
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{{WA2ScriptLine
|309|春希|Haruki
|「あは、あははは、あはははははははっ」
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{{WA2ScriptLine
|310|雪菜|Setsuna
|「はぁ、喉乾いた～。\nあ、すいませ～ん、１５号室ですけど、\nウーロン茶と…北原くん何飲む？」
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{{WA2ScriptLine
|311|春希|Haruki
|「いえいえもうお腹いっぱいで！」
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{{WA2ScriptLine
|312||
|８曲連続での熱唱を終えると、\nやっと小木曽がソファーに腰掛けた。\n…当然のように俺のすぐ隣に。
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{{WA2ScriptLine
|313|雪菜|Setsuna
|「ええと…とりあえず新曲一通り行ったから、\n次はいつもの定番を流してみようかな」
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{{WA2ScriptLine
|314|春希|Haruki
|「そ、そう…」
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{{WA2ScriptLine
|315||
|歌本も検索機能も何も使わずに、\nコードを直打ちしてるよこの人…
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{{WA2ScriptLine
|316||
|しかも俺に『何飲む？』とは聞いてきても、\n『何歌う？』とは一言も聞いてこない。
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{{WA2ScriptLine
|317||
|………
|.........
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|318||
|夜の繁華街。\n二人きりの待ち合わせ。
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{{WA2ScriptLine
|319||
|そして………本当の小木曽。
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{{WA2ScriptLine
|320|春希|Haruki
|「はは、ははは…」
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{{WA2ScriptLine
|321||
|やっぱりなぁ。\nこんなことだと思った…訳あるか。
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{{WA2ScriptLine
|322||
|どうせオチがつくんだろうとは思っていたが、\nまさかこんな…
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{{WA2ScriptLine
|323|雪菜|Setsuna
|「………退いた？」
|
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|324|春希|Haruki
|「いいやあんまり！」
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|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|325||
|いかん、微妙に嘘をつききれない。
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{{WA2ScriptLine
|326|雪菜|Setsuna
|「これが『隠してたわたし』のうちの、最後の最後」
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{{WA2ScriptLine
|327||
|暖房が効きすぎてて汗が止まらない。\n…顔は火照ってるのに出るのは冷や汗だけど。
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{{WA2ScriptLine
|328|雪菜|Setsuna
|「週に一度はここでヒトカラやってるの。\n…やっぱり変かな？」
|
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{{WA2ScriptLine
|329|春希|Haruki
|「いやいやいやわかるから！\nそういうコいるよね！」
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{{WA2ScriptLine
|330||
|女の子では初めて会ったけど。
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{{WA2ScriptLine
|331|春希|Haruki
|「そ、そうだよな！\nバイト忙しいもんな。\nなかなか友達と一緒って訳にもいかないよなぁ！」
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{{WA2ScriptLine
|332|雪菜|Setsuna
|「あ、ううん、これは違うの。\nわたし、カラオケだけは一人で歌いたいの」
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{{WA2ScriptLine
|333|春希|Haruki
|「へ…そうなの？」
|
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|334|雪菜|Setsuna
|「だって、みんなで入ると、\n１曲あたりの値段が高くなるでしょ？」
|
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|335|春希|Haruki
|「１曲あたり…」
|
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|336|雪菜|Setsuna
|「しかも、なかなか順番回ってこないから、\n待ってる間に段々イライラしてくるし。\k\n
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{{WA2ScriptLine
|337|雪菜|Setsuna
|２時間で１０曲歌えなかったりすると悔しいでしょ？」
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|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|338|春希|Haruki
|「イライラ…悔しい…」
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|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|339|雪菜|Setsuna
|「その点、一人なら２時間あれば３０曲は歌えるし。\n歌い終わってすぐに演奏ストップすれば、\nさらに５曲くらい稼げるし」
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|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|340|春希|Haruki
|「ノンストップ…」
|
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|341|雪菜|Setsuna
|「…それに１年の頃からの友達はもう誘ってくれないし。\n初めてみんなで行ったときに、最初に５曲連続で\nリクエスト入れたら大ひんしゅく買っちゃって…」
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|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|342|春希|Haruki
|「そういうコっているよね………」
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{{WA2ScriptLine
|343||
|主にもの凄く評判悪いけど。
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{{WA2ScriptLine
|344|雪菜|Setsuna
|「ごめんなさい。\nでも、歌うことに関してだけは、\nどうしても譲れないし、空気読みたくないの」
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|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|345|春希|Haruki
|「あ…」
|
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|346|雪菜|Setsuna
|「だから、自分のレパートリーの…\nしかも一番のお気に入りが流れてきちゃったら、\n我慢なんかしてられる訳、ないの」
|
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{{WA2ScriptLine
|347||
|あれは………ガチか。
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{{WA2ScriptLine
|348|雪菜|Setsuna
|「すごく楽しかった。\nすごく嬉しかった。\nすごく…気持ちよかったよ」
|
|}}

{{WA2ScriptLine
|349|春希|Haruki
|「小木曽…」
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|あの時のことを思い出すべく目を閉じた小木曽は、\n本当に嬉しそうな恍惚の表情を浮かべた。
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|351|雪菜|Setsuna
|「あのね、北原くん…\nわたし、最初に断ったとき、言ったよね？」
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|彼女の逡巡の中に\n『人前で歌うのが嫌だ』という項目は、\n本当に存在しなかった。
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{{WA2ScriptLine
|353|雪菜|Setsuna
|「わたしなんかにやれるのか、\n今のわたしがやってもいいことなのか、\nそもそも、わたしはやりたいのか」
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|354|春希|Haruki
|「あ、ああ…確かに」
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{{WA2ScriptLine
|355|雪菜|Setsuna
|「わたしなんかにできないと思った。\n今のわたしがやってもいいこととも思えなかった」
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{{WA2ScriptLine
|356|雪菜|Setsuna
|「でもね、でも…\nそもそも、わたしはもの凄くやってみたかった」
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|357|春希|Haruki
|「え…」
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|人前だろうが、一人だろうが、関係なかった。
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{{WA2ScriptLine
|359|雪菜|Setsuna
|「だからあの時、２対１の多数決で断っちゃったけど、\nあれからも、ずっと悩んだり、後悔したりしてた」
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|ただ『歌いたい』という欲望の前には、\n場所も、聴衆も、環境も、小木曽にとっては\nまるっきりどうでもいいことみたいだった。
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{{WA2ScriptLine
|361|雪菜|Setsuna
|「ね、北原くん」
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|362|春希|Haruki
|「…ん？」
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{{WA2ScriptLine
|363|雪菜|Setsuna
|「………またしても、棄権、撤回します。\nごめんね、いつもいつも振り回しちゃって」
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{{WA2ScriptLine
|364|春希|Haruki
|「あ…っ」
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{{WA2ScriptLine
|365|雪菜|Setsuna
|「では自己紹介行きます。３年Ａ組小木曽雪菜です。\n家族は両親と弟一人の計四人。得意な教科は英語。\n苦手な教科は…えっと、恥ずかしながら古典かな？」
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|ほんの一瞬、ぺろりと舌を出した小木曽は、\n今決まった、色々と重要な事実を覆い隠すかのように、\nマイクを取り、立ち上がった。
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|367|雪菜|Setsuna
|「趣味は歌うこと。\n特技は歌い続けること。\n３時間までならノンストップでも平気です」
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|バックに流れるのは、俺たちの再会を記念してなのか、\n俺たちの共通言語にして原点である、あの曲。
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|369|雪菜|Setsuna
|「学園祭ステージへの意気込みは…\nええと、なにぶんこういうの初めてなので、\n皆さんの足を引っ張ってしまうかもしれません」
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|彼女の口から零れるのは、\n今日一日、俺がずっと言って欲しくて、\nけれどずっと言わせることのできなかった、言葉。
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|371|雪菜|Setsuna
|「でも、もし本番で、力が足りなくて笑われても、\n絶対に最後まで投げ出さずに歌い続けますので、\nどうかよろしくお願いします！」
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|俺の努力が報われた訳じゃないけど。\nたまたま、小木曽が優しくて、\n歌うことが大好きだっただけだけど。
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|それでも、今夜は素直に喜ぼう。\nこんな、冗談みたいな結果オーライを。
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{{WA2ScriptLine
|374|雪菜|Setsuna
|「ね、北原くん」
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|375|春希|Haruki
|「え？」
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{{WA2ScriptLine
|376|雪菜|Setsuna
|「これにて、小木曽雪菜の秘密は、\n一つもなくなってしまいました。\n…あなたに、全部知られてしまったから」
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|377|春希|Haruki
|「っ…」
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=Glossary=

==Organization==

() : Pronunciation.

[] : Alternate pronunciation.

- * : Standardized Translation.

[[]] : Alternative Translation.

==A==

葵・喜美 (Aoi Kimi) - Aoi Kimi

葵・トオリ (Aoi Tōri) - Aoi Toori

==B==

暴食 (Bōshoku) [Gasutorimarujia] - Gastrimargia <nowiki>[[Surfeit]]</nowiki>

==C==

地脈 (Chimyaku) - Earth Pulse

地脈炉 (Chimyakuro) - Earth Pulse Reactor

==D==

大罪武装 (Daizai Busō) [Loizmoi Oplo] - Deadly Sin Armament <nowiki>[[Loizmoi Oplo]]</nowiki>

==E==

エウアグリオス (Euaguriosu) - Evagrius

==F==

憤怒 (Fundo) [Orujii]　- Orgē <nowiki>[[Rage]]</nowiki>

==G==

強欲 (Gōyoku) [Firarujia] - Phylargyria <nowiki>[[Avarice]]</nowiki>

グレゴリウス (Guregoriusu) - Gregorious

==H==

ハイディ・オーゲザヴァラー (Haidi Ōgezavarā) - Heidi Ogezavara

拝気 (Haiki) - Bless

悲嘆 (Hitan) [Ripi] - Lypē <nowiki>[[Lamenting]]</nowiki>

本田・正純 (Honda Masazumi) - Honda Masazumi

反勢刀 (Hanzeitō) - Conceptual Sword

==I==

インノケンティウス (Innokentiusu) - Innocentius

==J==

重奏世界(Jūsō Sekai) - Harmonic World

術式 (Jutsu Shiki) - Ability

==K==

怪異 (Kai'i) - Phenomena

嫌気 (Kenki) [Aakedia] - Akedia <nowiki>[[Disgust]]</nowiki>

キヨナリ・ウルキアガ (Kiyonari Urukiaga) - Kiyonari Ulquiaga

駆動 (Kudō) - Drive

虚栄 (Kyoei) [Kenodokushia] - Kenodoxia <nowiki>[[Vainglory]]</nowiki>

旧派 (Kyūha) [Katorikku] - Catholic

==M==

マルガ・ナルゼ (Maruga Naruze) - Malga Naruze

マルゴット・ナイト (Marugotto Naito) - Margot Knight

三河 (Mikawa) - Mikawa

ムラサイ　(Murasai) - Murasai

武蔵野 (Musashi No) - Musashi Field

==N==

直政 (Naomasa) - Naomasa

ネイト・ミトツダイラ (Neito Mitotsudaira) - Nate Mitotsudaira

ネシンバラ・トゥーサン (Neshinbara Tūsan) - Neshinbara Toussaint

==O==

驕り (Ogori) [Haiperifania] - Hyperēphania <nowiki>[[Arrogance]]</nowiki>

奥多摩 (Oku Tama) - Inner Tama

==P==

淫蕩 (Intō) [Poruneia] - Porneia <nowiki>[[Lewdness]]</nowiki>

==R==

レーニヨ・ユニート (Reiniyo) - Reignio Unito

==S==

三征西班牙 (Sansei Supein) [Toresu Esupania] - Tres Espana

新名古野城　(Shin Nagoya Jō) - New Nagoya Castle

神格武装 (Shinkaku Busō) - Divine Armaments

神州 (Shinshū) - Divine State

神奏術 (Shinsōjutsu) - Divine Musician's Technique

シロジロ・ベルトーニ (Shirojiro Berutōni) - Shirojiro Bertoni

総長 (Sōchō) - Chancellor

創世計画 (Sōsei Keikaku) - Genesis Program

奏者 (Sōsha) - Musician

==T==

点蔵・クロスユナイト (Tenzou Kurosuyunaito) - Tenzou Crossunite

通神 (Tsūshin) - Divine Transmission

==Y==

ヨルムンガンド (Yorumungando) - Jormungandr

=Other=

==Song of Passage==

通りませ　通りませ

行かば　何処が細道なれば

天神元へと　至る細道

ご意見ご無用　通れぬとても

この子の十の　御祝いに

両のお札を納めに参ず

行きはよいなぎ　帰りはこわき

我が中こわきの　通しかな——

Let me pass, let me pass.

If I go, if at some point it becomes a narrow pathway.

The narrow pathway, which goes toward God.

Though you say 'Thine thoughts art useless, thou cannot pass'.

To celebrate this child's tenth birthday.

I go to dedicate two offerings.

The path there is calm, the return is fear.

I wonder, is it the passage of the fear in me--

==Class Divisions==

[[File:01A 040A.png]]

==World Map==
[[File:Horizon1A FEPR.jpg]]

===Countries===

'''Shimazu + Africa Union''': Rules Kyushu territory. A land of plant-type race being. Possesses large manpower.'''

'''Oouchi and Ootomo + Tres España''': Rules Shimonoseki territory. Reigned by Phillip II. A country with great debt as the king invested in developing New Continent.

'''Mouri + Hexagon Francoise''': Chuugoku territory - An updown duo of Louis XIV and Terumoto Mouri.

'''Hashiba + M.H.R.R (Holy Empire of Rome)''': Rules Kinki territorry. Current emperor under house arrest. Catholics and Protestants are in disarray.

'''Oda + P.A. ODA''': Rules Kinki ~ Tokai territory. Ottoman Empire. Half-cessated from the Testament Union since 8 years ago, during the succession of Nobunaga Oda.

'''Houjou + Indian Union (United States of India)''': Rules Tokai ~ Kanto territorry. Houjou, with great longevity, together with the automaton's civilization, does a backseat role behind the union.

'''Uesugi + Soviet Russia''': Rules Hokuriku territorry. Raitei-san, the Sakra, does a good job in ruling the land by fear.

'''Aki + K.P.A Italia''': Setouchi - Alliances of cities centralized by the Pope of Tsirhc Catholic.

'''Takeda + Qing''': Rules Kanto. A large country centralized by the moving city-nation of long-living races. (!)

'''N/A + England''': Currently inhabiting the Floating Island. Ruled by the Fairy Queen Elizabeth. Residents are a mix of beast and fairy races.

'''Matsudaira + Far East''': Rules Tokai to Kanto region. The representative of Far East. Formed an official alliance with P.A. ODA 10 years ago.

===Savage Lands===

'''Siberia''': Touhoku Region - Arctic land sparsely inhabited by aliens. (!)

'''New Continent''': Hokkaido Region - Mostly uncharted lands, but recently, a rising of potential powers is seen there.

'''Savage Land''': Shikoku Region - Mostly barren land due to the fusing of the remains of Harmonic Divine State. Primarily inhabited by silicon-type aliens.

==Factions==

*'''Pro-Testament. Tsirhc branches''' :
:*'''Scion''' : Primarily Demons <Mazoku>. Old Testament partisans. Usually vagabonds.
:*'''Catholic''' : Mainly K.P.A Italia, Tres España, Hexagon Francoise. Worships saints.
:*'''Protestant''' : M.H.R.R. Testament partisans. Nondescript people but they are good at business.
:*'''Orthodoxia''' : Soviet Russia. Also interpreted as Russian Catholic.
:*'''Anglican Church''' : Mainly British. Divorce is legal. Officially a protestant but inclines towards Catholic.

*'''Pro-Testament Offshoot''' :
:*'''Murasai''' : Mainly Middle-East. Requires everyday to go to church or fasting.

*'''Anti-Testaments''' :
:*'''Dunhi''' : India. The way of life and death. Curry.
:*'''Outa''' : China. Littered with sages. Ramen.
:*'''Shintoism''' : Many Gods. Worshippers are unexpectedly arbitrary.
:*'''Buddhism''' : Far Easterner's version of Dunhi. Packed with many spells.

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