Editing Tasogare-iro no Uta Tsukai:Volume2 2nd Play (section)

===Part 3===

The wind is……moist?

After he exited the train, Neight immediately felt a sense of discomfort and stopped in his tracks.

Immediately after he had left the station, the humid air touched his skin. The wind carried along a strange smell that seemed somehow nostalgic. That was probably due to being beside the sea.

—Speaking of which, did it feel like this when I rode on a boat?

His mother had taken him onto one just once. That time, he had gotten seasick and could barely look at the ocean, but he definitely remembered the smell.

“Oi, Chibi-kun. If you don’t come quickly, you’re going to get lost!”

Hearing the voice coming from somewhere far away, he reflexively corrected his pace. In the time he had absent-mindedly stopped walking, he had been separated from his group of classmates.

“Ah, coming!”

Shouldering his armful’s worth of luggage, he chased after his classmates.

“Eh? Ada-san, that’s…”

She carried her luggage in her left hand and held something long and narrow in her right hand. Wrapped in black cloth, its height exceeded that of her body.

“Hm? Ah, this? It’s an old habit of mine. If I don’t carry this, I won’t feel relaxed.”

So it really was the spear. But no matter how you put it, wasn’t that a bladed weapon? In the first place, it was strange that their teacher Kate had given her permission to bring something so large.

“……It’s because the teachers at school know about it.”

About what? Before he could ask that, the girl suddenly quickened her pace.

“Well, various things.”

Muttering hastily, the girl remained quiet from then on. She stayed silent, so Neight didn’t ask any further.

Please, don’t touch it— her small back seemed to be saying that.


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Looking up from the reddish-brown gate, a large grey school building shone under the sun.

Tremia Academy’s branch school. Unlike the grassy lawn of the main school, the road here was covered in fine sand.

“Alright, let’s disband here for now.”

The homeroom teacher who was in charge of the class looked over her shoulder at the lobby of the building.

“The rooms for the boys in our class are the first and second ones on the east side of the third floor. The girls have the third and fourth rooms, on the west side. Go put down your luggage, and meet back in the central hall in thirty minutes.”

Unlike the main school, this place had only one building. Therefore, it was twice as large as the first-year school building in the main school. The first floor was the lobby and the second floor had classrooms. The third floor seemed to have been turned into a living area.

“Well then, we’re on the east side, so it’s this way.”

Gripping the room key, Ouma walked towards the staircase on the right.

“The layout of the hallways is the same as Tremia Academy’s, isn’t it?”

“It is a branch school, after all. Ah, the third room……the second room……Is it here?”

He opened the door to their room. The sunlight that unexpectedly shone into his eyes made Neight involuntarily close his eyes.

“Oh, this is amazing!”

The boys said as they entered the room. Their gazes were focused on the window in front of them.

Peering through the glass— Looking down from the third floor, the scenery was completely dyed in blue.

In the distance, the horizon could be seen. A large, transparent azure sea seemed to stretch out past the ends of the world. Before that was a beach of white sand that extended out in a straight line.

……They could hear the sound of the waves. So it was that close.

“It’s perfect weather for going down to the ocean. Hey, since it’s the first day, how about we go play?”

Leaving their luggage in a corner of the room, what should have been all the boys in the class spread their arms.

“Eeh, don’t we have classes from now on?”

“Oh, um. It was a joke, just a joke.”

In a joking manner, he took out study materials from his bag.

“But hey, the girls must be feeling like that too. Only the teachers want to give a lecture.”

“Is that so…?”

Kluele-san and Mio-san, he had simply thought that all of the girls would want to diligently listen to a lecture.


“Uwa, the weather’s amazingly nice today. It really is the best for playing in the sea! There’s barely anyone down at the beach. Could it be, is this Tremia’s private beach?”

Setting down her mountaineering backpack, Serges ran to the window.

“Amaaazing! It feels like it’s calling us to go and take a swim!”

Ada took off the top layer of her school uniform. What she seemed to be wearing below that wasn’t a turtleneck sweater, but a swimsuit.

Holding swimming goggles in their hands, the two started running.

“Hey, hey. Wait, you two.”

Instantly, Kluele grabbed their collars.

“Weren’t you already told that it isn’t allowed? And don’t you guys understand that if I let you go, the teachers will get mad at me as a class representative? Or did you plan to go even knowing that?”

“Eh, aah. It was a joke, just a joke. ……Kluele has a really scary look in her eyes.”

“Hey. Amazing and diligent people like us would never do such a thing.”

Standing across from each other, the two spoke at the same time.

……Really now. Saying things like it was a joke and all that while wearing a swimsuit beneath their clothes.

“It didn’t sound like you two were joking, that’s why I seemed scary.”

“Kululu, it must be tough being a class representative.”

While taking out studying materials, Mio cackled.

“……Who would recommend me to be class representative instead?”

“Ehh, me, me!”

Really, was she serious or just being impudent? It was hard to judge from her smile, which contained not a shred of guilt. Well, she didn’t dare confirm it.

“But won’t the teachers also feel that way? There’s no way they would give a lecture on such a hot day.”

Putting on her uniform over her swimsuit, Ada complained.

……That’s what I think too, but no teacher would openly say that, right?



“Ooh, is there really such a magnificent beach this close to us?”

As he held onto an armful of luggage, Zessel vigorously opened the window.

“There’s barely anyone there! Let’s get the students to do some self-studying and go down to the sea to pla—”

“Zessel. The students are waiting in the classroom.”

The door to his room. He turned around and realized that before he knew it, the figure of his colleague had been standing there carrying a textbook in her arms.

“……H-Hey, Enne-san. So you were here?”

“Would you like to tell the headmaster what you just said?”

The female teacher gave him an unusual smile that he had never seen before. Although the weather should have been boiling hot, a chill shot up his spine.

“N-No, I’m fine. It was a joke, just a joke.”

“In that case, hurry up and go to the lecture hall.”

“……Yes, right away.”

Reluctantly, he took out his teaching materials.

“While the students are studying hard, we can’t neglect our duties either.”

—Surely the students want to go out and play!

Grumbling inwardly, Zessel hurried after Enne.


When I think about it now.

At that time, wouldn’t it have been good to relax a little? I think so.

At least to Enne and I, that day— the first day of camp was the first, last, and only time we could have fooled around. 


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