Editing Maria Sama Ga Miteru:Volume12 Chapter3 (section)

===Part 6===

The meal which began after 8:00 in the morning, was completely tidied up by 9:00.

''Well, wonder what we'll do today…'', Yumi thought trembling excitedly while waiting for Sachiko-sama to speak up, but whether something like: ''shall we go somewhere?'', or ''shall we do something?'', no such words were heard at all.

How about plans for after meal digestion exercises? Sachiko-sama went directly to reading on the terrace. Somehow or other, it had already been an hour.

"That book...?"

"Summer vacation homework. A book report."

In Sachiko-sama's hands, the Complete Works of Dazai Osamu<ref> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osamu_Dazai </ref>.

"It's a travel journal and I don't really like it."

Seems the assignment was "Tsugaru"<ref> A place in Aomori and also the title to a work by Dazai Osamu.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsugaru,_Aomori </ref>.  Yumi had not read it yet, but she inferred it was probably "A story where the protagonist travels through Tsugaru." It seems so for Sachiko-sama to say, "Come now, that place..."

"Though it picks up a bit toward the end."

"Is that how it is?"

While secretly peeping, she saw the characters for "Tsugaru" at the top of Sachiko-sama's open page. Having said that, the reason "Tsugaru" is still read in the present continuous tense, is because it's not supposed to arrive at an end.

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"I said that since I've read it."

"..."

''After all, she had read the book at this holiday house when she was a first year in middle school'', she said. Shockingly, in addition to that, she said she had sought out and read her father's bookshelves after completely reading all the books she brought from home and having run out of books to read. Yumi was such that she wouldn't read a literary novel unless it was homework. 

"Yumi should also get her homework done early."

Sachiko-sama said, dropping her line of sight again to the page.

"Since our schedule will be full after this."

"Eh?"

She wanted to hop up saying, ''some fun things were scheduled for later?''  

"Isn't it going to be as I said? 'In the later half of summer vacation we'll be out at school preparing for  the school festival.'"

"Ah, …right. I remember."

''Early''. It seems she meant early in the summer vacation. Nevertheless, Yumi happily jumped to a hasty conclusion earlier this morning. ''Danger, danger''. She was about to get off to a false start.<ref> As in flying off the starting line before the starting gun in a race. </ref>

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"Yumi, your homework?"

"I'm sorry. I didn't bring it."

"Why?"

''Why she says''. You wouldn't ordinarily bring your homework with you on a vacation.

''No, wait'', Yumi recalled. Recently on TV, there was talk of it being fashionable to go about life the same as usual at your travel destination. Wasn't there something extremely demeaning, like Japanese people having been exposed as country bumpkins, who go overseas and while sightseeing are only thinking about travel gifts<ref> Omiyage </ref>  for people back home.
 
Probably Sachiko-sama is of the faction that goes with the normal flow of things. And Yumi, the latter. In this way, can a pair whose  perceptions were out of sync, sync up their lifestyles for a week? She was becoming a bit anxious. 

''No, it's alright'', Yumi thought to herself, while shaking her head.

Wasn't the important thing that she should be together with Sachiko-sama? That she be able to share the same time with onee-sama, even if only to spend a Sunday without plans relaxing.

"You didn't bring the book for your book report either?"

Sachiko-sama muttered in amazement.

"Sorry."

Though she had bought a compilation book just in case, unfortunately, it had been  left on the desk in her room still in the bag from the bookstore.
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"Um… if it's in the books that came to held by onee-sama's father, could you lend it to me?

"That's fine. What would you like?"

"Natsume Souseki's 'Heart'."

"If it's Souseki, we have the complete collection. If I remember correctly, in here---"

Sachiko-sama stood up and opened the atrium's cabinet's long, narrow door. You couldn't tell from the outside, but the cabinet was jam-packed with books from top to bottom.

"Wow…"

She admired without thinking. When opened, it seemed even the cabinets abutting the entrance to the hallway and the stairway landing had similarly become bookshelves.

"Since both father and grand-father were busy people, they couldn't take time to leisurely read novels. So, they indulged in reading during the summer vacations here. But at home, only opening business writings. ...ah yes, here it is."

Sachiko-sama took out a rather substantial book and handed it over to Yumi.

"I'll gratefully borrow it."

"A friendship themed book, isn't it?"

Sachiko-sama muttered. As expected, seems she's read this book too.

Friendship.
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After that, she read with Sachiko-sama on the terrace.

Yumi quietly opened the first page.

''I always called that person "sensei"''.

The story's beginning was profoundly heavy to the extent that it rivaled the book's weight.

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