Editing Maria-sama ga Miteru:Volume28 Chapter1 0

"Suzumoto Ichigo? It's Suzumoto-san, right?"

– I think that's how it all started.

It was just prior to the Lillian's Girls Academy's high-school entrance ceremony.

This was the first thing that the "Suzuki Futaba-san" seated in front of me said, as she turned around and read the nameplate attached to my desk. Then she said, "One more stroke than me."<ref>Suzumoto is written as 鈴本, Suzuki is written as 鈴木. Suzumoto has one additional horizontal stroke in the second character.</ref>

Deja-vu.

My head spun. I knew this scene.

Well, there had been people with the surname Suzuki positioned in front of me at various times during primary and middle-school, but that alone wasn't the cause of the deja-vu.

Her face, in which the pimples were probably the most attractive feature, her short and stocky build, her shoulder-length hair which was just a bit too short for the pony-tail it was in – I remembered each of these little details and more.

There was no doubting that I had witnessed this scene before.

So I wasn't the least bit surprised when she followed up, "One more stroke than me," with the words I knew she'd say.

"And because of that you're one number higher than me in the class list."

See.

It seemed only natural to know this, like watching a repeat on TV.