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  |  | == Phân đoạn ==  | 
 | <pre>
  |  | *[[Clannad_viet:SEEN7600P1|Phần 1]]  | 
 | // Resources for SEEN7600.TXT
  |  | *[[Clannad_viet:SEEN7600P2|Phần 2]]  | 
 |    |  | *[[Clannad_viet:SEEN7600P3|Phần 3]]  | 
 | #character '*B'
  |  | *[[Clannad_viet:SEEN7600P4|Phần 4]]  | 
 | #character 'Kyou'
  |  | *[[Clannad_viet:SEEN7600P5|Phần 5]]  | 
 | #character 'Đứa Trẻ'
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 | // 'Child'
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 | #character 'Mẹ'
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 | // 'Mother'
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 | #character '??'
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 | #character 'Kappei'
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 | #character 'Sunohara'
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 | #character 'Giọng Nói'
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 | // 'Voice'
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 | #character 'Ryou'
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 | #character 'Người Bán Mì'
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 | // 'Ramen Shop Clerk'
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 | #character 'Misae'
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 | #character 'Yoshino'
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 |    |  | 
 | <0000>
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 | // And, at that moment--...
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 |    |  | 
 | <0001>
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 | // \size{40}Thwack!!\shake{7}\size{}
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 |    |  | 
 | <0002>
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 | // The person walking in front of me... \pflew into mid-air...
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 |    |  | 
 | <0003> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "You serious?!"
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 |    |  | 
 | <0004>
  |  | 
 | // That Kyou hit someone!
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0005> \{Kyou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kyou} "Sorry, take my apologies instead!"
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 |    |  | 
 | <0006> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "... Hey, you serious, damn it?!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0007>
  |  | 
 | // Patter, pat, patter, pat~...
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 |    |  | 
 | <0008>
  |  | 
 | // The sound of the distant exhaust...
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 |    |  | 
 | <0009>
  |  | 
 | // She seriously left him like that...
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 |    |  | 
 | <0010>
  |  | 
 | // The fallen person trembles on the ground... not moving.
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 |    |  | 
 | <0011>
  |  | 
 | // I fearfully approach him.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0012> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "... Hey, you okay?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0013>
  |  | 
 | // .........
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0014>
  |  | 
 | // ......
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 |    |  | 
 | <0015>
  |  | 
 | // ...
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 |    |  | 
 | <0016>
  |  | 
 | // The person on the ground did not give an answer.
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 |    |  | 
 | <0017>
  |  | 
 | // Oh crap...
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 |    |  | 
 | <0018>
  |  | 
 | // It'd be nice for someone familiar with the culprit to tell them to turn themselves in...
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 |    |  | 
 | <0019>
  |  | 
 | // Or would it be nicer to just shut up and not be a witness right now...?
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0020>
  |  | 
 | // No... even more, would it be best to just run away from here...?
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 |    |  | 
 | <0021>
  |  | 
 | // Run away 
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 |    |  | 
 | <0022>
  |  | 
 | // Wake the person up 
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0023>
  |  | 
 | // I'd regret having such problems. 
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 |    |  | 
 | <0024>
  |  | 
 | // If there aren't any witnesses, no one'll get in trouble.
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 |    |  | 
 | <0025>
  |  | 
 | // If someone's going to get her in trouble, it won't be me.
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 |    |  | 
 | <0026>\{Đứa Trẻ} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Child} "Mommy, someone's sleeping over there~"
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 |    |  | 
 | <0027>\{Mẹ} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Mother} "Ah, you're right. I wonder if that student knows him?"
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 |    |  | 
 | <0028>
  |  | 
 | // Oh crap... I became a witness...! 
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 |    |  | 
 | <0029>
  |  | 
 | // Let's try to wake this person... 
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0030>
  |  | 
 | // Let's see, I could threaten Kyou during lunch every day, and I'd have a pretty nice hand up my sleeve...
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0031>
  |  | 
 | // -- Hey, that's not it!
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0032> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Hey, you alright? Say something."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0033>
  |  | 
 | // I kneel down beside the non-moving victim, and shake the person's shoulder.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0034>
  |  | 
 | // The shoulder's thin.
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 |    |  | 
 | <0035>
  |  | 
 | // Maybe it's a girl...?
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0036> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Hey?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0037>
  |  | 
 | // Twitch...
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 |    |  | 
 | <0038>
  |  | 
 | // Ah, the person moved?
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 |    |  | 
 | <0039> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Hey, you fine?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0040>
  |  | 
 | // I shake the person once again...
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0041>
  |  | 
 | // Knock!\shake{1}
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0042> \{??} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{??} "\bWAAAAAAHHHHH!!\u"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0043> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Uwaah...!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0044> \{??} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{??} "W-what the?! What was that just now?!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0045> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Y-you're alive..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0046> \{??} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{??} "All of a sudden I felt something like a \bthump\u, followed by a \broll, roll\u, and then immediately a \bslide\u or something..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0047> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Umm... you were hit by a bike."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0048> \{??} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{??} "... A bike did?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0049>
  |  | 
 | // The victim looks at me with a tilting neck and a mysterious face.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0050>
  |  | 
 | // A girl...? A guy...? Looking at their chest sorta gives me the right idea but it's a bit touchy to discuss...
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0051> \{??} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{??} "........."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0052> \{??} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{??} "Ahh, again huh?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0053>
  |  | 
 | // Hitting their hand, the person says that as if remembering.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0054> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Again?!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0055> \{??} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{??} "Something like this happens every once in a while."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0056> \{??} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{??} "If it were a car it'd be a problem, but since it's a bike again, that's better."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0057> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "... Better... huh...?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0058>
  |  | 
 | // ... Even though you flew into the sky...?
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 |    |  | 
 | <0059> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Your body's... okay?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0060> \{??} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{??} "Eh? I don't think I'm hurt anywhere in particular?"
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 |    |  | 
 | <0061> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "I see... then I guess that's fine..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0062> \{??} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{??} "Umm, by the way, what's the time?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0063> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Hmm? It's about ten o'clock."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0064> \{??} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{??} "Uwaah! Not good! I'm gonna be late for my job interview!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0065> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Ah! Hey!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0066>
  |  | 
 | // The person ran away all of a sudden.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0067>
  |  | 
 | // Very far away now.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0068> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "... Is this really okay...?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0069>
  |  | 
 | // Should I be glad that the person survived, or that the person is strong...?
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0070>
  |  | 
 | // Anyways, I guess the issue with Kyou being a criminal is now over.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0071>
  |  | 
 | // Even then...
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0072> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "... What a healthy person..."
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 |    |  | 
 | <0073>
  |  | 
 | // Seeing the person I don't know going around the corner, disappearing from my sight, I give a sigh.
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 |    |  | 
 | <0074> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Hmm...?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0075>
  |  | 
 | // As it happens, I see a white envelope that had fallen to the floor.
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 |    |  | 
 | <0076> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Is it that person's...?"
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 |    |  | 
 | <0077>
  |  | 
 | // I can't see their back anymore, looking in the direction they ran in.
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 |    |  | 
 | <0078>
  |  | 
 | // I guess I'll pick it up for now.
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 |    |  | 
 | <0079>
  |  | 
 | // On one corner of the envelope, the words "resume" were written in red.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0080>
  |  | 
 | // ... Speaking of which, that person did mention something about an interview...
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0081>
  |  | 
 | // If that's the case, isn't not having this bad?
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0082> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "........."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0083>
  |  | 
 | // Having said that... I have no idea of any place he might be going to...
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 |    |  | 
 | <0084>
  |  | 
 | // On the other hand, I'm a bit reluctant to just leave this resume here...
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0085>
  |  | 
 | // Find the address to bring it to 
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0086>
  |  | 
 | // Tear it up and throw it away 
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0087>
  |  | 
 | // Having one thing after another kinda ticks me off, but I can't just leave this as it is. 
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0088>
  |  | 
 | // I look over the resume in the envelope.
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 |    |  | 
 | <0089>
  |  | 
 | // As I thought, the writing's dirty...
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 |    |  | 
 | <0090> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Umm..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0091>
  |  | 
 | // Name... blank...
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 |    |  | 
 | <0092>
  |  | 
 | // Age... blank...
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 |    |  | 
 | <0093>
  |  | 
 | // Address... blank, too...
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 |    |  | 
 | <0094>
  |  | 
 | // Telephone number... blank...
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 |    |  | 
 | <0095>
  |  | 
 | // Academics...
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 |    |  | 
 | <0096>
  |  | 
 | // Work experience...
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 |    |  | 
 | <0097>
  |  | 
 | // .........
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 |    |  | 
 | <0098>
  |  | 
 | // Nothing's written here...
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 |    |  | 
 | <0099>
  |  | 
 | // Was there something already written here...?
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 |    |  | 
 | <0100>
  |  | 
 | // ... On the right side...
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 |    |  | 
 | <0101>
  |  | 
 | // Strongest subject... lunch...
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 |    |  | 
 | <0102>
  |  | 
 | // Weakest subject... homeroom...
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 |    |  | 
 | <0103>
  |  | 
 | // Objective... I want money...
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 |    |  | 
 | <0104>
  |  | 
 | // Hobbies... telling people stuff they don't know...
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 |    |  | 
 | <0105>
  |  | 
 | // Current health... I'll sue for sexual harassment...
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 |    |  | 
 | <0106>
  |  | 
 | // Based on this writing... it makes me think this is a guy's...
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0107> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "........."
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 |    |  | 
 | <0108>
  |  | 
 | // I have no idea what the hell he means by these...
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 |    |  | 
 | <0109>
  |  | 
 | // Even more, the writing's garbage...
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 |    |  | 
 | <0110>
  |  | 
 | // The letters look like it's all wrinkled up like an earthworm crawling through it or something.
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 |    |  | 
 | <0111>
  |  | 
 | // No matter what the reason though, I can't take this to any address, can I?
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 |    |  | 
 | <0112>
  |  | 
 | // Unable to do anything about, I fold up the letter, and put it in my bag. 
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 |    |  | 
 | <0113>
  |  | 
 | // Rip, rip... rip, rip... rip, rip... 
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 |    |  | 
 | <0114>
  |  | 
 | // I rip up the paper piece by piece.
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 |    |  | 
 | <0115>
  |  | 
 | // And then throw those small pieces into the drain on the side of the road.
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 |    |  | 
 | <0116> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Well, then... let's go."
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 |    |  | 
 | <0117>
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 | // The bell ending second period had just rang as I came to school.
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 |    |  | 
 | <0118> \{Kyou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kyou} "Ah, \m{B}! How's that kid?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0119> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "You know... you are asking me with such a smug face there."
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 |    |  | 
 | <0120> \{Kyou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kyou} "Eh? Because nothing happened, right?"
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 |    |  | 
 | <0121> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Nothing did but, what if something happened, you know?"
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 |    |  | 
 | <0122> \{Kyou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kyou} "It's fine, it's fine. The reaction when my bike hit was different after all."
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 |    |  | 
 | <0123> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Reaction?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0124> \{Kyou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kyou} "Yeah. What should I call it, the feeling when the flesh gets crushed with the bone? None of that was there, was it?"
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 |    |  | 
 | <0125> \{Kyou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kyou} "I'm sure that my skill reduced the impact. I'm sure that was that of a master." 
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 |    |  | 
 | <0126>
  |  | 
 | // A person who knew the feeling of when flesh gets crushed with the bone would not be normal, would they...?
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0127> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Even though that's the case, the problem would be the person running away from there."
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 |    |  | 
 | <0128> \{Kyou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kyou} "If you weren't there, I would have stopped."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0129> \{Kyou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kyou} "\size{20}Or rather, I was supposed to be aiming at you...\size{}"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0130>
  |  | 
 | // ... She just said something scary... 
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0131>
  |  | 
 | // .........
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0132>
  |  | 
 | // Could it be she found out about Saturday regarding Botan...?!?!
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0133> \{Kyou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kyou} "Well, nothing happened, right? Everything's okay."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0134>
  |  | 
 | // As Kyou smiles saying that, she throws something my way.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0135> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Hmm... what's this?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0136> \{Kyou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kyou} "Fruit milkshake. For now, drink it, since I took ten minutes just to thank you, you know. You should be grateful."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0137> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "You shouldn't force your gratitude on me, damn it..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0138> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "And, don't add 'for now' when you're thanking someone."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0139> \{Kyou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kyou} "Giving juice is my thanks. What you should be thankful of is that the one I picked was delicious, right?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0140>
  |  | 
 | // What a ridiculous reason to use, saying that with such a smooth smile.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0141>
  |  | 
 | // Taking a deep breath, for now I guess I'll be thankful for the milkshake I have in my hand.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0142> \{??} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{??} "Oh man..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0143> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Hmm?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0144> \{??} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{??} "Where did it fall to...?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0145>
  |  | 
 | // Perhaps this is the guy who lost it...?
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0146> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Hey!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0147> \{??} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{??} "Sigh~~~..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0148> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "I said hey!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0149> \{??} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{??} "Whew~~~..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0150> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Wait a second!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0151> \{??} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{??} "Huah?" 
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0152> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Yo."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0153> \{??} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{??} "Umm..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0154> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "You don't remember me?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0155> \{??} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{??} "Ah, it's you!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0156> \{??} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{??} "The one who helped me in Okinawa!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0157> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Who the hell's that?!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0158> \{??} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{??} "Eh? Maybe Tochiki?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0159> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "No."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0160> \{??} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{??} "... Tottori?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0161> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Also no."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0162> \{??} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{??} "Uwaah! Someone I don't know is talking to me!!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0163> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Are you some old fart?!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0164> \{??} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{??} "Because, I don't know who you are?!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0165> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Ah..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0166>
  |  | 
 | // Speaking of which, I haven't said my name.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0167> \{??} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{??} "I'm looking for something right now. If you have business, I'd like for you to bother me afterwards."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0168> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Something you're looking for?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0169> \{??} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{??} "An important paper..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0170> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Paper... so, you mean this?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0171>
  |  | 
 | // I take the resume I picked up from before out of my bag.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0172> \{??} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{??} "Ah, ah! That's it, that's it!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0173> \{??} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{??} "... But, why do you have it...?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0174> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "You don't remember? You were hit by a bike a while ago."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0175> \{??} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{??} "A bike?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0176> \{??} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{??} "... Hmm? Ah, ahh! You're that person!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0177> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "You remembered?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0178> \{??} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{??} "Yup, yup, I remembered!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0179> \{??} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{??} "Eh? But why do you have the resume?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0180> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "I picked it up."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0181> \{??} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{??} "Eh? When?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0182> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "I said from that time, right?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0183> \{??} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{??} "Is that so."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0184> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Here."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0185> \{??} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{??} "Ah, thank you!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0186>
  |  | 
 | // With a smile, he takes the resume.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0187>
  |  | 
 | // My heart skipped a few beats from that.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0188> \{??} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{??} "What is it?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0189> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Uh, nothing... nothing at all." 
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0190> \{??} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{??} "I see."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0191> \{??} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{??} "Well~ I had that job interview shortly after, but since I lost the resume it didn't go well."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0192> \{??} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{??} "I guess something like this is important after all."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0193>
  |  | 
 | // Is it necessary to have a resume that doesn't have a name written on it...?
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0194> \{??} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{??} "Ah, right! I should thank you, I should!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0195> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Huh? You don't really need to worry about that."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0196> \{??} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{??} "Not at all, showing your gratitude is the most important!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0197> \{??} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{??} "It's not something the eye can reliably see, as it shows good faith."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0198> \{??} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{??} "The truth is, giving money or something the person likes to eat could be called quite cool."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0199> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "... Someone like that would be very annoying."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0200> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "You don't have to do something, so don't worry."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0201> \{??} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{??} "Nope, I have to. It goes against my own principles."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0202> \{??} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{??} "It'd be the worst as a guy."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0203>
  |  | 
 | // ... A guy? So he's really a guy?
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0204> \{??} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{??} "Would you like me to at least get you some juice?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0205> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Eh? Ah, yeah, I guess that's enough."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0206> \{??} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{??} "Then, please wait a second."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0207>
  |  | 
 | // Tap tap tap tap tap tap...
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0208>
  |  | 
 | // He runs off to the vending machine.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0209>
  |  | 
 | // I guess I should think of him as a good guy, for being able to thank me...
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0210>
  |  | 
 | // A guy...? With a thin body like that, I couldn't tell if he was a girl...
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0211>
  |  | 
 | // ... Tap tap tap tap tap tap!
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0212>
  |  | 
 | // Hmm? He come back?
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0213> \{??} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{??} "Umm, you like juice or tea?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0214> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Uh, yeah, juice."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0215> \{??} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{??} "Roger!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0216>
  |  | 
 | // Tap tap tap tap tap tap...
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0217>
  |  | 
 | // Someone going through the trouble of asking what one likes is really humble.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0218>
  |  | 
 | // Even though he's the one treating me, he shouldn't really do so much.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0219>
  |  | 
 | // ... Tap tap tap tap tap tap!
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0220>
  |  | 
 | // He came back again...?
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0221> \{??} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{??} "Pant, pant, umm, carbonated or fruit juice?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0222> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Uhh, I guess carbonated."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0223> \{??} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{??} "Pant, pant... r-roger!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0224>
  |  | 
 | // Tap tap tap tap tap tap...
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0225>
  |  | 
 | // He's really humble.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0226>
  |  | 
 | // ... Tap tap tap tap tap tap!
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0227> \{??} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{??} "Pant... pant... pant... u-umm, partly carbonated or fully carbonated... pant... w-which do you like?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0228> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "... Fully carbonated..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0229> \{??} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{??} "Ro... roger..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0230>
  |  | 
 | // Tap tap tap tap tap tap...
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0231> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "........."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0232>
  |  | 
 | // I feel this is slowly becoming bad...
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0233>
  |  | 
 | // ... Tap tap tap tap tap tap!
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0234> \{??} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{??} "Whew, pant, whew, pant... u-umm... I've only got bills... got... any change?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0235> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Yeah, here."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0236>
  |  | 
 | // Clatter, clatter.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0237> \{??} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{??} "Whew, pant... t-thank you..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0238>
  |  | 
 | // Tap tap tap tap tap tap...
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0239>
  |  | 
 | // .........
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0240>
  |  | 
 | // ... Tap tap tap tap tap tap!
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0241> \{??} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{??} "Whew, pant, whew pant... u-umm, is fizzy drink fine?" 
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0242> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Yeah..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0243> \{??} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{??} "Whew, pant... roger.."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0244>
  |  | 
 | // Tap tap tap tap tap tap...
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0245>
  |  | 
 | // ... Tap tap tap tap tap tap!
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0246> \{??} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{??} "Whew, pant... h-here, juice."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0247> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "T... thank you..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0248> \{??} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{??} "Well, you should gulp down the cold stuff then."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0249> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Yeah..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0250>
  |  | 
 | // I take the cold drink.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0251>
  |  | 
 | // Flip. 
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0252>
  |  | 
 | // Pshhhh---!!\shake{1}\shake{2}
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0253>
  |  | 
 | // White foam comes gushing up into my face the moment I flip the pulltab...
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0254> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "........."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0255> \{??} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{??} "Uh... eh?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0256> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Damn it... you shook it..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0257> \{??} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{??} "I-I'm sorry! I didn't meant to shake it like that... I was in a hurry so..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0258> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "........."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0259>
  |  | 
 | // He doesn't mean... any ill will, does he...
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0260> \{??} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{??} "Ahh... for this to splash around like this... I'm sorry!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0261>
  |  | 
 | // Saying that, he pulls out a handkerchief.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0262> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Woah, stop. I'll clean it up myself."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0263> \{??} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{??} "Come on, come on."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0264>
  |  | 
 | // With a sweet smile, he dries my face... um... "he" is fine, right?
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0265>
  |  | 
 | // My forehead... eyebrows... cheek... lips...
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0266>
  |  | 
 | // Getting close all over my face...
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0267>
  |  | 
 | // His breath comes near my nose.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0268>
  |  | 
 | // Why do I smell something good in that...?
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0269> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "........."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0270> \{??} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{??} "Eh? What's wrong? Your face's red."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0271> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Gah... nothing!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0272> \{??} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{??} "Ahh! Geez, don't move, I might poke your eyes!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0273> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Don't say such scary stuff!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0274>
  |  | 
 | // I twist my body to get away from this dangerous feeling.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0275> \{??} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{??} "Geez, there's still something to clean up you know!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0276> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "... Just give me the handkerchief. I'll clean it myself."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0277> \{??} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{??} "Hmm... okay."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0278> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Thank you..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0279>
  |  | 
 | // I look at the handkerchief he gives me.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0280>
  |  | 
 | // ... It's a girl's...
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0281>
  |  | 
 | // Wipe, wipe...
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0282>
  |  | 
 | // Maybe he's a... girl?
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0283> \{??} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{??} "By the way, what time is it now?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0284> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Hmm? Oh ,it's four o'clock."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0285> \{??} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{??} "Uwawah! It's already that time?!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0286> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "What's wrong?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0287> \{??} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{??} "Sorry! I have to hurry to an interview!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0288> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Eh, ah, hey, wai..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0289> \{??} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{??} "Later, thanks for the resume!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0290>
  |  | 
 | // Tap tap tap tap tap tap...
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0291> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Ah..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0292>
  |  | 
 | // Only the handkerchief's left in my hand.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0293>
  |  | 
 | // Oh man... I thought I'd return the resume, now it's a handkerchief...?
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0294>
  |  | 
 | // Guess I'll have to return this next time we meet.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0295>
  |  | 
 | // Deeply sighing, I drink what's left of my juice in one gulp.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0296> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "... Hmm?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0297>
  |  | 
 | // Thinking about it... this was all bought with my own cash, wasn't it...?
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0298>
  |  | 
 | // The morning, with no one coming to school.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0299>
  |  | 
 | // Holding back my yawn, I drag my heavy steps around.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0300> \{??} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{??} "Ahh!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0301> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Hmm?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0302>
  |  | 
 | // I turn around to a familiar face...
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0303> \{??} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{??} "Good morning, umm, umm, resume person!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0304> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Who's that..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0305> \{??} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{??} "Then... umm... coke face!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0306> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "That was your doing, wasn't it...?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0307> \{??} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{??} "Umm... what was your name?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0308> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "........."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0309>
  |  | 
 | // Speaking of which, I never told him...
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0310> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "I'm \m{A}."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0311> \{??} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{??} "\m{A}... what's your first name?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0312> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Hmm? \m{B}."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0313> \{??} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{??} "\m{A} \m{B}, huh... nice name."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0314> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Really?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0315> \{??} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{??} "Can I call you \m{B}-\bkun\u?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0316> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "I don't care what you call me."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0317> \{??} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{??} "\m{B}-\bkun\u, \m{B}-\bkun\u, \m{B}-\bkun\u, \m{B}-\bkun\u..." 
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0318> \{??} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{??} "Yeah, now I'll remember it."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0319> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "And, you are?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0320> \{??} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{??} "Hiiragi."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0321> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Hiiragi... huh."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0322>
  |  | 
 | // An ambiguous surname.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0323>
  |  | 
 | // Not that a man wouldn't have this name, but it could also be a girl's.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0324> \{??} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{??} "Yup, Hiiragi Kappei."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0325>
  |  | 
 | // ... Kappei...?
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0326> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "What's wrong? Something strange?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0327> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "... A guy?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0328> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Who is?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0329> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "You."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0330> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Ahahahaha! Oh man, \m{B}-\bkun\u, did you see me as a girl?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0331> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "No... well... umm..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0332> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Ah, here, this."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0333>
  |  | 
 | // I show him the handkerchief that I borrowed yesterday.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0334> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Ah, that's,"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0335> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "The girl-like handkerchief."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0336> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "And this confused you?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0337> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Ahaha, \m{B}-\bkun\u is such a birdbrain!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0338> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "F-for now, I'll give it back."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0339> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Yeah, thank you. This is important to me."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0340> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Really?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0341> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "You have to return things that you borrow after all."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0342> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Oh...?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0343> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "You can't just wait to meet someone by chance, without even knowing their name."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0344> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Yeah. It'd be nice to meet."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0345> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Yup."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0346> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Oh yeah, how did that job interview go?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0347> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Something happened after that, right?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0348> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Eh... umm... ahaha, actually that didn't go too well either."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0349> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "I see. That's too bad."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0350> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "I thought showing them the resume might have been good enough though..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0351> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "... You mean... showing the resume that I picked up as it is...?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0352> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Eh? Yeah, that."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0353> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Of course it won't go well."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0354> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Eh? Why?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0355> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "........."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0356>
  |  | 
 | // Asking me with such an honest face bothers me...
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0357> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "For now, it's better to write your name and address down."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0358> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "There aren't any shops that'll employ people with an unknown address."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0359> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Ahh, but that's impossible."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0360> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Hmm? Why's that?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0361> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "I don't have a home."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0362> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "... Huh?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0363> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Ahahaha, that's just my circumstances right now~ I'm in the middle of traveling."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0364> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "That's why I'm trying to find a job where I can live in."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0365> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Circumstances...?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0366> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "You want to hear?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0367> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Not really."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0368> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Hmm, that's a \blie\u. You must've wanted to hear, didn't you, \m{B}-\bkun\u."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0369> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "About how I'm returning home, worrying in the middle of the night as I sleep until morning."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0370> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "And then the next time we meet, I'd be telling you what happened while going 'Haah, haah', I'm sure."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0371>
  |  | 
 | // I wouldn't want a guy telling me what happened in the middle of the night while going "Haah, haah"...
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0372> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "By the way, do you think there's a job like that out there that I can get an interview for?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0373> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "It's got to be short term, high pay, manual that's user-friendly for beginners, and cosplay."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0374> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Hold that last thought."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0375> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Eh?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0376> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "What do you mean by cosplay?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0377> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Hmm, well about that... what \bis\u cosplay? Cosmo President?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0378>
  |  | 
 | // The president of all space...?
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0379> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "No... what do you mean by that?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0380> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Something. So, is there one? Though it'd be perfect if they also had a dormitory too."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0381> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "If you had to basically ask me.. isn't that what a girl usually does?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0382> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Eh?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0383>
  |  | 
 | // Kappei looks at the words I just gave him.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0384>
  |  | 
 | // Looking carefully... carefully...
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0385> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Ah..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0386>
  |  | 
 | // A disappointing voice leaks out.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0387> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Right?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0388> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "I wonder if there are any jobs posted that are meant for people above thirty years of age regardless of gender..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0389> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "\bWait\u a tick!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0390> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "... It'd be better you don't concern yourself with such jobs."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0391> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Eh? Why?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0392> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "It's very suspicious..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0393> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "I guess so... but it's no good, not being old enough."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0394>
  |  | 
 | // Nine times out of ten, this guy would definitely pass any age requirements, I'm sure...
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0395> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Oh, whatever. Today, I'm taking an interview with a job I like."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0396> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "What job is it?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0397> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Pizza home delivery."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0398> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "With a bike?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0399> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Yup. Sounds pretty good, delivering stuff to people."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0400> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "It really feels like a job that's for anyone."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0401> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Certainly, that seems pretty good."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0402> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Best of all, what I'm delivering is food..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0403> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Food... something people need to live... giggle..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0404> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} ".........?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0405> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Delivering pizza now, maybe someone who's on the verge of death will muster all of his strength just to order it..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0406> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "And if that's the case, their fate would be in my hands..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0407> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Being caught by a single traffic light would mean the difference between life and death..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0408> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Something like that feels so thrilling... giggle, giggle..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0409> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "........."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0410> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Uh, huh? \m{B}-\bkun\u? You seem distant."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0411> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Well... would you not look this way... it'd be a problem if people thought I knew you..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0412> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Ahahaha, no way, it's a joke, a joke."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0413> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Delivering to homes really is a job for guys after all."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0414> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Being entrusted with something, and going to someone."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0415> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "It feels so numbing!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0416>
  |  | 
 | // This guy... I can't read what the hell his smile means at all...
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0417> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Later, I have to go to my interview now."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0418> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Y-yeah..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0419> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Next time we meet, I'll be a delivery boy then."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0420>
  |  | 
 | // Smiling with sparkling teeth, Kappei says that as he runs away.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0421> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Home delivery, huh..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0422>
  |  | 
 | // It's just a job delivering stuff, but I'm becoming more worried about \bhim\u doing that...
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0423>
  |  | 
 | // Well, it's someone else's problem...
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0424>
  |  | 
 | // Even more... Hiiragi Kappei... huh.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0425>
  |  | 
 | // ... Kappei's name is a girl's... no, that's impossible.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0426>
  |  | 
 | // It's a guy's, isn't it...?
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0427>
  |  | 
 | // Break is about to start as I arrive at the school gates.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0428>
  |  | 
 | // Growing weary of watching Sunohara immerse himself in the game, I decide to walk outside to get some fresh air. 
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0429>
  |  | 
 | // I wonder how long I'll be out here until I go back?
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0430> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Hmm?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0431>
  |  | 
 | // I see a familiar person holding a magazine in front of him.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0432> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Yo."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0433> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Ah... \m{B}-\bkun\u."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0434> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "How'd the pizza delivery thing go? Did you get it?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0435> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "........."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0436>
  |  | 
 | // He silently shows me the magazine he's holding.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0437>
  |  | 
 | // It's an employment magazine.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0438> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "This is my answer."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0439> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "So it didn't work out."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0440> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Please don't point it out..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0441> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "I'm just making sure."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0442> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "You're quite cruel, \m{B}-\bkun\u."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0443> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "I don't like stuff I'm not sure about."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0444> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "So, what was their reason?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0445> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Yeah, that's just it!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0446> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "It was just a tiny little thing too, geez!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0447> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "What man, you angry?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0448> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Of course I am. Even I get angry about things like these too."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0449> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Did the interviewer sexually harass you?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0450> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Of course not!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0451> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "When they asked me if I had a license, I have to tell them that I don't have one, don't I?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0452> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "You don't need a license for even a bike nowadays, right?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0453> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "I can't move on a scooter with just my right hand."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0454> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "There's a limit to making a fool out of people."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0455> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "The one being made a fool of is you, man..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0456> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Eh? Why?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0457> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "You'd be arrested for getting on a bike without a license."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0458> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Of course not. Though it is a problem if you do get caught, if you don't screw up you won't get arrested."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0459> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Shops think about what might happen if you do screw up."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0460> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "They're thinking about something so small!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0461> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "For you, it'd be really big, man..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0462> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "In any case, I'll have to pass on jobs that need licenses I can't use."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0463> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "A man's path is to have a job that'll bring them from zero to the top."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0464> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Ah... well, good luck with that..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0465>
  |  | 
 | // With an exaggerated wave with one hand, I get away from there--...
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0466>
  |  | 
 | // Snatch!
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0467>
  |  | 
 | // ..-- Or maybe not...
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0468>
  |  | 
 | // Kappei's thin finger grabs ahold of my hand.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0469> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "What...?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0470> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "You see, I'm gonna have another interview again."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0471> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Good luck with that."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0472>
  |  | 
 | // Struggle, struggle...
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0473>
  |  | 
 | // His hand doesn't let go of mine.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0474> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "I'm thinking of going to the fast food restaurant."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0475> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Good luck."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0476>
  |  | 
 | // Struggle, struggle...
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0477> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "You know of Moff Burger? It's a nationwide fast food chain, right?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0478> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Yeah, good luck."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0479>
  |  | 
 | // Struggle, struggle...
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0480> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Could you come too? I feel uneasy going alone."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0481> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Go deal with it yourself!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0482>
  |  | 
 | // Struggle, struggle...
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0483> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Don't say that so easily~ It'll definitely be fun!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0484> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "I don't have free time for jobs, you know!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0485> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Our chance meeting here is due to karma from a previous life!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0486> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "I have no idea what the hell you're talking about!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0487> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "You'll make 730 yen an hour! If you stare for two hours you'll get 1,460 yen!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0488> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Go and work!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0489> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Let's work together from morning until night."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0490> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "I've got school!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0491> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "You should leave that in this case."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0492> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "That's a really scary basis you have there, right...?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0493> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "I'm being honest."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0494> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Anyways, go to the job yourself."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0495> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Besides, if you take friends to the job, the chance of losing the job will be high."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0496> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Eh? Really?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0497> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Yeah, and the chance of friends quitting the job when you quit the job is high as well."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0498> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "You're not coming with me because it's a bother, right, \m{B}-\bkun\u?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0499> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Your principles are really weird, man..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0500> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "But, thinking in such a pessimistic way is how I've been living so far."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0501> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "That so...?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0502> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Then, I'll get going."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0503> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Next time we meet, call me Mr. Burger."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0504> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Later, Mr. Baka."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0505> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Ahahaha, it's too early for that!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0506>
  |  | 
 | // He really is an idiot...
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0507> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "If you come to the shop, I'll give you two pickles!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0508> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "You'll feel a bit happier with just that!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0509> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Ahahahaha!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0510>
  |  | 
 | // With that echoing, bottomless laugh, he heads to the interview.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0511>
  |  | 
 | // I wouldn't want to go to the burger shop he's working at...
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0512>
  |  | 
 | // .........
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0513>
  |  | 
 | // Well, he'll probably lose out.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0514> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "But it's just \bthat\u. Two guys coming home from school doesn't really seem all that exciting."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0515> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "If you don't like it, walk separately."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0516> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "No way man, that way we'd look like we weren't friends."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0517> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "You have friends?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0518> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "So what are you to me then?!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0519> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Idiot, don't you know not to take words so seriously?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0520> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "Hahaha, I guess so, we're friends! \m{A}~"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0521> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "I'm not that close to you, man! I'll beat the crap out of you!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0522> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "S-so we're \bnot\u friends, then?!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0523> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Don't say something as small as that, okay? You want to start a fight?!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0524> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "Eek, you're not forgiving at all!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0525> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "I may be nice to other people, but I'm not just to someone whose name is Sunohara!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0526> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "Keh, fine, I'm not your friend in any way at all."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0527> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "If you later ask me to call you my soulmate, I'll point and laugh so hard I'll cry!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0528>
  |  | 
 | // Absolutely no way I'd do that...
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0529> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Ah, \m{B}-\bkun\u!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0530> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Hmm? Yo."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0531> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Good afternoon. Going home?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0532> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "Wai... \m{A}, who's this cute one?! Introduce me!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0533> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "This cute one... you mean this person?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0534> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Eh? Me?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0535> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "Kaah, using 'boku'? No way, I'm gonna burn up!" 
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0536> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "\m{B}-\bkun\u, this guy's strange."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0537> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "He's a sad person. Better to just leave him as he is."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0538> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Is he your friend, \m{B}-\bkun\u?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0539> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Nope."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0540> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "Please let me call you my soulmate!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0541>
  |  | 
 | // Sunohara's crying.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0542> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Wahahahahahaha!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0543>
  |  | 
 | // For now I'll just point and laugh.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0544> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "He's not your friend?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0545> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "I wonder."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0546> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "Hahahaha, \m{A}-kun's jokes are quite cruel!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0547> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Hmm, my shoes are dirty."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0548> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "Okay, I'll clean them."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0549> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Ah, I'm a bit thirsty."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0550> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "Okay, I'll buy some coke!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0551>
  |  | 
 | // Tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap!
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0552> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Uwaah, he really thinks of you as a friend!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0553> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "You see some relationship with that exchange he and I had?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0554> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Hmm... like a master and servant?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0555> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "You're just about right."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0556> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "How envious. I'd want a friend like that."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0557>
  |  | 
 | // Kappei says that with such serious eyes.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0558> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Oh yeah, how'd that Moff Burger interview go?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0559> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "........."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0560> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Uh... even if you give me that face..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0561> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Listen! That place's manager is the worst!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0562> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Sexual harassment interview?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0563> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "I'm not that cute!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0564> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "It feels like my dignity as a person has been stained!" 
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0565> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Did something happen...?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0566> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "He didn't even give me one cup of tea during the interview! Don't you think that's really rude? It feels like I don't know what he wants!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0567> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "... I don't know what you want as well, man..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0568> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "But that's why they posted up for recruitment, right?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0569> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Simply put, something like that is supposed to say they're in lack of employees, and they'd like people to help, right?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0570> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "If that's the case, shouldn't they show at least some sincerity?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0571> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Well, you also want money, that's why you went there, right?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0572> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Speaking of which, did other job interviews offered tea as well?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0573> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "The pizza shop gave pizza. They also had juice and chicken."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0574> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Your life's really spoiled, you know..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0575> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Is it normal for interviews not to have tea...?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0576> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Of course."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0577> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "I see... I didn't know..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0578>
  |  | 
 | // He nods alone with a serious face, understanding it.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0579> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "I have returned!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0580> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Ah, welcome back, manservant-\bkun\u."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0581> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "Eh?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0582> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Don't mind that. Besides, give me my coke."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0583> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "Ah, here, enjoy, soulmate \m{A}-kun."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0584> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "And, um... for you, as well."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0585> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Eh? You got coke for me as well?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0586> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "Please accept my feelings."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0587> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Waah, thanks. You really are a good person."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0588> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "~~~~... \m{A}, come here!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0589> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "What?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0590>
  |  | 
 | // Sunohara wrings my neck with his arm, and our pose turns away from Kappei as he whispers.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0591> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} (I really scored big points there, didn't I?)
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0592> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "... What?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0593> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} (How should I put it, that girl... will probably fall in love with me, right?)
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0594> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "........."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0595>
  |  | 
 | // This guy's... an idiot...
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0596> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} (Oh man, what should I do, is it okay to ask when's her birthday?)
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0597> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} (After that, her three sizes... oh yeah, right, her name, her name. I have to ask her name!)
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0598> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "I'll take the coke then."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0599>
  |  | 
 | // Flip.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0600>
  |  | 
 | // Pshhh----!!
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0601> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Waaaa--------h!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0602> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "Ah..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0603>
  |  | 
 | // The moment Kappei flips the pull tab, a white geyser flies into his face.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0604> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "M-my eyes! My eyes are soaked!!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0605> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Tch... hey, don't go into a tantrum."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0606> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "But, but, they're in my ey----es----!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0607>
  |  | 
 | // Kappei kicks around in a tantrum.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0608> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "I'll dry them, so wait."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0609> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Uuuu~... they're soaked~"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0610> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Geez... close your mouth, I'm putting my finger in."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0611> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Okay.... uu... that tickles, \m{B}-\bkun\u..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0612> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "After I dry this completely, it'll be all sticky."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0613> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Yeah... I guess... so.... uu... ugh... uhh..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0614> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Come on, don't turn your face away."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0615> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "But... mmph... ugh... uh.... uhh...."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0616> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "That's it, just stay calm and it'll be over soon."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0617> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "S-somehow, when I hear conversation, I get all turned on..." 
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0618> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Hmph! You cheap manservant! It's all because of your coke!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0619> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "Eh? Ah, uh, umm, I'm sorry."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0620> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Fix your posture and sincerely apologize!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0621> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "If your voice weakens, continue apologizing!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0622>
  |  | 
 | // At those words, Sunohara's body rigors like he was hit by thunder.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0623>
  |  | 
 | // He looks at me with teary eyes.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0624> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "You're annoying, so don't look at me."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0625> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "Uwaaahh!! I went through so much trouble to get this flag!!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0626>
  |  | 
 | // Screaming something I don't even understand, Sunohara runs away.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0627> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "........."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0628>
  |  | 
 | // He's... gone as far as mistaking Kappei for a girl, hasn't he...
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0629> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "What a despicable manservant. Next time I see him, I'll splash him with salt."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0630> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Your mouth's filthy, but also quite good..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0631> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Eh? Really? Though that's something polite people say, right?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0632> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "I see... by the way, you don't have any interviews today?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0633> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Ah, that's right. Today I'm going to an office."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0634> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "What kind of work?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0635> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "A moving job."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0636> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "... Physical work... you okay with that?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0637> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "I'm sure I'll be fine. It's all about balance and timing."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0638> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Besides, physical work really is a guy's job~"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0639> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "It really shows one's manhood."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0640> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Plus, you get your pay the same day you work. That's really cool."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0641> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "The employer's gonna be dripping with guts too."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0642> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Well... good luck with that."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0643> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Thanks, I'll treat you later out of my salary for wiping my face there."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0644> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Yeah."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0645> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Later!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0646>
  |  | 
 | // He'll probably lose out on this interview...
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0647>
  |  | 
 | // Hiding my real smile, I see Kappei off to his interview.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0648>
  |  | 
 | // April 26 (Saturday)
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0649>
  |  | 
 | // As always, I'm late in the morning.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0650>
  |  | 
 | // With my shoulders drooping down, I walk on the road....
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0651>
  |  | 
 | // Thud!!\shake{1}
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0652> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Cough!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0653>
  |  | 
 | // Someone jumped into my chest-- or rather, my stomach.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0654>
  |  | 
 | // Choking, my vision becomes hazy.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0655> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Ow, ow, ow~..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0656> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Ka... Kappei...?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0657> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Ah, wah, s-s-sorry! I'm in a hurry!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0658> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "For a joke it really hurts..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0659> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "S-sorry!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0660> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "I've been gradually looking all around..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0661> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Looking...?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0662>
  |  | 
 | // I ask him, rubbing my stomach.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0663> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "That handkerchief person."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0664> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Handkerchief... you mean the handkerchief from when the coke spilled all over my face?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0665> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Yup."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0666> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Someone from this town?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0667> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Yeah, a person I met some time after I came here in the spring."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0668> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "I was introduced to her after I was hit by the bike."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0669> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "And at the time, this handkerchief..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0670>
  |  | 
 | // Saying that, Kappei looks all around him.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0671> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "What is it?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0672> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Ah... ahh... ah..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0673> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Ahhh... I can't find them..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0674>
  |  | 
 | // He sharply drops his shoulders.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0675> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "I thought I'd finally meet her..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0676> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "You never asked for her name?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0677> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "I was so shy like a carrier boy, I left without asking her name."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0678> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "What'd that person look like?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0679> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "She's really, really cute!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0680> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Well, I didn't exactly ask for her features..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0681> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "........."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0682> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Hey... \m{B}-\bkun\u..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0683> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Hmm?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0684> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Are my feelings that of love...?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0685> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "........."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0686> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "This is the first time my chest has felt this tight."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0687> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Only meeting them once ever, not knowing their name... just remembering them makes my heart beat fast."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0688> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Huh."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0689> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Ahh... where did that cloud go...?" 
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0690> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "...??"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0691> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Where will the winds blow from tomorrow...?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0692> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "... Where will a person's mind go to, where will they struggle to...?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0693> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Ah, \m{B}-\bkun\u... hey... what are you doing, distancing yourself?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0694> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Well... you seemed to be a bit in your far away land, so I thought..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0695> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Ahaha, you say such interesting things."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0696> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Whichever you say it is, I think whatever it was that you said was interesting."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0697> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Eh? Did I say something?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0698> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Where'd the clouds go~ and where'd the person's heart go~ kind of like you were saying a poem."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0699> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Ahaha, a poem~ I guess... so..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0700> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "I'm sure the way I am now is... yeah... like a bird flying across a big, wide ocean..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0701> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "I can... do something like rest and ruffle my feathers, as a wandering bird on a small, desolate island."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0702> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "........."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0703> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Eh? You're distancing yourself again?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0704> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Yeah... you really are a person off in their own faraway world..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0705> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Ahaha, you really are interesting, \m{B}-\bkun\u."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0706> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Not like you."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0707> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Eh? Really?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0708> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "I kinda know what you're trying to say though..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0709> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "If you understand what I wanted to say, then it's okay."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0710> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Well... I guess so, but..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0711> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Ahh! Why didn't I ask for that person's name?!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0712>
  |  | 
 | // His mood suddenly changes...
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0713> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "I might not meet her ever again--!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0714> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "For some reason today, Fate's playing tricks on me--!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0715> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Huh... wonder if this is a test... if I get past it, will I be rewarded with something...?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0716> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "If I don't, I'll definitely be punished..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0717> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Y... yeah."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0718> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "And then, there's something else I thought of."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0719> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "'Kokoro' (heart) is below the character for 'koi' (love), right...?" 
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0720> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Y... yeah, true...? What about it?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0721> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "In other words, it sort of gives the feeling there's some motive..." 
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0722> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "........."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0723> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "But you see, in 'ai' (love), 'kokoro' is in the middle of the kanji."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0724> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "This means that the important part of that would be in the heart, right?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0725>
  |  | 
 | // He looks at me enthisiastically with his eyes, looking for me to agree with him, as he points his hand toward his chest-- around his own heart.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0726> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Well... umm... I guess so..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0727>
  |  | 
 | // Giving a weak glance back, I reluctantly answer him.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0728> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Ahhhh... where is yesterday's cloud...?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0729> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "With the wind I feel right now, who exactly will stop me tomorrow...?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0730> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "........."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0731>
  |  | 
 | // Far away... Kappei is really far away...
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0732> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "I'm a nomad... in this deep and wide forest, I'm a wanderer, looking for the whereabouts of one thing."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0733> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Hmm...? Well, would it be bad to call me a hunter...?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0734> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "A distant warrior aiming at a single trophy... proudly devoting himself with one blow, the Love Hunter that completely puts himself on the line..." 
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0735> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Uwaah... sounds dangerous but really cool..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0736> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Hey, \m{B}-\bkun\u, which makes me more like a man?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0737> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Sorry dude, but just don't look my way..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0738>
  |  | 
 | // I look to a distant place for a bit as I say that.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0739> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "That person right now is under the same blue sky as me."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0740> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "What should I do to meet that person again...?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0741>
  |  | 
 | // That Kappei... is like this, isn't he...?
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0742>
  |  | 
 | // Even then, who exactly is he trying to save...?
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0743> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "S-so anyways, how'd the job go? Was the moving thing no good?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0744> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Eh? Yeah, that's my new job now."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0745> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "The interview went well?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0746> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Yup! I'm really enthusiastic about it!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0747> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "I see, so you made it. Congratulations."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0748> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Truth is that there won't be any crazy development with that person in such a job~"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0749> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Girls wouldn't be moving stuff around, obviously."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0750> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "I might know the phone number of the office."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0751> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Yeah, there is that..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0752> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Anyways, I went to a lot of places in a car, expanding my view of the town."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0753> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "It might increase my chance of meeting that person."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0754> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "I'm sure when they see the sparkles from my sweat, their chest will tighten, wouldn't they?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0755> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Somehow, off the record, don't you think guys look really cool working like that?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0756> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "If it were me I'd fall in love!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0757> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "........."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0758>
  |  | 
 | // I had no words to say.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0759> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Mmmmph---! Somehow I feel all fired up--!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0760> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "I have to give it my best and work like hell!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0761> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Yeah, do that."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0762> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Yahhhh!!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0763>
  |  | 
 | // Kappei runs away, holding an iron fist.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0764>
  |  | 
 | // I sigh, watching his back.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0765>
  |  | 
 | // Kappei
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0766> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "Hey... \m{A}..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0767> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Hmm...?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0768> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "You remember...? That cute girl we met..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0769> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} ".........?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0770>
  |  | 
 | // I try to pin down something in my memory from these few days, but nothing comes up.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0771> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "Come on... the girl I gave coke to, but ended up giving problems with her eyes?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0772> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Oh... \bher.\u."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0773> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "See... yesterday, I had a dream of her."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0774> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Oh, how was it?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0775> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "The two of us were on the sandy beach in the setting sun, while I was chasing her..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0776> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Mhmm, mhmm..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0777>
  |  | 
 | // I imagine it a little.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0778> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "S... stop! Don't chase after me!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0779> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "Pant, pant, isn't it fine, isn't it fine? I'm not that scary, pant, pant..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0780> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "And the moment I touched her, she fell..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0781> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "And then, I felt like I also fell on top of her..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0782> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "S... stop! Let go of my ha... waah!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0783>
  |  | 
 | // Rustle, rustle!
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0784> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "Pant, pant, y-you won't get away now. Give up, give up, pant, pant..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0785> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "S-someone--... m-mmph!!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0786> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "Pant, pant, i-it's useless~ n-no one will come now, pant, pant..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0787> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "We stared at each other, both our pupils projecting into each others' faces..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0788> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "After that, both of us closed our eyes one after another, and we got closer..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0789> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "Pant, pant, spread out, if you stay still it'll be over soon, pant, pant..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0790> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Mmmph, mmph, mmmmphh!!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0791> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "Pant, pant, what a nice smell, pant, pant..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0792> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Mmmmphhhh----!!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0793> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "You're the worst."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0794> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "Eh...? W-why? I can't have that sort of dream?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0795> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Yeah, as a person it's off-limits."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0796> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "Isn't it really romantic, like the one scene in a movie?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0797> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "No... I think it's a crime against someone's will."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0798> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "Against someone's will...? What are you talking about?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0799> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "... Though it's in a dream, so you can't really thrust it in deep..." 
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0800> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "No wait... since it is a dream, she's probably more consenting to it..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0801> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Well, hang in there."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0802> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "Ummm, I \breally\u don't know what you mean, but thanks for the support."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0803>
  |  | 
 | // Sunohara, with a satisfied smile, gives a thumbs up, his teeth shining.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0804>
  |  | 
 | // I really think he's a naive guy...
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0805> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "Well, about what I just said though..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0806> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "Point is, umm... how should I say this..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0807> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "........."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0808> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "I might be... serious about her..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0809>
  |  | 
 | // ...Oh man... those serious eyes and blushing cheeks...
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0810> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "Like the time my younger sister came..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0811> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Eh? You have a younger sister?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0812> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "You called her, didn't you?!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0813> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Oh, that's right, I did."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0814> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "And then you ran away..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0815> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "I guess your greeting's something like 'Kekeh----!', right?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0816> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "No it isn't!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0817> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "Come on, I'm really serious, so don't make fun of me, alright?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0818> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Don't make a fool of me! I'm serious after all!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0819> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "Quit making fun of that seriousness--!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0820> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Tch..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0821> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "So, you said something about the same as when your younger sister came?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0822> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "Yeah... telling my sister how I had no one I liked."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0823> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Truth is a sister that asks me that is not one I want..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0824> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "She was worried."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0825> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Ah, is that so..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0826> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "But, well... at that time... my mind kinda floated..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0827> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "Hey... what's her name...? You should know her, right?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0828> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "........."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0829>
  |  | 
 | // What should I do... with Sunohara misunderstanding this as it is...?
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0830>
  |  | 
 | // .........
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0831>
  |  | 
 | // ......
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0832>
  |  | 
 | // ...
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0833>
  |  | 
 | // This might be interesting!
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0834> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "... Hiiragi's her name."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0835> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "Hiiragi-chan, huh... what a cute name..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0836> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Liking that type is definitely like a man."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0837> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "You never thought of me as one?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0838> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "I've never complimented you in such a way..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0839> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "Even if it's a lie, if you're just a bit worried say something!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0840> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Well, whichever way, your coke blowing in her face did piss her off."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0841> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "That's, true... I am the cause of that problem."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0842> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "I guess it'd be better for me to apologize somehow? Or rather, apologizing would be one way of getting a serious flag point, wouldn't it?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0843> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "I dunno what the hell you're spouting, but don't go anywhere beyond an apology, alright?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0844> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "How should I apologize?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0845> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Be a man that she'd want."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0846> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "The moment you meet, say nothing and kneel down before her; that's just like a man. She'll fall in love."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0847> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "Kneel down before her..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0848> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "I guess so, apologizing in that way somehow feels like it'll show really good intent, won't it?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0849> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "Yeah, I'll give it a shot. Just like a man to kneel down. Thank you for the advice, \m{A}!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0850> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "I'm glad I could help you out." 
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0851> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Ah, \m{B}-\bkun\u!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0852> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Hmm?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0853> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "Woah, woah! Speak of the devil, I've discovered the kitten-chan!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0854> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Eh?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0855>
  |  | 
 | // Kappei appears miraculously at the right time, as Sunohara runs.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0856>
  |  | 
 | // And then in a cloud of dust, he kneels to the ground and pushes down his forehead...
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0857> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "Hiiragi-chan! I'm sorry for bef---"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0858>
  |  | 
 | // Squish!\shake{1}
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0859> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "--mggff!!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0860>
  |  | 
 | // With all his might, Kappei stomps on his head. 
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0861> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "... You really show no mercy, do you...?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0862> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Well, I only used a bit of force for stepping on his head..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0863>
  |  | 
 | // He's using "a bit" of force to stomp on his head...?
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0864> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "B-but see... just now that was really disgusting, yeah?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0865> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Well, it is weird."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0866> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "This is called what, immediately kneeling down as a guy is really bad, right?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0867> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Yeah, like a loser."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0868> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "Wait a second! Damn it, \m{A}, you just gonna sit there--?!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0869> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "What, such an impolite guy."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0870> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "That's not what you said! Didn't you say it'd be like a man to suddenly kneel down and show gratitude?!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0871> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Hahahaha, you couldn't have really thought that, could you?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0872> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "Don't play with a man's pure heart--!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0873> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Blaming your failure on other people, you're the worst."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0874> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "As such a terrible guy, you should crawl and wiggle around on the ground."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0875> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "Eh? Umm, t-that's not it... see, I'm... umm..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0876> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "If you have something to say, hurry up and say it!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0877> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "I've fallen in love with you! Drink morning coffee with me at dawn, please!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0878>
  |  | 
 | // Smack!!\shake{7}
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0879> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "Gaff!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0880> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Hey hey, that's going too far, kicking him in the chin to keep him quiet."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0881> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "But, this guy's a \breally\u dangerous guy!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0882> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "I've noticed."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0883> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "But if you really don't like that, at least end it with words."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0884> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "We're of the same race, just transmitting words."*
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0885> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "I see..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0886> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Well... this guy's got the completely wrong idea..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0887> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Wrong idea?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0888> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "He thinks you're a girl."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0889> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "I'm a guy--!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0890> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "I can tell by your name."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0891> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "... That means... the time you didn't know my name, you also misunderstood as well, \m{B}-\bkun\u...?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0892> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "........."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0893>
  |  | 
 | // I couldn't deny that even a little...
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0894> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Uwaah... you're quite rude, \m{B}-\bkun\u..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0895> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Besides all that, your face is cute, so it couldn't be helped."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0896> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "........."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0897> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Why's your face all red...?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0898> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Eh? I-I'm not embarrassed in any way!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0899> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "I'm a guy, so you calling me cute, \m{B}-kun... um... doesn't make me happy at all...!" 
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0900> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Heh, well I'd be worried if you were glad."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0901> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "I... I'm going to my interview now!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0902> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Hmm? What happened to the moving job? Didn't you make it?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0903> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "........."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0904> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "... Kappei...?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0905> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "... That's the first time I've seen such an inhuman place..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0906> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "...?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0907> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Can you believe it? They told me to carry a cardboard box all of a sudden!" 
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0908> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "No way I could do that!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0909> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Umm... isn't that what your job is...?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0910> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "But the box was really packed! It's really heavy!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0911> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "It probably weighs about ten kilograms!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0912> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "It's like I can't guarantee being able to hold it with my arm!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0913> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "... Boxes and pianos are well over a hundred kilograms..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0914> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Don't compare me with other people!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0915> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Umm... you don't have to say that so forcefully..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0916> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "If they can do that, then obviously it's a problem if I do it!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0917> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "You're no good with physical work. Or rather, you're no good with work that involves working with other people."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0918> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Yeah, somehow I feel that way."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0919> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "But that's just it, I'm quite a solitary guy then."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0920> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Going around with other people, and dragging them with you, see."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0921> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Those are the types of jobs that are suitable for showing leadership."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0922> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Uwaah... like a man... just imagining it gives me the goosebumps."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0923> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "........."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0924>
  |  | 
 | // He nods, though misunderstanding it...
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0925> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Well, today's interview involves people helping people, so I'm relieved."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0926> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "A hotel?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0927> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Something like that. It's a nursery, and I like kids so I think it'll work out."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0928> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "It'll be nice teaching the children about my life."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0929>
  |  | 
 | // And he nods again at that...
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0930> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "... Well, doing strange physical work or creating things sounds like a good idea..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0931>
  |  | 
 | // I guess at the last moment, I'll just quickly say something.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0932> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Yup! Having said that, I'm going now."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0933> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Yeah, good... luck."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0934> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Next time we meet, call me Baby Kappei, okay? Later!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0935>
  |  | 
 | // Kappei wears a grin while waving, running away.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0936>
  |  | 
 | // Working with kids...
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0937>
  |  | 
 | // .........
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0938>
  |  | 
 | // Ignoring whether or not he can do it well, I guess I can picture it.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0939>
  |  | 
 | // A little later into the day.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0940>
  |  | 
 | // While fooling around when heading home,
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0941> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "Hey, \m{A}..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0942> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Hmm...?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0943> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "It's about Hiiragi-chan."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0944> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Yeah?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0945> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "I guess it's like a man to decide to get close."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0946> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Meaning?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0947> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "Confessing."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0948> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "........."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0949>
  |  | 
 | // He... still hasn't given up...
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0950> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "Having said that, help me out a bit."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0951> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "I don't really care but... what are you gonna do?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0952> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "Call her over to my room, I think."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0953> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "... Oh...?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0954> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "But you know, probably with the way I am now, I don't think she's going to come."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0955> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Indeed."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0956> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "Having said that, you call her."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0957> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "... Huh?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0958> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "I'll help you out later, so help me out."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0959> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "I'm really serious."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0960>
  |  | 
 | // Sunohara's unusual face towards me seems that way.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0961>
  |  | 
 | // Calling Kappei to his room... well...
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0962> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "Welcome!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0963> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "What business do you have, calling me here?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0964> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "Well, well, for now just come in, please."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0965> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Uwaah... what a dirty room."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0966> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "Hahaha, it's a guy's room after all."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0967>
  |  | 
 | // Clack, clack... clack...
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0968> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Eh? Why are you locking the door?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0969> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "Because it's lunch right now."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0970> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Lunch? Nothing's prepared, though."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0971>
  |  | 
 | // Ruffle!
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0972> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "Mwahahaha, I'm going to eat you!!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0973> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "W-waaaaahhhh!! \m{B}-\bkun\u--!!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0974> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "If you're calling him, he's keeping watch--!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0975>
  |  | 
 | // Clatter! \shake{1}\wait{100}Slam! \shake{2}\wait{100} Thud!\shake{1}
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0976> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "\m{B}-\bkun\u----!!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0977> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Asshole! Why do I have to keep watch?!" 
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0978> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "Eh? W-what are you talking about?!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0979> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "I don't want anything to do with this, damn it!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0980> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "I have no idea what the hell you're talking about!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0981> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Anyways, you're the worst!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0982> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "I \breally\u don't know what you're talking about!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0983> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Ah, \m{B}-\bkun\u."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0984> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Hmm? Yo."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0985> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Uwaah... your servant's here too..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0986> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "\m{A}... I really don't seem all that important to her, do I?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0987> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "You don't think being a character that stands out feels good, do you?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0988> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "........."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0989> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Come on, see. She's giving you such a burning look there."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0990> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "It really seems suspicious, though..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0991> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Just your imagination, man, just your imagination."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0992>
  |  | 
 | // Smiling, I look over at Kappei.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0993> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Hmm? What is it?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0994> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "See, this guy has something to tell you."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0995> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Eh? Me?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0996> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "H-hey, \m{A}?!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0997> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Didn't you decide you'd get close like a man?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0998> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "I-I haven't prepared myself yet!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <0999> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Can't be helped... then, I'll tell you my ultimate secret."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1000> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "Serious? Really?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1001> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Lend me your ears... whisper, whisper, whisper, whisper..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1002> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "Mhmm, mhmm... mhmm..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1003> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "Ohh! Just like a man! Seems cool. Alright!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1004> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "Hiiragi-chan!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1005> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "W-what?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1006>
  |  | 
 | // Ruffle... Sunohara flips his hair, tilts himself at 45 degrees, and points his finger out like a gun...
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1007> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "I'm gonna shoot your heart out, baby--!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1008>
  |  | 
 | // He winks while going "Bang!" with his finger flicking back.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1009> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Are you an idiot?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1010> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Uwahahahahaha! This guy actually did it!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1011> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "\m{A}--! Damn it, why'd you make me do that?!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1012> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Besides that... you seem to have a really big misunderstanding here..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1013> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "Eh? What?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1014> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "I'm a \bguy\u."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1015> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "........."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1016> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "......"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1017> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1018> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "......... What?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1019> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "A \bguy\u."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1020> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "........."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1021>
  |  | 
 | // Creak, creak, creak, creak... he turns his neck towards me like a broken tin foil doll.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1022>
  |  | 
 | // He looks at me as if he's clinging onto something.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1023>
  |  | 
 | // Remaining silent, I give him a peaceful smile, nodding.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1024> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "T... \bthat's a liiiieee---!!\u"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1025> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "B-b-b, but, you're Hiiragi..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1026> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "I'm Hiiragi Kappei."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1027> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "\bNOOOO!\u No way you could have a guy's name--!"*
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1028> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Complete defeat."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1029> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "Eeeeeek! S-so the one I was thinking of yesterday wasn't a girl, but a guy instead!!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1030>
  |  | 
 | // What exactly is he...?
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1031> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "Uwaaahhh!! I'm such a stupid kid--!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1032>
  |  | 
 | // With teary eyes, Sunohara runs away.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1033> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "He might've been traumatized..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1034> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "What happened to him?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1035> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Nah, don't worry about it."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1036> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Sure? Well, I really don't care anyway."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1037>
  |  | 
 | // I think... Sunohara might really have been in love when he mistook him for a girl...
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1038> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Ah, that's right, \m{B}-\bkun\u, there's something I'd like to tell you."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1039> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Hmm? Something you want to... tell me?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1040> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Yeah, ahem... long ago, there was an old man and woman."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1041> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "... Is this a fairytale?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1042> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "They were really famous. Umm, one day, the old man picked up a mischievous tanuki." 
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1043> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Kachi-kachi Yama?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1044> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Yup. The old man hung the tanuki on a rope into a pot."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1045> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Mhmm..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1046> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "And, he went out for a bit to get some ingredients."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1047> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Only the tanuki and the old lady were at the house."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1048> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Mhmm, mhmm..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1049> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "The tanuki pleaded to her, saying, 'I won't do anything wrong anymore, so please let me out.'"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1050> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Seeing how pitiful the tanuki was, the old lady loosened the rope."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1051>
  |  | 
 | // For now, this Kachi-kachi Yama story doesn't seem too unusual...
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1052> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "The free tanuki picked up a nearby wooden stick and hit the old lady with all its might."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1053>
  |  | 
 | // ... All its might...?
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1054> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Pow! Crack! Breaking her skull, blood spilled onto the floor!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1055> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "The old lady died there, not making a voice."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1056> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "H... hey...?" 
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1057> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Even then, the tanuki still kept on hitting her!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1058> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Smack! \shake{1}\wait{300} Kapow! \shake{1}\wait{300} Thwack!\shake{1}"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1059> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Wai... Kappei?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1060> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Soon the wooden stick become reddened, and the tanuki smiled, satisfied."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1061> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "And then the tanuki takes the old lady into the heath under the pot and--"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1062> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Kappei!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1063> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "-- Wah! D-did I, do that again?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1064> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "What you did just now was tell some very violent fairytale."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1065> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Ahhh! Why'd I do that, even though it was just a normal fairytale?!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1066>
  |  | 
 | // His normal is absolutely off...
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1067> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "When I began talking to the kids, they cried!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1068> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Was it okay for that to happen in the middle of the story of Momotarou?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1069> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "But they were crying, even though the demons had to be exterminated..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1070> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "... Momotarou took the sword from his hip, and with his three friends they fought the demons."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1071> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Swoosh! Cut! Slash!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1072> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "The dog gets on top of the demon's knees, and rips its teeth off with its tail." 
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1073> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "The monkey claws many, many times at the demon's chest, blood spurting out onto it, as it laughed while dyed in red..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1074> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "The dove thrusts its beak into the demon's eyes, spreading its wings at the joy of smashing his eyeballs."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1075> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "And finally, Momotarou rips its muscles apart, blood and fat entangling with the bone as it separates."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1076> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "........."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1077> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "He and the three smile dyed in red, as they see another demon."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1078> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "And then, screaming 'Next!', they kick the ground--..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1079>
  |  | 
 | // Swiff!\shake{1}
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1080> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Ah!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1081> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Calm down..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1082> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "W, was there a problem?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1083> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "I don't think so but \byou're\u the number one problem."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1084> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Ahhh... why, I wonder... wasn't it okay to have such an exciting fairytale?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1085> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "What you're saying isn't so exciting."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1086> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Or rather, if you told brats something like that, you'd be fired..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1087> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "That's the first time I've been fired in an hour... Man, I feel so depressed."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1088> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "If I heard a story like that, I'd get depressed as well..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1089> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "I really don't like kids."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1090>
  |  | 
 | // The kids probably don't like you either...
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1091> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "But... what should I do...?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1092> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Hmm?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1093> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Soon my wallet's gonna be in serious trouble."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1094> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Well, a job like that shouldn't really bother you, should it?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1095> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "... Guess I'll be sleeping on the station bench again tonight..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1096> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "... Bench?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1097> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Later, I have to go find some place."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1098>
  |  | 
 | // Kappei smiles like that, walking away.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1099> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Hey, Kappei."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1100> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Hmm?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1101> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "... Where exactly are you staying right now...?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1102> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Umm... when I have money I stay at an inn."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1103> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "And when you don't?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1104> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "A lot of places."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1105> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "... Such as?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1106> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "... A... a lot of places..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1107> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "... Like a station bench...?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1108>
  |  | 
 | // He sharply turns his face away at my words.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1109> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "... You serious?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1110> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "I-it can't be helped, can it?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1111> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "........."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1112>
  |  | 
 | // Well... can't be helped... 
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1113>
  |  | 
 | // Introduce him to an inn. 
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1114> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Well... can't be helped..." 
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1115> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Don't worry, when I decide on a job I'll be living in an exhilarating suite."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1116> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "I see."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1117> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Well, later."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1118> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Yeah."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1119>
  |  | 
 | // Kappei waves his hand as he runs off. 
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1120> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Mind if I introduce you to an inn?" 
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1121> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1122> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Since it's spring, it gets cold during the night."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1123> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "No matter how many times you do it, it's bad for your health if you camp out."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1124> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "B-but, I don't have any money, you know?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1125> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Don't worry, I'll take you to a place that doesn't worry about money."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1126> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Really?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1127> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Yeah."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1128>
  |  | 
 | // Tap... tap... tap... tap...
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1129> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Hey, \m{B}-\bkun\u... is it okay to come in here like we want...?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1130> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Yeah, it's fine, it's fine."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1131> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Or rather, what kind of place is this...?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1132> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "An inn."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1133> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Somehow it doesn't seem like it...?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1134> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Don't point that out... well, here we are."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1135>
  |  | 
 | // Clatter...
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1136> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Uwaah... what a dirty room..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1137> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "But, you won't have a problem sleeping here, right?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1138> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "I guess so. I won't catch a cold here."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1139> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Umm... ah, there he is."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1140>
  |  | 
 | // A thick pile of sheets is on top of the bed.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1141>
  |  | 
 | // Sunohara was in that, hugging a pillow while closed up.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1142>
  |  | 
 | // He looks like he's feeling like he wants to cry on the pillow.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1143> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Could this room be..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1144> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Hey, wake up."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1145>
  |  | 
 | // Thud.\shake{1}
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1146>
  |  | 
 | // I kick the bedding.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1147> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "Uh... uhh... I can't eat anymore~"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1148> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Come on, don't be so sleepy."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1149>
  |  | 
 | // Thud. \shake{1}\pThud.\shake{1}
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1150> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "Ow! Ow, man! Hey... what... you, \m{A}...?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1151> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "I'm in the middle of having a broken heart right now... just leave me alone and be quiet..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1152> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Well, besides giving yourself the final blow, I thought I might push something onto you..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1153> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "... What exactly...?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1154> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Let him stay for a night."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1155> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Ah, hey there."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1156> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "Gyaaaahhh!! He's here!!!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1157> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "I'm kinda worried about where he's sleeping."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1158> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "I-if you don't mind."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1159> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "W, wha... why?! Why can't you let him stay your house?!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1160> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Shut up and quit complaining."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1161> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Letting him feel at ease here is, umm, what'd you call it... a flag? You'll get that, won't you?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1162> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "I don't want that with a guy, dammit!!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1163> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "First of all, I already lost it with this guy--..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1164> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Uh... umm... I guess this is a bad idea..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1165> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "Hm...?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1166> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "It's okay, I'll go to the station."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1167> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "Station? What are you exactly gonna do at the station?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1168> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Sleep on the bench in the waiting room."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1169> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "Bench?!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1170> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Sunohara... are you just gonna abandon Kappei?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1171> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "S-saying it as abandoning... umm..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1172> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Ah, well the Sunohara Youhei that I know would say that he's a really fired up and chivalrous guy."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1173> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} (\size{20}Eh? Really?\size{})
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1174> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} (\size{20}It's a lie, isn't it? Anyways, just wait and see.\size{})
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1175>
  |  | 
 | // Slightly clearing my throat, I look at Sunohara.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1176> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Anyways, stop fussing over what happened before, and deal with the problem right now."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1177> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Think of it as two things for you, helping a person in need, and looking yourself in the mirror as a great man..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1178> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "Eh? Eh? Well, I guess. A guy abandoning a person in need is the worst."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1179> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "Hiiragi-chan, if you want, you can stay here, okay?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1180> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Really? Is that fine?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1181> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "Hahaha, it's completely okay. No program."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1182>
  |  | 
 | // He's so easy to manipulate...
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1183>
  |  | 
 | // Though he's supposed to say "no problem" if there's no problem.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1184> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Well, I'll be going then."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1185> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Eh? You'll be going now, \m{B}-\bkun\u?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1186> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Yeah. It's not like I should really be here, right?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1187> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "But... being with him is a bit..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1188>
  |  | 
 | // Kappei glances at Sunohara...
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1189> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "I sense danger..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1190> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "I'm not gonna do anything to a guy, alright?!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1191> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Don't worry. He's a loser after all, so even if you were a girl, he won't do anything right now as it is."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1192> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Really? Then I'm relieved."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1193> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "You two are saying something quite rude."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1194> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Not at all. We speak of you as a sincere person, anyway."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1195> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "... Really...?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1196> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "You seem a lot like a guy. You have my respect."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1197> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "R-really? Ah, if you want, you can use the bed. I'll be fine with the floor."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1198> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} (\size{20}He's easy to manipulate, isn't he?\size{})
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1199>
  |  | 
 | // I nod to Kappei, being the only one to hear that.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1200>
  |  | 
 | // The next day.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1201>
  |  | 
 | // While eating bread during lunch...
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1202> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "Sigh~~~~..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1203>
  |  | 
 | // Sunohara sighs, frustrated...
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1204> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "Hey, \m{A}..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1205> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Hmm?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1206> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "It's about Hiiragi-chan..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1207> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Yeah..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1208> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "His name is Kappei, right...?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1209> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Yeah, that's right."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1210> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "If his first name were 'Makoto' or 'Kaoru', something like that, maybe there's still hope...?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1211> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "........."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1212>
  |  | 
 | // What kind of hope...? 
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1213> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "You see, I don't really have any dreams or hopes anymore..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1214>
  |  | 
 | // Sunohara lets out a heavy sigh.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1215>
  |  | 
 | // And then looks into the distance.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1216> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "... I... might be in trouble..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1217> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "... Huh?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1218> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "Come on, I let him stay at my room yesterday, right?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1219> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Yeah."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1220> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "Even though I know he's a guy..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1221> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "........."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1222> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "... I'm thinking that..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1223>
  |  | 
 | // I silently keep my distance from him.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1224> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "T-that's not it! I'm sure I'm not doing anything wrong."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1225> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "How should I put it, yesterday he came out of the bath... and... looked really hot..." 
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1226> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "I-I didn't go in with him, you know? Nor did I do any peeping, see?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1227> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Uh huh..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1228>
  |  | 
 | // I reluctantly reply as I drink the coffee from the paper bag without a care in the world.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1229> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "It's just, the way his face is red, the way he dried his hair... what should I call it..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1230> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "... He seems charming... umm..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1231> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "Yeah, even this morning too... see, only I woke up early this morning..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1232> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "I thought he was still sleeping, so I peeped in at him... and he was hugging the pillow with a cute sleeping face like that of an angel..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1233> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "No, aaahhhh! I'm already heart-to-heart, \bkyuun\u!!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1234>
  |  | 
 | // Dropping his knees to the floor, he holds his head with his hands and shakes it around.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1235>
  |  | 
 | // He's completely broken by such pleasant feelings...
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1236> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "Hey \m{A}, am I sick?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1237> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "Or rather, is he really a guy?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1238> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "Maybe that name was supposed to be a girl's?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1239> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "... Sunohara..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1240>
  |  | 
 | // I say that, putting down my coffee and patting his shoulder with my hand, smiling.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1241> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "There are various forms of love. I'll help you out."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1242> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "Y-you're wrong--! It's nothing like that--!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1243>
  |  | 
 | // Sunohara's shrieking echoes in the classroom, the sunlight spilling in as everyone notices him.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1244>
  |  | 
 | // I pretend to be an outsider, drinking what's left of my coffee.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1245> \{Giọng Nói} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Voice} "\m{B}-\bkun\u,\m{B}-\bkun\u!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1246> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Hmm...?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1247>
  |  | 
 | // As soon as I came out the school gates, I hear a familiar voice call me.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1248> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Kappei?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1249> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Yo. School over?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1250> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Yeah, that's true but... what are you doing here?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1251> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "I brought something for you, \m{B}-\bkun\!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1252> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "For me?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1253> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Yeah, I thought I should thank you for yesterday."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1254> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Thank me for... what I did?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1255> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "You introduced me to that inn, right?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1256> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Oh, if it's that, then you should also thank Sunohara."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1257> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "No problem. I'm sure it'll work out for the three of us."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1258> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} ".........?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1259>
  |  | 
 | // Work out...?
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1260> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "It's really big, see. Ah, can we use miso? Maybe a pot afterwards, too."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1261> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "... Umm... what are you thanking me with?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1262> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Yeah, I caught something really delicious."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1263>
  |  | 
 | // Saying that, Kappei pulls it out of his bag.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1264>
  |  | 
 | // And...
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1265> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "?!?!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1266>
  |  | 
 | // What was pulled out was a boar with a pattern on it...
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1267> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "This was the only thing walking on the road. It was simple to catch it."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1268> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "B... Botan..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1269>
  |  | 
 | // He's completely limp... it can't be...
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1270> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Yup, a good Botan pot." 
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1271> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Ah, if it's still alive it'll be fresh. Even as sashimi, it's okay."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1272>
  |  | 
 | // He says that with an invigorating smile.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1273>
  |  | 
 | // I open my eyes and look around.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1274>
  |  | 
 | // If \bshe\u comes around and sees this...
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1275> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "What's wrong, \m{B}-\bkun\u?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1276> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "H-hurry up and resuscitate it! If you don't, you'll be dead!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1277> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Eh? Why?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1278> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "What do you mean why, that boar is--..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1279> \{Giọng Nói} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Voice} "Ah... umm... \m{A}-kun..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1280> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "!!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1281>
  |  | 
 | // My body completely freezes up from the voice I hear calling me from behind.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1282>
  |  | 
 | // Oh man... it's the younger sister... right...?
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1283>
  |  | 
 | // Then where's the older one...?
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1284>
  |  | 
 | // Are both of them arriving in a set?
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1285>
  |  | 
 | // If that's the case... Kappei will be in serious crap...
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1286>
  |  | 
 | // Gulping my saliva down hard, I slowly turn around.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1287> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "Ah..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1288> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "........."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1289>
  |  | 
 | // T... thank god... she's alone.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1290>
  |  | 
 | // I breathe out a heavy sigh of relief. 
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1291> \{Kyou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kyou} "Hey, we're looking for Botan. You know where he might be?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1292> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "--!!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1293>
  |  | 
 | // A voice from just on the edge of my field of vision stiffens my body.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1294> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "... Kyo... Kyou...?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1295> \{Kyou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kyou} "I thought he might still be here around the school gates when sixth period ended."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1296>
  |  | 
 | // With a dubious face she looks around.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1297>
  |  | 
 | // Kappei's being hidden from sight behind my body, so he hasn't been found out.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1298> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "... Ah..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1299>
  |  | 
 | // Hey, don't say anything--!
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1300> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "U-umm... you are..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1301> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "Eh?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1302>
  |  | 
 | // Kappei holds Botan in his chest while coming out from behind my back.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1303> \{Kyou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kyou} "Ah, Botan!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1304>
  |  | 
 | // Of course, Kyou says that upon seeing her pet being held to his chest.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1305>
  |  | 
 | // But, not responding to that, Kappei slowly makes his way to Fujibayashi.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1306> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Uh, umm... d-do you remember me...?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1307> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "Eh? Uh... umm........."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1308> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "Ah, could it be... you're from that time...?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1309> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Y-yeah, you helped me out when I was hit."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1310> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "Y-yes. I remember."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1311>
  |  | 
 | // Kyou gives a "Ah!" while seeing Fujibayashi talk with Kappei, as if she realized something.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1312> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "... You know him?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1313> \{Kyou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kyou} "Ah... no... umm..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1314> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "Onee-chan ran into him with her bike."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1315> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "... What?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1316> \{Kyou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kyou} "I-I guess I'm still not used to driving it..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1317>
  |  | 
 | // Saying that, Kyou's face stiffened... looking in the distance as far as next week. 
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1318>
  |  | 
 | // But what does that mean? Did that Kyou hit him at least twice or something...?
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1319> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "We meet again. I hadn't had a chance to properly thank you."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1320> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "It's okay... it should have been obvious though... um... that you thanked me..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1321> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "No, it was obvious you helped me out, so I should properly thank you."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1322> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Ah, umm, the one over there is... umm... your older sister?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1323> \{Kyou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kyou} "Eh? Ah, yeah. We're twins."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1324> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Is that so. Then, I'd like to thank the older sister as well."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1325> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Nah, actually, she should be apologizing to you."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1326> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Eh? Why?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1327> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "She's the one who hit you."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1328> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Eh...? You're the one from then...?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1329> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Having said that, the time we first met, she was the one who hit you as well."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1330> \{Kyou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kyou} "Auu..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1331> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "You're..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1332> \{Kyou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kyou} "Uh... umm... well... sor--.."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1333> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Thank you."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1334> \{Kyou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kyou} "Heh?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1335> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Thanks to you, we were able to meet again."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1336>
  |  | 
 | // Saying that, Kappei turns to Fujibayashi and me.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1337> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Let bygones be bygones, and be thankful for now."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1338> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "I'd like to thank you for that."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1339> \{Kyou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kyou} "Ah, uh, okay."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1340>
  |  | 
 | // It's amazing that Kappei's completely overwhelmed Kyou.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1341> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Umm, although I should be grateful, for now, I should put this in the miso and pot-- 
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1342>
  |  | 
 | // mmph!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1343>
  |  | 
 | // In haste, I quickly tie down Kappei and close his mouth.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1344> \{Kyou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kyou} "...? What's wrong?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1345> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Nah, nothing. Just a new way of playing around."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1346> \{Kyou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kyou} "........."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1347>
  |  | 
 | // She's looking at me with such pitiful eyes...
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1348> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Besides that, what about Botan? Here, he's managed to catch him."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1349> \{Kyou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kyou} "Ah, yeah, that's right, Botan, Botan!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1350> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Eh? Wait, \m{B}-\bkun\u, this is tonight's din-- 
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1351>
  |  | 
 | // mmph!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1352> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "S-somehow he ran into a wall, so his eyes are kinda rolling around."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1353> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Mmph, mmph!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1354> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Hmm? What? Ahh, you want to give him back? Yeah, that's good, we should return him to his owner."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1355>
  |  | 
 | // I grab ahold of Botan's back as Kappei holds him, and fling him towards Kyou.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1356> \{Kyou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kyou} "Hey! Don't throw Botan like he's a thing!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1357> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "We found him safe and sound, so don't worry about such a minor thing."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1358> \{Kyou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kyou} "Geez... but I'm glad. I thought someone would take him and eat him for dinner."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1359> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Hahahaha, no way that could happen."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1360> \{Kyou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kyou} "Indeed, ahahaha!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1361> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Hahahahaha!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1362>
  |  | 
 | // I laugh in a dry manner, as Kappei asks me in a low voice.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1363> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} (\size{20}... Could it be, that she's the kid boar's master?\size{})
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1364> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} (\size{20}... Yeah... if you were caught trying to make him into dinner... oh man... I can't even imagine...\size{})
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1365> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} (\size{20}... The older sister's such a scary person...\size{})
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1366> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} (\size{20}Scary... or rather, dreadful... yeah.\size{})
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1367> \{Kyou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kyou} "Hmm? What is it?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1368> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "No, nothing at all."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1369> \{Kyou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kyou} "?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1370> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Ah, that's right. The younger sister... about that,"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1371> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "Y-yes?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1372> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "U... umm... i-if you don't mind... uhh..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1373> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "W-would you... tell me your name...?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1374> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "Eh? M-my... name...?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1375> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Ah... I-I'm Hiiragi Kappei."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1376> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "F-Fujibayashi... Ryou."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1377> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Ryou-san... what a cute and beautiful name..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1378> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "N... not at all... Kappei-san, your name is... um... like a man's, also quite beautiful..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1379> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Ryou... san..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1380> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "... Kappei... san..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1381> \{Kyou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kyou} "........."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1382> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "............"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1383> \{Kyou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kyou} "... Hey, \m{B}..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1384> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "... What...?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1385> \{Kyou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kyou} "... What do you... think of this...?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1386> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "... Even if you ask me that..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1387> \{Kyou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kyou} "........."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1388>
  |  | 
 | // Kyou glances over to me with a suspicious look.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1389> \{Kyou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kyou} "... That's really strange..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1390> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Hm? What is?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1391> \{Kyou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kyou} "Nothing. Just talking to myself."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1392> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1393> \{Kyou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kyou} "... I guess for now... they seem pretty well matched..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1394> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Hmm? ... yeah... I guess so..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1395>
  |  | 
 | // She continues to stare at Fujibayashi and Kappei...
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1396>
  |  | 
 | // Tatter, tatter... tatter, tatter...
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1397>
  |  | 
 | // I walk beside Kyou...
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1398> \{Kyou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kyou} "........."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1399> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "........."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1400>
  |  | 
 | // Staring straight in front of me--...
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1401> \{Kyou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kyou} "Hmm..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1402> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "What an unexpected development..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1403>
  |  | 
 | // We were walking a little behind, watching Fujibayashi and Kappei as they walked, together...
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1404> \{Kyou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kyou} "I guess... so..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1405>
  |  | 
 | // For some reason, it just feels like those two were getting closer and closer to each other...
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1406> \{Kyou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kyou} "... What are they talking about?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1407> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "I can't even tell..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1408> \{Kyou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kyou} "Ah... they smiled."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1409> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Seems like a lively conversation."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1410> \{Kyou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kyou} "Seems... so..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1411>
  |  | 
 | // Saying that, she glances my way.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1412> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "What is it?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1413> \{Kyou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kyou} "... Well... something like that is right..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1414> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Right?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1415> \{Kyou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kyou} "Just talking to myself."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1416>
  |  | 
 | // She sighs as she says that.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1417> \{Kyou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kyou} "Ah!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1418> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Hm? Woah!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1419>
  |  | 
 | // They're... holding hands?!
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1420> \{Kyou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kyou} "N... no way..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1421> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Fujibayashi's... very proactive here..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1422> \{Kyou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kyou} "Hmm~..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1423>
  |  | 
 | // Reluctantly moaning, Kyou gazes at the two.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1424>
  |  | 
 | // At night--
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1425> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "Hey, I... decided to prepare myself..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1426>
  |  | 
 | // Sunohara says that, looking at me with unusual eyes.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1427> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "... Ohh, well, good luck."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1428>
  |  | 
 | // I tumble on the bed, while reading a magazine, reluctantly replying.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1429> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "That's not it! What's normal about that? Hey, you won't listen?!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1430> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Nah, it's not something I need worry about anyway."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1431> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "No, not at all, it's something you should be worried about."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1432> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "Or rather, you were the one who greatly changed my life from the start."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1433> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Oh? Well, good luck."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1434> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "Just listen!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1435> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "If you have something to say, hurry it up."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1436> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "Keh... even though I'd have control over serious announcements..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1437> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Yeah, yeah, I get it already. So, what is it?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1438> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "Looks like you just ignored me out of frustration, but whatever."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1439> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "I'll say it again, I decided to prepare myself."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1440> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Good luck with that."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1441> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "I still haven't said anything!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1442> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Well, hearing what you said, I figured it'd be the same thing, so I said something in advance."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1443> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "It's about Hiiragi-chan!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1444> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "... About Kappei?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1445> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "Don't say Kappei, please. I don't want to go back to reality..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1446> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "...?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1447>
  |  | 
 | // For now, without really paying much attention, I turn my body towards Sunohara.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1448> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "... You see... I just thought that, in this case I shouldn't worry about gender at all."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1449> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "... Oh...?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1450> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "If it's platonic, it's not a problem, right?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1451> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "........."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1452> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "Love, you see, is about hearts making contact... feelings being linked, right?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1453> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "True love! Kids that can't be, but just being together makes them happy, see!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1454> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "Having said that, I'm going to confess to Hiiragi-chan!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1455> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Hmm... and you're gonna try that?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1456> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "You really aren't giving me help like you said you would!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1457>
  |  | 
 | // Clatter.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1458> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "I'm back!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1459> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Hmm?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1460> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "W, w-w-w, welcome home!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1461> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "... What, 'I'm back'? And 'welcome home'?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1462> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Eh? Ah, yeah. Sunohara-\bkun\u was okay with me so as long as I said that, so I played along."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1463> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "W, w-w, when in trouble, well see, it's the two of us, right?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1464> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "... Revealing your motives, huh."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1465> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "I don't have such disgusting motives at all!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1466>
  |  | 
 | // It's a little bit like that...
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1467> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "U-umm, by the way, Hiiragi-chan, truth is I... have something to sa--"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1468> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Oh yeah, \m{B}-\bkun\u, listen!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1469> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Hmm?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1470> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "You see... umm, it's about Ryou-san..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1471> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Yeah."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1472> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "We've decided to go out."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1473> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "... Serious?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1474> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Yup. For real."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1475>
  |  | 
 | // Kappei smiles, his cheeks blushing red.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1476> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "This is really sudden, isn't it...?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1477> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "People who are fated to meet don't need time to attract each other."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1478> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "I-I guess so..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1479>
  |  | 
 | // I glance over at Sunohara.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1480>
  |  | 
 | // He's spacing out, dumbfounded, as his mouth remains half-open.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1481> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "... Unrequited, eh?" 
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1482>
  |  | 
 | // I pat his shoulder as I say that.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1483> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "Uwaaaahhh!! Damn it all---!!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1484>
  |  | 
 | // Sunohara cries as he runs out of the room.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1485> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Eh? What happened to Sunohara-\bkun\u?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1486> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "I think he was really hungry."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1487> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Oh? That's a problem."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1488> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Indeed."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1489> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "By the way, \m{B}\b-kun\u, have you eaten dinner yet?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1490> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Not yet."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1491> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "If you'd like, would you eat with me?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1492> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "There's a shio tonkotsu ramen shop that's really good."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1493> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "I guess so. We should celebrate you getting a girlfriend."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1494> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Really? Though you saying something like that is very optimistic, isn't it?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1495> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Oh yeah."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1496> \{Người Bán Mì} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ramen Shop Clerk} "Thank you very much!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1497> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "There's a lot of Chinese fried rice here."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1498> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "All that's enough for an adult. It's amazing!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1499> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "But the price isn't too bad, either."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1500> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Two people can come, order a set, and eat ramen and fried rice together."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1501> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "But that's a bit rude, isn't it?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1502> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "I'm just talking about one bowl of kake soba."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1503> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Actually, if you have money to buy kake soba at a shop, you could get three instant ramen bags instead."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1504> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "That'll definitely fill you up."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1505> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "........."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1506>
  |  | 
 | // This guy bluntly talks about things like that...
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1507> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "But... talking about family makes me happy."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1508> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Hmm?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1509> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "I may have been living like a poor person, but I do have a family."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1510> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Living and sharing sad, painful, and great moments..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1511> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "It's envious."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1512> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "I guess so..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1513>
  |  | 
 | // I don't even have one in my home...
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1514> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Sigh~ besides that..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1515> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Hmm..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1516> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Would a worn out bird that jumped and was able to find a single tree that remained, be the best happiness...?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1517> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "........."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1518> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "In other words, it'd be an oasis."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1519> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Finding water in a wide, wide desert. The origin of life."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1520> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Ahh, that'd feel so soothing..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1521> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "... I'm begging you, don't look this way..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1522> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Ryou-san's... beautiful..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1523> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Yeah... well... you're well matched with her."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1524> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "She's aiming to become a nurse."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1525> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Oh...?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1526> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "What should I say, her wearing a white robe makes her really look like an angel."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1527> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Don't use \breally\u. Just don't."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1528> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "I might end up staying in this city."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1529> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Of course, I can't stay forever at Sunohara's room, where you introduced me..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1530> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "I have to hurry and find a job, rent an apartment..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1531> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "... Speaking of which, that's what you came to this town for, right?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1532> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Eh? What do you mean... it's just walking."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1533> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "That's not what I meant..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1534> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Ahaha, I'm joking. I've always been looking around for something."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1535> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Looking for something?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1536> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Yup. Looking for something."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1537> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "An important thing and a place to stay, right?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1538> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Oh...?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1539> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "This town is pretty nice."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1540> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Hmm?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1541> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "How should I call it, it's really warm."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1542> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "... This town is?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1543> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Yup. It's like when I live with everyone here, I'm united with everyone or something~..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1544> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Hmm... it feels happy... no... it's not as simple as that."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1545> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Being an outsider or rather not... like a relative...?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1546> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Ahaha, I really don't get it."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1547> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Neither do I."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1548> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "For now, let's just say it's a good town."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1549> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "But surely the people who live here think that."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1550> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "There are a lot of people who live here like you, \m{B}-\bkun\u."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1551>
  |  | 
 | // A lot of people who live like me...
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1552>
  |  | 
 | // Is this town really that terrible...?
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1553> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "I like it,"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1554> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "This honest shyness, that is."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1555> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "........."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1556> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Don't you think it feels better, not having to worry about others lying to you?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1557> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "You've changed."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1558> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Eh? I have?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1559> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "But, well, I know what you want to say."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1560> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Besides, I'm a different sort of person."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1561> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "That's fine.  \m{B}-\bkun\u is awkward, after all."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1562> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "... I have no idea if that's supposed to be praising me..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1563> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "I'm speaking of you as a good person."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1564> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Someone I think strange, yet isn't mischievous or lying. Surely, someone like that is precious, right?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1565> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "That's why I can trust you."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1566> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "You're quick to trust someone not long after you've met them."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1567> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "I'm able to trust you when you say that."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1568> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "I, see."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1569> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "...Ssomehow when I talk to you, I see the world as if everything was beautiful."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1570> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Really?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1571> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Yeah, even though things may be dirty, the way you say it makes it look nice."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1572> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "It's kinda like understanding the way of human life."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1573> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Ahaha, well, there's still a lot of ways to live."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1574> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Don't say that as if you're older than me."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1575> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Hmm? Well, \m{B}-\bkun\u, I have indeed lived longer than you, you know?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1576> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Eh...?!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1577> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "You're still in school, so you're eighteen years old, right, \m{B}-\bkun\u?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1578> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "... That's true but... how old are you?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1579> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Nineteen."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1580> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Serious?!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1581> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Yup. I'm serious."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1582> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Umm... Hiiragi... kun? No, san?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1583> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Ahahaha, Kappei's fine."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1584> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "I'd be troubled if you were suddenly all polite to me."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1585> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "I guess so. But still, sorry... I kinda had a rude view of you."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1586> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "That's fine. I've always been looked at as if I were young."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1587> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "I see."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1588> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Besides that, Ryou-san told me I was great for my age~"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1589> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Sigh~ I'm so happy~"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1590> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "I, see..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1591>
  |  | 
 | // I could only sigh at Kappei, who happily looked up into the sky.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1592> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Ah----!!"\shake{1}
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1593> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Uwaah! W-what?!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1594> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "I left my bag at the ramen shop!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1595> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "You dumbass!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1596> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Uwaah, you're quite merciless, saying that."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1597> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "You have important stuff in there, don't you?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1598> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Of course. I have everything packed in there after all."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1599> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "All the more reason to go back. Though I don't think anyone'll take anything, we better go just in case."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1600> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Yeah!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1601>
  |  | 
 | // Quickly nodding, Kappei runs off.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1602>
  |  | 
 | // In a surprising amount of time, his figure becomes distant.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1603> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Woah! He's fast!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1604>
  |  | 
 | // Quite unexpected to see him able to do that, despite his appearance.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1605> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "So..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1606> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Pant, pant... pant, pant..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1607> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "You're quite fast with all that strength of yours..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1608>
  |  | 
 | // Having run about two hundred meters, he leaned against a telephone pole.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1609> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Uuu... my side's throbbing so much..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1610> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Control yourself with your knees."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1611> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "My knees are also trembling..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1612> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "And I feel somewhat... uehh... like that..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1613> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Well, you ran just after you ate."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1614> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "\m{B}-\bkun\u... s-sorry, but could you get my bag instead..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1615> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Yeah, I don't mind."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1616> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "P-please do..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1617>
  |  | 
 | // Saying that, Kappei sluggishly sits down.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1618> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "You okay man...?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1619> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Yeah... so please go get it..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1620> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Yeah."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1621>
  |  | 
 | // Looking down at Kappei having given his all, I turn towards the ramen shop.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1622>
  |  | 
 | // The bag was below the seats where we were sitting.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1623>
  |  | 
 | // I pick it up and pull it over my shoulder.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1624>
  |  | 
 | // Clatter, clatter...
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1625> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Ah?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1626>
  |  | 
 | // The bag was open, with everything spilling out.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1627> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Oh crap...."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1628>
  |  | 
 | // In haste, I quickly gather the things.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1629>
  |  | 
 | // A towel map, a compass...? There's also a toothbrush and a mug... packed underwear, too...
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1630>
  |  | 
 | // This bag seriously is packed with survival stuff...
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1631> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Hmm...?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1632>
  |  | 
 | // Something that seems familiar yet isn't..
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1633>
  |  | 
 | // A sheet of tablets...? Medicine?
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1634>
  |  | 
 | // But... what exactly is this "codeine"...?
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1635> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Uh, well staring at a person's luggage is quite rude."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1636>
  |  | 
 | // Cramming the stuff into the bag, I leave the shop, running towards Kappei.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1637> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Ah, \m{B}-\bkun\u!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1638> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Yo. Sorry to keep you waiting. Here you go."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1639> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Yeah, thank you."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1640> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Your ribs fine now?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1641> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Hmm... I guess... so?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1642> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Then it may be a problem giving this back to you."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1643> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "I'm lying, I'm lying, I should be fine."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1644>
  |  | 
 | // Saying that, he begins ruffling through his bag.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1645> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "What is it?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1646> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Eh? Ah, well, just getting some medicine for a bit."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1647> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Medicine?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1648>
  |  | 
 | // Maybe the sheet of tablets I saw earlier?
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1649> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "What kind of medicine is it?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1650> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Hmm... well, it's a kind of stomach medicine."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1651> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Shio tonkotsu ramen really has a lot of fat, right?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1652>
  |  | 
 | // Saying that, Kappei takes out the sheet of tablets.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1653> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "How should I put it, well see, let's just say I'm sensitive to all these sorts of things, okay?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1654> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Am I supposed to just say yes to that question?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1655> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Anyways, that's just how it is."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1656>
  |  | 
 | // Smiling with the medicine in his hand, he throws it into his mouth and swallows it.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1657>
  |  | 
 | // Doesn't look like a tablet that needs water.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1658> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "... You're used to it."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1659> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Eh? Used to what?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1660> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Taking medicine. You don't need water for that?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1661> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "I still have a bit of saliva, that's why."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1662> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "That fine?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1663> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "It's fine."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1664> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "I see. Then, I'm heading home."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1665> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Same here."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1666>
  |  | 
 | // Then the two of us head to the nightly inn... Sunohara's room, that is.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1667> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Hey, \m{B}-\bkun\u... just wondering..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1668> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Hmm?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1669> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Don't you think the name 'Hiiaragi Ryou', with both kanji containing the character for 'wood', looks a bit cool?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1670> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "........."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1671>
  |  | 
 | // The next day.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1672>
  |  | 
 | // Walking down the hallway--...
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1673>
  |  | 
 | // Grip!
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1674> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Gwaah!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1675>
  |  | 
 | // All of a sudden, my arm gets pulled into the classroom.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1676> \{Kyou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kyou} "........."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1677> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "... Kyou...?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1678> \{Kyou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kyou} "........."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1679> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "What is it...?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1680> \{Kyou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kyou} "... Hey, \m{B}."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1681> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Hmm?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1682> \{Kyou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kyou} "What kind of person is Hiiragi-san?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1683> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "What kind of person? What do you mean?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1684> \{Kyou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kyou} "Last night, Ryou was all happy and everything."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1685> \{Kyou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kyou} "Somehow smiling and everything, playing with trump cards in the room while the lights were off..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1686>
  |  | 
 | // ... Now that's scary...
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1687> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Ah~... those two are going out."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1688> \{Kyou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kyou} "... Eh?! No way?!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1689> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "What are you gonna do about that?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1690> \{Kyou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kyou} "B-but Ryou never, told me anything like that..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1691> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Well, it is an embarrassing thing to say, isn't it?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1692> \{Kyou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kyou} "Ryo... Ryou keeping secrets from me..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1693>
  |  | 
 | // Thud... her knees fall to the floor.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1694> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Sisters can't stick around forever like that, you know?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1695> \{Kyou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kyou} "........."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1696> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "... Hmm?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1697> \{Kyou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kyou} "... \m{B}!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1698> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Y-yes?!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1699>
  |  | 
 | // Glare! She scowls at me with a glint in her eye.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1700> \{Kyou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kyou} "What kind of person is Hiiragi-san?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1701> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Uh... umm..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1702> \{Kyou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kyou} "Where's he come from?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1703> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "That's--..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1704> \{Kyou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kyou} "What's his academic record? And his income?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1705> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Um... Kyou?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1706> \{Kyou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kyou} "Is he the eldest? What's his family like? Is he healthy? Does he have any strange hobbies?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1707> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Calm down."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1708> \{Kyou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kyou} "There's no way I can! He might become my brother-in-law in the future, right?!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1709> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "You're exaggerating things..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1710> \{Kyou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kyou} "But...!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1711> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "You've always thought that your younger sister is the one that's clinging around to you, when in fact it's you that's clinging to her, huh..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1712> \{Kyou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kyou} "Uuu~... a boyfriend... how can Ryou have a boyfriend..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1713> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "You shocked that she's beaten you to it?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1714> \{Kyou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kyou} "I-It's nothing like that at all..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1715> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Then just leave it be."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1716> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "In any case, it's Fujibayashi, so she'll definitely tell you what'll happen, right?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1717> \{Kyou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kyou} "Uuuu~~..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1718> \{Kyou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kyou} "Sigh~... I feel like Ryou's gone far away..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1719> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "You should also get a boyfriend too."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1720> \{Kyou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kyou} "A boyfriend... right..." 
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1721> \{Kyou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kyou} "........."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1722> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Huh?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1723> \{Kyou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kyou} "Sigh~... I just don't really feel that way right now."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1724>
  |  | 
 | // Dropping her shoulders, Kyou leaves the classroom. 
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1725> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Hey, isn't this your classroom?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1726> \{Kyou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kyou} "I don't feel like... taking class at all..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1727> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "........."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1728>
  |  | 
 | // What an important class representative...
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1729>
  |  | 
 | // And then the next day...
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1730> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "Uwaaahhh--!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1731>
  |  | 
 | // All of a sudden, Sunohara comes running down the hallway, crying towards me.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1732>
  |  | 
 | // Thud!\shake{1}
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1733> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "Gawf!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1734>
  |  | 
 | // So I kicked him over.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1735>
  |  | 
 | // The feeling of a nice impact returned through the sole of my feet in return.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1736>
  |  | 
 | // It felt pretty good.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1737> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "What the hell are you doing all of a sudden?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1738> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "That's my line--!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1739> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "You know, can you imagine a guy crying first thing in the morning?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1740> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "That's terrible."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1741> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Even worse is that it's Sunohara Youhei."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1742> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "I feel like I wanna die."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1743> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "Saying that much... doesn't make me feel like I have much hope living..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1744> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "So what does the guy who has an unrequited love with a man want at this time?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1745> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "What the hell's that?!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1746>
  |  | 
 | // Sunohara opens his eyes wide.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1747>
  |  | 
 | // A rare vigor of his.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1748> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "Hiiragi-chan has... Hiiragi-chan has..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1749> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "What happened to Kappei?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1750> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "... Please don't say the first name..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1751>
  |  | 
 | // ... He's... still concerned about that...
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1752> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "See... Hiiragi-chan... is so mean..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1753> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "He kept on talking to me while I was sleepy."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1754> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "About Ryou-san, Ryou-san..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1755>
  |  | 
 | // Oh yeah, that's right... he's still hanging out in his room...
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1756> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "And then at the end he told me how \bsoft\u her lips were, yeah?!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1757> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "What's that to me? Is he tempting me? Is he supposed to lure me?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1758> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "My heart's broken into powder!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1759> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "That's quite a problem."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1760> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "Seriously, listen to me!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1761> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "If something like this is gonna keep on going on and on every night..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1762> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "Ahhhh!! I'm definitely gonna say something like, "Can I touch your lips?" or something!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1763> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "........."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1764>
  |  | 
 | // This guy... is quite troubled...
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1765> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "... You know, Sunohara, you should think this through."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1766> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "Pant, pant... about what?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1767> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "See, Ka\bppe\u... Hiiragi's been telling you about Fujibayashi, right?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1768> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "Yeah, that's true."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1769> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "In other words, he trusts you."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1770> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "... Trusts?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1771> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "To put it simply, he thinks of you as a man greater than a friend."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1772> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "G-greater than a friend?!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1773> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Yeah."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1774> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "... T, that's, could it be...!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1775> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "Hiiragi-chan... really wants me to feel jealous?!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1776> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "........."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1777>
  |  | 
 | // ... What?
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1778> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "... That's it... that's what it is!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1779>
  |  | 
 | // Oh man... he's a realy disturbed guy to imagine something beyond that...
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1780>
  |  | 
 | // ... Did he misinterpret my words...?
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1781> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "In that case, it shouldn't be a problem for me to hug him tonight? Right?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1782> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "........."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1783> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "Alright--! I'll do it--! I'll definitely do it--!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1784>
  |  | 
 | // I no longer say anything...
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1785>
  |  | 
 | // .........
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1786>
  |  | 
 | // Lessons end and then after school...
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1787> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "Alright--! Come at me--!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1788>
  |  | 
 | // Sunohara screams something strange as he leaves the classroom.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1789>
  |  | 
 | // I guess I'll go home.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1790> \{Giọng Nói} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Voice} "\m{B}-\bkun\u!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1791> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Ah?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1792>
  |  | 
 | // I turn around...
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1793>
  |  | 
 | // Thud!\shake{1}
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1794> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Uwaah!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1795>
  |  | 
 | // Someone hugs me all of a sudden.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1796>
  |  | 
 | // It's pitch black in front of me.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1797> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "... Guh... who is it?!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1798>
  |  | 
 | // I pull off with all my might.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1799> \{Giọng Nói} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Voice} "Waah!"\shake{1}
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1800>
  |  | 
 | // The culprit ends up tumbling on the floor.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1801> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Kappei?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1802> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Ow, ow, that's mean, \m{B}-\bkun\u!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1803> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "People will do that when they turn around and someone suddenly flies into them, right?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1804> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Of course not. It if was Ryou-san, she wouldn't mind it at all."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1805> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "... Are you suddenly bragging now, damn it..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1806> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Ah, not at all. I had something big to tell you so I was looking for you today."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1807> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "For me?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1808> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Of course."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1809>
  |  | 
 | // Kappei's face smiles as he seizes my hand.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1810> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "My job's been decided."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1811> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Oh...?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1812>
  |  | 
 | // Which curious employer would it be...?
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1813> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "It's amazing. This type of job directly links with human life after all."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1814> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Oh...?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1815> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Do you want to know? Do you \breally\u want to know?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1816> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "If you want to say it, hurry up and say it."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1817> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Geez, can't be helped~ I'll say it just for you, \m{B}-\bkun\u."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1818>
  |  | 
 | // ... Just say it...
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1819> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "See, I'm going to be a rehabilitation assistant at a hospital."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1820> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Forget it."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1821>
  |  | 
 | // I pat his shoulders while saying that just as he finished talking.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1822> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Ahahaha, \m{B}-\bkun, that tsukkomi didn't even take 0.5 seconds!" 
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1823> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Hey, why do you say forget it?!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1824>
  |  | 
 | // He glares back with his eyes opening wide as a returning tsukkomi.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1825> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "I don't really think of you as suitable for that."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1826> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Or rather, you'd be a danger to the patients."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1827> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Not at all. I'm used to hospitals after all."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1828> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "What do you mean by used to?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1829> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "I-in many, ways."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1830> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Besides... in one way or another, it's better for me to be at one..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1831> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Huh?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1832> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "I-it's nothing! For now, my job's been decided. Just praise me politely."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1833> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Ah~... well, for now, congratulations. Isn't that great?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1834> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "But what'll you be doing as an assistant?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1835> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Well let's see, helping patients on the support bars when they're in trouble,"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1836> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Switching the power on and off for electrical therapy,"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1837> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Manage a person's recovery schedule, stuff like that."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1838> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "And then there's unfastening the stretcher and massaging people."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1839>
  |  | 
 | // He counts his fingers remembering each one as he says that.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1840> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Isn't there something about that?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1841> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Eh?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1842> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "I mean the assistant job. You seem to know a lot about it."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1843> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Eh, well, I guess I just have a bit of background in it, I guess."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1844> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Ohh?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1845> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "So, besides that happening, I'll have to thank Sunohara-\bkun\u for his hospitality tonight."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1846> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "You got an apartment?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1847> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Yup. I found a cheap one."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1848> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "... That's fast."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1849> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "It's my lucky day for everything to go down."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1850> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Is it close by?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1851> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Of course it is. Otherwise, Ryou-san wouldn't be able to come at all, right?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1852>
  |  | 
 | // He strikes his thumb up, while wearing a sweet smile.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1853> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "... I, see..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1854> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "See, I told Ryou-san that when my house was decided, she could come and make dinner."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1855> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Home cooking, you know, home cooking. Ryou-san's home cooking!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1856> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Yeah... those delicate white fingers, cooking..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1857>
  |  | 
 | // Kappei grips a hard fist that he throws into the air as if triumphant.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1858> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Well, what should I say now, her cheeks are quite enchanting, aren't they?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1859> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Ah, what'll be for desert? Maybe it'll be \bthat\u? I'll be eaten maybe... uwaah! I shouldn't be happy about something like that!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1860>
  |  | 
 | // Having built up so much tension from that, he begins to attract attention from around.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1861>
  |  | 
 | // I take a step back, and shortly after distancing myself from him, I glance as if I were an outsider.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1862>
  |  | 
 | // The sky's quite blue today.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1863>
  |  | 
 | // And then the next day...
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1864> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "So slow today..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1865>
  |  | 
 | // I move on to the next classroom for classes.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1866>
  |  | 
 | // I walk down the hallway with all the materials in hand.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1867>
  |  | 
 | // Because Sunohara hasn't come yet, I was alone.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1868>
  |  | 
 | // ... I'd like to come during lunchtime too...
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1869>
  |  | 
 | // Slide, tap, tap, tap, tap, tap, tap!
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1870> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "\m{A}-----!!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1871>
  |  | 
 | // Slam!\shake{1}
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1872> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "Oomph!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1873>
  |  | 
 | // In return, I counter with a textbook into Sunohara's face, who was running down the hallway.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1874> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "You've been following a strict pattern lately."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1875> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "W, what you give back has also been a strict pattern..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1876>
  |  | 
 | // Wiping his mouth with the back of his hand, he gets up.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1877> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "So you came now?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1878> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "Yeah... a lot of things happened..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1879> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Our next class is at Chemistry Lab No. 2."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1880> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "That's not the problem!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1881> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "Hiiragi-chan has... Hiiragi-chan has...!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1882> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Something happened to Kappei again?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1883> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "Hiiragi-chan!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1884>
  |  | 
 | // He's still quite persistent about that...
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1885> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "You see... I've always had that chance..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1886> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "While he stayed at my room... I didn't get any flags..." 
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1887> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Sigh, that's a pain..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1888> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "Even then... even then...!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1889>
  |  | 
 | // I close my regretful eyes as I grip my fist and give Sunohara a tsukkomi punch.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1890> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "The next morning when I woke up, there was a letter!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1891>
  |  | 
 | // His screaming eyes say that.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1892> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "It said 'Thank you for your help up until now.', you know!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1893> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "Ahhh! Why'd he leave so quietly?!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1894> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "Even though it might have been impatient to do so yesterday, I could have apologized!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1895> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "He could have forgiven me!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1896> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "If he left, it's because he got a new apartment, I think."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1897> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "... Eh?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1898> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "He told me he got a job."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1899> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "So you knew about it?!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1900> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Hmm? About what?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1901> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "That Hiiragi-chan left my room?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1902> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Hmm, well, that's the first I've heard of that."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1903> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "... Then what exactly? I'm the only one who didn't know?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1904> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Not really anything in particular I can say."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1905> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "Then, I guess it's not because he hates me."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1906> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "........."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1907> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "Sigh~ I'm glad~"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1908>
  |  | 
 | // With a hand to his chest, Sunohara sighs as if his heart were relieved.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1909> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "So... Sunohara, what were you doing?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1910> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "Eh?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1911> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "You said something about being in a hurry yesterday, right?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1912> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "W-well, Chemistry Lab No. 2, is it? Let's hurry or we'll be late."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1913>
  |  | 
 | // Pull!
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1914> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Come on now, spill it. What were you doing? Hmm?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1915> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "I'm begging you, don't ask me--! The walls have ears--!" 
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1916> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "Ah... \m{A}-kun... Sunohara-kun..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1917> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "Ahhh! Class rep, save me! \m{A}'s doing something I don't like!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1918> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "Eh? Uh, umm... if you don't hurry... classes will start."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1919> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Good timing, Fujibayashi, you should hear this too."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1920> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "Eh?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1921> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "It looks like he was doing something to your boyfriend."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1922> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "Gyaaa--! Stop it--! Class rep, I'm heading off to chemistry lab before you--!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1923> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "........."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1924>
  |  | 
 | // Tug...
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1925>
  |  | 
 | // Fujibayashi pulls on his sleeve.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1926>
  |  | 
 | // Her eyes were a bit scary...
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1927> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "Sunohara-kun... what were you doing to Kappei-san?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1928> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "Uwaah! Don't say Kappei! Don't say the first name--!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1929> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Ah, in other words, this guy has an unrequited love for Kappei."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1930> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "You asshole--! How can you say that here--?!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1931> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "Sunohara-kun's... that kind of person...?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1932> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "Come on, look! She's got the wrong idea now--!!" 
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1933> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "... Actually that's the truth..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1934> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "Hey, damn you \m{A}, saying that with such a serious face---!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1935> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "... I see... ah, but there are people like that... I think."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1936> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "The mangas that Onee-chan reads... has them..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1937> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "I'm not happy being appreciated like that--!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1938> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "But..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1939>
  |  | 
 | // She strengthens her grip on his sleeve.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1940> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "Kappei-san is \boff-limits\u..." 
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1941> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "O-okay."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1942>
  |  | 
 | // Sunohara nods quickly under Fujibayashi's pressure.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1943> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "So, what were you doing to Kappei? Hmm?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1944> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "N... nothing..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1945> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "... Well maybe it's like you couldn't hold yourself back so you pushed him down or something?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1946> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "B, b-b, but, he looked so hot coming from the shower, right?!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1947> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "... Are you serious..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1948> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "Sunohara-kun..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1949> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "Ah..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1950> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "B, but, he hit me in the chin before I could, so is it a crime?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1951>
  |  | 
 | // Sunohara desperately tries to defend himself.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1952>
  |  | 
 | // I put my hand on Fujibayashi's shoulder.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1953> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Let's go, Fujibayashi."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1954> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "Okay..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1955> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "Uh... eh? Hey, you guys...?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1956> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "You should go and console Kappei."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1957> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "... Okay..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1958> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "Hey? Wait, hey~?" 
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1959> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "\m{B}-\bkuuuunn\u!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1960>
  |  | 
 | // I dodge Kappei, who was jumping at me.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1961> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Uwaah!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1962>
  |  | 
 | // Slam!\shake{0}
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1963>
  |  | 
 | // He hit a telephone pole. 
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1964> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "... What is it now, is it popular to jump into people when you pass by?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1965> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Ow, ow, what do you mean?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1966> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Uh... nothing."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1967> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "So, what's up?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1968> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "What's up?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1969> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "If you were jumping, you had some business with me, right?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1970> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Ahahaha, not really anything at all."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1971> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "I just saw you , \m{B}-\bkun\u, so I thought I might greet you."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1972> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "I, see..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1973> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Oh yeah, how's your job? Has it started yet?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1974> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "No, it will be soon."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1975> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Not in the morning?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1976> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "I do go in the morning. But since it's a hospital, there's a morning and afternoon shift."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1977> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "It feels like a long lunch break."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1978> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Ahh, I see."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1979> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "And, was the morning shift alright?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1980> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Absolutely perfect!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1981>
  |  | 
 | // His smiling face fills with pride as he gives a thumbs up.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1982> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Being a rehab assistant is a job worth working for!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1983> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "I'm helping people so that they're not alone trying to walk or move their body."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1984> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Ah~... that certainly is worth doing."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1985> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Yup, yup, me being there is the difference between life and death for them now, that sort of feeling~"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1986> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "It feels really amazing."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1987> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "........."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1988> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "I'll do my best."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1989> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Ah... yeah, do that."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1990>
  |  | 
 | // The healthy Kappei runs off.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1991>
  |  | 
 | // I suppose you could end up finding such a nice job in this town...
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1992>
  |  | 
 | // ... Though it does seem tiring...
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1993>
  |  | 
 | // Time passed for a while as Kappei settled down in this city.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1994>
  |  | 
 | // He was surprisingly busy with the hospital job, so we didn't meet as much as before.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1995>
  |  | 
 | // I believe this was the difference between those who were students and those who were not.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1996>
  |  | 
 | // Thinking carefully about it, in another year I'll have to work in society, won't I?
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1997>
  |  | 
 | // When that happens, I won't be at ease as much as I am now, will I...?
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1998>
  |  | 
 | // I was aware of it while watching Kappei.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <1999>
  |  | 
 | // -- Should have been aware...
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2000>
  |  | 
 | // Sometime later--...
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2001>
  |  | 
 | // At lunch...
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2002>
  |  | 
 | // I ate with Sunohara in the courtyard.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2003> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Oh... by the way..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2004> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "Hmm?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2005> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "........."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2006> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "... Nah, forget it."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2007> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "Don't stop in the middle of talking. Feeling bad causes indigestion, right?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2008> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "That's what I had hoped to do, so that's fine."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2009> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "Simply giving me crap huh..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2010> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Yeah."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2011> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "Fine. I don't feel like listening anyway."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2012> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "I don't really feel like saying it either."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2013> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "Hmph."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2014> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "........."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2015> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "........."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2016> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "And so."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2017> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "You're saying it?!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2018> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Well, truth is that I felt I should tell you, even though I stopped myself."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2019> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "If it's for me, then hurry up and say it."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2020> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "I hate stuff being finished halfway through."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2021> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "You in denial?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2022> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "What do you mean?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2023> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Get a dictionary."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2024> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "Nah, it's okay. So, what did you want to tell me?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2025> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Yeah, well, just wanted to talk about how Kappei's doing and all."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2026> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "Don't say the first name-------!!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2027> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Come on, man."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2028> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "I'm already done with him..." 
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2029> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Nothing ever started."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2030> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "In my dream, there were the three of us, with a child..." 
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2031> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "........."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2032> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "Hey, don't look at me with such pitiful eyes------!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2033> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Well... I can't really think of any other choices other than to pity you..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2034> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "You decided to joke with me, didn't you...?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2035> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "Hey, what's with those difficult eyes----!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2036> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "If it's you, I don't think I could imagine you doing that."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2037> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "... Ah, that's right, I had something to tell you as well."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2038> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "What?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2039> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "........."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2040> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "Nah, forget it."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2041> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Hmm, I see."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2042> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "........."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2043> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "........."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2044> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "......"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2045> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "......"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2046> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2047> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2048> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "I apologize... please listen..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2049> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "You don't really have to force yourself to say anything."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2050> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "Well, it's about Hiiragi-chan, the medicine that..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2051>
  |  | 
 | // Ruffle, ruffle... ruffle, ruffle...
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2052> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Hmm?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2053> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "Someone there...?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2054>
  |  | 
 | // Ruffle.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2055> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Whew... eh? Where am I?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2056> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Kappei?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2057> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "Hiiragi-chan?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2058> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Ah, \m{B}-\bkun\u and~........."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2059> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "... Umm... what was your name again?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2060> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "Even though you were sticking around with me!!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2061> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Ah, oh, right, I remember, sorry Akihara-\bkun\u."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2062> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Close!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2063> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "Not at all!!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2064> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Besides that, long time no see."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2065> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Yeah, it's been a while."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2066> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "My existence's like that isn't it...?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2067> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "So what are you doing here anyway?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2068> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Only students are here so, if you get caught by the teachers it'll be a problem."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2069> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Ah, yeah. I'm not here for anything in particular, so I won't be long."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2070> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "I promised Ryou-san, after all."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2071> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Fujibayashi? About what?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2072> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Heh heh heh, well, look."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2073>
  |  | 
 | // He boasts an object wrapped in a napkin in front of me.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2074> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "... What's this?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2075> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Ryou-san's home-made lunch."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2076> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "My beloved wife... no, she isn't yet, so lover... no, she's a loving person so... a loving lunch box?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2077> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Uwaah... somehow, my heart beat's echoing~..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2078> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Well... that's a bit strange so..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2079> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "Or rather, you snuck in here so you could get it in particular?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2080> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "The more obstacles there are, the more violent the flames of love will burn them down."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2081> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Couldn't you have gotten it in the morning instead?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2082> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "You could have visited her house before she came to school."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2083> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "I-I can't do that. If I did, I'd end up going to school with Ryou-san."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2084> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "In what way I mean by that, I can't really say..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2085> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Nah... I don't really want to ask so..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2086> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "I-I want to hear!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2087> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "The futon's been completely pulled down in my room~"*
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2088> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "Woah--! Suggestive----!!"*
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2089> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Besides that, listen. Ryou-san's lunch is really good."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2090> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Hearing someone bragging about it is boring so I don't want to hear it."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2091> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Every time the food goes into my mouth, it feels cold to the touch in my stomach~..." 
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2092> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Oh man~... my heart's beating really fast now..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2093> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "As expected it feels like a life crisis, when a flying bird begins to fall."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2094> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Maybe love is testing me... ahahaha..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2095>
  |  | 
 | // A story of hardship...
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2096> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Alright now, after lunch I'll have to do my best at work."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2097> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "That hospital job is still going on, isn't it?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2098> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Yup, sure is."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2099> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "Hospital? What do you mean? You have a job at the hospital?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2100> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "As a rehab assistant."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2101> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Ah, that's right! If you guys have time today, you should come!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2102> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "I'll show you how reliable of an assistant I can be."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2103> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "I'm a master at handling electrical therapy switches."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2104> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "Oh nice... I'd love for Hiiragi-chan to put me to sleep..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2105> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "You want to help him?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2106> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "Eh? With what?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2107> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Go as if you were taking rehab."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2108> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "We can make it so you'll have three ribs broken, right?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2109> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Yup, definitely."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2110> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "Oh yeah, that'd be great..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2111> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "What the hell am I saying, that can't be right-------!!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2112> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Tch, as expected, you realized it."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2113> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Ahaha, you guys never change."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2114> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Well then, I'll be going now."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2115> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Ah? Yeah, be careful. Don't get caught by the teachers."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2116> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Sure, I'll just kick them down and run so it'll be fine."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2117>
  |  | 
 | // Uh... that would indeed be...
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2118> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Later, \m{B}-\bkun\u and... um..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2119> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "........."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2120> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Ah, Natsuhara-\bkun\u."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2121> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Close! You're getting there!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2122> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "It's not getting there, nor is it close at all!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2123>
  |  | 
 | // And so, he appeared and disappeared at unexpected times and places.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2124>
  |  | 
 | // In the end, he lived free as a bird, with nothing blocking his way.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2125>
  |  | 
 | // He seems to be doing alright with his job, as well as with Fujibayashi.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2126>
  |  | 
 | // You could say the gist of it was alright, in one way or another.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2127>
  |  | 
 | // I was sometimes envious of those easygoing days.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2128> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Hey, \m{B}-\bkun\u."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2129> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Hmm?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2130> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "I guess, this town really is nice."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2131> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Didn't you say that before?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2132> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Yeah, but I just thought of it again."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2133> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "I see."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2134> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "I've gone around to a lot of towns before, but it's not easy for me to be familiar with this place."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2135> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "I guess you could say that, since Ryou-san is here, I wouldn't mind which town it was..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2136> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Ah, or rather since Ryou-san is here, you could say this town is nice."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2137> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "... I, see..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2138> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "But, the beginning of this goal was when I made friends with you, \m{B}-\bkun\u."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2139> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "...? Is that so?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2140> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Hey, I'm shy and violent, right?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2141> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "........"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2142> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Isn't that funny?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2143> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "It's not amusing at all."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2144> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Ahahaha, \m{B}-\bkun\u, you have harsh words."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2145> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "But I like that sort of thing."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2146> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "I'm not happy when a guy likes what I say."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2147> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Sure about that? I thought doing people a courtesy isn't a bad thing."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2148> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Just don't say those words again, will you?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2149> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Then I shall not."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2150> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "It's not really strange to like such things though."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2151> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Ah, if you thought I meant that I liked you and stuff, then I apologize."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2152> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "I have Ryou-san, so I can't do that."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2153> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "And if she wasn't, that'd be fine...?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2154> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Ahahaha, I feel that depends."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2155> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "For now, I'll just have fun."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2156> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "That definitely sounds good."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2157>
  |  | 
 | // And then time passed.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2158>
  |  | 
 | // The rainy days continue as the sakura falls...
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2159>
  |  | 
 | // The hot sunlight falls as the rain stops.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2160>
  |  | 
 | // As we pass into the hot season, I begin to hear the sounds of the insects...
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2161>
  |  | 
 | // We were still the same...
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2162>
  |  | 
 | // In such a summer.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2163> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "........."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2164>
  |  | 
 | // I lie down, reading a magazine.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2165>
  |  | 
 | // As soon as I put it on the side of the bed, Sunohara reads it.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2166> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "... Hmm..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2167> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Is it okay for us to remain like this...?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2168> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "........."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2169> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Even though the eye colors of those taking the exam around us don't change..."**  
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2170> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "It feels like we've been alienated recently in school..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2171> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "........."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2172> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Hey, you asleep?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2173> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "uu..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2174> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Uu?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2175> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "\size{40}Uwaaaaaaahhhhhh!!\size{}"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2176>
  |  | 
 | // \size{30}Shudder!\size{}\shake{4}
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2177>
  |  | 
 | // The wall shook.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2178> \{Giọng Nói} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Voice} "Shut up!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2179> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "...?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2180>
  |  | 
 | // The normally quivering Sunohara freezes up, troubled by the magazine he's reading.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2181> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "What's in there?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2182> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "........."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2183> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Pass it over."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2184>
  |  | 
 | // I pick up the magazine.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2185>
  |  | 
 | // Today's headline is... \phey, this is for girls...
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2186>
  |  | 
 | // Umm... the one I'm seeing here is...
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2187> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "... An interscholastic athletic meet from the past...?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2188>
  |  | 
 | // There doesn't seem to be anything in particular that's interesting--... \phmm?
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2189> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "... The tragic idol sprinter..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2190> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "........."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2191> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Hiiragi Kappei...?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2192> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "Don't say that name---!!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2193> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "My chest--!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2194> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "My heart is in agony--!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2195>
  |  | 
 | // \size{30}Shudder!\size{}\shake{4}
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2196>
  |  | 
 | // The walls shook again.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2197>
  |  | 
 | // Disregarding that, I read the magazine.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2198>
  |  | 
 | // ... A tragedy... hey, what's that mean...?
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2199>
  |  | 
 | // "Final match on the high school grounds..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2200>
  |  | 
 | // "Recommended as a scholarship student for university, Hiiragi Kappei was in a contest for first place, and tumbled just before reaching the goal."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2201>
  |  | 
 | // "Lately his leg has been hurting, but he seems to have been hiding it in public."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2202>
  |  | 
 | // "While on the grounds, he was sent to the hospital."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2203>
  |  | 
 | // "The diagnosis indicated his fibula was--..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2204> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "... eh...?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2205>
  |  | 
 | // I read the article, dumbfounded...
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2206>
  |  | 
 | // Taking a close look at the portrait... this was the same Kappei that I know.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2207> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "... Sunohara..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2208> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "Uu... I thought I got over this..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2209> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "I guess I'm really delicate about things like this... hahaha..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2210> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Stop sulking at the name and read the damn article!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2211> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "... If the name isn't blotted out in black, I won't read it..." 
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2212> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Just read it!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2213> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "Damn it... you're bullying me..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2214>
  |  | 
 | // Crying, Sunohara's eyes fall upon the article once again.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2215>
  |  | 
 | // And, he looks up immediately.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2216>
  |  | 
 | // If he was into this exercise, this much information would have been obvious... 
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2217> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "\m{A}... this article... is a lie, right...?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2218> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "... Have you... seen him recently...?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2219> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "No... I haven't... I thought he was just really busy with work..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2220> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "........."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2221> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "........."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2222>
  |  | 
 | // Knock, knock...
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2223>
  |  | 
 | // The sound of the knock on the door broke through the silence between us.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2224> \{Misae} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Misae} "\m{A}, you here~?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2225> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "... Eh? Y-yeah."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2226>
  |  | 
 | // The voice slightly grazes by me.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2227>
  |  | 
 | // As soon as the door opens, Misae-san peeps in.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2228> \{Misae} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Misae} "Hmm? What's wrong?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2229> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Ah... nothing..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2230> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "........."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2231> \{Misae} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Misae} "Well, anyways, you have a guest."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2232> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "... For me?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2233> \{Misae} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Misae} "A girl. You're pretty good."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2234>
  |  | 
 | // I have a bad feeling, hearing it's a girl.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2235>
  |  | 
 | // I remember the magazine I just saw.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2236>
  |  | 
 | // Sunohara also looks at it.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2237> \{Misae} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Misae} "Okay, here you go."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2238>
  |  | 
 | // She invites that "guest" to our hospitality.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2239> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "........."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2240>
  |  | 
 | // Looks like my gut feeling... was right on the dot.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2241>
  |  | 
 | // Fujibayashi notices the magazine that Sunohara's holding.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2242>
  |  | 
 | // At the same time, her body trembled...
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2243> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "\m{A}... kun..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2244> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "........."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2245> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "Uu... uwaaaahhh!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2246>
  |  | 
 | // Seeing my face, she falls into my chest, crying.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2247> \{Misae} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Misae} "Uh... umm..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2248> \{Misae} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Misae} "\m{A}, you're good."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2249> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "........."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2250>
  |  | 
 | // I couldn't... say anything...
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2251>
  |  | 
 | // I don't want to believe the magazine I read just now...
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2252>
  |  | 
 | // ... But...
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2253>
  |  | 
 | // I realize everything in there is true, with Fujibayashi shivering in my arms...
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2254>
  |  | 
 | // ... What was written in the magazine was...
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2255>
  |  | 
 | // --"osteosarcoma"...
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2256>
  |  | 
 | // In other words--... \pcancer...
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2257> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "........."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2258> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "........."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2259> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "........."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2260>
  |  | 
 | // The three of us hang our heads, having nothing to say...
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2261>
  |  | 
 | // No... rather, we couldn't say anything...
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2262> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "... I'll go... get some tea..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2263>
  |  | 
 | // Saying that, Sunohara gets up, leaving the room.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2264>
  |  | 
 | // I'm sure he couldn't stand this atmosphere.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2265>
  |  | 
 | // Truth is... I also want to run away...
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2266>
  |  | 
 | // But...
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2267> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "........."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2268>
  |  | 
 | // There's no way I could do that...
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2269> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "... Fujibayashi..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2270> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "........."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2271> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Hey, Fuijbayashi."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2272> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "Ah... yes..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2273> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "... Where is... Kappei right now...?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2274> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "........."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2275> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "A hospital... in the neighbouring city..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2276> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "... I see..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2277> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "........."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2278> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Since when did you find out...?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2279> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "Just recently..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2280> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "He took his usual medicine... and I thought it a bit strange..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2281>
  |  | 
 | // Medicine... speaking of which, he was taking something...
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2282> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "I didn't know what medicine it was..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2283> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "But... then I saw it..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2284> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "The medicine that Kappei-san was taking..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2285> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "... is called codeine..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2286> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "... Codeine...?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2287> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "... It's a painkiller..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2288> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Taking something like that is... really bad, isn't it...?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2289> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "... Osteosarcoma is... a condition where, once diagnosed, you have to take the operation as soon as possible..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2290> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Yeah..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2291> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "But... Kappei-san..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2292> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "The operation..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2293> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "He won't... take it..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2294> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "He won't take it?! But, won't the condition be completely cured if taken early?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2295> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "........."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2296> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "...~~~..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2297> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "F-Fujibayashi...?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2298> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "\m{A}... kun..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2299> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "~~..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2300>
  |  | 
 | // I think that pretty soon... as soon as she has that crying face...
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2301>
  |  | 
 | // She quickly comes into my chest again.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2302> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "Uu... uwa... ah... sniff..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2303> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "Uwaaahhhh!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2304> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Eh? F-Fuijbayashi...? Wait..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2305> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "I'm sorry...! I'm sorry!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2306> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "I might have been wrong in relying on you, \m{A}-kun!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2307> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "But... there's no one else I can ask!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2308> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "I'm sorry...!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2309> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "... Why... why is Kappei refusing the operation...?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2310> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "He doesn't want to..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2311> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "He couldn't... bear losing his leg..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2312> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "Apologizing... he told me that..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2313> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "... Kappei..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2314> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "I... don't want Kappei-san to die!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2315> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "Even if he loses his leg, I want him to live!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2316> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "If he lives... I'm sure there will be a lot of good things!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2317> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "That's why... that's why..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2318> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "\m{A}-kun... please..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2319> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "Please convince Kappei-san to take the operation...!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2320> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "... I don't think I can tell him to..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2321> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "So... please..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2322> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Fujibayashi..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2323>
  |  | 
 | // Those painful words go against me with her small body...
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2324>
  |  | 
 | // I put my hands on her trembling shoulders as if to calm her down.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2325> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "Sniffle... hic... \m{A}... kun..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2326> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "I'll go see him for now."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2327> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "I'll try to convince him."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2328> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "\m{A}-kun..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2329> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "Uu... ah... hic..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2330> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "Waaaahhh! Uwaaaaahhhh!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2331>
  |  | 
 | // I wonder if I can calm her with my words at all...?
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2332>
  |  | 
 | // Fujibayashi cried out with a loud voice.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2333>
  |  | 
 | // I tighten my hold on her shoulders, holding her as she cries on my chest.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2334>
  |  | 
 | // Clatter...
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2335> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "Sorry, I was a bit late..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2336> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "........."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2337> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "Sniffle... sniffle..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2338> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "Ah... um... was, I in the way...?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2339>
  |  | 
 | // We seem to have got misunderstood...
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2340>
  |  | 
 | // The next holiday--...
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2341>
  |  | 
 | // Fujibayashi and I came to the hospital in the neighboring town.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2342>
  |  | 
 | // Tap... tap... tap... tap...
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2343>
  |  | 
 | // We walk down the hallway with a tense look on our faces.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2344> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "... Sunohara doesn't want to come."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2345> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "... Yes... though I never intended on extorting him..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2346> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Well... maybe he didn't want to see Kappei so weak..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2347> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "I'm sorry..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2348> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "It's okay, I don't mind it at all."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2349> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Instead... I just want to have a word or two with him."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2350> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "Thank you so much."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2351> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Fujibayashi, you've been worried about him every day?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2352> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "Yes."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2353> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "I see. It must be difficult."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2354> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "No, it's not like that at all..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2355> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "The real difficult thing is... Kappei-san after all..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2356> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "... I guess so..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2357> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Ah, do you want to be with me when I talk to him?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2358> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "No... if possible, just you ,\m{A}-kun..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2359> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "I think that the talk may work out better between two guys somehow..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2360> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "... Alright."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2361>
  |  | 
 | // Well, she never forced me to come with her.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2362>
  |  | 
 | // And then, the two of us walked down the hallway silently to Kappei's hospital room.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2363>
  |  | 
 | // Click, clack... the sound of the linoleum shoes tapping. It feels as if something was put there.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2364>
  |  | 
 | // As we continue on, the disappearing sounds of the footsteps begin to increase in number...
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2365>
  |  | 
 | // I become filled with anxiety.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2366> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "Umm... \m{A}-kun."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2367> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Eh...?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2368>
  |  | 
 | // Fujibayashi stopped several steps behind me.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2369>
  |  | 
 | // And then I see the door.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2370>
  |  | 
 | // Room number 307...
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2371>
  |  | 
 | // A name is written on the in-patient plate.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2372>
  |  | 
 | // "Hiiragi Kappei"...
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2373>
  |  | 
 | // I end up staring at the door.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2374>
  |  | 
 | // Again I think... yeah, he really is ill.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2375>
  |  | 
 | // Can I somehow convince him at all...?
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2376>
  |  | 
 | // Such a heavy... responsibility...
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2377> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "Ah......"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2378>
  |  | 
 | // With an anxious-like... no, she was completely anxious.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2379>
  |  | 
 | // She looks at me, as if her eyes cling onto me.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2380> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "P... please go ahead..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2381> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Yeah... I'll try my best."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2382>
  |  | 
 | // I say that with all that I have.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2383>
  |  | 
 | // Knock, knock...
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2384> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Come in."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2385>
  |  | 
 | // Clatter...
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2386> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "... Yo."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2387> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Eh..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2388>
  |  | 
 | // I could see the upper half of Kappei, who was on top of the bed looking at me.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2389>
  |  | 
 | // Comparing him with the Kappei I usually saw... he's obviously gone thinner...
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2390> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Ah... eh...? Huh? Huh? Umm, eh? \m{B}-\bkun\u? Why?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2391> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Been a while."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2392> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Ah, yeah, sure, has been."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2393> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "I'm surprised. How did you know I was here?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2394> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Fujibayashi told me."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2395> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Ryou-san did?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2396> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Yeah."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2397> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Which means... you know everything, don't you..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2398> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "... Yeah..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2399> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Umm... ahaha, I'm troubled..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2400> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Why won't you?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2401> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Eh?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2402> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Why won't you take the operation?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2403> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Could it be... you came here to persuade me?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2404> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Yeah."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2405> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "I see..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2406>
  |  | 
 | // Taking a deep breath, he looks towards the door.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2407>
  |  | 
 | // He probably noticed Fujibayashi is there...
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2408> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "For now, have a seat, \m{B}-\bkun\u."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2409> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "You'll get tired from standing around, right?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2410> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "... Yeah."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2411>
  |  | 
 | // Saying that, I put my hand on the pipes on the side of the bed.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2412>
  |  | 
 | // Making sure it wasn't necessary to sit down, I lean my back on them.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2413>
  |  | 
 | // Kappei stares at me.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2414> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Hey \m{B}-\bkun\u, did you already hear from Ryou-san the reason why I won't take the operation?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2415> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Because you couldn't bear the loss of your leg, right?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2416> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Of course that's something painful but, isn't your life more important?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2417> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "........."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2418>
  |  | 
 | // He quietly shakes his head.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2419> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Sorry..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2420> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "It's just as important as my life."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2421> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Why, man?! If you die, it'll be all over!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2422> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "This leg is... everything to me."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2423> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "... You're..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2424> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Hmm?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2425> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Talking about your track career...?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2426> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Eh...?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2427> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "I'm surprised... I didn't expect you'd know, \m{B}-\bkun\u..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2428> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "... I read it in a magazine..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2429> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Magazine?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2430> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Yeah, there was a past feature on the interscholastic athletic meet."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2431> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Stuff was written about you, with the heading reading the 'Tragic Sprinter'."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2432> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "I see..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2433> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Those days... bring back memories..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2434>
  |  | 
 | // Looking at his knee, Kappei says that, being a bit lonely.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2435> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "... I guess... talking to you like this is better, \m{B}-\bkun\u..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2436>
  |  | 
 | // Glancing at the door, he returns to look at me.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2437> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "\m{B}-\bkun\u... you see..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2438> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "... I'm an orphan..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2439> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Eh?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2440>
  |  | 
 | // I look up at Kappei's face at those abrupt words.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2441>
  |  | 
 | // That facial expression and those eyes were calm... yet filled with loneliness.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2442> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "As soon as I was born, it seems I was taken to an institution."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2443>
  |  | 
 | // And he continues on.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2444> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "At that place, there were a lot of kids in similar circumstances."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2445> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "The truth was, there were a lot of us kids that were in doubt about the meaning of our existence."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2446> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "But for me, that way may have been better."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2447> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Besides, I was thrown away like that, not knowing my parents... my family's warmth."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2448> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "I guess it was inside me after all."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2449> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Receiving cruel punishment from my parents, and as a result, ended up as a child in that institution."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2450> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "... No, rather, there were a lot of kids like that."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2451> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "We were born with nothing... with very little."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2452> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "A life with no blessing..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2453> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Living in denial like that is a sad existence."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2454> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "One day, a television station came to the institution."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2455> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "There was a bit of a documentary running, and a musician going around that I was a fan of, see." 
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2456> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "I really liked listening to that musician's music."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2457> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Living as if those feelings pushed against me, that sort of song."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2458> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "At that time, I got to talk to that musician."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2459> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "And that person told me..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2460> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "If there's one thing you believe in, push on with it."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2461> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "For that person, it was their music."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2462> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "That's what that person told me."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2463> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "It was really persuasive."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2464> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "The one thing I believe in is the distance far ahead of me."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2465> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "That's what I thought."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2466> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "And that I should believe in that thing I can do."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2467> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "What I was proud of..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2468> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Like that person, giving people something a lot like hope and courage."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2469> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "And then I realized."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2470>
  |  | 
 | // He tapped his knee.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2471> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "That I had this leg."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2472> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "When I ran back in my day, I lost to no one."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2473> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "That's why I ran."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2474> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Running... farther than anyone else can..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2475> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Keeping myself up with my own power..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2476> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Doing that, a lot of people would speak well of me."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2477> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "I was duly recognized by them."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2478> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "And built up my will to live."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2479> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "That really was... the best of my times..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2480> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Running... was what I liked..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2481> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Not holding anything else other than my pride..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2482> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "That was everything for me..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2483> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "That's why..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2484> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "When I was diagnosed, I had died."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2485> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "You died...? You're alive, aren't you?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2486> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "No... I can't run anymore..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2487> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "I didn't know of anything else that could keep me alive..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2488> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "... Kappei..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2489> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "... I wasn't alive anymore, and instead waited for death..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2490> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Just, with the time I have left..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2491> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "I want to spend the rest of my days with this leg."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2492> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Taking in that pain, even if I can't run, I can at least walk."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2493> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "That's why I went to a lot of places."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2494> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "And then, I came to this town, and met you, \m{B}-\bkun\u."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2495> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Ryou-san, as well."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2496>
  |  | 
 | // Saying that, he looks at the door.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2497> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "And what'll you do about Fujibayashi?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2498> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Eh?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2499> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "If you die now, she won't recover from that."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2500> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "........."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2501> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Can't just living for her sake support you at all?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2502> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "........."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2503> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "... I can't."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2504> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Losing my leg... would be an inconvenience..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2505> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "I'd be a problem for Ryou-san."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2506> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "I don't want to be such a burden."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2507> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Something like that--...!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2508> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "\m{B}-\bkun\u..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2509> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "... Would you want to put someone you like through such painful days and be with them?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2510> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "... Kappei..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2511> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "That's my answer."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2512> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "In that case..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2513> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Why did you go out with her?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2514> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Why did you spend time with her, even though you knew she'd be sad?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2515> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "... I guess, that's too bad..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2516> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "I just... did it on the spur of the moment..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2517> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Even though it was cruel... really..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2518> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "It's inexcusable."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2519> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "........."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2520> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "But..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2521> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "With time... even sadness will pass over..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2522> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Even in the institution, it was like that..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2523>
  |  | 
 | // What eyes... what sad things he's telling me...
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2524>
  |  | 
 | // As if... those eyes understood everything...
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2525> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Even then... I want for you to live..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2526> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "... \m{B}-\bkun\u..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2527> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "There's no way friends can just keep quiet and let someone die."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2528> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Friends...?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2529> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Yeah. It's just as you say."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2530> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "........."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2531> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Even though there's a chance you'll live..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2532> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "To abandon something like that..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2533> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Just running isn't all that you are."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2534> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "I..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2535> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Never thought of you as running."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2536> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "The Hiiragi Kappei I know is..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2537> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Someone who does as he pleases, getting along well with people..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2538> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Talking about strange fairytales..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2539> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "... And sometimes being a poet..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2540> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "And jumping into me all of a sudden..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2541> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "... Someone like that is my friend..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2542> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "........."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2543> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "... Thank you..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2544> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Thank you, \m{B}-\bkun\u..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2545> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "I'm happy... really..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2546> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "I guess so... I've shown you the Hiiragi Kappei of now haven't I, \m{B}-\bkun\u..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2547> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Not knowing I could meet you like this in the past..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2548> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "For a friend to tell me that..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2549> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "I'm really..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2550> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "... Really happy."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2551> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "... That's why..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2552> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "... I'm sorry..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2553> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Kappei!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2554> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "... Sorry..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2555> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "--..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2556>
  |  | 
 | // .........
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2557>
  |  | 
 | // ......
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2558>
  |  | 
 | // ...
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2559>
  |  | 
 | // I sit down at the bench...
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2560>
  |  | 
 | // Fujibayashi's seated by me, with nothing to say.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2561>
  |  | 
 | // I also... have nothing to say...
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2562>
  |  | 
 | // In the end, I wasn't able to convince Kappei...
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2563>
  |  | 
 | // We were just kids who didn't know how to convince people to live...
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2564>
  |  | 
 | // I realized that my words had no power at all.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2565>
  |  | 
 | // After that, Fujibayashi cried outside the room...
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2566>
  |  | 
 | // She shook her head greatly, apologizing.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2567>
  |  | 
 | // Apologizing to me many, many times...
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2568> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "\m{A}-kun..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2569>
  |  | 
 | // A small voice came from her face.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2570> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "Is it okay... if I could borrow your chest..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2571> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "... Fujibayashi..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2572> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "Please..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2573> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "... Just for a... little while..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2574> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "........."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2575>
  |  | 
 | // I didn't know of any words to refuse that in such a time.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2576>
  |  | 
 | // For a minute, she jumped into me, as I wrapped my arms lightly around her.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2577> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "Uu...... uwa... sniff... a..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2578> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "Uwaaaaahhh!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2579> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "Aaaaahhhh! Uwaaaahhhh!!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2580>
  |  | 
 | // Her voice pierced into my chest...
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2581>
  |  | 
 | // Her tears were heavy...
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2582>
  |  | 
 | // Her small hands held onto my clothes...
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2583>
  |  | 
 | // Her thin shoulders trembling...
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2584>
  |  | 
 | // Her tears falling down her cheeks...
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2585>
  |  | 
 | // My arms were dyed with sadness all over inside.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2586>
  |  | 
 | // Those feelings being confined within my arms.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2587>
  |  | 
 | // I tightly embrace Fujibayashi's shivering body.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2588>
  |  | 
 | // If I don't, I may end up crying as well...
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2589>
  |  | 
 | // At the very least, right now... I don't want to give her my tears...
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2590>
  |  | 
 | // ... I can't cry...
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2591>
  |  | 
 | // My eyes trembled...
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2592>
  |  | 
 | // Not wanting to bear tears... I looked up.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2593> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "......?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2594>
  |  | 
 | // Someone's coming this way...
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2595>
  |  | 
 | // No, that's not right... there's no way someone would be coming this way.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2596>
  |  | 
 | // As if to confirm, the person looked up, and down...
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2597> \{Giọng Nói} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Voice} "Looks like people need to be here as well."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2598>
  |  | 
 | // A familiar voice...
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2599> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Yoshino... Yuusuke...?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2600>\{Yoshino} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Yoshino} "... Hmm?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2601>\{Yoshino} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Yoshino} "Oh, you're \m{A}... aren't you?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2602>
  |  | 
 | // He remembered my name.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2603>\{Yoshino} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Yoshino} "........."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2604>
  |  | 
 | // And, with a slightly troubled face.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2605>\{Yoshino} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Yoshino} "I'm sorry, I must be interrupting."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2606> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Ah..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2607>
  |  | 
 | // I remember that I was hugging Fujibayashi.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2608>
  |  | 
 | // And even more, a girl's face crying...
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2609>\{Yoshino} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Yoshino} "You shouldn't really make someone cry like that."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2610>\{Yoshino} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Yoshino} "She's someone you have to hold dear to you. Take care."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2611> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "W-wait!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2612>
  |  | 
 | // I call out to stop him from running away.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2613>\{Yoshino} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Yoshino} "........."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2614> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "That's not it..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2615>
  |  | 
 | // I wonder what I should be saying?
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2616> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "She's... not my girlfriend..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2617>
  |  | 
 | // She's just someone I know, that's all...
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2618> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "... It's not that I've made her cry or anything..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2619>
  |  | 
 | // With a trembling voice... trying to rely on what, I wonder...?
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2620> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Just that... we don't really know... what to do..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2621>
  |  | 
 | // Everything's been building up, and soon these eyes will spill over...
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2622> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "... What to do..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2623>
  |  | 
 | // Holding onto Fujibayashi, I can't keep myself from shaking...
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2624>\{Yoshino} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Yoshino} "If you're fine with telling me, I'll listen."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2625>
  |  | 
 | // My tears run down my cheek, hearing those words.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2626>\{Yoshino} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Yoshino} "... I see..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2627>
  |  | 
 | // After telling him everything, Yoshino Yuusuke breathed a small sigh.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2628>
  |  | 
 | // How does he feel about my story?
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2629>
  |  | 
 | // What will he tell me exactly?
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2630>
  |  | 
 | // ... Will he... tell me something...?
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2631>\{Yoshino} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Yoshino} "........."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2632>\{Yoshino} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Yoshino} "It's a sad story."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2633>\{Yoshino} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Yoshino} "Losing your dream and goal, being the same thing as losing yourself."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2634>\{Yoshino} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Yoshino} "With one thing to push on that you can believe in that's good... right?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2635>\{Yoshino} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Yoshino} "... What irresponsible words..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2636>
  |  | 
 | // He murmurs that... bitterly.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2637>\{Yoshino} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Yoshino} "To simply find a meaning to live is quite difficult."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2638>\{Yoshino} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Yoshino} "But, living doesn't mean that you're alone."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2639>\{Yoshino} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Yoshino} "People are there to support people, and those people can begin to stand on their own."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2640>\{Yoshino} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Yoshino} "And once they can stand on their own, they can move on forward."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2641> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "But... how should we tell him so that he may understand that...?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2642> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "We're like kids, so even if we tell him how to live..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2643> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Hey, is it possible for you to meet with him?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2644> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Since you're an adult, you could convince him..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2645>\{Yoshino} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Yoshino} "The only adult who can convince him would be a doctor at this point in time."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2646> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Ah..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2647>
  |  | 
 | // Certainly...
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2648>\{Yoshino} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Yoshino} "And, surely if you try to convince him, you won't reach his heart."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2649> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "... Because we're kids...?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2650>\{Yoshino} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Yoshino} "Because you're friends."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2651>\{Yoshino} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Yoshino} "Friends are important. That much is true."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2652>\{Yoshino} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Yoshino} "The best way to live is to support each other."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2653>\{Yoshino} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Yoshino} "But, in the end you're just another person."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2654>\{Yoshino} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Yoshino} "There's no meaning to living then."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2655>\{Yoshino} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Yoshino} "That's why..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2656>\{Yoshino} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Yoshino} "Your power is needed."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2657>
  |  | 
 | // Yoshino Yuusuke looks at Fujibayashi.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2658>
  |  | 
 | // She was still hanging her head, but noticing that glance, she lifts her head.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2659> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "M... me...?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2660> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "... I've told him... many, many times..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2661> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "To take the operation..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2662> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "But... Kappei-san... only shook his head..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2663> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "And continued... to apologize to me..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2664>\{Yoshino} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Yoshino} "To support him is difficult."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2665>\{Yoshino} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Yoshino} "It's not just about pushing his back."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2666>\{Yoshino} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Yoshino} "Nor is it about holding his hand."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2667> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "... It's really difficult... I... don't really understand..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2668>\{Yoshino} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Yoshino} "The person you hold dear to you is certainly in a dark world, isn't he?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2669>\{Yoshino} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Yoshino} "It's a sad world, where you see darkness wherever you look, not even able to see yourself."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2670>\{Yoshino} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Yoshino} "That's why, you should first bring in a light."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2671>\{Yoshino} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Yoshino} "It won't shine if it's from a distance."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2672>\{Yoshino} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Yoshino} "Take that small light so you may see both of your footsteps."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2673> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "........."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2674>\{Yoshino} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Yoshino} "And then walking should be fine."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2675>\{Yoshino} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Yoshino} "Whatever it is you two can't make, take that small light and embrace the future."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2676> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "Whatever us two can't make... a small light..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2677>
  |  | 
 | // Seems like something is coming to her mind.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2678>
  |  | 
 | // Fujibayashi carefully thinks.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2679>\{Yoshino} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Yoshino} "That's all I can say."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2680>\{Yoshino} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Yoshino} "I'm not sure about that sort of consultation, but if I was of some help, I'm glad."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2681> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "Uh... umm..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2682>\{Yoshino} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Yoshino} "What is it?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2683> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "... Would convincing him through lies... be a bad way to go about it?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2684>\{Yoshino} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Yoshino} "Well..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2685>
  |  | 
 | // Yoshino Yuusuke turns around, and murmurs one last thing.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2686>\{Yoshino} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Yoshino} "If there is love... even lies would become truth." 
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2687>
  |  | 
 | // The night skies up above began to blur in my eyes. 
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2688>
  |  | 
 | // Tears ran along my cheeks...
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2689>
  |  | 
 | // At the regret of not having any power to do anything...
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2690>
  |  | 
 | // Several days later... Kappei disappeared from the hospital.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2691>
  |  | 
 | // It seems that he was moved to another hospital, but I wasn't told which one.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2692>
  |  | 
 | // Even Fujibayashi doesn't seem to know...
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2693>
  |  | 
 | // In the end... we weren't able to do anything, were we...? 
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2694>
  |  | 
 | // The next day...
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2695> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "... Is it okay to be skipping classes?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2696> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "Yes. We have to hurry with this, after all."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2697> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "I see..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2698> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "... Hey, about yesterday's talk with Yoshino-san..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2699> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "Yes?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2700> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "About how in the end it isn't my words, and that it has to be yours... what was that about?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2701> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "Yes, that's what I think it is."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2702> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "... What do you plan on saying?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2703> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "Well..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2704> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "So far... I haven't said anything other than for Kappei-san to live."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2705> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "Thinking about it now, those words are very short lived..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2706> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "Friends can only say nothing but that as well."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2707> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "So... umm... today I'm going to... lie a little bit."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2708> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Lie?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2709> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Speaking of which, yesterday that was the last thing you said."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2710> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "Yes."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2711> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "... What do you plan on saying?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2712> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "........."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2713> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "...?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2714>
  |  | 
 | // Exactly what is she in the mood to say...
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2715> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "L-let's go. We have to race against time to beat Kappei-san's illness."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2716>
  |  | 
 | // Really... what is she in the mood to say...?
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2717>
  |  | 
 | // Tap... tap... tap... tap...
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2718> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Hmm?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2719>
  |  | 
 | // It feels like Fujibayashi's walking a bit slower than me.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2720> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "... You okay?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2721> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "........."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2722>
  |  | 
 | // She's... uneasy...
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2723>
  |  | 
 | // I have no idea what words she plans on telling him, but if only Kappei doesn't refuse them...
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2724> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "........."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2725>
  |  | 
 | // She shakes her head.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2726> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Are you okay, Fujibayashi?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2727> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "Eh?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2728> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Believe in Yoshino-san's words."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2729> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "I may be Kappei's friend, but you're different."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2730> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "You're his girlfriend."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2731> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "I'm merely someone that exists close to him."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2732> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "\m{A}-kun..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2733> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "That's why, you should be more confident."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2734> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Your feelings are proof of that, see."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2735> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "Yes, thank you very much."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2736>
  |  | 
 | // Knock, knock...
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2737> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Yes, come in."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2738>
  |  | 
 | // Clatter...
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2739> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Eh, Ryou-san...?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2740> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "G-good morning."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2741> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Um... ah..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2742> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Yo."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2743> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "\m{B}...\bkun\u...?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2744> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "E-eh? What about school, you guys?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2745> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "We're skipping."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2746> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "W-we're skipping."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2747> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Ahaha, you guys are delinquents."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2748> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "But, I'm surprised... that you came again, \m{B}-\bkun\u..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2749> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "What, inside you've been really cold-hearted making people like myself like this."*  
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2750> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "That's not what I had in mind but, see... yesterday..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2751> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Yeah, well, don't worry about it."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2752> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Hmm, if you say that then well, I'll just leave it be."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2753> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Just for a bit."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2754> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Yeah, just for a bit."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2755>
  |  | 
 | // Saying that, he gives a flustered smile.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2756> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "U-umm... Kappei-san,"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2757> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Hmm?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2758> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "Umm, how are you doing so far?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2759> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Yeah, I'm completely healthy today."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2760> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "Is that so? I'm glad."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2761> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "But, for you to be skipping school today... what's wrong, Ryou-san?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2762> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "Eh... umm... well..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2763> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "... I... I have... something to say."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2764>
  |  | 
 | // Gripping her hand tightly, she looks at Kappei.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2765> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Something to say...? What is it?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2766> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "Umm... s-see... ah~..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2767> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "See..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2768> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "... see~..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2769>
  |  | 
 | // What is she in the mood to say?
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2770>
  |  | 
 | // I only know it's going to involve a "lie"...
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2771> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2772> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "K-Kappei-san!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2773> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Yes?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2774> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "Have you eaten your meal completely?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2775> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Yeah, I have."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2776> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "I see. I'm glad."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2777> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "........."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2778>
  |  | 
 | // I'm sure... \pno, that's completely not what she had in mind...
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2779> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "Ah... uu~... umm..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2780>
  |  | 
 | // ... Should I help her a bit...?
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2781> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Kappei,"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2782> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Hmm?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2783> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Fujibayashi has something important to tell you."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2784> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "Ah... wawa... \m{A}-kun..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2785> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "... Ryou-san does...?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2786> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "So listen carefully."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2787> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "........."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2788> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Alright, I will."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2789>
  |  | 
 | // Seated, Kappei nods and looks at Fujibayashi.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2790>
  |  | 
 | // Fujibayashi grips her fist as well, as if prepared.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2791> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "Umm... Kappei-san..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2792> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Yes?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2793> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "... I... u-umm... umm..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2794> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "Am... am......"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2795> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "... Am?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2796> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "...H-having... one..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2797> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Having... one?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2798>
  |  | 
 | // ... Having one...?
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2799> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "... Y-yes..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2800> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Having one... having what?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2801> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "........."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2802> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Ryou-san...?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2803> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "I... I'm having a baby!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2804> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Eh...?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2805>
  |  | 
 | // ... Eh?
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2806> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "I'm having... a baby..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2807>
  |  | 
 | // Kappei's eyes bulge at her words.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2808>
  |  | 
 | // And then he looks at me.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2809> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "\m{B}... \bkun\u..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2810> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "W-what?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2811> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "... How could you..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2812> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "... Since when did you do that with Ryou-san..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2813> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "... I-it's wasn't me!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2814> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "... But... umm..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2815> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "... But didn't you two... come to tell me that...?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2816>
  |  | 
 | // I shake my head swiftly.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2817>
  |  | 
 | // ... Ah!
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2818>
  |  | 
 | // That's it! This is Fujibayashi's "lie"!
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2819>
  |  | 
 | // How bold...
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2820> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Eh, eh, but... no way... then who's..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2821>
  |  | 
 | // I should join in with Fujibayashi.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2822> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Hey, hey, what do you mean who's... you're the worst as a man."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2823> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Eh...?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2824> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "B-but..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2825>
  |  | 
 | // With uneasy eyes, he looks at me and Fujibayashi, saying that.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2826> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "I didn't do anything perverted... so you couldn't have one...?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2827> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "... Eh?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2828> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "........."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2829> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "........."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2830> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "... Fujibayashi...? You... didn't do, something like that... yet?" 
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2831> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "~~~~..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2832> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "........."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2833>
  |  | 
 | // W... what chinks in the plan... no, I'm not even sure if that lie would even work to begin with...
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2834> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "... It's a lie, isn't it?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2835> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "........."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2836> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "... Indeed... there's no way you could have one if we didn't..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2837> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "I was a bit surprised there."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2838>
  |  | 
 | // So was I...
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2839> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "Ah... umm... s-see..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2840> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "See... umm..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2841> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "... While you were sleeping, Kappei-san... I secretly..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2842>
  |  | 
 | // ... Uhh... Fujibayashi... that's getting a bit ridiculous...
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2843>
  |  | 
 | // Kappei completely stares at her, and Fujibayashi hangs her head.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2844> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "... Secretly... \wait{300}thought of something..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2845> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "...?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2846>
  |  | 
 | // She's continuing...?
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2847>
  |  | 
 | // Or rather, to say she thought of something... that's saying something quite big.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2848>
  |  | 
 | // Lifting her head, she looks straight at Kappei.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2849> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "Is that not possible?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2850> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Eh...? W-what's not possible, I don't know what you're asking..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2851>
  |  | 
 | // Kappei says that in a hurry, seeing that glance.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2852> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "I... want to have a baby."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2853> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "I want to have your baby, Kappei-san."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2854> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "... Ryou... san...?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2855> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "Get married..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2856> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "Have a child..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2857> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "... And then as a family..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2858> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "As a family... go to a lot of places..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2859> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "And create a lot of memories..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2860> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "... I want to be with you more..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2861> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "I want you to embrace me!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2862> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "I want you to hold my hand tightly!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2863> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "I want to talk about a lot of things!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2864> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "I've been thinking a lot about is just about the future."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2865> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "But, I can't do anything on my own."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2866> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "It's a future that can't be granted in any way if you're not beside me, Kappei-san."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2867> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "... Ryou-san..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2868> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "... You thought of me... that far...?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2869> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "... Yes..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2870> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "... I'm happy..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2871> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "I'm really... happy..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2872> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "But... taking the operation means... my leg will..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2873> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Doing that, I'll definitely become a problem for..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2874> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "... Even if you lose your leg, you'll still have arms to hug me!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2875> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Ryou-san..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2876> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "That sort of warmth alone is enough for you to give me..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2877>
  |  | 
 | // Kappei looks at his hands, hearing those words.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2878> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "I'll be next to you for support."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2879> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "I won't pull you in against your will."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2880> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "I won't push you on ahead."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2881> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "I want to be together with you... supporting each other and going to places."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2882> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "Please... take the operation."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2883> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "........."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2884> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "If... you don't agree with that..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2885> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "... I... really will... do it..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2886> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Eh?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2887>
  |  | 
 | // ... Do what...?
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2888> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "I... I'll secretly do that while you're sleeping... Kappei-san."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2889> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "... The operation...?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2890> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "No..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2891>
  |  | 
 | // ... No way...
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2892> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "I'll secretly have your baby."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2893> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "........."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2894>
  |  | 
 | // She just said something incredible... 
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2895>
  |  | 
 | // Dumbfounded, Kappei looked at Fujibayashi, completely speechless.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2896> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "... Hey, Kappei..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2897> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "... Eh? Ah, uu, yeah... I'm sorry."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2898> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "She said something quite impressive there... my head's in a panic."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2899>
  |  | 
 | // Indeed...
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2900>
  |  | 
 | // Though her face is blushing red, saying that.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2901>
  |  | 
 | // But...
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2902> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "... I'm sure, she's serious."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2903> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "... You're, right..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2904>
  |  | 
 | // Kappei drops his shoulders, troubled.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2905> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "... Oh man..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2906> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "For Ryou-san to say something like that..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2907> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "... By the way..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2908> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Hmm?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2909> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "... I only have one parent."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2910> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "... Eh?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2911> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "\m{A}-kun...?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2912> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "......"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2913> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "My mother died from an accident when I was little."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2914> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "That's why... I really can't remember her face."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2915> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "I guess I felt quite lonely..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2916> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "When I asked my father why my mother wasn't around..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2917> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "... He gave a difficult face..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2918> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "I'm sure... if you don't agree with her, Fujibayashi will have that same painful face as well."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2919> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "........."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2920> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "In the future, you'll be needed to bring forth new life."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2921> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "It can't be anyone else other than you."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2922> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "And besides, it's like you said, right?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2923> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "That the name 'Hiiaragi Ryou', with both kanji containing the character for 'wood', looks a bit cool, right?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2924> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "\m{B}-\bkun\u..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2925>
  |  | 
 | // Kappei's face softens up, remembering that nostalgic day.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2926> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "........."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2927> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "You two are cruel..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2928> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Telling me all that so front up."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2929> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Even though I want to say something back... I can't even find the words..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2930>
  |  | 
 | // Saying that he slowly shakes his head.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2931> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "I... have to live, don't I..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2932>
  |  | 
 | // With that built up voice, Kappei widens his eyes.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2933>
  |  | 
 | // But, soon...
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2934> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "You guys are really something."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2935>
  |  | 
 | // He says that with a smile.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2936> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Ryou-san, could you go to the nurse station?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2937> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "Eh? Ah, okay."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2938> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "And, could you please call the doctor."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2939> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "There's a lot of things I'd like to ask."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2940> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "Could that... mean..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2941> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "About if there's a chance I could work with things like a joint or bone implant."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2942> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "Ah..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2943> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Okay, Ryou-san?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2944> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "Y... yes!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2945> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "'Hiiragi Ryou'. The wood kanji in there is pretty cool."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2946> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "Yes! It's beautiful, it really is!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2947> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "Ah... ah... I'll.. go get the doctor right now!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2948>
  |  | 
 | // With that smiling face and teary eyes, Fujibayashi leaves the hospital room.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2949> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Kappei..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2950> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Ahaha, looks like Ryou-san's about to cry."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2951> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "That's your fault..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2952> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Yeah... it is..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2953> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "... I didn't know..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2954> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "That there'd... be someone who needed me..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2955> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Someone who wanted me..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2956> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Idiot. What are you saying now...?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2957> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Yeah... I'm an idiot..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2958> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Besides that..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2959> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "... Tears when you're happy..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2960> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Really do come out, don't they?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2961> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Yeah."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2962>
  |  | 
 | // Kappei brings out his hand.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2963>
  |  | 
 | // I take it and shake hands with him.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2964> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "When I was happy when I was running, I never cried at all."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2965> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "It's strange."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2966> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Isn't that fine...?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2967> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Yeah..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2968> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "... Thank you..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2969> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Eh?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2970> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "... I'm glad... that I met you..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2971> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "... I really... am..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2972> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Yeah, me too... hearing you say that you'll live makes me happy."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2973> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "I'm not alone, am I?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2974> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Of course not."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2975> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Having said that, regarding what you told Fujibayashi just now... wasn't that a proposal?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2976> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Yeah, that was half my intention."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2977> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Geez... even though she's still in school."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2978> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "I'm sure though that Fujibayashi is seriously thinking about accepting that."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2979> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "I wonder?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2980> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "If so... then I'd be really happy."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2981> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "I see. Isn't that great?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2982> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Yeah, thank you."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2983> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Really... thank you..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2984>
  |  | 
 | // --Thank you...
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2985>
  |  | 
 | // It's been a few days since Kappei decided to go with the operation.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2986>
  |  | 
 | // Sunohara and I go to the neighboring town on Sunday.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2987>
  |  | 
 | // And along the way.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2988> \{Giọng Nói} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Voice} "Yo."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2989> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Hm...? You said something?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2990> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "Sure didn't."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2991>
  |  | 
 | // No one's nearby.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2992> \{Giọng Nói} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Voice} "Woah."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2993>
  |  | 
 | // Shuffle.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2994> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Uwaah!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2995>
  |  | 
 | // Something rained from above.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2996> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "Yoshino Yuusuke??"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2997>\{Yoshino} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Yoshino} "Yo."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2998> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Ah, where'd you come from just now?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <2999>\{Yoshino} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Yoshino} "Changing a fuse on that telephone pole there."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <3000> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Ah, that's tough."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <3001>\{Yoshino} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Yoshino} "Hmm? The one over there is..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <3002>\{Yoshino} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Yoshino} "........."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <3003>\{Yoshino} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Yoshino} "... Oh yeah, Fuyuhara, right?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <3004> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Close!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <3005> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "Not at all! It's Sunohara!" 
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <3006>\{Yoshino} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Yoshino} "Ah, that's it. How's your guitar practice going?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <3007> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "Eh? Ha, haha, I'm still working hard at it. I'm pulling those strings every night after all."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <3008>\{Yoshino} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Yoshino} "I see, well next time, let me hear how you sound."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <3009> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "S-sure..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <3010>
  |  | 
 | // Heh... this guy likes digging himself a hole...
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <3011>\{Yoshino} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Yoshino} "So, \m{A}, how did that thing go?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <3012> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Yeah, I'm going right now to see how it turned out."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <3013>\{Yoshino} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Yoshino} "Oh, so that means you convinced him?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <3014> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Yeah. Rather, it was Fujibayashi... the girl who was with me then that did the convincing. And he agreed with the operation."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <3015> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "That's also thanks to you."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <3016>\{Yoshino} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Yoshino} "I've done nothing at all."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <3017>\{Yoshino} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Yoshino} "If there's anything to thank, it's her power."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <3018>\{Yoshino} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Yoshino} "... It's called love."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <3019>
  |  | 
 | // I guess he really does say embarrassing stuff without hesitation.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <3020> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Even then, thank you."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <3021>\{Yoshino} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Yoshino} "Yeah."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <3022>
  |  | 
 | // Tap... tap... tap... tap...
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <3023> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "Ahh... somehow, I'm feeling kinda tense."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <3024> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "About what exactly?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <3025> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "Come on, it's been a long while since I've seen Hiiragi-chan..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <3026> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Kind of like seeing your first love?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <3027> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "Yeah... it's something like that..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <3028>
  |  | 
 | // ... I'm telling you... just forget it...
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <3029> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Hmm, well... we're here."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <3030>
  |  | 
 | // We stop at room 307.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <3031>
  |  | 
 | // Sunohara's eyes fall upon the plate.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <3032> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "~~~~~......"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <3033>
  |  | 
 | // He's trembling...
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <3034>
  |  | 
 | // Somehow, he's having a lot of conflict with the name "Kappei", doesn't he?
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <3035> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Let's go."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <3036> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "... Y... yeah..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <3037>
  |  | 
 | // Knock, knock...
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <3038>
  |  | 
 | // Silence...
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <3039> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Eh...?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <3040> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "Not here?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <3041> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Maybe he's asleep?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <3042>
  |  | 
 | // Knock, knock...
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <3043> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "Y... y-y, yes, please wait a second!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <3044> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "... ??"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <3045> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "Ryou-chan...?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <3046>
  |  | 
 | // Clatter...
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <3047> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "Ah, \m{A}-kun, and Sunohara-kun, g-good afternoon."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <3048>
  |  | 
 | // A flustered Fujibayashi comes out of the room...
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <3049>
  |  | 
 | // Her face is red...
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <3050>
  |  | 
 | // .........
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <3051>
  |  | 
 | // What was she doing...?
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <3052> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Kappei's here... right?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <3053> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "Yes, h-he's here."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <3054> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Umm, the two of us came to check up on Kappei... is now okay?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <3055> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "........."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <3056> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Fujibayashi...?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <3057> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "P, p... please wait a second!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <3058>
  |  | 
 | // Saying that quickly, she returns into the room.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <3059> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "........."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <3060> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "... Somehow... this kinda feels bad..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <3061> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Nah... well... don't worry about it."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <3062> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "... Yeah..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <3063>
  |  | 
 | // A little while later, we open the door as we are invited into the room.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <3064> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "........."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <3065> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "W... what man, your face wants to say something..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <3066> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "... \m{B}-\bkun\u... your timing is terrible..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <3067>
  |  | 
 | // At those words, I look at Fujibayashi.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <3068> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "Ah..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <3069> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "........."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <3070>
  |  | 
 | // She hangs her head, blushing...
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <3071> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Well... I'm sorry, I guess..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <3072>
  |  | 
 | // I apologize once.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <3073> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Next time, come in two hours after you knock on the door."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <3074>
  |  | 
 | // Why do we have to wait that long just to check up on you once...?
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <3075> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Well, umm, long time no see... Su... Suu..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <3076> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "........."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <3077> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Ah... Nohara-\bkun\u?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <3078> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "You started with 'Su', didn't you?!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <3079> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Sunohara-\bkun\u, that's it, Sunohara-\bkun\u."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <3080> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Ahaha, but I'm glad you guys came to check up on me."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <3081> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Actually, I'm going to be leaving here for a while."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <3082> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Leaving here...?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <3083> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "You're going to another hospital?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <3084> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Yeah. Ryou-san did some research to see if there was an operation that would let me keep my leg."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <3085> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Doing that, she found one."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <3086> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "It's a treatment that doesn't involve bone implants, artificial limbs, or amputation at all."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <3087> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "There's such a method?!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <3088> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Yeah, I didn't know either."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <3089> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "But there is a way for me to keep my leg."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <3090> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "Yes. It's a rapid freezing technique, using liquid nitrogen." 
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <3091> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "It's not exactly commonly known yet though..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <3092> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "But if it goes well, he'll be able to run again."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <3093> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "I see, that's great isn't it?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <3094> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Yeah. Rehab is gonna be a pain, but in the end I'll still have my leg."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <3095> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "That's great."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <3096> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "Congratulations, Hiiragi-chan!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <3097> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Yeah, thank you."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <3098> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "But... I'm surprised at the progress of medical science."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <3099> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Even though osteosarcoma meant you would have to cut off your leg."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <3100> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Right now there's artificial joint and bone implant techniques that are used."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <3101> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "On the other hand, techniques were being researched so that one could keep their leg."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <3102> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "With time, my wish could be granted."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <3103> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Yeah, that's true."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <3104> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Oh yeah, that's right. By the way, listen up."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <3105> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Hmm?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <3106> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "See, I..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <3107> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "Hmm? No, that's a bit wrong..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <3108> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "We... yeah, we...~..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <3109>
  |  | 
 | // Kappei looks at Fujibayashi.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <3110> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "Eh...? Y-you want me to say it??"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <3111> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "I'd like for you to."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <3112> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "Ah... uu~uu~..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <3113>
  |  | 
 | // Blushing red, Sunohara and I look at each other.
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <3114> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "I want to hear it from you, Ryou-san."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <3115> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "O-okay... w-well..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <3116> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "W... we..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <3117> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "P... p-p... p..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <3118> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "........."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <3119> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "Promised... to get married."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <3120> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "That's how it is."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <3121> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "E-eh? No reaction...?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <3122> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "No, just that I'm not surprised by those words..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <3123> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "Uh... umm... it's still not official yet... but... just the two of us promised..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <3124> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Even then, that's amazing."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <3125> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "For you, Fujibayashi, that's a pretty big decision."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <3126> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "N-not at all... I'm... umm... just supporting Kappei-san, after all..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <3127> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "\m{B}-\bkun\u."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <3128> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Hmm?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <3129> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "I'll get better as soon as I can."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <3130> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "And do things that only I can do."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <3131> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Yeah."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <3132> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "By the way..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <3133> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Hmm?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <3134> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "What happened to Sunohara-\bkun\u...?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <3135> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Eh?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <3136> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "........."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <3137> \{Kappei} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Kappei} "He's frozen...?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <3138> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "... Sunohara-kun...?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <3139> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Ah, unrequited love."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <3140> \{Sunohara} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Sunohara} "Uwaaaaaaaaaaaa!!"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <3141>
  |  | 
 | // He ran out of the room...
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <3142> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Well, umm, for now, congratulations."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <3143>
  |  | 
 | // Kappei Epilogue 
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <3144>
  |  | 
 | // Tap... \wait{1000}tap... \wait{1000}tap... \wait{1000}tap...
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <3145> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Hmm... where is it"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <3146> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "Ah..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <3147> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Hmm?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <3148> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "\m{A}-kun."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <3149> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Fuji... bayashi?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <3150> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "It's been a while."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <3151> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Indeed... wow, you really did become a nurse."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <3152> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Or rather, I shouldn't say something like that right now, should I?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <3153> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "Ah... umm... it doesn't suit me, does it...?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <3154> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "No, of course it does. I'm just a bit surprised."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <3155> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "I guess so. It's the first time someone I knew saw me in this as well."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <3156> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "It's been five years, hasn't it?" 
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <3157> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "Yes, it has."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <3158> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "... Fast..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <3159> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "Though I feel that those five years have been quite fulfilling."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <3160> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "I just felt it was a bit frantic."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <3161> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "Let's go, I'll guide you."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <3162> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Yes, please do."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <3163>
  |  | 
 | // Tap... tap... tap... tap...
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <3164> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Is being a nurse a really difficult job?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <3165> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "Not at all."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <3166> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "It's a very \bdangerous\u job."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <3167> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "I-I see..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <3168> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "What I mean is, I'm close to the lives of the patients here."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <3169> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "I guess so... you've been taking care of the patients here, right?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <3170> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "There's... a lot of painful and sad things here..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <3171> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "But, there's someone there to support me, so I'm fine with it."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <3172> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "I'm... not alone after all..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <3173> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Are you... bragging?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <3174> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "... That ring..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <3175> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "Ah..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <3176> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "I see, so that's how it is."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <3177> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "Ah... uu~..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <3178> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Since when?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <3179> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "U-umm... three years ago..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <3180> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Three years ago, he still hadn't come back, had he?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <3181> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "Right."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <3182> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Well, in any case, congratulations."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <3183> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "Yes, thank you very much."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <3184> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "........."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <3185> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "Are things all right now?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <3186> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "Eh?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <3187> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "As soon as you came back, I wanted to contact you... see. Truth is, I had some bad vibes."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <3188> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "... Osteosarcoma is a cancerous illness..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <3189> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "We had to change hospitals as we couldn't leave it unattended." 
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <3190> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "His operation turned out a success."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <3191> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "He can walk on his own now, and can do simple exercises too."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <3192> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "But, even then, I can't say he's fully recovered..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <3193> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "........."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <3194> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "Ah, this room."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <3195> \{\m{B}} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{\m{B}} "... Here...?"
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <3196> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "They've said the cancer... hasn't returned for five years since the operation, and he's started to recover."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <3197> \{Ryou} ""
  |  | 
 | // \{Ryou} "And tomorrow... the final prognosis will be complete--..."
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <3198>
  |  | 
 | // Clatter--... \wait{3000}
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | <3199>
  |  | 
 | // Yo, long time no see--...
  |  | 
 |    |  | 
 | </pre>
  |  | 
 | </div>
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 | 
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