Full Text Chapter 5 Part 4 | Contents | Afterword In the end, only I remained in Cecilia. Osanai-san had left. I probably wouldn’t see her again, at least during this summer. When the second trimester begins, we would return to being just fellow students in the same grade. I could become a petit bourgeois on my own. Osanai-san was not an essential, indispensable existence for that end. On that...

Full Text Chapter 5 Part 3 | Contents | Chapter 5 Part 5 “Yes, I’m a liar. I’ve lied to you, and I’ve lied to Doujima-kun. I’ve also completely broken the promise to become a petit bourgeois. “But you’re also a liar, Kobato-kun. Have you noticed? While you were indicting me, you seemed to be enjoying yourself the entire time. While you were delving through your thoughts, not letting any small...

Full Text Chapter 5 Part 2 | Contents | Chapter 5 Part 4 “I’ll explain it to you, Kobato-kun. So…” “Halt!” I unconsciously raised my voice. Some new material was just presented, so it was worth reconsidering. It was a tape recorder, probably with some tape in it. Tape, which is usually used for voice. A recorded voice. In this case, what was the scene which was related to voice? Something related...

Full Text Chapter 5 Part 1 | Contents | Chapter 5 Part 3 My ability to identify a problem is not very high. If I’m told that there is a lie and asked what the lie is, that would be well within my area of expertise, but I tend to be unexpectedly weak at deducing the existence of a lie if it is hidden. Even so, a strange feeling remained. The feeling that something was not right, that everything...

Full Text Chapter 4 Part 6 | Contents | Chapter 5 Part 2 The Summer-Exclusive Tropical Parfait of Cecilia, the first place shop in the Osanai Summer Sweets Selection. Two days had passed since the kidnapping. Cecilia was located on the second floor of a building that definitely could not be described as new, and to get to it one had to ascend a cramped staircase from the small entrance. I was...

Full Text Chapter 4 Part 5 | Contents | Chapter 5 Part 1 The wind was out. With that, the clouds that had been drooping in the sky were finally being blown away. A bit of sunlight was even poking out from the west side. Unfortunately, Kengo was sent to the hospital. No matter how you look at it, it was just a graze, but he was stabbed in front of the police officers, so it would be treated as an...