Prev Story | Contents Greetings, this is Yonezawa Honobu. I present to you volume four of the series. This time, it’s a collection of short stories. Looking back on my school days, I always had the principled belief that just as tomorrow came after today, there would always be the boundless loop where the first …
Prev Story | Contents | Afterword Table of Contents 1 After passing through the downtown area of Kamiyama City and following the road to the northeast, I reached a long, gentle slope. The feet on the pedals of my bicycle grew heavy, but I didn’t feel pain. The slope wasn’t so severe that I had …
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Prev Story | Contents | Next Story Table of Contents 1 Today, it is common knowledge that there is more than one perspective to any topic. In this age, it is impossible to survive as a middle school student if you are unable to consider the opposite viewpoint. But then again, if you take this …
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Prev Story | Contents | Next Story Table of Contents 1 There’s this axiom that goes, “What you do over the new year, you repeat all year.” When I was young, during the period when I was busy preparing for my high school entry examinations, I was so afraid of that myth that I took …
Prev Story | Contents | Next Story Table of Contents 1 Suppose that one day, I took a microphone and said, “Today will be sunny.” Someone who heard me might think, “I guess Oreki Houtarou-kun is testing his microphone.” But another person might think, “Oreki Houtarou-kun is broadly asserting that today will be sunny.” Whichever …
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Prev Story | Contents | Next Story Table of Contents 1 I’ve often heard the saying, “All ghosts, when examined, are just withered flowers.” However, in this modern era where people are unable to grasp the idea of romanticism even after looking it up in a dictionary, withered flowers are rarely treated as ghosts, and …
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Prev Story | Contents | Next Story Table of Contents 1 We were learning about China’s history in our World History class. Unfortunately, I already knew a lot about the Warring States period, so I was feeling extremely bored. However, I neither had the interest to draw little comical illustrations in the margins of my …
Contents | Next Story Table of Contents 1 I can discern my personal preferences, but I would be hard pressed to say that they are desirable. Thinking back, I did not actually have a unique upbringing. While my father was rarely at home, he still managed to maintain the family. My sister was a rebellious, …
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