Chapter 4 | Contents | Afterword Table of Contents Part 1Part 2Part 3Part 4Part 5 1 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...
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...
Chapter 4 | Contents | Epilogue Table of Contents Part 1Part 2Part 3Part 4Part 5 1 It was the next day. With my modest bento laid out on my desk, some noise suddenly drifted from the school speakers. The broadcasting switch was turned on. Since I was well-behaved and didn’t belong to a club, I couldn’t imagine that I was in any way related to the announcement that would follow, so I paid it no...
Full Text Chapter 5 Part 3 | Contents | Chapter 5 Part 5 The situation was complex. I’ve read countless stories of people with superhuman powers of observation and deduction, who can reach a conclusion in a single leap of logic, but because of that struggle to explain it to normal people. Thankfully for me, I don’t possess superhuman powers of observation or deduction. Since I can’t do leaps of...
Full Text Chapter 5 Part 2 | Contents | Chapter 5 Part 4 Osanai-san is in the wrong. The little citizens that we aim to be should not hold such an appetite for vengeance. However, I could not stop her. Another option I had was to help her, but it was rejected. We did promise to help each other escape, but we never decided to help each other attack. The relationship Osanai-san and I have is...
Full Text Chapter 5 Part 1 | Contents | Chapter 5 Part 3 After lessons ended, we left the school. “You know…” “…Yeah?” “It would be great if your bicycle can be fixed.” “…Yeah.” The conversation that passed between us was devoid of life or color. Even our eyes, which would usually be looking about restlessly at our surroundings, were fixated at our feet. I didn’t have anything to say, and even if...
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