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Full Text Chapter 4 Part 6 | Contents | Chapter 5 Part 2 We were at Cecilia, a shop which had attained the top spot in the Osanai Summer Sweets Selection, to eat their Summer-Exclusive Tropical Parfait. Two days had passed since the kidnapping. Cecilia was located on the second floor of a building that […]

Full Text Chapter 3 | Contents | Chapter 4 Part 2 That night, my stomach, which was so stuffed that it was close to bursting, finally settled down, and I managed to read the satisfying denouement of the novel I’d been looking forward to. It was already eleven at night when I finished and was

Full Text Prologue | Contents | Chapter 1 Part 2 It was all because of the annoying heat. That was what I concluded, anyway. If everything was as per normal, there is no doubt that I would have never thought of something like that. Currently, only Osanai-san and I were in the house. In other

Full Text Chapter 4 Part 3 | Contents | Chapter 5 Part 2 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

(Note about chapter title: This is part of an old saying: “Keeping silent is like having a swelling in the mind”, meaning that if you don’t say whatever you want to say, you will be left feeling uneasy and unsatisfied.) Full Text Chapter 3 Part 4 | Contents | Chapter 4 Part 2 What is

Full Text Chapter 2 Part 4 | Contents | Chapter 3 Part 2 It was a Sunday when I spotted Osanai-san in town. Osanai-san and I did have a reciprocal relationship, but it did not extend to codependence, and we were definitely not inseparable lovebirds. We would hang out after class to eat a dessert,

Full Text Chapter 1 Part 3 | Contents | Chapter 2 Part 2 There is a kind of instance in which people feel that they’re having the best time of their lives. It is not one of the numerous peaks you can see if you look far enough down the scale of time, but it

Full Text Chapter 1 Part 1 | Contents | Chapter 1 Part 3 And thus, our high school life started peacefully. For the start of the school year, most of the new students decided to just wait and see. Some observed, while others investigated and polished their basic strategies to build up human relations. Of

Full Text Prologue | Contents | Chapter 1 Part 2 If asked about whether I have confidence in myself, I would have answered in the negative. Unless the one asking that question was a god and could guarantee that no one would think badly of me even if I told the truth. If so, I