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Full Text Chapter 4 Part 2 | Contents | Chapter 5 Part 1 Osanai-san was sitting at the same table, but with different cakes in front of her, none of which seemed to be a pumpkin pudding. It seemed that she’d demolished the pumpkin pudding in the time it took me to get from that

Full Text Chapter 4 Part 1 | Contents | Chapter 4 Part 3 Humpty Dumpty is located a short distance to the northeast of Funa High School, although Funa High is already at the north side of town. I could get there within five minutes if I were on a bicycle. With the midterm examinations

(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 3 Part 3 | Contents | Chapter 4 Part 1 Kengo was still moody when we stood next to each other in front of the long toilet. He asked me what I was doing, to which I responded truthfully that I was talking with Chisato-senpai. He followed up by asking what we

Full Text Chapter 3 Part 2 | Contents | Chapter 3 Part 4 I didn’t actually feel the need to go, but I went to the toilet, anyway. Judging by the “open” sign on the knob, the door wasn’t locked. If so, where had Osanai-san gone? She couldn’t have possibly gotten lost in this narrow

Full Text Chapter 3 Part 1 | Contents | Chapter 3 Part 3 Kengo lived in a house on an old residential street. I’d been invited there two or three times while we were in elementary school. I was wondering if I would get lost on the way there, since it had been so long

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,