Daily Archives: October 15, 2018

  Evening, as I lay in my bed in the hours after dinner, a call came in from Shimizu. ‘Ichirou-kun, what happened after that? Smooth sailing?’ “Ah, my bad. I didn’t report. I can’t call it smooth sailing, but it’s … Continue reading →

  While classes quietly went on, it was around third period’s break time that Ryouko wandered away. Even a soldier among soldiers couldn’t lie to her biological phenomena. It was only at times like these that without dragging me along … Continue reading →

  It was the next day that magic marker had turned Ryouko’s desk into Hoichi the Earless. “This is terrible.” As dull to ill-intent as she was, that was the first time I ever saw Kobato-san show her anger. Though … Continue reading →

  The small-scale harassment continued for both me and Ryouko. Items lost, balls thrown, blatant laughs, bad rumors. They were all part of a path I had tread before, there was nothing novel about them. I didn’t find it particularly … Continue reading →

  The aberration started from something trivial. That’s always how it happened. Even TV specials that promote healthy lifestyles and sickness prevention every week emphasize, “His tragedy started because he ignored the small danger signals his body was sending him” … Continue reading →

  With that sequence of events, I was once again seeing a change in my surrounding circumstance. Unlike the dramatic shift when my debut failed, this was an inconspicuous yet definite change. To start with, Takahashi and Ooshima were blatantly … Continue reading →