Chapter 1 (1/2)
This is part one of the after story that takes place two years after the school trip they took in middle school
Also, it looks like Ise Katsura is co out with a rebuild/rewrite of the Onani Master Kurosawa story in novel forust It will be retitled “Catcher in the Toilet” Cool stuff!
Current completion status: 100 Complete!
My thoughts: 4459 words… ffff translating giant blocks of text sucks Now I kno those people doing VN / light novels / games feel…
It was a refreshi+ngon h my cell phone
“Take me with you-!”
It was such a threatening attitude that I involuntarily pulled the cell phone away fro Her selfish mannerism wasn’t a recent occurence, but at the very least, she could have seenof my departure
“You tellout oftiawa and the rest of them…”
“That’s why I’m unable to take this! Why the hell didn’t you talk to h and hty that you could secretly run off with your buddies and enjoy a fun trip together, bastard?!”
Sugawa’s anger didn’t show any signs of abating, and even now sounded like the screech fro microphone In one way or another, I wanted to cals went on like this, it looked like I was going to be late for our designated asse my house
“I’awa, I’ll listen to your complaints over e-mails later, so… what kind of souvenirs are nice?”
“You… is it your plan to get onme a souvenir?! You can’t fool me, can’t fool me!”
Sugawa continued on with things like “Don’t fuck withup!”, and before I could say a single word in return, she hung up All that re tone
“A lover’s quarrel this early in the ? Sheesh…and it’s not even 8:00 yet? Put yourself inof your day off, right?”
As I tiedin my back that h today is supposed to be a fun-filled day, I had this sinking feeling inside me from even before I left
When I arrived at the station where ere , I saw that everyone except me was already there
“You’re slow-, Mister Coordinator is late-”
Takigaaved her hand and invited aoka with his familiar smile, and off to each side of them stood Kitahara and Pizza-ta, who each stood there in a manner reminiscent of a bodhisattva statue
“Sorry, I had a quarrel as I was leaving , everyone”
As I bowed htly, I was able to see all the faces in turn of the forroup, that I had not seen for a while It was the first ti of the new school term
Takigawa’s lovely figure was steadily i a natural perh he was still wearing those ill-fitting street gang-like clothes, Pizza-ta was thinner than the last time I saw him
Thewith everyone to plan for this trip didn’t really take place that long ago It was about teeks ago, or thereabouts
In spite of that, after not having seen everyone for a little while, I got the feeling that everyone had changed just a little At our age, for both e in the blink of an eye
Was Kitahara the only person who hasn’t really changed at all?
Even though it seeh her classmates have called her “Kitahara-senpai” since her first year of high school, she still has a squirrel-like figure, and wears a sour expression on her face that I can’t quite read It looks like she hasn’t grown at all
Nevertheless, in this short tirown up; the one thing that hasn’t changed is the atmosphere that we’ve had since middle school
—When he’s around, somehow, I feel a little more relieved
“Hmm, since Kurosawa-dono has now arrived, let us promptly head towards Osaka! … Ah, but before that!”
Suddenly raising his fist as if he were trying to pierce the heavens, and then quickly lowering it, Nagaoka said this:
“We are now the “foristel-dono was not part of group D This Dan is not the SOS-Dan any more, so don’t we need a new name!?”
But it appeared that it was only Kitahara and I that found this to be absolutely stupid Takigawa and Pizza-ta were tapping their fingers to their mouths as if they had encountered a difficultearnestly about a new team name Why were Kitahara and I always in the minority?
Clapping her hands together, Takigaas the first to announce a candidate for our team name
“Ah, hey, hey, how does this sound?”
“Hohoho, what is it?”
“…The Order of the Black Knights!!”
Hey, hey, Takigawa I don’t know the origins of that na“No way”, but it seeain in the minority
“Splendid!”
Nagaoka clapped his hands, and with that one word, our tea sense… it seeaoka’s, down to her very core This is alar
Thus, the forroup, then SOS-Dan, and now Order of the Black Knights, rode the bullet train, and set out for Osaka It’s just a day in the middle of the Golden Week that followed the start of our second year in high school
On our school trip two years ago, we only stayed for two days and one night at the place we visited – a short trip This is the dreairl once had envisioned; and at that ti tireet this day safe and sound
We rocked around inside trains for three hours
After riding the bullet train, and then the subway, the Order of the Black Knights arrived at the Tenpou Mountain Harbor Village at Osaka Harbor It was the first time we had seen this place in two years It was just as I had envisioned; the color of the sky was even the saht
“Ooh-! This scenery is so nostalgic! It brings back those fleeting memories from middle school~”
Now that I think about it, the Nagaoka of two years ago also was exhilarated and frolicking around like a little child As usual, the expressions on Kitahara and Pizza-ta’s faces reed
“Ehh~, so that’s Osaka Harbor It’sit, so it’s a fresh new experience”
Takigawa quickly linked araoka as soon as she stepped outside, without any hesitation As I thought, her eyes had brightened up and were sparkling
Now that I think about it, on the school trip’s second day, e split up into groups, Takigawa had gone with Misaki-san to visit another district My onlyit was; and second, that troublesoawa had proposed to me
“Now then! Where shall we visit? The aquariu mall?”
At any rate, Nagaoka seeh spirits
I was quickly beco to sit in those uncomfortable train seats for so many hours At last, I could breathe some fresh air I wanted to take a short break here
As I was thinking about that, Pizza-ta interrupted by tiaho looked as if they were about to run off
“Uh, uo to a restaurant…”
I agreed Until now, I had never been grateful toward Pizza-ta
We ate lunch at a Chinese restaurant, and then went to the aquariuh the tank,brilliantly colored fish
To tell the truth, a guy like me, who has no interest in the mysteries of the natural world, was kind of bored on this second trip to the aquarium On top of that, since it was a holiday, there were a lot of other people around, and the claht; I was better suited to the ate facility like this
However, seeing Nagaoka and Takigawa s at different species, one could almost stomach the boredom and the rabble of the crowd
This is the second time that I’ve felt this way
Surely, when you’re on a trip, you don’t really need a goal or those kind of emotions You’re alith your friends, and you’ll always do soh to
“Well then, next up is the ferris wheel! Magistel-dono, let’s ride it together~”
“Of course- Let’s get a nice view of the scenery of Osaka–”
Exiting the aquarium, this lovey-dovey couple led us towards the ferris wheel, their voices full of enthusiasm
Right behind the at Pizza-ta’s sweat-soaked back as alked in a line
On the short path to the ferris wheel, I whispered into Kitahara’s ear so about previously
“Kitahara, are we riding together again?”
She shook her head like a dog trying to dry itself by shaking water off its back
“Why the hell do I have to ride the ferris wheel with Kurosawa-kun a second time?”
“That’s what I thought I had a feeling you’d say that Well, you’re riding with Pizza-ta, then”
“Eh?”
“You don’t want to ride with ether with Pizza-ta It looks like Nagaoka and Takigawa are riding together I’ll just wait outside”
As I said that, Kitahara showed irlish expression she had made all day It was a really nasty look
“Why the hell does it have to be like that?! Why can’t all three of us just ride?”
“With Pizza-ta? Three people? Don’t be ridiculous We’d surpass the weight capacity and the ferris wheel ht stop”
“That wouldn’t happen! …I’ serious”
Well, since it looks like my little speech contained more or less a few unpleasant truths, it looks like I won’t be able to talk my way out of it It can’t be helped; it looks like my objective won’t be achieved
“…Do you really hate Pizza-ta that much?”
After I asked that, Kitahara pondered it over, and hung her head in shame
“It’s not as if… I hate hiusted At the aquariu in front of Seki-kun, I sensed hi at my ass Of course, I’m thankful that he’s always kind to ross…”
Ah, Pizza-ta, you rascal, now that’s so that could be called admirable To an extent, I can syards to males who can perfectly understand their own conduct and set it aside, you could say they’ve got quite sos From middle school onwards, I understood; however, I couldn’t think of Kitahara as anything but a person that had been shaken down to her very core
I’lad that our conversation never reached Pizza-ta’s ears I’awa, but if Takigawa did so like that to me, I’d probably never recover
“Well, just endure it for a little while Please, Kitahara, just ride the ferris wheel with Pizza-ta”
If I abase myself, then this time Kitahara will look at me with eyes full of blame
“…What’s with you? Why are you obsessing over Seki-kun and me?”
I was a loss for words as to hoould explain this In the end, I replied with this
“Just because”
“…You’re weird”
I don’t know if that was a signal of her agreement or not, but soon after, Kitahara left my side and walked towards Pizza-ta
This crazy idea that I proposed… It appears that everything got settled the way it was supposed to be, so I clapped my chest in relief
Back in the winter of my third year of middle school, I stood in front of everybody in ized for h he was a close friend of mine, I had kept a terrible secret hidden from him
During our school trip, I did a terrible thing to Pizza-ta