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Translator's preface:

I bought this light novel while I was overseas and found it to be a great, touching read It's pretty different froenre It's also ht novel instead of a web novel

I'll be doing this as a side project with probably irregularly-released partial chapters whenever - the LN's chapters are split neatly into small parts, which is nice

This is soe interest as well, since I'enre of story I particularly like it, and if you do as well, please leave so

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Chapter 1: Short season, cold feeling

TLN: This chapter title is the English caption written next to the japanese chapter title, which actually translates to: “The season of cherry blossoms and the temperature of linoleum”

There were cherry blosso on both sides of the road on the hill As I finished cli it, a brand new hospital ca, and it so a hospital, it had an office-building-like air to it That made me feel a little more at ease I informed the reception desk of o to

Thinking about hoould soon be er, I felt quite nervous Not to irl who had been hospitalized due to illness

I was a little restless as I waited for the hospital’s elevator

“I heard she’s a real beauty,” someone had told me

Apparently, her name was Watarase Mamizu

During the first hoh school, Yoshi+e-sensei, our ho voice

“Watarase Mamizu-san has been hospitalized since middle school due to a serious illness,” she said “I hope that she will be discharged as soon as possible and enjoy her school life with everyone”

There was one empty seat in the classrooh school, so the students attending didn’t really change from middle school Even so, it seemed that almost nobody knew Watarase Mamizu

“I heard that it’s luminescence disease”

“Then she probably won’t be able to come to school, huh”

“Who is she?”

“Apparently she hasn’t been to school since May in our first year of middle school”

“I don’t remember her at all”

“Doesn’t anyone have a picture of her on their phone?”

The people in the class began gossiping about her a little, but there wasn’t any significant information about her, so that quickly stopped

If it was luminescence disease, it would be difficult for her to return to school It was known to be an incurable disease

Its cause is unknown Treatment methods haven’t even been established

A full recovery is impossible That’s why most people with the condition spend their entire lives in hospital The disease progresses as the patient grows to adulthood, and the symptoms just suddenly appear one day It’s said that e years or in their twenties Once the syh;adults There are many different sye phenomenon in the skin

It glows

It’s said that at night, when the light of the moon shi+nes on the body of soht Apparently, that eresses That’s why it’s called luminescence disease

… Either way, it’s unlikely that this girl naht, and decided to quickly forget about all of it

A few days after that, during break time, what appeared to be an enormous piece of colored paper was passed around to me

“Okada, write soiven it to me

“What is this?” I asked

“You knoas it again? So-san, the one with lun it and then it’s going to be given to her”

Uninterested, I ran my pen across the colored paper

I hope your illness gets better soon Okada Takuya

I wrote these words smoothly within three seconds and then looked around to pass the signed paper to the next person

“Wow, Okada, that’s pretty vague”

“Who am I supposed to pass it to next?”

“Everyone around here’s signed it Ah, Kayaive it to him You and Kayama are close, aren’t you?”

“We’re not really close,” I replied before approaching Kayama’s seat

Kayaing out from his trousers, and he was slu He was tall, and his hair was long He didn’t give off the air of a delinquent He didn’t have any violent tendencies, but he could be suitably described as “unserious” He was still popular with girls because he had a well-featured face, but he usually responded to people souys avoided him a little

“Kayama, wake up,” I said