Prologue (2/2)

Saying so, Tobio’s face, already red with fever, got even redder

“What?”

“Uh……you know diseases and such, viruses and such”

“That’s probably what you have”

Receiving such a sarcastic reply, Tobio’s mouth bent into the shape of “へ” under the mask

As she opened the front door, Sae took one final look back to say

“I’ll be going now”

She gave a slightly lonely smile, and departed

Four days after his fellow students had left——

They had travelled by airplane from Narita to Honolulu From there, they boarded the “Heavenly of Aloha” at the harbor, and by now it should be the arriving at the Hawaiian Island of Kauai

To i of the luxury liner’s cuisine, touring each and every island, and thoroughly enjoying the cultural exchange was likely to make his feel bitter

With his physical condition having recovered little by little by latefor brunch

Tobio does not remember his parents’ faces

By the tiically aware, his parents were gone, and thus, until junior high school, he had been brought up by his grandrandh school student Since then, he had been living on nothing but the inheritance his parents and grandrandmother had been asked to assist in his daily life, it was possible for a high school student to purchase all the necessities without any particular inconvenience

Tentatively, he had no uardians——someone who could have become his protector, so there wasn’t anyone to contact, and so it was that he had come to lay hand to the inheritance

Therefore, after becoh school student, he now lives alone a one room flat It was relief for him that Sae would come over to make dinner

Though even without going as far to have so, Tobio didwith some bread

His fellow students would probably have already finished eating an elegant breakfast Thinking like that, his breakfast seems sorrowful

Heat it in a daze, he nibbled at his bread

‘The search is still ongoing in the case of thepersons——‘

Tobio gnawed silently at the bread while watching the TV without any particular interest

‘Students and teacher of Ryoukuu High School while on a school trip had safely boarded——‘

What……?

Tobio heard the na his attention to the TV

The TV was showing a maritime video that was taken from the air As if out of ainto the sea while giving off smoke

He wondered if he could not haveThis should be is such as this, they’re not supposed to happen to you!

Tobio’s heart was repeatedly attacked as the brutally ruthless TV’s subtitles displayed “Mysterious shi+pwreck of the Heavenly of Aloha”

With the naer shi+p confirmed, Tobio opened his eyes wide in shock A chill travelled down his spine He began breathing violently and his heart rate accelerated, and he noticed his heart pounding

Tobio checked the inforh his cell phone

He checked the neritten in one article Its contents made Tobio’s body quiver

‘Luxury Liner, Marine Accident!’

‘Nightmare on the School Trip!’

‘Status of the 233 high school students on board unknown——‘

‘Hopeless forpersons——‘

The nah School——

And Tobio, thought of his childhood friend Sae who he’d gone through high school with

—— I’ll be going now

Within Tobio, the last words said by his childhood friend ree look while snified how hopeless things were

“……Sae”

Coht where he was

That day, Ikuse Tobio lost 233 of his fellow students, including his childhood friend Toujou Sae——