Vol 1 Epilogue (2/2)
Kaori stopped, and Nayuki looked worried
“The four of us will be in the same class this year…”
Kitagawa said, bursting into laughter
“That’s really a bit depressing”
“I was already very busy with exa plans, if there are these people around me…”
“Kaori-sensei, I’ll have you to teach ain”
“Please don’t get ahead of yourself”
Kitagahacked again today Kaori did it this time
“But it’s great to be in the same class as Yuichi”
In the classroom, Nayuki smiled in relief
“Yuichi, when your house is built and your parents ht live somewhere away”
Nayuki said as if talking to herself
“If you’re concerned about that,” I pretended Kaori’s depressing tone and said, “Myoing overseas”
“Woah I see”
“So it’s overseas, you see, it’s inconvenient for hi his sickness in the winter, o with him”
“Is that so? So…”
“Yeah, I’ here”
“Really?”
“Yeah, we can eat so and celebrate it”
“Absolutely! Shall we go to the hundred flower house for strawberry parfaits?”
“You really like that…”
I shrugged a little
“But I want to eat so different today”
“What do you want to eat?”
“Taiyaki”
I took Nayuki to the shopping district and paid a visit to the taiyaki shop
“It’s around time taiyaki’s don't sell too well I’m happy for you to come buy my taiyakis”
The taiyaki shop’s old ave us each an extra taiyaki
“Speaking of which, I haven’t seen that girl for a while That kid ears a strange backpack”
“I haven’t seen her for some time as well”
“How could that be?”
“Yuichi, you remembered about her and took me to buy taiyaki?”
On the road, Nayuki asked while eating taiyaki
“No I just felt like eating”
But my footsteps naturally led me to the open space where I usually had taiyakis with Ayu
“I once said I knew Ayu before, didn’t I?”
“Yeah”
“But I can’t reirl she was…”
“I don’t know too”
I should have met her a lot, but I didn’t even know her address or phone number But perhaps there wasn’t the need to in the first place
“Ayu, are you still energetic?”
“She etic”
No matter where she were
“This is the only good point about her”
“She’ll get angry if she hears you”
“Probably”
On the old tires I once sat with Ayu now sat Nayuki and I, eating the extra taiyaki
…Yuichi
There was a feeling that Ayu would be attracted by the smell of taiyaki and quickly appear nearby
Miracles happen, Ayu
As what you have said
But even now, I don’t think I was the one who made it happen
“This…is how I think”
Nayuki lightly touched her fluttering hair
“Ayu’s angel wings…perhaps…really were for that purpose”
“The real Ayu would really find it a trouble if she heard this”
“Yuichi…”
Every ti smile
Nevertheless…
Perhaps Ayu was just a girl with no set living place; a girl who loved taiyaki and was energetic
Still, if I had really retrieved the memories in the deepest place in el
No, Yuichi
Ayu’s voice sounded afar
It was one person who enabled thewishes he had for his important one
After that, Nayuki and I played in the shopping district till the evening I was surprised to find in the bookstore that Nayuki have read a lot of books, knowing tons and tons of writers and their works In the playground, I couldn’t stop laughing at Nayuki’s expected sporty nerves
“We ate taiyaki today, so let’s leave strawberry parfaits for next time”
“Speaking of strawberry parfaits, I still owe you seven ones”
“I’ll let you pay me back one by one”
“How long do I have to pay you back…”
“When you’re alain~”
“Hey, when did you acquire this bullying personality?”
“I’m infected by your bad personality~”
Whack
“Ouch…look, you have a bad personality”
“You’re noisy”
“But it’s good if you pay me back slowly”
“…whatever you want”
It’s about time we returned, with that said, we headed home
“Akiko hasfor us”
“Eh? Yuichi?”
At the same time, Akiko ca Yuichi’s voice from the second floor
But Yuichi and Nayuki hadn’treturned
“It ination”
Akiko quickly agreed to herself and returned to preparing dinner
The real reason was that Nayuki's alar
On the second floor, Nayuki’s alarain
Nayuki…
Although I cannot let miracles happen…
I can still stay at your side
I promise you
When you’re sad, I’ll comfort you
When you’re happy, I’ll laugh with you
I will stay here forever
I won’t go anywhere ever again
Because…
I seem to have fallen in love with you
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