Vol 2 Epilogue (1/2)

Epilogue: Wish to the night sky―

Where is this place…

Having exhaustedtrashed, I fell into a pleasant slumber

“My… My wish is…”

Besideher wish on a tanzaku with glittering eyes

This situation, this scene

They seeuely familiar

It seems like the continuation of the dream from the other time

“… Finished!!”

Let’s see

Now that I think of it, last ti able to check Kyouko’s wish

I’m a bit interested in what could have the Kyouko from childhood wished for

Peeking at the writing on Kyouko’s tanzaku—

Let me become Chiharu-kun’s bride

That ritten in round and cute letters

Oi, oi A suddenout first?

These elementary schoolers… Their scariness knows no limits

“Eh”

Suddenly receiving a reverse proposal, the ape but,

“… Marrying you? Whatever the circumstances, isn’t that too rushed? We’re still elementary schoolers”

After a brief silence, she answered me with a quiet voice

“I-it’s not rushed at all! Kids these days are precocious, so like this is normal!”

“…”

Kids these days are so precocious, either I’ a kid would say

“… That so? But, e… We don’t knohat future will bring”

I gently averted it

Nevertheless, with her face showing her displeasure,

“Liar”

“… Yes?”

“Chiharu-kun Meanie… Marry me… You’ve just promised me…”

“Wait a minute When have I said that!?”

“… You didn’t say, you wrote! Chiharu-kun wished for us two to be together forever!“

“It’s true that that’s what I wrote on ether forever=e?”

“It does Being together forever, even after death… Being together in the same tomb[1]?”

“Eh”

“In other words, it e!”

“… You see, Kyouko To begin with, that was only a simile… COUGH COUGH”

Kyouko’s glance filled with killing intent overcame me and silenced me

Pathetic, even if I say so myself…

“So I want to propose once again officially Then, I think I’ll be able to endure Chiharu being far away…”

“…”

The nored her It see silent

Nevertheless My intentions being futile, Kyouko, with a shadow cast over her face,

“Breach the engagement… And in compensation, 3 million…[2]”

She said those dangerous words

Eeerrr?

Are you that? One of those wo a husband?…

If left like this, it will bring problems in the future The me back then decided to postpone the matter

“… Understood I promise”

“Really!?”

“Yeah But on the condition of it being once I’m an adult”

“How much of an adult!? With how many years!?”

“If we say adult, perhaps… When I’h school?”

… That was easy

If I had to h school students seemed like very adult existences to the me back then

The h schooler, could naturally be involved in a boyfriend-girlfriend relationshi+p… That kind of unsuspicious belief that’s not different from innocence

Me from elementary school… I’m sorry

Truth is… that couldn’t be

“Understood If that’s the case, in return… I’ll entrust this to you, Haru”

“Mm What’s this…”

What she took out next was a pendant shaped like a key attached to a silver chain

Wha… This design, I remember it from somewhere

Could this be then… The same pendant I found at home!?

“This is the key to the treasure box I’ve brought I was thinking on putting our tanzaku inside and then bury it under some tree”

“And why the heck would we do that?”

When I asked, Kyouko let out a smile as pretty as a midsummer sunflower,

“Because it’s more romantic like that”

“… Is that so?”

Being ain the least

“Yeah It’s much better like that! After Chiharu-kun, as proh school, we’ll coht, this was the very beginning of what happened today’ once we s… What, isn’t

it romantic?”

“…” I unconsciously let out a bitter smile

Roo bald

“I too will proh school… I’ll have become cuter and lovelier than anyone”

With that dazzling smile from Kyouko, my consciousness was returned to reality

I see That pendant I found by chance at ho

However I had doubts

How could I forget so so important?

It’s true that I have a tendency for forgetfulness higher than others, but I don’t think that soetful’

While filled with doubts, without any tiht, my consciousness was pulled to reality

“Haru… Haru…”

SHAKE SHAKE My body shook I was being shaken

“Kyouko…?”

“That’s good I… thought you wouldn’t wake up again”

SQUEEZE My body was tightly embraced

The body ofin a very long time, compared to when she was in ele, but unfortunately I didn’t have tiht now

“Errr Kyouko…Afterwards, what happened with the battle?”

“… Could it be, you don’t remember? That we could win thanks to the clever tactic devised by Haru?”

“I did so… Part of my memories of the battle are fuzzy Perhaps My body, didn’t soe?”

“… Change?”

“Like a part ofred”

“…!!”

Kyouko seeht after, she smiled aardly,

“Ahaha What’s that? Your skin has been always skin-colored! Weren’t you daydrea?”

“… Aah Yeah Is that so?”

Like Kyouko said, maybe it’s because I’m tired

The darkness of the forest, being mentally cornered… It must have been a hallucination or a dream

When I looked to my watch, it was already around 8 pm

It’s been a whole hour since the closing The Saegusa festival should be in theits stalls

“…Should we return?”

In the end, I couldn’t keep my promise to Zonmi and the others?

But, well, since I’ve been involved in an incident like this one, there’s no way

I think it’s lucky enough that I’ve kept my life intact

“Wait!”

As I turned back, I was stopped by a tug on my sleeve

“What’s the matter?”

“Truth is Haru, About that pendant you are wearing…”

“Aah, You mean this? Truth is, I’ve just—”

“Have you remembered!?”

Kyouko leant forward too close

“No, it’s not like that…”

Truth is, I’ve just re on the spur of the moment

Why is that?

There’s no way Kyouko could be serious about a proo, but…

Me re to marry, that’s the same

I feel bashful about not denying it, how’d I say, after this, I wouldn’t knohat face to make before her e met

“Do you know so about this?”