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Chapter 10 Cheers to Your Eyes, Kid꞉ A Rainy Day Romance Edited by: Kanaa-senpai  Not just after school, but on the weekends too, Mana started coming over to my place. Sometimes we’d even take Bogie, the dog, for a stroll in the nearby park. The funny thing was, the park was close enough to the…

Chapter 8 Wrapped in Kindness꞉ A Melancholy Spring Break Edited by: Kanaa-senpai  The last two days of spring break had arrived, and Mana, uncharacteristically, didn’t show up. She’d mentioned yesterday, before heading home, that she’d be late, but it was already past eight in the evening, and there hadn’t been a single word from her.…

Chapter 9 The Turbulent Beginning꞉ A Foreboding of Chaos Edited by: Kanaa-senpai  The very next day, Mana looked completely back to her old self on the outside. I couldn’t know what was going on in her heart, of course, but she definitely carried an air of having put things behind her.  We ate breakfast together,…

Chapter 7 Bogey’s Arrival and the Sweet Teasing Game Edited by: Kanaa-senpai  Two days after I went to the home center, the puppy’s enclosure arrived. I’d been advised there that a customizable enclosure was better than a fixed cage, so I went with that. As I knew from the start, I couldn’t haul it home…

Chapter 6 The Request for a Smile Edited by: Kanaa-senpai  The very next Monday arrived, leaving only four days left in the third school term. Manami-san, she was just the same as always, ne¹.  Yet, having caught a glimpse of that entirely different side of her, the one away from the school gates, one couldn’t…

Chapter 5 The Day She Made My Heart Go ‘Kyun-Kyun’ Edited by: Kanaa-senpai  It was Sunday evening, a perfectly ordinary end to a week that had, admittedly, contained the extraordinary little blip with Nakanishi-san. My weekend had been swallowed whole by the endless, thankless, and utterly exhausting cycle of washing and cleaning.  It was only…

Chapter 3 A Dream on a Spring Night Edited by: Kanaa-senpai  After arriving at my place, I ushered Nakanishi-san into the living room, started the bath water, and went to grab a change of clothes and a bath towel. Handing the towel over, I murmured, “You must be freezing. The bath is running now, so…

Chapter 4 The Betrayal of the Idol and The Quiet Shelter of a Classmate Edited by: Kanaa-senpai  Just yesterday, when I got home from school, Mom told me she was divorcing Dad. The reason was Dad’s cheating. Honestly, I just couldn’t believe it.  Dad was a successful buyer of Western goods, working with major department…

Chapter 2 The Melancholy Shift and the Idol’s Sudden Shelter Edited by: Kanaa-senpai  Lawyer Watanabe-sensei, the corporate legal counsel for my father’s company, had thoroughly investigated my relatives. It turned out there was a cousin on my mother’s side, but they were either unreachable or already deceased, so for the sake of future legal proceedings,…

Chapter 1 Alone, Suddenly꞉ The Day the World Went Quiet Edited by: Kanaa-senpai  My name is Inamori Hirokazu, and I was the long-awaited, late-in-life child of my parents. I was, consequently, raised soaking up their absolute, undivided affection.  My parents always adjusted to my tempo, always seemed to anticipate my every thought. The result?  I…