2. "So, what do you want to be when you grow up?"
3. "Or the kind of job you want to do..."
4. "Please write an essay on..."
5. "Or something you want to do when you're grown-up."
6. "The kind of person you want to be..."
7. The seasons passed...
8. And I became the grade four homeroom teacher.
Memuatkan…Memuatkan…
1. Final Chapter Ovation
Memuatkan…Memuatkan…
1. "How long have you been dating?"
2. "Uh-huh."
3. "With the woman you brought home that time?"
4. ""It's okay?" listen, you."
5. "You are dating, right?"
6. "Huh?"
7. "Oh, that makes sense. Last time, you announced you were moving in together."
8. "It's okay?"
9. "Um?"
1. "And I think you have, too, akari-san."
2. "Yeah. I guess."
3. "Your mother and your sister have been through some hard times."
4. "And I can't imagine all of that with your father didn't cast a shadow on your heart."
5. "There's everything with me."
6. "You have to think about him separate from yourself."
7. "But I would just think I have that guy's blood in me."
8. "It's not that I don't remember him."
9. "My dad..."
1. "This and that..."
2. "Are totally separate."
3. "She's good at compart-mental-izing."
4. "And..."
5. "True."
6. "Well, if I did tell them, I'd be the only one who felt better."
7. "Her and ayano-chan really are alike."
8. "Hunh."
1. "Might actually know everything and are nice enough not to say anything."
2. "You mom and your sister..."
3. This woman...
4. "It's just that it's not impossible is all."
5. "Wha?!"
6. "Why would you even say that?! Come oooooon!"
1. "Don't just go reading my stuff, you jerk!"
2. "You left it on your desk like you were beggging me to read it."
3. "It was in a file folder!"
4. "I could see what was inside!"
5. "Ooh, nice. There's a thirteen-year-old."
6. "Great."
7. "This is the final candidate list."
1. "But it's impressive that she made it this far."
2. "I don't know if she's a genius."
3. "A girl genius?"
4. "Manaaa!"
5. "Did you enter a contest?"
6. "I'm sorry. Could you repeat that name?"
7. "Yes?"
8. "You're in it too, mom."
9. "That's amazing!"
10. "But the newcomer prize!"
11. "Missed out on the grand prize."
12. "Crap! Soooo close."
1. "So what?!"
2. "Most people don't even get that far!"
3. "It is totally amazing!"
4. "No, but it's like the lowest prize? So..."
5. "Wow, mana-chan!"
6. "Con-grats!"
7. "Tell her!"
8. "Right, yuka?!"
9. "Maybe not too many people submitted..."
10. "Enough!"
11. "You're being too humble!"
12. "You've been like this ever since okuma-senpai turned you down! Jeez!"
13. "It's just..."
14. "I mean..."
15. "Say some-thing..."
16. "I..."
17. "I'm dead."
1. "That was pretty cool of okuma-senpai."
2. "You can write about yuka's lost love next."
3. "Shut up, jerk!"
1. "And my dad's doing good now, but he was really sick for a bit there."
2. "My mother's mentally ill."
3. "My family's not in great shape these days."
4. "I'll be honest."
5. "It's possible that us three kids might have to focus pretty much entirely on them."
6. "Plus, once my parents need care..."
7. "She might end up right back where she started."
8. "My little sister's planning to move out at some point."
9. "But I don't know how it'll go for her."
10. "If we start formally dating, jinguji-san, my family will be a burden for you."
11. "And I never wanted anything casual, anyway."
12. "If it comes to that, I won't have any time for casual dating."
1. "If you want to start in on that, I mean, it's the same for me."
2. "Plus, I'm an only child."
3. "I'm being pretty blunt here, but I don't want to sugarcoat the situation."
4. "You're being too blunt."
5. "So then why don't we actually date with an eye towards getting married?"
6. "Good."
7. "What?!"
8. "No! Of course not!"
9. "Are you trying to dump me?"
10. "Understand how important it is to..."
11. "Talk with each other and stay on the same page, right?"
12. "I think we both..."
1. "Ha ha ha! You're right."
2. "Ooh!"
3. "Young love!"
4. "So..."
5. "Ayano, you, like..."
6. "We played at being a couple, yeah?"
7. "We did."
8. "Hm?"
9. "Back in the day, okay?"
1. "It's fine. We're good."
2. "Ha ha!"
3. "Sorry for making you be the boy."
4. "Well..."
5. "I cringe just thinking about it."
6. "Hmm. I don't remember."
7. "It's my fault you grew out your hair, isn't it?"
8. "Maybe they do it to try and switch things up?"
9. "I guess."
10. "I wonder if anyone really does."
11. "I heard some people cut their hair when they get dumped."
12. "Hmmm."
13. "It was just how I was feeling at the time."
14. "It's pretty short now, too?"
1. "The truth is, back then..."
2. "Come on. Not again."
3. "Sorry."
4. "But..."
5. "It wasn't that I wanted to make you be a boy."
6. "I actually had a crush on you, ayano."
7. "Nao."
1. "All of you, be happy, okay?"
2. "You and your family."
3. "You, too, nao."
4. "Okay."
5. "And..."
6. "Be happy, okay?"
7. "Let's all get together again sometime."
8. "Let's do this again!"
9. "Thanks."
10. "Okay."
11. "Whaaaa?!?"
1. "Ummm. But you have such beautiful hair..."
2. "What's going through your head?!"
3. "Ah. I mean, it's fine."
4. "I know."
5. ""Just this much" is a whole lot, though."
6. "I've always liked it short."
7. "There's lots."
8. "For both of us."
9. "Still got a lot to learn about you, huh?"
10. "Yup."
11. "Really?!"
1. "This is exactly what I like about you!"
2. "You mysterious vixen, you!"
3. Aaaaaaaaaaaaah!
1. "I'm off."
2. "Say?"
3. "See you later."
4. "How about we take a trip?"
5. "Who?"
6. "Just us?"
7. "Fine."
8. "I wish you'd asked me thirty years ago."
9. "Mm-hm."
1. That time...
2. "It won't stop me from bullying a little old man with not much time left."
3. And that time...
4. "But you did almost die there the one time."
5. And even now...
6. If you had been able to say...
7. "Sorry."
8. "Thanks."
1. If we had been a couple that supported each other...
2. Family is so futile.
3. It's strange.
4. The okubo and miyake families continue to be connected in surprising ways.
1. Lately...
2. I think about...
3. Forgiveness.
4. For others.
5. For me.
6. "Wow! Look at that stack!"
2. "What's the topic?"
3. "Their dreams for the future."
4. "You're gonna read them now?"
5. "Those all essays by your students?"
6. "I am."
7. "I couldn't finish them at work."
8. "They are."
9. A teacher like sensei.
10. I want to be...
11. I'm definitely not an adult kids should emulate.
12. But...
13. "No. I got something in my eye..."
14. "Oh! What's up? Moved to tears?"
1. My conflicts...
2. My problems...
3. My experiences...
4. But if the kids who know nothing about...
5. Are going to nonetheless find me aspirational...
6. Then I want to at least live honestly from now on.
7. "Oh!"
8. "Right."
3. The last volume!
4. I'm the author, takako shimura.
5. Volume ten of even though we're adults.
6. More impor- tantly...
8. "More impor- tantly?"
9. "I've got my sights set on losing two kilos."
10. "Then steadily working up to five."
11. "I'm going to make it happen."
12. "It all came back!"
13. "That's got nothing to do with the last volume."
14. "All those days I worked so hard, wasted!! The pain!"
15. "5 kilos"
16. "5 plus 5 kilos!"
17. "The ten kilos I lost last year...!"
18. "Still fat, though."
20. "You don't mean that!"
21. "I wish you every bless- ing in this life."
22. "You've got a bad attitude!"
23. "I'm praying for your happi- ness!"
24. "Is it? Sorry."
25. "Come on now, akari-san."
26. "Ah! That's sexual harass- ment!"
27. "Must be nice to be skinny, huh?"
30. "Both of you are. But es- pecially you..."
31. "Arrrrgh!"
33. Thank you so much to all you readers who stayed with me until the very end!