2. "Come on, don't cry~"
3. "Aha ha ha!"
4. She belongs to a completely different world—like the heroine of a manga.
5. The world around Chiaki-chan is always sparkling.
6. For someone like me,
7. even just being a background 'mob character' in her life...
8. ...is the one and only thing I can take pride in from my high school years.
Laden…Laden…
1. But today's our last day of high school...
2. Chiaki-chan really is adorable..
3. "Aha ha ha!"
4. I want a keepsake where we're actually in the same frame together!
5. I've always just watched her from a distance... but if I could just get a single photo...
6. Just one photo...
7. But it's a total cliché in superhero and mystery manga for some random bystander to whip out their phone...!
8. No mob character should be doing this.
Laden…Laden…
1. Just one photo...
2. "Eh?"
1. There's no way Chiaki-chan actually looked at someone like me...!
2. Crap, crap, crap, crap, crap!
3. I have to get out of here, fast...
4. "Konomi-chan!"
5. A mob character isn't supposed to interact with the heroine...!
6. "Can you come with me for a second? We need to talk."
7. ...!? Did she just... say my name...?
8. "Y-Yes ma'am...!"
9. The school rooftop...!!
10. I'm so screwed...
1. And of all places, she brought me here...
2. "Ah, the wind feels so nice~"
3. The sacred sanctuary reserved exclusively for heroines and protagonists... a place a mere 'mob' has absolutely no right to enter...! *According to my own personal definitions*
4. "What exactly were you doing?"
5. "We definitely just made eye contact through your phone screen a minute ago, didn't we?"
6. "So, Konomi-chan."
7. "Y-Yes?!"
8. "I'll delete the picture right now!"
9. "I promise I'll never come near you again!!"
10. "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm so sorry!"
1. "Eh?"
2. "If anything, I'm the one trying to get closer to you."
3. "You've just been watching me from a safe distance all this time."
4. She totally knew the whole time--!
5. "You'd always just stare, but you never came over to say hi~"
6. "I am so, so incredibly sorry...!"
7. "It's nothing like that.."
8. "I-I'm totally creeping you out, aren't I...?"
9. "Acting like some kind of stalker..."
10. "Please stay back!"
11. "A mob character like me has absolutely no right to stand on equal footing with the heroine!"
12. The absolute peak of my happiness is being so far in the back-ground...
13. ...that the artist doesn't even bother drawing features on my face...!
1. "Well then..."
2. "...if I get this close to you..."
3. "...what's going to happen to you, Konomi-chan?"
1. "Ahaha!"
2. "asdf-gh-jkl;@!?#!!"
3. "W-What.."
4. "Hya...!"
5. "...are you doing?!"
6. "Eh?"
7. "The whole time, Konomi-chan."
8. "You know... I was watching you, too."
1. Every time I looked your way,
2. you'd immediately snap your head away...
3. and just stare at the floor or try to hide.
4. But while you were busy hiding...
5. I was actually staring right back at you.
6. You really had no idea, did you?
7. "So I've been dying to know.."
8. "Why were you staring at me like that?"
9. "That's..."
10. "To me... Chiaki-chan, you're the heroine."
11. The very first time I saw you...
12. ...it literally felt like you had sparkling special effects floating all around you.
13. I just realized right then that we belonged to completely different worlds.
1. "I'm so... sorry for staring at you for such a weird, stupid reason..."
2. "After that, I just couldn't bring myself to look away..."
3. "In that case.."
4. "..Konomi-chan."
5. "Does that mean it was love at first sight?"
1. "Just kidding~"
2. What is...
3. ...even happening right now?
4. An event this huge, a massive full-page spread reserved strictly for the heroine and the main character... There is absolutely no way a background mob character like me should be caught in the frame...!!
5. There's no way...
1. I got caught up in their energy...
2. "Ah, whoops."
3. "Ahaha"
4. "You really are something else, Konomi-chan."
5. "Oop, gotcha"
6. "Huh?"
7. "Sorry, Konomi-cha..."
8. "Konomi-chan..."
1. "The truth is..."
2. "...it always made me really happy knowing you were looking at me."
3. Spending the last three years just hanging out and chatting with my friends was fun.
4. But since
5. I was part of the 'popular crowd' in class...
6. ...the way everyone around me
7. was always judging and sizing me up...
8. "No way, XXX is way better..."
9. "Dude, XXX is definitely the hottest."
10. ...it honestly disgusted me.
1. If people were ranking us, I bet I'd be dead last...
2. All my friends were so cute, and cool, and beautiful.
3. Because I had a gaze that was meant for me...
4. But that didn't bother me one bit.
5. "In your eyes, I'm number one, right?"
6. I know I am.
7. ...and me alone. Konomi-chan's gaze.
1. "So this is it... We're really parting ways."
2. "Sigh... I can't believe we're actually graduating."
3. "Hey..."
4. "...Konomi-chan."
5. "...This really sucks."
6. "You have to keep looking at me..."
7. "...forever and ever, okay?"
8. They actually end up going to the same college right after this, but that's a story for another day.