2. The baton that never passed,
3. where could it have ended up?
Se încarcă…Se încarcă…
1. "Maybe...?"
2. "Do you suppose they would... allow students play hide and seek!?"
3. It was a little like a maze.
4. I'd never imagined universities were so large!
5. "They're sweets!"
6. "Ooh!"
7. "What did she give us, I wonder?"
8. It was an exciting outing, to say the least!
9. "All our senpais have been wonderful people!"
10. "We're lucky Yamabe-senpai was so nice to us."
11. "Yes..."
12. "Is that the letter Senpai left to us?"
13. "..."
Se încarcă…Se încarcă…
1. "Eh!? You asked for her letter without any plan in mind!?"
2. "...I wasn't really thinking what we'd do after we took it."
3. But now...
4. Yamabe-senpai looked so bothered holding onto it...
5. I only thought that...
6. "I only went to our school after I failed getting into my first choice."
7. "I um,"
1. So I just felt that, I had to do something for her.
2. I said I'd take it without thinking...
3. Yamabe-senpai could tell, and gave me some encouragement...
4. It made me feel a little better.
5. "It hurt a lot when I didn't get where I wanted, but that's all in the past."
6. "Uh!"
7. "Now I really like going to school though!!"
8. "Oh. I didn't know..."
9. "Oho hoho ho"
10. "HEY! You're trying to get me to say "It's you~"!"
11. "Huh? Well uh..."
12. "...And what is it you like about school now?"
1. "So what shall we do with the letter?"
2. "Why don't we first... read what's inside!!"
3. "You sure look happy to tear right into it..."
4. "Well why shouldn't I~! Isn't that the important part!"
5. "On our double date we met my letter's sender, and found there was another before that..."
6. "Eh!? There's more out there!"
7. "So actually~"
8. "And now it's here in our hands!"
9. "Who could resist the urge to read it~!"
10. "Then I guess we'll read it right here."
11. "Hurry! Open it up!"
1. "She's making an invitation then."
2. "Similar to the one I left for you."
3. "But it's awfully direct about it."
4. "That's the first page."
6. "And the second page..."
7. "...She says to leave the letter in the book and that's all..."
8. I want you to write your own letter, make a friend with it, and build your own special relationship.
1. "This second page, it's the one Ono-senpai had seen, yes?"
2. "she was already thinking about if she were turned down..."
3. "...You know,"
4. "which told me what to write in the letter that reached you, Sumi-chan."
5. "Then they wrote their own letter imitating it, the one I saw,"
6. "What's wrong?"
7. "..."
8. "So it all comes back around."
1. "Doesn't it... sound awfully melancholic...?"
2. I was frantic with excitement over what we were about to start.
3. When I found the letter you'd written in reply to me,
4. It's real! It's really happening!
5. What stationery do I use?
6. I have to write her back!
1. What kind of girl is she?
2. Since she won't know anything about me, what if I try sounding all mysterious!
3. Aww, but she'd figure out in no time!
4. What should I ask her first!
5. I don't think anything in my life set my heart alight like that...
1. when I think of how she waited on a letter only to be turned down,
2. I can't help but imagine how she must have felt.
3. So instead,
4. "And it's such a sad, lonesome feeling..."
5. "So Yoopy-sensei's out today."
6. "Huh, then what're we doing for classic lit?"
7. "If we don't get a sub it's a printout day I guess."
1. "Yoo-pee!"
2. "Hurray!"
3. "Free time ~!"
4. "The teachers said classic literature class will be self-study in the library!"
5. "We're gonna see who can find the lewdest book in the library."
6. "Well what are you going to do then!"
7. "Sleep."
8. "You're supposed to study!"
9. "What's all that, Sakuragawa?"
10. "Eh? It's for self-study..."
11. "C'mon, we got a break today!"
12. "...She honestly fell asleep."
1. ...I haven't been here in a while.
2. All that time goes to meeting under the stairs now.
3. It feels almost nostalgic.
1. "That reminds me... I never went back to read the 2nd volume."
3. When the girl who wrote the letter read Yamabe-senpai's rejection,
4. what kind of effect did it have on her?
5. "But I promised Yamabe-senpai..."
6. And if I somehow found her now, would telling her only open old wounds?
1. "Such a sad, lonesome feeling."
2. Reading it hadn't made me sad.
3. ...Onee-sama must have read through all three volumes.
4. I hadn't actually considered it enough, unlike Onee-sama.
5. If I read, take in more of what she's read...
6. would I start seeing the world more like her too?
1. You're always radiant like the sun.
2. I notice it more all the time.
1. "I thought you'd be in class..."
2. "Yes..."
3. "Huh?"
4. "Checking somethin' out?"
5. "So see, us 3rd years,"
6. "Ahh..."
7. "That makes sense..."
8. "That clear things up for you?"
9. "Nothing to do at home anyways~"
10. "And since I'm on the library committee this's where I hang out."
11. "I got in on a recommendation already so no point being in class now."
12. "it's more like "attend when you want" this time of year."
13. "Don't want to mess with those in the general exam and all, yeah?"
14. "Volume 2...?"
15. "So, what're you taking out today?"
16. "I was looking at this."
1. "...Uh."
2. "Guess reading the first got its hooks in you?"
4. The trail of the letter left behind, close at hand...
1. The Princess of Sylph (still ongoing, still translating, check links)
2. I See You, Aizawa-san!
3. noighd - noighd.wordpress.com - discord.gg/PVw7wpsQxQ
4. "Don't think she's around."
5. "The librarian~?"
6. back in ch1 p.14
7. A reminder Japanese high school has only 3 years, so student librarian here is about to graduate.
8. In mid-January, seniors take the Common Test (formerly Center), a general nationwide exam for college admissions. Being already accepted on a recommendation, she must be a high performer.
9. "That clear things up for you?"
10. "Nothing to do at home anyways~"
11. "And since I'm on the library committee this's where I hang out."
12. "I got in on a recommendation already so no point in being in class now."
13. "it's more like 'attend when you want' this time of year."
14. "Don't want to mess with those in the general exam and all, yeah?"
15. bit.ly/arisaku-raw
16. If you have the means, please consider supporting the author and purchasing the Japanese volumes.
17. Physical: bit.ly/arisaku-cd Digital: bit.ly/arisaku-kobo @nishi55.bsky.social