1. "Oh! Okubo-sensei!"
2. "Kakizaki-sensei was looking for you."
3. "Huh? I wonder why."
4. "The basketball team is practicing, so you can probably find her in the gym."
5. "Kakizaki-sensei? Hmm. She was here a second ago."
1. "Hello?"
2. "Kakizaki-sensei!"
3. "I guess not."
4. "Are you here?"
1. "Oh!"
2. "Okubo-sensei! Sorry about that!"
3. "Hey! No running!"
4. But then well, turns out...
5. I explained the situation to her parents while en route to the hospital.
6. Right! I called her mother right away.
7. "No worries."
8. "It wasn't anything urgent. I didn't mean to make you run all over the school! Sorry."
9. "Is the girl who hurt herself okay?"
10. "She wasn't actually hurt."
11. "What?"
1. "One kid pushed another, others got involved, someone got hurt..."
2. "And then they lied about it."
3. "I guess some kids had a fight in class."
4. "Wow."
5. "I'm glad she's okay!"
6. "I mean, it's a good thing!"
7. "Oh."
8. "The story is that a gang of fifth and sixth graders were having a fight and some fourth graders were stuck in the middle!"
9. I thought maybe she faked it to get out of class...
10. But that wasn't it either.
11. Those girls were probably...
12. "One of the fifth graders got hurt."
13. The fourth graders.
1. I hope they weren't fighting or anything.
2. I'll talk to the head teachers for those grades, or perhaps I'm getting carried away.
3. They looked like they were in fourth or fifth grade.
4. Maybe I'll keep it to myself for now.
5. It wouldn't be right if I said something and they got hurt for it.
6. But the older kids do seem to be picking on the younger ones.
1. Something like that happened to me, once.
1. "You try it too, Ayano."
1. "Let's go on a date, Ayano."
2. "Date? You mean like at Christmas?"
3. "It's not like you have a boyfriend, right?"
4. "No, I don't."
5. "Let's go to Minatomirai!"
6. "Wear your long black coat, okay?"
1. "I was picking out your present!"
2. "Sorry I'm late!"
3. "Sorry!"
4. "You're so tall, Ayano. When you dress up, you look like a movie star! ♡"
5. "Thanks."
6. "I knew you'd look good in that."
7. "Ha ha! Yes!"
8. "My relatives own this restaurant, so I asked for a favor."
9. "Ha ha!"
10. "I can't believe we got a table on Christmas!"
11. "Wow. This is a nice place."
12. "Hey, Ayano?"
13. "Do you have a crush on anyone?"
1. "But you do want a boyfriend, right?"
2. "And group dates are scary, right?"
3. "Sure are."
4. "Well, we do go to a girls' school. It's not like we could even meet boys!"
5. "Nah, not right now."
6. "Hmm."
7. "I mean, I guess so?"
8. "I wish you could be my boyfriend, Ayano."
9. "I'm not really sure."
10. "Hrmm."
11. "I don't know."
1. "Ayano?"
2. "I wish you were a boy."
3. Cool girls, tall girls, boyish girls.
4. The idols of the school.
1. Some girls...
2. Would pretend that these "Princes"...
3. Were their boyfriends.
4. My friend was like that.
5. "Wow!"
6. "I knew it!"
7. "You got a boyfriend!"
8. "I did not!"
9. "What?!"
10. "Why? Why?!"
11. "Is it weird?!"
12. "No, it's super cute!"
13. "Ayano! You grew your hair out!"
1. "Your hair's so gorgeous. You're lucky."
2. "Play a song that's not so "graduation," would you?"
3. "Not so graduation?!"
4. "I'm gonna miss you. I don't want to dwell on it."
1. This squeeze.
2. That squeeze.
3. "It hurts."
4. I wonder what those embraces meant to nao.
5. I never understood.
6. There was a sense of sadness around her.
7. But when she embraced me...
1. "Class reunion?"
2. "You should go! When is it?"
3. "But it's more like a party with a few friends than a class reunion."
4. "Next month."
5. "An old friend is getting married, so we're celebrating."
6. "Goodness! Congratulations to her."
7. "But I think it's the same day that father gets out of the hospital..."
8. "Wataru's here. And misato, too!"
9. "Ohhh!"
10. "That's fine!"
11. "And once he gets home, he'll probably just want to go to sleep, anyway."
12. He's an old man, after all!
1. "Looks like I can make it after all!"
2. "All right!!"
3. "When was the last time we got together?"
4. "No, I couldn't make ayano's."
5. "Or ayano's?"
6. "Maybe kiyo-chan's wedding?"
7. "All of us!"
8. "All of us?"
9. "Well, it doesn't matter!"
10. "Congrats, nao-chan!"
1. Always sooo thoughtless.
2. Nao is...
3. "It's so rude of me to ask! What was I thinking?!"
4. "What?!"
5. "Oh no! I'm so sorry!"
6. Disaster.
7. I'm a total...
8. "No, it's okay."
9. "Oh!"
10. Is always putting her foot in her mouth.
11. But she's never intentionally mean.
12. "I wish you were a boy."
1. My first love that I couldn't say was love...
2. Might have been nao.
3. That night...
4. My heart hurt so badly.
2. Please pick-up volume 3 when it comes out!!
3. Takako shimura here. Hello!
4. And I was so carefree, too...
5. "Maybe I'll post a drawing on new year's day!"
8. Now that I'm thinking about it, I got a pretty serious cold right at the start of the year.
9. "Ah!"
10. "My back was out, I was sick..."
11. "I haven't been to the sauna since then."
12. I still haven't gotten together the report I mentioned in volume 1's afterword.
13. Slept.
14. Slept.
15. I stayed in bed, anyway.
16. But there were sudden changes.
17. The test was negative.
18. "Aaah."
20. I slept a lot!
21. Anyway...
22. "Urg, I'm hot."
23. "Now cold!"
24. "Hot"
25. "Cold"
26. "Cold"
27. "So cold"
28. I don't usually get fevers, so I was sure it was the flu and I went to the doctor.
30. "Amazing!!"
31. "This is great!"
32. "Wow!!!"
33. "Eh?!"
37. A hot water bottle: my greatest comfort in this trying time!
38. On the road to recovery a few days later.
39. My praise for the hot water bottle is endless. The hot water bottle is my life.
40. "I love it so much!"
41. "Get a hot water bottle if you don't have one!"
42. "Good to have these on hand."
43. "Yes."
48. "I owe you my life. Thank you so much."
49. To the anti-fever meds and others who saved me...
50. Big thanks to my cats for being cute every day.
51. Thank you to o-kura-san, s-moto-san, ishideden-san, aso kuma-san, everyone at kohei nawata design office, o-mura-joshi, and all you readers!!
1. Next issue...
2. "Broke your vows."
3. "I mean, you cheated, yes."
4. The God of Love is unkind.
5. "But I'm not divorcing you."
6. Akari changes jobs and houses...
7. to begin anew.
8. Ayano...
9. deals with her husband's family.
1. Neighbors!
2. the two end up..
3. But in a twist of fate...
4. The love that was supposed to be over...
5. is renewed.
1. Ayano has told her husband that she has feelings for another woman. Now her marriage is on the rocks, but Ayano just can't stop thinking about Akari. Can the two women figure out their feelings for each other?
2. From the critically acclaimed creator of Sweet Blue Flowers and Wandering Son.