2. "That's how you spell "Yuka"?"
4. "Uh-huh."
5. "No waaaay! My name's got the character for "Flower" in it, too!"
6. "See?"
8. "Oh! It looks like my name!"
9. "Right?!"
10. We became friends because of our names.
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1. "You can call me ikka!"
2. "That's what my mom calls me."
3. "Ikkaaaaa! Where are you?!"
4. Mom got super mad.
5. "Oops. I didn't clean my room the other day."
6. "What're you doing hiding over there?!"
7. "Ah!"
8. "That was a private pun!"
9. Ikkan't deal with this.
10. "Ahhh."
11. I was watching from behind.
12. After a second, she says in this quiet voice...
1. I'm yoshizumi ichika.
3. So my desk's behind watanabe-san's.
1. Yuka's desk was behind nitta-san's.
2. "For real!"
3. "For a sec, I thought you were sitting in front of me, ikka!"
4. "We match!"
5. "Oh, yeah!"
6. "See?!"
7. "Huh?"
8. The three of us started playing together.
1. Yuka and nitta-san's houses were actually pretty close to each other.
3. So I'd say goodbye first.
4. They had more time walking home together.
6. I guess they got closer and closer.
1. And give it to nitta-san.
2. I'd write in it...
3. Yuka would give it to me.
4. When nitta-san went to give it to yuka...
5. They'd always laugh together.
2. "Sorry!"
3. "Come ooon!"
4. "Ah!"
5. "I forgot the diary again!"
6. The diary just sort of naturally disappeared.
7. When I kept forgetting it again and again...
1. And then they started exchanging a notebook, just the two of them!
2. "I hate this!"
3. "I mean, I shouldn't have stopped the diary, but still!"
4. "You're totally leaving me out!"
1. I hate nitta-san.
1. "Maybe I could try talking to yoshizumi-san."
2. "Would you?!"
4. "Our teacher talked to her in grade four once."
5. "But she didn't really take it seriously."
6. "If it's all right with you two, that is."
7. "Er... Of course."
8. Kotani-sensei, hm?
9. So who had grade four last year...?
10. "That's why yuka's a little scared of people now."
11. "M-mana!"
12. "Quit it!"
1. Yoshizumi ichika-san...
2. Is...
3. In the class next door.
4. This might make her defensive.
4. "Was it you who put this note in my shoe cubby, yoshizumi-san?"
1. "Nagase-san and nitta-san came to talk to me."
2. "They said you all used to be friends."
3. "They were wondering if you could be friends again."
4. "We're... Not now, though."
5. "I wasn't even close with nitta-san. Not really."
6. "There's absolutely no way you can make up?"
7. "Huh? I can't..."
8. "I..."
9. "You can't?"
1. "Oh."
2. "Is that it?"
3. She only wanted to be close with...
4. Nagase-san.
1. "Huh?"
2. "If it's okay with you, how about we talk here again sometimes?"
3. "Um..."
4. "I won't tell anyone what we talk about here, of course."
5. "So..."
6. "I know I'm not your teacher, so I shouldn't intrude."
7. "But I'm involved now."
8. "You don't have to say anything to them."
9. "But if you'd be okay with talking to me, then..."
1. "Oh! You look tired."
2. Maybe I overstepped.
3. "Did you want some coffee, too?"
4. I think I might have pushed too hard.
5. "Yessss!"
6. "How about you, kawai-sensei?"
7. "Yes, please!"
8. "Got it!"
9. But it seemed like her own feelings were too much for her to handle.
1. And I've been there.
2. And there was all that with kaede.
3. I'm sure everyone's been through this, more or less.
4. "Okubo-sensei?"
5. But maybe adults want to hide this from kids.
1. "You scared me...!"
2. "You-!"
3. "I knew it!"
4. "I felt like a top detective just now!"
5. "Amazing!"
6. "Ha ha ha ha!"
7. "I'm on this one."
8. "I'm on that train."
1. "Ha ha!"
2. "We both looked at the same time, huh?!"
1. Afterword even though we're adults current status takako shimura
2. Thanks as always to o-kura-san, s-moto-san ishideden-san, everyone at kohei nawata design office, my editor o-mura-joshi, all you readers, and everyone involved with the book!!
3. It's already been a year since the hot water bottle gave me life... (For details, please see volume two.) please be careful not to burn yourself on it. (It's important, so I'll note it here, too.)
4. I spoke to yamamoto shizu-sensei, uesugi takako-sensei, sako mako-sensei, and wakamatsu mizuki-sensei about divorce issues! Thank you so much!
5. "For the cover this time, we'll go with the numbered thing from the marathon."
6. "Okaaay!"
8. This from the mini-marathon...
9. And now... This volume!
12. The kind you paint on
13. Paint paint draw draw
14. The numbered shirt.
15. Umbrella for volume three
16. For each volume of the book, we pull some item from the manga inside for the back cover.
17. "Oops!"
18. Happily painting away...
20. It definitely said clothes with numbers on them.
21. "I'm sorry... I went ahead and proudly drew something totally different."
22. We really didn't run, all the way to the end.
23. "I'm actually going to run!"
24. "Sorry!"
25. But so often, they betray you and run off.
26. "I've been good with long distances."
27. "So cooooold."
28. "Someone, please... At least give me a jacket..."
29. "Nice work everyone!"
30. One time, my friend...
31. "I don't have any real endurance."
32. "Let's walk."
33. "I like short distances better."
34. They held the closing ceremony before we got to the finish line.
35. "Ah!"
36. "Is..."
37. "What she said."
38. There was this culture of asking someone to join you, kind of like going to the washroom together.
39. Youthful memories of marathons
40. Cat melting in front of the heater
41. Suddenly
42. We don't matter...
43. "Sure, but I'm really not going to run."
44. "There's no way I'm running either."
45. Mysterious resolve.
2. Ayano returned to her parents' home, to live separately from her husband, Wataru.
3. Wataru refuses a divorce...
4. and tries to rebuild their relationship.
5. Even as she's surprised at Ayano's actions, Akari dreams of a future together.
1. "I have to solve my own problems, so..."
2. Trying to figure life out...
3. as well as a love that's out of our control.
4. "I like you, too, akari-san."
5. "But separate from that..."