2. Salutations.
3. Welcome to Volume 2.
4. It's wonderful to see you again.
5. Please relax and enjoy the tale.
1. "Mitsuki yano"...
2. ...as if I'd ever forget her!
5. "I just transferred here!"
6. "I'm hime shiraki."
7. "Okay!"
8. "...go ahead, shiraki-san."
9. "I hope I can become a real part of this class soon..."
10. "...and get along with everyone!"
1. "Hime-chan!"
2. "Hime-chan!"
3. ...I was a celebrity, the apple of everyone's eye.
4. When I changed schools in the fifth grade...
5. "You can ask us anything, hime-chan!"
6. "Can you keep up?"
7. "How about with lessons?"
8. "So, how are you adjusting to the new school?"
9. "Anything you're confused about?"
10. "...but all of your help has made me feel a lot more at home."
11. "I was nervous about coming to a new school..."
12. "Thank you, everyone."
13. "I love all of you!"
14. "I'm so happy there are so many nice people here!"
1. I had already realized the simple truth...
2. "Hime-chan!"
3. "Hime-chan!"
4. That someone as cute as me would naturally be loved by all, as long as I maintained my cuteness.
5. "Hime-chan, are you good at singing?"
6. "We're rehearsing for a choir recital."
7. "Not at all!"
8. "What are we doing in that class right now?"
9. "That reminds me, I still haven't been to music class."
10. "Oh!"
1. "..."
2. "..."
3. "We weren't doing it on purpose or anything, right?"
4. "She really didn't have to be so mean about it..."
5. "She's the one playing the piano for that recital we were just talking about."
6. "She's always saying stuff like that. What a pain."
7. "Acting like she's all that."
8. "That was yano-san."
9. "!"
10. "I see."
1. "Hime-chan, I bet you can play the piano, can't you?"
2. "Ooh, I know!"
3. "Real-ly...?"
4. "..."
5. "...hm?"
6. ...
7. "...how about it?"
8. "You can play the piano, right?"
1. "Why don't you sing with us, then?"
2. "Really? That's too bad."
3. "Piano's way too hard for me!"
4. "No way!"
5. "I can't play at all!"
6. "Okay!"
7. "Really?"
8. "It's where we raise ricefish and other stuff."
9. "Wanna see it?"
10. "What's that?"
11. "You still haven't seen the biotope, have you hime-chan?"
12. "Show me some other time!"
13. "Actually I need to stop by the staff room."
14. "..."
1. "Whoa..."
2. "...?"
3. "Eek?!"
4. "Wow, yano-san..."
5. "...you're really good at the piano!"
1. "Yup! Um, sorry..."
2. "...sorry about what happened during clean-up."
3. "Oh, um..."
4. "You... Do know who I am? Right?"
5. "You're hime shiraki-san."
6. "..."
7. "Sorry for what?"
8. "..."
9. "...?"
10. "..."
11. "Hey, c'mon!"
12. "Let me play the piano a bit!"
13. "Or is it this one?"
14. "Is this the sheet music?"
15. "...you're playing the accompani-ment for the recital, right?"
16. "Say..."
17. "This is... My own personal..."
18. "No..."
1. "H... Huh?"
2. "Ah."
3. "You're playing really well!"
4. "Look at how good you are! What do you mean you "Can't play at all"?"
5. "Ahaha."
6. "That's all I've got."
7. "..."
8. "Besides, I knew this song from before."
9. "...you told them you couldn't play..."
10. "But, back in the classroom..."
11. "Oh, yeah, I can play..."
12. "I really like the piano!"
13. "What...?"
14. "That was a lie."
15. "Oh!"
16. "So you were listening."
1. "..."
2. "...they were asking me that just to hurt you..."
3. "Um, well..."
4. "Why would you lie about something like that?"
5. "A..."
6. "...lie...?"
7. "If I had told them that I could play..."
8. "...it would've made you feel bad, right?"
9. "You're right."
10. "They probably would've made you take my place..."
11. "Yeah..."
12. "..."
1. "...because none of them seem to want me accompanying them."
2. "When they're the ones who aren't doing things correctly- they're in the wrong!"
3. "I don't get it..."
4. "...they all get mad."
5. "When- ever I tell them to do some- thing the right way..."
6. "O...oh no."
7. "...!"
8. But if someone as skilled as her told me that I was doing something incorrectly...
9. ...I don't know how else I'd reply, either...
10. But if I had to take Yano-san's place...
11. ...I'm not confident that I could do it right...
12. "..."
13. "That's kind of true..."
1. "We can play the parts four-handed."
2. "That way, you'll get a chance to play, too!"
3. "Then I don't have to lie, either!"
4. "That's a great idea!"
5. "That's true!"
6. "Sounds great!"
7. "Let's do this!"
8. "We'll have to change the score a bit..."
9. "...but we can just practice it together, right?"
1. "Yeah!"
2. After that...
3. And so, the two of us began practicing for the recital together.
4. ...and I joined yano with the accompani-ment.
5. ...we shared our idea with the music teacher...
1. I was always slacking off or talking too much, and it made her mad...
2. Yano would help me practice in the music room after school.
3. ...but I still needed a lot more practice.
4. Yano learned the new score pretty quickly...
5. ...but still, the two of us grew close.
6. "Hime-chan!"
7. "I don't think we can use the music room today..."
1. "Um..."
2. "Uh..."
3. "Let's go, hime-chan!"
4. "Let's talk about this some more later!"
5. "Sorry, guys!"
6. "You shouldn't get close to those people."
7. "What's wrong?"
8. "Yano-san..."
9. "...wait!"
1. "I see, so that's what this is about..."
2. "Oh..."
3. "You always look like you're having so much fun with them..."
4. "...but what's so good about them?"
5. "You shouldn't lie to them, then."
6. "It's fake."
7. "It's a show I put on, to get everyone in our class to love me."
8. "Yep!"
9. "An act?"
10. "..."
11. "It's all an act."
12. "..."
13. "Okay!"
14. "I see!"
15. "So you're not actually close with them."
16. "I want you to come to my place!"
17. "Oh, right."
18. "Speaking of which, where are we gonna practice?"
19. "I thought for sure you'd pick those people over the piano."
20. "Still, I'm glad..."
21. "What's up with her? She's so strict... "
1. "We'll practice piano at my house today!"
2. "Come on in."
3. "..."
4. "Maid...?"
5. "That's nozaki-san..."
6. "...our maid."
7. "...was that your grandma?"
8. "I'm back!"
9. "Pardon the intrusion!"
10. "Welcome home."
11. "Come on, hime-chan."
12. "This way!"
1. "..."
2. "See?"
3. "You... Really don't have fun, huh...?"
4. "Hurry up and sit down."
5. "There you go again, hime-chan, wasting time with all the chit chat."
6. "?"
7. "Okay!"
8. "Y... Yeah..."
9. "We have to push hard until the recital."
10. Gotta do my best...
11. ...for the recital.
12. "..."
13. "Hey, hime!"
14. "Use your headphones!"
15. What a difference...
1. However, things were going...
2. "Oops..."
3. ...worse than I expected...
4. "Start from the top, "With a breath...""
5. "Now then, let's go back a page."
6. "..."
7. "Don't worry!"
8. "You can do it, hime-chan!"
9. "Let's try that piano part over again."
10. "Okay, time out, time out."
11. "You need to practice more, so that you don't get worked up."
12. "...is that you get distracted by your surroundings and get flustered."
13. "The problem, hime-chan..."
14. ...things got out of hand.
15. And, before I knew it...
16. "I'll do my best!"
17. "...yeah!"
18. "They said we could use the music room after the half day."
19. "You'll come, right?"
1. "What do you mean, "Bullying?""
2. "..."
4. "Huh?!"
5. "You're allowed to say "No," even at this point, okay?"
6. "...well, that's not a nice thing."
7. "...if you're forcing yourself to play the piano because yano-san told you to..."
8. "Now, shiraki-san..."
9. "That's not it!"
10. "If there's anything else you've been hesitating to say-"
11. "I'm playing the accompaniment because I want to!"
12. "Wonder what happened."
13. "All right."
14. "Guess the other students must have just gotten the wrong idea about you two."
15. "Thank you, shiraki-san."
16. "..."
17. "Bullying, huh?"
1. They were the ones who were bad-mouthing Yano-san to the teachers...
2. Oh...
3. "We're all gonna stop at home, and then meet up at my place!"
4. "Okay?"
5. I see. It was them...
6. "I know there's more to you than the piano."
7. "C'mon, hime-chan."
8. "..."
9. "We finally get to spend some time with hime-chan!"
10. "Awe-some!"
11. "Yay!"
12. "Okay!"
13. "I'll play with you guys!"
14. "I guess I will go, then!"
1. "See you at two!"
2. "Yep!"
3. "See you later then, hime-chan!"
1. "Hime-chan, what are you doing here?"
2. "I'm canceling on them."
3. "Just listen."
1. "Yep."
2. "A big, fat liar."
3. "You're such a liar, hime-chan..."
4. "Again...?"
5. "I'm glad..."
6. "I always tell lies."
7. "Remember that, okay?"
1. ...and yano didn't even get mad about it.
2. We just talked, and talked...
3. We didn't practice at all that day.
4. So I came to the conclusion that things would be fine between us, no matter what.
5. "Did you forget something, shiraki-san?"
6. "Oh?"
1. "Wish I could've gone..."
2. "Wow, really? Seems like it!"
3. "We really had a lot of fun yesterday!"
4. "Gotcha! Let's talk a minute!"
5. "Hime-chan!"
7. "Shiraki-san quit the recital."
8. "You didn't hear?"
9. "Yes."
10. "Yano-san, are you practicing for the recital?"
11. "Hm?"
12. "Hime-chan should be coming in later."
13. "..."
14. "With a little more work I think she'll be up to speed, too."
1. "...still, I thought I'd give it a try, y'know?"
2. "I really am no good!"
3. Even though I did it all for yano...
4. "I couldn't believe it, but..."
5. "Well, I..."
6. "Aw..."
7. "I couldn't play like yano-san at all."
8. "Turns out it really was hard."
9. "But I just couldn't stick it out with yano-san."
10. "I really did work hard."
11. "It's enough that you could keep up with yano for this long."
12. "You weren't bad though, hime-chan!"
13. "I hope you're right..."
1. "Thank you!"
2. "We love you, hime-chan!"
3. "We'll never push you like that."
4. "..."
5. I'm a big, fat liar.
6. You're such a liar, hime-chan.
7. "...what?"
8. I always tell lies. Remember that.
9. "Lie..."
10. "A lie...?"
11. "...all of you, too!"
12. "I love..."
1. "That's a lie."
2. "I don't think that hime-chan really loves everyone."
3. "She's lying."
4. "...to hang out with people she didn't like..."
5. "And she told me that it was too much of a hassle..."
6. "The truth is, hime-chan was hanging out with me, yesterday."
7. Even though I did it all for her...
8. "Huh?"
9. "What're you talking about, yano-san?"
10. "Why would you say something like that all of a sudden?"
