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章节 13

1. So simple, that youth... 2. "Wait for me!" 3. "Hurry, hurry! We're gonna be late to the club!" 4. Nothing special happened after christmas. Before I knew it, we were already well into february. 5. It does get pretty cold whenever someone opens the door. 6. The seating arrangement got shuffled following the winter holidays, and while I am glad to be sitting at the back... 7. Still... 8. Now then... 9. I haven't gone home with adachi in a while. Should we do that today? 10. "..."

1. "Shima! It's me, hino!!" 2. "Hey!" 3. "Ada-chi?" 4. "What is up with her?" 5. Although, I guess the way your name is written, Shimamura, in all hiragana, it already sounds like a brand name. 6. "Sigh ..." 7. "We were just talking about how putting your name in all-caps kinda makes it feel like a brand name." 8. "Well ..." 9. "What was that greeting about? It sounded like you were going for something foreign but gave up halfway." 10. "This, this." 11. "Huh?" 12. "Has she been throwing it?" 13. "Anyway, that's all. Bye!" 14. "Huh? Right ..." 15. "Sure ..." 16. "Tell her that we can have a match the next time." 17. "Right. I told her that I was getting adachi's boomerang for my sister, didn't I?" 18. "Oh, right." 19. "Sure, she has..." 20. "My little sister, I mean."

1. Neither hino nor nagafuji... 2. Do anything in the way of changing their behaviour to match the other person. 3. Yet somehow, they still manage to get along. 4. That's a good relationship if I've ever seen one. 5. "H- how's it going?" 6. "Yo."

1. "Would you like to, umm, go out..." 2. "No, not "Go out". More like, "Drop by"..." 3. "Sure. What about it?" 4. "Shima- mura, are you..." 5. "Free today?" 6. "Then that's fine..." 7. "But if you're busy..." 8. "Ah!" 9. "You're trying to ask if we can go some- where?" 10. "Not at all." 11. "I don't mind." 12. "..." 13. "It just so happens that I'm super busy today." 14. "Well, that's good." 15. "Oh, really?"

1. "Haha... Ha..." 2. "No, I should apologize. I got carried away." 3. "Let's go." 4. "Sorry..." 5. "Gosh, adachi. Don't ask me such mean questions." 6. "Just kidding. I'm never busy." 7. "But what...?" 8. "But..." 9. "Well, I don't..." 10. "Do you have anywhere in mind that you'd like to go to?" 11. "For confections..." 12. "I'm kinda hungry..." 13. "..."

1. "No, it being sweet is fine, but..." 2. "You want something that isn't sweet?" 3. "Huh?" 4. "Yeah. Confections..." 5. "So, adachi wants something sweet, does she?" 6. I'm getting the feeling that we aren't really on the same wavelength. 7. "Well then... Why don't we head to the mall?" 8. Her acting ultra suspiciously has become the norm. 9. It kinda feels like, in the span of a single month... 10. The adachi who I first met disappeared.

2. "Uuhh... So cold..." 3. The sun has begun to set, and now it's even colder than before...

1. "Can..." 2. "We?" 3. "Okay, got it." 4. "I'll let you know beforehand, I promise." 5. "That really scared me." 6. "From now on, make sure to..." 7. "Ask permission first before you grab my hand, okay?" 8. She actually took it to heart? 9. I'm proud of you, Adachi. 10. "Sure, I don't mind."

1. "So, where are we going again? Somewhere we can eat something sweet?" 2. "Yeah." 3. "There's a doughnut shop over there, if that works." 4. "Not up for doughnuts?" 5. "Shimamura!" 6. "I heard you talk about doughnuts!!" 7. I wonder, where would she appear from? 8. It kinda feels like yashiro's gonna show up next. 9. Still... Doughnuts, adachi...

1. Is it just me, or is the clerk staring at us...? 3. "Hm?" 4. "!!" 5. "..." 6. Adachi and I are a bit too old to be walking around hand in hand like some good chums. 7. There really is something strange about it, isn't there? Definitely. 8. The way I live my life, all I do is leave myself to the flow and let it carry me. I simply don't have the will to break free. No, I do... 9. At the same time, it's far too late to shake off her hand now.

1. "Umm... I'm not really in the mood for doughnuts..." 2. "I think." 3. "Not..." 4. "..." 5. "Any suggestions or stuff?" 6. "No, it's not that." 7. "Umm... Would you prefer something japanese style?" 8. "I see." 9. "Huh?" 10. "Umm, no, not really." 11. "Adachi." 12. "What about this place?" 13. "Ah!"

1. "It smells really nice." 2. "Phew." 3. "Sure." 4. "I think this is fine." 5. "They even have a limited-time offer of small pastries filled with choco- late cream." 6. "Cheese- cakes..." 7. "Cornets, cream puff cookies ..." 8. "I need to get my sister something." 9. "Oh, I see..." 10. "It's almost valen- tine's day."

1. "Valen- tine's..." 2. "Yeah, it is." 3. "Is... What it says." 4. I see what's going on here. 5. "..." 6. "Huh?" 7. "It's al- ready that time..."

1. Does she actually have a boyfriend after all? No, I doubt that. 2. Could it be, there's someone she wants to give a valentine's gift to? 3. What a round-about way of going about it. 4. The reason why she said no to the doughnut shop was because there wasn't anything related to valentine's day there, huh? 5. Me? 6. Hmm? In that case... 7. I mean, I've been hanging out with her for months now, but have never seen her with anyone other than me. 8. "Huh!?" 9. "Adachi!" 10. "Don't fall!"

1. "Whoa." 2. "Her ears are bright red." 3. "Ada-chi..." 4. "Are you okay!?" 5. "..." 6. "This way, Adachi." 7. "..."

1. "Phew..." 2. "..." 3. "Shima-mura, do you have anything that..." 4. "You're ..." 5. "Planning on doing on the 14th?" 6. "No, not really." 7. "If not, then..." 8. "Could we go ..." 9. "Some-where on the 14th?"

1. "Sure, I don't mind." 2. "Do you want to be the one receiving chocolate, or the one giving it?" 3. "I'd like to gi-" 4. "No, wait." 5. "Why don't we..." 6. "Exchange them?"

1. I had a lot of theories as to why she invited me to hang out on christmas... 2. But as we spent that day together... 3. "Friends giving each other chocolate, huh?" 4. "That seems like something that..." 5. "Hino and nagafuji would do yearly." 6. I began to feel like sharing things with other people... 7. Is something that she longs for. 8. Just seeing how cold her relationship with her parents is... 9. Makes it clear that there must be a lot of things that adachi lacks. 10. It's... 11. For that reason that wanting to exchange chocolates with a friend...

1. "Sure." 2. Seems so... 3. Adachi-like to me. 4. "Let's celebrate valentine's day this year." 5. From today till valentine's day, my monotonous days will be ever so slightly coloured.

1. "Alright then. Let's buy chocolate again for us to eat together." 2. "I like sweet things." 3. "Speaking of which, do you want chocolate this year?"