1. "Ah!"
2. "Over here, shima. Over here."
3. After school
4. In front of the station
5. "Now then, shall we get going?"
6. "Don't worry about it."
7. "Sorry that I kept you waiting, tarumi."
8. "Choco-late? You have a boyfriend, shima?"
9. "Huh!?"
10. "Just choco-late."
11. "What are you going shopping for?"
12. "Come to think of it..."
13. "..."
14. "Hmph. I see."
15. "It's for a friend."
16. "No, I don't."
लोड हो रहा है…लोड हो रहा है…
1. And we agreed to go buy adachi's chocolate together.
2. "By your- self? Do you mind if I come with you?"
3. "Okay, that's fine."
4. "Well, I was plan- ning to go shop- ping."
5. "Are you free today, shima?"
6. Tarumi called me at school during the lunch break...
7. Every time, she's always just as abrupt.
8. Sure, she did talk about hanging out together when we last talked, but still...
9. I wonder, how would adachi react to seeing the two of us together? Probably not well, huh?
10. There's just some- thing about hanging out with her that doesn't feel right.
11. Regardless, we might have been friends in the past, but right now, she's basically a stranger to me.
1. "Phew, just in time. I'm glad we made it on board."
2. "Yep."
3. Please do not rush onto the train.
4. The doors are now closing.
5. "You wanna sit, shima?"
6. "There's only a single seat left. Do you wanna?"
7. "Ah. Tarumi, look."
8. "..."
9. "Yeah."
10. "I'll sit."
11. "All right then."
1. "Yep. School uniform and all."
2. "So, you're a high schooler now, huh?"
3. "Ahaha..."
4. "Yeah."
5. "I mean, we are the same age, so..."
6. "Yeah, I am."
7. "Same for you, shima? You're in high school too, right?"
8. "..."
9. There are times when adachi and I don't have anything to say either...
10. But this, this is different. It feels so much more awkward...
11. "Hey, shima."
1. "Hm?"
2. "Do you remember the nickname you used to..."
3. "Call me by in elementary school?"
4. "Huh?"
5. "..."
6. "Oh, umm ..."
7. "I must have forgotten."
8. "Ahaha..."
9. "Sorry."
1. "Oh."
2. "Crap."
3. "...I guess so."
4. "You've changed quite a bit."
5. "Shima..."
6. That wasn't the right thing to say.
7. "Changed"? More like, I see the past me as a totally different person.
1. In a lot of ways, I resembled yashiro.
2. So free ...
3. So stupid...
4. So sociable ...
5. I was so immensely cheerful...
6. That tarumi was expecting to meet.
7. It was probably that version of me...
8. I know that a train trip to nagoya only takes around twenty minutes...
10. Train, couldn't you please just make a u-turn?
11. But honestly, it feels like I just sat through three of my least favourite school classes back-to-back.
1. The department store's basement floor, candy section
2. "Whoa. There are so many people here."
3. "Now, which one to pick..."
4. I really should have asked adachi what she likes.
5. Hmm... She even went and asked me all sorts of questions herself. Damn...
6. "Still, it sure is one long line..."
7. "Hey, tarumi."
8. "This place has the most people standing in line. Yeah, I think I'll go with this one."
9. "I'm buying it here."
10. "Oh."
11. "Sure."
1. It feels kinda bad making her stand in line when she's not going to buy anything...
2. "..."
3. Even now while we're waiting...
4. There should certainly be countless things for us to pull from the past and talk about.
5. And yet, neither of us...
6. Are attempting to find those topics.
7. "This isn't how it was meant to go"...
8. That sentiment is all I can glean from her expression.
1. Once I buy the chocolate...
2. What am I supposed to do then?
3. "Should we drop by somewhere?"
4. "Where should we go next?"
5. "Next customer, please."
6. Those are all questions I shouldn't have any trouble asking.
7. Moreover, I'm sure that they are what tarumi is waiting for me to say.
1. "Tha-nks."
2. "Thank you very much."
3. And yet.
4. The only words the cur-rent me can get out of her mouth...
5. "So..."
6. Are the dull ones.
7. "Should we head back?"
8. "..."
9. "Yeah ..."
3. "Hm?"
4. "It's from adachi."
5. "Pfft!"
6. "Ah!"
7. "Well, umm... Nothing."
8. "?"
9. "What are you laughing about?"
10. Is she at work?
11. It's also very adachi-like.
12. Still...
13. The message reads like something typed in a rush.
1. "Sure"...
2. And send.
3. Tarumi and I didn't spend any time walking side-by-side today.
4. "Ah!"
5. I just noticed, but...
6. Quite weird, considering that when I'm with adachi, she always insists upon walking next to me so that she can hold my hand.
7. I wonder, where did it all go wrong?
8. Plus, tarumi and I used to walk like that too, when were little.
1. "Bye."
2. "..."
3. "Well then ..."
4. "Shima."
5. Tarumi is my past friend. That fact hasn't changed.
6. "..."
7. And yet ...
8. It's also true that ...
9. "Hmm ..."
10. "Hm ..."
11. Not just friends, but best friends.
12. I know I'm going to regret it later if I let her walk away like this.
13. The two of us used to be ...
1. "Taru!"
2. "Taru!!"
3. My voice isn't able to reach her.
4. It's no use. She can't hear me.
5. Please, reach her...
6. "Taru!"
7. "Taru!!"
8. Just reach her!!
9. "..."
1. "Phew."
2. "She did hear me."
3. It's all coming back to me.
4. I remember those words...
5. "Later, taru!"
6. As well as our time in elementary school.
7. An agreement made on a whim...
8. Not quite on the level of a promise.
1. That simple word, far greater than a "Good bye".
2. "Later".
3. "Yeah."
4. "See you later, shima!"
5. I said it to her, and she said it to me. Just like in the past.
6. It isn't bad at all, having a rusted friendship give off a fleeting ray of light.
1. going to be sold out of chocolate, right?
2. They aren't...