1. "Just put your stuff wherever."
2. "Sorry to intrude."
3. This is shimamura's room...
4. "Oopsie."
लोड हो रहा है…लोड हो रहा है…
1. "Adachi."
2. "Come sit."
3. "Okay."
लोड हो रहा है…लोड हो रहा है…
1. "Hm?"
2. "Sh-"
3. "Shima-mura..."
1. Chapter 5: Adachi Question (First Half)
1. Did I just have...
2. A dream where I kissed shimamura?
3. "..."
4. Well, obviously not.
5. I've never touched them.
6. I didn't feel the touch of her lips.
7. However...
8. The softness of her fingers when we held hands is still fresh in my mind, and...
1. If shimamura found out, she'd hate me for sure.
2. "Uuh..."
3. Did I seriously have a dream where I kissed her?
4. Why did this happen?
5. Shimamura and I are friends. I'd never want to kiss her.
6. I'm not like that, I'm not.
7. To be special to her in some small way, closer than her other friends.
8. Most likely, this is just me wanting to become slightly better friends with her.
9. Like I said, there's no deeper meaning to that kiss.
10. Just a little special.
11. For example, while other people call her shimamura, I alone will call her by her first name.
1. At the same time, I'm not sure if I actually do want it.
2. "Uuh..."
3. I can't completely deny wanting to do it, though.
4. Imagine this scenario for an example: sleeping shimamura, no people around in a 5 kilometre radius...
5. And an omnipotent god telling me that she won't wake up for the next 24 hours no matter what happens.
6. By the 23 hour mark, I'd probably be so bored that...
7. I might go ahead and try doing it once.
8. Do the circumstances even matter, or is it just always weird to think about wanting to try it?
9. "Wait... Huh?"
1. How close of a friend does shimamura actually see me as?
2. My desire to keep her for myself...
3. I want to be the first person who comes to her mind.
4. When she hears that word, "Friend"...
5. And my inability to gauge the distance between us...
6. Manifested themselves as that dream.
7. "Time to go to work."
8. That's all there is to it, I'm sure.
1. Manga books are also sold here, but their volume numbers, as well as their contents, are all over the place.
2. The menus placed on the tables are reused from store to store.
4. Receiving food that barely resembles what you ordered is a daily occurrence here.
5. Creative new chinese cuisine. That is the mysterious sentence written on a sign outside of where I work.
6. "Why am I the only one who has to wear it...?"
7. "That's all fine with me... But this outfit..."
8. The whole place feels strangely exotic.
9. "You don't have to be smart to figure that one out..."
10. "Yeah..."
11. Was what the manager said when I tried asking her.
12. "Because you're young."
13. "Haa..."
14. "Welcome I-"
15. "Ah!"
1. "Shima-mura!?"
2. "Adachi?"
3. "Ah!"
4. "Oh. Ohh."
5. "!?"
6. Why? Why is shima-mura here!?
7. "..."
8. "This way, please."
9. "Yep, from school."
10. "She's your friend or?"
11. "Come on, it looks great on you."
12. "Do you see now why I said it was gonna be em-barrassing?"
13. "So, you work in this kind of place, adachi?"
1. "Stop it, mom."
2. "Don't ask her questions."
3. "Yes, adachi."
4. "So, your name is adachi, huh?"
5. "Please call me when you are ready to order. Thank you."
6. "Argh!"
7. "Sweat"
8. "Sweat"
9. "What?"
10. "So, a friend? Is she in your class?"
11. "I told you, stop it!"
12. "You're not having that."
13. "This "Shark fin soup" is super expensive!"
14. Comparing her family to mine, whose only connection is that we live in the same house...
15. Is making me a little jealous.
16. They sure look like they get along...
1. "Adachi!"
2. I'm totally wasting this encounter...
3. I can barely look at her face due to that dream...
4. "Whoa!"
5. "..."
6. "Hey, go."
7. I wonder how shimamura sees what happened today.
1. The next day.
2. I came to the second floor of the gym.
3. Following shimamura's invitation, I've gone to class like a good student for around a week...
4. So in a way, this is my day off.
5. I don't really have anyone who calls me or sends me email...
6. Yet I still pull out my phone whenever I'm bored.
7. I felt festive in a way after yesterday...
8. And not at all like sitting still in class.
1. I thought that if I didn't show up in class...
2. Shimamura might come here to take a look.
3. "... Who am I kidding?"
4. So much of this...
5. Most likely, I'm the only one who...
6. Sees our sudden encounter during the weekend as anything special.
7. Resembles unrequited love.
8. "Just act natural. Natural..."
9. "..."
10. Someone's coming.
11. "!?"
1. "Adachi."
2. "Good, you were here."
3. "Wanna come to the cafeteria with me? We never go there."
4. "What?"
5. It's shima-mura.
6. Just be cool. Don't let her see that I'm nervous.
7. "Sure, I don't mind."
1. "Hehe!"
2. "What?"
3. "!?"
4. "I was just thinking about how cute you were yesterday."
5. "...!"
6. "That's what I mean. You're way cuter than me."
7. "Huh? Really? I was dressed like normal, though ..."
8. "You were cute too, shima-mura ..."
1. "I'm not really a fan of going with my family either."
2. "Just kidding."
3. "No, please don't."
4. "Maybe I should come eat there again?"
5. "You bet it is. Now, let's eat."
6. "It's kinda embarrassing to have your folks looking, huh?"
7. There really is something special about family. I'm kinda jealous...
8. Shimamura spent her entire meal at the restaurant engaging in friendly chatter with her family.
9. Yet, when it's the two of us, the conversation immediately pauses.
10. "If it isn't shimamura and adachii."
11. "Oh!"
12. "Come to think of it, I also ate Chinese food yesterday."
13. Don't look. Don't look.
14. Oh no!
15. I wasn't thinking, and ended up staring at her face (Especially her mouth).
1. "Oh!"
2. "Hino, Nagafuji."
3. "Yo!"
4. "!?"
5. "Huh?"
6. "So, you did come to school, huh?"
7. "Y- yeah."
8. If I remember correctly, the small one's hino, and the big one's nagafuji ...
9. She can't remember names?
10. "Did you really think you could trick us into believing that you hadn't forgotten her name just by mumbling?"
11. "It's adachi."
12. "A... Ad... Mumble, mumble..."
13. "Good morn- ing."
14. "So, adachi."
15. "Yes?"
1. It's been a while since the last time someone other than shimamura said good morning to me.
2. "..."
3. "Morn-ing."
4. "My mom overslept. That's why."
5. "Still, it's pretty rare to see you guys here. You usually bring your own lunch."
6. "Her family owns a meat store."
7. "She makes her own meals?"
8. "As for me, I didn't have any good in-gredients around."
9. "Oh."
10. "That's more de-linquent-like than anything I've ever done."
11. "I told dad it's okay to smack you since you aren't a customer."
12. "What a horrible store."
13. "I went there the other day and asked: "Can I have some of that delicious brisket". You know what happened then? They smacked me."
1. "That's because I already ate most of them."
2. "Now..."
3. "Your bowl's a little light on the carrots, shimamuura so I'll share you mine."
4. "It's fine, it's fine."
5. "Hey, nagafuji! Don't jump on the bandwagon."
6. "You just want to give me all your carrots because you don't like them."
7. "Hahaha..."
8. "Hahaha..."
9. Even so, I am a little sad that our first moment together in a while was ruined...
10. There isn't anything wrong with the noisy atmosphere these two bring with them.
1. "Adachi."
3. "How are you gonna spend the afternoon?"
4. "I think I'll go to class."
5. "I did bring my bag too, after all."
6. Ah, she smiled.
7. "I see."
8. "Why?"
9. "I'm free, so I just figured."
10. "Even if we do go, there's nothing to do there. And my little sister is..."
11. "Would you mind if I came over to your place after school?"
12. "Hm?"
13. "Hey."
15. "Well, whatever. Sure. But seriously, there's nothing there."
16. "Yeah, I know."
17. I know well that we won't do anything there. However...
1. Once you become a high school student, you rarely get the chance to visit other people's houses.
2. It's the experience of visiting her house ...
3. That I feel to be...
4. Im- port- tant ...
5. I simply want to take that single step to- wards being special ...
6. To her ...
7. "Adachi?"
8. I want to be alone with her.
9. No way, never.
10. Under no cir- cumstances... Can I come out with it and say that ...