1. Around the time she abruptly cut her long hair,
2. That girl stopped calling me by first name.
3. I also felt like I should stop calling her "Onee-chan".
4. So maybe that's why I chased after her, wanting her to call me "Fuuko" again.
Naglo-load…Naglo-load…
3. By the time I realized it, I had already fallen—
5. Today, She is not here...
6. Without realizing I was caught in her trap.
Naglo-load…Naglo-load…
1. "—taki!"
2. "It's been a while."
3. We suddenly reunited.
4. "Onee..."
5. "Mashiro-san?"
6. Little by little, we stopped meeting.
7. Then, in the fall of my first year of high school...
1. "I had a feeling I might run into you if I came to the library."
2. "...it's just the closest place to kill time before cram school."
3. "Still going there I see."
4. "Hmm..."
5. "Seriously, your uniform is so plain."
6. "What's up with that vest?"
7. "This is the designated vest!"
8. "It... It's not like I chose the school because of the uniform, you know."
9. "Oooh? Back when you were in primary school, you used to say,"
10. ""Onee-chan, your uniform's so cute!""
11. "With your eyes all sparkly, and now this?"
12. "L... Longing is just that, longing!"
1. "Pretty observant of you."
2. "The uniforms do change."
3. "Besides, I only like the uniform up to middle school."
4. "The uniform you're wearing now is different."
5. "Like my family's wishes..."
6. "There are various reasons..."
7. "If it's you, taki, you could've transferred easily, no?"
8. "...if you like them so much, why didn't you apply to our school?"
9. "...you wouldn't understand, mashiro-san."
10. "But, it's your own future, isn't it?"
1. I guess you, who lives so strong and free, wouldn't understand.
2. After much effort, I was allowed to apply to a girls' high school my parents found tolerable.
3. "Come on, that's sooo uncute!"
4. Even then, my father stopped talking to me altogether...
5. This uncute uniform is what I ended up with after a desperate struggle.
6. There are girls whose own lives don't even belong to them.
7. But at least I can breathe a little now.
1. "I'm being kind just by not blocking you."
2. "You were interfering with my exam prep."
3. "Yet here I am, coming all the way to see you."
4. "You're the one ignoring my messages."
5. "So mean!"
6. "You just wanted to throw insults at me?"
7. "...so, after meeting me for the first time in a while,"
8. Because longing can be blinding.
9. The truth is, I just wanted some space.
10. "Oh well."
11. "...I thought maybe I'd get to be your senpai someday, taki."
12. "I really hoped for it"
1. -hoped?
2. "Oh well, whatever."
3. "Here."
4. To be honest, there was no way I'd have even been allowed to apply to that school...
5. "Some kind of cultural festival."
7. "I'll be playing piano... So come, okay?"
8. "...an invitation?"
1. "There's a dress code?"
2. "And you wear this."
3. "No, no."
4. "I just want you to wear it, taki."
5. "......?"
6. "I'm not cute anyway."
7. "Huuuh? So not cute!"
8. "...I'll think about it."
9. "Come, alright?"
10. "Ever since we met, I've been telling you you're cute."
11. "...how can you say that?"
1. "Today, you barely looked me in the eyes."
2. "Why won't you look at me?"
3. "I have to go now."
4. "Um..."
5. "Turn this way."
1. "I just want you to wear it, taki."
2. —for what reason?
1. "Mashiro-sa—"
2. "—senpai!"
1. "So... You were watching me, hm?"
2. "You were amazing, mashiro."
3. "I played thinking of you, senpai."
4. "Today, even more so."
5. "Sure... That's convenient for you."
6. "Won't you believe me?"
7. "...fine, I'll let myself be fooled."