1. "Be sure to check your final grades this term!"
2. "Barely high enough..."
3. "But I managed to get out of the slump I was in."
4. "You saved me..."
5. "I'm not going to make it!"
6. "Okay, I can do this..."
7. I wanted to thank her in person.
8. Yet I was afraid asking to meet would be acting on my own selfish desires again.
Naglo-load…Naglo-load…
1. I don't want to taint this treasure with my ugliness.
2. I couldn't offer more than a simple letter of thanks.
3. What I felt that day...
4. "But I didn't even write a tenth of my feelings down."
5. "I could give a more "special" impression..."
6. "Maybe if I used stationery instead of notebook paper..."
7. "Oh!"
8. I'm left unable to express all it meant to me.
1. "Ugh."
2. "Stop."
3. "I'm taking it out on myself again."
4. To make her think you're better than you are?
5. Why does it matter if it's "special"?
6. I can't help these shackles I put on myself.
1. All I had to do was write how much I admire you.
2. It happened when I was stumbling over those feelings.
1. "She wants to!?"
2. "Eh."
3. "Why?"
4. "But why now..."
5. "Eh."
6. "What did they say..."
7. "Oh yeah, I can't reread them!!"
8. "Did my letters... give away how bad I wanted to see her?"
9. It may be about time we saw each other in person.
10. "Hm..."
11. "I suppose so."
12. If that's why.
13. If that's what happened, then...
1. "If it's what my darling little sister needs,"
2. "I'll be the one to make arrange-ments."
4. "Whoa."
5. Why do you always give me what I want?
8. "What do I do!?"
9. "She said yes..."
1. If I'd noticed something off in what she wrote...
2. If I hadn't been too giddy to read closely...
3. "I get to thank her...!"
5. "So nothing's weird?"
6. "Huh? You look fine."
7. "Hey... Does my hair look weird?"
8. "Well you're being weird."
9. On that day.
1. Which rose pattern looks best...
2. I bought another letter set to pay her back for the brooch.
3. "check..."
4. Maybe she'll like it more than the last one?
5. "It's all ready!"
6. "Bye bye!"
7. "Bye bye!"
8. "Walk home safe."
9. "That's it for today."
1. "Well she couldn't have come faster than I did..."
2. "Messy..."
3. "Right after I had it all nice~!"
1. "So she'll know it's me..."
1. "?"
2. "Aha-haha..."
3. "Oh!"
4. What should I say when she gets here...
5. Her homeroom must be running late...
6. "so I wasn't waiting long..."
7. "It's okay! I just got here too,"
8. That sounds wrong.
9. "It's nice to meet you!"
1. It's taking her a while.
2. Maybe she was out of class...
3. Was there another courtyard?
1. Not that I want to doubt her...
2. I will always be at your side, watching over you.
3. "See you tomorrow!"
4. "Aha-hah..."
5. "Nice shot!"
6. "Pass!"
1. School will be closing shortly.
2. All clubs that have not requested an after-school extension must...
1. "C'mon, say it normal"
2. "Momo-pai-sen~"
3. "You get caught up in study-ing?"
4. "What are you doing here this late?"
5. "Ka-sumi?"
6. "Momo...?"
1. "It's my club towel so it's sweaty, but..."
2. "Okay, Sen-pai"
3. "It's nothing, go on home!"
4. "Is she cry-ing..."
5. "What is it?"
6. "Wha -!?"
7. "What's wrong?"
8. "...Let's get out of the way, okay?"
9. "You can handle both a club and AP classes..."
10. "You're so good at this, Momo..."
11. "And then, I can't even..."
1. "Can you tell me what happened?"
2. "Sorry, I'm just... My head's a mess..."
3. "That's okay."
4. "Hey, Momo?"
1. "You don't want any more rose letters?"
2. "...I wish it were you."
3. "? What rose letters?"
4. "Nothing. Just forget it..."
5. "Oka-aay."
6. "Leave out your bento box, okay?"
1. "Oh... I need to show them my grades..."
2. To keep me from getting so happy I hurt myself.
4. What if...
5. my shackles were there to protect me.
6. "Mhm."
7. "Also, here..."
8. "Did you put the box in the sink?"
9. "Is that your grade slip?"
1. Though it looks like you dropped a little from before...
2. "Every time, I can't believe numbers go that high!"
3. "Don't worry, we're not mad at you!"
4. "I'm s-"
5. "I'm sorry my grades dropped..."
6. "Kasumi!? What's wrong?"
7. "Oh!!"
8. "I can't do anything else right, and..."
9. "This is all I'm... All I'm good at..."
10. "B-But,"
11. "but still!"
1. "Don't be silly. Here, come sit down!"
2. "Move, Dear."
3. "I'm mov-ing~"
4. "and I still can't be top of my grade..."
5. "I didn't even get the school I wanted,"
6. "We all know how hard you're working, Kasumi."
7. "You're okay."
8. "You're doing just fine."
9. "She's my big sister too."
10. "Sure, and Gaku takes after us."
11. "Think about it, you're OUR daughter! It's amazing you get good grades at all!"
1. "It's okay."
2. "If it's the scholarship, don't worry about a thing."
3. "No one's going to be mad at you."
4. "We have enough savings."
1. "Feel better now?"
2. "Mh..."
3. "...'m tired..."
4. "Want me to run a bath?"
5. "I'll take one in the morning..."
6. "It'll be colder."
7. "I can do it..."
8. "I'm going to bed. I'm too tired..."
9. "Mm."
10. "Will you sleep okay?"
11. "Thanks, Mom."
1. What has her feeling so cornered...?
2. It hurts to see her like that.
3. She shouldn't be so hard on herself.
4. It takes a toll on you when all your hard work doesn't pay off.
5. She did try so hard back then...
6. Maybe she's been carrying it ever since failing to get into her first-pick.
7. Right...
8. That friend of Kasumi's from cram school.
9. But... There's also...
1. The one who failed her first-choice and took her life.
2. "No one should have to go like that."
3. "If we lived in a perfect world..."
4. That has to be affecting her.
1. "Gaku-chan?"
2. "Sumi-chan,"
3. "is high school fun?"
4. "What do you need?"
1. "Good. I'm glad."
2. "Good-night."
3. "Mhm."
4. "It's fun."
5. It is fun.
6. That's what makes it so hard.
1. My head starts swimming and I can't tell if I'm crying because I remembered or remembered just so I could cry.
2. One bad experience drags it out in a tangle of painful memories, multiplying up in me.
3. Then I must be such a heartless person.
4. Is that why?
5. And my shackles tell me:
6. "You're only looking to feel sorry for yourself."