In the afterword of the first volume, I had mentioned that I had started writing the second volume (jumping the gun), but in fact, I had to make a major rewrite of it, and until I submitted the first draft, I was personally in a mess—no, let’s put my situation to the side… In this […]

Having gone through the few remaining days left of the winter holiday, the third semester finally arrived. Similar to the end-of-term ceremony, the opening ceremony was full of students not paying attention. After that was done, students went back to their classes to have homeroom. As for Sandai, the thing talked went in one ear […]

They tried to draw a fortune slip, and it was excellent luck for Sandai and Shino. Especially romantic luck, it was a wonderful one for both. On Sandai’s fortune slip was: If you are in a relationship, that person is a once-in-a-lifetime good match that will never appear again in your life, so don’t let […]

The 1st of January, the day of the new year shrine visit arrived. Barely any people could be seen in the city, as if the hustle and bustle from the last few days had just been a lie. It seemed there had been a lot of people rushing back to their hometown from the evening […]

1 The next day after the enjoyable trip with Shino. On the way to his part-time job, Sandai noticed the atmosphere of the city to be completely different. It was only just about a week since Chrtistmas, but it was already in new year holiday decorations. The Christmas trees were replaced with kagami mochis or […]

“Haah… haah…” While getting his breathing in order, Sandai looked up into the sky and saw a full moon and glittering stars floating in the sky. And before he noticed, snow was also falling like a flicker. That Shino… even if she was teasing me, just now was really going too far. Is something wrong […]

After several minutes passed with them still dumbfounded, someone from the inn finally showed up. It seemed they would like to talk about compensation, apology, and such regarding the sudden accident, so Sandai and Shino decided to go to the inn’s office for the time being. They were told to wait for a moment when […]

When making a reservation for the hot spring inn, Sandai had aimed for one likely to have availability, but apparently it was so deep in the mountains. He hadn’t checked it out detailedly to that extent. Even the train, everytime they transferred to another, the railroad cars kept getting shorter and older. Eventually, there were […]

1 The day of the trip to a hot spring, Sandai had planned to get out of the bed at 6 in the morning, but it was about 30 minutes later that he actually woke up. He hadn’t been really able to fall asleep last night, and had finally fallen asleep at 3 am, so […]

1 >Looks like the shift got mixed up, so I got a day-off today. >I’m free, so I’m gonna go visit your workplace, okay? Suddenly such a message came from Shino. It was when Sandai was looking at news on his phone during his break time. “Eh…” The liquid running down on Sandai’s forehead was […]