(Rain…… I’m wondering if it’ll rain all the best way to tomorrow……?)

I believe so to myself whereas watching the raging rain outdoors of my window.

The climate forecast predicted {that a} hurricane was on its means right here, and the accompanying storms had been presupposed to be so extreme that they might final for a complete day or two, which might lead to a compelled college holidays.

What vanity…… I wish to say, however I’m properly conscious that I’m in no style good or something like that. However that is this, and that’s that. Regardless that I used to be an honor scholar, the sheer quantity of homework assigned by each single trainer from each single topic was greater than sufficient to make me let loose a deep sigh.

And judging by this heavy rain and powerful winds outdoors, it could possibly be guessed that this space proper now was proper in the course of the worst a part of the hurricane.

I’m nonetheless good, even with this type of extreme climate. I’ve already contacted my dad and mom, so if I wait right here for lengthy sufficient, a pick-up automobile goes to come back for me in a bit. I do know I mustn’t be ok with myself due to one thing my household possessed, however I simply couldn’t cease to really feel pity in the direction of all of the individuals how had been unaware of this climate situation and forgot their umbrellas at present, which might lead to them going again residence drenched in rain.

(Melancholy…… I’m wondering why they didn’t allow us to go residence with none homework wanted to be performed within the first place? Ahh, and I’ve my follow for at present as properly…… I’m wondering if I might be capable of skip them only for at present?)

I believe that, however I’m greater than positive {that a} request like that merely received’t do right here.

Being a girl is just not an excuse to be powerless. In response to these phrases, which had been additionally a household motto, not solely her, however her two older sisters had been frequenting additional programs on martial arts and varied type of self-defense. And she or he was positive that neglecting the coaching wouldn’t be allowed, even on a wet day.

(I knew it…… Nothing however melancholy……)

Apparently, even somebody blessed with each cash and well-situated household was in a position to partake within the feeling of melancholy and share it with their friends.

With bitter ideas feeling my head I headed in the direction of the shoe rack on the college’s entrance. Regardless that it was a uncommon customized at the moment, this college nonetheless practiced it. As soon as I used to be near the doorway…… It was then that I seen that.

「Hmm, will it’s okay? The water mustn’t get inside, proper? My pockets and cell terminal are secure within my bag, and my garments…… Oh properly, let’s simply hope that Iwamaki-san goes to forgive me after laughing at me for some time, yeah.」

Proper on the college’s entrance, a lone boy scholar was standing. He was standing proper outdoors of the doorway, the place he was not within the constructing, however he was nonetheless sheltered from the rain due to the small roof.

Wanting by the uniform that boy was carrying, they had been the members of the identical yr, and he or she had a sense that possibly they had been even classmates.

(Hello…… No, Yo……? Tsutome? Actually? Was there somebody in our class going by the title Tsutome?)

She absolutely remembered that there was a quite particular kanji in that particular person’s title, and that it was surname ever rarer than “Sato” or “Suzuki”. …… Was it maybe “Hizutome”? She couldn’t ensure.

The boy’s college bag was put right into a clear plastic bag, in order that it could not get broken by the water. The boy was additionally stretching in place and appeared quite displeased whereas gazing upon the pouring rain. And since he didn’t have neither a cape nor umbrella on him, it was greater than obvious that this presumed Hizutome-san was fully unprepared for at present’s harsh climate situations.

(Evidently he’s in fairly a bind with all of this rain pouring down……)

It was additionally greater than obvious that his thought for getting via the wall of water was merely to sprint straight residence proper in the course of the downpour. With out an umbrella, or a cape, or no matter might probably defend him. She had no thought the place his residence might probably be, by she was positive that by the point he will get there, he could be fully drenched.

And even when he manages to return residence rapidly, getting totally drenched like that would find yourself in nothing good for his well being. She thought that the boy proper about now will need to have been drowning in despair, however……

「Alright! Time for me to go!」

「…… Eh?」

However he was smiling.

He jumped straight into the rain and took on the assault of the wall of water that waited for him. His bag will need to have been burdening his arms, because it was stuffed with textbooks and printed residence assignments, and there was that plastic bag as properly. However he was nonetheless smiling nonetheless. And he was making a mad sprint.

Within the midst of this heavy rain, the screams of a sure “Hizutome-san” had been regularly beginning to get farther and farther away. Going again to this second many occasions over, there was at all times this one query that was coming to her thoughts:

「Why? Why was he…… smiling so fortunately…… like that……?」

That was their very first encounter, though she closely doubted that he was conscious that she was even there at the moment.

Ever since then, she has witnessed that boy’s radiant smile many extra occasions. Spring, Summer season, Fall, Winter…… He was at all times smiling, even on that day when he had a nasty accident in the course of the P.E lesson and needed to be taken to the Nurse’s Workplace because of this.

「Alright! It’s lastly right here…… Since I bought that mail, I must hurry up and get there to obtain the factor! Let’s pull one other all-nighter……!!」

He at all times go residence with an enormous smile on his face. Sooner or later I began to marvel simply “what” was making him smile so radiantly like that? Or to place it in one other phrases, “why” was he in a position to smile like that it doesn’t matter what?

That’s the reason on someday she determined to observe him. After doing a little analysis she bought to know the place he was dwelling and what was his common route again residence after college. Now it was solely the query the place precisely he was taking his detour. Apparently sufficient, on the time she had no concept that what she was doing might simply be thought of “stalking” in fashionable regulation phrases.

It was then that she was introduced in entrance of a small, in all probability privately owned recreation store.

「Rock Roll…… However shouldn’t it’s “Rock ‘n Roll”……? Hyah!?」

「Fufufufufufu…… Lastly! It’s lastly right here! Survival Gunman……!!」

The handbook entrance door opens up immediately, and the one to emerge from within the shop was none aside from the boy she was following. She additionally managed to recollect the boy’s title: Hizutome Rakuro. She hid behind the constructing’s nook in order that he wouldn’t be capable of see her.

「Hm? Was {That a} cat……? Oh properly, doesn’t actually matter. What issues is that I managed to get my arms on this piece of labor! Now to rush again residence and take a look at it out!」

(Ahh, there it’s. That smile once more.)

At college he was actually not a sloppy scholar. He takes his research severely, has good grades and has a very good quantity of shut buddies.

Nonetheless, the best way he smiles in school isn’t fairly as radiant as the best way he was smiling simply now.

It was the sight of Rakuro working away with a smile on his face that gave her one ultimate push to open the door to that store and enter it herself.

At the moment she didn’t even suppose that the proprietor of the shop would so simply level out the true nature of the sensation she was harboring within her. She additionally didn’t suppose that the store’s proprietor would grow to be her ally similar to that.

「Summer season trip…… Is it actually, over……?」

From the day of that downpour, time flew by extraordinarily quick. And at present, she was conscious of that truth greater than ever earlier than.

She had a sense that it solely managed to begin…… And earlier than she even knew it was already over. And simply as she awoke, Saiga Rei knew that the time has come for her to make a transfer. In response to her pal Iwamaki Mana, now was the time to boost that exact flag, best suited after the summer time trip had been over.

「Younger Girl, the automobile is prepared and ready.」

「…… No, I’m sorry. Only for at present, I wish to go to highschool on foot, alone. Name it a change of tempo to rejoice the tip of the summer time trip.」

「I see…… I perceive, if that’s what you would like, Younger Girl.」

After I eat breakfast I placed on my uniform, give my hair a one final enthusiastic verify in entrance of the mirror and prepare to go out.

「Effectively then, I’m going to go out.」

「Please do take care, Younger Girl.」

Though she was normally drove by automobile, she had the highway memorized to the final element. However for at present she determined to go to highschool by way of a very completely different path.

Maybe for at present…… She simply had a sense like that.