Kanoko and wounds
I’ll give you my wounds
It’d be good if he had the same wounds as me
Then I... Can I hurt yuki-nii more like this?
I want to hurt Yukinii
hey I?
I really hate him
Kanokochan’s hand is warm
Yesterday— … it was really hot when you hit me
The heat isn’t the same as that time
Warm when you want to connect with someone, hot when you want to hurt someone
Even though it’s the same touch
Strange, even though it’s the same hand
The feeling of falling in love with someone must be the same
I understood because I got hit by kanokochan that time and I underfelt pain stood because yukitakun’s hands are warm
I also remembered that kouchan’s hands are cold
From now on, no matter how much it hurts, I have to be brave and get hurt
That’s why, coming into contact with others is… to live is...
To get hurt, I think.
But no matter how warm it is, anything above excitement is actually ‘pain’...
Like times when it’s tough, you’ll still get hurt
That’s why the me who has been running away from pain up till now, won’t do
For the sake of meeting a gentle pain
This wind is a gentle pain
It feels really good
Now matter how warm it is, it’s painful, if so
Yukitakun!
Since when have you been here? For the sake of meeting a gentle pain
Sorry, since quite a while ago
sorry
I have to get hurt without running away
Yukinii...
I
I was actually just running away
Because I wanted you to stay in this city forever
I, too
Because I didn’t want you to leave
Because I liked yuki-nii
Yeah‌ sorry
Kanoko...
...sorry Even so, I want to leave this city
Thank you, okay—?
But...
Don’t smile
Yuki-nii
Somehow, even though I thought I had nothing Even though I thought I was empty, the tears flowed on and on
The wind embracing the empty me… the ‘gentle pain’ tabi talked about
Quickly dried the tears on me
—so you happily made up
Shut up
That’s youth!
Nishimurasan’s such an old man
Since it’s her first time She said she wanted to do her best and stay at school for one day
Yeah, it seems kanoko can go to the shopping mall via toto’s path
We’re meeting at the public baths at the shopping mall in the evening
Public baths?
...so what about tabi-kun?
Ah, she stayed behind at school
It’s a pity but I can’t go
Ehh why?
She said she’d show me something nice after the bath
We haven’t gotten in a big bath for ages
Nishimurasan should come too
Look, I didn’t get a tegata from the toto doll
Ahh I see!
I wanted to see that tegata
The fact that nishimurasan’s memories remain mean that you got a tegata from somewhere like me, right?
Yuyukitakun!!
Ah what if you strip off now...
Noooo oo!?
Because ...
Whyyy, I wanted to see nishimurasan’s bare body!!
Ahh— sheesh— if only toto were here
Just joking
I would get a tegata quickly where did he go...
Oh, it’ll be soon be time, right? Yukitakun
Looks like the wind has picked up
Oh!
yeah
...No, I wasn’t asking about yukitakun
It’s fine, we’re on really good terms so She said she wouldn’t do anything!
But is it okay
To meet with kanoko -chan?
I was asking about kanokochan?
I’m...
In!
The bath!!
Mine are really clear on my arm It happened when we shook hands properly
Woah it’s real! There’s a tegata on my back!!
Ehh the where is yukitakun’s?
Tegata are freely copied to the places that sekimori touch Like a stamp
When we shook hands, it appeared on my arm instead of my palm
You won’t be able to tell
Whether that tegata is genuine or a duplicate copy Whether that person is a real sekimori or not
yeah Won’t be able to tell?
A sekimori’s own genuine tegata is Tabi… do you like yuki-nii?
Something that appears on your palm
Even though he’s a normal person with nothing when he’s with me
Even though he seems to be suffering the same as me
I felt that my wounds became alright too
Yuki-nii smiles a lot
So I tried to put my wounds on yuki-nii… even so, yuki-nii continued to smile
It’s laughable for a person who has nothing to smile To look so unaffected
I thought that I could also become like yuki-nii and laugh...
I smell sweet, ripe peaches
Oh right, it’s peach season It sure is summer—
We’re out, yukinii—
Oh—...
How is this ‘something nice’?
Oh, it’s almost time
The ‘something nice’ is that
My thoughts exactly
I borrowed them
You!? Those clothes ...
I lent them to her
Shooting stars
The shooting stars will come again at the same time
It’s okay, you can still make a wish tomorrow
Crap, I forgot to wish!
Those shooting stars granted my wish...
Eh!?
Because the It’s shooting no stars you see use right now are like a video replay of the shooting stars that day
The real thing is much, much more dazzling
They don’t have any power to grant wishes
The shape of a human emerged from that light
It was so bright that even when I closed my eyes, the radiance didn’t disappear at all
Ah, it’s fine to keep your eyes closed
I’ll grant your wish
The next time you open your eyes
You will see the world you desire
Before you open your eyes, make a wish
Passing by each day, without any power, without any meaning
In the end, I didn’t wish for anything
Those shooting stars and I‌ are quite similar
Hey! Kanokochan In the past, kou-chan said If my wish could be granted now, what would I wish for?
Stars can’t see the pretty light shining from their own bodies
They don’t know that they themselves are stars, instead they think that other stars are pretty
Though the light of the stars is pretty
The one who sees that beauty is the one who gazes upon them
Kanokochan is probably like that right now
I’m sure of it!
Didn’t you say you liked me!?
Don’t look so lovestruck like that
Okay okay, I’m going home
...I see, I might actually fall in love with kou -chan
You...
Wa—
Still hurts a little even now
The smell of peaches brings back many lost feelings
Like gentle pain, the sweet smell...
Like the fires welcoming souls back to the world at the obon festival every year
The smell of peaches announcing the arrival of summer to this city
At that time, how much will I have advanced towards you?
Just like how I remember the past summer of last year
Next year, I wonder if I’ll remember my feelings right now
Somehow, this soap
I’ve decided! From now onwards, I’ll yuki-nii
I don’t really like its scent
I’ll be sure to take more baths with this soap
If this city returns to normal This soap will decrease in size, right?
I’ve been fooling you great up to now
Let’s polish ‘me’
I have more acting talent than yuki-ni
Idiot! The path of a stage actor is deep and long
You still have a long way to fool us, you know?
Oh yeah, I’m going to the theatre later
Well, nishimura-san seemed to be a little touched
Being hurt over and over and polished over and over… in the end I’ll shine like a star
Yuki-nii,, could it be...
NO?
Oh right!
Even though In the nishimuraend I san isn’t a never got sekimori, he to see retains his nishimura memories -san’s like me
To me, that means he’s like kanokochan and actually has a tegata, right?
bare body!
Somehow I can’t imagine it for that person Nishimurasan’s always spaced out
Really?
Yuki-nii’s imagination is rather weak
Because nishimurasan is a little similar to kou -chan
...I think I sort of get it Any girl who likes yuki-nii must have really strange tastes...
His kindness
Oh and
His way of speaking
The way he smiles a little…?
‘no incidents today’
Good evening, nishimurasan
Tsukiko‌ -chan!?
Please don’t call me ‘-chan’
yeah Did you buy a peach?
A present for nishimurasan
I’m not a little girl anymore I smell peaches—
Makes old injuries twinge with pain
The sweet scent of peaches...