Kanoko and travellers
Let’s decide on the roles! First, the main character
The 4th years will be putting on a play of the little mermaid for drama class
‘look at reality’
Would anyone like to nominate someone to play the mermaid princess—?
Kanoko no. 10
Alright then, hasegawasan will be the mermaid princess—!
Teacher, suggestion! I think Hasegawasan would be good
She’s pretty and looks the part!
well
This is reality
Yuki-nii?
I heard you had a guidance session? So why are you here at such a time in the day?
Hey, kanoko Wahh kanoko!?
There’s really nothing in this city
Don’t stand in the way of our world…
Yuki-nii!
What are you doing, kanoko…
You hit her?
… hot…
Are you okay, tabi
Tegata...
eh
Yuki-nii, are you also standing in the way of our world?
You got it from another sekimo ri?
Kanoko …
You know about tegata?
Could it be, you
I, too
Am a sekimori
yes
Why did you do that?
‌ because I don’t want yukinii to leave this city
Every day, I pretend to forget about the previous day and perform the same actions
But I actually remember everything
If you know about tegata, you know about my wish, don’t you
I wished for it
‘may yukinii never leave this city’
That he never go to tokyo
That he never achieve his dream
I wanted to see yuki -nii suffering
… kanoko
Are you kidding me! That means, every day You laughed at me going about in a neverending day…?
What’s with that!!
I don’t want that!!
Understand! Spending the whole of my life in this rural town with nothing…
If you say you love me
Why are you standing in the way of dream!?
You are the one who should stop kidding me What’s your dream? To become a stage actor? It makes me laugh
The reason this city has nothing, is that yuki-nii has nothing
Even aunties say ‘I embarrasse d to say it but even though he’s 18, he’s like a child’
I laughed too, until I shook
Look at reality, yuki-nii
I’ve seen yuki-nii’s schoolmates laughing at you behind your back so many times
Using your talk of a dream to escape from your boring self, you won’t be able to escape from You’re just this town using talk of places like Tokyo to try and cover up your boring self
For such a yuki-nii, what’s your dream? It’s just an escape, am I wrong?
You’re dumb and your looks are average Yuki-nii is just another boring person from a rural town
Yuki-nii has nothing!
In elementary school, we learnt the formula to find distance travelled (distance = time x speed) No matter times I tried this deduction, my answer was… I can’t leave this town
If you replace speed with talent and time with brains I realized you can calculate how far a person will go in their future
Although I said your results are beyond help
You can also choose high schools based on their club activities
Is there anything you want to do?
If you do your best, you can aim for the highest ranking schools Right now, you’ve only written ‘e high school’ in the column for your aspirations
It’s like yuki-nii said …not really
There is nothing in this city
I also have nothing
Well alright, but you should also think about your choices of universities for the future…
Ah, it’s This child fine, hasn’t teacher thought about taking the exams for university
Ever since you said ‘I’m going to MyanEh, india mar’ you this never contime? tacted me
Masayuki?
Yes, hello— niichan?
‘look at reality’ … good grief, for what reason did you go to university?
Kanoko, you have to live your life at the top
Yes, mom’s here
Ah, it’s yukita -san again
Yukinii…
My smarts are just average
My body is just average
I’m never praised, I have nothing
I will make my dream come true—!! It can’t be helped
Look at reality
Grandma was like this, mom was like this, looking at the sea their entire life
Look at reality more closely It’s
So? laughable
Stop talking about your dream
What do you mean by ‘so?’… so
Well, that’s bad for your wife, huh—
Yuki-nii!
So what is kanoko’s dream!
Yuki-nii’s words, actually i…
I have nothing
I just
I was jealous of yukinii who could innocently talk about his dreams in front of the boring me
I’m just normal…
No wishes or aspirations, nothing
Want to suffer alongside me, living an average life in this rural town…
I just want to find a path
… so kanokochan’s words of ‘I can’t Did that leave this become town’ her wish as a sekimori?
I don’t understand it clearly yet…
But why? Yukita-kun seems depressed…
This is an emergency meeting!
I don’t know anything about yukita-kun
waaa
What are you doing all of a sudden!?
Why? The more I know The more he seems like a stranger
I didn’t know about his dream of becoming a stage actor
Nor that he could make such an expression
Um, because I see a stranger
Good, these are the hands I know
They’re warm
I need to confirm
For the sake of making my dream I’ll defi- come nitely true leave this town
I’ll destroy her wish!
Right!
Tomorrow I’ll meet with kanoko again
Idk how tho
Hey you
Whose side are you on
Stop being depressed! !
Because if you do that, if yukitakun let, kanoko…chan’s dream would never come true
—you can’t
Because kanokochan loves yukitakun…
Huh!?
You’re annoying! Those feelings…
No, she loves you
Just because she lived next door and we grew up like siblings, she’s mistaken in her feelings
‌ do you even understand what love is?
I understand
The feeling of treasuring those precious to you I understand it
In the first place, if she loves me but wants me to suffer, what kind of logic is that?
Is it ‘kouchan’
Ahh—is that so, sorry about that!
How great that my hand is warm like kouchan’s!!
Ehh!?
Nope, you thought it!
For sure!!
He’s like A stran ger again. ..
I—I never thought that…
Come now, you two Firstly, let’s think about making a place where we can discuss thoroughly with kanoko-chan
Yukita-kun, think about it calmly, okay?
Tabi-kun needs kanoko-chan’s tegata to be able to meet kou-chan, right?
Then should we ambush The plac- her?
es where Kanoko’s and my path to school intersect…
Yeah, but this city has lots of alleys and she’ll get away easily
Kanokochan surely doesn’t want to break her wish and destroy her tegata
So I think she will be wary and avoid us
… oh right, the school
Let’s lie in wait and ambush her at school!
That place is surrounded by fences!
Even if she tries to escape, we can block the front and back gates, she’ll be like a trapped rat
...school
Tabi…
My My stomach hurts … So...
revenge
I get it tabi
You don’t like school
Good luck tomorrow—
Tabi should infiltrate alone and trap kanoko in a place where she can’t escape, like the rooftop
I’m a graduate so they’ll recognize me
He’s like a stranger …!!
It’s okay, nishimurasan! It’s because the uniforms are different, that tabi can do it
There’s a magical word that can disguise everything
I don’t know this expression…!
But yukitakun, tabikun is a high school student, right?
And her uniform is different from kanokochan’s middle school uniform, so infiltrating will be hard.
A magical word?
Hey— who are you?
An unfamiliar face! An unfamiliar uniform!
I’m
A transfer student…