(Damn it, I got careless.)
Koremitsu drifted in the water, thinking glumly.
(I just relaxed carelessly after seeing Shikibu pull Hanasato up.)
He actually let his guard down at the end. At this point, Honoka must be panicking.
(That girl is so feisty and short-tempered, but she's unexpectedly a crybaby.)
Koremitsu could not help but imagine Honoka charging towards him angrily, her face all teary, and his heart ached. He wished she too did not jump into the river and try to look for Koremitsu.
It was terrifying, and it was rather plausible.
Also, if he was to be discovered as a floating corpse, Koharu would surely give him a good scolding.
—Why are you always causing trouble! It's a miracle that you're able to get into a prestigious, refined private high school! And you end up absent from the opening ceremony because you're hospitalized! You say that you were knocked down by a truck at the red light? You think you're an elementary school kid or something?
Ahh, that was the moment when Koremitsu was hospitalized and bandaged like a mummy.
Because of that, Koremitsu's plan to actually make friends once he entered high school, and spend his life like an ordinary student, was drastically altered. He was completely devastated, but he was feeling frustrated to hear his uncompromising aunt nag at his ear.
—Shut up already! Just put my change of clothes down and go back!
Once he said this to Koharu, his ear was nearly ripped off.
—That Koharu. She's abusing me now that I can't move. Damn it, damn it!!
Once Koharu returned, Koremitsu grumbled away, and then, he saw the flowers sticking into the vase by the windowside.
They were refreshing white flowers blooming from the stem, a soft little feather growing on the bud, akin to a newborn's hair.
Isn't it inauspicious to have white flowers in a hospital?
Koremitsu wondered as he stared at the white, fluttery petals. he felt the anxiety and frustration in his heart silently dissipating.
It was useless of him to be so frenetic.
This is fate. Friends too are the same; when the ripe is ripe, maybe I will have friends.
Koremitsu managed to force himself to think positive.
After that, he kept staring at the flower whose name he did not know of.
On the day before Golden Week, he went to school on crutches.
After that, he passed through the central corridor, meeting a handsome boy standing by a pillar.
The morning sun shone upon his soft hair, and he dazzled with light. The boy's lips, eyes and nose, everything was the completely opposite to Koremitsu, so soft, so tender.
Is this a dude? Or a lady? Right when Koremitsu was wondering, with a rich, sweet voice.
—Mr. Akagi
The boy called out to him,
—You are the first year Koremitsu Akagi, no? Is this your first day attending school?
He looked at Koremitsu, beaming cheerfully.
(Hm? What's going on? Why is it that I'm thinking of the first time I met Hikaru? Is this the dying light I see before I die? I'm doomed.)
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Hikaru ga Chikyuu ni Itakoro...... (Volume 10 - Final Volume)
Romance> The story starts with the death of Hikaru Mikado. That guy was a natural charmer, a "harem king", but had no real male friends. After he died, he became a ghost, a soul, but Koremitsu Akagi can see him. Koremitsu though, isn't really like Hikaru...
