March in Japan is the season when the cherry blossoms bloom.

It's also graduation season.

On the last day of March, Hanabell High School held a graduation ceremony.

Since he got the status of a "specialty student" from the countermeasure room, Kamiyagawa hasn't been to school for a long time.

However, these days, he has just made a preliminary visit to Kamuyi, and he happens to be free, and he has been to school on the day of the graduation ceremony.

School auditorium.

The boys wore shirts and school uniforms and suits, and most of the girls wore delicate light makeup.

Kamiyagawa, dressed in a formal suit, sat in his class.

A few classmates around him whispered to him-

"Huh? Did you go to Tokyo University as a specialty student? Dongda, I'm so envious. ”

"No wonder Kamiya-kun hasn't been coming to school lately."

"Youkai science? I don't think I've heard much about this major. Yes...... Folklore studies? Sounds so powerful, ordinary people can't do this, right? Is Kamiya-kun all studying and studying? No wonder you seem so busy all the time. ”

“……”

On the stage of the auditorium, the somewhat balding headmaster slapped the microphone to clear his throat, and the students who were whispering quieted down.

"Resignation, graduate representative Naoya Suzuki."

"Yes."

A girl in the audience stood up and walked slowly to the stage.

"Answer:"

"Today, as usual, I walked the path I used to get to campus. From the fragrance of flowers and the sound of chestnuts, you can feel the breath of spring. Sighing, it's so good, this year's cherry blossoms are also blooming as scheduled. ”

"Three years ago, I walked through the front door of the school with the high school uniform I had always dreamed of, dressed up and feeling uneasy. At that time, I never thought that the names I didn't know when I saw them for the first time on the bulletin board would become the names that I called countless times in the classroom, after school, and in ministry activities, and I will never forget them for the rest of my life. ”

"And such a smooth campus life is suddenly interrupted today, like a slap in the face......"

Kamiyagawa sat in the audience, listening to the graduation speech of the student representative, but he didn't show too many expressions like the classmates around him.

Strictly speaking, he only attended Hualing High School for one year.

Although he spends most of his time alone, his own personality is not a yin horn type, and he is even quite cheerful.

As long as you put in a little effort, you can get along with people without any problems.

If it weren't for the loading of the weird talk game, there were some more important things to do, and it was not impossible to use this year and the original good appearance to re-debut in high school, adjust the image of the previous two years, and become a "popular fried chicken".

Overall, this year, he got along well with his classmates.

Although I didn't have a deep friendship with people, I just did.

Suzuki, who was on stage, continued to speak: "...... Time has never been so stingy as it is now, and it is not willing to leave us even a minute or a second. We always think that we have grown up, and we always think that we can not care, but when the separation comes like this, we are extremely lonely in our hearts. ”

"Youth is the secret itself. Let us understand how precious and happy the daily life used to be. No matter how many sad and sad things we have experienced, no matter when, what can save us is always the smiling faces of the best companions. ”

"Growing up has brought us not only losses, but also many important things in exchange with it. We hereby pledge that we will actively and firmly move towards adult ......"

……

End of the ceremony.

Kamiyagawa took a group photo with his classmates in his class.

High schools in Japan are quite strict in a sense.

Anyway, as far as Hualing High School is concerned, there will be clear requirements for wear, shoes, and socks on a daily basis, and some schools even have regulations on the color of underwear. In addition, because the number of times they wear the formal clothes after graduation is small, some schools will recycle them and sell them to new students at a low price.

Therefore, it is still relatively rare for a boy to give the second button on the school uniform near the heart to the girl he likes, or for classmates to sign each other's clothes to commemorate each other.

The atmosphere of graduation is usually a little melancholy.

Feeling the atmosphere of separation, Kamiyagawa took advantage of the time for others to talk and walked out of the classroom alone.

He went to the infirmary.

When I first came to this world, Kamiya liked to come to the health room.

There was a faint smell of disinfectant water in the air, but it wasn't unpleasant.

No one was seen in the clinic today.

The beautiful health teacher Sister Mikami Yui, who has a good relationship with Kamiya and usually likes to touch fish, didn't stay here.

Maybe I took a picture with the students somewhere in the school.

Kamiya walked naturally and familiarly to the corner of the health room and came to the mini Xiaoice box where Mr. Mikami stored the fish snacks.

He opened the refrigerator and put it in a small paper bag.

The bag contains two Daifuku that I just bought today from the sweets shop Okaku Tamaya.

Kamiyagawa left a note in the Daifuku bag, without a signature, just a sentence:

[Mikami-sensei, do you want to eat strawberry Daifuku?] ]

After leaving the health room, Kamiyagawa went to the roof of the school building.

Like Mr. Yui Mikami, the rooftop is also a place he frequents at Hanazu High School.

The view here is very open.

From the top down, you can see cherry blossom forests and artificial lakes.

Kamiya was here for a while, and suddenly felt someone coming up from the corridor.

He turned his head and saw Keiko Kido walking towards him.

This girl is one of the few people in Hanayagawa High School who has left a deep impression.

She confessed to herself......

And then it happened to be the daughter of Mr. Kido on the other side of the haunted house of the Secret Hospital.

In addition, at the time of the outbreak of the breeder's "flower seed", Keiko Kido also had a kind of ghost on her body, and she was a second girl. Judging from the later situation, the two-person girl should be Keiko Kido's late mother.

For a long time after that, Kido did not appear in the school.

It looks like it was sent to Honganji.

Her father is still rich in the end, and the monks in Honganji Temple have been using more gentle Pure Land sect spells to purify the two daughters on Keiko Kido.

Judging from the fact that Keiko Kido can now appear at the school at the graduation ceremony, the second daughter on her body has either been retired or harmless.

At this point, Kamiya himself prefers the latter.

Because when he condensed his pupils slightly and looked at Keiko Kido, he could still feel a strange aura of gentle spell power from her.

"Kamiya-san, so you're here."

Keiko Kido said.

She feels a little different than before.

How to say it, it may be because she is wearing formal clothes, and she can't see the previous hot girl demeanor on her body. Maybe it's not just the impact of the change in dress, but also the breath of her own who seems to have changed to a certain extent.

After some big things, people always change.

"Well, long time no see, Kido-san."

Kamiyagawa's [Seven Emotions - Magatama] is still quietly hanging in the haunted house of Keiko Kido's house to brush the love core, so he has a good attitude towards others.

"You love to come up to the rooftop."

Kido walked over to Kamiya's side, held on to the railing, and took a breath of pleasure.

"You know all this?"

"After all, I used to be quietly watching you. Actually, I started it when I was in the second grade, but I quietly didn't tell anyone around me, and I didn't admit it to them. Then in the third grade, it feels like your personality has changed, but you're still on your own. ”

"Oh......"

"Actually, I still think that Kamiya-kun in the second grade ...... It's better for me to get in touch with it, so that people always want to be close to you and take care of you at that time. Sorry, sorry, I'm not saying that your changes are bad. It's just that after that, you seem to become ...... How to say it, it is very dazzling, and if you get a little close, you will feel inferior. Especially after experiencing the previous collision and learning about the other side of you. ”

"Not really." Kamiyagawa shrugged his shoulders.

Sophomore years......

Well, maiden.

I wasn't the one you're interested in in the first place.

When I was in second grade, my body wasn't under my control.

If you had taken the initiative to contact "me" at that time, you might have been able to redeem the original owner of this body.

Kamiya thought so, but he didn't dwell too much on it.

The past is not interfered with by the present, the past is the past.

The "me" now is me.

"Kamiya-kun, I heard that you're going to Todai?"

"Well, for some reason, I got the qualification to study monster science."

"Todai, that's good. Moreover, youkai science. It's really, very much in line with your style. ”

Keiko Kido is one of the few people in the school who knows the identity of the Kamiyagawa Soul Killer, and when she heard about this major, she was not as surprised as others.

"What about you, I mean your university."

"I applied for Waseda originally, but ...... Lost the list. ”

"Ah......h

Kamiyagawa didn't know how to answer.

Life doesn't always seem to go as people want, and in Keiko Kido's case, the counterattack of the bottom spice girl was not staged.

"Don't put on such an expression. It's hard to study well, especially for me, who hasn't been working too hard before. But it's okay, I'm ready to repeat, and the repeat application has been approved. I'm actually only a little short of the quota for admission to Waseda. If you work hard this year, you may have a chance. ”

Keiko Kido often stayed at Honganji Temple after the crash.

However, I did not fall behind in my studies during this period.

Kamiyagawa's joking words, coupled with the previous rescue of the ghost, had a big impact on her.

At the very least, become better and not be too ashamed of yourself when facing him.

"Then please do your best."

Keiko Kido turned her head, and the wind on the rooftop ruffled her carefully groomed hair: "Hmm. If I get into Waseda next year, can you contact you? Although by then, you were probably already enjoying your new university life. ”

"As long as you want, of course you can."

"Hey, I didn't expect Kamiya-san to be quite gentle, but I didn't feel it before."

"Uh......"

It's not that I think it's unlikely that I'll be exposed to it in the future, so it doesn't matter......

"Kamiya-kun, thank you."

"Thank me for what? Saved you before? ”

"Of course, that thing, but there's also something else, like ...... Thank you for not accepting my confession before. ”

"Ah......h

"I'm sorry, I think I said something strange. However, I do think so. Keiko Kido raised her hand and brushed her sideburns.

You can see that on her right wrist, she is wearing a light-colored bracelet of Buddha beads.

Keiko Kido: "Although there may be some narcissism in saying this, because the appearance is not bad, I used to be among the boys, and I was still a little popular." When I confessed to you at that time, I even felt that I was nine out of ten. But after being rejected by you, I stood in front of the mirror and looked at myself. That's when I realized that I didn't have good academic results, I didn't have any talent skills, and I wasn't a very interesting person. ”

"I'm playful, lazy, and I don't seem to have anything."

"And then for a while, I felt like I could impress you with sincerity. So I've sent you a lot of messages before, but I'm not a flirtatious girl, right? No. That's two years of serious crushes...... It's just that at that time, it seemed that the only thing I could do in my heart was sincerity. ”

"Later, when my mother appeared by my side, I realized that maybe sincerity would not help you. It turns out that we are completely people from two worlds, and it turns out that you have another side that is unimaginable and untouchable for ordinary people. ”

"So I thought, at the very least, I should be better and not make my crush look ridiculous. I thought I could proudly tell you one day - look, I'm actually quite good. ”

Keiko Kido said quietly, and then the girl who had changed a lot raised her head and looked straight at Kamiya: "Kamiya-kun." Graduation season seems to be a good place to confess. ”

"Uh......"

Then, she shook her head again, her expression relieved: "However, who would shout and confess at this time like in TV?" Anyway, I won't, after all, I've been rejected once, and it would be too sad to do it again. But ah, I can still look at my feelings—"

"Because my mother told me that it's not a shame for a girl to like someone, especially someone who can make her better."

"Hehe, Kamiya-kun, I hope you will be safe in the future. I hope to see you become a more powerful and dazzling person in the future, which is definitely what you can do. ”

Keiko Kido finished speaking, and she probably planned to leave.

"I hope you can become a better person in the future." Kamiya replied to her like this.

"I'll try."

Keiko Kido waved her hand, turned around with a smile, and walked in the direction of the staircase.

Kamiya stared at her leaving, and suddenly saw a shadow hovering behind Kido, transforming into a slightly thin, but peaceful woman.

The hair on the back of the woman's head fluttered, and a large bare mouth could be seen beneath the black hair.

The previous two daughters.

The second woman turned around, her facial features were not as terrifying as they had been seen before. It's gentle and loving.,And it's a little similar to Keiko Kido.。

"Thank you...... Thank you ......"

The two women turned around, crossed their hands in front of them, and bowed slightly towards Kamiya.

Then, the figures of the mother and daughter disappeared together at the stairs.

The wind from the roof of the building blew in his face, stroking the ends of Kamiya's bangs.

He inhaled and exhaled, turned again, and looked down from the familiar place one last time.

In the direction of the cherry blossom forest in the distance, students in formal clothes walked in twos and threes, and saw clusters of pink petals, shaking off in the warm spring breeze.

(End of chapter)