Category: Chapter 19
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18 — Emergency
The doors to Yashikata Clinic fly open and through bursts a girl, barely stopping to catch her breath before running up to the front desk. She leans on the counter, seemingly so exhausted she can’t stand on her feet any longer. Startled by Koharu’s sudden entrance, the receptionist jumps out of her office chair, quickly…
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17 — Closed Ranks
Nothing could be more exhausting than dealing with prospective first-years, hearing their unending questions about Newspaper Club, fielding from unexpected sources, and keeping Koharu’s vision of trying to talk others out of joining without outright rejecting them. As they were finally free to leave school, the collective— minus Koharu— began walking home. Hanako: Haah… I…
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16 — Red and White
“New Eden”. A sign that had hung for a third of the year now in a quiet, early April sky. Tacky, perhaps, but Kiwako Kobayashi found amusement in the name. Doubly so, given the gym’s secondary purpose. A stolen, manmade paradise, even with the facade of an angel in the basement. Fallen angel, Kiwako reminded…
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15 — The Jester
At Mitakihara High, the club fair is in full swing. The long road between the school’s main building and its gates is packed with stalls and students, decked out in sports gear, handing out flyers or offering passing-by first-years samples of the fruits of their labour. The soccer club has a goal set up for…
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EX — Imber
While Alice was “entertaining” their new drummer as a would-be makeshift therapist, Yui saw fit to linger around The Smile. She watched several bands perform, most notably the band she had been sent to engage in espionage on, “TAKTIKS”. She was ordering just enough to not be loitering, but not enough to become completely inebriated.…
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14 — Hard to Explain
It is obvious why Kiyoshi Tanemura is such a great drummer. The man basically lives in a rehearsal space. His basement apartment can give garages a run for their money, adorned with furniture improvised from old tyres, rusty barrels and recycled wooden palettes, tacky posters of bikini-clad women advertising beer and bands even Alice has…
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Magnum Opus (pt. 1) — Phoenix
She was once known as “Fujiwara no Karasu” – The Crow of Clan Fujiwara. More recently, she had bestowed herself with the title “Fujiwara no Fushichō” – The Phoenix of Clan Fujiwara. Even in death, even in this stasis of purgatory in the Dreamscape, she maintained the latter persona, even keeping her now fiery red…
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13 — Quid Pro Quo
Yuna: Well, I’m glad that you get to be in the same class as Sasaki and Hayama again. Stability is important, especially with all that happened last year. Yuna Sakurauchi folds her hands, sitting at her desk in her counselor’s office, across from a girl picking at her fingers, her unkempt curly hair covering her…
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12 — Fashion
Shinju steps into a trendy fashion boutique in the upscale part of town. Her usual style of dress– casual, tomboyish– sticks out, and she knows it. No big deal. She’s been out of place plenty of times in her life. She pushes past the racks of stylish clothing, looking for someone. She checks her phone.…
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11 — She’s American
As the other members of the Newspaper club are busy unpacking the boxes they packed at the end of the previous term, restoring the Newspaper Clubroom to its former glory, Koharu is sulking at her desk by the window, gazing out of the window. Koharu: … Tsh. We don’t even have room for extra members.…
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