Prologue 2

After I said goodbye to Tsumiki, R and I headed home. I was still clutching my stomach.

“Halfway through, Tetra started cooking things for me, too... Why?”

“It’s because you’re obtuse and slow, et cetera, et cetera.”

She’d just started saying “et cetera.” Was it that obvious?

I still couldn’t figure it out...

“Hmm?”

I saw someone standing with their arms crossed in front of my house. It was too tall to be Harissa... and her hair was different than Satsuki’s or Iris’s. I’d just left everybody else at Nozomiya... So who was it?

“Are you Rekka Namidare?”

It was a girl I’d never seen before.

“Yeah, I am. Who are you?”

“My name is Hibiki Banjo,” the girl—Hibiki—said in a clear voice. “Rekka Namidare, you need to marry me.”

“...Huh?”

Those were the first words out of her mouth.

—Fin—