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YOU SEE KOMATSU'S MATCH THIS MORNING? I HEAR HE MAPE THE IBARAKI PREFECTURE TEAM IN HIS FIRST YEAR AT HIS LAST SCHOOL, i AHA HA, BUT IF BY SOME MIRACLE HE WINS, HE'LL FACE KOMATSU IN | THE FINAL. L
No What damn need ...? it... to worry 308 Punpun's heart was a dark lord...
' ...IT TURNS T OUT THE ' SINGLES FINAL IS BETWEEN yAOUCHI AND KOMATSU, BOTH STUDENTS \ FROM OUR V SCHOOL. , /J RESPECT1 FUL 4 OF THE STUDENTS FROM THE OTHER > SCHOOLS WHO LOST... i FIRST-/EARS WHO AREN'T WATCHINO THE LINES, CHEER THEM ON/ ...AND DON'T DO ANYTHING SILLy OR WILD. YOU'RE f DISMISSED, Jr
Punpun decided he wouldn't watch the match after all. He'd go home, eat a choco pie and go to bed instead. ARE YOU BRINOINO UP ALL THAT NEGATIVE STUFF RIOHT BEFORE MY k MATCH? , SHUT UP... I WANT A NOBLE WIN, PEVOIP OF USELESS EMOTION. / HUH? \ WHAT \ [the HELL1
"It's Aiko!'
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Punpun...
...for He had so long never before. stared into Aiko's eyes... ...in He her wondered wide, how he was gorgeous reflected... eyes. ...couldn't move a muscle for some
Punpun wanted to run away. ...who But it seemed was all he to have could do something to keep his she wanted knees from to tell him. shaking Punpun was in front of powerless. Aiko...
Way to go, Punpun! Actually, Punpun was showing off how in control he was.
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...now and forever, would never turn out the way he wanted.
HE/... LINESMAN. ...and then, He'd Yaguchi depending smooch was going i on how with Aiko to win, one things went, on the bus way or they'd head home... another. to his room and have sex and all that.
That's right. ...Punpun should never have agreed to the wager. If he was going to be this pathetic about it... X j WHAT?/ ABSURP THAT A LUPICROUS MISTAKE BY AN EMPTYHEAPEP IPIOT LIKE ...IS \ INFLUENCING THE OUTCOME OF MY BEAUTIFUL WIN/
"When we were in middle school, I made a bet on a match with you as the prize. Years from Yeah. now, the always cool and correct Yaguchi will turn to Aiko on the eve of their wedding and say... I'm I don't just a care garnish if you for your forget lives! me! ...Pupun thought. "I wonder what would have happened if I'd lost that day? Ha ha ha. Do you remember the guy? His name was Onodera." "When I get home. I'm going to cry a lot..." Sadness filled him.
WHAT VO YOU THINK ABOUT PEOPLE PALLING- IN LOVE... ...AW PATINO? I THINK IP YOU ALREAPy HAVE A LOVING PAMILy, WANTING MORE LOVE 16 JUST , GREEPy. X WANT SOMEONE TO GIVE UP EVERYTHING ANP JUST SEE ME. sut HE HAS LOTS OP PLACES TO RUN AWAV
...had inadvertently caused Punpun to become... The warmth of Aiko's hand... Understand
I PREAM THAT I'M WAITING FOR 60MB0NB FOR A LOH6
IN THE PARK, ON A BEACH, I'M WAITING FOR SOMEONE... W JbmW PUT then, ' y/ /MUMM at some /3 POINT, I / ^ NOTICE THAT / IT'S A SOMEONE IS MIPPLE-AOEP STARINO WOMAN I'VE AT ME. NEVER SEEN t BEFORE, BUT / I'M SO HAPPy K, V TO SEE HER [ THAT I PULL MY / FEET OUT OF f THE SANP ANP [Q v RUN OVER TO IM ' ...FOR YEARS ANP PECAPES. BUT WHEN I OET THERE, IT'S JUST MY OWN REFLECTION IN THE WATER.
rlVO YOU REMEM- ...THE BER... Essays WE WROTE IN J ELEMENTARY w_FI SCHOOL? F H
IF THAT PREAM CAME TRUE... ...IV BE OKAY VYING RI6HT THEN ANP THERE.
V &V/EN IF N you LOSE THIS MATCH, yOU'RE OUARANTEEP A SLOT IN THE PREFECTURE TOURNAMENT. but if you OET HURT, IT'LL ALL BE FOR k NOTHING. Z
LAU&HBV AW SAW, "mAT ARB you talkingABOUT?" THAT'S WHEN I FINALLY COMPLBTBLY PIFFERENT , WORLPS.
"...with her bag slung over her shoulder, full of things for Kagoshima... "That day in front of town hall.. ...waiting for someone to come get her?" still...