Volume 3 - CH 12

Blurred Noises

“Good morning, Yumi.”

“Good morning…….”

“You look pale. Well, that can’t be helped I guess……”

“Un…….”

Minako shouldn’t know what’s going on with me but she still looks at me with sympathy.

Her expression looked like she understood me even though I still haven’t told her anything yet.

“……”

“……”

Just like that, we head to school without exchanging a single word.

Seeing how depressed I am, Minako awkwardly opens her mouth.

“I’m going ahead. It seems Yumi still needs time to process it right. A month was probably not enough, after all.”

“U, Un.”

What is Minako talking about I wonder?

Time to process?

A month isn’t enough?

I don’t understand what she’s saying.

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When I arrived at the classroom, my mind suddenly turned pure white and my head felt like it was about to explode.

There were just too many noises in my head.

“…….eh?”

There was a vase of flowers on the table next to Minako’s seat——-the seat that belong to Toyotomi Mitsuhide.

“Hey!? What’s the meaning of this!? Who was it that pulled a prank like this!?”

“Yumi, calm down.”

I was screaming as I swept my eyes across the classroom.

Normally, I would be too shy to do that.

But right now, I couldn’t care less about that.

Then, I spotted one of Toyotomi-kun’s friends who was nearby.

“Hey!? Who did this!? The one who put those flowers on Toyotomi-kun’s table!? You are Toyotomi-kun’s friend right!?”

“Who you asked? Of course, it was our homeroom teacher right……”

“Ha? But why…..?”

“What, you don’t know……? That Mitsuhide, he died in an accident the day before summer vacation.”

“Eh…..?”

“That’s it, come with me.”

Minako immediately runs up and drags me out of the classroom.

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He died?

What is dying?

I can’t see Toyotomi-kun in the corridor either.

Where did you go……?

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“You didn’t know……?”

“I don’t……he promised to send me messages everyday……that we would play together a lot this summer……..”

“I see. Toyotomi-kun passed away on the day of your surgery after all. They didn’t talk about it immediately in the news either……. You just didn’t have the chance to know…….”

Am I, having a bad dream?

“I heard Toyotomi-kun was crossing the road on a greenlight…….a truck ran the light and hit him……..it seems he didn’t suffer that many external wounds but his head was hit and his brain was—”

“Stop it…….”

“……sorry.”

The lively Toyotomi-kun is no longer in this world.

I don’t understand what the others are saying anymore.

The principal also mentions Toyotomi-kun’s death in his welcome speech.

Hey, why doesn’t no one deny Toyotomi-kun’s death at all…….?

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“It’s Toyotomi’s address. You should go pay him one last respect……”

My homeroom teacher gave me his address.

Right now, I’m feeling like I’m simply floating alone in an empty world.

TLN: A vase of flower is put on the desk of a student who passed away as a way to mourn them.

In case the student is alive, it’s a way of bullying.