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Chapter 47: Piano and Violin

Practice was over.

After going home in the afternoon, Ikuyo Kita lay down on her bed and opened the simulator.

[You have launched the Good Friend Simulator.]

[Please select a simulation target: ]

[1. Hitori Gotoh, innate talent: Guitar performance (Prodigy-level)]
[2. R...

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V2 Chapter 26: A Normal Business Partnership

From the photos, it was hard to tell. But once I arrived on the scene by helicopter, I saw that the truck had crashed straight into the roadside guardrail.

The front bumper and hood were mangled beyond recognition, and some unknown part was still spewing black smoke. It looked like it could...

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V2 Chapter 25: Hoshino’s Change of Heart

That night, while patrolling the Abydos District with Hoshino, I received a message from Aru.

Aru: Sensei, please take a look at this.

Aru: [Image]

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Chapter 45: Good Friends

After the lunch break.

Inside Class 1-G's classroom.

Ikuyo Kita stared at the blackboard, a little absentminded.

So boring.

The truth was, Ikuyo Kita was not satisfied with her current life.

That rosy life of a "normie" was crammed with the same routines day after da...

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V2 Chapter 24: Hoshino Raises Another Flag Today

Inside the Foreclosure Task Force's clubroom at Abydos High School.

A girl glared at the cash transport ledger, her anger growing with each line she read, until she finally burst out:

"This is outrageous! What even is this?!"

Serika, who had also been feeling angry and was just ...

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V2 Chapter 23: A World Where Only Kaiser Gets Hurt

Just as Hifumi had said, the strength of the Black Market guards could not be underestimated.

The moment I stepped out of the underground bank, I saw the "Masked Swimsuit Gang" locked in a fierce battle not far away, with more reinforcements rushing to the scene.

This was where Wakamo...

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Chapter 41: Settlement

OST: Innocence

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[During the two years when Toru's body gradually weakened, he stayed by his daughter's side until the very end.

Before he pa...

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Chapter 40: The Man Who Refused to Yield

OST: Senjougahara Tore

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"All right, time for bed."

Toru put away the hair dryer. In these three years, he had already learned how to take care of a child.

Back then...

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Chapter 39: Miss Ryo, as Reliable as Ever

OST: Clannad - Nagisa

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[One month after your death, your husband continued to maintain his daily life.]

[He was strong. Only after closing up the flower shop, when he ret...

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Chapter 38: Just a Joke

OST: Clannad OST- Snowfield

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[The due date was in spring, but that winter felt colder than usual. At home, the heater was always running so you wouldn't catch ...

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Chapter 37: Wanting a Child

[After graduating from university, Toru became a salaryman, working nine to five.]

[These days he was plain and ordinary, with only one difference from other office workers: he always came home early. He didn't smoke, didn't drink, and was gentle & kind.]

[Your sister, Ijichi Seik...

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Chapter 36: Everything Is Moving Toward the Better

[After the honeymoon, you returned to your everyday life.]

[With university graduation approaching, the time had come to submit your thesis and prepare for defense. Because the band had consumed so much of your energy, you had scraped by in your classes with barely passing grades. Fortunate...

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Chapter 35: Honeymoon

[After the Shinto wedding ceremony.]

[Now officially husband and wife, you began your honeymoon. Since it was late autumn, you chose Okinawa, often called Japan's southern paradise, as your destination.]

[You booked a seaside resort hotel, planning to spend a blissful month-long holid...

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Chapter 34: The Wedding

After a two-hour-long performance, the vast venue fell into silence.

The graduation live had ended, marking the conclusion of the Kessoku Band. You had a beginning and an end, once struggling at the very bottom, giving everything just for the chance to perform, and later standing tall upon ...

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Chapter 33: That Year at Eighteen

[After your heartfelt talk with Ryo Yamada.]

[A few days later, you finally made up your mind, and soon told the rest of Kessoku Band that you wanted to get married.]

[Among them, Toru was the most stunned. Just a month ago, he was persuading you to give up music, even preparing himse...

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V2 Chapter 22: The Director’s Wrath!

OST: Blue Archive OST 18. Mechanical JUNGLE

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As a lawless zone beyond the reach of the General Student Council, the black market had, over years of unchecked growth, developed ...

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V2 Chapter 21: The Evil of This World Makes Its Grand Entrance

Everyone's eyes turned to me.

After some thought, I spoke in a low voice:

"We're going to the black market, yes. But not to gather clues, our goal is evidence."

Unlike the shocking revelation that "almost all of Abydos' land had been sold off by the former Student Council," ther...

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Chapter 32: Ryo’s Stomachache

—In a villa in Shimokitazawa—

Our dear Miss Ryo stared at the messages on the simulator with a trace of unease.

Her PTSD was flaring up. In the last simulation, she had watched Toru die in her arms.

This time, Nijika's mental state carried the same ominous w...

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V2 Chapter 20: Serika Was Just Showing Her Thanks

The bank clerk hung up the call and politely declined me.

Then he jogged over to Serika, who handled the accounting, his display screen showing an emoticon that looked like a smile but even more like tears.

"Congratulations! Because, um… you just happen to be the hundred-thousandth ...

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V2 Chapter 19: It Must Have Been Sensei!

When I woke up, the sound of pages turning drifted into my ears.

Opening my eyes, the corner of my vision caught a pair of slender legs in white socks. Looking up, Hoshino was sitting beside me, absorbed in the marine life encyclopedia.

Morning light streamed through the window and fe...

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Chapter 31: Her Stubbornness

Nijika patted her small chest, trying to comfort herself.

Even if the side effects had begun, it should be fine, right? After all, it was only physical weakness, not death.

Yes, no problem!

[In your second year of university, Kessoku Band's reputation soared, and you became well...

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V2 Chapter 18: Hurry Up and Make Kaiser Pay

The location for our private discussion was the Problem Solver 68 office, now set up in the Abydos district.

The moment I stepped inside, I noticed a calligraphy scroll hanging...

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V2 Chapter 17: Is This What They Call a Love Triangle?

Work and daily life should never be mixed.

Mutsuki from Problem Solver 68 fully agreed with this, greeting everyone warmly as if the earlier clash had never happened.

By comparison, Aru was more or less awkward when facing the Foreclosure Task Force.

After all, not long ago she ...

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Chapter 30: Nijika’s Confession

[Not every story ends with a happy conclusion.]

[The Light Music Club quickly disappeared from Shimokitazawa High's list of clubs, as if it had never existed.]

[In the months that followed, you spent most of your time preparing for exams, hoping to distract yourself this way.]

[...

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V2 Chapter 16: Double the Ingratitude

Aside from me, who stayed behind in the activity room to command, and Ayane, who provided remote support, the entire Abydos squad went out to intercept the enemy.

"We've confirmed a squad leading mercenaries ahead!"

No sooner had Ayane's warning reached everyone's ears than the enemy ...

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V2 Chapter 15: Nonomi’s Lap Pillow

Afternoon arrived.

The girls of the Foreclosure Task Force had already returned to school, scattering across the campus.

When I entered the library, Ayane was sitting alone in the sunniest spot, reading a book with deep concentration.

I cleared my throat softly. “Ayane, may I ...

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V2 Chapter 14: It Has to Be Kaiser’s Doing!

They say the quieter a person normally is, the harder it is for them to calm down once they really get angry.

At least, Ayane certainly fit that description.

Even after Serika had already gone off to work with a smirk, the unreliable upperclassmen and the supposedly innocent me were s...

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V2 Chapter 13: Foreclosure Task Force Meeting

Three days had passed since Serika's attack.

After rescuing Serika, we drove back to school in a truck we had "found" on the road, hauling the forced-landing helicopter in its cargo bed.

For the record, Hoshino, Shiroko, and Nonomi had worked together to carry the helicopter into the ...

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Chapter 29: Feelings Growing Warmer

Extreme Pressure Training Method?

Nijika opened its description.

[Extreme Pressure Training Method: A training regimen improved by Toru, capable of raising the upper limit of your skills by two levels while temporarily boosting your talent level by two as well.

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Chapter 28: The Beginning of a Tragedy?

[When Ryo saw you feeling guilty, she took the initiative to suggest abandoning the song. She said she had composed it for Kessoku Band, and if you could not keep up she could decisively discard the piece that had cost her a month of effort.]

Nijika finished reading the contents of the simu...

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