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...
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...
2025-10-04 12:25:02 +0000 UTC View PostThat night, while patrolling the Abydos District with Hoshino, I received a message from Aru.
Aru: Sensei, please take a look at this.
Aru: [Image]
The image showed a canvas bag, its zipper half-open, revealing bundles of cash stuffed inside. 2025-10-04 12:24:41 +0000 UTC View Post
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...
2025-10-03 15:11:25 +0000 UTC View PostInside 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 ...
2025-10-03 14:42:07 +0000 UTC View PostJust 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...
2025-10-03 14:41:23 +0000 UTC View PostOST: 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...
2025-10-02 13:40:43 +0000 UTC View PostOST: 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...
2025-10-02 13:22:25 +0000 UTC View PostOST: 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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[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 ...
2025-10-02 12:58:00 +0000 UTC View Post[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...
2025-10-02 12:44:15 +0000 UTC View Post[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...
2025-10-02 12:36:47 +0000 UTC View Post[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...
2025-10-02 12:25:48 +0000 UTC View PostAfter 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 ...
2025-10-02 12:25:12 +0000 UTC View Post[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...
2025-10-02 12:24:48 +0000 UTC View PostOST: 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 ...
2025-10-02 10:47:09 +0000 UTC View PostEveryone'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...
2025-10-02 10:46:19 +0000 UTC View Post—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...
2025-10-01 10:54:00 +0000 UTC View PostThe 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 ...
2025-10-01 10:15:04 +0000 UTC View PostWhen 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...
2025-10-01 10:14:03 +0000 UTC View PostNijika 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...
2025-09-30 14:47:13 +0000 UTC View PostThe 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...
2025-09-30 14:34:39 +0000 UTC View PostWork 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 ...
2025-09-30 14:25:53 +0000 UTC View Post[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.]
[...
2025-09-29 14:48:14 +0000 UTC View PostAside 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 ...
2025-09-29 14:41:31 +0000 UTC View PostAfternoon 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 ...
2025-09-29 14:17:49 +0000 UTC View PostThey 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...
2025-09-28 13:35:47 +0000 UTC View PostThree 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 ...
2025-09-28 13:35:27 +0000 UTC View PostExtreme 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.
...
2025-09-28 13:34:30 +0000 UTC View Post[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...
2025-09-27 13:24:24 +0000 UTC View Post