Katanuki
Your mom seems pretty great.
Yeah.
In that case, I'll treasure a hundred times more.
Even if the world turns against you, I alone will remain your friend.
Don't say something so embarrassing.
Hey, what should I call you?
Call me .
Well then, I'm Hawk.
You're slow, Hawk.
Wait up, .
A dream?
You're slow, Hawk.
Wait up, ...
It's no use, I can't remember...
Girls
in
yukatas
are
super
-
cute
(ﾟ∀ﾟ)
Only one week left of summer vacation, huh?
Oh well, it looks like I'll be able to get my summer homework finished.
By the way...
There's a summer festival tomorrow at the shrine in the shopping district near Tooya Station.
A festival, huh?
And?
And what?
There's a summer festival, right?
Oh, I just happened to remember that I saw the paper lanterns for the festival on the way to school.
You were just putting it out there?
So we aren't all going to the festival...
Why would we have to intentionally go to a place that's definitely going to be crowded?
Exactly.
A long time ago, Rika tried going to a doujinshi festival held twice a year in Tokyo.
The train there was way too cramped,
so Rika got off the train and went home.
I've disliked festivals ever since.
I've heard of that festival.
If I remember correctly, you can buy books there that aren't available anywhere else,
hence the crowds of people.
You're fine with not being able to get those?
You hit a sore spot, Senpai.
That's not the spot I want you to make sore.
Don't force the topic into something vulgar.
If you take vulgarity away from Rika, what will she have left?
You'll still be a genius inventor, a scientist, a cool-character, a glasses-wearing character, etc.
Have more faith in yourself.
Those are all nothing more than tools to promote my perversion.
Vulgarity is definitely Rika's true nature.
By the way, I ask the participating game companies that I help out
to have one of their people grab the books I want.
It wouldn't be an exaggeration to say that it's the only reason I help those game companies.
You've thought of all sorts of things in order to keep your hermit lifestyle, haven't you?
Say, Kodaka...
At those summer festivals, um...
Do you think there will be takoyaki stands?
If there are stands, then I'm sure there will be a takoyaki one too, no?
Do you like takoyaki?
Is that bad?
No, I love them too.
In the past I lived in Osaka and couldn't get along with the people around me, so I was alienated.
The only thing I had to make me feel better and look forward to
was the takoyaki that my dad would buy me from this one shop.
Delicious takoyaki can save someone's soul.
On the other hand, I can never forgive a confident vendor who sells bad takoyaki.
Hold on, Kodaka.
I don't have such a heavy emotional attachment to takoyaki.
I just like takoyaki because it's tasty.
It's been a while, so I will allow you to present me with takoyaki.
You want to eat takoyaki too?
Takoyaki!
Onii-chan, I want to eat takoyaki too!
In that case, shall we all go to the summer festival tomorrow?
Lets go~!
Who said you could come with us?
You abominable henchman of God!
I want to go with just Onii-chan.
Go home, you worthless vampire!
Oh, I'm going too!
I want to eat takoyaki too.
Aniki, I would like to go with you as well.
Okay.
Then with Sena and Yukimura coming along, that makes the five of us.
Wait, Senpai!
Wait, Kodaka!
Rika's going to the summer festival too!
I'm going to the summer festival too!
Why?
Aren't you two bad with crowds—
For the sake of eating takoyaki!
I see, if it's for the takoyaki then it can't be helped.
Kodaka-senpai~
Hey, everyone's here early.
Rika, see, you can pull it off.
Why do you say it like that?
Be more frank with your compliments.
It looks extremely good on you.
If you say it so straightforward, I'm going to swoon.
Senpai, you dummy.
What should have I said then...?
So Meat is the only one not here yet?
In that case, let's head out.
What do you mean, "in that case"?
Stupid Yozora.
Really, I always have to be on my guard around you.
Hurry up and let's go.
What are you doing?
Nothing at all.
Hurry up and let's go.
Wait up.
Kodaka, what's up with this?
It's the long-awaited summer festival, so why isn't Kobato-chan wearing a yukata?
Just because it's a festival doesn't mean everyone has to wear a yukata.
It's okay for ordinary people.
I wanted to see Kobato-chan in a yukata.
Neither Kobato nor I have yukatas...
Senpai, there's a yukata rental shop, you could rent one there.
We are going there right now.
Kobato-chan wants to try wearing a cute yukata too, right?
Since we're here, shall we try them out?
Yeah...
I want to hurry up and eat takoyaki.
You should just spend eternity here.
What? You vicious vampire!
Let's see...
Yukimura, could you go ahead and buy us a suitable amount of takoyaki?
Understood.
I am happy to be Aniki's gofer.
Come on, you're coming too.
I don't need a yukata!
You'd look good in one, so it would be a waste not to wear one.
You're right, wouldn't Yozora's long black hair look very attactive with a yukata?
I-It's fine.
I don't like those kinds of clothes.
A yukata would have looked good on her, though...
An-chan!
Cute! Cute! Cute!
She's cute enough to eat!
How is it?
It suits you.
On that note,
you look like someone I saw on the news earlier who got arrested for being violent
during their coming-of-age ceremony.
I liked myself in it, though...
I mean, rather, your messed up pudding-like hairstyle is the problem.
My hair...
At school, isn't that what contributes most to your perception as a delinquent?
Why don't you dye it black?
I've seriously considered dying it, but...
You already know that my mother is gone, right?
Well, yeah.
My face resembles my father's, and I don't really look half-Japanese right?
I'm glad that she looks exactly like her mother, from her facial features to her golden hair.
Just by looking, you can tell that the only thing I inherited from my mother was this hair.
Dying my hair would feel as if I'm cutting off the only connection with my mother.
Even if I might may not like everything about it...
Kodaka... You're definitely different from the other boys.
Well then, let's go.
Shall we?
Yeah!
There they are!
Sorry for the wait.
Welome ba—, onii-han.
Swallow first, then talk.
Okonomiyaki is delicious too!
How much are you going to eat...
Is this, by any chance, heaven?
Why are you eating it that way?
I'm practicing eating a chocolate banana in a lewd way.
Are you getting aroused?
No.
Here, Kobato-chan, open wide!
No!
And one more...
Aniki, sorry for the wait.
Sorry for making you go get them.
Here you go.
Thanks.
Lets see, how are the next ones?
Do you like them, Aniki?
The plump feeling is there, but the dough is weak, so they collapse.
And the octopus in the middle is small...
That's just not right.
Is that so...
All right, we're all going to go in search of better takoyaki.
I'm already full.
Rika is too.
Onii-chan, I want to eat those things that look like clouds next.
Tonight's offering was magnificent.
My stomach is full...
Already? Sena... and everyone else, didn't you want to eat delicious takoyaki?
But I don't really want any more.
Now my stomach is bulging, so...
Shall we go back?
Lets go back.
What? You're going back already?
We've already eaten takoyaki, so there's no reason to stay, right?
I'm not satisfied yet.
That's right, we went through the trouble of coming here, so we should play or..
Despite being old enough to know better, you really want to try scooping goldfish or ring tossing?
Not particularly, but...
Rather, aren't you just scared you're going to lose at festival games, so you want to hurry up and go home?
Didn't I say from the very beginning that I hate crowds?
Your memory is pretty bad, Meat.
Although, compared to the pool a few days ago, this seems a lot better.
Maybe I should give the conceited Meat a taste of reality.
In that case, let's go.
To start with, hmm... I'd like to try goldfi—
I mean, I'll grant you a match in goldfish scooping.
God has come to save you, goldfish-domo.
I'm going to crush your stupid delusions — I am the God here.
Here, sir.
Yup, here you go.
Thank you.
Whats with this, it broke!
It's made out of paper, after all.
You have to rescue the goldfish without tearing it.
Come on, be obedient and let me save you, damn goldfish.
Spending a considerable amount of yen on social standing, this is squandering my money!
Could I please have ten at once?
Here you go.
I did it!
You bastard, that's not fair!
It's called strategy.
I'd like for you not to do that, though...
I'll overlook it this time, so could you two go somewhere else?
Be grateful, little guy.
From now on, your name will be Kandata.
Be grateful.
Meat, we're doing that next.
K a t a n u k i
No matter what we do I'm obviously going to win, so...
Before you weren't being fair, though.
Let's go.
I guess I'll accept your challenge.
Senpai, how about we leave those two be and go have fun ourselves?
Yeah, lets do that.
Woohoo!
I'm going to play with Onii-chan!
My water balloon is bigger.
Mine is prettier, so I win.
Stuuupid, stuuupid!
You seriously think you won that?
No matter how someone looks at it, it was my win.
You couldn't even create an umbrella. It was painful to watch, Meat.
I don't work well with these small things.
Over there, let's settle it down with a roulette match.
Flavored rice crackers?
That's fine.
How was that?
That's crazy...
Special prize!
Senpai, Rika already has this game system, so she'll give it to Senpai.
Take this and think of me as you play it.
Well then, let's put it in the club room.
Ah... Y-Yeah, okay...
Meat, that's disgusting, Meat!
Shut up, stupid Yozora!
A win is a win!
I will never accept that!
You two, go over there!
Here.
Thank you, Senpai.
Kodaka, I was looking for you.
I was going to have you carry my things.
The winnings are getting in our way, so the competition can't continue.
Help me carry stuff, Kodaka.
I can't, I can't.
You should be able to tell just by looking.
A game system?
Why?
You can call me "Sharpshooter Rika."
I guess we should call it a day.
Well, at this rate I was going to win anyway, so...
What are you talking about?
I was leading by one victory.
The goldfish scooping didn't count, stupid.
Hey, we're meeting up with Yukimura and the rest.
Yeah, I'll be waiting by the west gate of the shrine.
Stella-san is coming for you?
Yeah.
But since today is a festival, she doesn't know how long it will take to get here by car.
I see.
Hey, since we're here, shall we light some fireworks?
There's a lot of them.
Fireworks!
I approve.
It doesn't seem like we'll have a chance light fireworks afterwards.
I've never lit fireworks outside of game events.
Sounds like fun!
Well then, I'll go buy a bucket and a lighter.
I'm gonna light it.
It's sparkling!
It's sparkling like crazy!
Take a look, this is my secret technique, Magic Demon Flame!
Burn to ashes in the flames of purgatory -
Megiddo Flame!
I'm going to do it too!
Don't copy me, idiot!
Rika is going to try studying fireworks next.
A person's dreams are written with the character for "fleeting."
A person's life is quickly extinguished as well, like fireworks...
Triple fireworks!
With that few, you're still a long way away.
And finally the Last Boss?
This is the last one.
That's it?
It's just like Meat, a complete disappointment.
What did you mean by that!
Just when I thought you were a disappointment, you pulled through, Last Boss.
Isn't it?
Obviously I wasn't praising you, Meat.
There's still more!
As one could expect from the Last Boss.
Huh, doesn't something smell bad?
That's not the smell of burning gunpowder.
Y-Y-Yozora, you're burning! Yozora!
Water!
That's...
Turn around, Yozora!
The fire is extinguished.
Um, Yozora...
I'm going home.
Yozora...
For that one last week of summer break,
Yozora never showed up at the Neighbors Club.
September 1st
Tanabe.
Here.
Suda.
Here.
Hasegawa.
Here.
Hirasawa.
Here.
Fujioka.
Here.
Origuchi.
Here.
Matsushita.
Yozora...
Here.
Mikazuki.
Here.
Well, I'll call it "safe."
Hurry up and take your seat.
Okay.
Sora?
It's been a while, Hawk.
It had been ten long years.
In the end, after the summer festival, Yozora never showed up to the Neighbors Club.
No~ It's been really refreshing not having that stupid fox in the room.
Hey now, isn't that a bit cruel?
A fact is a fact, though.
I'm bothered!
Without Yozora I'm really, really, bothered!
What is it, what's wrong?
If Yozora doesn't come, I don't get potato chips.
That's what's troubling you?
Next time: We don't have many friends (`･ω･´)
Next time:
We
don't have
many
friends
(`･ω･´)
We don't have many friends.
Well, without her here, I'm feeling so refreshed that maybe it's a bit boring.