Sakura Second Middle School
Finally, huh.
Finally, yeah.
Finally, Master.
Yes. Finally.
Finally...
I've upgraded to a smartphone!
I thought you couldn't get one until your second year?
Yeah.
My mother said it might be a little early,
but it was cheaper to buy one now.
Good for you.
Did you put the screen protector on?
Yeah, my father did.
Wow, he did a good job.
When I put mine on...
I got air trapped in here.
Huh?
I got air trapped in mine, too.
Huh?
This one will go away for a while if you press on it,
but then it comes back on its own.
Huh?
I'll put air in mine, too.
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You don't need to.
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But...
More importantly, have you greeted your smartphone yet?
You greet your smartphone?
Go on. Hold down this button, and then greet it.
Are you even shy with machines?
N-N-Nice to meet you.
Nice to meet you, too.
Um...
What do you need?
P-Please be my friend!
Please be my friend.
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Yes, of course.
She even passes out with machines?
You can use money to buy friendship with machines, huh?
That March,
my eventful first year
was about to reach its end.
Maybe I Just Might
Nako-chan.
Nako-chan, can I take your picture?
Huh?
Well, sure.
Hurry up and take it.
I'm recording.
Why are you recording?!
I'm recording.
Why are you recording?!
Damn it.
Okay, take one of me, too!
Yeah!
Did you start?
Yoo-hoo, it's the world's class vice presi—
Why aren't you recording?
Master! Me, too!
Please take mine, too!
Yeah!
Uh, so...
Nin, nin, nin!
And yet she's beautiful when she's acting normal.
Here I go!
Sotoka-chan.
What is it?
If you take a photo like that, you'll expose yourself as a ninja.
Oh! You're right!
So then, I should act normal...
like this?
Sotoka-chan, let's stop saying "nin nin."
At this point, it won't be fair unless we take one of Bocchi.
Y-Yeah.
Okay, I'm taking one.
Huh?
Y-You took it?
I recorded you!
Huh?!
Blegh!
I won't take more!
I won't take any more, so calm down!
I wonder if they'll buy me something to celebrate entering my second year, too.
Do you also want a new smartphone?
No, I don't.
Well, I do want a smartphone, but...
Then what is it you want the most?
Well...
Quiz time.
Time for my Aru Aru Quiz.
What do you think I want?
Oh, Bocchi.
We have gym during fifth period today.
Don't change the topic!
Take part in the quiz!
The one who gets it right gets some of the Honshou family's special karaage.
Oh, karaage!
I want karaage!
I'll try my best!
Yes! Ding-dong!
Yes, Sotoka-chan!
Gold bars!
"Gold bars"?
"Gold bars" is incorrect.
Well, I wouldn't mind those either, but...
I can't think of anything better than gold bars.
Well, you have a point.
I can't think of anything better than gold bars.
Gold bars...
I'll accept gold bars as correct!
Yay!
That was the world's least interesting quiz.
Do you want gold bars as well, Sotoka-chan?
Me?
I don't really need money.
I see.
The karaage's delicious!
I have a lot of fun learning ninjutsu from you, Master,
but thanks to you, I also have more friends.
That's enough for me.
Sotoka-chan, if you keep going, you'll make me sound like a corrupt person. So stop!
Sunao
Having gym for fifth period means exercising on a full stomach.
Which I hate, because it makes your stomach hurt
and leaves you sleepy afterward.
Really?
So with that, good night.
Don't take photos of me sleeping!
Delete them!
Hey, Bocchi! I won't let you take any more!
I'm recording.
Stop recording me! Hey!
Oh, Kurai-san.
Um...
Jeez, that Bocchi...
What's the matter?
Something major just happened!
What is it?
When I spoke to Kurai-san just now...
When you spoke to her?
This is the major part!
Are you sure about adding that build-up?
Oh, Kurai-san.
And then...
What is it?
She smiled!
The Kurai-san we know
smiled at me!
This is huge!
Bocchi...
You're lying, right?
It's true!
And we had a fun chat afterward!
Kako-chan did?
I can't imagine her smiling.
Master, maybe that just means you two have grown close?
You think?
It'll be quicker to see for ourselves.
Yeah.
Um, Kurai-san?
Yes?
It's true.
It's hard to believe.
What's the matter?
Huh?! Uh, um...
A-Are you doing well?
Of course. And you?
Y-Yes! I'm doing well, too!
She sounds like an English textbook.
U-Uh, what are your hobbies?
"Hobbies"?
Watching movies, I suppose.
I'll lend you one I recommend next time.
Okay.
What happened?
Pardon me.
Kurai-san!
Yes?
I want to chat with Kurai-san even more.
What kind of food do you like, Kurai-san?
U-Uh...
What's the first thing you do when you get home?
Uh...
Which animal would you call yourself?
Hitori-san.
Yes!
Can I say something?
Yes!
I want to be alo—
Huh?!
Kurai-san collapsed?
She's resting in the nurse's office now.
Apparently, she had a high fever.
So that's why she was acting strangely.
Good thing you were there for her.
It would've been bad if she'd collapsed by herself.
It's time to show the fruits of our training!
Training?
Fun Origami
We have to hurry and fold a thousand cranes!
A thousand cranes is just going too far!
Nurse's Office
Are you okay, Kako-chan?
I just got a little dizzy.
I'm much better now.
That's good.
I was trying to hide my inability to take care of myself,
but I caused you all trouble.
I'm sorry.
T-Trouble?
It's no trouble.
I had a lot of fun.
It's no fun talking to a sick person, is it?
No, you seemed to be enjoying it too, Kurai-san.
No way.
Right?
Yeah. You were smiling.
I don't recall that at all.
Please forget that.
Pardon me.
They're done!
You made them?!
Everyone, go back already.
You can't be catching this from me.
Huh? But...
I'm fine now.
Bocchi.
All right.
Then t-take care of yourself.
Well, I understand you're worried,
but it does seem that things have settled down a lot.
Yeah. The nurse is there, too.
Do you think she'll be able to attend graduation ceremony?
Graduation ceremony?
Oh, for the third-years?
That's next week, right?
Well, it'd be one thing if it were ours,
but there's not much for us first-years to do.
But that's the last day everyone in class will be gathered together.
Bocchi, she'll see us.
Kurai
I'm home!
Satisfied now?
I'm glad she made it home.
She seemed to be doing better than I thought.
Whew, she didn't notice.
As expected from you, Master!
Of course she noticed us.
Hm?
Three-Star Ristorante
Y-You dropped something.
No, she didn't.
This morning she mentioned lending you a movie, right?
Oh, right.
Kako's a liar.
Huh? A liar? Kurai-san is?
Yeah. She said she didn't remember any of that.
M-Maybe she just remembered!
I'm not saying it in a mean way!
Okay!
I've had my bath,
so now to watch the DVD Kurai-san lent me.
It's empty...
Kurai
World Masterpieces
Three Star Ristorante
Then the day of our graduation ceremony was upon us.
Sakura Second Middle School Graduation Ceremony
Now, there is a corsage for each of you on your desks.
Please give them to the third-year students before the ceremony.
Once you've placed the corsages on them, please congratulate them.
Now, all of you can chat until you hear the announcement.
Kurai-san.
We have to put them on, she said.
Y-Yeah, but...
What do we do if we stab them?
She could do it.
Do you want to practice on me?
You don't mind?
Yeah, it's fine.
Okay.
Wait, this is just practice.
Don't get so worked up.
It's just practice.
There's no need to shake that much.
Are you okay?
Are you okay?!
Ah, I put it on.
Fsshhh
First-years and graduates, please go to your instructed location.
Time to go, Bocchi.
Let's go!
It kind of feels like you're graduating, Nako-chan.
Okay. Is everyone here?
I hope I don't get someone scary.
Now, first-years, please place the corsage on the chest of the graduate beside you.
Hey, thanks.
Nakanai Karane
Huh?
I-I'm Hitori Bocchi, from Class 1-1!
My favorite food is natto!
I prefer my natto finely crushed.
You don't need that greeting! You don't!
I'm Nakanai Karane, from Class 3-1.
My favorite food is cream anmitsu.
With brown sugar syrup.
What a nice person.
Hurry up, Bocchi.
Did you enjoy your first year, Hitori-san?
Huh? Y-Yes!
That's good.
You'll have even more fun in your second year.
Huh?
It's on now.
Thank you.
Oh, I put it on.
C-C-Congrats on your baby!
You're pregnant?!
Nakanai, you're pregnant?!
No, no!
Graduates, file out.
Nakanai-senpai's graduating...
You got attached way too fast.
Good work at the graduation ceremony.
That's all for today.
Kurai-san.
She's here.
Today, we'll be bidding this classroom farewell.
Next time we see each other, you'll all be second-years.
And you'll have underclassmen.
And career-path counseling as well.
There's a lot to come,
but I hope you'll all continue to be the bright class you've always been.
I look forward to seeing you again.
Teru-chan!
Thank you, Teru-chan!
Thank you.
Now, person on duty.
Rise.
Bow.
Thank you very much!
Master!
Let's train on the way home!
Sotoka-chan, Nako-chan.
Today I want to go home with all my friends.
All of us, together.
Try asking them, then.
Yeah.
Kurai-san.
U-Um, today, all my friends and I are...
I'm not your friend, okay?!
Also, just to let you know, I kept the DVD on purpose.
It was to tell you I didn't really want to lend it to you,
and definitely not because I forgot to put it in the case!
So don't get the wrong idea!
Well, it's good to have at least one difficult opponent.
Opponent?
Kurai-san's not an enemy.
I know.
You'll need to keep working hard once you're a second-year, Bocchi.
You'll have even more fun in your second year.
Yeah!
There sure are a lot of us.
Times like this call for a pancake party!
That sounds like a wonderful idea.
I've made six whole friends.
Six in one year...
There's twenty-nine in our class,
so how many will she need to make first semester of our second year?
Well, at any rate, she can't keep going at this pace.
Though...
This is like a dream.
Yeah.
This is all thanks to you chasing after me, Nako-chan.
Huh?
At the beginning of our first semester,
I had given up on becoming friends with you.
But you came chasing after me that day.
You became my friend.
Even though you don't like moving.
Stop saying I don't like to move.
Nako-chan.
What?
Thank you for becoming my friend.
Then you're treating me to pancakes, right?
Huh?!
I have a best friend.
I'm shy,
I'm not very good at getting close to others,
and I thought I'd rather have no friends than go through those painful motions.
But my one and only best friend...
My best friend proclaimed to me one day
that I couldn't stay the way I was.
She said we wouldn't be friends anymore,
unless I managed to befriend my whole class
by the time I graduated middle school.
That was very hard,
and I thought it was impossible.
I didn't know where to even begin at all,
but...
But...
Maybe...
Good morning, everyone!
Today you start your second year!
I'll be your homeroom teacher again this year.
Unlike how I was your first year though, I'll be strict!
Teru-chan, stop trying to make your second-year debut when you're an adult!
I can't?
Jeez...
Well, nothing will be any different then,
but let's switch gears and start with introductions.
Huh?
Uh, it won't be any fun to start from the beginning again.
So since today's the fifth, we'll start with seat five.
Five? I'm four, so...
Don't worry.
You can do it, Master!
Okay.
Time to show everyone that I've grown!
Be bright!
I-I-I-I-I-I-I—
Blegh!