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“Onee-chan, you’re late!”
As I slid open the door and entered the living rooressive tone of her’s
“I’ll y
This child has a bad habit of thinking she’ssister, despite the fact that not even all of her baby teeth have fallen out yet Must not show any weakness by apologizing! I thought as I opened the rice cooker and piled the sparkly fresh grains into et too much? Meh, whatever
“Itadakimaasu”
After pouring plenty of sauce onwith some rice Aaah, delicious Perhaps this is true happiness… h me
“You’re normal today, huh?”
“Eh?”
I looked over and noticed that Grand my rice
“Yesterday was really bad!” Yotsuha, also staring atand stuff…”
Screa? Grand an unknown suspicious object, and Yotsuha continued to rin
“Huh? What, what? What is it!?”
What’s going on… both of the creepy and all–
Ping pong pang pooong
The speaker by the door rang with a sudden, almost violently loud burst of volume
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The voice belonged to my best friend Saya-chin’s older sister, orks in the community life division at the town hall Here in the sleepy little village of Itomori, population about 1500, most people are either acquaintances or at least acquaintances of acquaintances
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Speakers like these are set up outside throughout the town as well, so the broadcast echoes off the nearbya sort of round as the sounds all pile on top of each other Twice a day, once in the , without fail, this broadcast on the wireless disaster warning system can be heard in every hos like the schedule for sports day, or who’s on snow shoveling duty, or as born yesterday and whose funeral is today
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The speaker by the door abruptly fell silent Since she couldn’t reach the speaker itself, Grand an old fashi+oned kier Slightly i on the TV A s in place of Saya-chin’s sister
“In just one month, a co last draw close to Earth It will be visible to the naked eye for a period of a few days Research agencies around the world, including JAXA, are busy preparing to observe this celestial show of the century”
Displayed on the screen were the words ‘Tiamat’s Comet: Observable with the Naked Eye in One Month’ and a blurry picture of a co only the sound of us three eating, a quiet rustling like whispers sneakily being exchanged during class, mixed with the NHK broadcast
“… get over it and make up already, okay?” Yotsuha ordered suddenly
“This is a grown up probleht, this is an adult probleive me that crap
Pii-hyororo Somewhere off in the distance, a black kite chirped lazily
Ittekioodbye to Grandma before we stepped out of the foyer
The calls of the suhout the air as alked down the narrow asphalt path running along the slope After descending a few flights of stone stairs, we lost the protection of the an to bear down directly on us Spreading out beneath my eyes sat a round lake, Ito the ht, sparkled relentlessly Above the reen, the blue sky, spotted hite clouds, loo twintails and a red backpack was skipping along for no particular reason And then there was s In s track as BGM Ooh, now it feels a little like the opening of a japanese movie In other words, we live in a very japanese-like, old fashi+oned rural town in the middle of absolutely nowhere
“Miitsuhaaa!”
Some time after I had parted with Yotsuha in front of the elementary school, a voice called out tohis bike with an unpleasant face, and a se basket
“Hurry up and get off,” Tesshi+ complained
“It’s fine, party pooper”
“You’re heavy”
“Hey, rude!”
The two see with a co couple on a TV show