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Chapter 597 A Glimpse on the Road

The journey from Tokyo to Izu Kogen is 150 kilometers, and it only takes one and a half hours by taking the Tokaido Shinkansen.

As the rain streaks on the car window began to dry and the gloomy clouds in the sky gradually thinned and brightened, Jun Matsue realized that he had escaped the early summer rains of the Kanto Plain and was heading towards the bay of Sagami Bay.

The boy pressed his face close to the car window, watching the gloom recede into the distance. On the other side, several brilliant beams of light broke through the white clouds and landed on the slowly moving green plain.

"A good omen."

"Let's take a picture," he said, taking out his phone and pointing it at the scenery outside the car window.

Two camera shutters clicked simultaneously, one from a mobile phone lens and the other from behind. Jun Matsueda turned around to see Natsumi Imokawa holding a camera in front of him.

"Pine branch!" The girl put down her camera in surprise. "What a coincidence!"

"...What's the coincidence?" Jun Matsueda glanced at her. "Weren't we in the same carriage?"

"Oh right." Natsumi Imokawa paused, "Um, Matsueda also came to use the restroom?"

The two are currently at the connecting area between the carriages, next to the restroom.

The boy shook his head. "I was just feeling a bit stuffy sitting in my seat for too long, so I came here to get some fresh air."

He looked at the girl's chest; the camera strap was sunk into the soft cleavage, and she seemed to be having trouble breathing.

"Does Yugawa even bring a camera to the toilet?"

Natsumi Imokawa tugged at the hair at the nape of her neck. "I was thinking that maybe I could photograph something good while I was at it..."

"I got the picture!" she said, looking at the clouds in the light on the camera screen with satisfaction. "Thank goodness someone was in the bathroom, so I could walk over and take a look."

"Not only did I see pine branches, but I also took such great photos!"

The words had barely left her lips when the sound of flushing water came from the nearby restroom. The girl inside pushed open the door and instinctively glanced at the two people chatting beside her. Noticing the camera in Imokawa Natsumi's hand and Matsueda Jun's handsome face, an embarrassed blush appeared on her face, and she quickly walked into the carriage.

Jun Matsue looked at the girl holding the camera and said, "You can go to the restroom now."

"Oh..." Natsumi Imokawa's face also turned a little red, and she squeezed her legs together. "Does Matsueda need to get some fresh air?"

The boy turned around and said, "I'll go back now."

Stepping into the brightly lit carriage, the previously faint noise became clearer—this train was mostly filled with students from Haneoka High School. Since they didn't have to take exams, everyone seemed to have returned to being second-year students, and their faces were even brighter.

After greeting Ms. Kominato and watching the game in Ken Sakamuro's hand for a while, Jun Matsueda returned to his seat after passing the girls watching TV dramas with headphones on.

The girl sitting next to him pulled her legs in and watched him walk into his seat.

"Jun-kun, the sun is out."

Tomatsu Yuka laughed as she moved her legs back to their original position and gently rubbed them against the boy's legs.

“I saw it.” Jun Matsue nodded, subtly pushing her leg back.

The train carriage had five rows of seats, which corresponded perfectly to the seats in the classroom. So everyone's seats were arranged according to the class seating arrangement. Although Ms. Kominato allowed people to change seats, there was no doubt that no one wanted to squeeze between the three great gods in the back row.

So the three-seater seating arrangement for the boys became Tomatsu Tomohana on the left and Mochizuki Haruka on the right.

Matsueda Jun glanced at Mochizuki Haruka, who was sleeping by the window, and asked, "Where are we now?"

"Hmm..." Tomatsu Yuka looked up at the display screen at the front of the carriage, "We've already passed Hiratsuka."

"Pretty fast." The boy turned around. "Looks like we're almost at Atami?" "About twenty more minutes."

Atami is the gateway to the Izu Peninsula, but the starting point of the school trip is not here, but in the Izu Kogen further south.

Starting from Izu Kogen, we traveled north along the coastline, watching a fireworks display in Atami on our last night, and then set off back to Tokyo the next day. That was roughly the itinerary for four days and three nights.

"We should be able to see the coastline soon!" The girl's expression brightened. "It's a pity I got distracted when we passed Hiratsuka Port earlier; everyone said they could see the sea!"

“We can see it now.” Jun Matsueda looked out the window; the buildings along the tracks were starting to decrease. “The weather has cleared up; it’s perfect for seeing the sea.”

Seemingly sensing his return, Mochizuki Haruka, who was dozing by the window, trembled her eyelashes, tilted her head to the other side, and leaned on the boy's shoulder.

“This guy…” Jun Matsueda’s expression was somewhat helpless.

Tomatsu Yuka sat up slightly, glanced at the girl leaning on the boy's shoulder, blinked, and didn't say anything.

The atmosphere among the three sitting in a row was not very relaxed throughout the journey—for the first half, the sober Mochizuki Haruka was mostly talking to Matsueda Jun, while Tomatsu Yuka would try to interject.

However, after realizing that the girl was showing off to her, she quickly chose to lean on the boy's shoulder secretly, just like Mochizuki Haruka is now, pretending to sleep and resting with her eyes closed—but the difference is that she was just pretending to sleep, while Mochizuki Haruka should really be asleep.

"We're almost at Guofujin!" the girl sitting in front of the three exclaimed, breaking their brief silence.

The people in the carriage all looked to the right, where the buildings outside the tracks became sparse and low, and the distant horizon could be seen.

The Limited Express Odoriko that Haneoka Taka was on went directly to Izu and did not stop at Kokufu Station, but this did not prevent the students from seeing the distant sea from the gradually flattening horizon.

"Saw it!!"

Cheers immediately erupted in the carriage.

“It’s the sea~” Tomatsu Yuka gently tugged at the boy’s arm and said in a cheerful and light tone.

“It’s the sea,” Jun Matsueda repeated.

Although it was only a brief glimpse of less than a minute, the generous Sagami Bay did indeed unveil a corner of its veil, showcasing its unobstructed azure sea.

"...What did you see?"

Seemingly awakened by the cheers in the carriage, Mochizuki Haruka opened her eyes with a slight frown, just in time to meet the gazes of the two people looking out the window.

"We can see the sea!" they said in unison.

"..." The girl didn't speak, but frowned even more and turned her head to look out the window.

The silver and blue sea has disappeared, leaving only the tender green of the bushes brushing past the car window.

"Why didn't you call me?" She snapped out of her daze and lightly punched the boy's arm.

Jun Matsue blinked. "No rush, there's plenty of ocean to see later."

Tomatsu Yuka silently turned her face to the other side, quietly watching the lush green forest spreading on the other side of the city.

The world that belonged to her and Tsunkun has vanished.

　Update times have been adjusted back to the original noon and evening. If there's no update at noon, then it will be a combined update in the evening.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)