Let's do it again, Yukino.

I could vaguely hear the voices of a man and a woman calling out from the street.

The voice sounded somewhat familiar, as if they had heard it somewhere before, but at this moment, the two of them had no time to recall the source of the voice.

"That out-of-control car looks like it hit someone..."

Nagato heard Asakura's slightly trembling voice.

And when she tried to brake or even steer the car in a different direction...

The car in front was completely out of control.

But it still charged straight towards him relentlessly.

"What a pity... Yuki."

Nagato only remembered the final moment: Asakura beside him, unable to withstand the intense impact of the vehicle.

He lay prone in the passenger seat, a hint of regret in his voice, and said something under his breath.

Is it a regret?

Nagato's mind went blank, and he asked himself a question.

Slightly,

After all, she had just heard it from her best friend.

Even the delinquents I hadn't noticed before have found their other halves and have a future.

I'm a little curious.

Even though it was only a tiny bit.

"Pity?"

At that moment, she murmured softly.

If I could do it all over again, would I still feel so regretful?

What exactly happened to that boy?

If we could witness what exactly happened to that boy,

It should satisfy that kind of curiosity.

That's what she thought.

……

…………

A gentle breeze swept over her weary body.

The birdsong continued in my ears.

At that moment, Nagato Yuki's eyes blinked slightly.

She, along with the members of the Service Department and Asakura, sat silently on the bench, gazing at the scenery of Kyoto.

No one knows what she's thinking right now.

"Maybe. Perhaps we'll never have this kind of gathering again. Once we graduate from university, we'll all go to the cities where our universities are located, and then we'll each have our own lives. Maybe we'll forget each other without even realizing it."

"Perhaps, sometimes a tragic relationship can also be considered a destiny."

I heard the long sigh of the boy sitting behind me in the back row.

"A tragic fate?"

Hearing the boy mention this word she had never heard before, Nagato couldn't help but repeat it.

"Yuki, are you alright?"

Ryoko Asakura, sitting beside her, breathed steadily and warmly into her ear, like an intimate interaction between best friends. Asakura, the class president, looked at her friend's health with concern.

The stretch of road they had just climbed was indeed a bit too much for Nagato, who isn't good at strenuous exercise.

"You're all fine now, let's keep going."

Nagato pushed up his glasses and shook his head at his friend.

Standing on the bridge that spans the stream and blends seamlessly with the temple, one is greeted by a field of vibrant red maple leaves.

This landscape complements the quiet and tranquil atmosphere of the temple, giving people a sense of peace and elegance.

Even though the peak season for autumn leaves has passed, the area around Tongtian Bridge still attracts a lot of tourists.

The bespectacled girl, who had been walking quietly at the back, suddenly saw a figure appear before her. It turned out that Haruhi had walked up to her.

"Nagato, you should go first."

Spring looked at the student sitting in front of her and said softly.

"why?"

Her silver-gray hair trembled slightly. Nagato hesitated for a moment, then uttered three words expressionlessly.

"What do you mean 'why'? If we didn't let you, this sharp-tongued girl, go ahead, we might accidentally leave you behind around here."

Looking at Nagato, whose pace was considerably slower than theirs,

Asakura was also exchanging some interesting information with Yui.

So for a moment, only the lonely Nagato girl was left standing there.

Haruhi, who happened to turn around and notice this scene while following the group, thought about it and, with no other choice, pushed the quiet and sharp-tongued girl to the side where Yuki and Yui were.

Nagato: "..."

"Come over here, Yuki-chan."

Yui, who was in front of him, also turned her head, and with a bright smile, the girl waved to Nagato.

"...Go."

Haruhi, who was standing in the last row as the temporary supervisor, urged Nagato, who was hesitating, to say something.

"Kyoto is beautiful," Nagato, who had joined the Service Club, muttered to herself.

She turned around again, frowning, her brown eyes watching the young man strolling leisurely along the path in springtime.

"...Will this be alright?"

"Don't ask me, I'm nobody to you. You can ask Squad Leader Asakura."

Spring, with the question in her mind, shuddered and then shook her head violently.

"Kasuga-kun is right, she's so cute. No matter what Yuki does, she's always so adorable and charming. She's truly my Yuki."

Asakura pounced on Nagato and hugged his expressionless face, rubbing his cheek against his friend's face as he let him do whatever he wanted, and said with a grin.

"Is this alright, Ryoko?"

Nagato's calm eyes, prompted by Haruhi, turned to Asakura, who was tightly embracing her.

"That's enough, Yuki."

As Ryoko rubbed her face hard, she looked at Nagato with a grin and answered without hesitation.

"I see."

And her furrowed brows relaxed.

Yes, that's good enough.

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"Ah, it's Xiao Hu and the others."

Before long, Kasuga and his friends spotted Hobe and Ebina in the crowd.

The two were taking photos against the backdrop of autumn leaves, and the photographer was none other than Hayama, the boy who, despite being mixed in with the crowd, never forgot his cheerful and sunny smile.

At first, Chunri thought the glittering thing was a tooth showing in a nasty smile, but after looking closely, she realized it was just a camera flash.

"Is that Hayama and the others? What a coincidence!"

Of course, as the class monitor of Class B, Asakura also knew this boy who was very famous in Class F and even throughout Soubu High School.

"Is this also the ill-fated relationship you mentioned, Kasuga-kun?"

Nagato, who was in the Service Department, hesitated slightly and looked at Haruhi.

Haruhi hadn't expected that Nagato would remember what she had just said. Thinking about it, it was indeed the truth.

The boy smiled slightly: "If that's what you think, Nagato, you're not wrong. After all, that man is a real pain in the neck. If you have any relationship with him, it's definitely a bad one."

Today happens to be my last day in Kyoto.

The members of the Service Department also remembered the requests made by the Ministry of Revenue and Ebina.

"It seems that this opportunity is not easy to separate them now."

Yukinoshita said softly.

"It would be troublesome if Ebina-san started having strange thoughts."

"After all, when you want to confess your feelings, the restless atmosphere around you will also be noticeable. You'll be teased and mocked in a joking manner, and when such signs appear, you'll basically be called out."

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"...What are Yukinoshita and the others discussing? Do they need our help?"

"??"

"Anyway, I don't want to get involved anymore. Nagato, don't ask any more questions. And the class representative, it's none of our business. It's their Service Club's affair. We outsiders should try not to meddle."

Springtime decisively crushed the curiosity of these two academically gifted girls, and yawned.

Moreover, in his memory, neither the class monitor nor Nagato seemed to have any experience dating boys. If he were to tell them, he didn't know whether it would be adding insult to injury or providing a helping hand.

Xiaoxue had told him before that she would handle Ebina's request this time without relying on Hachiman's self-destruction, and it would not cause her any loss.

Kasuga believed the girl who had made that promise to him.