Book 9: Chapter 3: No Intention of Changing
On Thursday evening, I saw Ichinose while heading back to the dorms.
Ichinose is usually always surrounded by students of both genders. However, today she surprisingly appeared to be alone. For some reason, I couldn’t sense any of her usual ambition in the way she was moving. I wonder if the reason she’s alone is because she took the initiative to stay away from her usual groups of friends? At the moment, she’s definitely the person in our school year who’s flooded with the most attention.
Thoughtlessly involving other people in your own rumors may lead to them getting caught up in a second disaster.
It wouldn’t be surprising for Ichinose to think something like this. I thought back to Kanzaki’s conversation with Hashimoto a few days ago.
Should I try calling out to her? I thought about doing so, but…
I felt a presence behind me and decided against it.
I took out my phone and turned on the camera.
Changing the active camera from the one on the back of my phone to the one on the front, I nonchalantly took a peek at the situation going on behind me.
There were two first-year students on their way back to the dorms.