Book 15.5,: Chapter 4: The Growth in Each of Us (6)
It was dusk, and the sun was setting just beyond the horizon.
Ichinose was waiting for me at the place we agreed upon while staring out at the sea.
When I saw her somewhat fragile profile, I felt a little hesitant to call her name.
“Ichinose.”
“Ayanokōji-kun. Hello.”
After exchanging a brief greeting, I stood in front of her. It wasn’t the kind of atmosphere where I could get straight to the point, so I decided to start with a bit of small talk.
“Are you still continuing with your strategy to act as a bank for your class’ private points?”
It had nothing to do with the topic at hand, but Ichinose didn’t look displeased at all.
“Yeah. We decided there was no harm in keeping it up. We’ll save up as much as we can and then, should we not need it, I can just just return all the points that were deposited at the time back to everyone. It’s easy.”