| Banri | (Back when Director-chan and I peeked into his sketchbook a while back—) |
| (That was the moment I realized how closely Kazunari holds his drawings… How important they are to him. How many memories those drawings hold for him.) |
| (I knew then and there that the amount of patience he’s holding just to prevent himself from drawing— It was so much more dire to him than I’ve ever realized…) |
| (That’s when I reconsidered how much I should respect his sketchbook— And that’s WHY I have to find it no matter what and swear to give it back to Kazunari by the end of this.) |
| Goddammit. I really wanna go and look for it right now, but not when the performance is about to start… |
| I gotta start searching through the most likely places right at the moment the show ends— |
| Batchmate | Settsu! Thanks so much for lending me your script. You saved my ass for real. |
| Banri | Yo, no probs. |
| Batchmate | Oh, right! By the way, I think you left a prop in your bag earlier… |
| Banri | A prop? There’s no way I would’ve—— |
| —!! Wait, could it be… |
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| Kazunari | That performance from the theatre arts dept was sooooo lit ! What a way to have a grad ceremony! |
| Banri | Kazunari. |
| Kazunari | Woah, Settsuar!? |
| Hey there!! Y’know, your speech before the show was incredibly moving! |
| But was there a reason you had to do an opening act? |
| Banri | One of our main decors for the backdrop broke right before the show. So I bought them some time to fix it. |
| Kazunari | Ohhh I see! It’s a good thing the performance went smoothly in the end! |
| But aren’t you supposed to be helping the rest of the dept tidy up too? |
| Banri | I just needed to talk to ya for a quick sec. After that I’m headin’ straight back. |
| Kazunari | What sort of talk…? |
| Banri | … Y’see, your sketchbook got mixed in with the props we were using for the performance by mistake. It was my bad. |
| I planned on returning it back to you right after the ceremony… I’m seriously at fault here. |
| Kazunari | No waaaay!? So you’re saying my sketchbook made its own stage debut in that performance I just watched!? |
| Banri | I mean. You could phrase it like that…… |
| Kazunari | Ahaha! But I guess thinking about it, every one of those props was the same kind of sketchbook that I use myself. |
| Still, I pretty much have no pages left to draw on in that one, as far as I know at least. So it’s really okay even if you don’t return it to me, you know! |
| And all the ones I’ve already drawn didn’t have anything I was gonna use them for in particular, so don’t worry too much about it. |
| Banri | I ain’t buying that. There’s no way you’d be willing to part with that sketchbook that easily. |
| ‘Nyway. Considerin’ the number of sketchbook props we had, one of yours has to be there, it’s just gonna take some time for me to find it. But I swear I’ll hand it back to you. |
| So wait for me at your atelier in the meantime, ‘kay? |
| Kazunari | Well… I guess if you’re gonna say it like that— |
| Okie. I’ll be at the atelier! |
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| Kazunari | … There’s barely anything left in here, is there? |
| Though I guess we did tidy this place up already. |
| And now I’ve graduated… I can’t help but feel sad after all… |
| (My phone’s album is packed with so many memories of my time here in Amabi. I enrolled here without knowing anyone, let I made so many friends along the way.) |
| (The first time they allowed me this atelier to be my space, I was just so happy…) |
| (It was really fun to attend uni all by myself since I’ve got so many friends by then. Yet in the middle of it all, when Settsuar started attending Amabi too, it became even more enjoyable for me.) |
| (Seriously, all the memories just keep flooding in now…) |
| *DOOR OPENS* |
| Banri | Sorry for takin’ so long. |
| I found your sketchbook. Here, I’m givin’ it back. |
| Kazunari | Thank you, Settsuar…!! |
| Wow, I really did draw all sorts of stuff in this sketchbook here. I remember having so much fun drawing every little sketch on this. |
| Banri | That’s obvious enough— these are the sketches you did right as you thought about wanting to draw them, aren’t they? |
| Kazunari | You’re right about that. |
| For every moment that I thought “I want to draw!”, I’d cram them all here… |
| (... That’s right.) |
| (While I was doing everything to hold back from drawing, it was almost as if I was killing myself— the Amabi student in me who’d always “want to draw”.) |
| Ah, there’s still one more blank page on here. |
| Banri | So it’s basically this sketchbook’s last page, huh. |
| Kazunari | Right. The last page….. |
| Hey, Settsuar. There’s something I’d like to ask of you… |
| Banri | What’s that? |
| Kazunari | I wanna draw you for my sketchbook’s last page! |
