| Izumi | …… |
| Muku | …… |
| Izumi | Muku-kun, are you alright…? |
| Muku | …… |
| Ju-chan’s… |
| Ju-chan wouldn’t talk to me ever since we came to the sea. It somehow seems like he’s trying to avoid me… |
| Izumi | A quarrel…there’s no way that you guys would have had one, huh. |
| Muku | That’s right. That’s why I think I might have done something to Ju-chan without knowing… |
| I don’t know anything at all even though I want to apologize. |
| What will I do if he stays just like this forever… |
| Izumi | Muku-kun… |
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| Tasuku | ーーSo, we’ll go with this as our team. |
| Kazunari | Kay! And I do want to look around next after allーー |
| Juza | …… |
| Omi | Juza? |
| Juza | ーー! |
| …Sorry. |
| Omi | Are you feeling unwell? If so, thenーー |
| Tasuku | …It’s probably about Sagisaka, isn’t it? |
| Juza | ーー |
| Omi | Come to think of it…the both of them haven’t talked to each other at all ever since coming to the sea. |
| Kazunari | True! Even though Muku’s always going Ju-chan, Ju-chan about everything~ |
| Citron | It must be fatigue! |
| Omi | Did something happen? |
| Juza | …… |
| Tasuku | …Do you intend to compete in the battle with that attitude of yours? |
| Juza | No… |
| Tasuku | We can’t do up a act together with a guy who’s distracted by something and can’t concentrate. |
| Try telling us about it if it’s something we can listen in to. |
| Juza | …… |
| ーーThere’s was a time where I came to the sea with Muku to have fun. |
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| When I was a kid, some of my relatives and family had gathered together to go to the sea and have fun. |
| I was already pretty scary-looking at that time so I think Muku, who was scared of everyone asides from his family was also jumpily wary of me. |
| “Look, mother! It’s a castle!” |
| Muku had rushed to make a sand castle on the sandy beach as soon as he reached the sea and was happily talking to his family about it. |
| That peaceful moment had also been fleeting. |
| A heavy rain had started up all of a sudden and we hurried to evacuate to a place with a roof. |
| What I saw while carrying the baggage under the shelter of the roof was…the sandcastle Muku made falling apart due to the rain. |
| When the rain stopped and Muku returns to the beach, he’d surely be saddened to see all his sand-castles destroyed. |
| Even a little, if only it could retain it’s shape. |
| I desperately tried to gather up the sand and fix it back up but it didn’t go well. |
| The castle collapsed right in front of my eyes as the rain got heavier and heavier. |
| At that very moment when the castle had completely collapsed. |
| “Ju-chan…” |
| Muku was standing there when I turned. |
| “E-Ehehe…that’s right. A castle made out of something like sand, pathetic, isn’t it?” |
| Muku had been making a really sad expression. |
| No, this isーー
Unable to form out words as I would have liked it to have been, I swallowed them back. |
| “Don’t worry about it! Ju-chan, you’ll catch a cold if you don’t get out of the rain soon.” |
| I wasn’t able to call out to him even when I saw his back as he walked awayーー |
