The cold of spring killed the young.

In the cold classroom with a broken heater, Sanchū Ming sneezed fiercely.

How unlucky … She sniffled and pressed the fever patch on her forehead that had lost its viscosity due to her sweat. She complained in her heart.

On the last day of junior high school, he caught a cold and had a fever. His roommates had warned him not to put on makeup, and he had come to see his classmates with a sickly face. It was very likely that it would be the last time he would see them … He even had to give a speech with a nasal voice … If he sniffled in the middle of it …

Then she would be crowned as the snot-nosed senior for the next two years.

Snot-Nosed, senior.

Just thinking about it made her feel like there was no light in front of her.

And she didn't know what the school was thinking. Junior high's last day didn't have any celebratory activities.

Apart from the usual graduation ceremony in the afternoon, classes were still going as usual …

To be honest, she was a little disappointed.

After all, after today, she was going to —

The sour feeling in her nose caused by the severe flu rushed into her nerves, and Three Suns and Moon Bright Eyes instantly turned red.

"Let me die …" Her nose was sore and stuffy, and she felt terrible.

Sanchū Ming sobbed and complained as she wiped her nose.

"By the way, Sanchū, you went to high school —"

Where?

The boy with long, straight black hair sitting next to her asked in a low voice. Unexpectedly, when he turned his head, he saw his 1.7-meter-tall Kendo Devil King sitting at the same table with a pair of red rabbit eyes. She was holding a tissue (used to wipe her nose) with grievances and tears falling down her face.

… It seemed like he was committing suicide?

Catfish Tail Toshiro was shocked. He looked at his desolate deskmate and suddenly had an epiphany. He asked without hesitation, "That city of yours?

Boy finally dumped you?! "

Catfish Tail Toshiro was so shocked that he forgot that he was still in class. His normal voice was like a clap of thunder compared to the weak voice of the math teacher.

The old math teacher's sleep-inducing voice was strangled in his throat. The students who were tired and listless suddenly no longer felt the pain in their waists and backs. They all turned around and stared at the teary-eyed Sanchū Ming.

The entire classroom instantly became as hot as summer.

Sanchū Ming, who happened to be sneezing when Catfish Tail Fujiro spoke, tilted his head in confusion.

"I told you about City before.

That boy is unreliable! "

Setsuki looked at his friend, whose face was blank from the shock, and slammed his hand on the table. He didn't know if he was excited or gloating. "You look like a sissy. You're obviously not a decent man!"

"Um … Seo-san …" The old math teacher tried to stop Setsuki from standing on the table. "We're still in class …"

Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh!

Boy!!! "The whole classroom was in an uproar!

Led by a few boys who were usually very lively, the students began to beat their chests and stomp their feet, shouting angrily, "It's one thing to steal our goddess!

You actually don't cherish it! "

Sanchū Ming:???

"Yeah, even if she used to be a bad baldie, she's our goddess now." Catfish Tail Toshiro added fuel to the fire. "Absolutely not.

The boy threw it away casually. "

"Am I a piece of fruit paper? Why would you throw it away so casually?

Come on, catfish, you're a city too.

How about a boy? "

Was it really naughty to scold him like that???

Sitting on the other side of Sanchū Ming, the orange-haired girl with two large bows on her head couldn't hold back the waves in her heart any longer. She reached out and grabbed Sanchū Ming's cold hands, her cute doll-like face on the verge of tears. "Bright Paste, don't be sad … You're so good. You'll definitely find a better City!

The boy! "

Bright Paste was so sad that his hands were cold!

As the saying goes, the ten fingers are connected to the heart!

Bright Paste's heart must be as cold as snow in the depths of winter!

Ignoring the boys' cries of "Why are you looking for City next?

Boy?! ", Sanchū Ming was dumbfounded." Wait a minute, Chiyo … What are you talking about?

Yukimura is really good to me … "

"Bright Paste, sob sob sob …" Sakura Chiyo couldn't hold it in any longer and began to cry loudly.

"You're so good to him, and you're even speaking up for him. How dare he treat you like this … sob sob sob …"

She knew it!

Bright Paste and that Yukimura weren't happy together!

They didn't eat ice cream together, they didn't watch couple movies together, they didn't go to the amusement park together, they either went to art exhibitions or art exhibitions. They didn't even talk on the phone at night. Where was the sweetness of a young couple in love!?

"… Please stop imagining things, Chiyo.

Although I don't know what you're imagining, it must be something very impolite. "

"Sakura-san … Calm down, we're still in class …" The math teacher tried in vain to calm the classroom that was on the verge of exploding.

"Listen to this!

Our goddess is so kind!

She even helped that despicable City after being betrayed!

Boy, speak up! "

Nishitani, who was the most noisy, followed Setsuki up the desk and shouted, "Can you bear it!?"

"No!"

"Wait, you guys, Yukimura and I aren't —"

"Wah, he doesn't even allow you to call him by his name QAQ?" Chiyo cried even harder.

"No … Don't you think that Yukimura sounds cuter than Seiich …"

And she usually called Seiichi Yukimura Yuki.

Yuki, Yuki, was much cuter than Seiich, wasn't it?

“City

That boy stole our goddess!

Can you bear it!? "

Setsuki didn't care whether Yuki or Seiich was cuter. She jumped up and down on the desk happily and continued with the next slogan.

"No!"

So what exactly happened???

Nishitani's spirits were even higher now!

He stepped over the desk of the student in front of him and jumped onto the podium in a few steps. He didn't notice the math teacher's dazed expression as he turned to face his classmates who were sitting neatly in the classroom for the last time.

He was so excited that his face was flushed red. As if he could only say one last thing in his life, he shouted at the top of his lungs, "City!

Boy, you don't cherish your goddess. You're a two-timer! Can you bear it!? "

"No!!"

“City

boy！”

"Leave the group!!"

"What's wrong with City?"

What kind of grudge does this boy have … "Three Suns and Moon covered his face.

“City

boy！”

"Get out!!"

"What's wrong with you guys …" Three Suns and Moon helplessly rubbed his temples that had been stimulated by the shouting.

"Why are you guys shouting … It's not like this is Muse's concert …"

Did these people drink Wayne's lemon tea?

"Everyone!"

Nishitani, who was standing on the podium, couldn't hear Sanchū Ming, who was sitting at the back of the class. The boy who was shouting at the top of his lungs was flushed red. "There are so many City!

Boy and City!

girl！”

He took a deep breath and suddenly burst into tears.

"Don't leave Titani-cho!!!"

Sanchū Ming was stunned.

"Titani-cho has a high school too!

Why do you have to go outside to study!? "

Nishitani cried out loud. He didn't care about his dignity as a man who didn't easily shed tears. He used his sleeves to wipe away the large drops of tears that were falling down.

Sobs could be heard from all over the class.

Hey, hey, hey, Nishitani, you're also going outside to study, right?

Sanchū Ming wanted to complain, but he couldn't bring himself to say it.

Because her feelings … were similar to Nishitani's to some extent.

Thousand Birds Mountain High School didn't have an advanced school.

This meant that everyone in the class had to choose another high school to study in.

Titani-cho in Miyagi Prefecture only had three high schools, and none of them could be considered important.

However, Thousand Birds Mountain High School was a bit special. It was a private high school that was completely closed off from the rest of Miyagi Prefecture.

This also meant that most of the students here wouldn't choose to study in Titani-cho after graduation.

Near the end of the exchange, Three Ri and Moon Ming had more or less grasped the whereabouts of their classmates.

Half of them chose to study in the neighboring prefectural city of Sendai, while the other half chose to return to their original administrative district.

For example, Nishitani Xi was going to study at Ueno High School in Ueno, Setsuki and Sakura Chiyo were going to study at Tokyo's key private school, Youth Academy, and catfish Toshiro was recruited by Kyoto's Luoyama High School's swimming department.

… Another example was Sanchū Ming, who received an invitation from Tokyo's Ice Emperor Academy to study in the advanced school.

Although everyone knew that this was the reality … they still couldn't accept it.

This group of energetic young people had spent the most innocent and worry-free three years of their youth together in a completely closed off school. Now, they were facing their first involuntary separation.

In their eyes, this was equivalent to the sky collapsing, the earth sinking, and the separation of life and death.

"What are you crying for …" Mitsuki Mitsuki narrowed his eyes and carelessly rubbed the head of Sakura Chiyo who was crying beside him. Her long hair that was properly tied up was immediately messed up.

Sakura Chiyo didn't mind as she hugged Sanchū Ming's neck and cried.

"Ming-chan, are you really going to leave?

Is he really going to City?

boy？”

"Why are you going to City?

Boy can't go … And Chiyo, aren't you going to study in Tokyo as well … "Sanchū Ming didn't know whether to laugh or cry, but he also felt a lump in his throat.

… It must be because of the cold. It definitely wasn't because she was sad.

Otherwise, why would her eyes be hot?

The math teacher standing next to her sighed slightly, and his wrinkled face had a hint of a smile and emotion.

Young people … When he was in school, he seemed to have cried at the separation as well.

The young people were about to go their separate ways, and this might be their last reunion, so they were feeling very uncomfortable.

If he still wanted to stop them and continue to explain those boring lines to them, he would be a bit untactful.

With that in mind, he put down the chalk and quietly walked to the door, using his usual weak presence in front of the students.

"Hayakawa-sensei, we won't be able to see you again …" Just as he was about to open the door, someone called out to him.

The children who were about to graduate vaguely realized that they, who were about to go to a higher and wider platform, would gradually be separated from the teacher who was here.

Hayakawa-sensei, who was about to retire, felt his entire heart soften.

He had clearly seen off batch after batch of students, but he couldn't help but feel gratified and sad when faced with such a scene.

He was gratified that the children who had just entered school were beginning to sprout, and were prepared to receive better sunlight and nutrients. He was sad that most of these teenagers would probably never see him again.

"Don't say that …" Chiyo Sakura sobbed as she wiped away her tears. "We will definitely come back to see you in the future, sensei."

Every batch of students would say such words, but Hayakawa-Sensei had only seen a few of them.

He understood very well.

It wasn't that the teenagers were indifferent and didn't care about their former teacher, but that the fledglings would gradually fall in love with the higher sky.

When there were more things in their hearts, naturally, their previous reluctance to part would fade.

But this didn't mean that they weren't serious when they made this vow.

So Hayakawa-Sensei just smiled, walked back to the podium, and patted Nishigu Xi's back, who jumped down embarrassedly.

"Thousand Birds Mountain High School … is proud to have you."

Hayakawa-sensei faced the young faces that he had seen for three years, both familiar and unfamiliar. He tried hard to calm his trembling voice and said word by word,

"Fly!"

"Yes!!!"

"Nana Sanchū." During the graduation ceremony in the afternoon, Nishigu Xi, whose eyes were still a little red, quietly moved to Sanchū Ming, who was preparing for his graduation speech. "The boys in our class have discussed, do you need to …" He fiercely made a strangling gesture. "Hmm?"

"What?" Sanchū Ming didn't understand what he meant.

"It's …" Nishigu Xi made a gesture of hitting his abdomen, and then made a painful grimace. His expression was so exaggerated that Sanchū Ming asked tentatively, "All the boys in our class were challenged?

Do you need me to beat up the challengers to vent my anger? "

"… No!" Nishigu Xi covered his face, unable to bear the sight.

Sanchū Ming:???

Then what else could it be???

"You want to have a graduation duel with me?" She had an idea.

"… No, I just want to ask you, do you need the boys in our class to help you beat up that City?

boy。”

"You might not be able to beat him …" Sanchū Ming, who had accidentally blurted out the truth, quickly tried to salvage the situation. "No, what kind of grudge do you have against him?"

She began to think calmly. Is there something wrong with the brains of my classmates?

She didn't think that she and Seiichi Yukimura would hang out in Tomiya, so it was impossible for Yukimura to have a grudge against her classmates.

Besides, Yukimura's appearance … shouldn't be the type that would attract the jealousy of the same sex?

After all, he was a man who had been confessed to as many times as he had been confessed to by the opposite sex.

As the goddess of Thousand Birds Mountain High School, Sanchū Ming had never accepted anyone's confession, and the first time she fell in love, she was snatched away by City

The boy snatched it away and even suspected it. (Three Suns and Moon Bright:???)

After being abandoned, the boys couldn't take it lying down. They couldn't bring themselves to say such a reason!

It was fine if there were a lot of people in the classroom, but when Nishigu Xi was facing Sanchū Ming alone …

He didn't dare to offend her.

"What's with that expression?" Sanchū Ming looked at Nishigu Xi's constipated expression and narrowed her eyes.

Sanchū Ming's eyes were long and narrow like willow leaves. Her eyes were long and narrow, and her pupils were closer to the corners of her eyes. Most of her pupils were covered, and the inner corners of her eyes were slightly hooked. The ends of her eyes were slightly upturned, and she was slender and full of spirit.

When she narrowed her eyes, her gaze was unwavering. Coupled with her somewhat aggressive appearance and half-smiling expression —

Demon King!

Demon King!

The big Demon King with a big smile on his face!

It was because of her big Demon King appearance that most of the boys didn't dare to confess to her!

Not to mention that she was the discipline department head and the kendo champion of the youth competition —

Nishigu Xi would never admit that he wanted to confess to her, but he was scared off by Sanchū Ming's heroic figure when he killed the hooligans outside the school with a single slash.

… But even if he couldn't confess, he could still be her bodyguard!

The captain of her bodyguard was equivalent to her boyfriend!

The captain of Sanchū Ming's bodyguard, Nishigu Xi, was deceiving himself.

"Are you going to say it or not?" Sanchū narrowed her eyes.

"Say, say what?"

"You refuse a toast only to be forced to drink a forfeit!" Sanchū Ming's gaze was piercingly cold.

Nishigu Xi instantly squatted down and covered his head.

"… Next, let's welcome the outstanding graduate, Sanchū Ming, to give a graduation speech."

Sanchū Ming's hand had already touched Nishigu Xi's head.

… Eh?

I didn't get hit?

Nishigu Xi felt the touch on his head and looked up one second later.

Sanchū Ming, who had gently patted his head just now, had already turned around and walked up the stage, leaving Nishigu Xi with a tall and straight back.

"… Hello everyone, I am Sanchū Ming. It is my honor to represent …"

Nishigu Xi, who was squatting backstage, touched the spot on his head that was patted just now. He looked at the girl standing in front of him in high spirits and suddenly smiled.

Their big Demon King was a gentle big Demon King.

Congratulations on your graduation, Sanchū Ming.

Congratulations on your graduation, everyone.