Tsuki Tsuki Vol 11 Chapter 2

Chapter 02: The Flower that Bloomed in the Rain

—Stop raining.

The little girl had received cheers from the villagers. She no longer could play with her friends like before. The villagers worshipped the little girl, made her wear pretty clothes and gave her a gaudy residence.

When she felt sad all by herself, the little girl watched the children through the window. The children, who were allowed to play around innocently. Her friends. Even if she couldn’t join them, the little girl really liked to see their smiles.
Therefore she hated rainy days, where the children didn’t come outside. She kept hating them and even after she broke out of this shut off world at some point in time, the little girl eventually kept crying all by herself on rainy days even now…

Since when was Elni considering to leave our house?

I was sure it was different from Hijiri, Kaorun or Machina’s case.

She might have planned to leave us from the very beginning.

“Look, Machina! Isn’t it done cool? I’ll give it to you!”

Machina easily ignored the plastic model, whereas Elni puckered her lips and replied dissatisfied.

“I mean, you already forced— cough, gave me various plastic models. I don’t have enough space for it. If you want to boast with them, why don’t you set them up at the front door?”

As she wanted to present it to Machina, Elni mumbled “I’ll ask Tomoe-san, so that I can put them up at the front door” somewhat sulking and also a bit regretful.

While such thoughts crossed my mind, I casually shifted my gaze back, whereupon Elni excitedly took out the game console and now Machina puckered her lips a bit upon seeing that.

“I’m happy with just having him here. So it’s fine. Besides, I’m burning for some gaming right now! I’ll become a master monster hunter! Then boast about it to the kids!”

Machina titled her head doubtfully, whereupon Elni put the game console aside for a moment and explained with her arms crossed.

“Reminds me, you said ‘I graduated from being the personal guard!’. I think my sister’s Boss referred it to you…”

“…Minami is working part-time at the nursery school?”

“All the kids call her ‘Minami-sensei’ and love her. In contrast, I’m simply called ‘Elni’ by the kids and there’s even a mean boy that says ‘Hey Elni, you have forty seconds to buy me some fried noodle bread’.”

“Or rather, they believe I’m an idiot. Yesterday a kid flipped my skirt and the other boys reacted like this: ‘Hey! What’re you doing! You can’t do that! If anything, do it with Minami-sensei!’…”

“I feel sad too. I want to get along with the boys like Minami too, not just the girls. Therefore I need to become a master monster hunter.”

When I doubtfully interjected again, Elni lightly held out the game console to me and replied.

Looking sad again, Elni raised a bright voice with “But” and the console in one hand.

“I can help you, if you want?”

“Ehm, what’s up, Machina? Do you want to play the game too?”

“To be honest, I don’t know much about girl’s clothes, but… I think these clothes would look good on you.”

When I pointed to a page of the magazine with a crease, Machina animated her voice with “What about these clothes? Do you like this kind, Shinobu?”, as her mood was fixed right away.

Elni was engrossed in her game. She wouldn’t change. What would I have to do to stop her? …Such thoughts crossed my mind and at some point, I kept coming up only with reluctant answers. Due to that, Machina peered into my face a bit worried.

“W- Woman fall for this face.”

Apparently I couldn’t flinch from it anymore. I certainly was worrying about Elni. But, was it alright to reveal that Machina, to the others?

Suddenly Elni’s words floated in the back of my head. When I slowly shifted my gaze, Elni stopped playing her game and looked at me straight while putting on a somewhat sad smile.

Befallen with that worry, I was stuck for words, whereas Machina alternative looked at Elni and me, then puffed up her cheeks a bit for some reason.

“No, we’re not hiding anything…” I lied so right away, but not believing it, Machina leaned over her body further and brought her face closer.

At that time, I could hear the faint DING DONG of the front door’s intercom.

“Right. But my sister will get it. Anyway Shinobu, why’re you averting your eyes? If it’s not something you feel guilty about, look into my eyes and tell me.”

“Somehow, it feels like you’re going to kiss.”

Shaking both her hands, Machina denied, whereas suddenly a small knock resounded and following, Luna showed up in the room. She seemingly fully recovered from the cold she had the other day and opened her mouth with a smile.

Luna tilted her head midway in her sentence, whereas Machina pointed at me with still red cheeks and replied.

“Is that so, Shinobu-san?”

When I was stuck for words again, Luna mimicked Machina for some reason and got close to me with a smiling face. The sweet fragrance doubled involuntary. Moreover, Luna stared at me, then kissed my ear, as she just wanted to play around unlike Machina.

“I am sorry. That is actually true.”

I got the feeling that Machina partly forgot about the initial goal. I leaned back to escape from them, but due to my agitation, I lost my balance and flopped face-up onto the bed like that. In regards, Luna and Machina looked at me by hanging over me.

I had fallen into a pinch in no time. While my face became hot at the same time I panicked, suddenly a shutter sound resounded. When I glanced over, there stood Elni holding a digital camera.

“Mh? Imitating Kaorun. It’ll be a nice keepsake.”

Replying to my question indifferently, Elni pressed the shutter once again, whereupon both Luna and Machina turned red and I used that chance to escape. I got off the bed, rushed out of the room and down the stairs, whereupon I could hear Luna and Machina’s voices with “Please wait, Shinobu-san” and “We’re not done with the physical contact yet!” from behind, but I moved to the living room unconcerned.

“What is the matter, Shinobu-sama? You look a bit flustered…?”

“Your question troubles me a bit, since this is not my house, but I do have an idea.”

“K- Kaoru-san? What are you— Yahn!”

“This ain’t working, Kaorun! They’ll find me! For sure!”

Leaking a bewitching voice and twisting her body, Hijiri tried to press her thighs together.

Upon that, a proper elasticity was transferred from her thighs and I felt fluffy sensation on my nose tip through her panties. A nice sweet-and-sour fragrance. Moreover, every time I took a breath, Hijiri shivered her body with “Mm…”, gradually increasing the pressure of her thighs.

“…This might have been too much for the sensitive Hijiri-chan.”

“Hey Hijiri, Kaoru, have you seen Shinobu?”

“It’s… Mm… nothing… Mm… Don’t worry, I’m fine…”

“M- My body… Uh… certainly feels a bit hot… But I’m fine…”

Even I was about to tremble from the fear of getting found and the guilt towards Hijiri, whereupon Kaorun interjected helping.

“…I don’t think Shinobu would say something like that, but is it true that he left the house?”

“Eh? But I have plans with Hijiri-san— wait, Kaoru-san, please do not pull!”

Upon that, Hijiri had dampened her eyes a bit, flushed her cheeks and was breathing roughly. Feeling guilty, I timidly reached out my hand towards her with “Ehm, are you okay?”, but

“…I am sorry, Hijiri-san. I was a fool. Please forgive me.”

“N- No, Shinobu-kun. I’m not really angry. It’s just that I think I’ll leak a weird voice if you touch me now…”

“IYAHN! HAHN…”

“Hah, Hah, Shinobu-kun you meanie. Don’t do it again or I’ll leak an embarrassing voice again.”

“This’ll be a great keepsake, Shinobu.”
The keepsake of pushing down a beautiful girl. It made me want to cover my eyes. Returning to my senses, I lowered my head and repeated apologies to Hijiri…

After that, Elni started to talk with a smile while getting under the heated table when Hijiri had calmed down.

“Ah, right. I wanted Luna-san to teach me knitting, but… that’ll have to wait until the three of them are back. Luna-san, Machina-san and Kaoru-san went out together.”

On Elni’s casual question, Hijiri faintly flushed her cheeks and replied while sneaking a glance at me for some reason.

“Yeah, it means chicken. The Holy Night of chicken.”

“So that’s the reason. You’re amazing, Hijiri.”

Then Elni pulled out the game console from her pocket, as she was done with her pondering, and started to play again. Hijiri must have been a bit curious, as she reserved peeked at Elni’s hands.

“Fufu, it’s an action game, where you enjoy passionate battle against monsters.”

According to Elni, in the game the player was a hunter in a fantasy world and could hunt monsters or animals on plateaus, in the desert, on snowy mountains or even in the water. Moreover it had a multiplayer modus, where skilled players good help out other players.

“Do you want to try it, Hijiri? I’ll teach you how it’s played.”

Hijiri flushed her cheeks, whereas Elni gave an instant “Of course” answer and handed her the game console. Hijiri started playing right away, but she really wasn’t used to games.

While holding the game console, the flustered Hijiri kept moving her hands restlessly left, right, up and down. Her behaviour was just so cute that both Elni and I couldn’t suppress a small outburst of laughter.

“D- Don’t laugh, you two. I said I wasn’t good with it.”

“Yeah. It’s really fun. So I can play with it for a bit longer, Elni?”

Surely she was happy that Hijiri showed an interest in the game she liked herself.

But I still hadn’t found a way to stop Elni. At the same time I pain suddenly ran through my chest, an impatience spread. But I put on a smile like I didn’t notice it and watched over Elni and Hijiri for a while, then I left my seat, telling them I was going to the toilet.

Glancing at the mirror, I washed my face and left the bathroom with renewed feelings. Speak of the devil and she shows up. The front door opened in that very moment and everyone came back. Luna, Machina, Kaorun and even my mother. Most likely my mother met the others midway.

Just what was that? I doubtfully threw my glance at Kaorun.

“Yes. The two seemed concerned about your worries, so I told them: ‘Shinobu-sama seems to have awoken to cross-dressing from the repeated experiences. But he is confused about himself, since he feels pleasure from cross-dressing, and surely is worried about that.’.”

“Yes, through my eloquence. Now they will not question you any further, I believe. Good for you, is it not, Shinobu-sama? Well, you do not need to thank me…”

“I believe you should just act like always. Once your worries are solved, you can laugh it off as a joke. And, Shinobu-sama—”

“Should you be unable to resolve your worries by yourself, please rely on me. I will always lend a hand. While I am Hijri-chan’s maid, I like to think of myself as your maid as well, Shinobu-sama.”

I couldn’t utter the least complaint. When I petted her head out of gratitude, Kaorun turned red and got away from me right away, heading to the living room in an escape. On the other hand, my mother, who had watched silently, looked at me and smirked teasingly.

“Don’t group me together with that gigolo. If anything, I want to resemble you.”

While saying so, my mother softened her expression and adjusted her tone a bit.

“…I’m afraid I haven’t come up with an answer yet.”

“Even if you’re looking for it, answers aren’t something so easily found.”

“It’s simple. Set out with your own feet to find the answer. Hammer out a plan by opening a path with your own hands or something. Of course you can always ask someone for help too.”

When I answered with another sigh, my mother softly embraced me like the others and leaving me only the words “I’ll always help you too if you need it”, she then slowly headed for her own room.

Watching after my mother’s back, I went to the living room too, where Luna, Machina and Kaorun were peeking at the hands of Hijiri, who enjoyed the game, while listening to the advices from Elni, as they were probably filled in about the game from Elni and Hijiri…. The living room was flourishing with smiling faces.

…I really wanted to please her more and make her smile.

“Hey, wanna have a game tournament with everyone next time?”

“I see, certainly. In other words, Shinobu-sama, you want to say: ‘It’ll be a treat from the great me! The winner will get a reward from me! Rejoice and participate, girls!’, correct?”

“An unexpected full approval!?”

Retorting to Kaorun, who had widened her eyes, I looked at everyone’s faces with “But”.

While saying so, I threw a glance at Kaorun, smirked and cracked a joke.

“I do not want that, meow. Please refrain from doing so, meow. It is embarrassing, meow.”

“Hijiri-chan, this is a good chance.. If we win at the game tournament, let us make Shinobu-sama cross-dress. And then he will be the maid at our house for one day.”

“Not just that, you could also embrace him, kiss him and sleep next to him at night.”

Th- This had gotten out of hand. Whatever they were imagining, not just Hijiri, but even Kaorun started to look dreamful. When I felt an impatience, Machina timidly called out to Luna in the corner of my vision.

“I want to take a bath together with Shinobu-san.”

…Now I couldn’t afford to lose anymore. If either Hijiri’s team or Luna’s team were to win, I feared that my reasoning wouldn’t last.
I even started to get a cold sweat, but Elni laughed with “Sounds fun!” while listening to everyone, so I prepared myself for the possibility of my loss and after we discussed it with everyone, we decided to have a game tournament in the living room of Hijiri’s house around this time next week…

—A lot had happened from the day last week, where I proposed the organisation of a game tournament, until today.

Finally we welcomed the day of the game tournament. In the broad living room of the Gogyou Household, Luna, Machina, Elni, Nazuna, Hijiri, Kaorun, Miichan and I had gathered with each a game console in one hand.

Also, the team battle would produce too many winners, which would increase the penalties on the losers, so only the surviving players of the winning team were given the privilege of the winner. Furthermore the condition was added that the members of the team, which cleared the quest, that died during the competition would be treated as losers.

On the other hand, Elni, Nazuna, Miichan and I formed a circle to push up our morale and when both teams had finished their preparations, the game started.

And in fact, my team smoothly advanced the quest, whereas Kaorun’s team probably had a hard time. Kaorun suddenly raised a panicked voice during the match.

“Got it, Kaoru— wait, I never heard of this! What’re you thinking?”

After replying brazenly to Machina’s tricked&retort combo, Kaorun said “Operation, start!” with vigour, whereupon the girls from our opponent team suddenly started to raise bewitching voices.

“Uhn, if you do that, Ahn, I’ll be done for right away.” said Hijiri.

“Hah, Shinobu-sama you pervert. Please do not tease me only there. Ahn.” said Kaorun.

Due to that, my concentration was greatly disturbed and while even the innocent Miichan and Nazuna turned bright red, Elni looked at me and raised her voice to overcome this crisis.

“To my great regret, roger that. Sorry, but I’ll leave the fighting to you guys. I’ll retreat from the frontlines for now.”

“—Three minutes. That’s all it takes me to hunt monsters, or woman. By the way, Kaorun, give me five minutes and I can strip a girl butt-naked.”

“—Now that it has come to this, only a God can stop me.”

Strongly urged by Elni, I once again made a nice voice to hassle them.

To be honest, I was quickly running out of ideas and I changed my remarks aimed at Kaorun into gags, whereupon she finally burst out in a laughter and for some reason, Luna, Hijiri and Machina flushed their cheeks. It had an unexpected great effect. This should lower their morale.

But, apparently Miichan was spellbound with “So wonderful, Shinobu-oniisan…” like Luna and the others, whereas Nazuna turned teary with “Uwah! Because neither Brother or Miichan are playing, I died!” and Elni raised an agitated voice with “The natural gigolo is a double-edged sword!?”.

“Girls! Now! Operation Part 2!”

D- Damn, so unfair. Kaorun’s bouncing beautiful breasts on my head. Hijiri and Luna’s soft and delicious breasts that sometimes pressed on both my elbows. On top of that, the sweet fragrance from all three of them came over me and while I was losing my head, I could hear Machina’s sad shout from behind me.

“…It appears that Machina passed away.”

“Why!? Why out of the blue!?”

“Ehm, Shinobu-kun’s body was just so warm and pleasant that I inadvertently got immersed.”

“What are you saying, Luna-san? There is no way that it does not it affect me. As a matter of fact, my character is ascending to heaven right now.”

“Wh- Why! Wasn’t the plan that you slay the monster while we agitate Shinobu-kun!?” “Besides, only I can’t hug onto him! That’s not what we arranged, Kaoru! This is totally different from your plan!” “E- Even I did not expect that Shinobu-sama’s body would make me this nervous!” “It is only natural, since Shinobu-san is so wonderful.”

“—Yay! I defeated the monster, Shinobu! We won!”

…Fufu, I didn’t participate in the battle at all.

“Ahaha! Shinobu and I won! Thanks for your support, Nazucat, Miichan! Let’s take a picture, so that I won’t forget this day!”

Also, Nazuna and Miichan each hugged onto Elni, despite their own loss, and said “Congratulations, Elni-chan!” “You did it, Elni-san!” with a smile. I also faced Elni and lightly changed my tone.

“Eh? Really? Don’t you have something you want them to do too?”

Conveying that to Elni by the heart, I opened my mouth with a wry smile.

But even so, I was set on my wish for when we won. I would give Elni my winner privilege. And that feeling hadn’t changed even now.

A present from me— At least these words were meant sincere. I believed that I hid that, but she might actually have noticed it.

With a bright smile, Elni tightly hugged onto me. Elni’s small and soft body. Even while I got quite agitated from that sensation, I clad myself in composure and quickly changed the topic.

“Mhm~ I can’t really think of anything, but I would like something that we all can do together.”

“Let’s all take a nap together!”

As expected, I couldn’t help but retort…

A nap with everyone. A really modest wish from Elni. Everyone responded to it with smiles and mattresses were spread in the broad living room of the Gogyou Mansion one after another to really take a nap.

While I felt doubtful, a rock-paper-scissors tournament started over the two positions next to me after the game tournament. As a result, Luna, Kaorun and Machina laid in that order right from me and Hijiri, Nazuna and Miichan laid in that order left from.

But Elni’s waist was so slender that it seemed that I would break her if I embraced her too tightly, and her breasts of moderate size, proud of a marshmallow-like softness, pressed squishy on my body for a while now. Moreover, she emitted a sweet fragrance.

When I raised my head doubtfully, she put up her index finger with “Ssh”, took out the digital camera from her pocket and took pictures of everyone sleeping.

“Can’t you sleep, or what?”

“I see. So, how’s it, Elni? Settled on a wish yet?”

Replying affirming to my question, Elni might a bright smile and continued.

“Haha, that’s gonna be great.”

“Shinobu, thank you so much for today.”

“I mean, you held the game tournament for me, right? So that I would get better at it and have fun together with everyone.”

“Of course. I came to like everyone of you even more. I’m really happy.”

“Hey Elni, the fun things will still keep coming from now on.”

“First we’ll have a Christmas party with everyone. Then we’ll eat traditional dishes with everyone on new year’s eve and on new year, we’ll all go together to the first shrine visit. And should it snow, we could have a snowball fight with everyone.”

“Yeah, I’ll try my best. The winter can be annoying due to the cold sometimes, but it has lots of fun things too. And right after the winter comes the spring anyway, so we can go watch the cherry blossoms with everyone.”

“Machina’s a hard-working girl after all. If you teach her properly, she’ll be able to cook in no time. I think we’ll be able to eat Machina’s cooking when we watch the cherry blossoms next year. Also, Elni, once spring is over, it’ll be summer, so let’s go to my gramps’ vacation house again like this year.”

“You came along too, Elni. I don’t want you alone to be missing in the memories we create from now on. With you here, with everyone together, we make memories like before, then we all should be able to smile forever.”

Wanting to convey my welling up feelings, I slowly embraced Elni.

Still embracing her, I peacefully spun my words with “Therefore, Elni,”.

“…Being next to you is like bathing in the sun, Shinobu.”

“I keep having the same dream. A small, yet warm house. My beloved mother by my side. I want to return to that sunny spot. I keep having this dream that will never come true. But when I’m with you, Shinobu, I seem to forget about that dream. So…”

“I like being by your side. It’s so warm here. I really don’t want to leave. I want to stay with you…”

Therefore I slightly increased the strength in my squeeze onto her and feeling Elni within my arms, I sunk into a peaceful sleep like being guided by her warmth…

What I felt along with a weird voice was a soft warmth that filled my chest. A sweet fragrance swept over my nose tip. Except the weird voice, it was probably from Elni. It reminded me, after the game tournament, we all took a nap together… Just when I recalled that,

A weird whispering reached my ears again and when I doubtfully opened my eyes a bit, my vision fell onto Elni still sleeping in my arms. Yeah, she was really cute. Next I shifted my gaze, whereupon I saw the side-profile of the perverted maid that had her lips close to my ear. Yeah, what was she doing?

“No, please consider it a hypnopaedia. For you information, at first I whispered ‘Maid, Maid, Maid…’ near your ear, but how was it? Did you have a sweet maid dream?”

“No, not at all, but why would you do that?”

“For now I’ll ignore the stuff about hypnopaedia. More importantly, Luna seems to be gone already, but look, Elni’s still on me. That doesn’t make you jealous?”

“…Aren’t you a bit lenient on Elni?”

Giving a surprising reply, Kaorun shifted her gaze to Elni’s sleeping face.

“Reminds me, didn’t you say something similar before?”

“Elni-san knew right away that my prank on Luna-san back then was my way of fawning over someone and told me: ‘You can play pranks on me too. Because I like you, Kaorun.’. Back then I escaped due to my embarrassment, but I was actually happy.”

“Therefore I believe that I cannot match Elni-san.”

“Yes, that is correct. Because she pushed my back at that time.”

Not hiding her embarrassment on a rare occasion, Kaorun affirmed honestly. However, unable to understand the meaning behind her words, I asked back like a parrot, whereupon Elni slowly opened her eyelids, as she woke up from our voices, and faced me with her silver hair swaying.

“Hey, what’s up, Elni? You seem rather happy.”

“…I was here too, you know?”

“Right. It’s thanks to you, Kaorun and everyone else for staying with me. It’s been a while since I slept so well!”

“…I’m kinda hungry.”

“Then I’ll help you! And Machina too!”

“Wake up, Machina. We’re going to make dinner with Kaorun now. C’mon, wake up, Machina. You asked me to teach you how to cook before, right?”

I hope Elni will be with us under the cherry trees next year…

—Stop raining.

There were Machina and an unknown female student sitting on the classroom’s chairs. Apparently the girl had something to discuss with Machina, the student president, and kept talking with her with a serious expression for a while now.

Midway in her sentence, she, the vice-captain of the karate club dropped her voice and continued.

Tearing up a bit, the vice-captain looked straight into Machina’s eyes.

“…Why didn’t you come to me first?”

The vice-captain beat a bit around the bush, whereas Machina declared softly.

Softly grabbing the vice-captain’s hand, Machina smiled gently.

Her smile was really kind and quite pretty. Seeing that, the vice-captain stopped blinking as she was fascinated, but

“…Ah, yes. Thank you very much.”

“Sorry, Shinobu. I got something to do, so I can’t go home with you today either.”

“But I’m happy when I’m thanked for the hard work, so it’s worth it. Besides, I heard rumours about the female karate club anyway and was a bit concerned about it. This is a good chance.”

“I’m happy that you worry about me, but I’ll ask Hijiri for this. It should be easier with just girls, right?”

“You look down, Shinobu. Did you want to go home with me that bad?”

It would be bad if I were taken for someone suspicious. While I showed a wry smile, Machina now dropped her shoulders and sighed.

While saying so, she shifted her gaze to beyond the window and after a moment, Machina said isolated.

“Mh? Really? I can’t really tell.”

Brimming with a smile, she started to speak peacefully.

Dropping her gaze a bit, Machina filled her voice with a bit of sadness.

“…She might actually give off these vibes.”

Smiling happily, she made a tenderly voice.

“Yeah, I think so too.”

“Now we have prattled away. I have work for the student council left, so I’ll go now. Take care of Elni, okay?”

Reminded me, Elni said the boys were making fun of her, but her gaming skills increased, so she should get along with the kids now?

Big eyes that drew you in and a smooth bridge of the nose. A body line with intense up and downs. Maybe they were even bigger than F-Cups? This girl— Minami brightened her expression upon noticing me, came rushing over, linked arms with me, still holding the umbrella, and snuggled up to me like that.

“Iyah~ We only just met, Shinobu-chan you meanie.”

“So, where are you going today, Shinobu-chan? Your house is the other way, isn’t it?”

When I suddenly brought up the matter I remembered hearing from Elni, Minami replied with a small “Yeah” nod.

“Oh? You two are close buddies now?”

“Hee…Incidentally I also heard a lot about you from Elni. Seems the kids quite adore you, Minami-sensei.”

When I called her with a title, Minami-sensei aka Minami replied with a wry smile.

“No, no, of course the reactions will be different when you’re an ‘older girl’ for them and an ‘older sister’ for him.”

“…From today on, I grant you the title ‘natural erotic’.”

She replied to my joke with her cheeks puffed up and while I headed to the nursery school side-by-side with her, I told her that I was going to pick up Elni, whereupon Minami suddenly showed a smile and opened her mouth.

Must have been thanks to the game tournament. While I relaxed my expression, Minami animated her voice with “And you know,” and continued.

“I’m sure you can change in a better way. After all, you got cuter again… and your breasts even bigger.”

Midway I got embarrassed and brushed if off with a joke, but Minami had really changed.

…The future was unknown, but people surely changed bit by bit. Luna and the other had changed favourably too. And while it might be small, there had been a change in Elni as well.

Recalling Machina’s earlier words, I smiled faintly again, whereupon Minami stared at my face and softened her expression for some reason.

“…I got more manly, right?”

“My former self?”

“In the past, you were really popular. It’s like you’ve changed back to that. Your look is still a bit fierce, but your aura resembles the one from back then. A soft and warm one.”

Well, I couldn’t really tell myself, but… my aura changed back to that of my former self, huh. Still unaware of my own change, I continued to chit-chat with Minami and moved to the nursery school. After entering the school and explaining to the teachers that I was a relative of Elni, I parted with Minami and peeked into a classroom.

Apparently Elni st

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