Sonokos'/Renge's birthday 2020 - 6

A game of hide-and-hug - 6

[Sanshuu Middle - Hallway]

Ren: Why are you a Yuuna...?

Tak: Uh... Because my mum and dad talked about it and picked that name?

Ren: No.

Tak: Eh?

Ren: I'm asking why you give off the same smell as my Yuuna, Takashima.

Tak: Heh... Heh heh. Hahahaha! Busted, huh. That's my Renchi.

Aka: I surrender! And I'm the last hit!

[Hero Club room]

Hero Club: Happy birthday!

SON/Ren/Son: Thank you very much!

Son: Phew, hide-and-seek was so fun! I've never gotten this excited before!

SON: Yeah, yeah! I got praised, I got hugged, today my heart throbbed more than any other time in my life!

Ren: By the way, can we open the boxes we got yet? Are these our presents?

Tou: Well, not quite. But enough of that, just try opening them!

Ren: I wonder what this is... As far as I can see, the only thing inside is a piece of a jigsaw puzzle.

SON: Same here. I wonder if you were supposed to get all three boxes for it to work?

SON: But these three pieces don't connect, and just three pieces wouldn't be enough to make a picture anyway, right?

Kir: Exactly! But the fun's only beginning! Open the curtain!

SON/Ren/Son: Aah!?

Son: It's a huge jigsaw puzzle!

Son: And the three of us are on it!

Ren: And there are still three pieces missing. Heh. Not bad.

Tak: It's so well-done, isn't it? Gun-chan drew this!

Ren: Chikage and everyone else, let Yumiko express my thanks.

Yum: I sincerely thank all of you for all the hard work you did for the sake of my ancestor, from the bottom of my heart!

Suz: Why can't you just say that yourself?

Aka: Because Renchi isn't honest with herself!

Shi: Akamine... You're in really high spirits.

Aka: Eh? Not at all!

Hin: Mito-san, what's wrong? Are you looking for something?

Mit: No, uh... I don't want to rain on this parade, but...

Wak: Is it about Utano? It's been on my mind too, so I went to talk with the others...

Aya: Ah, I thought it strange too. She's not here, is she?

Mit: I-I'd like to check, who was it that found Utanon!?

Ren: I'm afraid it wasn't Miroku.

SON/Son: We don't know either.

Mit: Eeh!? Wait, does that mean she's still hiding!?

Sek: Oh yeah, there are people like that. The ones that are so good at hiding they're never found and get forgotten...

Kir: Sure there are. They stay hidden even after everyone's gone home, and turn up as bones a few years later!

Kar: There isn't anybody like that! Hey, Fuu! Get your consciousness back and say something!

Fuu: Ah, the "bone" word knocked me out... So? Where did Utano say she'd be hiding?

Mit: In the school garden... in the ground. With a snorkel in her mouth...

Gin/Wak/Tam: T-T-T-T-This is bad!

Uta: *huff* *huff* Heh heh heh... Nobody's going to find me here.

Uta: Aah, it feels so good to be in the soil! It's like I've become a vegetable! Heh heh heh!