Spiral Staircase

p4
>Hey, Yuri-chan,
>do you shlick to stuff like this?
>...Eh?

p5
>Ah. Or maybe you prefer 2D over 3D?
>...What a moron...

>...I don't look at anything.
>For starters, I don't even...
>Hehehe... Then
>are you the fantasising type?
>I should avoid saying unnecessary stuff like "it doesn't feel good".

p6
>She normally has her necktie done up properly...

>Hey, give it a try.

p7
>The kind of sexual harassment what wouldn't be passed off as a joke.
>The thing she couldn't do to Naruse-san.
>Tomoko was doing it to me.

>I won't.
>Have I become the kind of friend that nobody else can substitute for?
>I don't even do that kinda stuff to begin with.

p8
>Ah.
>Sorry.
>You're the only one I can talk to this stuff about, Yuri-chan.

>Having a superiority complex over this kind of thing is the worst...

>But don't you ever think about how everyone else does it?
>...I don't.
>So, what do you fantasi-...
>~~~!

>"Then how do you do it, Tomoko?"
>I couldn't ask her something like that.

p9
>...I didn't feel good at all...

>I'm such a moron...

p10
>>Try it with all of your might...
>Is there something wrong with my body...?
>Maybe I did it wrong...
>How do other people do it...?

>I kinda understand how Tomoko feels.
>Fu

>Sexual frigidity...?

>Every time I look it up...
>I become more aware of how different I am from the normal average.

p11
>I wonder if Tomoko's doing it too?

>...Maybe I'll give it one more try.


p12
>Even though it goes so well up until halfway...
>Even though I can do it just like everyone else does...

>Hah
>Hah...
>The cicadas are so annoying.
>I can't concentrate.

p13
>"Why don't you show me?"

p14
>Wha-
>What is this?

>Just now,
>why did I...

p15
>Keep at it, so you can finally be like everyone else.
>...!!!
>So you can stand alongside Tomoko.

p16
>Good morning~
>Sure is hot, huh~

>The cicadas are so annoying.

p17
>I thought that if I tried hard, I could catch up with everyone else.

p18
>...Huh? I can't move...

p19
>I feel sorry for her~
>Tch

>Good morning, Tamura.
>You're gonna be in the way if you stand around like... that.

p20
>why is she crying?
>...I'll go fetch Makocchi for...

>you.

p22
>Tamu...

p23
>So that I can one day stand next to you.
>I want to stand in the same place as you.
>Because we're friends...
>Even though we're friends...

p24
>My fingers have defiled Tomoko.
>Even if you hold my hand gently, it's dirty.

>Even though it's midsummer...

>...Tomoko... I...
>It's warm.
>...You don't have to tell me. I'm the same...

p25
>I understand.
>I've betrayed Tomoko.

p26
>I thought that if I tried hard, I'd finally be just like everyone else.
>If I tried hard, I'd finally catch up with everyone.
>But no matter how frantically I try to climb,

p27
>I'll always remain stuck in the same place
>on this spiral staircase.