Tonari no Oto
(pages out of order, gallery page numbers in brackets)

p4 (p3)
>I love you, Hibiki!
>I love you too, Kanade!!

p5 (p6)
>See you tomorrow~
>...
>But
>I know all too well.
>The one Kanade truly loves...

>It's not you.

>Siren!
>You may be her best friend,
>but that's all you are. Her "friend".
>Looking at this girl ticks me off.
>You're no match for a "lover".
>She pretends to be happy while averting her eyes from anything unpleasant.

p6 (p5)
>That's not...
>I don't understand that stuff yet!

>Besides,
>I'm sure

>that Kanade
>doesn't have a "lover" yet.
>She's still not completely stained by "misfortune".
>...

>What a lonesome voice you have.
>It's quite pleasing.
>There's nothing pleasing about it!
>It's really painful!
>You should understand too, Siren!
>Me?
>It irritates me.
>Your voice has the same sound as mine!

p7 (p8)
>Quit mouthing off like you know anythi-...
>There are sounds I don't want people to hear.
>Things I don't want to say.

>But
>they overflow
>from this "wound".
>I just can't stop it.
>What...
>is that?

p8 (p7)
>There's no way a song that sounds so sad
>would ever
>be pleasing!

>I can feel this girl's anxiety trembling through her voice and fingers.
>The vibrations are causing my own anxieties to swell up.
>...I'm so scared that I can't move.

p9 (p10)
>Get a good listen!
>All you'll hear is pain!

p10 (p9)
>I have the same "wound"
>that she has.

>I would never do this with Hibiki.
>She's my best friend, after all.

>Because she's her best friend?
>Hummy...

p11 (p12)
>We both have feelings
>that we can't tell our "best friends".

>Places that we can't touch. Places that can't touch each other.

>It hurts.

>It's so painful.

p12 (p11)
>We're both giving and receiving pleasure from each other's bodies,
>Hah... Fu
>Mm...ph
>Mmm
>but she doesn't desire me, and I don't desire her.
>All we're doing
>is attacking each other, that's all.
>And yet...

p13 (p14)
>Even though we don't reciprocate or accept each other,
>it drowns out the noisiness of our hearts.

>Something hot is overflowing from deep, deep inside me.
>But
>that's all it's doing.
>Overflowing.
>It doesn't
>satisfy anything.

p14 (p13)
>I'm
>not being accepted by anything.
>I'm simply drowning
>in this thing
>that's overflowing.

>What
>is this?
>I can't
>breathe.

>Save me.
>Hummy!!

p15-16 (16-15)
>I still
>can't
>make
>a sound.

>I transformed?
>Thinking about Hummy?
>...na...de
>I love you
>While I'm
>thinking about Kanade...

>~~~...!?
>~~~!!

p17 (p18)
>What beautiful breathing.
>Hah... ah
>Hii...
>Ee...ep!

>It's a beautiful
>and lonely sound, isn't it?

>How is it
>that she secretly carries such a sound,

p18(p17)
>and yet is able
>to resonate such happy music?

>I could never do something like-
>The two of us

>are pretty alike, aren't we?
>This'll be our little secret.

>Hey, Kanade.
>It's gonna be Ouji-senpai at the end, isn't it?
>Eh?
>It's nothing.
>I'll be rooting for you.

p19(20)
>Something like friends
>will drift apart eventually.

>It's bitter and painful.

>Everyone carries sadness with them.

>Happiness is just...
>What are you saying?

>There's no end to speak of!

>Found you -nyapu.

>Hummy will always love Siren forever and ever -nya!

p20(19)
>That hasn't changed
>and it never will -nya~!

>My love for Senpai and my love for you
>are completely different.
>You're my "special person", Hibiki.
>Hawawa

>Nobody can replace you.
>There's only one of you.
>Kanade...

>The sound of sadness. The sound of happiness.
>There are parts that can't touch each other,

p21 (22)
>but it's because they don't affect each other's sound
>that their unique timbre and resonance reverberates

>and overflows into the world.
>Sound.
>Sound.
>Sound.

p22 (21)
>xAfterwordx
>Dying Message
>Ellen-tan is so cute I think I might die to Death<3
>The story is that I would've like this to happen prior to Ellen-san playing catch with HibiKana!