Rose to Kase-san

p1
>Is she... her ex?
>Inoue-senpai was in the track and field club,
>a 400m runner just like Kase-san.

>The rumored senpai really is a beauty...!?

p2
>What are you doing, Kase?
>I don't really have that much time, y'know
>Sorry, senpai.
>...
>Ahaha

>I-
>Inoue-senpai!!

p3
>It's my first time seeing her up this close but...
>she's really beautiful!!

>Amazing...
>They really suit each other!!

>...!!

>Ah
>Yamada
>Kyaa
>Inoue-senpai!!

p4
>No way, it's Inoue-senpai! She really came!
>Hello!!
>Long time no see!!
>Inoue-senpai!!

>Ah
>The track and field club

>What's track and field like at university?
>Kyaa
>Ah, please come to our refereshment booth!
>Here's a ticket!!
>It's been a while!

>glance...

>Yamada

p5
>Take this.
>Eh?

>It's a crepe ticket
>Mikawa told me you didn't have one.

>I'm gonna buy one too once we're finished at sundown.
>Wanna eat them together?
>Eh? What about the culture festival?

>I'm need to see the coach and the visitor from the university off at the station,
>along with Inoue-senpai.

>Ah, that girl is the Inoue-senpai I mentioned before.
>She really took good care of me.
>I know.

>Eh?

p6
>Be-
>Before you started walking home with me,
>you always walked home with her, right?

>Huh? How'd you know?
>Aha
>Did you hear it from somebody?
>Eh?

>You mean it's true!?
>Kase~

p7
>We should get going~

>Ah
>Okay!

>Ah, senpai!
>Um...
>Just a minute!

>Here...
>This is Yamada-san, a friend from my class<3

>FRIEND!!?
>That?

p8
>A friend, she says...
>Introducing me like that...
>How cruel, Kase-san!!
>I'm more than that...
>Yamada-san?

>I'm Inoue<3

>Her scent...

>It's like a rose...!
>Friend from class
>Weed...

>So this is what a university student...
>what an adult woman feels like...
>Okay, we should make a move, Kase!

p9
>Okay, senpai!

>Right, I'll see you later, Yamada!
>Okay?
>Eh?

>What are you going to do?

>There's so much time until sundown...
>Where are you two going?
>Even though it's our long awaited culture festival...

p10
>Just where are you going together!?
>Wait!
>I'm coming too!!

>Wow, this brings back memories!

>It hasn't changed at all!
>Oh~
>Of course it hasn't. It hasn't even been a year since you graduated, senpai.
>I suppose!

>A sports field?

>Mind if we start with a light run?

>You're on.

p11
>It's been a year since we last ran together, right?
>Even longer. I retired after all.
>Hurry up and unlock it, Kase.

>Running together?
>Right now??
>Heh?

>Huh?
>What is it?

>I think I might've left the key back at the grounds.
>Huh?
>Eh!!? You moron!!
>Hurry up and get it!

>S-
>Sorry, senpai!
>Be quick about it!

>Geez...

p12
>snicker
>Kase's always like this, y'know.

>She's a good kid but a bit of a blockhead.
>I wonder if she'll be okay in Tokyo? She's bad at directions, after all.

>Is that so...?

>She really knows a lot about Kase-san...

>How nostalgic.
>High school...
>Even though it hasn't even been a year since I graduated,
>it feels like forever since I've had a good run.

p13
>On this tiny sports field...

>About Kase-san

>"She had a girlfriend in the same club, y'know?"
>"People always called them the couple of the club"

>"You like green drops, right?"
>She always got the first candy from Kase-san...

>The green drop girl...!
>So you're also going to a college in Tokyo, Yamada-san?

p14
>Eh?

>I heard about it from Kase.

>Eh?

>Where you going?
>K...K-College
>K-College? What's that?
>Um, it's a horticultural college...

>Oh man...
>What did Kase-san tell her...?

>To talk about me that much...
>What club activities do you do, Yamada-san?

p15
>Ah... I never joined any clubs
>Eh?
>Never?
>N-Never...
>No way!

>Oh
>That means you've spent the entire time just cleaning the school grounds!
>Cleaning!?
>I... Kase-san always saw that on the way home from school.

>Do you do like farm work or something?
>Farm work!?

>Is that really fun?
>Cleaning and stuff
>I-...

>It's really fun!!
>And besides, it's not cleaning!
>It's my duty as the plant appointee!!!

p16
>Hah...
>Uwah

>I-I'm sorry...!
>No way.

>I've done it now...
>Oh man...
>Why did I do that?

>snicker
>Sorry, sorry.
>I didn't mean anything by that.

>What's with this girl?
>She's creeping me out.
>Yamada-san.

p17
>Y'know,
>even though I'm her senpai, I've never been able to beat Kase's time.
>Not even once.

>I'm not really sure what someone like you who isn't even in a club is thinking but...

>I came back here so I could run together with Kase, just the two of us.
>I don't know if you're her friend or not, but...
>Don't get in my way, okay, Yamada-san?