Splash!

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>Hyaah!
>This must be the famed Guerilla Downpour!

>We better hurry or we'll get soaked...!
>Hmm, no problem.

>I'm already completely drenched...
>Eh!?

>Wh-Wh-What happened, Miya-chan!? You're pitch black!?
>That car just now ran through a puddle and splashed me...

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>Conveniently I can wash myself in all this rain!
>Shawshank
>Geez, Miya-chan! You're gonna catch a cold~!

>Okay~

>Washing complete~!
>Ah...

>Ah... Ah...
>ACHOO!

>Uuh~ This is bad...
>I better put something on quickly.
>Ah.

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>Oh crap...

>There we go.
>Nori-chan, I'm gonna leave the stuff you asked me to get here.
>Ah...! Thank you.
>Nazuna~ Help me out for a bit.

>Sorry to ask you this on such a rainy day...
>It's fine, I had my own shopping to do anyway.
>Besides, the came out of nowhere, so...
>Don't worry about it.

>Um... As an apology for all the trouble I caused
>please let me treat you to a feast tonight.

>Wah!
>Really? Then I'll take you up on that offer!
>Alright! I'll treat you to a super delicious pepperonchino!
>Made by Nazuna.
>Eh?

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>N-N-N-Nori-chan!? I've never made pepperonchino before!?
>No problem! You remember how Hiro-san's one tasted, right?
>It's impossible~
>These two really seem like a married couple...

>Come to think of it, did you just take a bath, Yuno-san?
>It's barely evening.

>Yeah. I didn't bring an umbrealla so I got completely drenched...
>My uniform got wet too. Thank goodness it's Friday~
>Wah! That's...
>I'm really sorry about this...

>Ah, but Miya-chan got it way worse than me.
>A car drove through a puddle and she got covered in mud...
>Yep yep.

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>And thus I had nothing to wear.
>M-...

>Miyako-san!?
>Miya-chan!? What are you wearing!?
>Well, whatever...

>Man~ I didn't think it would rain so much.

>All of my clothes are waiting to be washed...
>My undies too.
>You've seriously got nothing to wear!?
>Wait, you went out of your room looking like that!?
>That's way too risky!!

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>All I had left was long-sleeved stuff, after all.
>Like down jackets and turtlenecks...
>Uh... Those clothes certainly might not suit this season...

>So with that said, can anyone lend me some clothes until mine dry?
>...

>L-Lending Miyako-san my clothes is a bit...
>In the chest area...
>Mine are too small to begin with.
>So it's up to me, huh...
>Hrrrm...

>Miyako-san, there should be some clothes you can wear inside the chest on the right.
>Please don't open my closet.
>Eh?

>You mean I can't wear these clothes?
>There's a lot of neat ones.
>M-Miyako-sa... Wait until people finish talking...
>N-Nori-chan!!

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>Get a hold of yourself, Nori-chan!
>Could that have something to do with Nori-chan's sealed history...?
>Pardon the intrusion~
>Oh, it's you, Yuno-san.
>I came here to help Nori-san with dinner, but...

>??.... What exactly happened here?
>Matsuri-chan!
>I could wear this too~

>Y'see this and that happened...
>Hmm, I see.
>This is the perfect opportunity to show you the kill of the fine arts department.

>Miyako-san, excuse me.

>Eh?
>What the!?


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>I'll be done in a moment so just wait a teensy bit~<3

>There!
>A bath towel all-in-one!
>Ooooh!
>A-Amazing, Matsuri-chan!
>Why thank you~
>There are limits to how you can design a towel, though.
>>OX Engineering

>Thanks, Festa!
>It really feels like clothes!
>You're welcome!
>It's light stitching, so once the thread comes undone it becomes a towel again!

>Still, for Miyako-san to get covered in mud.
>What a sinister car!

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>But
>surely you could've just dodged it with your amazing reflexes...?
>Hm?
>Yeah... I guess so.
>But it's fine.
>...!
>That's right, it completely slipped my mind, but Miyako-chan had no reason not to dodge it.

>Could it be...
>she was protecting me?

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>Actually, there was a ten yen coin on the floor and I stopped to pick it up when the car came by.
>I lost sight of it in the end.
>So that's your reason...!?
>M-Miya-chan!!
>!?
>I'm sorry for spacing out!

>Yuno-san!?
>The stitching on that towel is temporary so don't...

>Uh...Ah
>I'm sorry.

>M-Miyako-san was assaulted...!
>E-Eh!? Nori-chan, what does this mean...?
>Y-You got it wrong! There's no weird meaning behind this!
>Yunocchi~ I'd like my clothes back...
>Afterwards

>Miya-chan, who ultimately had to wear thick clothing in the middle of summer...
>ACHOO!
>I'm so, so, so sorry...

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>One evening while Yuno-san and co. were away on a field trip.

>My senpais too me to a public bathhouse.
>...
>"Nazuna"
>"floats a lot, Nazuna."

>Eh...?
>What's that?
>Ah, erm... It's a sentence that's read the same forwards as it is backwards. [TN: No real English way out of this, but in Japanese it reads "Nazuna, yoku uku yo, Nazuna", which is read the same backwards as forwards.]
>Ah, a palindrome, huh!
>Yeah, Yuno-san and Miyako-san taught it to me at the beach last year.

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>I sometimes find myself thinking about it whenever I'm in the bath or at the pool.
>You don't really float that much in real life, Nazuna.
>Since you're so slender...

>Yeah, you certainly don't look like the floaty type.
>Since you're so slender...
>That's not true! I totally float~!

>But y'know, if you're gonna make a palindrome, "cries a lot" [TN: "yoku naku yo"] would probably be more Nazuna-ish than "floats a lot".
>Just kidding.
>Teehee

>!
>Yeah.
>I guess so.
>Ehehe...

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>I'm gonna wash my hair.

>...
>Nori-san.
>Hm?

>Is Nazuna-san that much of a crybaby?
>Huh?
>Nazuna cries constantly, doesn't she?
>With that kind of face.

>I don't really have that image of her, but
>if I had to say which, I'd say she had a more floaty kind of smile, I guess?

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>Ah...
>I see.

>Yeah, you might be right about that.
>She cried a lot during our first year so that might've left a strong impression on me.
>Heh~

>I think she stopped crying
>after Sae-san and Hiro-san graduated.

>And I guess, when you came over, Matsuri?
>Heh... Me!?
>Why?
>Ahaha
>It's because you're our kouhai, of course.

>Actually, last year, we came here when the third years were away on their field trip.
>It was Yuno-san's idea.
>I wanted to do something for you two.
>I'm your senpai, after all.

>And it was Nazuna's idea that we come here today.
>Just a little a while ago, Nazuna didn't seem like the type to invite people out like this.

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>Nazuna's really grown too...
>Is that so?
>>Earnest

>Just from me being at the Hidamari Apartments
>my senpais have changed ever so slightly.

>Nazuna-san~
>Thank you for inviting me<3
>You're welcome.

>Nori-san was praising you.
>She said you're being a great senpai.
>...Really!?

>Thank goodness.
>I felt like I was being left behind...
>Left behind?
>What does that mean?

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>Ever since you came here, Matsuri-chan, it seems like Nori-chan has become a lot kinder.
>I wanted to become a senpai like that...

>Eh?
>Was Nori-chan not kind before?
>Ah... No, I wouldn't say that, but...
>When we first met, she was a bit direct with her words and kinda scary in my opinion.
>Don't tell Nori-chan that, though.

>Heh...
>Even during that one year where I didn't know them
>my senpais must've gone through all kinds of changes.

>I think I might've learned a valuable lesson<3
>Hey, Matsuri, we're going home!
>Okay~

>Nori-san, Nazuna-san.
>I guess hanging out naked together is important for girls too!
>Eh?
>That kinda has a strange meaning coming from you, Matsuri...
>Eh~? What other meaning could it have?