Tachibanakan Triangle ch37: Yell!

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>Ko-...

>KONO-CHAAAAAN!
>>We're running away from home!
>>I'm not coming back until the dissolution is cancelled!!
>>*Hanabi-onee-chan is with me too.
>>by Konomi

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>Always keep your head held high so you can face each other properly.

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>Gone!

>Gone!

>Go...ne...
>Kono-chan's
>futon...<3

>Gooone~!
>Hmm... Guess her rebellious phase came late.

>It must be...

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>because you were so noisy last night, Yori~

>That's right! Just cos you're sad over the dissolution doesn't mean you have to hold drinking parties every night and cry like a baby!!
Waah~
>I can't help it~~

>Hah!!
>Is Kono-chan gonna be okay? Is she hungry?
>Should I ask the police to search for her!?
>Too soon.

>We can just wait and see until later tonight.
>Those two aren't kids, y'know.

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>Uuh... And on today of all days
>when Grandma is coming over...
>?
>Isn't it fine as long as you, the supervisor, is here?

>That's not what I meant. Having Kono-chan here...
>would be more helpful in more ways than one...
>Alright, fine.
>We'll try and talk her over.

>Like I said.
>Whaddaya mean by...

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>Konomi~<3
>Granny's home~<3

>She's here...

>I see you've been keeping things tidy.
>Good job, good job.

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>I see you're still handling yourself on your own, huh?
>Well.
>Within expectations.
>I thought your bones were buried over there, Granny.

>Where's Grandpa?
>He went to Shizuka's place.
>I'll be going there too later.
>I'm Shizuka~<3 Hurry up~<3

>By the way, when's Konomi coming home?
>A-
>Actually, Kono-chan kinda ran away from home...

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>Ran away?

>Since when!? Is she okay!?
>Should we call the police!?
>Is everyone in your family like this!?

>Hm? Who might you be?
>You just noticed?

>Sono-chan's another resident at this dorm.
>We also have two high school third years, Io-chan and Hana-chan.

>Ah, Hana-chan's running away with Kono-chan at the moment~
>Oh, you've expanded quite a bit, huh~
>Hohoho...

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>How dare you let my precious granddaughter run away from home, you imbecile!!
>Granny's only ever been strict like this with Yoriko.
>Yahn~
>I see. So this is why she needed her little sister around...

>Um... Kono-chan was against you coming back here, Grandma.

>I think Hana-chan felt the same way...
>I'm sure that's why she took Hana-chan with her...
>Um...

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>Hmm
>Still, though, kids sure grow up fast.

>To think someone like Konomi,
>who was small, got lonely easily, and always clung onto someone else, would run away from home.

>She received lots of love from her onee-chan, and now it's her turn to give it to someone else.

>She has such a good onee-chan.

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>...

>Still...
>adults need to do what they can to give young boys and girls a healthy running away.
>Hello, police?
>Are you trying to get them arrested!?

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>...Honestly.

>If you're gonna struggle in vain, then run until she gets your approval,
>you shrimps...!

>Hey, maybe we should go home after all?
>Yoriko-san must be worried about you.

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>No. There'd be no point if we went home now.

>Huh~
>To think she'd run away on the day her grandmother comes over...

>I'm sure Granny will understand if she doesn't get to see me!
>I'm so sorry!!
>A nice idea, if I do say so myself.

>But...
>Mmph

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>This is my way of protesting!
>You don't wanna move away so suddenly either, do you, Hanabi-onee-chan?

>That's...
>Then we're not going home for a while!

>I've spent several days preparing things so that we'll be okay even if we're away for a long time!

>Are we gonna be okay~?
>For now, I've got money, so let's kill some time at the bath house!

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>And then, we'll tour the Star Festival from corner to corner~...

>No, no. We haven't done anything bad yet.
>But somehow... my body moved on its own...

>I feel like Yoriko-san would get so worried that she'd call the police...
>Search for her!
>That sounds possible...

>Pft

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>It's fine.

>It's nice to do something naughty once in a while.

>Let's make
>some summer memories!

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>Playing around while running away...
>is exhausting...
>Hah~ That was fun.
>It's my first time walking outside so sneakily like this.

>Fufu
>It's quiet...
>It's like we're the only two people in this world.

>Hah~... Ah, I can see the stars.
>Hey, hey. I hear we can see a meteor shower tonight!
>It's maximum dawn so it's just perfect.

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>Erm, what was it again? The Herpes constellation...? No, not that... (Ko)
>Heh
>I'm not that well-informed...

>Wait, you're not planning on spending the whole night here, are you...!?
>Eh? That's right.
>I should be asking you.
>Are you okay with things staying the way they are...?

>Me too. Leaving things as they are...

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>is painful.

>Wah!
>A phone call...!

>Eh?

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>Kya...!

>Watch out, Konomi-chan!!

>Waaah!!

>>Tsukishiro Yuu

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>Ah... The stars are
>...pretty?

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>Y'see... I came here because I want to make a wish for Tanabata
>that you and I could be together, Hanabi-onee-chan...

>Kono...
>Mm...

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>Hah...

>No matter... how many meteor showers pass by,
>no matter how many chances I get to wish on a star,

>my wish to be with you won't come true...

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>Just for tonight...
>be my one and only Hanabi-onee-chan...

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>...I heard
>that the lewd woman's going to a college far away.

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>I'll be lonely too, but if it's for her dream, she should do her best.

>Isn't that normal if you're "friends"...?
>Konomi-chan...

>I don't want to give that place back to Grandma.
>I'm doing this because I don't want to give up...
>on a future where I can live together with everyone... with Hanabi-onee-chan.

>Because I love you, Hanabi-onee-chan.

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>Shall the two of us... see Iori off together...?

>Hey, Konomi-chan.
>All this time... I've been thinking.
>If we were to live at that house like this,
>the three of us would spend every day feeling like nothing's changing and yet also changing little by little.

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>But,
>that place, where every day was spent with nothing changing,
>changed me.

>If she's going some place far away, I want to go after her.

>I don't care if I have to leave everyone. I just want to always be by her side.

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>That's just how much
>I've come to love that person.

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>That's why... I'm sorry, Konomi-chan.
>I can't respond to you...
>I see!

>Finally figured things out, huh~ Geez... You were so indecisive.
>I can easily tell what you're thinking!
>Give the dorm atmosphere some thought too~

>Eh?
>Ah... I'm so-...
>You really are a good-for-nothing, Hanabi-onee-chan...
>so...

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>...chan

>Hanabi-onee-chan...
>I love you.

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>I love you.
>I love you.

>My one and only
>Hanabi-onee-chan.

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>Alright.
>I should head back and try to convince Grandma.
>She must be worried about me.
>Yeah. That's for the best.

>If things go according to plan... she should be coming home soon too, right?

>I'll do my best to make sure we can keep coming back to that place.
>Now it's up to you to decide what you want to do, Hanabi-onee-chan.

>That way, even if we graduate and drift apart sometimes,
>this town will be...

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>Konomi-cha-...

>!!

>The loser cheers on the winner.
>That's sportmanship!

>Come on.
>Don't dilly-dally. Go pick her up!
>Wah!
>Sorr-...

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>Never forget
>that I love you, Hanabi-onee-chan!

>...Thank you!

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>Aw, man.
>I tried my hardest, which hurts all the more...

>...Hello?

>Yeah, yeah. I'm sorry.
>I'm heading home now.

>...Don't worry.

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>I'm...
>satisfied!