Rendezvous (Machiawase)

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>B-ko-chan. I'm heading over there right now.
>I'll be there soon! Count on it!

>You don't have to push yourself...

>!!

>Hello?

>A-ko-chan.

>Hello, B-ko-chan?

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>Yeah, I'm heading there right now.
>That's right. I'm on the train there right now.

>Are you really coming?
>I am! B-ko-chan is my favorite girl, after all!

>I'll be there soon, so just wait a little longer!

>I don't particularly want to see her, but I can't turn down A-ko-chan when she talks like that.

>B-ko-chan!

>B-ko-chan! I've missed you!!

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>We finally meet! It's really been like forever!
>It's barely been three days since we last met...
>Why'd you come here...?
>That's...
>Um...

>Who are you?
>You trying to get in my way?

>A-ko-san. You're not someone from this realm, are you?

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>This is Heaven.

>You're someone from Hell.

>Why did you come here of your own accord?


>You committed suicide by jumping in front of an oncoming train.
>Suicide is a one-way express ticket to hell.

>Why!? I just wanted to see B-ko-chan!
>B-ko-chan died... I did this so I could see B-ko-chan!

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>Weren't you the one who killed B-ko-chan in the first place?
>That's cos B-ko-chan looked so cute when she was suffocating...
>No matter what you say, you're going back to Hell.

>B-ko-chaaaaaan!
>Take her away.

>And with this, the bondage psycopath has been taken care of.
>She'll never show her face before you again.

>Are you listening to me?
>Ah, I thought I had forgotten what happened before I died, but I just had a flashback.

>It looks like you two have a rather distorted relationship.
>Even so, there's nothing I can do.


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>...die

>I wanna die.

>By die, you mean you wanna commit suicide?
>I already just said this, but if you commit suicide, you go to Hell.

>Are you okay with that? You'll never be able to come back here.
>It's a small price to pay so that A-ko-chan in Hell can mess me up once more.

>Well... It's out of my jurisdiction...
>I won't stop you.

>Ah, A-ko-chan? Mind if I head over there right now?
>I'm on the building's rooftop right now, though.
>Just a wait a little bit and I should be there soon.

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>Afterword

>Nice to meet you. I'm Shimazaki.
>>Filling in for the artist is B-ko from Showcase Girls.
>Thank you for reading this compilation.

>...Why did they stick with such a cliché phrase?
>[I'm guessing the artist didn't have the confidence to talk about their true feelings?]

>[If she blurted out their personal details, there'd be doujin artists mailing them "Will you put out

a compilation of your doujins?" or something.]
>Is there even anything like that?

>[Not to mention the artist always winds up at "shounen manga" genre events and doesn't know what to

draw theirself.]
>Doesn't she stick out too much?

>[And then a famous yuri label told them about a compilation and they were like "Eh? A compilation?

You want me to rush out a lot of stories?" and "My manga is yuri? Are you sure Yuri-nee-san wants to

put it out?" given them rather mixed feelings.
>That pressure can be scary.

>[Even now I'm wondering if having a cat host the afterword was such a good idea]
>But to put it clearly, I'm really grateful for everyone who read this book, visited me at events,

and helped me out. Thank you so much.