At that moment, I longed to return home.

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At that moment, her heart yearned to return
home. The next day during lunch break, Shizuki visited Nagasawa Honomi from the next class.
Honomi's well-defined features and neat short hair gave her a stylish look. Although her performance was average and not outstanding, she was still a girl with a strong androgynous charm.
"Hey! That sounds interesting!"
Shizuki sat down in the nearest empty seat. Honomi smiled as she mentioned that her class was going to organize a costume café for the school festival.
Shizuki and Honomi were in the same class in their second year. While they weren't exactly best friends, they were still fairly good acquaintances. At yesterday's class meeting, Shizuki, who had been assigned to prepare the costumes for the costume café, was struggling with what to do. After some thought, Shizuki remembered that Honomi had recently joined the drama club, so she came to discuss it with her.
Shizuki thought that if Honomi was a member of the drama club, she might be able to offer some good ideas for this!
"But being a class monitor is really tough!"
"Our class is also going to set up a haunted house, but I heard the art club members are incredibly enthusiastic, all taking on the work themselves. Naturally, we delegated the task to them! Thanks to them, our class monitor has nothing to do and is quite free! The monitor could just find a few classmates who are interested in this and delegate the work to them!"
"But, we don't have anyone like that in our class..."
"If a class monitor has to take on everything themselves, wouldn't that be too tiring? That's why everyone relies on you and pushes all the responsibility onto you!"
"There's nothing I can do! In my class, if I don't step in and handle things, nothing can get done."
"But..."
Honomi seemed to want to continue, but hesitated.
"So, what about the costumes?"
Shizuki steered the conversation back to the main point, and Honomi nodded slightly.
"Ah, um! So, what do you need?"
"The main outfit is a bunny girl costume, and other things like sailor uniforms and cheongsams. Also, if possible, could you get a nurse's uniform...?"
"A bunny girl costume plus a Chinese-style cheongsam and a nurse's uniform... Well, it's more like role-playing than cross-dressing!"
"Huh? Role-playing?"
"Well, that's recently become a trend among preschool children. It's about imitating the characters from their favorite cartoons and video games!"
Although Shizuki wasn't familiar with this kind of thing, perhaps because of the strong coverage in magazines and TV news programs, she had some impression of it! She wasn't entirely unfamiliar with role-playing.
"That's just another game that evolved from playing house when we were kids!"
"Is that kind of game fun?"
Shizuki honestly asked.
"Hmm... I've never played this kind of game myself, so I'm not really sure, but maybe it's the desire to transform! You can imagine the feeling of wanting to become someone other than yourself! That's probably why I joined the drama club!"
I see. If that's the mindset, Shizuki seems to empathize a little. The reason is that her desire to become someone with a completely different personality, to escape reality, and to find a new paradise is twice as strong as the average person's.
"Well, I think I can rest easy about the clothes by asking Ookuma-kun!"
"Ookuma-kun?"
"Yeah! He handles everything in our drama club, big and small. Otherwise, there's a costume rental and sales company! Apparently, he used to work as a props person for a theater troupe, but after that person left, he opened this shop. They rent and sell costumes, props, wigs, and so on... those kinds of shops have pretty much everything!"
"Where's that kind of shop?"
"If you go out the west gate and turn left, there should be a large karaoke room over there... Oh dear... Class President never goes to places like that!"
Even though it was true, Shizuki could only nod.
"Well..."
Honomi thought for a moment, took out a notepad from her bag, and drew a simple map. Then, she drew a small circle near her destination with a mechanical pencil.
"So, is there a bus stop here?"
Honomi then filled in a neat string of characters under the circle, writing the bus stop name.
"So! Even though it's a longer route, I think it'll be easier to find the way by taking the bus! Because that shop is really right next to the bus stop."
"Thank you!"
Shizuki took the map and put it in her skirt pocket, standing up from her chair.
"Actions speak louder than words, I'll go check it out right after school today!"
*** *** *** ***
After school, Shizuki walked towards the school library. A male student sitting behind the counter near the entrance, reading a book, looked up when he heard the door open.
"Ah! It's Hikawa-kun."
"Oh my! Sakuraba-kun!"
Sakuraba Kazuto, the library committee member, was about a head taller than Shizuki. However, his body, encased in an open-necked long-sleeved shirt and school trousers, was very slender, giving him a frail and thin appearance.
"Sakuraba-kun, are you on duty again today?"
Shizuki used the word "again" because Kazuto had been the librarian after school yesterday.
The librarian work was on a shift system, with members taking turns during after-school hours and lunch breaks, generally once a week. So, being on duty two days in a row felt a little unusual.
"Yeah! Another classmate suddenly had an emergency and wanted to switch shifts with me..."
Kazuto said, unconsciously shifting his gaze away from Shizuki, who was standing directly opposite him. Her well-defined features and still somewhat childish face seemed to make one's blood boil and heart race. Kazuto was a year younger than Shizuki.
The second-year Kazuto and his senior Shizuki started talking last autumn. It was about a book that hadn't been returned for a long time. It was a two-volume set. Shizuki thought that the second volume would probably be returned soon anyway, so she borrowed the first volume to read at home.
However, after waiting three or four days, the book still hadn't been returned. Shizuki was reluctant to give up and switch to other books, so she patiently waited another three days. However, the book next to the one she had returned remained empty. Frustrated, Shizuki went to the person who had registered the rentals to inquire about the expected return date.
It turned out that because the book hadn't been returned for so long, it had been treated as lost. Although a replacement had been ordered, it was said that it wouldn't arrive until at least the end of the month. That meant
at least another week or so. It seemed that, out of desperation, she had no choice but to give up.
Shizuki seemed disheartened that day, but the next day, while searching for her next book on the library shelves, the boy who had managed the rentals the day before approached her.
"Excuse me! If you don't mind, this…"
he said, taking out the second volume of the book Shizuki had tried to borrow but failed to get.
"Huh?"
The boy—Sakuraba Kazuto—faced a utterly surprised Shizuki, his expression stiffening from nervousness, yet he managed to squeeze out words.
"This book is mine, I can lend it to you!"
"But, isn't that a bit much?"
"It's alright! I've already read it."
Taken aback by the suddenness of the situation, Shizuki hesitated, but ultimately accepted Kazuto's offer. This time, the trouble caused by his overly friendly gesture was quite a novel experience for her.
After that, Shizuki and Kazuto would exchange a few pleasantries whenever they met in the library.
However, even before this incident, Kazuto had secretly been observing Shizuki. He had become aware of her presence shortly after entering the high school.
Because of his love of reading, Kazuto volunteered to be a library committee member. Besides his duties, he frequently used the library for research. During this time, he noticed a particular female student who always came to the library after school. She arrived almost daily, sometimes at the same time, and spent an hour reading.
The way she buried herself in her books was pleasing to the eye and aesthetically pleasing, a stark contrast to the other girls who were only interested in fashion and entertainment gossip, chattering and behaving carelessly. She was like a goddess descended from heaven.
Her usual spot was in the darkest corner of the library, where sunlight couldn't penetrate the windows. Kazuto quickly found a suitable seat—he could clearly see Shizuki's every move, yet maintained a safe distance to avoid being noticed.
Sitting there, he would sometimes read his book, and sometimes glance at the girl he admired. However, at some point, Kazuto's intense gaze shifted from the book in his hands to Shizuki's elegant, fair profile.
When her eyes grew tired while reading, Shizuki would always remove her trademark black-rimmed glasses, look up at the ceiling, and apply eye drops. At that moment, the way her eyes tilted back, creating a beautiful curve from her jaw to her throat, made the boy who witnessed it blush and feel a strange sensation. Afterwards, Kazuto always felt guilty.
He asked a senior member of the library committee for the girl's name and learned that it was Hikawa Shizuki. She was supposedly a year ahead of him and served as class representative. She was just as her appearance suggested—an excellent student with impeccable character.
However, despite knowing her name, for a naturally shy and timid boy, approaching her was futile; he could only secretly admire the woman he admired from the shadows, afraid to let her discover him.
Naturally, he also wanted to approach Shizuki and talk to her, hoping to use this opportunity to get closer to her.
Throughout his first-year summer vacation, Kazuto was preoccupied with this. However, he was always at a loss as to how to get closer to her, largely due to the fear of failure and rejection.
Therefore, for the boy who could conveniently use the excuse of Shizuki losing the book she wanted to read and having it on his shelf to start a conversation with her, it was a stroke of luck.
He used this golden opportunity to shorten the distance between Kazuto and Shizuki. However, their relationship was at most limited to sharing a love of reading, a relationship between an upperclassman and an underclassman!
More than half a year passed, and there was still no progress between them. To Shizuki, Kazuto was merely "a boy she had a nodding acquaintance with, a library committee member!"
Shizuki took a hardcover book from her bag on the counter and handed it to Kazuto.
"I need to return this book."
"Ah! Okay!"
Kazuto stamped the returned book card with a rubber stamp and put the card back into the paper pocket attached to the inside of the book.
After completing the return procedure, Shizuki took the book from Kazuto.
"I'll just put this book back!"
"Excuse me!"
After completing the return procedure, Shizuki, holding the book in one hand, walked towards the higher shelf and disappeared. After a while, she returned to the counter with another book in her hand.
"Thank you for this book!"
Kazuto seemed slightly surprised to receive the book from Shizuki.
"Um, aren't you going to read here today?"
"Yes! I have something to do later."
"Is that so?"
There seemed to be a hint of regret in Kazuto's voice. However, Shizuki was preoccupied with the issue of cosplay outfits for the costume café and had no time to pay attention to anything else. After completing the borrowing procedure, Shizuki put the book in her student bag and quickly left the library.
"This seems to be the place!"
Following the map drawn by Honomi, Shizuki found the shop and stopped.
The shop was cramped, with a wooden door encased in glass at the top. On the glass was a large character for "Big Bear," about the size of a palm.

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