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Nono, we can't go outside.

You can't, Nono.

Farewell.

Ok.

Is this your flowerpot, Yakko?

No.

Acchan!

"Alma mater"?

Next year, your mother and father are coming back.

You know, it hasn't ever sprouted until now,

I can drive you to the town's hairdresser's

Yeah.

I've told you that the entry to the old school building is forbidden, right.

It is. If it's grown this big by now...

But you will grow up to become an adult, Nono.

always tell, ok?

There's no sprout in the flowerpot anymore,

Obscure Cage is Cooling The End

Can't I...

Because I want it to grow big, like you.

Maybe let's have your legal guardian... pick you up, alright?

It's really nothing.

But even now, when winter comes, I remember.

Is that yours?

Hey, I've grown up.

Your hair has grown a lot.

coming from the inside of my ears, passing through the back of my eyes,

DANGER NO TRESSPASSING

... Is it going to bloom?

Nono, have this.

I know it's hard

you can...

How was school?

I'm alright.

As I thought,

We don't even know our names anymore.

Because it's very cold here.

Is she dead?

Let's go, quickly.

Also, this is my alma mater.

Noriko-chan,

Yeah.

Of course not.

Asaki-san, you know, if you're... getting bullied by the girls from the class or something...

It took many years, and decades.

...Nothing

You can't.

I'll always be together with you.

And that's why...

Acchan

Even...

but I'm sure it'll bloom someday.

You can still find some posters here and there.

Is everything alright?

Hm?

Hey!

Because that is my teacher's classmate's flowerpot.

Huh, but teacher is going in.

If something happened, anything... talk with me about it.

Sorry.

stay here too...

But you see, in old times, some students went missing around here.

This.

I'm really sorry for that.

IWAMA ATSUSHI at that time: 11 years old

Take it with yourself.

If she's the same age as teacher, she'll be a total granny by now.


FIFTH GRA__

Iwama_Atsushi___________Eba_Shintarou

Oohata_Kikunobu_______Kinoshita_Kaori
 
Kotani_Hirosuke___________Seika_Yuuki

Tsuno_Chidzuru_________Toshima_Takiji

Nishikawanabe_Yuka______Nomoto_Wataka

_________Mio____________Fujiwara_Seiko

Ok.

It's hot in here.

spare Nono some trouble and don't say unnecessary things.

No adults, no friends, noone was there to call us by them anymore.

So you two won't be lonely anymore, right?

And so, you will be able to attend to middle school in Tokyo, be patient until then.

Even though all of our other friends grew up, and left this place.

Where are Acchan and Yakko?

It was long time before the teacher was born, but somehow, it's worrying me.

Umm, could I take the flowerpot that was here?

I remember those who are always running around in the white world. I remember you.

Nono, look!

And this sprout isn't going to grow anyway.

And the next year you will go to a different middle school than us, Asaki-san.

No.

That boy, whose voice hadn't even cracked,

Kaorin, and Shinkun, and everyone.

you're here again.

Oh my, you musn't do this.

Yes.

Huh, it's so cute.

For some reason, we aren't getting bigger.

I'm...


___________________________Wataka

Hamaguchi_Mio_______Fujiara_Seiko

Nono_____________________________

Asaki-san.

It's hot today.

MISSING

FOUR CHILDREN

Hot.

If it becomes a problem,

Thank goodness. I wonder when it's going to bloom.

The teacher left too.

lowered his face, his red knees trembling.

It's hot outside, so we would surely melt.

More importantly, don't you feel a little too hot?

Yeah, thanks.

Really?

Acchan

...Asaki-san

I feel sorry for them.

but more than half a year is soon to pass, so, couldn't you please try to take classes together with us by now?

It said "no trespassing", right?

Nono also grew big.

FOUR CHILDREN

Yes......

TSUJIWARA YASUKO at that time: 11 years old

You don't have to. It must have been stress caused by the new school.

so I was thinking that it'd be no good anymore.

I'm not going anywhere.

Yakko,

It's not a problem, but... it contains only some old dirt.

It's a short period of time, but I hope we can become fri...

You look like you're about to melt.

Teacher is an adult.

Teacher Asaki's?

Nono, we also wanted to grow up.

to get familiar with the class after you change schools halfway through,

It doesn't seem like I can go there anymore.

5TH GRADE

Asaki-san, what's wrong?

They went missing on the day with heavy snow and they haven't been found even until now.

Teacher

The cicada's song is

Don't make promises that you can't fulfill!

You will grow up to become an adult, and you will forget about us.

and depriving me of that white world burned inside of my head.

Thank you very much for reading! Speaking of winter memories, once in my student days, on the way to school, I dramatically felt flat onto my back in a single moment, and I didn't know what happened, so I was lying like that for some time. I want to forget quickly.

If something like that had place,

Why did you left the flowerpot there earlier?

Even if I become an adult, I'll always stay here.

Also, there are glass shards and such lying around here, so it's dangerous.

There are rumours that they had frozen to death in a snowstorm, and so on.

Yes, it was just for a while, but teacher was studying here too.

Obscure Cage is Cooling

Obscure Cage is Cooling Final Part