Eternal Yesterday (永遠の昨日)

Is it a cold?

Are you feeling chilly?

Don't exaggerate, it was just a sneeze.

You are so overprotective.

Sorry.

We walk to school toward the high school's side gate every morning.

Hey.

What is it, Micchan?

Why are you always on my left, Koichi?

The main gate doesn't open until 7:30 a.m.

Because of basketball practice,

Koichi had to go earlier than this.

So we used the side gate instead.

I'm not in any clubs nor do any sport, so I don't have any morning practice.

I tag along with him anyway,

but I shouldn't have come on this day.

The rain.

The rain was...

incredibly cold.

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Oumi!

Hey, come on, Oumi!

Thank you!

That class just now was so confusing.

You're amazing. This is so easy to understand.

So much better than our Class President.

What?

If only you were sociable, you would be perfect.

Right, Sumi-chan?

Try laughing for us.

I can laugh if I want.

But is there actually anything funny in this world?

Wow, you're not cute at all.

No, Micchan is cute.

What?

In gym class earlier, all we did was run,

but he almost tripped over his own feet.

It was so cute.

I was speechless.

I wish I had a video.

Sorry.

My name is Oumi Mitsuru.

The only one who calls me "Micchan" in this school is Koichi.

Yamada Koichi is the only one.

We met two years ago, in Spring.

It rained that day as well.

How many high schoolers were living

in Japan that year? I don't know.

I bet the number is pretty high.

This sucks.

Of all those people, Koichi enrolled in the same school as me,

was put in the same class,

and happened to make eye contact with me.

You could statistically call it a miracle.

Geez, but seriously, how'd his hair get so wet?

Oh, really? You noticed?

That's a lot.

Whoa, you're getting me wet.

Stop, you're making me wet.

You're already wet. - That's true.

Thank god practice was canceled. Today's practice looked tough.

But I can't consider it a miracle.

After all, "miracle" is a lazy word.

It's nice when you want to stop thinking,

but it can become a habit.

It wasn't a coincidence that we'd often meet each other's eyes.

It was because I was looking his way.

Wow.

That lunch is really typical for you, Sumi-chan.

I packed it with my wishes.

What wishes? - I can't tell yet.

Well, whatever. What did you bring, Yamada?

Well, I...

I was watching Koichi

because he was already popular.

Here we go!

What? Isn't that too much?

Isn't that the size of Kagami's face?

Well, my mom gets too excited every morning.

But still...

Can you eat all that?

I could finish that.

It's impossible, Sumi-chan.

I don't think anyone can.

I'll be right back.

Oumi, right?

Yeah, so what?

Can we talk?

Half a month after our eyes first met,

Koichi called me outside.

What are you doing?

What?

You know, regarding sports and stuff.

Tennis. But I quit.

I play basketball... very actively.

Are we done here?

Can I leave?

Wait a second.

Can't we become friends?

What do you mean?

Well, you know, friends

that hang out with each other.

I don't need anyone to hang out with.

Then we can chat.

I don't need that, either.

Then we can be silent together.

"Silent together"?

But eat lunch with me.

Of course, we can do that in silence.

Is there anything I would gain from this?

Sorry, maybe there isn't.

There isn't, huh?

There's nothing really good about me.

I can play basketball, but that's irrelevant to you.

And I'm not smart like you.

You...

Your name is Yamada, right?

Yeah, it's Yamada. Yamada Koichi.

My name is ordinary, too.

Oumi is a nice name. Oumi Mitsuru.

It's a pretty name.

It reminds me of the sea.

My name uses the character for "sea." You would read it as "blue sea."

I see.

I never said yes or no in the end.

I just stayed silent.

Koichi took my silence as tacit agreement.

At first, we really just ate our lunches in silence.

Koichi's giant lunch box was always packed with side dishes.

He always had rolled omelets and sausages.

Always in an octopus shape.

Maybe it's a rule in the Yamada family.

Crab sausage?

It's like my lunch was made for a kid, right?

I think it's fine.

I have two younger siblings. A brother and a sister.

My brother is in kindergarten, so my lunch is always...

Making octopuses is fine, but crabs seem tricky.

What?

I mean, how would you cut the sausage?

Oh, the shape? That stuff interests you?

Well, kind of.

Look.

Oh, you cut it from both sides.

Yeah, it's pretty easy. I can make it too.

But the sausage has to be red, or it won't look like a crab.

Here.

What?

Eat it.

How was it?

Yeah, pretty normal.