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Please welcome our new students.

I’m in high school now.

I didn’t do anything in middle school.

I hope now that I’m here,

I’ll find some sort of interest.

- -Hmm?

Whoa, she’s taking so many photos.

It’s her again.

Sacchan! Oh. You going home?

Uh-huh.

Hmm?

-Makki, see you later. -Bye-bye.

- -

Makinohara, you’re so fast at taking photos.

- -Sorry.

I wanna see it.

I wanna see too.

Hey, you didn’t get me at all.

Welcome to the Photography Club, Satsuki.

We’re glad to have you here.

Thank you!

Um, I don’t have a camera or anything, though...

Do you have a phone?

Uh... yeah.

Well, there you go then. Use that to take photos.

On my phone?

Since that day,

I’ve taken tons and tons of photos on my phone.

Mostly of Makinohara taking her own photos.

Amamiya,

your phone photo won the contest.

Congratulations.

And to you! Congratulations on your graduation.

It’s only because of you that I won this award.

Don’t be so humble.

This is the result of

the hard work you did on your own.

I’ve decided that I’m going to leave...

the Photography Club in your great hands.

I will miss you, Makinohara!

But find other subjects besides just me.

You got it.

Now what do I do?

What am I supposed to take photos of?

And now she’s dead.

Since Makinohara and the others graduated,

the Photography Club consists of just me and Sacchan.

Just the two of us.

And now without Makinohara around to take photos

of every single second of the day,

Sacchan has no desire to continue living.

Sacchan...

You know we’re sophomores now.

Ugh, I already miss taking phone pics of Sacchan

taking phone pics of Makinohara...

...taking pics of the scenery.

- I wish I were dead. -

- -Now, wait a sec...

Sacchan’s pretty cute playing dead,

so I left her alone,

but I can’t have her actually dying on me for real!

The truth is, I love this girl Sacchan.

I studied desperately to go to the same school as her.

I joined the Photography Club

even though I have no interest in it.

My life’s dream is to sip tea with Sacchan in the garden

-until we turn old and... -Lovely weather.

...crumble to dust in the wind.

-Indeed. -And for that to happen...

Sacchan. Are you okay with this?

If our club only has two members,

it will completely dissolve.

Kiriyama?

What do you suppose Makinohara would think

if the club she worked so hard to build

fell apart the moment she left?

She’ll probably think you’re an indecisive, lazy,

helpless, incapable, apathetic...

...and good-for-nothing underclassman.

She’s actually writhing at my words.

Okay, fine, Kiriyama...

I’ll work hard even without the upperclassmen.

Sacchan!

The first thing I’ll do is get myself a digital camera.

Me too. What kind of camera do you think you’ll get?

Well, now that I have money from the photo contest,

I’ll start researching some options.

-Yay! -All right.

Let’s do this thing!

Sacchan!

I got a new camera just like you did!

It’s a mini, lightweight action cam

with a wide-angle view of 150 degrees!

You can attach it to the handlebars of your bike,

or better yet, put it on a super-long selfie stick

so it can shoot from way up high in the air like a dro...

It was all a scam.

I won an auction but it’s been two weeks...

...and my camera still hasn’t come.

Not on my watch!

Who has the audacity to try and scam my Sacchan?

What the... Hey, they’re in Yamanashi too.

In Kofu City?

Right freaking here?

So this is the base

for that dirty little pig who tried to scam you.

You’ve sure got a way with words.

It’s open?

Kiriyama, I think we should ring the bell first.

-I’m coming in! -

Huh? What the...

Is this a...

A candy shop?

Hmm...

It feels sorta old-fashioned.

Hineri-age in natto flavor is the best!

It’s amazing!

You sure do love Hineri-age, don’t you?

- -

What is this? Customers?

Welcome, welcome.

Whoa.

Uh, excuse me.

Are you Ms. Haruno Akiyama, by chance, ma’am?

Yes, that’s me.

My name is Satsuki Amamiya.

I-I won your camera in an auction.

May I please have it?

Camera?

Oh!

I’m so incredibly sorry!

I was bedridden with a horrible flu, and I had deadlines.

And then I just totally forgot

-to send it to you. -

- -Uh... It’s okay.

What deadlines?

I’m back home.

What’s this?

Oh!

Ooh!

I’m terribly sorry that my granddaughter

caused so much trouble for you two girls.

Oh, it’s fine. We have the camera now.

I’m so sorry.

Here... It’s not much of an apology though.

It looks so good!

Hey, Sacchan!

Why don’t you use your camera and take a photo?

Oh, yeah. Good idea!

So, we just connect it directly to the phone?

Well, looks like you can use it without a phone.

Do you wanna try looking at it on my tablet?

-Here we go. -

Ooh!

Oh, wow!

I love how you can move it around like this.

Me too!

Photos like this, you can’t take with a regular camera.

I’ll be able to take all kinds of interesting shots.

Apparently, you can even do VR.

Plus, the sound is so cute.

Hello!

Come on in.

- Look, it’s Taishou. - Taishou.

Taishou...

- He’s so fluffy. - So cute.

- -So this cat’s name is Taishou?

Yep. He’s the boss, so we call him Taishou.

That’s not true.

It’s ’cause he was born a hundred years ago,

during the Taisho era.

That’s one magical cat.

He’s so big and round. I just love chubby cats!

Taishou comes into our school a lot, right?

Lots of times. I’ve seen him taking a walk

over at Maizuru Castle Park.

You...

I saw him at the station

when my family went to Isawa Hot Springs.

Oh, yeah right.

There’s no way he could travel that far.

Yeah. Once I saw him all the way over at Kofu Station.

-What? -No way.

Apparently, some cats like to stow away aboard trains.

Taishou might be one of those cats.

Once, he got onboard an express train.

Express train?

But a staff member took him off right away.