The next day
Shopping Mall
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Saki
Let's see, the section for photo albums is... Oh, here it is!
2
Saki
This one's the kind where you glue in your photos... Oh, this one's the kind with pockets! They come in so many colors and shapes too!
3
Saki
Hmmm, which do I pick...?
This animal one is cute, and this one with the starry pattern...
4
Saki
Wait, huh? Over there, that's...
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Saki
Haaaruuukaaa!
6
Haruka
Saki? What a coincidence.
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Saki
It is! Are you shopping too, Haruka?
Wait, that thing you're holding...
8
Haruka
Hehe, I've been found out.
9
Haruka
Actually, I'm here looking at photo albums too. Seeing what you've been doing made me want to put one together myself.
10
Saki
You're making one too?
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Haruka
Yeah. I've mentioned this before, but I was busy with work up through junior high, so it'd been a while since I enjoyed my school life like I have been lately...
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Haruka
So I thought to myself that I'd like to make my memories of this year last, like you.
13
Saki
Oh...!
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Saki
Then, let's show each other when they're finished!
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Haruka
That sounds nice. I'd like to see your photo album too.
16
Haruka
Oh yeah, did you get that picture of us playing dodgeball from Ichika and the others? The one with you and me in it...
17
Saki
Oh, yeah I did!
From when we hit Emu, right?
18
Saki
The one where we're high-fiving and shouting, “Yay!”
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Haruka
Yeah, that one. I got that from Ichika as well. I wanted to put it in my album.
20
Saki
I had no idea! Then, we'll be matching♪
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Saki
Oh, but there might be other matching pictures!
Look, I have this picture from the Sports Festival, and some from when we went on the field trip too!
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Haruka
Oh... You're right.
You've got pictures from the School Festival, and the ones we took with Minori and the others the other day too.
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Haruka
Hehe. It just goes to show how many fun times I've had with you.
24
Saki
Oh...
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Saki
Yeah! You're right!
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Haruka
Thanks for giving me these wonderful memories, Saki...
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Haruka
I'm really happy I got to be in the same class as you...and got to become your friend.
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Saki
Haruka...
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Saki
C'mon... The same goes for me!
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Saki
Eating lunch with you, taking classes together, doing our best during all those school events, hanging out and having fun together...
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Saki
All of that was suuuper fun, so...!
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Saki
So... I'll treasure the memories I made with you, forever and always!
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Haruka
Yeah... I will too.
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Haruka
Just one more reason to work hard on our photo albums!
35
Saki
Yeah!
Saki's Room
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Saki
Alright!
I've got all the materials, so it's time to do my best making this album!
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Saki
First, I've gotta choose which pictures to use!
If I add up all the ones on my phone, plus the ones I got from Shiho and the girls... Whoa, it looks like there's around five hundred!
38
Saki
With this many, it'll probably be pretty tough to pick out which I want to use... But I'll do my best!
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Saki
Let's see, first I'll separate them by season... Oh!
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Saki
I remember this one!
This is from when I went to PXL with Ichi and the girls! Tsukasa and his troupe showed us around...
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Saki
Oh yeah! The haunted house was scarier than we expected, and Hona and I screamed a whole lot.
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Saki
Oh... This is from the first time we performed at a live house!
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Saki
There weren't many people in the audience, and I was super nervous, but we got to perform our own song, and I had a lot of fun...!
44
Saki
I've got all these pictures of our school events too...! The Seaside School, the School Festival...
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Saki
I'd seen school festivals on dramas and stuff and always wanted to go to one, so I was really happy about it...
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Saki
Both the event itself and the time we spent preparing for it all just screamed “youth”!
47
Saki
I've really been making the most of my youth...
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Saki
(Back then, I always felt like I was gonna be left behind all on my own...)
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Saki
(Everyone else would be doing all kinds of fun stuff like playing with their friends or going on the school trip... But I could never be part of that...)
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Saki
(It felt like I was fading out of everyone's lives... And I was scared.)
51
Saki
(But now...)
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Haruka
Oh... You're right.
You've got pictures from the School Festival, and the ones we took with Minori and the others the other day too.
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Haruka
Hehe. It just goes to show how many fun times I've had with you.
54
Saki
(I've been able to make lots of memories with everyone...)
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Saki
(I'm also a part of everyone's memories...)
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Saki
(I've made so many memories that I'm having trouble choosing between all these pictures... I'm so glad.)
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Saki
(This is all thanks to everyone around me...)
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Saki
(They offered to make more memories with me, and helped me with the list of things I wanted to do... That made me really happy.)
59
Saki
(I want to thank them all properly...)
60
Saki
But... How can I do that?
61
Saki
Oh...
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Saki
Yeah! I just came up with something good♪
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