A youth story of a passerby at the end of the world

"I see."

The boy turned around and shouted to the students, "Move the obstacle over there. The person outside wants to come in."

"Yes~"

"Yes Yes."

Uesugi Genshin didn't have to wait long at the east gate before the door was opened and a head popped out to look around. When he saw the corpse in the distance, he was shocked and his mouth couldn't close. After confirming that it was correct, he opened the door and made way.

"Come in, you're amazing."

"Thank you for the compliment." Uesugi Genshin responded simply.

After entering the gymnasium, the situation was clear at a glance. There were no familiar figures. There were quite a few people, probably about two or three hundred.

Several people and the boy with glasses gathered around.

"Are you a student from another school?" After all, the clothes were obviously uniforms.

“Yes, my friend’s sister is supposed to go to school here, so I came here to pick her up.”

She? She seems to be a girl.

"How's it going outside?"

"Oh no, there are no living people on some streets. Many people must have gone into hiding."

There will always be some people who are a little behind in getting news, because they don't care, are busy, are too lazy to check the news, etc. On his way here, he could still see those people walking on the street without a care in the world.

How should I put it? The price of hindsight...

At this time, there were more than just these few people surrounding Uesugi Genshin, and some people who were concerned about him gradually came over.

"At the station?"

"Even if the train is still running, it's not very safe at this time. Do you want to gamble?" Uesugi Genshin raised his voice a little so that others could hear.

"What should we do then?" they discussed with each other.

"By the way, you are here to look for someone, you can see if the person you are looking for is here." Or is he dead.

"Yes." Uesugi Genshin headed inside and called out, "Excuse me, is Miss Sakurajima Mai here?"

"Ms. Sakurajima Mai, your sister asked me to pick you up."

"Is Ms. Sakurajima Mai here?"

After a few shouts, no one responded, but discussions began.

"Mai Sakurajima? The one from our school?"

"Ah, that's it."

"Hey, is there anyone coming to pick her up?"

"I didn't see her. She must have died outside."

"Oh, no one agreed."

Uesugi Genshin asked again: "Does anyone know where she is?"

"Well, as for Sakurajima, it seems like she didn't go to school today." Someone in the crowd spoke up.

"Ah, it seems so."

"Not here yet."

The person who spoke was probably Mai Sakurajima's classmate.

Come to think of it, I forgot to ask, what grade is Sakurajima Mai in...

He vaguely remembered that after Sakurajima Mai announced her retirement, she continued her acting career for a while because of some already signed contracts. She basically did not go to school in her first year of high school, and she was already in the third year when the story began.

The consequence of missing a year is that the class has become fixed, and fixed forms are not easy to change. Everyone feels at ease because they have a place to stay, and they all stick to that place, tired of maintaining their status in the class.

Therefore, Sakurajima Mai, who was late for school, would definitely be regarded as a difficult person to deal with, and it was natural for her to be isolated.

And she is an artist, so of course everyone will care about her, but they cannot or dare not contact her casually.

If you actively try to talk to her, you will attract attention, and if you attract attention, someone might say bad things about you behind your back, like "so annoying" or "you're getting carried away". This is the current situation of those who have slipped through the net of compulsory education, and Uesugi Genshin is very sure that this is likely to happen.

No one would take the risk of being isolated in class, after all, there would be no chance of recovery if they did so, and everyone was aware of this.

After all, although the students here say things like "It's so boring" and "Is there anything fun to do" every day, they are not really pursuing any changes.

"Really? Do you know why she asked for leave?"

"Uh... the monitor should know, right?"

"Ah, maybe it's because of work or something?"

"..."

So it was a failure.

Things are getting troublesome again.

Uesugi Genshin looked at the brown wooden ceiling in silence.

"Is Azusagawa Sakuta here?" He asked another name that everyone or most people were not familiar with, and he should also be a student of Minegahara High School.

"Here." A lazy voice came from the crowd.

"Um, what do you want to talk to me about?" He walked out of the crowd.

He has brown hair, brown eyes, a very good figure, and a very cute sister. He is a powerful man with the qualities of a brother-in-law, even though he looks like a "boring" person.

"Do you know Shoko Makinohara?" The words that Uesugi Genshin said the next second changed him into a different person, like a lazy cat suddenly turning into a lion.

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Chapter 28: I'm just a kind person passing by

"Makinohara...Shoko." Sakuta Azusagawa's expression changed from being dazed in a moment to being ferocious in the next instant. This change can only be described as magical.

"Do you know Ms. Shoko's?"

His expression was serious, and he excitedly moved close enough to see her eyelashes, and his voice even scared the students next to him.

"Azusagawa, calm down." The person who spoke was a petite girl about 155 cm tall who wore glasses. The white coat she wore over her school uniform was very eye-catching, and the posture of standing with her head held high and her chest puffed out made her look quite handsome.

Uesugi Genshin remembered that her name was Futaba, but he couldn't remember whether it was her surname or her given name. However, he remembered one thing very clearly: she was a genius who could talk about quantum mechanics whenever she opened her mouth.

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"Sakuta, what's wrong?" Two more people came. One was the boy who asked just now. He seemed to be a friend of Sakuta Azusagawa. He had an aura very similar to Hayato Hayama and was a sporty and sunny boy. The other girl was not very willing and was very close to the boy. She should be his girlfriend or something.

"How many are they?" He asked in order to recall the names of the supporting characters that he had forgotten.

"Futaba Rio." The girl answered very calmly.

"I'm Kunimi Yuma, Sakuta's friend, and this is my girlfriend, Kamiri Saki."

Hey, another person named Shahi, is this name very popular?

The girl named Rizaki glanced away, looking completely unconcerned. No wonder Kunimi Yuma took the initiative to introduce herself to her.

"This kind of thing is possible. You, you just mentioned Miss Shoko, right?" Azusagawa Sakuta asked anxiously.

Only a few people could make him so anxious, and his first love was one of them.

Uesugi Genshin nodded affirmatively: "Yes, I said it, Makinohara Shoko."

"Do you know Ms. Shoko?"

The impact and courage made Uesugi Genshin take a few steps back, and it was also to prevent their conversation from being heard by irrelevant people.

"Yes, just like I know you, Azusagawa Sakuta."

"Me? I don't know you." Sakuta Azusagawa was stunned at first, then denied it.

"Is such that."

Futaba Rio next to her gradually frowned, while Kunimi Yuma was listening seriously to what was happening about his brother.

"So where is Ms. Shoko now? Is she safe?" Sakuta Azusagawa asked the question that concerned him most.

"I don't know. By the way, is your scar still there?" Uesugi Genshin asked back.

This sudden question made Futaba Rio's expression suddenly serious, and Kamiri Saki also turned her head to look over here. She, the strange friend of her boyfriend, hated her boyfriend very much. Because of the scar, her boyfriend's reputation in school became bad.

"Scar? The scar disappeared a month ago, and at the same time... Miss Shoko also disappeared before my eyes."

"What's going on?" This plot does not exist in the original work.

But if the world changed, the story of "Rascal" probably wouldn't have begun.

According to what Sakuta Azusagawa said later, Shoko Makinohara said goodbye to him a month ago.

"...Sakuta, the future has changed, you are fine now..."

On that beach, Sakuta Azusagawa, who would go for a walk regularly hoping to meet her again, watched helplessly as Makinohara Shoko disappeared in the next second.

"I see." Uesugi Genshin understood a little.

"So your scar is gone now?"

Azusagawa Sakuta lifted up his clothes, showing his smooth chest, "It disappeared, so Ms. Shoko, what happened to her? Do you know anything about it?"

Uesugi Genshin changed the subject, "In that case, listen to my story."

"Mr. A was feeling lost on the beach because of the cyberbullying by his sister and the scars that suddenly appeared on his body. A girl appeared and comforted the lost boy. She became his spiritual support and his secret crush. Because she was wearing the uniform of a certain high school, the boy was encouraged to enter the high school, but she was nowhere to be seen, as if this person had never existed in this school."

Sakuta Azusagawa roughly knew that this was talking about himself because the previous experience was what he had experienced, and Rio Futaba also knew it because Azusagawa had told her about this.

"Later, he found a girlfriend in this school. On a rainy day, he met a girl who was hesitating whether to adopt a stray cat in a box. She is now in junior high school. Her name is Makinohara Shoko. After that, Mr. A helped the girl Shoko adopt the cat in his home and allowed her to visit it at any time. As time passed, they gradually became familiar with each other."

Girlfriend? Azusagawa Sakuta seems unreal. Will he have a girlfriend in the future? No, this is just a story. What about the girl Shoko?

"Suddenly, for a while, the girl Shoko stopped coming. Mr. A didn't care because his relationship with his girlfriend was heating up. Then one day, a girl knocked on the door. It was the girl who comforted him that year, his first love, who went to college. She had no place to live, and wanted Mr. A to let her stay. The girlfriend didn't say anything, so Mr. A agreed."

"When Mr. A accompanied his sister to the hospital for a physical examination, he met a girl named Shoko in hospital gown. It turned out that he hadn't seen her for a while because she had a congenital heart disease. As she got older, the burden was also increasing. She probably wouldn't live to see high school."

...He would accompany his sister to the hospital regularly, that's true, so it's him that's being talked about, and the heart disease is...

"After that, Mr. A would come to see the girl every day, hoping to comfort her during her final days. During this time, Shoko gradually fell in love with Mr. A. And his first love who lived at home suddenly said that she wanted him to go to Enoshima to date her on Christmas Eve a few days later, but Mr. A's girlfriend also wanted to date him that day."

What about this two-timing pig-headed scumbag... Futaba Rio said speechlessly in her heart.

"This made Mr. A hesitate a little, but he soon stopped hesitating. He thought that his current girlfriend must be more important than his first love. At this time, the girl Shoko's heart disease suddenly worsened, but Mr. A had no way to deal with it."

"This is also the girl's purpose, because Mr. A was originally going to die on the way to Enoshima for a date with his girlfriend on Christmas Eve. So as long as she sets the date at Enoshima, Mr. A, who will definitely choose his girlfriend, will not die."

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"Originally, after he died, the doctor found an organ donation book in his pocket. His heart was transplanted to a girl named Shoko who was in urgent need of a heart. Since he was already dead, the doctor rudely cut open his chest, leaving three scars on his body."

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"Shoko wanted to share her joy with Mr. A who had been taking care of her, but she was very sad to hear that the heart that saved her life belonged to Mr. A who had died.

Although she could be admitted to A's high school as she dreamed, and then go to college and live a good life, this is the life that Shoko in this world will experience, but the person she most wanted to tell and share her joy with is no longer here. "

"So... Shoko Makinohara went back to the past and found Mr. A from the past. We'll call him Mr. B. Shoko Makinohara comforted Mr. B on the beach because of the cyberbullying by his sister and the scars that suddenly appeared on his body."

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"This, this isn't saying..." Azusagawa Sakuta widened his eyes.

"This..." Futaba Rio was thinking beside her, and Kunimi Yuma seemed to understand something.

"You guys noticed it."

"It's the same story later, but in the end, Mr. B found out on Christmas Eve that if he didn't go to Enoshima, both Shoko would disappear, so he would be fine if he died. So he ran to Enoshima, just like his fate, and an out-of-control car was about to hit him. As a result... he was pushed away by his girlfriend who also knew about it. His girlfriend died, and after her death her heart was transplanted to Makinohara Shoko. Makinohara Shoko survived, but Mr. B, who lost his girlfriend, burst into tears."

"When B couldn't forgive himself, Azusakawa Shoko appeared. She decided to change the past again, as long as her lover would not be so painful, as long as he could be happy, so she decided to change the past again... This is C's story."

"Wait, wait, what are you talking about? Shoko Azusagawa?" Kunimi Yushin's girlfriend Rizaki Kamisaki complained fiercely.

"what happened?"

"Azusagawa! Shoko! Don't you think something is wrong?" Kamiri Saki emphasized loudly with an expression of disbelief.

"You just realized it? And isn't this a story?" Uesugi Genshin said indifferently, glancing at the expressionless Futaba Rio and the thoughtful Kunimi Yuma.