Mary has died.

Haaa!

I knew I should have changed her equipment.

Onee-chan, be quiet.

Onee-chan is in the middle of a very important battle.

Hey, let's play it together. I'll buy you the game.

That's ok, I'm not interested in it. I don't really get it.

Eh, why? It's fun~

That's ok.

He's like Miharu.

I don't care about Miharu.

I don't get that guy at all.

The Princess and The Desktop Fantasy Last Part

Don't forget, each class must prepare for the cultural festival during summer break.

Please check the attendance every day.

...What? Miharu, you're an action committee member too?

Yeah.

I'm surprised. I didn't think you would do this kind of thing.

Ok, please let me know what you wish to do.

The 3rd years do a play every year, but what about the 1st and 2nd years?

Tea house!

Food stand!

Tea house for us too!

Exhibition!

U-Ummmmm, year 2, class 2....

Umm....

What should I do?

I didn't know they decide on things like this.

And if this keeps up, I'll get that.

No... I hate that...

I wonder if some other class will claim that first...

What is your class doing Yuzukawa?

Ummm... A haunted house or a takoyaki stand or a candy store.

Hmmm.

Ok, year 2, class 2 is takoyaki.... Class 5 is haunted house.

Those 2 are pretty unpopular due to the troublesome preparation, so I'm glad we filled those 2 first.

Ah... So your class wanted to do a haunted house.

No, we wanted a tea house or a food stand.

You hate haunted houses.

Huh~? That was years ago?

That's totally different from a high school cultural festival!

Anyway, is it really ok for you to decide, even though you're on the action committee?

No, it should be fine. Just because you want it doesn't mean that you get it. I already explained that.

A haunted house seems kind of interesting.

Things like monsters...

Things like monsters... They're fictional stories designed to scare people.

So it's ok.

Yuzu.

When I hear a scary story, I imagine them as real.

When I look at an animal book, the form of insects are burned into my brain.

Sometimes, I wouldn't be able to get near flowers or trees.

Yuzu, it's ok. Come here.

There aren't any insects.

Really?

And then, that morning, I look at the newspaper.

After tomorrow's rain, it would clear up, so a rainbow might appear.

Yuzu-chan, there aren't any castles above the clouds.

Th-There are.

Eh, Yuzu-chan, you're weird!

...I'm not weird...

Yuzu, you can't touch clouds. Things can't rest on them.

...Is that so.

So if there was a castle, it would fall on you.

That would be dangerous.

Miharu

Was always protecting me.

Even though he was just a child.

In order to let me feel at ease,

He studied lots of things.

So when I started being called "Yuzukawa" by Miharu, it was a shock. It was like he was suddenly distancing himself from me.

When we entered middle school, he gradually started talking less and less to me, and I didn't talk to him very much.

When we entered high school, we were in separate classes.

There were even less chances to talk.

So...

If this keeps up, I think even Miharu's politeness towards me will disappear.

Because I'm still inside this picture book.

Ok, let's end here today.

Bring this back to each of your classes.

Please discuss what you need.

I must look like an idiot. Even though I'm a high schooler, I get excited just from seeing a rainbow or flowers.

Yuzukawa.

It's already time for the school to close.

Ah

Yeah.

Ummm...

Ah, I should have brought my bag.

Being an action committee member is a pain.

I see.

Though I enjoy it.

Miharu

I wonder if Miharu will one day get a girlfriend.

I wonder if, in some place that I don't know, he'll become more of an adult than me.

To Do List

Things to Note

Yuzu, you made this~! It's so easy to read!

Ehehe... Thanks.

Yeah, this is really good~!

I guess there was a rush for tea house?

I tried, but 2 of the 1st year classes got it.

Yuzukawa.

Yuzu, he's calling you~

The more I try to avoid him, the more he comes...

Hurry up and do it.

What?

Classes that are doing refreshments have to stick this on their classrooms.

Thank you... Why are you handing those out?

My homeroom teacher is in charge of refreshments every year.

So I'm doing the odd jobs.

Then you should head to 1st years now.

No, I already went there.

...Eh? W, What?

Well, I was thinking that you're talking to me normally today.

What?

Yuzukawa, you're avoiding me, right?

H, Huh...?

What's that mean?

Miharu, you... Started avoiding me first...!

Eh?

You realized that?

Maybe I wanted Miharu to tell me it wasn't true.

"You're overthinking it." "It's just your imagination."...

But, Miharu is honest.

...If you're finished with your errand, then go somewhere else.

I really hate

Insenitivity.

...I see.

Ok.

The way I hurt myself, and onesidedly hate things really is childish.

Hah

Ha...

A tennis court!?

Area for a planned tennis court

8/1 - September All students, please do not interrupt the construction.

Now even this plant is getting cut down.

Actually, I guess I won't be able to go home with way.

Even though I don't change at all, everything around me keeps on changing.

One after another, they disappear.

And I showed a cold manner to Miharu.

Right after break ends, there will be the cultural festival... First, I have to do my best at that.

I am an action committee member.

I'll see Miharu...

...But I'll do my job.

Miharu, is it true that you had a fight with a girl from class 2?

Why?

A girl in our class told me that earlier.

She just got mad at me. It wasn't a fight.

Ah, I kind of get it. When girls talk to you, they always get annoyed.

Shut up.

Miharu, isn't this picture of a monster a little too cute?

Let's make it scarier.

If it's too scary, then girls will cry.

Eh! They won't cry.

They're high schoolers.

Nononono.

Some girls have a lot of imagination.

Once get they home, they'll remember it.

They won't be able to sleep all night, and the next day, they'll be unjustifiably angry.

Nurikabe

Will-o-the-Wisp-kun

About 2m?

Thread

Cloth

Monster hat

Comes out of the well slowly!

Hanako-san

Shouldn't make her too scary.

Having to work and check things as an action committee member until I get home...

Meeting at lunch after the ending ceremony: check.

Going shopping afterwards: check.

Onee-chan, when is your cultural festival?

September~

Huh?

A text from Miharu...

Miharu Taka

Closing Ceremony

All action committee members for refreshments should wait in their classrooms.

From my teacher.

Eh... Refreshments are a pain.

What are you doing? A haunted house?

Ta-ko-ya-ki

But it's been a really long time since I got a text from Miharu.

It seems like we're over our budget.

Eh, will it be ok?

Yeah.

If each person prepares their own apron, we'll make it.

Oh~

Actually, sorry for keeping everyone here.

No, you see, it's summer vacation, so I want to go outside as little as possible.

Yeah. Anyway, there aren't any club activities today.

This is such a good class...

Yuzu, let's go home.

There's no more work, right?

There's still some.

Eh, should I wait with you?

No, I don't know when it will be finished...

You should go home first.

We finished early. ...What should I do? I guess I'll just wait.

I wonder if I should text Miharu...

But he's not in charge of refreshments... I guess I shouldn't.

Mmm? A text...

It's Miharu.

"Where are you?" In the classroom. Didn't he say to stay here?

Huh...?

Now that I think about it, today was the day of the staff meeting.

They told us yesterday that students should go home early...

All the clubs have the day off...

Is there really an assembly?

Could it be that Miharu is lying to me...?

I've said lots of terrible things to him...

Is this his revenge?

If so, then this time Miharu really hates me.

Miharu Taku

I'm in the classroom, but I'm going home now. Tell your teacher for me.

Is this karma?

If there really is an assembly, I'll apologize to the teacher tomorrow.

That should be fine.

What?

Now he's calling?

Hello...

You saw my mail. It said stay in the classroom.

The classroom... Is there really an assembly today? The teachers are at the staff meeting and none of them are here.

Eh... Whoa, I already got found out...

Cultural festival noti

Huh? So it really was a lie!

Normally you never lie so I totally believed you.

Sorry.

Anyway, it's a plan for revenge, right?

Revenge?

I... Said lots of terrible things...

Ah

Well, I don't care about revenge anymore.

So go back to the classroom.

Well, I'm at the entrance. I'm going home...

Miharu, you hate me right?

That's why you told such a weird lie, right?

Don't mess around talking about the entrance, idiot.

I only got mad and felt uneasy.

The things I liked disappeared.

I was forced to face reality.

But, but still,

Miharu always listened to my stories until the very end.

That's why, when Miharu bought that picture book for me, I was happy.

The title of the book Miharu stepped on was dirty, and he shouldn't have been able to read it.

He must have remembered that I liked it ever since I was little.

Ah, I told you not to come yet!

I told you to wait.

The one making unblooming flowers bloom

Wasn't a hero,

But

My precious childhood friend.

Ahh, geez.

You didn't read my texts, and ignored my call.

What is this?

I don't know.

I didn't defeat a dragon or anything.

...You mean you?

Why me?

Miharu, you said you were avoiding me.

I thought that you hated me.

Why?

Because you're honest.

You would tell someone you hate that you hate them.

Hate?

You hate me, so you avoided me, right?

But I never said I hate you...?

Yeah... But, eh? Then why were you avoiding me?

It gradually got harder to talk to you.

W-Why? Did I do something?

No, you didn't do anything Yuzu.

I just started thinking that on my own.

Ah

He called me Yuzu.

Before summer came, if I hadn't told you that the flowers wouldn't bloom...

I thought I'd hurt you again. I can't choose my words, so I would inadvertently tell you.

Yeah...

Miharu's forte is honesty.

So sometimes I'd get hurt.

Misunderstanding that he hated me hurt.

It's nice. The flowers bloomed.

Even though they're artificial flowers.

Being avoided made me uneasy.

Feeling uneasy, I would avoid him next time.

Gradually the distance between us would widen.

But artificial flowers don't wilt, so I like them.

They'll always stay like this.

Your words are always right, so I, who am weak, would sometimes get hurt.

When that happens, next time, you would have a pained look on your face.

I'd feel like we did something wrong.

I see...

If you're ok with it, Yuzu,

Then so am I.

But if you're close, then I'm close too.

When one of us hurts and maintains their distance,

The other realizes our mistake and draws closer.

Yeah.

The Princess and The Desktop Fantasy The End

The Princess and The Desktop Fantasy

Thank you very much for reading this. Ever since I grew up, I've thought even picture books are interesting. My favorites are "Kutsu Kutsu Aruke", "Kingyo ga Nigeta" and "Oshiire no Bouken".