For songs that I have no interest in,

No matter how many times I listen to them, I just can't remember them.

But that song that Nozomi-kun let me listen to

Still lingers in my ears.

Inaba-san, you like weird things.

I guess so.

Hey, do you know about this?

It was on TV yesterday.

Ah... I didn't watch TV yesterday.

I see.

Ah, hey, hey!

A-Am I being left out... from the rest of the class...

Eh?

Ah, I guess sometimes,

Maybe just a little bit.

I see...

Naturally, I think the things that everyone likes

Are interesting, but...

...That song that Nozomi-kun likes,

I want to listen to it one more time.

Ah...

Tomorrow, first period is math.

When the teacher calls on me,

I'll give a weird answer.

I have to do it so I won't be left out from the rest of the class.

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Eh?

F-First period

Is... Japanese?

Yeah, they told us yesterday about the revised schedule.

Inaba, did you forget your textbook?

Ah, the bell's going to ring soon.

I have my textbook...

But I didn't prepare at all...

Ok, take your seats.

Where were we?

My notebook, where did I put my notebook... Notebook...

Ah

Inaba-san, what's wrong?

They fell...

Oh, everyone around her, please help her out~

Inaba-san, these printouts fell.

S-S-S-Sorry...

They're looking... I can feel them looking at me.

I can feel them laughing... I can't look around.

Once again, I'm being left out...

From the class...

Ah

I feel dizzy.

Sensei,

Inaba-san doesn't look well.

Oh... Are you ok, Inaba-san?

You should go to the nurse's office.

You look

A little pale.

Inaba-san, do you feel ok?

Nozomi-kun, take her to the nurse's office.

Yes.

Is that ok with you, Nozomi-kun?

Yes.

Nozomi-kun's hand was the only one that could reach me.

Because I was floating.

Ok, everyone else, let's return to the lesson.

Open your textbooks and let's continue from where we left off.

I was left out.

Eh?

...Before, when I was standing out,

I was left out from the class...

They were thinking I was a weird person.

They were laughing at me...

Inaba-san, if you really were floating, as you say,

Then you should have been able to look out over the entire class.

What are you so afraid of?

Inaba-san is

If I get left out, won't I be alone?

Everyone hates being alone, right?

Once I'm floating, there's nothing in front of me.

A-And nothing behind.

No one's there, and I can't come back down.

I'll always be alone, forever...

If you hate it that much, then you should attach some iron to your feet.

Though it'll probably be hard to walk.

Then you can be surrounded by as many unpopular things as you like.

Inaba-san, are you really

Looking out over everyone around?

I am!

What's popular, what everyone has,

Who's close to whom, who's dating whom,

I don't want to be left behind!

Ah, so you're looking at those things.

Those things?

The nurse's office is right over there, so I'll leave you here.

Are you saying I should be looking at something else?

I...

Hey.

Nozomi-kun.

Ah

Inaba, welcome back.

Are you feeling sick?

Are you attending the next class?

No, I just had a little dizziness.

Anyway, so you are close to Nozomi, huh.

I thought for sure you were together, since Nozomi didn't come back.

Ah

Ah, isn't he skipping again? I don't know...

Somehow, you and Nozomi

Are similar.

S-Similar...? Nozomi-kun and I...?

Yeah, I can't put my finger on it.

You're about the same height.

Th-That's true, but...

Nozomi

He talks to you normally.

We

Don't know much about Nozomi

So we never know if we can talk to him.

He

He's a weird guy...

I know, right.

I know, I know. Ever since our first year.

He's really... left out...

"Inaba-san"

"You like those kinds of things? You're weird."

All he does is skip class...

He only listens to songs by unknown bands...

Huh... Am I...

The people who were laughing at me back then,

Aren't I the same as them?

This is my

"Favorite song".

Oh~ What band is it?

I wonder if Nozomi will tell us if we ask him.

He's scary, he seems like he'll ignore us.

W-Why...?

Eh, what?

Nozomi-kun is being left out...

So it's hard to everyone to talk to him...

Yeah, that's why I think everyone wants to talk to him.

Anyway, he gets such good scores on his tests even though he doesn't show up for class.

I know, it pisses me off~

Tell me how you study~!

No one was laughing at you.

But, when someone's left out of the class, they...

Laugh at you...

They laugh...? When...? Wasn't that a long time ago...?

But... If everyone isn't the same... Then I...

If everyone isn't the same...?

If they're not the same... ...What...

Have I even once told my current classmates anything that I myself like?

When I investigate what's popular, I learn about it right away.

But they don't know what I like, and I haven't told them.

Huh, Inaba, where are you going?

Class is going to be begin~

Nozomi-kun is on the roof.

He's waiting for me.

Class is going to begin.

Inaba-san, if you skip, you'll be left out.

I'm sorry.

Earlier... You brought me to the nurse's office, but I forgot to thank you. I'm sorry.

Did you look out over the entire class?

Not yet...

But I did see just the people around me...

A little...

I see.

Yeah...

Hey

Let me listen to it.

Is this a different one from before?

Yeah.

It's a different one.

Like always I bet you don't understand what the lyrics mean.

They broke up, so I guess...

You can't listen to new ones...

Yeah, it's sad.

Ah

But,

It seems like Toshiya made it big.

Hmph.

I haven't listened to them.

Hmph.

Nozomi-kun, when you're in the classroom,

Don't use any earphones.

I also,

Want to look at more than just my own feet.

It's like you said,

I think I've only been looking at myself.

I thought for sure that I was hated,

Since I didn't know what everyone liked.

I arbitrarily decided

To run away from myself.

But still,

I'm a little afraid

Of being left out,

But it's not that I'm afraid of being alone...

It's probably some even stupider...

...Are you listening to me?

...Huh?

Not really.

...I see.

Good morning.

The boys have PE in the pool.

Hah, must be nice.

The girls have the long jump, right?

Do they think we can get a good result in this kind of heat?

Huh, Inaba,

You're still wearing that?

Wasn't that something that was in fashion last year?

But I really like it.

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A Fluttering Consciousness is Zero Grams

It's been 5 months since I last uploaded. Once again, thank you for reading until the end. I wanted to draw another story like "The Classroom with Labels" and "The Classmate Who Broke Alone", which I uploaded previously.

This is kind of stupid, but when I was drawing the picture on the right, I remembered when I was playing baseball in the classroom, and I hit my classmate's locker. When I apologized really hard, he forgave me, saying "it's ok", but his eyes weren't saying that it was ok. I'm really sorry about then. As an adult, I don't play baseball indoors. Huh, maybe it was soccer... Was it soccer...? Either way, I'm sorry.