You're a middle schooler. So that's wrong.

You have to pay a different price than elementary schoolers.

Admission Fee

Adults

High Schoolers

Middle Schoolers

Huh...

Eh... Ah... Ok...

I hated going out to play with classmates during the weekend.

This Way

You got stopped again.

When I was in 5th grade, I was the tallest in the class. The following year, I was the tallest in the school.

I also hated

Being lined up with the boys.

The school swimsuit, school lunch uniform, randoseru, PE uniform, all of it...

They emphasized my big body. I could only see them as

Objects I hated.

When I entered middle school, the number of classmates I didn't know increased.

There were boys who came from other elementary schools were slightly taller than me.

I was glad.

But, of course,

I felt that I was something like a different animal from the other girls.

A Little Girl's After School First Part

Everyone will wear the same T-shirt during the athletics festival.

I will notify the teacher about sizes and numbers after, so everyone, please let me know.

They're generic sizes

So the girls should be ok with either M or S?

The fattest boys should get the biggest size.

Ah, Minami-chan, which do you want?

How about a M?

Ah, I...

Would Minami fit in a M?

Maybe she should get a L.

L would also be weird.

Actually, who was the one that said that everyone should have the same T-shirt?

It's so sad for Minami.

Shouldn't it be XL?

I can fit into a M...

Ah, then... I'll...

Take a L...

My height, my chest, this gloomy personality...

I've thought countless times of how nice it would be if they would all be reduced just a little bit when I woke up tomorrow.

My high school was pretty far away from my middle school.

For the first time, I had to ride a train to school.

I didn't want to go somewhere where there were a lot of people I knew.

But... As expected...

Which one?

It's true.

I heard there's a 1st year girl who's really big.

Was there any difference between me, and an animal in a zoo?

Maybe it was because I was always alone.

But I couldn't make any friends in my class.

Huh? Wasn't English next...

Ah, that's right. In homeroom this morning...

They said something about the schedule being changed...

Oh no...

I wasn't really listening...

What should I do? I'll miss class.

But it's not like I can go around to all of the special classrooms...

In any case,

I already stand out due to my height, so I don't really want to enter the classroom late.

Ah, oh no, I'm going to cry.

Even though it's still morning.

Even though I'm already a 1st year in high school.

Class is starting, freshman.

Oh, what's wrong? Are you feeling ill?

Can you walk?

Umm... T-The... The schedule... Was... Changed... I think...

No one... Umm... Was there... And I... Didn't really hear...

I...

I see. Then let's go check the with the school office.

Come with me.

Are you really not feeling ill? You look pale.

Do you want to go to the nurse's office?

When that young teacher in a lab coat leaned over,

He cast a shadow over me.

Yes...

I cast shadows over lots of people.

But having a shadow cast over me was weird.

So you're a new student? Well, it's just anxiety.

But it's not something to cry over.

He's tall...

Tachibana... Tachibana-Sensei...

Tachibana-Sensei is tall...

He knew right away that I was a 1st year...

Minami-chan, you weren't here earlier. What happened?

Ah, I was feeling ill...

Is that so? Are you feeling ok?

Y-Yeah, thanks...

She talked to me.

Minami, a teacher is calling you.

Ah...

W-What is it?

Ah, well, if the homeroom teacher says anything to you,

Tell them that I told you to go to the nurse's office.

I thought that you might have been thought of as being absent without leave.

I meant to tell you earlier, but I completely forgot.

Coming all the way out here for that...

B-But, Umm.... I was absent without leave...

The "without leave" might be a bit of a problem, but it's not wrong to be absent.

You can always make up the part you missed later, so don't push yourself too hard.

Yes.

It seems like Tachibana-Sensei doesn't teach any classes for 1st years.

I would only see him

When I was going between classrooms.

Announcement about the Fall Athletics Festival

Biology Club

Student Council

The athletics festival...

I don't have any good memories of those...

Just because I'm big, I got put in lots of events...

In the joust, I would always be on the bottom....

And as a prank, I was even entered on the boys side...

It's not like I'm good at sports.

Ah

My stomach hurts.

I'm pathetic.

My body is big, but my insides are like a pebble.

Once I'm kicked, I'll fall into a ditch,

And stay there for the rest of my life.

Sorry, can you pick that up for me?

Tachibana-Sensei.

Here.

If you could put it on top of this box,

It would be a great help.

I'll... Help carry it.

No, it's heavy.

It's ok. I'm... strong.

I can't let a girl carry this.

A girl....

Ah, umm... Then...

Could you carry just those print outs? It would be a problem if they fell again.

It's just to that physics room over there, but are you ok for time?

Yes.

A girl...

What I know about "a girl" is...

Someone who's slender, fluffy has a cute voice,

Enjoys talking to boys,

Has small legs and long eyelashes.

Sorry for making you do this after school.

Do you have plans to go home with someone?

They're creatures that are

The complete opposite of me.

Ah... No, I don't... have an...

many friends...

Hmm.

Would you like some barley tea?

Eh?

Ah, yes.

Actually, I'm not supposed to give this to students, but...

Since you helped carry things.

Ah, sit down.

This is special.

Special...

...Yes.

Umm, Minami... Do you like being by yourself?

Eh...

I...

I...

Guess...

I guess... so. I don't talk much... To people in my class...

I...

I, Umm... Don't really fit in...

Something like that...

That's because you're mature.

...I see...

Ah, my voice got quiet.

My voice and my manner becomes quiet very easily.

My unwieldly height

Only grew larger as the years passed.

As the boys laughed at me, and the girls protected me.

I'm huge... Aren't I?

So...

I... stand out.

It's not that I like being alone... I just end up being alone... I guess...

What am I saying?

I'm bothering Tachibana-Sensei.

What am I saying?

Idiot.

He probably things I'm a weird student.

He probably thinks I'm a gloomy and huge and weird student.

...You're huge?

I-I'm huge... Everyone... Says that.

Aren't you pretty normal?

It's not like you're 5 meters tall.

You're slim, so you don't look huge.

Ah!

That was totally sexual harassment! Sorry!

So please don't tell the other teachers! It would be a problem for me.

Slim?

Ah, that didn't bother me...

It's weird seeing Tachibana-Sensei

In a fluster.

It's weird...

And from my perspective, all the students look small.

I can't tell who out of the boys and girls are tall.

Sen...

Se...

Mmm?

Sensei, from your perspective... Am I small...?

Really small.

Like a speck. A speck.

Th-That's terrible, saying a speck.

Ah

It's not throbbing anymore.

My stomach doesn't hurt.

It's past the school closing time.

Ah, I'll go home. Thank you for the barley tea...

"Can I come by here again?"

"Would that be a bother?"

"Do other students not come here often?"

"Sensei"

"Sensei, I want to

Talk with you again, is that ok? Sensei"

Next time, I'll prepare something other than barley tea.

So if anything happens, come by any time.

Yes.

Sensei

Sensei

Sensei

Ah! Tachibana-Sensei!

Sensei, can we come drink barley tea again?

Eh? No way, I'm cutting back on it.

But it's hot in the classroom. Sensei, we can, right~

Sensei

Hurry up and go back to the classroom.

Ok.

Sensei

When I'm alone with you,

I can be a little girl.

Sensei, it's only then that I'm satisfied.

So why does it hurt like this?

This time

My heart

Is throbbing.

And beating fast.