Summer vacation starts tomorrow?

Yeah... Did I not tell you?

I hadn't heard that. Then...

If you let today slip by, you'll have to wait 1 month?

Y... Yes...

That's no good. I'm going to a concert when I get back home.

I-Is this the thing... you want to do?

Yep.

This is a super important thing for me.

Ah, once I guide you to the correct future,

I'll go back home right away, so it's ok.

"Coming" from the future, "going home" to the future,

I don't understand any of this...

And she's not anything like me.

She does things at her own pace... She's optimistic...

She told me to confess.

If I don't do that, I won't be able to move forward... And there won't be a future.

Confess.

That's kind of amazing.

Can I do such an amazing thing today?

Confess?

Me?

To Hasegawa-kun?

Today?

I'm alive.

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It's kind of cheating... For Sayama Hinako's future husband.

I'm certain that he was a boy in the same class.

...But that's not it...

Is the TV that interesting?

Yeah, this is the first time I've seen news on the TV.

I see...

Good luck on confessing.

Hasegawa-kun

Is busy with club activities so I might not be able to call him to me well...

Who's

Hasegawa...?

There's no "Hasegawa" in my family tree.

I've never talked to him.

So is it strange to suddenly talk to him?

Ah, I feel like my heart is going to fly out my mouth.

I don't know his email or phone number... So I'll have to do it directly...

Oh no!

The one that

Hinako-san likes

Isn't the person of fate from the correct future.

Hasegawa, good morning.

So the confession is a choice leading to the wrong future.

She'll definitely get rejected.

If only I had checked his name...

I definitely...

I don't know how to unlock

The locks of this era.

Ah

It's still morning.

I can do it later... During lunch... Or after school...

Ah! You just turn this?

It's so small!

And it's done by hand! That's hard to get!

Hasegawa, is it true that you broke up with your girlfriend?

Eh, how did you know that?

A girl told me~

He's not dating that manager any more...

Back then, Hinako definitely couldn't have killed herself.

That wasn't the fate that I should change.

I led her towards the wrong future...

Ha...

Hase...

If I don't hurry, she'll confess.

And then the current future will...

Wait... Where's...

Her school...

What should I do...

The words... Aren't coming...

U, umm...

A-After sch...

Uhh...

Today...

Umm...

Ah! Could it be you're talking about the desired university questionnaire?

I have until after school today, right!?

Sorry, I haven't turned mine in yet.

That's right, you're the class rep, Sayama-san!

He knew my name...

...Yeah.

Can I turn it in after school?

I don't have it on me right now, but I'll give it to you right away after school.

Ah, yeah... I don't...

Hasegawa

Do you have a minute?

I talked to him.

I was able to talk to him...

The first time... I talked to him...

I myself... Looked him in the eye and talked to him...

Ah! Excuse me.

Is there a high school somewhere around here!?

There's a meeting after school today.

Eh! Seriously?

Sayama-san!

Sorry, I have club activities after school...

O, Ok...

I heard.

Actually, I put the questionnaire in my locker in the club room.

I'll go run and get it now.

Ah! Umm...

I...

I... I'm going to the teachers' lounge,

So I'll come with you... And on the way back... Turn it

In...

Ah, really? Then, thanks, can you come with me?

My voice is cracking.

Hasegawa, is that your new girlfriend?

Idiot

I'm going to the club room for a bit.

Is that so. You're Sayama-san's relative.

I'm in the same class as Sayama-san.

Eh, heh~ I see~ Hmm.

I'm in a hurry. Hahaha... Is the school close?

Ah

My name is Takimachi.

It's an unusual last name,

But nice to meet you.

Sayama-san, you're diligent.

Eh?

You have a sense of duty, right?

If it was me, I'd definitely just do whatever for these kinds of annoyances.

But that's how you seem.

That's not...

I...

I don't have such a grand feeling...

It's a much more impure...

I have a pretty weak body.

I pretty much never go to school.

But today, I remembered there was a printout I had to turn in.

Who was I supposed to give it to?

Was it the teacher?

Ah

I know, Sayama-san's the class rep, so I'll ask her.

...Are

Are you close to Hinako-san?

No~

I haven't really talked to the people in my class.

But Sayama-san is calm.

If I were to talk... She might be easy to talk to.

Yeah.

That's right.

I'm sure

That's right.

Umm...

Hasegawa-kun

Ummm...

Huh?

Speak of the devil. Look, it's Sayama-san over there.

Ah...!

She's talking to someone.

I wonder if it's Hasegawa.

She got rejected.

I'm sure of it.

Hinako-san

Hinako might contemplate suicide again.

And then, there's nothing more I can...

Saki...chan

Hinako-san, I'm sorry.

I was wrong.

Listen.

For the first time... Went up and talked to "the person I admire".

It's really amazing.

I still can't believe it.

Eh? Did your confession succeed?

Of course not! I was rejected.

But it's strange, somehow I knew it would turn out like this.

So it didn't hurt that much.

Ah, more importantly, what should I do... It's the first time I've been so nervous.

I'm sorry. I was rejected.

But why aren't I that sad?

Showing courage for the first time since she was born,

Recognizing her hidden heart in love,

Creating a path with her own strength.

With this, the bewildered Hinako was a completely normal girl.

So it's...

...It's ok.

Your correct future

is going to be made of lots and lots of that feelings that are now bombarding you.

Don't kill them, but treasure them. They'll surely be useful in the future.

There will be more sad things, but you'll be able to overcome them.

But, since I've come, there will be a slight change to the correct future.

From the infinite number of paths... it'll change into the one that is similiar.

Eh... Saki-chan, are you going to disappear?

No, such a big change won't occur.

Yeah, it will be much smaller...

One that you definitely

Won't realize...

Ummm

Are you talking about a movie or something?

Ah...

Takimachi-kun

I'm going to go home!

Eh, already?

Yeah.

Take care of your body... And...

Umm... Well, see you later!

Ah

Yeah.

See you later.

Saki-chan

Hinako-san, everything I did might have been unnecessary.

I'm sorry for messing with things.

Ah, the TV was interesting.

Unnecessary things?

It's thanks to you pushing me from behind that today my heart has been racing.

Later.

You made me do the things that I definitely wouldn't have been able to do

If I was alone.

The many things that I want to say are overflowing.

They get caught in my throat and I... can't say anything.

...Later.

That person,

Is she from another school? She's your relative right?

Huh, aren't those, what do you call them, loose socks? How nostalgic.

Yeah.

Again in the future,

They'll be fashionable.

Where's your wristband~?

You said to commemorate graduation, we'll make matching ones with our names on it.

Well, actually, I gave mine to my grandma...

Why did you give something with your name on it to your grandma!

Huh, Takimachi, is your grandma alive?

Nah.

Eh?

It's my great grandmother. Wait, great great?

The stories from her youth were interesting~

Eh? She dead already.

What do you mean? Did you give your wristband as an offering?

Sayama-san, you're wearing a wristband.

Ah!

Yeah... I got this... From my relative...

I-It doesn't suit me.

Why? I think it's nice.

Ah, about the questionnaire, actually I haven't written mine yet...

Even if you ask about a career choice,

Nothing really comes to mind.

Ah, I'm...

The same...

Really?

Afterwards, I was thinking of borrowing the materials in the college guidance room...

So maybe

If you have the time...

...Sure.

Then... I'll

Do that too.

He's easy to talk to.

Ah, your wristband

Has a thread sticking out.

It does...

Ah, there's some letters

Embroidered on the inside...

But it's frayed and I can't read it...

T...?

But today's the first time in a while that I've come to school, and I'm glad that I could talk to you first.

Eh... Why?

I'm always staying home from school, so sometimes the guys in class tease me.

Like, "skipping must be nice".

Eh...

That's why, before I go to the classroom, I think

That they're going to say weird things, so I'll just go home.

It's shameful,

But I know I can't win in a war of words.

But I'm glad I was able to talk to you, Sayama-san. You and...

...Huh, wasn't there someone else... Here before?

Before...?

Who?

Was there someone here? I was talking to Hasegawa-kun... And then Takimachi-kun showed up...

Ah, I wonder if I can get into a university~

Me too...

I have to try harder.

Then I'll have to try twice as hard as that.

I had the feeling I was forgetting something, but I couldn't remember what.

And, for some reason, there was a letter on white paper in my bag.

I had no idea what it was, so I threw it away.

It didn't seem like anything that important.

And then, I realized that I was looking up and walking more than yesterday.

I will surely continue to walk forward like this.

The Crying Call of a Baby Chick, Unable to Fly The End

The Crying Call of a Baby Chick,

Unable to Fly

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