The aura around Enomoto has changed recently, don't you think?

Ah, you mean his sister?

She wears contacts now, right?

I think she broke her glasses.

She got more cheerful and all.

Hidden Poison in the Open Cracks Last Part

Yutaka, did Mashiro-kun reply to you?

Whoa, you really did that?

He got crazy over it and forced me.

But you were the one who put it in, right?.

So? Did he reply?

Eh...... yeah, no.

He didn't.

I managed to find the key in a normal way, too.

This sucks!

Oh, what a shame.

I was told that if you manage to get Mashiro-kun interested in something, he'll reply every time you turn it in.

The guys that don't get replied to can't change it,

no matter what they do.

But the ones that get it just do.

Right ....

I smacked my sister by mistake. I wonder if she's angry.

CLATTER

ding

dong

dang

ding

dong

dang

Yutaka

What were you doing just now?

.... It's got nothing to do with you, Tsugumi. Don't poke your nose into every single thing.

You know.

The lessons are about to start, let's go.

Shut up.

Ah, again.

An insult which I didn't meant to say.

Heheh

My sister

You're so cute.

.... What's that supposed to mean?

She was in a very good mood recently.

Some good event must have happened now that she was doing so carefree.

Hey, we should go somewhere during the summer holidays.

Oh, let's go to the swimming pool.

Yes, the pool would be nice.

Thoughts like these kept on creeping inside my mind.

Yutaka, let's depart.

hadn't given me that kind of response for a couple of years.

All she'd been doing was leave in a sorry manner.

And it's not that far away.

Only don't make a girlfriend during those holidays! We'd feel left out!

Don't shout.

Hah, hah ....

Hibiya said he'd love to go eat a shaved ice.

Yutakaa!

Yes, I'm going, just wait a little.

To Enomoto Yutaka-kun. Tsugimi is not angry anymore.

Hah ....

Mashiro-kun

doesn't lie ....

I had started to share with Mashiro-kun every time

I got some small worries.

———feeling bad, but——must be all right?

———ignored———is my sister———?

When———my sister———but———

Majority of them up until that point

I'm concerned if it's not my fault that everyone thinks she's gloomy.

My sister is uncomfortable with contact lenses, isn't wearing them every day tiresome———

were concerned with what hurt me about my sister.

———Tsugimi-chan will be fine.

To Eno——— Tsugumi-chan is not angry anymore.

———moto Yutaka-kun ———-chan will———ll right.

knock knock

Yutaka

You were studying? Sorry.

No, not really .... What's up?

I'm fine with bathing last, but ....

This was lying there.

Is it yours?

Is it a note to someone?

It's okay, I didn't look into it.

I just picked it up.

Well .... I suppose you can say that ....

To Enomoto Yutaka-kun. Tsugumi is perfectly healthy.

Ah, I get it.

It's a girl.

Huh? No ....

A conversation like the old times.

“Tsugimi-chan is not angry anymore.”

“Tsugumi-chan will be alright.”

I want it to be like the old times again.

Like the old times.

Ah

That shoe cupboard I was talking about some time ago ....

Do you remember?

That one I heard about from my friends.

I told my sister about Mashiro-kun.

I kept the contents of my notes a secret, however.

I just wanted to have a chat, but she listened carefully.

And then

Heh .... I'll try to share something through that drawer, too.

In fact, there's some boy I don't know what to do about.

I can't gather enough strength to bring it forth, I guess ....

There's some guy who's on your mind?

Is he from the same class?

I can't tell you ....

It's a secret.

Romantic relationship, huh ....

Doesn't seem like she has any friends to share that with.

And you, Yutaka?

Huh?

What have you been consulting

through that shoe cupboard?

I .... nothing much ....

Human relations.

A girl?

Girl ....

Well, I guess.

Heh.

I hadn't thought my sister would still be able talk with me like this.

My sister.

The fact that there was a boy she was interested in was also surprising.

I thought that if I could

learn some more things that I didn't know about her ....

The aura around Enomoto has changed a bit, don't you think?

Ah! It's not about you.

I know. I'm right next to you.

Don't you think that she got more cheerful in recent days?

She's shining like a star.

Honestly, she was a little gloomy before.

She had an air of somebody who doesn't smile often.

When did you start to be so curious about that woman!?

It may be “that woman” to you, but she's a classmate to us.

Tsugumi said that she has a boy she's curious about too ....

Hey, is there a PE lesson this afternoon!?

I didn't know where or when, or who my sister could hang out with.

But if she was happy, I'd be so too.

She was nice enough to talk with such an awful brother as me, after all.

------ Enomoto-kun Tsugumi-chan is not meeting with anyone.

As long as she had found some goal to pursue and started looking forward, I was glad all the same.

Yutaka

Are you free after school?

Well no, I've got cleaning duty, so I'll be late.

It's okay. I'm going to wait at the entrance.

You're going home together with your sister!?

You two must love each other ~

Huh?

Friends poking fun at me had stopped bothering me. I cared about it less than when I was a little brat.

Yes, I was a little brat.

What's why I was avoiding my sister.

Ah, come on. There's nothing wrong with it.

Yutaka?

Let's get a normal approach.

Ah, yeah.

I'll be there right after I'm done.

I'll be waiting, then.

All student members of the soccer team, please assemble in the sports ground.

I repeat. All student members of the soccer team———

Bye-byeee

2Grade

Tsugumi

You would have been better off going home earlier.

I didn't think It'd finish this late.

It's okay.

I told you I'd be waiting.

Ah, it won't be long until summer holidays, you know.

I talked with my friends about going to the swimming pool.

But they, yeah.

They told me to invite you too. But you can't be interested in going to a pool.

Right?

But why .... I didn't write to Mashiro-kun today ....

Huh ....

Amazing .... He really did reply to you ....

Eh?

I actually tried putting notes in that shoe cupboard a lot of times ....

But he won't answer be, no matter what.

That's why ....

I thought I'd use your number

Is .... this a reply to you, then .... ?

Is it .... about that boy on your mind .... we were discussing before?

Yeah.

But,

ah, I'm nervous

about looking.

My heart is pounding.

Hey, Yutaka

Look into it instead of me.

Eh .... o-okay, but ....

Really? Mind going on the rooftop, then?

I don't want anybody else to be able to see it.

I don't want anybody else to be able to see it ....

And the sunset is beautiful, isn't it?

Yeah ....

You know .... We'd have been fine without bothering ourselves to come here, a corridor or something would be okay ....

Now, Yutaka

Look into it. Please.

Eh, you were serious about letting me look?

Yes. It's fine.

Tell me what's written inside.

I'm not brave enough to look myself.

You're weird.

thud

Having other people see it is much worse, right .... ?

You must be Enomoto Tsugumi-chan It'll be alright. I'm sure you can do it.

There we go.

Hahah, Mashiro-kun is amazing. He found out about you.

It'll be alright, Tsugumi-chan. I'm sure you can do it.

What's the matter? Are you going to confess to someone?

That's what it says here.

Really?

Does it really say that there?

Yup. Here.

Try seeing it yourself.

This is pretty ridiculous. The letters are chalk white.

The wind is noisy.

I can't hear your voice.

Come closer.

I'm telling you.

the letters are ....

KASHANG

Huff

Ah-

Huff

Huff

Hah

Huff

Hah, hah

Tsugu-

Sto- I'm gonna fa-

Will I be able to kill my brother well?

Huff

Huff

You're gonna fall?

Then I'll give you a push.

You're so light, Yutaka. Almost like a girl ....

I just had to press you a little bit. Geez.

Siste ....

Why ....

BAM

“Why” .... ?

It's too late for such questions now, Yutaka.

You know far too well why.

I'm not angry at you anymore.

“You can't be interested in going swimming with boys”

I did my best to set my hair in morning and .... all.

All of that ....

All of that.

Ah.

And you wanted to be friends again.

EEEEEEEEEEK!!!

SNAP

SOMEBODY CALL THE TEACHER!!!

click

Ah

.... It's broken now.

Yutaka.

They said it was a suicide.

That he jumped off the roof.

The body of a second grade student from the art club has been found.

I was outside at that time, and there was some terribly loud noise all of a sudden.

Ah, umm .... his twin ....

His sister is so poor right now ....

Sorry.

Enomoto

I might ask something weird, but ....

Yutaka ....

He was saying he wanted to go to the swimming pool .... during summer holidays ....

He was happy to say he could bring you too ....

That's why .... I ....

It's hard for me to believe ...

That it was a suicide .... or anything of that sorts

But a .... a “farewell note” has been found in his room.

I did something horrible to my sister. So horrible that all I want is to die. I don't know what in the world I should do anymore ....

It seems like he tormented himself over me.

It's as if I had killed him ....

No! That's not what I ....

Huh?

If I had been able to get a hold of myself some more ....

If I had been able to understand what he felt like ....

D-don't cry, Enomoto ....

No .... I'm sorry, Hibiya-kun.

We're going to visit you and your family some more ....

Yes .... Thank you.

I must have lost my mind ....

Pulling such accusations makes me look like a huge insensitive moron.

I should know that the family are the ones who hurt the most, and yet ....

That wasn't a farewell note.

Huh?

It was Yutaka's writing, but there was too little text for it to be his last will.

How do you know that .... ? She couldn't have been that crafty ....

Is there any way I could make my brother's death look like suicide?

There was a trace of an erased number .... Well, don't mind. I could also get killed if she found out.

To Enomoto Tsugumi-chan. The notes Yutaka-kun missed to turn in are in his desk. Show those to the adults.

You know .... that one whose brother passed away.

Which grade was she? The one with a ponytail ....

It seems that she opens her brother's cupboard before she goes home.

She's so poor. She must still not be able to believe that he died.

Enomoto-san! Bye-bye ....

See you again tomorrow.

Yeah, bye-bye.

Where is my brother now?

To Enomoto Tsugumi-chan Your brother is nowhere any more.

Hidden Poison in the Open Cracks The End

Thank you very much for reading to the end. I didn't make many layers like usual, I just saved out a few so I could change the main characters' hair colors later on. It's come to me now that I should have given some actual name to “not-hibiya”.

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Activities forbidden inside the local:

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