Oreki Is Back! It's All Because You're Here! (continued)

Classmate Oreki chose to get takeout.

The direction he was heading in was the school.

The person he wanted to find was Yukino Takari.

The mission progress was stuck at 99%, and he had to confirm that she was still alive. Then the mission would be complete.

But Mitsuha wasn't very familiar with her, and she was still working as a teacher. Though it was vacation right now, she might still be at school.

And Grandma had said Yotsuba was at school.

If he went to the school now, he could still "run into" Yotsuba.

Classmate Oreki actually wanted to see what the remarkably sensible Yotsuba had become by now.

He thought it would be interesting.

This must be the feeling of an old father watching a little girl grow up.

Only, it was also a little regrettable, because little girls were so adorable—why did they have to grow up?

Just like his Classmate Sakayanagi. She had clearly been so cute when she was little. Though she was still very cute now, sure enough, if her figure could have been fixed in place, she would have been even cuter.

So was there some superpower or reward that could let a person maintain their current state and stop growing?

Oreki still remembered that the Classmate Sakayanagi in the Precognitive Dream hadn't been all that different from how she was now, and she could even play impersonation games together with her daughter.

"Thud—"

As Oreki walked forward while letting his thoughts run wild, Classmate Oreki suddenly stopped.

There was a park on the road to the school.

That was where he had first met Yukino.

Although he felt it was a little impossible, he had a strange feeling, as if he might still be able to meet her here.

Classmate Oreki