When I judged myself, I considered myself a bad person.
Everyone must have done something once or twice that others thought they shouldn't have done.
For example, crossing against a red light.
Even if they hadn't done it out of malice, they must have at least had the experience.
For example, getting too much change at the checkout and not returning it.
Whether it was one yen or ten, when the cashier made a mistake and gave them too much change, they didn't give it back.
For example, spitting on the roadside or littering.
They sounded like little things, but they were still crimes, plain and simple.
But people didn't consider themselves bad people just because of experiences like these.
I, too...
No, even from some people's point of view, those were just trivial things.
But unable to forget my past, I decided not to make any friends in college.
I wanted to keep my distance from my old friends and enter a world where I had no connection to anyone.
So when I learned about Advanced Nurturing High School, I thought I could fulfill that wish there and decided to enroll. I remembered that now.
But by the time I realized it, I had already made friends.
Satoru-chan and Airi.
I had found my youth.
That was what I'd always thought.
I didn't know whether I'd fallen for him because he'd been willing to speak up for me.
Or whether he was so outstanding that I couldn't help keeping my eyes on him.
But to me, he was surely the best, better than anyone else, in every way!
Before we spoke, I'd always thought he was a weirdo, though even now that thought still crossed my mind from time to time.
He was cheerful, didn't care what others thought