Perhaps, just as Shizuka Hiratsuka had said, they merely wanted to observe where the problem lay by holding the forest camp again. Thus, the location had not changed—it was still in Chiba... Village?
The people had not changed either. It was still that same group of elementary school students.
Rumi Tsurumi was still traveling around with her little camera, just as she had at the beginning. Nothing had changed.
"So..." Seeing this, Yumiko Miura could not help but speak up. "It's still that little girl's problem?"
But before she had even finished speaking, Yukino Yukinoshita rolled her eyes. "Only idiots..." would jump to conclusions at the first opportunity.
"Shizuka..." Unfortunately, before the second young lady could finish, a female teacher came over upon hearing them. "You finally came. My head is already killing me. What exactly did you do to my students last time?"
"It wasn't me..." Shizuka Hiratsuka said. "Don't pin everything on me. Besides, I don't see any problem..."
"That's because..." The newly arrived teacher seemed about to explain, but she suddenly froze as soon as she opened her mouth. "Shizuka, did you get younger?"
"Huh?" Why did everyone react like this when they saw her?
"This teacher..." Fortunately, Yukino Yukinoshita remained calm. "Rather than discussing whether Hiratsuka-sensei has become younger, shouldn't you explain the current situation? Bullying? Or..."
"Ahem..." Setting aside the issue all women cared about, the teacher was fairly competent. After being questioned by the second young lady, she realized what mattered. "Actually, I don't know how to describe the current situation. If you call it bullying, it doesn't really seem like it. But if you say it isn't..."
"So it is bullying, then?" Yumiko Miura could not help saying again. "Yukinoshita, didn't you just say only idiots..."
"Well..." But before Yukino Yukinoshita could speak,