· Chuunibyou Plans to Visit Moriya Shrine

"Huh? What?"

Faced with the girl's sudden question, the boy froze on the spot, at a loss for what to say. He had the constant feeling that the moment he answered her, the whole reason he had deliberately chosen this high school when moving up would be ruined.

He had chosen this high school precisely to say goodbye to his old self for good. Almost none of his former middle school classmates went here, and this time, he was definitely going to succeed—make friends normally, and maybe even have a sweet little romance during high school.

"At last, I have met you."

Across from him, the girl looked at the boy before her with a faint tremble in her eyes. Her expression was like a reunion after countless years apart, after crossing untold hardships and thousands of miles. For a moment, everyone turned to look at the boy. Even the new friend the boy had just made couldn't help poking his head out to ask whether they had known each other all along.

"Ugh! My eye! My eye is resonating?"

The next second, the girl clutched the eye covered by her eyepatch, her body swaying as if something inside her had begun to awaken.

"To find you, I endured countless ages and finally arrived here."

The girl raised her head slightly and looked sincerely at the boy before her. The vow, practically a confession, instantly made everyone stare hard at the boy. Some of the guys who had been single since birth had even started imagining burning this pair of heretical lovebirds at the stake.

"That's a confession, right? Togashi, you're not going to say yes?"

The boy—or rather, Yuta Togashi—looked at Isshiki, who was gazing at him with envy written all over his face, and the corners of his