Tag, you're it!
No matter what you do.
I see.
Wrong guess.
He's not a student? So who? A teacher who've been here for a long time?
But you've got cleaning duty today, right?
You have to be quick if you want to put it in.
Ah
At least say you're back.
I broke it on my own accord ....
Enomoto!
I wrote a note like that, and yet ....
Huh!? You have to be kidding me!
No, it's nothing.
Ahhahah
Wait a second!
I'm
You won't change.
You're too hard on her, okay?
There's nothing left to do but write again, right?
Ah ....
Okay, sorry.
Ah, I got no reply at all.
There's that really old shoe cupboard in the corner of the student entrance hall. You know which one?
For entire ten years, without a break,
.... I've got an older brother.
One finally opened.
whoosh
These ....
We were playing like normal and stuff. Well, we were little brats then.
Your sister always turns back first when I call by your surname.
We were getting along ....
No matter how many notes they put in,
One of those “seven school mysteries” stuff I see lately?
Right.
Huh .... Guess I don't mind.
dong
There is no one else than you ....
Yutaka! Lend me your maths textbook!
If you know something, anything, just tell me.
.... What's wrong?
Seriously .... argh, that's the worst that could've happened ....
Heh.
Hibiya says only girls believe it.
Ah.
dang
ding
Ah, yeah ....
Yutaka?
Yutaka.
Do you know? About Mashiro ....
Oh, how lovely, staring at older ladies. You bad boy.
There he goes again ....
A note? Somebody just writes replies because it amuses them is all, isn't it?
We're moving to the laboratory on the next period ....
shake shake
Hidden Poison in the Open Cracks First Part
That's a kind of story for girls who have nothing better to do.
ding—dong
That's ridiculous .... .... huh?
Did you drop your keys?
who could know.
The key to my house disappeared. ———is it?
ding—dong
C R E E K
she wouldn't be able to forgive me, would she?
dang—dong
I reached out with my arm trying to obstruct my sister's path of movement.
Seriously?
There's a rumor that if you put a note with your cupboard number there,
has been making replies
I'm not staring.
Get it over with! I'm gonna be late.
What's this?
—ealth bulletin
Aaah
Mashiro-kun? Well .... everybody calls him like this.
Huh?
.... No.
Ah.
I've gotten a note from Mashiro-kun ....
It's true. It was in my shoe cupboard ....
Mashiro-kun .... ?
ding—dong dang—dong School chime.
The lessons are about to start.
Yutaka's always with his sister.
.... The keys
why is he called “Mashiro” .... ?
This .... makes us look like idiots, doesn't it?
Later.
click
“I got them from mama.”
For ten years?
He told me that some of his friends got replies from Mashiro-kun.
dang
You're home already?
What do you mean your cupboard .... ?
Huh ....
I see ....
Yeah ....
Then, I, you know ....
Yutaka, thanks for the textbook.
For two or three pages, or so.
Erm .... It's not exactly a right question to ask for his class ....
.... He also told me and that Mashiro-kun's answers always “hit the mark”.
Mashiro-kun's answers are never false.
Sorry, sorry, I'll treat you something after school.
Me too.
Squeak ....
“Look, Yutaka, they match.”
I heard that if you write your cupboard number down and put it into the old shoe cupboard,
clatter
You're face is bright red!
You two are siblings, you should get along.
.... shiro-kun.
Hibiya!
without being seen by anyone?
.... Don't ask about it from me.
Who's Mashiro-kun? What class is he?
dang—dong
He wouldn't do anything without her, huh?
Did you enter my room on your own this morning?
Yeah .... Despite her having no friends.
shake
Found'ya, Yutaka.
Tsugumi
Here.
SIT
S L A M
Ah, there's one another thing. My mind stopped functioning for a while and I drew some lines with my red pen.
See ya'.
the reply can come into your own.
mom told me that she's going to be late today ....
I was avoiding my sister who's the same age as me for some time.
Don't look.
Let's try asking Mashiro-kun ....
I'm off cleaning duty this week.
Enomoto, you've got a love letter ~
You mean their faces are the same?
I don't ....
'Cause you're a plain Jane.
What reason might they have?
whoooooosh
Well, I think the same, but ....
It was Hibiya from the class next-door,
Chalk white .... ?
if I apologized and was able to get along with her again ....
Okay.
You're pretty much kids even now.
Huh? Really?
Yutaka, do you know the story about “Mashiro-kun”?
I
The lessons are about to start, so ....
the same same person with the same writing
C R A S H
Hmmm ....
Later!
Although ....
I tried to peek inside your room a little.
Hey.
ding—dong dang—dong
My parents will be late .... Huh ....
if I don't have those keys ....
Mashiro-kun it is.
bam
So-sorry.
No, I don't really mind such ....
My sister's voice ....
You can have a bath before me.
I thought about it every single day, even while I kept on mistreating her.
Ah, sorry, sorry, we meant your brother.
Thanks.
A note from Mashiro-kun ....
And he doesn't lie.
He knows even about the things no one can know about.
ding—dong
I don't believe it for real though.
C'mon, c'mon!
clang
Know what?
Get out of the way, Enomoto! I can't open mine.
Nothing ....
Nevertheless, I thought that if I could bring it back ....
.... until somewhere around preschool.
Wa-
GRAB
USAGE PROHIBITED
You talked about it with Hibiya-kun, right? That ....
Wait a second, I must fold it.
Bye-byeee.
That was because her meddling started to wear on me.
However,
I've heard a ....
dang—dong
Yeah .... but ....
Mashiro-kun ....
You're going home, Enomoto?
Did you put something inside my cupboard?
Have you heard about it from my friends?
But that, that was beyond reasonable.
What's wrong? Are you hiding anything .... ?
ding—dong dang—dong
Yutaka.
to my house ....
They can't dispose of them because they're valuable historical material from the postwar period.
dong
So .... now ....
No ....
I broke the relationship with my sister.
ding
heartbeat
Ah, sorry.
I didn't want to smack you....
ding—dong dang—dong
Hey,
so, anyway ....
Huh?
tmp
Looks like it.
Geez ....
it'll be a problem ....
Something like this ....
hurry up.
look-around ....
Wro-
To Enomoto Yutaka-kun. You have to start handling your keys more carefully. You've left them on the desk inside your room.
How about you try asking Mashiro-kun?
school ghost story, so to speak.
Others here won't because they're too rusted.
By the way,
rustle
I've heard a weird rumor about some shoe rack and, yeah ....
Boys, come on. Do your job like your supposed to.
clang clang
See you tomorrow.
I'm moving right away ....
Match?
Ah, you know, I wasn't mad at you just now ....
click
I had a call a while ago. Mom said to heat the dinner in the microwave.
I broke it ....
2Grade
I had no doubt I lost it outside ....
I just
Huh?
I wonder if he looked into it. That Mashiro-kun ....
This was supposed to be just one of that “seven school mysteries”.
“Yes, like me and you.”
Chalk white letters .... Pure white – “masshiroi” – sounds similar to “Mashiro” in Japanese.
Eek!
“I'll give you one.”
Her little head bumped right into it.
I'm the one who should be sorry.
Tsugumi had a knack for guessing the things she had no connection to.
My sister's face ....
She had never been been able to give me such a bright smile.
If I really apologized from the bottom of my heart,
Over something petty.
Yes. Change your clothes quickly.
the guys that don't get the replied to just won't.
But your sister should have a spare one, so you'll be able to enter your house anyway.
You'll see a reply to your note from “Mashiro-kun” lying in your own one after school, or something. It's just a rumor though.
Even though I inserted it into the shoe cupboard like I was supposed to, all of that went in vain.
I haven't, but I'll have to come home early.
It's unfair to come at somebody from behind, sis. Despite her being his twin, he refers to her as his older sister. In case of twin siblings in Japan, one of them usually takes up the role of the “older” one. Nevertheless I decided to keep it simply as “sister” throughout this comic.
Oh snap, the launch break has ended.
No, that's what I was thinking in my own selfishness.
It's probably something cooked again.