Chapter 14 - 14: Rumors at School and the Countdown to Release

A new semester meant a new beginning.

In pretty much every class that day, the teachers spent the first thirty minutes chatting before they even got to the lesson. They said the usual things: you were already in your second year of high school, so it was time to rein yourself in. If your grades were bad, do not lose heart. Every year there were students who turned things around in their third year and went from dead last to getting into a good university.

On that level, Japan was not all that different from the world Haruto remembered from those other memories.

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