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Associate Professor Akira Takatsukis Conjecture Vol 5 Light Novel – Mikage Sawamura

“Apparently, she’s grown real interested in us. She said she’s taken quite the liking to both you and me.” “I’m flattered. Though, I would have liked to hear it directly from the source.” “Also, she said that my fortune from before hasn’t changed… The ‘trials ahead’ one.” “I see.” “She said one more thing, too—something strange.” “Strange?” “…She said, ‘You must not be mistaken in whose hand you take.’” Takatsuki stopped walking and looked at Naoya. Also stopping, Naoya looked back at him. Takatsuki’s intent gaze turned indigo right before Naoya’s eyes.
When his irises were fully subsumed by the color of the deep, dark night sky, he looked nothing like the childish, dejected person Naoya had been walking alongside until moments ago. With the bottomless night sky in his gaze, Takatsuki’s handsome mouth turned up in a smile. “I wonder what in the world that must mean.” “…I don’t know.” Naoya shook his head. He forced himself to turn away from those eyes and down at his own outstretched hands instead.
“I don’t know, but…I’m going to make sure I don’t forget those words.” Would he be forced someday to choose whose hand to take? If so, would Naoya be able to make the right choice? Looking down briefly, Takatsuki closed his eyes. His eyelids, hemmed with his long eyelashes, covered up the night sky. When he raised his head again, his eyes had returned to their usual brown. The professor sighed deeply, as if exhaling from the very bottom of his chest, and then gazed back at Naoya once more.
“Fukamachi.” “Yes?” “Our trip… Are you excited?” As he spoke, Takatsuki’s eyes narrowed a little. Tooyama had told him not to go. Sae had basically said that trials awaited him if he went. Perhaps not going was the better option. Maybe this moment was his last chance to call it quits. And yet… “…Yeah, I am.” After a long moment, Naoya answered. Yes—if they were going to uncover the truth, it was going to be together.
Next week, they were going to Nagano. 1kitap1.com/en —When he came to, Naoya was running through the dark mountains, being led by the hand. Or maybe it was a forest, and not a mountain? Why he was there, he hadn’t the faintest idea. All he could make out were pitch-black rows of trees looming in the night. The underbrush rustled with every stride he took. Almost tripping over protruding tree roots time and again, he kept running.
Naoya didn’t know why he was in such a place; he only knew why he had to keep moving. They were running away—the two of them. He could sense the presence of their pursuers. If they caught him, there would be no getting away. Of that, he was keenly aware. Despite his maddening fear and anxiety, there was reassurance in the hand firmly gripping his. His gaze followed the flow of that hand up its arm to a familiar back—Takatsuki’s.
Translation by Katelyn Smith This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is coincidental. JUNKYOJU · TAKATSUKIAKIRA NO SUISATSU Vol. 5 SEIJA HA KATARI SHISHA HA ODORU ©Mikage Sawamura 2020 First published in Japan in 2020 by KADOKAWA CORPORATION, Tokyo.
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1. Folklore studies — Identifiers: LCCN 2022058928 | ISBN 9781975352974 (v. 1 ; trade paperback) | ISBN 9781975352998 (v. 2 ; trade paperback) | ISBN 9781975353018 (v. 3 ; trade paperback) | ISBN 9781975353032 (v. 4 ; trade paperback) | ISBN 9781975353056 (v. 5 ; trade paperback) | ISBN 9781975353070 (v. 6 ; trade paperback) | ISBN 9781975353094 (v. 7 ; trade paperback) Subjects: CYAC: Ability—Fiction. | Teacher-student relationships—Fiction. | LCGFT: Light novels.
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