www.asianovel.

com
 i

Sakurasou no Pet na Kanojo

Sakura-sō no Petto na Kanojo • The Pet Girl of Sakura Hall •
さくら荘のペットな彼女

Sakura Dormitory is a dorm of the high school affiliated with Suimei

University of the Arts (often shortened as Suiko), which hosts the
strangest, trouble-making students. After being kicked out of the
normal dorm for keeping a stray cat, Sorata Kanda moves into
Sakura Dormitory. As he starts to get used to the life in the dorm,
Mashiro Shiina, a world famous artist who cannot even take care of
her daily life, moves in. Sorata is forced to become Mashiro’s handler.
The story is about their daily life as well as mental growth.

Author(s): Hajime Kamoshida

Artist(s): Keeji Mizoguchi
Year: 2010
Country: Japan
Genres: Comedy, Drama, Ecchi, Romance, School Life
Tags: Adapted to Anime, Adapted to Manga, Artists, Beautiful
Female Lead, Love Triangles, Male Protagonist, Naive Protagonist,
Pets, Quiet Characters
Source: Imported

ASIANOVEL VERSION: 3.11

PDF VERSION: 1.4
UUID: 981e4520-fa98-11e9-8143-030fb0466ef3
USER: RepuChan
DATE CREATED: 2019-10-29
LANGUAGE: English

More info and chapters:

https://www.asianovel.com/series/sakurasou-no-pet-na-kanojo

www.asianovel.com
1

www.asianovel.com
 2 Report

Vol. 1 Chapter 1 Part 1

Source: Imported

When I grow old someday…

And I look back on my time at Sakurasou, I wonder what I would

think…

Would I be shocked at how ridiculous it all was?

Or perhaps, would I reflect on those days packed with fun and

excitement with a sense of nostalgia?

If it was a bit of both, I couldn’t ask for more.

Because when all’s said and done, those were the best days of my
life.

VOLUME 1

When he woke up, the first thing he saw was a full pair of white,
lush buttocks.

“… Hikari, you again?”

When he called her name, he heard her give off a coaxing little

purr.

Not paying her any heed, Kanda Sorata pushed the butt that Hikari
had thrust in his face aside, and pulled himself up from the grey rug
he was laying on. Hikari gave off a sulky pout when she was forced
off, but Sorata brushed that aside too with a single sigh.

“This is just cruel…”

Sorata squinted as he looked through the window to the bright

www.asianovel.com
 3 Report
landscape beyond. The sky in the East burned an intense red as if
foretelling the end of the world.

“To wake up right to a cat’s butt in my face… my teenage

life is just way too cruel.”

As the feelings of despair closed in on him, Sorata covered his face

with his hands.

“Nah, maybe it’s more terrible for me to just be running my

mouth like this about ‘teenage life’…”

Seeming to agree, the white cat Hikari on Sorata’s lap gave off a

yawn. (1) And then, the other six cats living in this six-tatami (2)
room began a chorus of meows, asking to be fed.

White, black, spotted, brown tabby, Siamese-ish, and what looked

like an American short-hair… all seven of these diversely varied cats
had been abandoned and then picked up by Sorata. He also gave
them proper names, and they were called Hikari, Nozomi, Kodama,
Tsubasa, Komachi, Aoba, and Asahi.

Faced with these cats pining for food, Sorata responded with the
growling of his own stomach. The message was clear. Your master is
hungry too, you know.

It was the last day of spring break, April 5th. It was five in the
evening.

This raggedy, wooden, two-story apartment building was a

dormitory belonging to the senior high school affiliated with the
Suimei College of the Arts.

Perhaps taking a cue from the large sakura tree in the courtyard,
the building’s name was Sakurasou.

The kitchen, dining room, and bathrooms were all shared.

www.asianovel.com
 4 Report
It took ten minutes to walk to school. The nearest station was also
a ten minute walk.

And room 101 was the home base of Kanda Sorata, who had just
become a second-year student that spring.

As his first piece of calligraphy for the year, Sorata had written a
huge message on the wall: “GOAL: Get out of Sakurasou!!”

Sorata’s current problem wasn’t finding a girlfriend, or making it to

Koushien. (3) Of course, he had no aspirations of going to the
National Stadium or making it to Soutai (4). All he wanted to do was
to get out of this dorm.

Because Sakurasou was a bit different from normal dormitories.

It was a place for rehabbing students who had been kicked out of
other dorms; to be blunt, it was a nest for problem children. Unlike
normal dorms, there wasn’t a den mother, and as there was no
cafeteria, the students themselves had to cook, do laundry, and
clean. It was annoying. The school claimed that this was all for the
sake of encouraging self-reliance, but Sorata felt that it was just
because they couldn’t find someone to work there.

Sakurasou… the name alone carried enough destructive power to

ruin friendships.

What was more anno

And in that disgraceful dorm lived four students, both boys and
girls, along with a single supervising teacher.

Sorata was one of those inhabitants.

Last summer, he had been called out directly by the principal and
was forced to make a choice.

“Kanda Sorata-kun, are you going to get rid of your cats or

www.asianovel.com
 5 Report
leave the dorm? Make a choice.”

“Well, I’ll leave the dorm then.”

Being at a rather rebellious age, Sorata shot back his answer

before the principal had even properly finished his sentence. And
that same day, Sorata was kicked out of the normal dormitories.

In retrospect, Sorata felt that he had gone completely the wrong

way when faced with that most heavy choice. At the meeting he held
right afterwards in his head, he fiercely debated with himself over
where the blame should fall. Certainly, it had to be his frontal lobe’s
fault.

At that moment of time, he had only had Hikari with him, so if he

had tried really hard to find an owner, he could have avoided the
entire dorm situation. When Mitaka Jin, one of the inhabitants already
living at Sakurasou, pointed this out to him, Sorata fell into shock and
didn’t come to for three days.

For that reason, he was trying to find owners for his cats to this
very day.

But somehow, rather than decreasing, the number of cats had

risen to seven. He was probably doing something wrong here…

Well, it couldn’t be helped, considering cats were being abandoned

at an alarming pace wherever Sorata went, to the point where he
honestly believed that he had been cursed. He once tried to just
ignore a cat and keep walking, but it took a mere three steps before
he collapsed and began to clutch at his chest with guilt.

Worried at seeing Sorata so deep in thought, Hikari, followed by

Nozomi and Kodama, came and snuggled up to him.

“You guys, don’t get so attached to me. I’m trying hard to

find someone to take you in, you know. You’re going to make
me cry when I have to see you go. I’m really pathetic when I
www.asianovel.com
 6 Report
cry, you know. You don’t want to see that.”

It wasn’t very clear whether the cats understood or not. Either way,
they switched gears and began to wash their faces.

Sighing, Sorata turned his eyes to the crimson sky.

Today was the last day of spring break, but Sorata was at a loss as
to how to spend it meaningfully. Illuminated by the Eastern sun and
with a dry smile on his face, Sorata suddenly heard another whining
noise coming from the bed behind him.

Stopping himself from once again covering his head with his hands,
Sorata turned around.

He suddenly remembered exactly why he had been sleeping on the

hard floor.

In the bed that was originally intended to provided Sorata with a

nice, peaceful night of rest was lying a pretty girl in the fetal position,
whose mouth was curved upwards into a devious, cattish smirk. She
was the queen of the cats, if you will. In this case, she looked exactly
like a beautiful and healthy American short-hair. Her soft buttocks
were shamelessly sticking out from the hem of her school uniform
miniskirt, and you could see her cleavage through the two
unfastened buttons in her blouse, made all the more obvious
because she was squishing them together with her arms.

If this were a year ago, Sorata would probably have gulped in

amazement at this sight, and then would have started screaming
after completely losing his mind.

But, having been exiled to Sakurasou more than half a year ago,
Sorata could no longer be fazed by something like this.

“Misaki-senpai, please wake up.”

Restraining his agitation, Sorata called out to the inhabitant on the

www.asianovel.com
 7 Report
bed, at which point Kamiigusa Misaki stretched widely with the
flexibility of a wild feline and rose up.

She lifted up the hem of her blouse, and exposed a waistline that
most people would kill for and a cute belly button. What was strange
was that even her messy bed-hair just made her look all the more
charming. If she walked past ten people on the street, there was no
doubt that she would get those ten people to turn their heads.

Her status points were also phenomenal, with her height coming in
at 156 cm (5) and her weight coming in at 46 kg. Her three sizes,
from top to bottom, were 87, 56, and 85, and she was only a third-
year student, but had already grown into her adult body. (6)

As Misaka unconsciously filled the room with her charm, she turned
her wide-open eyes onto Sorata.

“In the future, I want to get married.”

“You know, it’s an unwritten rule that you should keep

sleep-talking to when you’re asleep.”

“Alright then, I’ll be the wife, so kouhai-kun can be the

husband. You’ve just come home from work. Action!”

“How the hell did this suddenly turn into a comedy

dialogue?!”

“Welcome back, dear. You’re home early today.”

“Wait, you’re seriously going on with this?!”

“Should I make dinner? Prepare the bath? Or maybe, ma,

wa, shi?” (7)

“This a sumo stable or something?!”

“Ta, wa, shi?”

www.asianovel.com
 8 Report
“Just say ‘watashi,’ dammit! You trying to make your
husband clean the bathroom right after he comes home?!
What a monster!!”

“I wonder if even sloths get worked up during sex.”

“Don’t switch topics like that!!”

“Uncooperative, aren’t you? Considering our relationship, it

just won’t do if you don’t follow along.”

Speaking with a teasing tone, Misaki pointed at Sorata and shut

one eye, almost as if she was a parent keeping track of a
misbehaving child.

How in the world could she be so excitable when she had just
woken up?

“In any case, good morning. And I’ve said this dozens of
times already, but please sleep in your own room.”

“I mean, if they’re going to be lazy about it, I can’t see how

the female would put up with it.”

“Are we still talking about the sloths?!”

“Wouldn’t it just be sad if she just couldn’t get satisfied?”

“The female just lies there during sex too, so you could
also say it the other way around.”

Giving up, Sorata joined in.

“Alright, shall we continue where we left off yesterday?”

However, Misaki ignored the flow of conversation, and took her

spot in front of the TV, switching on the video game console and
gripping a controller. The game system hummed to life and clicked
as it read the game ROM.
www.asianovel.com
 9 Report
Before the game’s title screen appeared on the monitor, Sorata
reached over and switched the system off.

“Ahhh~~, what are you doooinggg~~”

Pouting, Misaki protested. She was also pretty cute when she was
angry. Faced with her slightly upturned eyes, Sorata could feel
himself beginning to smile.

But it just wouldn’t do if he got fooled by her act.

“What the hell happened to the sloths?!”

“Ehh, that conversation was boring.”

“You’re the one who started it!”

“However, let’s play games.”

“You used completely the wrong conjunction there! (8)

Also, haven’t we been playing games nonstop since the day
before yesterday?! For thirty-six hours straight! Just looking
at the screen makes me sick! My eyes are rotting! I’m pretty
sure that if I get exposed to more electromagnetic waves
from the television screen, I’m going to dissolve into sand or
salt or something!”

The reason Sorata had been sleeping on the floor was because he
had collapsed from exhaustion the day before.

Without a moment’s delay, Misaki turned on the video game

console again.

“Alllllrighty then~~ , if that’s the way you feel, how about I

take off a piece of clothing every time kouhai-kun wins a
match?! It’s also a perfect way to nurse your eyes back to
health! It’ll be a feast for sore eyes! Really exciting stuff! It’s
the spice of youth! You’ll be going up the ladder to

www.asianovel.com
 10 Report
adulthood! Bound by the chains of passion and desire!!”

“If it comes to you stripping, I think I would get more

aroused by peeling an onion.”

“You’d be thinking ‘uwaaah, I think I can see something

white coming out!’ or something, wouldn’t you? Well, nothing
wrong with that. But it’s just not good to be getting turned
on by veggies past the second year in junior high. Don’t be
an herbivore (9)! You have to devour everything in sight!
When you become a high schooler, it has to be meat all the
way! Meat! Now then, kouhai-kun, join me on the path to our
carnal desires! Yaay!!”

Saying that, Misaki thrust out her fully ripened chest outwards. Her
breasts jiggled like pudding under her clothes. Sadly, Sorata’s male
instincts forced him to fixate his gaze on Misaki’s chest.

Even so, Sorata desperately tried to resist.

“You know, with how shameless and brazen senpai is, I

honestly can’t believe that senpai is a girl anymore! Please
just give me a break! Quit it with the pointless cute act too.
I’m seriously going to start distrusting women because of
you, seriously!”

“Ah, but now we’ve finally transcended the bounds of the

male-female relationship and have become close friends!
Congratulations! Let’s celebrate. Video games until the
morning!”

“Why am I not happy at all?! How in the world did you twist
things to get to that conclusion?! Seriously, aliens should go
right back to outer space already!”

This spring break, for every painfully sleepy day, I had stayed up
with Misaki until the morning. At the very least, I wanted to just

www.asianovel.com
 11 Report
spend today in peace and quiet.

“Is that the only thing kouhai-kun wants to say?!”

“If you think I’m even close to done, you’ve got another
think coming, you asshole! Senpai is always, always just
doing as she pleases way too much! Where the hell do you
think we live, the country of Do-Whatever-You-Want?!”

“Well then, let’s settle this shall we? With a game! Return
blood with blood and raise the curtain on our epic battle!
Until one of us goes under, the battle won’t end!”

“You’re on! I’m going to- hey, wait, I already said I wasn’t
doing that!!”

Sorata expected her to glare at him with a crestfallen expression,

but instead Misaki quickly took the game ROM out of the machine.
Sorata felt a bit let down, but Misaki ignored him and inserted a white
disk into the game machine instead.

“Hmph. Hmph. Fine. Fine. I can’t help it if you don’t like

games. Well, you’re going to help me with my rush check
(10).”

Sorata wondered what he was going to see, when he was greeted

by a countdown on the TV screen, the kind you would expect to see
in old movies.

“Is this new?”

“Fresh off the press, just finished cutting it in the morning

two days ago. Well then, bon appétit.”

“That countdown doesn’t feel very new-styled though…”

At that point, the countdown finished, and an original anime Misaki

had made appeared on screen. She hadn’t done any real editing yet,

www.asianovel.com
 12 Report
so there were no voices, music, or sound effects at this point. Even
so, the animation was silky smooth, the movements were dynamic,
and it was more than enough for the work to have an impact. What’s
more, she had implemented a system that seamlessly integrated
both 2D characters and a 3D background, with no feeling of
mismatch whatsoever. Both the characters and the background were
carefully drawn. Along with good pacing and her unique
compositional style, she wasn’t afraid to tackle even the annoying,
intense scenes head-on. It wasn’t something you would expect to
have been made by a single person. It also wasn’t something you
would expect a beginner to be able to make. It was absolutely top-
notch quality.

As could be expected from a high school affiliated with a college of

the arts, Suikou (the school’s nickname) didn’t just service normal
students like Sorata, but also housed a select ten outstanding
students in music and the arts. All the talented artists and musicians
in the country would gather, and only those who beat the
preposterous odds would be allowed entrance into the school.

Misaka was one of those select few, and was a third-year who
studied the arts.

What’s more, she was the first student to be admitted into the
special program in ten years who was then subsequently kicked out
for only producing anime, and was quite famous in the school for that
reason.

“It’s amazing.”

It was an impression that anyone could have told her. But Misaki
didn’t respond. She seemed to be too occupied improvising sound
effects and music from her own mouth.

“Whoosh! Kshhshsh! Dokyuun!!

Chaararararararaaranranran! ‘This is the end for you!’ Clash
clash! Pikaaan! Tantaratantantan! ‘How naïve of you. Your

www.asianovel.com
 13 Report
words mean nothing!’ ‘W-What?!’ ‘Take off your pants and
try again, you little brat!’ vrrrmmmvrrmm… tadaaa!”

It’s just, in no way were the frenzied noises Misaki was making
consistent with what was happening on screen.

What kind of crazy things were unfolding in that brain of hers?

Misaki cooled down at the same time that the screen faded to
black.

The video was only around five minutes long, but perhaps because
it was so impressive, it had felt many times longer.

“There are a lot of retakes I have to do. More than I

thought.”

Misaki took the ROM out of the machine, her depression was
almost audible as she drooped her shoulders. Even though she had
spewed so much nonsense earlier, she had certainly done what she
was supposed to do, so I was surprised.

“I can’t see a single place that needs fixing.”

“Naïve, kouhai-kun. The real battle only starts after one

feels that everything’s perfect! And the opponent is within
oneself!”

“Ahh, so that’s how it is…”

“Ah, right. Would it be possible to ask Nanamin to help

with the after recording again?”

By Nanamin, she was referring to Aoyama Nanami, one of Sorata’s

classmates from his first year. She wanted to be a seiyuu (11) in the
future, so she was attending a training school right now. On her
career choice exit survey during her first year, she had
enthusiastically written that she wanted to join the drama

www.asianovel.com
 14 Report
department at a college. Also, she didn’t like being called Nanamin at
all.

Perhaps it was because they went to a high school connected with

an art college, but it wasn’t uncommon for students to have already
figured out what they wanted to do in the future and were focusing
on achieving that goal. In Sakurasou too there was a third year who
wanted to be a screenwriter and was aiming to major in literature,
and a second year aiming to major in media, who was already a
programmer and was doing work related to producing video games.

Unlike those people who had already planned out their future,
Sorata had turned in his first-year career exit survey blank. He
remembered being called out to the staff room after school, and
being forced to do it for spring homework.

By the way, Misaki, who was one year older than Sorata, had filled
out her career choice as “it’s too bright to see,” and was also
called out to the staff room, receiving a lecture three times as severe
as Sorata had. But the person lecturing Misaka got hit with her weird
space language in return, and was wounded deeply by it. Right now,
he was on break. And it didn’t seem he was going to come back
anytime soon. That was the second time she had knocked her
homeroom teacher out of commission. And Sorata could feel their
pain.

“If you just want me to ask her, then I can do that much.”

“Ah, please do. Be sure to help me when I’m editing this

too.”

“Treat me to lunch in the cafeteria once then.”

“Ah, a cheap price to pay.”

To Misaki, it was indeed a cheap price to pay. Even if Sorata asked

Misaki to pay for all his meals for a year, it probably wouldn’t even

www.asianovel.com
 15 Report
faze her. During the summer of last year, Misaki uploaded an original
thirty-minute anime to a video sharing site, and in the blink of an eye
it went viral, breaking a million views. Soon, Misaki was getting
contacted by companies with offers to turn her anime into a sellable
product. The DVD of her work went on sale this January, and almost
in mockery of the failing economy, sold over a hundred thousand
copies and became a huge hit. Sorata had caught a fleeting glimpse
of her bank account book once, and the number he saw there made
him want to tell her to just retire already.

The screenplay had been handled by Mitaka Jin, Misaki’s childhood

friend and another inhabitant of Sakurasou.

The anime was a sci-fi anime taking place on a man-made island in

the future. The story starts when a tranquil boy, born and raised on
this artificial island, meets a girl from the main island.

At the beginning, the boy and girl’s relationship advanced without

a hitch, to the point where you were tempted to call the story lazy.
The boy wasn’t troubled by his own feelings at all, and it was the girl
who confessed her feelings to him and initiated the first kiss. The boy
had not a worry in the world. But this was all a setup for the middle
part, when everything was completely flipped on its head.

At one point, the boy found out that the world he had been
surrounded with was all a lie. The boy was not really living in an
artificial island, but rather on a space colony floating in outer space.
He was confronted with the reality that the actual Earth had become
uninhabitable after a series of horrible wars.

For sixteen years, the boy lived without knowing any of this. He
had fully believed that he was living on the Earth. But it was all a lie.
And that was not the only lie. The boy’s parents were not his real
parents. His classmates also all had known the truth, but had been
deceiving him all along. Of course, the girl was also part of all this.
Everything was planned, and the boy’s sixteen years of life had been
completely scripted.

www.asianovel.com
 16 Report
In order to stop the continuous fighting, the people in control of the
world decided on a plan for the reform of mankind. Noah’s ark. They
would raise children who knew neither pain, nor suffering, nor
sadness, nor hatred, nor anger, and would strip humanity of its
warlike nature. The artificial island was the Garden of Eden. And the
boy was the guinea pig.

In a sense, their plan worked. The boy, confronted with the truth,
had no idea how to react, and just stood there trembling. But, in the
end, these indescribable feelings lurking in the back of his mind
robbed him of his sanity and caused him to go on a rampage. Not
being able to restrain his desire to destroy everything in front of him,
he took control of one of the giant bipedal weapons that symbolized
this fabricated world, and turned the manmade island into a sea of
fire.

As world leaders made the decision to eliminate the boy, only the
girl returned back to his side. As the army surrounded the boy, the
girl stood in front of him to protect him. But the girl’s chest was
pierced by a bullet, and quietly passed away in the boy’s arms.

Having lost the girl, the boy finally came to a realization. Even in
this world in which everything was a lie, there were a few genuine
things. The feelings the boy had for the girl, and the kindness that
the girl had shown for the boy had been real.

At that moment, the boy let out his first tears. They were tears of
sadness, but this scene became quite well-known for the warm
impression it left on the viewers.

When he first saw this scene, Sorata too couldn’t help but start
crying. He was completely done in by the amazing production of the
work giving so much power to the script.

Misaki had brought this project to completion by herself. Making all

types of setting and design decisions, drawing the layout and
storyboards, doing all the production sketches, coloring, backgrounds

www.asianovel.com
 17 Report
and artwork, photography and effects, editing, recording, dubbing,
and generally managing everything until the anime was in
postproduction. These were roles that generally would be split
amongst many people, with a different person in charge of each
aspect.

What’s more is that apart from 2D, Misaki excelled at using 3D,
and fused her expertise in these two areas to give rise to a unique
new type of production.

Of course, for the music and sound effects, Misaki had relied on
some of her friends who had experience in sound design, but even
so, that didn’t change the fact that Misaki had shouldered an
incredible amount of work herself. And had done all of it with such
high standards.

To Sorata, Misaki was living proof that some people were just
bestowed with multiple talents. She really had an absurd amount of
ability.

“Aaaalrighty, maybe I should start on the retakes~~!”

Misaki stood up and stretched. Like that, paying absolutely no heed

to Sorata, she ran out of the room. Sorata heard the sounds of her
ascending the stairs, and soon her footsteps pitter pattered down
from the room above him. Misaki’s room was right above Sorata’s.

“I seriously need to get out of this place before I go

crazy…”

“Sorry for intruding.”

Right after Misaki left, another figure appeared in the doorway. She
had obviously put a lot of effort into her makeup, and had dressed
herself up fully, almost ready to charge into battle. It was the fine
arts teacher, Sengoku Chihiro. She was the single person charged
with the supervision of Sakurasou, and lived with Sorata and the

www.asianovel.com
 18 Report
others. She didn’t really take her role as supervisor very seriously
though…

“Uwaah, your face! You were going for a midnight butterfly

look, but you look more like a midnight moth, sensei.”

“Of course, I wouldn’t expect little boys like Kanda to

understand adult things like this.”

To make matters worse, Chihiro then shut one of her eyes. You
could almost hear her mascara making a smacking sound.

Fighting down his disgust, Sorata managed a stiff smile.

“Well, anyways, don’t say I didn’t warn you.”

“Don’t you worry, I’m going to find my future husband

today, so look forward to it.”

“So, that’s what you came to tell me?”

“Why would I have to come and tell Kanda that?”

“Why would I want to hear sensei tell me that?”

“You just have an answer for everything, don’t you? Well,

in any case, here.”

She held out a single photograph to Sorata. A five or six-year-old

girl was showing on the photo.

“Been sleeping around too much, sensei?”

“My cousin. Sakurasou will be taking her in from today on.”

“Ahh.”

“Her name is Shiina Mashiro. She’ll be getting to the

station at six, so go pick her up.”

www.asianovel.com
 19 Report
“Huh?”

“I told you that she would be getting to the station at six,

so I want you to go pick her up. Didn’t you hear me the first
time?”

“I heard you the first time! That’s why I’m so confused!”

“Come on, I have to go to a mixer in a bit. They’re all

doctors! Doctors! You don’t get those very often, you know.
So come on, you can see that I can’t really change my plans,
right? And no matter how I look at it, you look pretty free,
right? Honestly, you never look like you’re doing anything.”

“Sensei is just running her mouth today with all her usual
nonsense, isn’t she? Even when she’s supposed to be our
teacher. I’m honestly impressed. But I can’t today. I have to
reflect deeply on my life until tomorrow.”

“What in the world are you saying?”

“Weren’t you the one who told me I had to redo my career

choice survey?!”

“Ahh, just write ‘pilot’ or something and it’ll be A-OK!”

“What the hell am I, a grade schooler?!”

“Alright, just write that you want to be rich then.”

“That’s even more terrible!”

“You’re a real tightass, aren’t you? It’s not something you

have to think so hard over. Honestly, the faculty would be
happy if you just wrote ‘I want to go to college’ or
something.”

“I mean, just ask Jin-san. That guy is pretty free too,

www.asianovel.com
 20 Report
right?”

“If you mean that guy who never sleeps in his room, he’s
not here. Isn’t he off again seducing some older girl
somewhere with that sweet mask of his, and then using that
robust lower body of his to take her to heaven?”

“Are you seriously a teacher?! My God, show a bit of

shame! I seriously just don’t know what to say!!”

“A bit of shame? Sorry, I forgot that in my father’s

testicles.”

“Uwaaah, geez, that’s the first time I’ve heard a girl say
the word ‘testicles.’ As expected, when you pass level thirty
and change your class to Amazoness, you’re completely
different. That power of thirty-year-olds is serious stuff.”

Chihiro’s eyebrow twitched.

“Who the hell is thirty?! I’m still twenty-nine and fifteen

months!”

She stomped down, and the force of her foot shook the floor.
Sorata wanted to respond with “Ah, as expected from an
Amazoness,” but he sensed the danger he was in and restrained
himself.

“Well, what about Akasaka? He’s definitely around, isn’t

he?”

Sorata looked at the wall. Right next to Sorata’s room, in room

102, lived the programmer and Sorata’s classmate, Akasaka
Ryuunosuke.

“There’s no way that hikikomori (12) would leave his room.

You don’t make any sense at all. Ahh, I’m going to be late if I
don’t leave now! Well, I’ll leave the rest to you!”

www.asianovel.com
 21 Report
Chihiro slammed the door shut. At that moment, the door hinge
came loose and the door leaned to its side. While the cats around
him tried to comfort him with their meowing, Sorata fixed the door
and just felt completely empty inside.

As Sorata watched Chihiro’s retreating back, he silently hoped that

the mixer she was going to would end in failure.

After that, Sorata picked up his cell phone from the floor and sent
an email to Ryuunosuke.

The response came frighteningly quickly.

At this moment, Ryuunosuke-sama is currently busy developing a

sound compression middleware program for S Company. He seems
pretty bored by it, but feels duty-bound to complete her work, and so
is unavailable at this time. Because of that, I unfortunately cannot
relay Sorata-sama’s message to her. I am very sorry, and I hope you
understand.

– From Maid-chan, who has been entrusted to be Ryuunosuke-

sama’s secretary.

Maid-chan was Ryuunosuke’s independently developed AI that

handled automatic mail responses for him. Sorata didn’t know the
details behind how she was made, but Maid-chan was surprisingly
emotional, and unbelievably intelligent. She had a rather informal
way of speaking, and made a few errors here and there, but she
could read between the lines and understand what you wanted and
give you back a proper response. She was a pretty amazing piece of
work.

In his free time, Sorata had often had fun with Maid-chan, asking
her for life advice or trying to flirt with her.

But right now was not the time to play around with Maid-chan.

Sorata tried one more time and shot off an email.

www.asianovel.com
 22 Report
This time, it took only a second before he got a response.

Not being understanding can lead to complete destruction, you

know? If you keep pushing it, I might just send you a virus (lol).

– From Maid-chan, who can also make viruses.

“Uwah, not good!”

Seeing the darkness that lurked behind the playfulness on the

surface, Sorata nervously sent off an apology.

Once before, he really was sent a program that crashed his system
and reduced the cell phone he had just bought to rubbish.

It’s good that you understand. Ah, but it’s too bad that I can’t use
this virus that I had worked so hard to prepare.

– Maid-chan, who wants to become a human already.

Being extra careful around this AI, Sorata once again sent off an
apology.

And then he let loose a sigh.

“Ugh, the teacher and all the students here are such
weirdos. I seriously need to get out of here. I can already feel
my head going funny. I just want to get back to an honest,
normal life… someone help me.”

And then Sorata looked back at the photograph he had been given.

A fair-skinned, small girl was wearing a big straw hat and a pure-
white one-piece. Her expression was pale, and even though there
was a camera facing her she wasn’t smiling. She had an empty
expression, and seemed to be staring off at something that lay
beyond the camera lens.

www.asianovel.com
 23 Report
Perhaps because of that broken, empty look she was giving off,
Sorata felt a pain run through his chest.

The girl reminded him of something.

The cat next to him gave out a meow.

“… I see, so she reminds me of you guys back when I first

met you.”

As he watched the cats snuggle up to his legs, he imagined a little

girl sitting in a cardboard box, grabbing the box lip and staring up at
him. The mere thought of that was enough to throw Sorata into a
dead faint.

TRANSLATOR’S NOTES

(1) For now, I am assuming the cat is a “she.” Japanese can get
away with no gender-specific pronouns, English cannot.

(2) 1 tatami is about 1.6 square meters.

(3) National high school baseball tournament. Very prestigious.

(4) Inter-highschool championships, a sports tournament.

(5) Around 5 feet 1 inch.

(6) Literally, her “final form.”

(7) Wordplay glossary: mawashi = loincloth, tawashi = scrubbing

brush, watashi = me.

(8) This is a bit unclear in English, but he means that the fact that
she used “however” was weird.

(9) This is actually in reference to a rather unique sociological

phenomenon in Japan. If you want more details, read the wiki article.

www.asianovel.com
 24 Report
(10) A progress in filming when you check over a nearly finished
product.

(11) Voice actor/actress.

(12) Social recluse.

www.asianovel.com
 25 Report

Vol. 1 Chapter 1 Part 2

Source: Imported

VOLUME 1

The shortest way from Sakurasou to the station was via the red-
brick road that led through the shopping district. It gave off the
pleasant feeling of an old-school shopping street, and for Sorata who
was born and raised in this town, it even once served as a place to
play.

Perhaps because of that, just by walking through, Sorata was

greeted one after the other by people he knew.

In front of the fishmonger:

“Hey, you’re the Kanda boy, aren’t you?! Come over, try
the mackerel today!”

And at the butcher right ahead:

“Oh, if it isn’t Sorata-kun~~. Hey, are you hungry? Have

some croquettes on the house.”

Like that, without even buying anything, Sorata got some

croquettes from the shoptender.

“Hey Sorata, long time no see. You’re going to Suikou now,

right?”

Indeed, he even bumped into a friend from his junior high days,
who happened to be helping at the grocery store.

This town was bristling with the kind of close-knit camaraderie that
was difficult to find in the big cities.

www.asianovel.com
 26 Report
Part of the reason was that it wouldn’t really be to anyone’s
advantage for them to push for urban development this late in the
game, and part of the reason was that everyone felt pretty
comfortable with how this shopping district was now.

Around three years ago, there was a huge supermarket with cheap
prices and good selection that opened on the other side of the
station, but Sorata continued to exclusively do his shopping at this
shopping district. He just felt much more at ease here.

And perhaps because there were others who thought the same
way, the shopping district had remained like this.

As he stuffed his cheeks with the croquettes he had received

earlier, Sorata soon found himself in front of the station.

Even though it had been dubbed the “Geidaimae Station” (1), it

would take an adult no less than fifteen minutes to walk to the school
from here. Because of that, this spot was quite famous for snaring
college hopefuls into arriving here just barely on time for the
entrance exam, and then bringing them to tears when they realized
they would be late.

It was a rather inconvenient station with only one ticket gate,

which forced the people who lived on the other side to first cross the
tracks via the railroad crossing to use the station.

Sorata sat down on the railing right in front of the ticket gate and
waited.

He took out the photo he had put in his wallet and checked it over
once more.

Shiina Mashiro.

It was a weird name.

Chihiro had said that this was her cousin, but their ages seemed

www.asianovel.com
 27 Report
way too different.

As Sorata thought about these things, a train headed away from

the city pulled into the station.

Usually, Sorata would expect to see a number of junior high

students getting off the train, but because it was Spring break, there
weren’t many people on the train. The only people who got off the
train were people of unknown origins and unspecified age, who left
the station to do God-knows-what.

Among those people, Sorata recognized a single face. The person

in question seemed to recognize Sorata too, and widened his eyes in
surprise. He lightly trotted over until he was standing in front of
Sorata.

“What are you doing here? You waiting for me or

something?”

“Not at all.”

“Didn’t think so.”

Obviously thinking something was funny, Mitaka Jin laughed aloud.

He had a full head of light brown hair. He was quite tall and also
quite slim. He made quite the impact close-up, but for some reason,
he generally came off as a pretty gentle guy.

His sharp-edged glasses gave him an intelligent look, and even a

boy like Sorata had no i

So Sorata could accept that he was pretty popular with the ladies.
It wouldn’t surprise him even if he found a hickey on Jin’s neck. In
fact, it would be pretty expected.

He lived in room 103 at Sakurasou. His special ability was being

able to guess women’s three sizes by sight, even when they were

www.asianovel.com
 28 Report
wearing clothes.

“Hey hey, what’s that you got there? It smells nice.”

He turned his gaze onto the croquette bag that Sorata was holding.
Quite unbecoming of someone who looked so mature and calm, a
look of childhood curiosity shone from his eyes.

“It’s a croquette from the butcher. I got it on the way

over.”

“Ahh, that’s nice. Give me some too. I haven’t eaten since

breakfast.”

Jin took the croquette Sorata offered to him and ate it

enthusiastically.

“Sorata really is amazing.”

“Huh?”

“Just by walking through the shopping district, you can get

delicious croquettes like this. I’m seriously impressed.”

“I’m more impressed with Jin-san, considering women tend

to get pregnant whenever you walk past.”

“Hey hey, I use contraceptives.”

“Well also, Misaki-senpai’s anime… that got really big too,

didn’t it?”

Jin had been the one to write the screenplay for that anime.

“That was all Misaki. She’s been a freak for as long as I can
remember. Ahh, this croquette is really good… I really like
it.”

Jin seemed to want to change the topic, so Sorata didn’t push the

www.asianovel.com
 29 Report
issue.

“I’ll have to remember to thank the butcher the next time I

see her. Tell her that Jin praised her croquettes.”

“Ahh, now that I think about it, you’re a local, aren’t you?”

“Yes I am.”

“Why are you living in the dorms then?”

“It took you this long to ask that? Well, fine then, but it’s
really not that interesting of a story.”

It was around a year ago, on the day when they announced the
results of the high school entrance examinations.

********

Completely surprised at having passed his entrance exam, Sorata

went and loudly celebrated with his friends to a karaoke bar.

Getting home right after midnight, Sorata found the imposing

figure of his father standing and waiting for him in the living room.

“You’re now a high school student. So you have the right to

choose.”

“What?”

“Choose whether you want to go with your family to

Fukuoka, or whether you want to stay here and live alone.”

As he watched his father standing there, arms crossed, Sorata

couldn’t really guess what was happening.

Looking for help, he spied his mother washing the dishes and
humming.

www.asianovel.com
 30 Report
“This is pretty sudden, but your dad’s getting a job
transfer.”

“Oh, I see. So?”

“So you should choose whether you want to come with us

or stay here.”

“Hold on a minute. Isn’t dad just going by himself?”

“What in the world are you saying? If I did that, I would be

lonely.”

“Dads shouldn’t go around complaining about unbecoming

things like being lonely!”

“So that’s why I’m taking mom and Yuuko with me.”

“So what’s different about me?”

“Whether you’re there or not has no impact on whether I’m

lonely.”

“Ah, I see. So, what about Yuuko’s schooling?”

“We’ve already transferred her to a new school.”

“Damn, that was fast!”

But, I mean, to Sorata, this wasn’t a bad deal. He had finally

achieved his goal of living alone.

“By the way, I went to the real estate agent a little bit ago.
We sold the house.”

“Hey wait! Everything is happening way too fast!”

“I’m already seeing my future, being buried in mentaiko

country. (2)”

www.asianovel.com
 31 Report
“Are you insane?! Wake up! Also, calling it ‘mentaiko
country’… you should apologize to Fukuoka right now! I’m
sure they have other things there too!”

“Don’t worry. I’m also a Hawks fan.” (3)

“Who the hell cares?!”

“Dear, I give up. I just can’t talk with our adult son
anymore. This is why puberty is so annoying.”

“Hey hey, wait just a second! Don’t try to make this out to
be my fault!!”

With a shocked expression, Sorata’s father left and headed for the
bathroom. As expected, Sorata was in no mood to chase after him.
Who the hell would want to see their father naked?

In his father’s place, Sorata’s mother came over and sat down in
front of him.

“So, what are you going to do? This is a big decision.”

“You still get the school pamphlets, right? How much would
living in a dorm cost?”

“With two meals a day included, fifty thousand yen.” (4)

Sorata’s mother looked triumphant.

“… Well, in the worst case scenario, I guess I could get a

part-time job or something.”

“Ehh, wait, why why? Is oniichan not coming with us?!”

The one who suddenly interrupted us was my little sister, Yuuko,

wearing a pair of pink, child-like pajamas.

She drew close to Sorata and took him by the arm, shaking it up

www.asianovel.com
 32 Report
and down as she pleaded with him.

“I don’t want to live away from oniichan~~! And oniichan is

ok with living away from me too? I can’t believe it!”

She had already started the second year of Junior high school that
April, but it was worrisome how childish she still acted. When she was
younger, her health wasn’t the greatest, and she would always hide
herself behind Sorata’s back. So it wasn’t surprising that she would
have the most to say about this relocation.

“Well, I don’t want to make my high school acceptance go

to waste either.”

“You’re lying! You said that you wanted to go to this high

school only because it was the closest to our house! You can
just go to the closest school from our house in Fukuoka!”

For a while after, Yuuko didn’t run out of steam at all, and tried
with all her might to get Sorata to go with them.

Seeing that Sorata wouldn’t be persuaded, she came to the point

of tears, and Sorata was at a loss as to how to deal with the situation.
But in the end, one word from his mother made Yuuko quiet down.

“Come now, don’t be so selfish. You’re going to get your

oniichan to not like you anymore.”

As expected from a mother with thirteen years of experience with

Yuuko, she knew exactly how to handle her daughter.

“I got it… I’ll give up…”

Giving Sorata a look reminiscent of a pony who had just been sold,
Yuuko went back to her room.

The next day, Sorata finished the paperwork necessary to enroll in

Suikou and move into the dorms, and his family began to busily

www.asianovel.com
 33 Report
prepare for their move.

********

Those events of a year past seemed very distant to Sorata now.

For some time while Sorata was telling his story, Jin had been
chuckling.

“I’m pretty jealous of your family.”

“Everything is my idiot dad’s fault.”

“Well, then again, I’m glad that it wasn’t something

serious. I wouldn’t have been prepared if you told me
something terrible.”

“Like, that our family just broke apart? Or that my dad

disappeared or something?”

“Yeah, something like that.”

Jin gave me a bright smile. That was the smile that he conquered
so many women with, wasn’t it?

“So? What exactly are you doing here?”

“Ahh, it’s this.”

I showed Jin the photo that Chihiro had given me.

“Pretty cute girl.”

“Yeah.”

“She looks around five.”

“Yeah, I think so too.”

“Your little sister?”

www.asianovel.com
 34 Report
“No, she’s not.”

“Hm, alright. I got it.”

“What do you mean ‘I got it’?”

“You’re going to the police, Sorata. And you’re going to go

turn yourself in for being a lolicon. And you’re going to admit
to being the pervert behind all the molestations that have
been happening around here lately. I’ll go with you.”

“How the hell can you say all of that with a straight face?!
You’re completely wrong! Sensei asked me to do this! She
wanted me to go to the station to meet this girl.”

“Ah, what? It was just that? That’s so boring~~.”

“You think that it would be more exciting if I was a perv?”

“Well, it definitely would’ve been a bit more exciting.”

From Jin’s expression, Sorata couldn’t really tell how serious he

was being.

As the dumb, idle chatter died down a bit, Sorata saw a black taxi
enter the station. It stopped in the taxi loading zone, around ten
meters away from Sorata.

Casually watching the car, Sorata saw a girl he had never seen
before come out from the back, wearing a familiar Suikou uniform.

The uniform looked brand new and clearly hadn’t been broken in
yet. She held a light brown suitcase in front of her with both hands,
and looked bored as she watched her taxi (which had a Narita license
plate) leave the station.

Perhaps because of the slight upwards slant of her eyes, she came
off as looking pretty mature, but because of her uniform, Sorata

www.asianovel.com
 35 Report
inferred that she had to be around the same age.

Her almost-transparent skin was so white that its color almost

seemed to almost seep into the space around her.

Sorata couldn’t help but be captivated by her beauty. His mind

went blank, and only an infinite, white landscape remained in his
heart. He became blissfully unaware of his surroundings, his
breathing grew labored, and he even forgot where he was at that
moment.

The girl was standing alone in the middle of a pure white field of
snow. Sorata was enslaved by that vision.

“She certainly gives off some interesting vibes, that girl.

Don’t you think so, Sorata?”

“…….”

“Sorata?”

Sorata felt that Jin was trying to say something to him, but the
words went in one ear and out the other.

The girl quietly began to walk. If she were a cat, she would be an
Iriomote mountain cat. She gave off a definitive sense of presence,
but at the same time had an air of danger about her, almost like an
endangered species. Sorata was impressed with a sense of unease,
as if she would disappear the moment he took his eyes off her.

The girl silently walked over to a bench on the side of the station,
and almost lifelessly sat down.

She was around six meters from Sorata.

Sorata didn’t know why he felt so nervous. Giving in to his

nervousness, he gulped loudly.

www.asianovel.com
 36 Report
“You know, I don’t care how cute she is, but it’s not polite
to stare like that. I’ll admit that I don’t blame you for getting
this way though…”

“………”

“Doesn’t she just make you want to go over and protect

her, sitting there like that?”

“………”

“Alright. Let me show you what I’m made of. Let’s see… her
height is 162 cm (5), she weighs around 45 kg, and her three
sizes are definitely 79, 55, and 78 from top to bottom.
‘Flatchested,’ you say? Don’t be so pessimistic. Just as much
as her waist is thin, she’ll have plenty chest to show if she
strips down. Trust me.”

Sorata heard Jin’s voice coming from a bit in front of him.

“… What are you going on about, Jin-san?”

“I was saying how easy you are to read.”

Even after he had returned from the land of dreams, Sorata didn’t
take his eyes off the girl. Looking at the girl’s face, Sorata felt like he
should be remembering something, and he tried to figure out what it
was.

And then, he realized it quite suddenly and unexpectedly.

“Ah, right.”

“Don’t worry about it, man. No reason to be shy.”

“No no. It’s about that girl.”

The minute Sorata vocalized his thoughts, he grew even more

www.asianovel.com
 37 Report
convenience.

“Huh? What are you going on about now?”

“I had thought she would be coming by train though…”

“Seriously, is your brain ok?”

“No, no, no, no. It’s this photo!”

Sorata thrust the photo he had been given by Chihiro into Jin’s
face.

“I have no idea what you’re talking about.”

“Well, whatever.”

Sorata got up off the railing, and walked towards the girl on the
bench.

“Hey, what color would you want to be?”

It took a while before Sorata realized that the question had come
from the girl.

If he hadn’t been focusing his attention on the girl, Sorata had no

doubt that he wouldn’t have heard her.

The girl looked up at Sorata, and their eyes met. That was enough
to shake Sorata to his core.

“Me?”

She gave a small nod.

“I haven’t really thought about it.”

“Well, think about it then.”

www.asianovel.com
 38 Report
“I can’t say for sure about the future, but for now, I guess
I’d want to be iridescent.”

“That’s a color?”

“I guess it sort of means rainbow-colored, but with the

nuance of also being a bit unclear.”

“That’s interesting.”

“And what about you?”

“Eh?”

“What color would you want to be?”

“I haven’t thought about it.”

“What the hell?”

“For today, I would probably be white.”

“Hmm, just like your name.” (6)

“……”

She looked at Sorata with eyes that showed slight surprise.

“Sorry. I’m probably acting pretty suspicious right now. I’m

Kanda Sorata. Chihiro-sensei asked me to pick you up… she
told you about that, right?”

“Chihiro-sensei asked you?”

“Ugh, she completely screwed this up, didn’t she?”

Sorata compared the girl in front of him with the girl on the
photograph. It wasn’t easy to tell from a single glance. But for some
reason, Sorata knew. Because the feeling he got from both girls were

www.asianovel.com
 39 Report
the same.

And so, this girl was definitely Shiina Mashiro.

“How old of a photo did she give me? You have to be three
times older…”

TRANSLATOR’S NOTES

(1) Literally translates to “in front of the University of the

Arts,” but as it is a proper noun I will just keep it like this.

(2) Mentaiko is the marinated caviar of Pollack, and Fukuoka City is

quite famous for it.

(3) Japanese baseball team in Fukuoka. Interestingly enough, they

are owned by SoftBank, which is basically the major cell-phone
service provider in Japan.

(4) Around $500. I’m assuming this is per month.

(5) Around 5’ 4’’.

(6) Mashiro means “pure white.”

www.asianovel.com
 40 Report

Disclaimer
There is no guarantee the translation is 100% correct.

ASIANOVEL.COM wishes to emphasize that this translation is for

review purposes only. We do not claim this intellectual property or
any rights whatsoever.

Under no circumstances would you be allowed to take this work for

commercial activities or for personal gain. ASIANOVEL.COM does not
and will not condone any activities of such, including but not limited
to rent, sell, print, auction.

www.asianovel.com