Tasuku Kaname

Tasuku Kaname (要介, Kaname Tasuku) is the main character of Shimanami Tasogare and a high school student at Shimanami High, who is troubled by his sexual orientation and his affection for his schoolmate Touma Tsubaki.

Appearance
Tasuku is a generally plain-looking teenager and doesn't stand out very much. He has black hair and green eyes. Due to his inner conflict, he usually tends to look rather down, concerned or lost in thought. However, the more he learns about and interacts with the other patrons of the Drop-in center, the more he tends to smile. He is also easily flustered by thoughts of Touma.

As a student he usually wears his school uniform. However, in his free time he is often seen wearing plain shirts, which are either short-sleeved or long-sleeved depending on the season.

While participating in his club activities, like all other members, he sports his Shimanami High gym uniform.

Personality
Reflecting his generally average appearance, Tasuku seems to have a rather timid personality. He desperately tries to blend in to the point where he will use homophobic slurs and make offensive comments as a defense mechanism so that no one at school will think he is gay. Though he almost immediately regrets his words, they reflect Tasuku's internalized homophobia, as he himself states in his conversation with Anonymous in chapter one, saying, "I tried to maintain that secret by even using words that would hurt me the most if someone had said them to me."

Tasuku is also kind at heart and tries to be understanding towards others, since he too wants to be understood. He even goes out of his way to help Misora get more comfortable with himself and to help him explore his true identity. Even when his attempts fail and Misora outs him in public, Tasuku stays rather calm and later asks himself what he could have done differently to prevent hurting Misora.

Regardless, like Misora, Tasuku also seems to be rather unsure of himself. It takes him some time to admit to himself and to the other lounge patrons that he might be gay and is reluctant to come out to his friends from school or his family due to the harm he sees this has caused others.

Plot
Summary

Tasuku is gay and has a crush on the ace of the Volleyball Club and fellow Health Committee member Touma Tsubaki. After one of Tasuku's classmates finds gay porn in his phone search history, Tasuku has a breakdown, believing that his life is over. As he gets ready to kill himself by jumping off a ledge, he sees a stranger jumping out of a window of a building further up the hill. He runs in the direction of the building in a panic and finds himself in a lounge that he later discovers is a de facto meeting place for members of the LGBT community. While there, he finds that the person he saw jumping out the window, called Anonymous, is alive and well. After briefly meeting the other Lounge visitors and having a short but enlightening conversation with Anonymous, he starts coming to the Lounge more frequently and soon becomes a regular there.

Volume 1
Chapter 1

After his classmates find gay porn in his phone, Tasuku contemplates suicide. Before he can go through with it, he sees a person jump from a window, seemingly to her death. When he rushes in the direction she jumped from, Tasuku finds the Lounge, with the person, Anonymous, safely inside. Tasuku follows her to the observatory, where he admits "to having a secret". After reanalyzing the incident again, Tasuku decides to go back to school to make sure his friends didn't know his "secret". Anonymous invites him to come by the lodge again.

Chapter 2

Despite his hopes, his classmates remembered the incident from the day before and continued to mock him. He freaks out and runs from the room, skipping the end of class ceremonies. He returns to the lodge and is hostile to the other regulars, embarrassed by their sexualities. Tasuku tries to confide in Anonymous when she returns. She listens while packing 1000000 Yen stacks but she doesn't respond to his feelings, leaving him feeling hollow. He falls asleep on the couch of the lodge, emotionally exhausted.

Chapter 3

After Tachibana, the friend who found the gay porn, apologizes for teasing him, Tasuku finds the confidence to tell him to stop making gay jokes. However, he seems tense after he notices Touma Tsubaki, a volley ball player, looking at them. When he returns to the lodge, Haruko Daichi invites Tasuku to join the lodge members to help demolish an abandoned building for their organization, Cat Clowder. After Haruko's wife, Saki visits her, she tells Tasuku she's her wife. Their affection towards each other make Tasuku realize his feelings for Touma.

Chapter 4

After another day of demolishing, Tasuku asks about Saki and Haruko's relationship. Harkuo asks him to keep Saki's orientation a secret, which he empathizes with. Haruko shows him a gay twitter community where she met Saki and tells him the story of how she built the Lounge, and came out to her parents.

Chapter 5

Tasuku is put on the spot by Saki during an angry rant, when she assumes he's gay. Tasuku almost says he isn't before Anonymous asks him, "Is he going to die again?" before leaving for her walk. Tasuku follows her out to go meet up up with the ping pong club. The various school clubs meet by the docks. Despite pining over Touma, he is still conflicted over pursuing his feelings.

Later, Saki apologizes to Tasuku for putting him on the spot. Saki confesses that she does want to come out to her parents, but she's also intimidated. Despite this she does say she wants to marry Haruko. Tasuku sees all this and is envious of their happiness. After Haruko sees his reaction, Haruko tells Tasuku he will pick what the next house renovation will be.

At a demolition job for Cat Clowder, Tchaiko plays Tchaikovsky. Tasuku is emboldened by the music and asks to demolish a wall. He is too nervous to us the large crowbar, so Haruko gives him a nail puller. After pulling a nail, he sees Touma and anonymous through the hole. He admits to Haruko he has a crush on a guy, and breaks down in tears.

Volume 2
Chapter 6

Tasuku figures out who Misora is when he sees him walk in the Lounge in his school clothes and change into his feminine clothes. Through a series of questions, Tasuku learns that Misora only dresses in feminine clothing at the lodge and is not out to his family and friends. Misora antagonizes Tasuku about his sexuality and his crush on Touma. Tasuku assumes that Misora must be gay since he's "cross-dressing", but after being scolded realizes the gender and sexuality aren't connected. When Anonymous enters the room, all of Misora's attention shifts completely to her. Realizing what Tasuku might think, Misora quickly tells him Tasuku he dresses "like this" for himself before leaving in a hurry, leaving Tasuku confused.

Tasuku goes to a health committee meeting, where Touma is present. When the meeting ends, Tasuku and Touma are the last to leave. Touma is flustered when Tasuku recognizes him from the times the ping-pong club's and volleyball club's meetings intersect. Tasuku knows a surprising amount about Touma, but pretends not to.

Chapter 7

Tasuku is greeted by Touma while he walks with Tachibana. This makes Tasuku's feelings start to bubble up, but he quickly swallows them down. Though he tries to ignore his feelings, he is still disappointed when Tachibana says he will probably has a girlfriend or at least a girl he fools around with.

In the afternoon, Tasuku sees Tsubaki-san leaving the lounge. Inside, Haruko is angry with Tsubaki-san over his demands for Cat Clowder, but refuses to tell Tasuku what he actually said. Tasuku compliments Misora's outfit, causing him to blush and run to the backroom. Misora puts on his school uniform again and asks to go to Tasuku's house.

At Tasuku's house, Misora asks what to do when "your underwear gets dirty' because it was the first time "that" (a wet dream) had happened to him. That's what the plastic bag was at the start of the chapter. He admits that he doesn't have anyone he feels comfortable talking to since he only lives with women. Tasuku tries to connect this to his cross-dressing but is quickly shot down. Misora continues to worry about puberty, and how he will grow into a more masculine body, but also doesn't know if he actually wants to be a girl. Tasuku pressuring him to decide only makes him more frustrated and he tries to leave. Tasuku realizes that Misora needs his help and grabs his hand.

Chapter 8

Tasuku tries to help Misora find someone like him on the LGBT Twitter community, but finds it difficult since he can't classify Misora's identity. Haruko explains that gender and sexuality are on a spectrum, but a label would help Misora find a supportive community. Misora redirects the conversation back to Tasuku, asking him how he learned he was gay. He remembers being attracted to one of his classmates in 4th grade, recalling that the boy made his heart race and Tasuku thought he looked cool, which Misora found boring. Misora pesters him for a "reason" he's gay, which irritates him enough to make him yell.

Their conversation is interrupted when Tsubaki-san comes into the lounge. He asks if Tasuku is one of "those kinds of people", but Haruko quickly intercepts and says he just volunteers with Cat Clowder. Tsubaki-san tells Haruko that being gay is fine as long as the Lounge doesn't become "a meeting place" and "start queer rumors". Haruko stops him and tells him, "'Gay people aren't zombies that walk around 24 hours a day thinking about love and dirty stuff!'" Tsubaki-san insists that he didn't mean it like that, but Haruko rushes him out politely and with a smile. Now fired-up, she calls on Tchaiko and Tsuku to go to Triangle Manor, the temporary name for Tasuku's in charge of.

Chapter 9

The day of the summer festival, Tasuku tells Misora that he looks cute in the yukata he was wearing. And invites him to watch fireworks together, to go outside while presenting as feminine. The two go to the festival together and enjoy themselves. Tasuku smiles when he realizes that Misora is having a great time. At that moment, Touma immediately spots him in the crowd and calls his name. Touma is surrounded by some more people who got the impression that Tasuku is there with his girlfriend, thinking Misora is the girlfriend. Tasuku is quick to clarify that Misora is just the kid of one of his relatives. And as a person walks by, they slightly push Touma forward, making him fall forward in front of Tasuku. As their faces get extremely close, Tasuku starts blushing, but they quickly break apart and say their goodbyes. Misora then teases him about the situation and tells him to just confess. Tasuku replies there's no way he can do that and gets upset at the thought of how the girls can just be close to Touma with no problem while he can't tell him his feelings without fearing all the harm that will come from that.

They keep walking around the festival with Misora when someone sexually harasses Misora in the crowd. As they walk away from there, Tasuku remarks in an offhand comment that the person did it because Misora looked cute, trying to compliment how he looked like a girl, without noticing the tremendous harm his words caused for Misora. Misora, feeling angry, confused, and pushed by Tasuku, explodes into a homophobic tirade, shouting at him before running away. Touma, who was hearing it all, comes between them, shouting at them to protect the goldfish that had just fallen from Misora's hand when the fight occurred.

Chapter 10

Three days after the incident with Misora, Tasuku shows up at the Lounge and finds out that Misora stopped going there. As he was preparing to go see Misora, Haruko stops him and tells him that he shouldn't, saying that there are times when someone gets hurt no matter what one does. Upset about the whole situation, Tasuku breaks down and begs Haruko to tell him how to understand Misora to not hurt him anymore. Haruko tells him that she genuinely doesn't know because it's not their job to decide what to do, it's Misora's. She tells Tasuku that now wasn't the right time to push Misora, and apologizes to him for not telling him that earlier.

Tasuku goes to Triangle Manor afterwards and lies on the floor. There, he thinks about everything that has happened to him ever since he came to the Lounge, and remembers Anonymous words about deciding what to do with the property, still unsure about it.

Volume 3
Chapter 11

Tasuku stops going to the Lounge for a while, but after school starts again, Utsumi calls him one day to help with the grade schoolers workshop project they have in Cat Clowder, and he immediately goes to help. Suddenly, Touma and his dad appear as volunteers there, and Tasuku is completely shocked to see him there. However, he starts getting serious once he realizes that somehow Touma acts as if nothing happened, and fits right in. He spends the afternoon helping around the project with Touma, until one of Utsumi's friends who passes by to volunteer, Koyama, outs him and Tasuku listens, completely shocked, but not saying anything, respecting the fact that what matters it's Utsumi's right time to say.

The next day, at the health committee, Tasuku and Touma are working on some decorations when Touma starts to suddenly make homophobic and transphobic remarks about the people of the Lounge, Tasuku's friends, as he finds himself unable to respond. Tasuku gets even more anxious when Touma mentions that he heard all the stuff that was said in his fight with Misora and how he thought it was funny "a grade-school girl" called him a homo bastard. Tasuku acts as if he didn't hear what Touma says, although he's hurt thinking Touma is toying with him, giving him false hopes, and he starts getting more worried about the fact he doesn't understand Touma at all, seeing him fly away in a literal spaceship, away from him. Touma gets him out of his thoughts, inviting him to go to a ship launching to take some pictures for the school project together with him, which confuses Tasuku even further.

Chapter 12

After getting the invitation from Touma, he can't stop thinking about how he'll go with him, with "the one he loves", alone together to this place. And his family starts noticing how cheery he is. However, he says nothing about it, thinking to himself that silence is right since he doesn't feel safe telling his family about his sexuality, afraid that he won't have his home to return to afterwards.

The day of the date, he gets disappointed as soon as he realizes that they're not going to be alone together, although he quickly hides it with a smile. Touma introduces him to two girls, but Tasuku immediately forgets their names as his head is in another place. Although he's disappointed with himself for thinking this day would be different, he starts thinking that a year ago, he would have never imagined he'd be spending a day like this with Touma, and that he's glad he didn't die the day Anonymous found him for the first time.

Tasuku and Touma spend the rest of the day together, taking pictures and having fun. And when the time comes for the ship launching, the two of them were together, alone, like Tasuku wanted, in the big crowd of people. Touma suddenly grabs him and pulls him closer into a hug, which makes Tasuku break down crying in frustration since he still doesn't understand Touma and thinks he's toying with him. Afterward, they go to a restaurant nearby and Tasuku tries onomichi ramen for the first time. One of the girls suddenly asks Touma and Tasuku how the two of them met, so Touma starts explaining it all. Until he arrives on the topic of the Lounge, and he starts making homophobic and transphobic remarks again. This deeply hurts Tasuku, who finds himself unable to respond, shaking a lot. Thankfully, one of the girls abruptly cuts Touma, telling him he can't be talking like that, since her friend's sister is trans and it's not at all the way Touma was describing "those people" to be. Once they say their goodbyes outside the restaurant, Tasuku says goodbye to Touma in a very emotionless way, and silently thanks the girl who stopped Touma's remarks as he waves and smiles at her. Tasuku thinks to himself:  "If she hadn't been there, what would I have done? I think I would have been broken... again." And once again reflects on the fact that still, staying in the closet is the safest thing he can do.

Chapter 13

The next day, Tasuku meets Touma again at the Lounge and acts like nothing happened yesterday, hiding behind a smile. However, he thinks to himself how can Touma act so nicely with Tasuku's friends at the Lounge when just the other day he was saying horrible and hurtful stuff about them.

"Being near Tsubaki-kun is incredibly scary. As though on a rollercoaster, my heart is suddenly lifted up and pushed down. Terrifying. Being near Tsubaki-kun means I quickly get to know him. It makes me want to know even more. It makes me love him even more."

In the afternoon, he goes cycling with Utsumi, to take some pictures for his school project. And as they ride, Utsumi tells him he was surprised to learn Touma was the son of the regional promotion section manager, and that he was in Tasuku's same grade. Then, Utsumi asks Tasuku if he is in love with Touma. Tasuku blushes and answers "yes." Then, hesitantly, he asks Utsumi about his friend, Koyama, who made some very uncomfortable comments about Utsumi earlier, and who outed him. Utsumi tells him that she's just someone with "unrestrained good intentions". And as he smiles, he says that he can't live getting so worked up if he wants people to accept his true self. As he cycles away from Tasuku, he tells him he's not a good person, while Koyama is. But later, Utsumi yells "it drives me crazy", letting out all the emotions he can't express. Tasuku thinks that he's just "Utsumi-san", and not all of the thinks people want to label him as. And then, he starts thinking about Misora again and thinks that "silence is still right."

Chapter 14

While Utsumi goes to the school reunion Koyama invited him to, Tasuku and his friends at the Lounge take care of Mai, Koyama's daughter. When time comes for Mai to return with her mom, Tasuku takes her to meet her, and sees Utsumi and her fighting. Koyama insists, despite Utsumi's repeated and clear rejections, that he should let people know that he's different from "someone who's gay". Tasuku listens to her hurtful words, but Utsumi is quick to shut her down, telling her that if she's going to hurt his friends like that, that he doesn't want to be the only person she "undestands." Utsumi makes clear to Koyama that he doesn't want her to belittle him or anyone else, especially not his frieds. Tasuku stares at him, deeply moved by his words. And Utsumi's words get marked on his memory.

Chapter 15

The next day at school, Tasuku is working hard on the preparations for the school festival, with the health comitee. When all of a sudden Touma starts acting hostile towards him, making homophobic remarks once again, all because of his repressed feelings that Anonymous released to the surface. His classmates are quick to jump to his defence, asking if he's ok after Touma storms out of the classroom.

After school, as he's working in the Lounge's garden with Anonymous, he starts reflecting on what happened. Although he felt anger at that moment, he's glad he didn't blow up since he was scared of Touma hating him "for good." Remembering Utsumi's words from the other day, Tasuku asks Anonymous if they ever get mad and if they ever regret it. To which Anonymous replies that if you live without getting mad, at the very least you could end up invisible.

The day of the school festival, Tasuku ends up doing all the work and doing the presentations all by himself. So when it all ends, and he's alone with Touma in the classroom, he invites him to Triangle Manor, since they're going to be waxing the floor. However, Touma explodes and starts verbally assaulting Tasuku and the Lounge, acknowledging the fact that Tasuku is gay and saying how mad it makes him to see the people in the Lounge be so open about their sexualities, "when they could just hide that they're gay". As this is all happening, Tasuku sees Touma getting further and further secluded in the space ship he was on, getting away from Tasuku's understanding. However, Tasuku is tired and fed up of his attacks and breaks the entrance to the space ship, literally entering into Touma's space and saying the exact same words Utsumi said: "don't belittle me or the others!" Touma stares at him, speechless, and Tasuku decides to come out to him as gay and to confess his feelings for him. He lets Touma know clearly that although he spent some nice moments with him, that that's not going to work anymore.

"I want you to know that what you’ve said has hurt me. It’s not like I want your sympathy or apology! I just don’t want you to hurt anyone else! I don't want to see the guy I like hurting anyone else anymore!"

Right after this, the space ship around Touma breaks, as he breaks down crying as well, to his own shock. And both he and Tasuku start blushing. Touma apologizes to Tasuku, they say their goodbyes and Touma thanks Tasuku for talking to him. Tasuku thinks to himself that he still doesn't understand Touma, but now understands the pain he must be harboring, since he sees him being annoyed, upset and confused, just like he was the day he met Anonymous.

After this moment, Tasuku continues his usual activities, visiting his friends at the Lounge. Tchiko shows them some music pieces since his record player got repaired, and as they listen to Tchaikovsky's "1812 Overture", Tasuku expresses how much he likes the piece, as he and Utsumi smile at each other. Later, he goes with Haruko to Triangle Manor and there, he confesses to her that his idea for the place will be for Triangle Manor to be where hers and Saki's wedding ceremony gets celebrated.

Volume 4
Chapter 16

Tasuku gets surprised seeing Tchaiko getting out of the hospital, and quickly runs to him, thinking he's sick. Tchaiko replies that he's as healthy as ever, with his characteristic big smile, and tells him he's there to visit his partner. At that moment, while Tasuku is still shocked to hear that, he gets even more shocked seeing Touma approaching them as well and talking to Tchaiko about helping at Triangle Manor, as if nothing happened, especially since he confirmed his feelings to him.

Chapter 17

As the holiday season is approaching, Tasuku is helping at the Lounge with holidays decorations. And when Touma, who also came to help, starts acting flirtatious with Tasuku, this confuses him even further. Then, Anonymous makes them some special cafe au lait, and after they leave, as they're cleaning the dishes, Tasuku asks Tchaiko to share the story of how he met Anonymous, if he wants to. As Tchaiko shares it all with them, Tasuku listens intently.

Chapter 18

After Tchaiko explains how he and his partner met Anonymous, Tasuku reflects on how Anonymous must feel. He wonders if Anonymous might never fall in love. And as he Touma passes him by, slightly touching his back, Tasuku thinks to himself that love may be painful, but at least he doesn't feel lonely. Later, at the Lounge, he talks to Mai about Saki and Haruko's wedding, and gets shocked to see Tsubaki-san arrive at the Lounge.

Chapter 19

Tsubaki-san passes by the Lounge to apologize to Saki since he outed her to her parents without her consent. But as soon as he sees Touma there, he starts getting worried about why he is there, asking him who "lured him into being gay". As an angry Touma replies "no one", Tasuku decides to step up and he tells Tsubaki-san that he's gay, asking him that now that he knows that fact about him, how will he treat him from then on.

Chapter 20

Tasuku tells Tsubaki-san that there's some people he wants to come out to, but on his own time. And that this is something really important to them, so he trusts he won't tell this to anyone. Tsubaki-san sees his error after listening to Tasuku, and as he reluctantly leaves his son behind, he apologizes and leaves. Later, as the sun is setting, Touma and Tasuku walk together, just the two of them. Tasuku attentively listens to Touma's concerns. Then, Touma tells Tasuku that he wants to support him from now on, since he hasn't been able to do so. And Touma asks him if it's okay for him to give Tasuku a hug. As they stay in each other's arms for a long time, Touma tells him that he corresponds to his feelings for Tasuku, but that he still needs time to understand himself and his sexuality, which Tasuku fully supports, telling him there's nothing wrong with not knowing what to do. After Touma leaves, Tasuku stands there for a minute, watching him walk away, and blushing enormously, thinking about the fact he's starting to understand Touma a bit more, and also about how much he really does like him.

Later, he receives a call from Haruko, asking him if it's ok after the incident with Tsubaki-san. Tasuku lets her know that he is and asks how Saki is. Haruko tells Tasuku that she and Saki are incredibly grateful to him for the way he's organizing the wedding ceremony and says that they're counting on him. Tasuku smiles brightly and promises Haruko that he will take care of it, and hangs up.

Tasuku keeps walking around town seeing the holidays decorations and as he feels happy and content now, he starts seeing Misora around, wearing the Yukata he had on the last time Tasuku saw him. Tasuku thinks that he feels like he's now ready to face Misora again.

Chapter 21

Tasuku goes to Misora's house, to apologize to him, after six months without seeing each other.

"Misora-san, I still don't fully understand how you felt back then, so I don't know anything about you. But I clearly understand that my shallow-minded attitude and my preconceived notions hurt you, along with my arrogance over thinking I could do something for you. [...] I'm sorry, Misora-san. And I'm also sorry that I did something that I had to apologize for."

Then, they go together to the Lounge and Tasuku smiles seeing Misora quickly feeling at home again. Then, he goes up to the observatory, where he sees Anonymous. He tells them that he wasn't expecting to see them there, especially on such a cold day like that one. After trying (and failing) to invite them to Saki and Haruko's wedding, when Anonymous asks him about Seichirou, Tchaiko's partner, Tasuku asks them why don't they just ask Tchaiko themself. Tasuku confesses that Anonymous has been hard for him to grasp, so when he found out they were asexual, he felt like he could finally see a little bit of what makes Anonymous up. Anonymous explains that they are not who they are because they are asexual, that that it's just one aspect of what makes them as a person, and tells Tasuku that it's the same with him, since the fact that he's gay doesn't make him himself.

Tasuku starts to feel like he can't reach Anonymous once again, as he starts getting trapped by all possible interpretations Anonymous can take form of. He then understands that he can't act as if he understands who they are, and instead he just has to never lose sight of them. And at that moment, he's able to reach Anonymous and hold their hand. Tasuku tells them that having Anonymous breathing right in front of him, and feeling their warmth, is all that matters to him. Anonymous softly smiles at him and after saying "thank you" to him, they fly away, as Tasuku sees them from the observatory.

Chapter 22

After spending so time in school with Touma and with his friend, Tachibana, back at home, he calls Haruko and attentively listens to all her updates and how busy she is. Before hanging up, she reminds Tasuku that she's counting on him, and Tasuku also reminds her that he's taking care of it.

After hanging up, he sits down to have dinner with his family and lets them know that he will be home late this weekend because he will be attending his friend's wedding. After his brother gets surprised at the fact a friend of his can be marrying this soon, thinking it's someone from school Tasuku is talking about, Tasuku lets them know that it's an older friend he met at a cafe, and that makes his brother say "is not just some weirdo, righ", worried about his little brother. Tasuku lets his family know that Haruko has been great to him, and that she offered him a place to be, so he wants to return the favor. Tasuku's mom tells him to have fun then, and his brother says he'll let Tasuku borrow some of his hair wax.

On the morning of the day of the wedding, Tasuku gets shocked to see Triangle Manor has been vandalized, with homophobic slurs written all over its outer walls. As soon as Tasuku realizes that this terrifying reality of  homophobic attacks LGBT+ receive on their everyday lives is something that it's "always close by", he starts having a panic attack, shaking uncontrollably. But he soon calms down when Touma brings some paint thinner to scrub it off the walls. As they're working on it, Touma breaks down crying, thinking about the fact he could've been one of these hateful people. Tasuku comforts him and let's him know that now is not the time to cry. So Tasuku refects on the fact that when we hurt someone, we have it within us to look back and reflect on it. And he thinks that compared to that person he was on the day he met Anonymous, he thinks he has changed.

Chapter 23

During the wedding ceremony, as all the guests were eating some of the wedding cake, Tasuku notices Tchaiko hasn't been eating much, which concerns him. So he approaches him, making him jump at the sudden question. Although Tchaiko tells him he's just fine, he was very anxious about the recent news he received of his partner Seichirou's critical condition.

After spring ends, and Tasuku starts his second year of high school, he starts working on remodeling yet another vacant house with Cat Clowder. He and Touma meet each other at the Lounge again and share how happy they've been lately.

Trivia

 * Tasuku only moved into Onomichi in the spring of that year.
 * Tasuku likes the supernatural and paranormal as seen by the books on his shelf.
 * On his second year of high school, Tasuku joins the library committee.