Chapter 24

The next day…

“Rengoku, you can go on without me. I'll catch up in a bit.”

“Sure.”

She walked around the school for a while until she got tired and sat on a bench.

“Oo, you have really pretty hair.”

“Huh?”

“Oh, my bad, I should have introduced myself. I'm Ayaka Ohtani. But everyone calls me Aya. We're in the same class.” She sat next to her.

“Oh. Sorry, I haven't gotten to know everyone yet.”

“Then I'll be the first one you get to know, Sakata-san.”

“You can call me by my first name or my second one. I prefer it if people don’t call me by my last name because it makes me feel like my dad when you don't.”

“Ok, Tisiphone. I don’t think I've ever seen snow-white hair before. Did you dye it?”

“Nope, it's been this way since the day I was born.”

“That's so cool. How did you get it to be so curly? Mine is always pin-straight; it never wants to stay curly no matter what I do.”

“Mine never wants to stay straight no matter what I do.”

They looked at each other and then laughed.

“You laugh like