Big Love from Ultra Deep Space ch14: The Shape of Love

So like, Tamura was wild!
Eh? With that?
Y'know, during karaoke!
That again? You just won't shut up about that!
Um...

I need to collect the surveys today...
Gyahahaha

...
Hey, do you have a moment?

Sorry to interrupt your fun,

but we're collecting the surveys today. Have you finished filling them in?
Eh? Oh crap.
I've filled out mine~!
I don't think I have.
I'll fill it in right now!

Is this all of them?

Yeah... U-Um... thank you.
Don't worry about it.

It's hard to talk to them when they're having so much fun, isn't it?

Later.

Student Council Office

So like!
These are the photos from the end-of-year culture festival!

Everyone seems to be enjoying themselves!
We do put a lot of our effort into it!
There's a few kids who joined our school just for the culture festivals!

Ah.
It's Mitake-chan.
This girl really has it together.
Even though we're her senpais, she's saved our butt plenty of times~

She's a mysterious girl.
Mitake-chan may seem reserved, but things get tense whenever she talks.
It's like everyone wants to hear what she has to say...

"A mysterious girl"...

She certainly is mysterious.
She has not tried anything since the other day,
even after that strong anger I felt from her.

The girls who hang around Sakuya-san have stopped approaching me, though...

...I do not understand that girl.
Not knowing everything about what happened between her and Ten-sama in the past
vexes me so.

If I were an Earthling...
If I had been by your side since birth,

maybe I would not have these feelings.

If I had the right
to stand by your side...

Te-

Ten-sama!?
Lulu!!

What are you doing here...?
Hah

A-Are you okay?
Did you not run into any of your middle school friends or...
I'm fine.

That's why I'm here.

...Hey, Lulu.
I'm sorry about the other day.

Eh?
For saying I didn't understand love at first sight...

It's because I know so many of your good sides, Lulu,
that I couldn't help but think... "you don't know anything".

But y'know,
you came to see me despite knowing nothing about me, Lulu.
I was truly saved because you tried to get to know me.

Even though there are many different ways in which relationships between people begin,
I went and made light of what you had done for me.
That is not...

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Lulu.
I'm
going to talk with Sakuya.

I'm terrified
because I don't know what her feelings are.
I don't want to be hurt. I don't want to hurt her.
The me from a little while ago couldn't do this.

But y'know,

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the things you have given me have made it easier for me to breathe, Lulu.

It's because you're watching me
that I can feel okay no matter how bad it gets.
So I'm going.

I want to move forward, after all...

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...Lulu?
Did I creep her out?
...But...
Yeah?

would it be okay for me to wait for you?

Yeah.
Wait for me, okay!?

...Aah.

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There is no need to tie you down.

The pain of not having you by my side
is nothing compared to the thought of making you feel all alone.

I came to this planet to make her happy, did I not?
If the things I gave you of my own accord
can give you courage, that is all I need.

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If it can make the place you are going
just a little bit brighter...
...Take care now,
Ten-sama.

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