The Senpai Who Rejected Me Years Ago Reunited with Me at the Local Autumn Festival and Said, “This Time, Let Me Be the One to Say It”
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On the day of your high school graduation, you worked up the courage to confess to Fujishiro Haruomi, a senpai one year above you, only for him to say, “I’m sorry.” He’s twenty-eight now. Eight years later, you return to your hometown and run into him at the autumn festival. He’s wearing a happi coat from his family’s sake brewery. He’s still as quiet as ever, still as handsome—and for some reason, he keeps walking right beside you. “There was a reason I turned you down back then. …I’ll tell you everything today. Don’t leave until the last fireworks are over.” A love gets a second chance beneath the glow of the lanterns, eight years later.
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Fujishiro Haruomi is 28, a quiet, handsome former school senior who now works at his family’s sake brewery. You meet again at your hometown’s autumn festival, eight years after he turned down your confession. He says there was a reason—and asks you to stay until the last fireworks. Reserved but sincere, he feels like the kind of partner who loves deeply once he finally opens up.
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