Remake Volume 1 Chapter 3 Part 7 – There is a Place Called the Film Department

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That night.

At the convenience store where I worked part-time, I told Nanako about today’s event (other than the eroge).

“Oh, so Hikawa does karate. Well, he does have a huge body.”

While organizing the cash in the cash register, Nanako said so as if she was impressed.

“Yeah, to be honest, his power was really amazing.”

“Action movie huh. But a physique like Hikawa’s just might be suitable for it.”

Certainly, if one thought of it that way, it does suit him.

“But Nanako too.”

When I tried saying, ‘aren’t you also suited for acting’,

“Don’t say anything further, okay?”

“S-Sorry.”

She glared at me with a serious look, so I apologized on reflex. She was the same as ever.

“Well, but if I don’t find anything to do, I am going to have to look for a job. I can’t keep working at a convenience store forever.”

Saying that, Nanako laughed in self-deprecation.

I had always thought so since I first saw her, but looking at her again, she really was beautiful.

I wonder why she chose the Film Department.

I was curious about it, so I tried asking her about it.

“Why are you here, Nanako?”

“Here, you mean Oogei? Hmm… I wonder why, I don’t have any particular reason to speak of…”

She tilted her neck slightly, and thought for a little bit, and eventually,

“If I had to give the strongest reason, then it’s because I’m sick of Lake Biwa.”

She replied with quite a strange reason.

“Lake Biwa?”

“Yes. I’m from Shiga. Do you know Nagahama?”

“Ahh, Nagahama Castle. Hideyoshi’s castle, right…”

I remembered my history teacher talking about it in history class back in high school. If I remember correctly, it was the first full-scale castle that Hideyoshi built, and it was located on the shore of Lake Biwa.

“Right, that very Nagahama. Well, it’s the place with only the castle.”

Nanako made a bitter smile,

“Till grade school, I always thought that Lake Biwa was an ocean.”

“Ehh?”

Wa, wait, that’s a bit silly, isn’t it…….

Seeing my astonished face, Nanako getting flustered,

“Stupid, Lake Biwa, really is big! If you also saw it as a child, believe me, you’d also think it was an ocean. You can only say that because you know what oceans are!”

She got all worked up, and was appealing her legitimacy.

“I-I understand, so, why did you get tired of Lake Biwa?”

As Nanako’s expression returned back to normal,

“Ah, right. Well you see, there’s really nothing special in Nagahama, Not a thing. There’s a little town there, and there is a small store at least, but there’s a little shop there, and that’s all that there is.”

Along with gestures, she tells me just how boring her hometown is.

“There is only a single video rental store, and the game parlor and the shop for CDs are also in the same place, so there’s nothing unusual listed there at all. And they only ever have best-selling products, and if you order something, it would take about a week to arrive.”

Then she sighed.

“Everyone born over there, don’t travel much, and because of that they believe that Lake Biwa is huge, they live without knowing about the real oceans or mountains. It’s not like that’s a bad thing…… When you part with your friends at the station, and become all alone, you sit on the bench and just stare into space, the time that just passes by doing nothing, is just too wasteful. And then I suddenly got the chills……It was a bit too boring for me.”

As Nanako looked toward me,

“So, when I got to Osaka, I thought it seemed like an interesting place. So, when I tried looking for a university here, I came across Oogei University and thought it sounded interesting, so I took the examination and got admitted.”

…… Hmm.

The contents of Nanako’s story, to me, was something I couldn’t afford to miss.

Her story was quite interesting, and was something that I could empathize with.

The previous 10 years that I had spent, were, at any rate a world devoid of any substantiality.

It may have been because I let it pass too quickly, but the world just kept moving on for the worse, and before I noticed it, I had a body that could not go anywhere.

So when time turned back, I chose to change the world even if I had to do it by force.

To a world that Nanako mentioned where I could see the ocean and mountains closer.

“So now……Nanako’s no longer bored?”

“You bet. I’m happily getting along with everyone in the boarding house, and for the university, the lessons are weird and it’s funny, so for now I am really glad that I came here.”

As Nanako after saying all that, and started to get a little teary,

“……Well, Tsurayuki’s meddling might leave some things to be undesired though.”

“Haha……”

I felt I should leave out the words Tsurayuki said the other day……

“Ah, that’s right, I forgot to mention that we should talk about the assignment.”

“Ugh, that’s right. Kyoya, did you come up with any good ideas?”

“No, not yet……”

“Ah geez, if we have the time to talk about Lake Biwa, it’d have been better to use it to think up of some ideas! Time, time……hmm, hmm.”

At almost the same time as Nanako began to worry, Pingpong, the chime of door being open rang.

“Ah, welcome!”

“Welcome!”

Nanako smilingly interacted with the customer who bought tobacco by specifying the number.

Because the scheduled time for restocking was approaching, I also returned to the back room to pick up the slips.

“……For now, let’s meet up and discuss this later.”

“Ok, agreed.”

I gave my consent in a low voice, and then returned to my part-time job for the time being.

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