Name: Stop It, Long Night! Gotou Is Crying!
Author: Hikigaya Nine Days

Synopsis

[Slice of Life]+ [Anime Crossover]+ [Creative Adaptation]+ [Water Breathing]+ [Spy! Action! Little Mysteries!]

Ijichi Choya always carries his bamboo sword slung over one shoulder. Its polished surface is wreathed in a faint, almost imperceptible mist of water. This is a secret he's kept for years.

When he swings the sword, water follows the bamboo's grain, forming delicate streams. When he beats someone up... well, Seika says, “Use that bamboo sword to hit delinquents again, and I'll chop it up for firewood.”

The old manual covered in drawings of flowing water is tucked into the sword case, crammed in alongside Nijika's doodles and half a piece of uneaten candy.

He says it's a hero's equipment, but he keeps getting taken to the police station for tea after using his bamboo sword to knock delinquents' wallets out of their hands.

Then Gotoh Hitori, eyes red, cornered him to thank him for chasing away some delinquents. But when he waved his bamboo sword and asked, “Where's your guitar?” she burst into tears.

At some point, a wild, dead-eyed boy began occasionally appearing on the school rooftop. At home, righteous allies sometimes dropped by the kitchen, too.

Seika always frowns at the page sticking out of the sword case. It shows a sword hilt wrapped in wisteria, with a line of tiny writing beside it that nobody can make out.

Choya is starting to worry. Should this troublemaking bamboo sword be used to strike the fists of delinquents, or to help Hitori restring her broken guitar?

And what should he do with the “recruitment form” Chisato gave him, or with the Big Teacher's words: “People who do the right thing always get hurt easily”?

Perhaps the answer lies in the moment the bamboo sword cleaves through the flowing water, or in Nijika's shout: “Big brother, watch out!”

The synopsis doesn't do it justice. Read the story to see for yourself.

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