Me in the Wind Ensemble and My Childhood Friend Who Plays Volleyball

Note from September 19, 2026: Weekly updates resume in October!

Note from February 12, 2026: I'm planning to start other stories soon. Since I'm no longer into competitive rankings, I'll finish this story whenever I feel like it!

Blurb 1.0:

Kumiko Oumae, who lives in Tokyo, has two childhood friends.

One is an adorable Shiba Inu with dot eyebrows; the other is a cool seaweed head whose germophobia keeps getting worse.

Even though they have completely different interests and hobbies, they always thought they'd gradually drift apart and become strangers as they grew up, no longer as close and familiar as they were in childhood. But somehow, they've always stayed close.

From elementary school, to her first year of middle school, and then on to the same high school, they were always together. They practiced volleyball in the yard while she played music upstairs. It seemed that no matter when, they were together.

So...

Isn't it only natural for their social circles to overlap?

--Even if she doesn't play volleyball, she can still make a bunch of volleyball friends thanks to some mysterious magnetic force. Looking at a list full of volleyball-obsessed heads, Kumiko Oumae sighs.

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※ This idea came from being both angry and speechless about the story in Sound! Euphonium 3. There are lots of original settings. If that's not your thing, don't read. Anyway, everything diverges from the original and is heavily rewritten, to give Kumiko a happy ending.

Characters from Sound! Euphonium will appear. I'm separating this from Takeda and the third season. No character bashing, and no bashing Mayu. Mayu is on Team Kumiko!

※ Slice of life, with no major plotline.

※ Pairing undecided. There will be a few romances along the way.

* The theme is taken from Tolstoy's Anna Karenina.

Theme: He tried not to look at her, as if she were the sun. But like the sun, he could feel her presence without looking.