She wasn’t aware that Kazuto, who was wearing a sweatshirt and sitting on the porch, had been looking in her direction. As their eyes met, he smiled and spoke: “Good morning.” As he said that, he tossed the small bottle of mineral water in his left hand over to her. Suguha caught it with her right hand before responding: “G-good morning.... Seriously, if you’ve been watching me, you should have said something.” “But, it looked like you were seriously concentrating.” “Not really, I’m always like this.” Suguha secretly felt really happy that they were able to talk so naturally with one another over these two months. She picked a spot to Kazuto’s right which kept a delicate distance from him and then sat down. Setting the shinai aside, she opened the bottle and placed it at her mouth; the cold water permeated her hot body and felt refreshingly pleasant. “I see you’ve kept it up this whole time...” Kazuto picked up Suguha’s shinai and swung it lightly with his right hand from his sitting position. He immediately tilted his head to one side and said: “So light...” “Huh?” Suguha removed the bottle from her mouth and looked at Kazuto.