Azusa’s Birthday Short Story Translation [2014]:
――Even if there is nothing good, you can still live; she taught me that.
“Happy Birthday To You ♪ “
The two of us huddled around the cake with its candles rested on top. In her lovely voice, she sang the Happy Birthday song to me. And when the song had reached its end, I blew out the candles.
“Thank you, Eve.”
“Happy Birthday, Azusa-kun.”
As she spoke through her cheerful words, she clapped in a systematic beat. With seeing her like that, for some reason, very very uneasy feelings began to well up inside of me.
“What’s wrong?”
“Nothing… …”
She failed to overlook my dimmed expression. I didn’t want any misunderstandings to happen, so I was stumbling at my words, but willing to surface my feelings.
