The notebook had been a gift from Kanade. Three years ago — the same year as the yellow, the same year as the palette before the palette hardened into its three-year configuration of cadmium and ultramarine and ivory black — Kanade had walked into a stationery shop near Jimbocho, the district of used bookshops and art supply stores and small restaurants that smelled of oil and paper, and had found it: a hardcover notebook, unlined, the colour of dark coffee, the pages thick enough to take ink w...
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Next in Chapter 16: Hasumi shows Kiryu the prints he made at fifteen — before he learned to be safe.
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