They’re growing up right before our eyes.
I actually have relevant experience here! I broke my arm in middle school while playing soccer and ended up getting a couple plates and screws in my arm as a result. I had to go back to the doctor a bunch of times to see if I needed to get them removed since there was a chance that it could have impeded any further growth as I was still an adolescent. In the end though, I didn’t need them to be taken out and I have lived with them in my arm ever since. I can feel them under my skin along the outside of my forearm if I feel it just right.
…anyway, I am glad they are looking forward and thinking about what comes after high school. Chokki-chan is graduating real soon, right? So, I think it behooves them to try to make things official soon.
Actually, me too.
I had a compound fracture of my lower left leg and had a plate and six screws to hold it together. They took them out about a year later, and like Shun, I still have them.
And yeah - Chokki-chan is graduating soon, and they’re looking forward. That was actually the thing that most caught my attention in this chapter - Chokki-chan has really changed in a lot of ways over the course of the series. She’s still that charming eccentric, but she was originally sort of detached, like the real world didn’t even enter into her considerations. Now she’s much more planted and much more aware of the world, and of course of Shun.
