((Note: Text between { } denotes dialogue of Kanako's rarely active narrator. If you're a character generally aware of the 4th wall you can probably hear him.))
[Out along the verdant green edges of the Lethe Forest, Kanako sat on the ground, long legs modestly folded beneath her in traditional Japanese sitting posture, staring at a flower.]
So I know that if I pick the petals I can find out if someone likes me, but is there a way to find out if I like someone else? [Whether by that she meant Shizu or Okuu, she wasn't sure, possibly both.]
{Our poor heroine struggles with the bloom of her first romance, it's thorns irritatingly scratching at her heart for, to her, unknown reasons.}
[Kanako scratches her head... she could swear she thought she heard someone talking.]
And Okuu, there's so much to do, it's almost impossible to pick...! Maybe I should just like... open a page of an S-class novella~ Try to do whatever that would. Ohh, wouldn't it be great if it was one of those harem love story ones!?
Wait, no, Kanako, do not get greedy...!
But every time Shizu sees Okuu and me... I just wish I knew what was Shizu was thinking, sometimes. Kind of like what Mariya does to me.
{Oh, who shall be the kind soul who plucks the thorn from her, like the mouse for the lion!?}
I-Is someone there?
Ack! Legs cramping... from seiza...!