Monogatari Series - Volume Ex - Chapter 1

Chapter Cross- Tsubasa Lion

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“Kiriyama-kun, what kind of monster do you think the word ‘genius’ refer to?” 

The girl with the neatly mixed black and white hair quietly handed the question off to me as she smeared the white chalk over the black asphalt. 

Smiling sweetly, she continued. 

“I’ve been ‘one of those’ before—but I got tired and quit being one. So that’s why I respect from the bottom of my heart people who can keep on being ‘one of those’ without getting bored, or can keep going even if they are bored.” 

Saying you respect them while at the same time calling them “one of those”, it was like an expression of total rejection. All the while she didn’t stop her hand that was dirtying the road. Skillfully using the blackboard chalk she held in both hands simultaneously, she continued working on the picture she was drawing. No, that wasn’t a picture. 

“Shall we change the question? Kiriyama-kun,” 

Because I was standing there silently, not answering, she continued. 

The girl named Hanekawa Tsubasa quickly accepted it and asked a completely different, or exactly the same, question directed to me with a smile. 

“What kind of shogi does the word ‘prodigy’ refer to?”