Chapter 30

“High School Boys and the Literary Girl 3” is the 30th chapter of the manga.

Cover Page
End scene of Chapter 29. Hidenori walks past a stone lantern, on top of which he has left his whistle. He is smiling to himself.

Detailed Summary
Hidenori walks down to the riverbank with a book in hand. As he drops his bag and prepares to sit down, he notices the Literary Girl once again behind him. In his mind, he screams in anguish, while her eyes brighten and she smiles widely. He sits down in despair, knowing full well that she’s looking for another borderline fictional 'riverside encounter'.

His despair heightens on seeing the vacant look in her eyes, like she's already lost contact with reality, but being a self-proclaimed ‘entertainer’, he prepares himself for the task of going along with her expectations. However, he ends up saying that the wind is cold and immediately realizes that it lacked any flair. The Literary Girl seems crestfallen.

Hidenori urges himself to calm down and think, but ends up blurting out that there’s a cold front coming in. This disappoints the girl even more and he apologises in his head. He then proceeds to blunder it all even more by saying that Siberia’s winds are the coldest.

Seeing the girl’s ashen expression, he apologizes in his mind all the more fervently, when a real idea strikes him. He adopts a grave pose and drops his ‘clincher phrase’: "The wind is sparkling". Unable to take it anymore, the Literary Girl now suppresses a laugh, and Hidenori utters a yelp, stunned at his failure.

Characters
In order of appearance:
 * Hidenori
 * The Literary Girl