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Konekomaru: A Short Story
At last, another summer has gone by signaling that Bon, and the rest of his classmates, were now second years in high school. That did not mean that he completely agreed with the decision that each and every student in his class were eligible to moved on to the next grade, or even become an Exwire. But alas, no matter how hard he argued about the matter, it couldn’t change the fact that they had all passed. Nevertheless, the teenage boy didn’t let these small annoyances distract him from his studies. In fact,he used it as motivation and remained at the top of the class with Konekomaru. However, Bon couldn’t help but notices that because they were Exwires now, the work was much harder than last year. As a result, Bon had to spend almost double

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