Mmm. I think it's... less that it changed my mind and more that it got me thinking. I'd never really thought before about what school I wanted to go to after graduating, or what career I wanted... or even being something other than a sextuplet, honestly. All I really ever thought about was just playing around with my brothers all the time.

[ He flips the page again. Third year. They're all pretty close to what they've become as adults now; only one of them looks the same way he did as a child. Choromatsu himself is all the way on the right side of the picture, at the end of the group. ]

Akatsuka-sensei had already passed away before we started high school. Maybe that was part of it. I just know I wanted to meet everyone's expectations for me. Be a person they could be proud of. Be Choromatsu - not just "one of those Matsuno sextuplets".

[ Guess what didn't happen? That. ]