The Boredom of Haruhi Suzumiya by Nagaru Tanigawa ISBN 9784044292034, 4044292035 instant download

The Boredom of Haruhi Suzumiya by Nagaru Tanigawa ISBN 9784044292034, 4044292035 instant download

While published as the third volume in the series, this light novel collects short stories originally serialized in The Sneaker which chronologically take place between The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya and The Sigh of Haruhi Suzumiya.

In the first story, the SOS Brigade enters a baseball tournament. However, the team is hopelessly inept, and if they lose, Haruhi might destroy the world. To remedy the situation, Yuki uses her powers to alter the course of the game.

In the second story, Haruhi, during the SOS Brigade meeting on July 7, tells everyone to write down wishes for the Tanabata festival. After the meeting concludes, Mikuru takes Kyon back in time, to the same day three years ago. He finds a young Haruhi sneaking into her junior high school, and is forced to assist her, though he conceals his identity by using the pseudonym "John Smith". After helping her draw strange symbols on the school athletics grounds, Haruhi questions him on the existence of strange beings, and Kyon suggests that they might exist because he knows someone like her at his school. After Haruhi leaves, Kyon wakes up Mikuru, only to find that her time traveling device has been taken. They go to see Yuki, who helps them return to their proper time. Kyon wonders if he was the one who inspired Haruhi to attend his high school and start searching for strange beings.

In the third story, the SOS Brigade are hired by Emiri Kimidori to investigate the disappearance of the Computer Research Society president. In the absence of Haruhi, the members of the Brigade enter a sealed reality in his apartment. Therein lives a data entity, whose appearance is of a giant cave cricket — somehow created by the president once he looked at the logo drawn by Haruhi for the SOS Brigade website. Nagato and Koizumi defeat the monster, thereby recovering the president.

In the fourth story, Keiichi Tamaru, said to be a rich relative of Koizumi's, invites the SOS Brigade to stay at his island villa. Haruhi keeps talking