"Hey. Nanoka!
Look at this!"
At the sound of the voice,
I looked up from my notebook where I had been diligently sketching.
Jun stood above me now,
grinning and holding out his palm to me.
That mischievous smile on his face meant that he had found something incredible--
something he really wanted to show me.
From time to time,
he could be kind and reliable just like this.
I smiled back at him and took his hand.
"You're so light."
He said,
that grin still in place as he rapidly pulled me up from my spot.
"Careful, Jun-kun!"
There was a river right next to us, after all.
It would be bad if we fell in.
I grabbed onto his shirt tightly to keep myself steady.
"What are you two doing?"
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[ON HOLD] Leaves From The Same Tree 「同じ木から葉」
Short Story[Romance/Slice of Life/Shoujo] Kisaragi Nanoka had always spent her days following closely behind her three childhood friends in the small mountainous village where they all lived. They were her heroes, the people she looked up to. And...