The Honored

Aoi Dikimo knew he didn't belong in this world. He had friends who were always filled with happiness and joy, but he wasn't like them. Though he considers all of his friends great, most of them didn't like him and seem to think of him as too "scary" and "creepy." His words were often puzzling and confusing for anyone to really understand what he's trying to say. Whenever he approaches his friends with a smile, big or small, he freaks everyone out whenever they catch him in their sight. But above all else, he's too hard to approach. No one really knows what he's thinking. No one knows what he does when he's alone. He's too mysterious. They don't know the first thing about him and his true intentions...but he was never trying to be a part of any of those things. He just wanted his friends to accept him. He would love to call all of them his friends if they would let them. And yet, none of them are willing to try.

Except for one. There only existed one other of the group he could reliably call his "friend." One quiet night, Aoi finds himself alone sitting on a deck with water underneath it. Fen sat beside him. The two talk for a while until the young boy says, "I hope that one day, I'll be like the rest of you." Not expecting much out of the other through his moment of weakness, Aoi sits in silence, with tears flowing down his cheeks. He feels as though he shouldn't have said anything until..."Why don't I help you?" the other young boy suggests.

Fen takes him to the forest to teach him about calmness and peace, and a few days later, Aoi goes to the forest alone, and finds a big, enormous, pure white panda who changed his life.

With his attention suddenly grabbed, he looks up at the enormous panda with fear in his eyes that changed his life. Could his dream really come true that easily by just a panda?