YoshiMako

p1
>We're currently climbing up a mountain.

>I'm not sure why, though.

p2
>Why is that chick in black sitting down?
>What was her name again? I think it was...

>Huh? Uchida? You okay?

>Erm... Yoshida-san. I'm fine... Thank you...
>And my name's Tanaka...

p3
>Tanaka, huh? You look pale.
>I'll be fine if I stay still for a bit...
>You don't look fine at all.

>Wanna go home?
>I don't.
>Wanna go to school?
>...

>Wanna go somewhere else?

p4
>Are you sure we can just go in here?
>My gramps owns this mountain so it's fine.

>Here. It's a chocolate-vine.
>Woah.

>Is this edible?
>Alright! Found some wild strawberries!

>It's a pond.

p5
>We've arrived!
>We're not going to the summit?
>Hell no. That'd just wear us out.

>Wanna take a nap too?
>It feels good.

>Ah.

p6
>Yoshida-san.
>I wanna stay here forever.
>The truth is, back when I was in front of the school, just thinking about making friends or any human contact at all made me so dizzy that I couldn't stand.
>I don't wanna go home. I wanna stay here forever.

p7
>Forever would be impossible.
>Eh?

>Staying in the countryside forever would be depressing in its own right.
>It's better to make a fun place you can run off to every now and then.

>But I hate places with lots of people.
>I just wanna live here, get married, and die here.

>Huh? Married? There's nobody else here but my gramps!
>That's not what I meant.

p8
>I'd like to be Yoshida-san's wife...

>I'm sorry! I said something weird just now!
>Wait, I've been saying nothing but weird stuff all this time, haven't I!?
>There's nothing weird about it.
>The only thing that's weird is you worrying so much.

>Then, is this weird too?

p9
>It might be a little weird...
>I-I guess so...

p10
>Thanks for today.
>Yeah.

>Don't tell anyone about the mountain.
>...Yeah...

>Afterwards, we went back to that mountain together several times.
>It would be ten years before I would find out that Yoshida-san's grandfather had passed away and the mountain had been sold.