The Old Man and the Raccoon

When I was in kindergarten, supercar erasers were all the rage. Apparently, they were originally the 'losing' prizes in gachapon machines where you could win nunchucks if you got a winning ticket, but the losing prizes ended up becoming more popular.
Even though they were called erasers, they didn't erase anything at all when you rubbed them. They just made things dirty and black. So, in reality, they weren't erasers. They were something like erasers.

Once the supercar boom settled down, Ultraman erasers became the next big thing.
The first one I got was a monster called Black King. At that time, I didn't really know much about Ultraman, so even knowing its name didn't mean much to me.
For a while, that was the only one I had, but as I started to understand Ultraman, my collection of eraser figures gradually grew.

One time, I got an Ultraman King from a gachapon machine.
Ultraman King is Ultraman's grandfather. Since it wasn't cool to have a grandfather figure, I didn't treasure it much, but when I went to play at Igami-kun's house, he was incredibly envious. He asked me to trade it for one of his own collection pieces.
Even when I looked, there wasn't really anything among what Igami-kun had that I wanted.
More than that, I was curious about a small stuffed animal hanging from the room's light fixture. It was a raccoon.
"Then, can we trade for this?"
When I said that and pointed at the raccoon, Igami-kun's face lit up. It was as if he couldn't believe I was okay with something like that.
"Sure!"

From that day on, the raccoon hung from the light fixture in my house.
Now that we've rebuilt the house and the light pull-cord is gone, it's displayed in the restroom. My mother was the one who put it there, but she has probably forgotten that it came from Igami-kun's house.