🌃Fantasy Essay #33 | 🍄Fuuto and Uncle, Thinking About Hometown⛰️

Hello. This is Spica.
It's a big cold wave, isn't it~☃️☃️

On days when I wake up and my head hurts more than usual🤕, it can get so painful that I break out in a cold sweat and feel terrible.
I can only start moving by midday... it makes me go 'hmm~'.

Hmm~
...Well then, I think I'll draw.
...Ah, I need to go pick up my niece🤭

I walk against the flow of children coming home from school🚶‍♀️
I'll meet my niece somewhere🚶‍➡️🚶‍♀️
Then we stop by the convenience store, and with 3 energy drink gums and 3 Felix gums, it comes to exactly 99 yen. My niece has become good at shopping😊
Good job!

But, the energy drink gum ratio is going up⤴️
(Previously 30% -> Currently 50%)
She's a delinquent!🤭


Spitz's "Haruka" popped into my head, so if you like it, please listen to it while you read the rest of the story😊✨

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👇From here on is "Fuuto and the Night on the Galactic Railroad".
Fuuto is an old cat.
He uses his Galactic Railroad IC card "Fupica"💳 to ride the Galactic Railroad🚂 and enjoy his travels.
Last time, he went to meet his idol, the thoroughbred Orfevre🐎

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🍄Fuuto and Uncle,
Thinking about hometown⛰️

The Galactic Railroad🚃
stopped with the sound of soft brakes.

The owl🦉 conductor says gently,
"This is Hometown Hill."

Star grass🌱 that looks like little lights is blooming all over the hill.
Even though it's night, it feels like evening, a place that puts your heart at ease.

Fuuto and Uncle Tororitchi
sit down side by side.

"Come to think of it,"
Uncle Tororitchi said in a slightly shy voice.
"I sent you some via hometown tax donation.
Churu and LeTAO cheesecake🍰"

Fuuto looked up, eyes wide.
"Uncle, thank you✨!
I love those. I'll give some to Maru and Coru too."

Uncle Tororitchi
was always warm.

The lights on the hill cast long shadows of the two.
After a while, Fuuto said quietly,

"I wonder... where my hometown is."

Fuuto thought.
Was it the pet shop?
The place where people walked by on the other side of the glass.
Or was it where his mother cat was?
A scent that was warm, but one he can no longer remember.

"I only remember it vaguely."
"Does that... become a hometown?"

Uncle Tororitchi
didn't answer right away.
He thought while swaying a piece of star grass🌱 with his finger.

"You know, places,"
"I think there are times when you stop remembering them."

Fuuto listens in silence.

"But,"
"You remember the people who make you feel at ease when you meet them, right?"

Nee-ne's voice comes to Fuuto's heart.
The name called in the middle of the night.
The time spent being told "Thank you for today."

"...Is it okay if it's a person?"
Fuuto asks.

"I think so,"
Uncle Tororitchi said clearly.

"If there is someone you want to return to,
then that is already your hometown."

It felt like the lights on Hometown Hill got a little brighter.

Fuuto nods quietly.
It doesn't have to be a place.
It doesn't matter if he doesn't remember.

The place where Nee-ne is.
Where there is a voice, where there is warmth,
wherever he goes,
a place that properly says "Welcome home."

"Then... my hometown is Nee-ne✨"

The Galactic Railroad🚂 starts running again.
Fuuto was no longer anxious.

The place to return to,
is right here.
I'm going home now.

⭐️That's all for today.

This time,
I used transparent watercolor paints🎨 for the first time!

I think if I use water well, the colors might become even more beautiful...✨

I still don't really understand it at all, but
don't the names sound cool😊?
Is this chuunibyou...🤭 lol
Look, look... right?
・Nightfall Blue... A deep blue
・Oborozuki (Hazy Moon)... A separating color
・Chroma Pearl Azure... Sparkly

My knowledge is sparse, so
I'll look it up a bit.

Apparently😊
There are still so many things I don't know, but
there are so many different things, it's fun♪

Thank you for the likes, follows, and for adding to your magazines😊
Thank you very much😊

When I receive a like or a follow and go to check out that person's articles, I almost always become a fan.
At those times, I quietly leave a like or follow back💕

It got long again today, but
I am happy that you read until the end🥹
Thank you for today and tomorrow as well🫧