Merry Christmas🌟

It has finally arrived.

This year's Christmas, which we have been counting down to while enjoying this advent calendar.

Merry Christmas, everyone!

To all the moms and dads who carried out the top-secret, high-priority mission of being Santa all night long, thank you for your hard work!🎅🎁

“The most memorable Christmas episode you've ever had”...

Lately, we don't even exchange presents, and when it comes to Christmas, it's just an excuse to eat cake, have a Christmas-themed dinner, or go out to eat (like a buffet, conveyor belt sushi, or ramen, haha), so...

Recently, I don't really have any episodes that stand out.

So, naturally, it has to be a Christmas from my childhood.

Was that around the time I was in the upper grades of elementary school?

By then, I had already accepted the reality that Santa was my parents, and it had been a long time since I started telling them my gift requests directly...

As a kid who loved manga, I asked for the 'right to buy a bunch of manga volumes at once'.

That year, I think it was about 5 or 6 volumes of 'Detective Conan'?

My parents bought me manga regularly, but back then as a child, in an era where there weren't many used bookstores, being able to get a lot of manga at once was incredibly exciting.

So, it would have been fine if I had just simply said, 'Please get me volumes X through Y!' but,
at that time, due to my own mistake, there were gaps in the Conan volumes I had on hand.

So, it became a complicated order:
'Please get me volumes X through Y, but I already have volume Z, so please get me volumes A through B!'

I remember desperately listing them out while checking the volumes I had on hand, fearing it would be a disaster if my mother, who had zero interest in manga and thought they all looked the same, made a mistake.

At that moment, I saw myself from a bird's-eye view, making my gift request in such a business-like manner.

While glancing at my brother, six years younger than me, who was waiting for Santa's gift full of dreams,

"It's pitiful for parents to have to prepare Christmas presents for a child who has lost their charm like this. Maybe I'm not at an age to receive presents anymore..."

That was a thought I once had, feeling lonely because I had lost the dreams and charm of a child.

I don't remember much about my childhood, but for some reason, I still vividly remember the feelings I had at that moment...

This was the first answer that came to mind for this question.

I've celebrated Christmas nearly 40 times, and this is my best memory!?

I felt a bit sad about that. ＿|￣|○ Disappointed

But truly, I am grateful to my parents for letting me look forward to Christmas as a matter of course during my childhood!

Even though I'm like this,
this completes my Q&A Advent Calendar!

Thank you for sticking with me!

Everyone, have a Merry Christmas!

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