Tayumori News - 52nd Leaf - Thank you for finding me

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9 more until Tayutane
Today too,
we are getting closer
to the seed of light🌱🌱🌱

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Mornings in Tayumori are
usually lively and filled with
gentle sounds, but
that day,
the air suddenly
slackened and
it was a very quiet morning.

The sound of the wind
was playing hide-and-seek somewhere,
and the light of the likes
was also hiding its shimmer a little.

Soon—
until the Tayutane sprouts,
9 more likes to go.
It felt as if
the depths of the forest
were holding their breath,
waiting for something.


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🐿️Rikka
noticed the change in the air,
twitched her little ears,
and walked softly
into the quiet depths of the forest.

“...Someone is
feeling a little down...”
The voice of the wind
whispered that to her.

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🍃It was
in the shade of the usual tree stump,
leaning against a 🍄moss cushion,
sitting quietly.
It was 🎩Morito-kun.

The brim of his hat
was lower than usual,
making it hard to see the light of the likes.

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🐿️Rikka
gently crouched down nearby
and said in a quiet voice,

🐿️“...Morito-kun,
is it a little hard to see the likes?”

Morito-kun
answered in a soft voice,
muttering,

🎩“Yeah...
They should be there,
but today they are a little
hard to find...”

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Usually,
🎩Morito-kun, who is good at finding likes,
has days where he feels he “can't see them.”
🐿️Rikka understood that well.
But
she didn't make a big deal out of it.

She just
quietly took a walnut candy out of her pocket🐿️

“...Maybe
it's not that you can't see them,
but that they're just hard to hear.”

“You know,
sometimes you have to listen with your ears...”
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At that moment,
the candy wrapper
rustled,

and from under 🎩Morito-kun's hat,

a laugh suddenly spilled out.
🎩“🐿️Rikka-chan,
you say things like the wind.”
🐿️“Yeah, because I
chat with the wind...”

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And then,

🎩Morito-kun
stood up,

took a deep breath of air,

and said,
🎩“Oh... now,
I can see one like.”
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That was,
a small like
from the moment 🐿️Rikka was by his side.

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🌲On the way home,
🐿️Rikka thought to herself,
🐿️“...Likes are things
you can find,

and also things you can be found for, aren't they...”

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🌙That night,
a quiet rumor spread throughout the forest.
“It seems one like was carried on the wind
to the place of sprouting.”
That was surely

the light of someone
quietly finding
someone else,🌿
perhaps.
That light


was certainly getting closer to sprouting.

When it's just before sprouting,
the lights all gather together
heading toward the place of sprouting,
so in various parts of the forest,

they become a little thinner than usual.
That's why 🎩Morito-kun

felt that “they should be there, but I can't see them.”

This quietness and difficulty in seeing
might also be a “special phenomenon”
that only happens before sprouting.

🌲A word from the dwarf today🌲
“Wow,
my chest is so warm,
I can't sit still.”
(🐿️Rikka)