Kokoro-chan Manga #7 | The Alpaca Whose Swallowed Words Become Thorns

A small clinic on a mysterious island.
This is where animals who are a little tired in heart come to visit.

This week's patient

The 7th installment is the story of an alpaca.

Always calm, fluffy, and
an alpaca who never loses their smile no matter what is said to them.

Even when something unpleasant happens, they don't talk back in the moment.

It's not that they didn't have anything to say.
They just swallowed it to avoid ruining the mood.

However, the words they swallowed
don't seem to have disappeared...

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Episode 1: Swallowed for the sake of peace

Episode 2: The contents of the fluff are unprocessed

Episode 3: Submitting yesterday's portion

Episode 4: Bare-handed handling of swallowed anger is prohibited

Episode 5: Removing thorns is quiet piecework

Episode 6: It's peaceful if there are no thorns

Episode 7: Something black bloomed in the flower bed

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This time, it was a story about an alpaca who keeps
mumbling the words they couldn't say inside their mouth.

Even though they were able to laugh it off at the time,
they suddenly get angry after returning home.

"I should have said this at that time"
"No, but maybe it was the right choice not to say it"

I was probably not wrong for not making waves.

But if you pretend that even the things you swallowed have disappeared,
black, round objects will start to pile up somewhere.

Pulling out the thorns makes them a little easier to carry,
but that doesn't mean the black objects themselves turn white.

Even so, you don't have to be able to talk back to everything all at once.

If you can learn to say "I didn't like that"
just a little bit sooner than yesterday,
perhaps the time you spend keeping it in your stomach
will become shorter.

By the way, the pulled-out thorns were reused in the island's flower bed.

It seems this island has a policy of reusing
even our emotions instead of throwing them away.

The next episode will also be a story about someone who is a little tired.
Look forward to it!

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