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Full-length Novel "The Night-Dimension Whale Drinks the Goldfish Bowl"

▼ This work is also available on the novel submission site "Suteki Bungei".

Passed the 2022 Creative Awards semi-finals
45 chapters in total, approx. 120,000 characters (about the length of one paperback book)



Synopsis

"Why don't you come to the fourth dimension? If you do, you can be one with your dead Ruri again," says the Night-Dimension Whale.
It was a year ago that Haru began to see the Night-Dimension Whale. Haru, who has same-sex parents, thought of the Night-Dimension Whale to escape the curious gazes of others. This is not a classroom. It is inside the picture book "The Night-Dimension Whale" drawn by his late mother, Ruri. After repeating such delusions several times, he opened his eyes one day to find the Night-Dimension Whale swimming through the classroom.
At his new school, Haru witnesses a telescope goldfish's body slip out to become a four-dimensional telescope goldfish. He spends his time in the classroom with the goldfish bowl and gradually opens up to Shin, the student in charge of the goldfish, but because of past trauma, he refuses to make friends. Meanwhile, his mother, Nanami, lets Tanabe, who says he "wants to be Haru's father," move into their home. Rebelling against Nanami's attempt to marry a man, Haru's heart is drawn toward the fourth dimension.
"I'm not afraid of dying. Night-Dimension Whale, let me meet Mama Ruri."


Characters

| Haru Itari: Third-year middle school student. Can see the Night-Dimension Whale.

| Kokoro Makimura: Known as Shin. A surfing buddy of Kaito, who is one year older. Haru's classmate.

| Sasane Moriya: Haru and Shin's homeroom teacher.

| Kaito Sunami: First-year high school student. Shin's childhood friend. Haru's neighbor.

| Yuki Sunami & Miu: Kaito's parents. Owners of the surf shop CONA.

| Ruri Itari: Haru's mother (same-sex marriage). Died when Haru was in fifth grade. VR artist.

| Nanami Itari: Haru's mother.

| Ikki Tanabe: Nanami's lover.

| Katsuki Shimada: Haru's uncle. Nanami's younger brother.

| Night-Dimension Whale: A whale that appears in Ruri's work "The Night-Dimension Whale".


Table of Contents

* Links will be added as episodes are published.

0. Mother in Memory

1. The Classroom with Goldfish

2. |WIZMEE

3. Four-Dimensional Goldfish

4. The Four-Dimensional Whale

5. Dialogue with the Whale

6. Goldfish Keeper

7. Sketchbook

8. Adolescent Boy

9. The Two on the Beach

10. The Sea of Slumber

11. Four-Dimensional Stroll

12. Last Year's Goldfish Keeper

13. Sabotage

14. Drawing the Line

15. The Neighbor's Garden

16. The People of CONA

17. Night of Marine Snow

18. The Distorter

19. Mothers

20. Cannibal Goldfish

21. Future Dreams

22. Blood Ties

23. Inside Out

24. Father

25. Dessert Time

26. Bookmark

27. The Two of Us's Four-Dimensional Stroll

28. Dreams and the Past

29. Snow Globe

30. Adult Conversations

31. Nightmare

32. The Final Conversation

33. Repeating Time

34. Checking the Answers of the Summer Festival

35. Goldfish Grave

36. Bye-bye

37. Reunion After Four Years

38. Coordinates Not on the Map

39. The Person I Love

40. The Untouchable Person

41. Inside the Mirror

42. Spacetime Intersection

43. Things I Don't Understand

44. Epilogue





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