[Essay x Serial Short Stories] If You Could Bring One Thing to a Deserted Island: Episode 0

[Synopsis]

When I woke up, I was on an unfamiliar deserted island.

Triggered by an encounter with a boy named "Hat" and a dog, I begin to walk through this mysterious island.

A small handprint found in a cave.
Glowing ore.
And the secrets of the island that are gradually revealed.

Laughing, taking detours, and sometimes feeling a little warmth in my chest.

This is not a story about escaping a deserted island.

--It is a story about the encounters on a deserted island.

A small travel fantasy where I walk while searching for connections with people, precious memories, and the feeling of "I want to see you again."

It is a story that will make you want to see someone precious after you finish reading it.

~Prologue~

Far, far away...
After drifting across the sea, we finally reached a deserted island.

We are at the edge of the island,
at a loss in front of our broken raft.

Where on Earth is this?

Is it an unexplored jungle?

Is it the last paradise?

Or is it
a place where we will be eaten by something and meet our end...

Perhaps,
there might be a trap where something heavy falls from above.

Boing... like that.

Even so, we
gather our courage and start walking.

In search ofthe legendary fruitthat we have yet to see.

The path is steep.

Even after passing through the forest,
there is more forest.

No matter how much we walk,
there is no end in sight.

Experiencing pain over and over,
sometimes struggling and suffering,
we just keep pushing forward, forward.

the legendary treasurein search of...

We climb a mountain path full of falling rocks.
The more we climb, the more our scrapes increase.

Beyond that point,
surelythe legendary scenerymust be spreading out.

Believing that, we continue to climb.


Huff, huff... huff...

---Finally, we reach the summit.

However,
what was spreading out there was,
just a meadow that continued forever.

We are discouraged.

Does it still continue?

Do we have to start walking from scratch again!

At that moment,
you took my hand,
and said this.

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"If you could bring one thing
to a deserted island?"

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I,
after thinking for a while, answer like this.

"..."


No way.
This is too heavy to answer, right... haha

---If it were you,what would you bring?

✅Episode 1 Our deserted island life begins...

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