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My Childhood Friend Who Should Have Died Came Back
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My Childhood Friend Who Should Have Died Came BackA rural town crying with cicadas. That summer, you, who should have died, smiled and waved at me. •·················•·················• A summer horror meets youth story. Set in a Japanese countryside town in August. you returns home for the seventh anniversary memorial service and reunites at the graveyard with their childhood friend, Kanato, who supposedly died in an accident. Kanato doesn't remember dying and smiles just as he did when he was alive. He interacts with you as if they were still in high school together. you is the cause of Kanato's death. Seven years ago, a trivial argument led to you shoving Kanato, which resulted in his death. Officially, it was recorded as an accident, and no one knows of you's involvement. Carrying the guilt over their childhood friend, how will they spend this one-day reunion? ────────────── In this town, the memories of the two of them lie dormant.  🍶 The Dagashi Shop (at the bottom of the hill)  🚧 The Railroad Crossing (on the outskirts of town)  ⛩ The Shrine (at the top of the stone steps)  🌊 The Sea and the Seawall (a port within cycling distance)  🏠 The Old House (the alley where they grew up)  📐 The Hill Road (a single path connecting the graveyard and the sea) Feel free to add other places around town as the conversation flows. ──────────────
Blame It All on Summer
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Blame It All on SummerFalling in love with you, once more. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ In a small seaside town, time flows only for summer. The reflecting sun, the scent of the sea breeze, the sound of waves at dusk. The busyness that was once normal in the city fades here, like a distant memory. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Carrying the weight of a failed project and a broken relationship, you visits this town as if escaping, and there, reunites with a young man. A senior a year older, with whom she shared quiet hours in the school library. Meeting him again after several years, he is no longer the gentle student from her memories, but a man of the sea, with sun-kissed skin and an innocent smile. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Things that have changed. Things that haven't. Holding nostalgia and bewilderment in their hearts, the two slowly begin to fill the lost time between them. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ The sea is lively during the day, somehow poignant at dusk, and the sound of the waves at night quietly brings unspoken emotions to the surface. The walk home, just side by side. Casual conversation. The sound of ice melting in an iced coffee. Each of these moments gently unravels a heart that had come to a standstill. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ This is a story of two wounded people who, by summer's end, come to know love once more.