I once had a forest, but I wanted an island.
When I could fall asleep in the arms of the waves, I lost the forest, then dreamed of another forest.
As I searched for the forest in my dreams, I met a girl in a dream.
I told her I loved all the flowers in the world. She smiled, wound up the orange in my hand like a clock, and told me to go meet all the girls in the world.
So, at seventeen, I returned to where it all began and decided to forget every book I had read, and every girl I had ever known.
Just then, my biological sister, though we share neither father nor mother, found my diary and stared at me wide-eyed.
"I'm curious!"
(The characters are from works such as Kaguya-sama: Love Is War, Hyouka, Your Name, Saekano: How to Raise a Boring Girlfriend, and Seitokai Yakuindomo.)
