Deep in the vast primeval forest, he happened upon her. He was an excellent student whose home was in a nearby village, and he was attending high school in town. She was a beautiful, lively junior-high student, the daughter of the manager of a farm outpost just five hundred meters from his home. They met by chance in a realm like a kingdom of plants and animals, and an unfamiliar feeling began to take root in both their hearts.
After he left for university, an unprecedented, catastrophic flash flood completely submerged the basin between several mountains. From then on, he lost all contact with the girl and her family. Thus began his long journey to find them. Along the way, the magnificent building where he had stayed the night vanished as soon as dawn broke; birds could carry him across mountains and oceans; falling into a deep cavern somehow led him to the flourishing world of ancient times. After an extraordinary person treated his brain injury, he found that whenever he was tired or weak, he only had to close his eyes and focus on a suggestion for energy to surge through him, vast and vigorous...
