episode_0045

Look at each other at eye level.

There was no need to raise my head high, as when I saw Amy, as when I spoke to everyone here.

“Hello.”

The first one to answer was Shine.

She often approaches Lane with a brisk pace.

Her gaze continues to scan every part of his body.

Rain, who had been watching Shine’s actions, jumped up and came towards me.

“Oh no!”

Rain reached out and grabbed my hand.

As I let out a small scream in surprise and stepped back, he let go of my hand.

“You’re still receiving control training? Isn’t all the training over? You’re fine?”

Lane turned to Amy, who was standing behind him, and spoke.

“Almost done, but still have a little left.”

“Ugh… .”

Rain started walking slowly, looking around at me and Shine.

“I’ll say it again, don’t force them. They’re too young.”

“Okay.”

Shine and I explored the area, moving like Rain.

When Rain stopped, he stopped, and when she moved, he moved.

Lane, who had been circling around a small section, suddenly collapsed on the ground.

Shine and I looked at each other and then sat down on the floor like Rain.

At that sight, Rain’s cheeks turn red.

She opened her mouth, looking back at Amy who was standing behind her.

“Amy? What are they? What is it? Shouldn’t we put them on our team?”

“You didn’t forget our promise, did you?”

“Okay~”

Shine and I held each other’s hands tightly.

But he didn’t stop looking at Rain’s appearance.

A natural wariness of strangers.

But I’m curious about people who are similar in height to us.

Two emotions mixed together enveloped my body.

“You’re curious about me?”

I nod to Rain’s words.

“What are you curious about? Amy’s childhood? Or?”

“Amy’s?”

I looked at Rain with sparkling eyes.

I felt like I might hear a story I never expected.

Amy doesn’t tell much about her story.

It was only natural that my curiosity about Amy would grow.

“Be quiet.”

thud!

At that moment, Amy, who was preparing snacks behind her, hit Lane with a honey chestnut.

Rain’s bright yellow hair flutters upwards, and her smiling expression falls.

“Oh no!”

Tears welled up in the corners of Rain’s eyes.

She stroked her hair and glanced at Amy with an awkward smile.

“I want to hear it!”

“I want to hear it!”

Shine and I looked up at Amy and talked.

Amy opened her mouth, avoiding their gaze, perhaps feeling burdened by them both.

“No.”

“Why?”

“Why?”

“Nothing is no thing. Jeff. Shine. Sometimes you shouldn’t ask if people don’t want to answer.”

“Why?”

“Why?”

“Because that’s how it has to be.”

Amy answered firmly.

Shine and I nodded blankly at her gaze.

It seemed like he really didn’t want to answer.

As I looked up at Amy with slightly disappointed eyes, she placed a large plate of cookies in front of us.

“Wow!”

Rain, who was rubbing his head after getting hit by a honey chestnut, looked at the snack and his eyes lit up.

Drool seemed to flow from his wide-open mouth.

Lane quickly reached out and stuffed the cookie into his mouth.

She seemed to really like sweets.

Shine and I also reached out and picked up some snacks to eat.

“Rain.”

“Yeah.”

“I heard you do the same thing as Amy.”

“Yeah.”

I said that and looked at Amy’s expression.

She was taking a drink out of the kitchen refrigerator.

At this distance, it was clear that he wouldn’t be able to hear me.

“How can I do that?”

“How is it?”

“Amy said we can’t do it because we’re too young.”

“Um… .”

Rain closed his eyes as if lost in thought at my question.

The cookie crumbs on the corner of her mouth scattered to the floor.

“How old are you two?”

I looked back at Shine at Rain’s question.

As if sensing my gaze, Shine also looked at me.

Eyes clashing in the air.

“Ten years old.”

Shine answered like this.

I nodded.

Ten years old.

right.

I was ten years old.

I count on my fingers and nod again.

I’m ten years old.

“Ten years old… ?”

Rain looks at us in disbelief.

“You’re so young!”

How old did Rain think we were?

I tilted my head.

If you think about it, Amy was right.

What Amy was doing was very dangerous, and she was ten years old.

But when you were about ten years old, wasn’t it time to go out on the streets and earn money?

I tilted my head at the questions swirling around in my head.

“Jeff. Eat more.”

Then Shine stuffed a piece of candy into my mouth.

Ugh- I force a smile with my mouth full of sweets.

Shine smiled brightly as she saw me like that.

“Yes.”

Then Amy came over and put down her cup of drink.

Shine, Rain, and I naturally reached out and received the cups.

“But why are you sitting here?”

Amy asked curiously.

“When I sit on the chair, my legs can’t touch the ground.”

Rain spoke as if asking an obvious question.

“Well… . That’s because you’re small… .”

“I feel uneasy if my legs don’t touch.”

“Yeah… ?”

Amy looked at us as she spoke.

Her gaze seemed to ask, “Are you like that too?”

Shine and I shook our heads.

I wasn’t anxious even though my legs didn’t touch the ground.

“You, a cripple, wouldn’t understand.”

Lane glared at Amy’s long, stretched-out legs.

“Rain wants to grow taller?”

Then Shine asked Rain a question.

When asked the question, Lane nodded weakly.

“Yeah… .”

“Then drink milk.”

“Milk… ?”

“Yeah.”

“But… . Drinking milk doesn’t make you grow taller.”

“And I have to do gymnastics.”

“Gymnastics?”

Shine stood up from her seat at the sight of Rain looking at her with a puzzled look.

“Jeff, wake up too.”

Shine reached out and grabbed my arm.

At her urging, I got up awkwardly.

“Do I have to do this?”

“You want to grow tall.”

Shine started gymnastics.

One, two, one, two.

He looks at me while following the posture he learned earlier.

I couldn’t help but move my body under her gaze.

I didn’t know it before, but I felt very embarrassed showing this gymnastics to other people.

My cheeks are burning.

Rain’s gaze blankly looking up at us and Amy’s gaze containing a subtle smile.

I lowered my head, avoiding their gaze.

” and… .”

Lane opened his mouth and took out his cell phone.

“Rain, wake up too.”

Shine spoke while looking at such a lane.

“Me?”

“Yeah.”

At Shine’s firm answer, Rain stood up awkwardly.

The cell phone was still in her hand.

“Follow me.”

like this.

One, two. One, two.

Stretch out your arms and legs.

Raise your hands high in the sky with the desire to grow taller.

“I want to grow tall quickly.”

Yeah, yeah.

Shine’s voice sounded like a ringing bell.

Lane nodded absentmindedly and began to follow us.

Her bright yellow hair swayed in all directions whenever Rain moved.

Then Amy’s body began to shake violently.

Her face turns red as she covers her mouth.

He sat down in his seat as if he was holding back laughter.

Silent laughter.

Amy squirmed, desperately trying to suppress her laughter.

Whatever.

Gymnastics runs towards the final position.

Spin around once, stretching your arms and legs again.

Last time I stretched my left leg out to the side, so this time I stretch my right leg out to the side.

This concludes the gymnastics.

“The end!”

Shine looks at Rain with a confident expression.

“This is… gymnastics…?”

“Yeah.”

“Is this how you grow taller?”

“Yeah.”

“But I’m an adult… ?”

“Don’t adults grow tall?”

“No… It’s big though.”

Rain looked at Shine with a confused expression.

“Didn’t you do this when you were young?”

“That’s…right?”

“That’s why it’s not big.”

Rain nodded with a puzzled expression.

“Phew… . Phew… .”

Amy, who was sitting in her seat, was taking a deep breath.

Then she got up from her seat and headed toward the front door.

Amy reached into the pocket of her coat hanging on a hanger in front of the entrance and took out a bright yellow paper bag.

“What is that?”

“This?”

Amy waved her hand at my question.

The paper bag in her hand rustled.

“Ta-da!”

Amy unwrapped the paper bag and showed its contents.

A long, drooping neck.

Mottled pattern.

giraffe?

Amy rocked the giraffe in her hand back and forth.

A giraffe printed on paper danced and wiggled.

The giraffe had a line drawn on its neck indicating centimeters.

“Giraffe?”

Amy held the giraffe and headed for the wall.

A bare wall with nothing on it.

The giraffe was placed on top of it.

The giraffe’s long, stretched-out neck.

Amy patted the place with her hand and called me and Shine.

“Come here.”

Shine and I ran there.

There was a small magnetic sticker attached to the side of the giraffe’s neck.

“This is how you measure height.”

Amy placed Shine and me next to each other and placed her hands on our heads.

The area her hand is pointing to is a little over 125cm.

“126?”

Amy put a magnetic sticker on it.

“Is that our height?”

Shine asked Amy a question.

Amy nodded and patted her head.

“Yeah.”

“Jeff and I are the same?”

“Yeah.”

Shine nodded with a satisfied expression on her face at Amy’s words.

I couldn’t tell what was satisfying.

I stared at the magnetic sticker attached to the giraffe’s neck.

Shouldn’t this be a bit higher?

I raised my head and looked at the giraffe’s head.

The giraffe was smiling with a mischievous expression.

“Huh.”

I turned my head away.

“Rain, you don’t need to measure your height?”

Then Amy said to Lane with a playful smile.

“Me? Me?”

Lane answered Amy with a puzzled expression.

Amy nodded as she watched Lane like that.

“Yeah. Are you afraid that you might be shorter than the kids?”

Amy’s words were mixed with provocation.

Rain’s face instantly turned red.

Rain approached us with thumping steps.

“I’m bigger!”

As she said this, she went and stood in front of the giraffe.

To me, her height wasn’t much different from ours.

In front of the giraffe, Rain waited for the results with his eyes tightly shut.

“Let’s see… . 12… . 5?”

The second magnetic sticker was placed one space below the sticker indicating our height.

125cm

At Amy’s words, Lane turned to look at the giraffe.

Her eyes begin to shake without mercy.

“Rain is small.”

I muttered blankly.

At that moment, Lane burst into tears and ran towards the front door.

“Whaaang!”

Dadadat-

Small footsteps echo throughout the room.

Rain ran like that, opened the door wide and left the room.

“Hughes!”

Who on earth is the person whose name came out of Lane’s mouth, Hughes?

“Ahhh!”

Amy burst out laughing as she watched Lane run away.

Her laughter seemed to have no intention of stopping, as if she had burst out into laughter that she had been holding back.

I secretly placed the magnetic sticker while keeping an eye on Amy.

127cm