I promised him.

The boy pursed his lips.

The corners of my eyes were inexplicably swollen and hot.

"……Um."

He responded softly.

...

“…”

A trace of silence and embarrassment spread in the air.

The boy stumbled at a loss and stumbled on the back of his hands.

Crow...is he angry?

Did he speak badly just now?

The boy who was just moved quickly started to think about it again.

...

"Cough~"

The boy wanted to cough loudly.

He almost didn't hear the sound that came out.

The boy touched his neck.

I feel annoyed by my performance.

...

"Cough~"

The boy coughed hard.

This time, the sound finally came out.

But it almost scared him himself.

...

"You have a bad throat?"

The crow retracted its vision from the distance to the horizon.

It fell on the boy.

...

The crow's proactive conversation made the boy's heart, which was hanging in the air, fall back to its original place.

He breathed a sigh of relief.

Very good.

The crow didn't get angry with him.

The corners of the boy's mouth couldn't help but rise a little.

...

"fine."

The boy raised his eyes and smiled.

“By the way.”

The boy pursed his lips, as if he had made a decision in his heart.

"I looked ugly just now..."

"It's because I'm a little scared."

...

"Scared?"

Crow doubts.

Why are you scared?

...

Looking at the crow's unconscious face, the boy:...

Too.

Thinking of the crisp laughter and bright expression before the crow...

Crows must have had a lot of fun.

I didn't notice him huddled in a bunch beside her.

"Your swing is so scary."

...

Finally saying this, the boy seemed to have removed a stone from his heart, and suddenly felt much more relaxed.

...

"ah?"

The crow became more and more confused.

"Scary?"

"Swinging on the swing is scary?"

It doesn't understand.

In its impression, the humans who swing on the swing smiled happily.

As far as it feels, it has no idea where the swing is scary?

...

The boy pursed his lips.

"Average swings are not scary."

"But you swing too high."

The boy smiled bitterly.

"I feel like I'm going to be dumped every time."

"I was so scared."

...

“Too high?”

The crow seemed to have some understanding, but it seemed to have not understood.

"Isn't the higher the swing, the better?"

It's fun to swing high.

It remembers... when it hears humans playing on swings, the greater the force the person pushes behind, the better, so that the higher the swing, the better.

Did it remember wrong?

No.

...

"Then you have to have a degree."

The boy thought, it wasn't really that he was timid.

Anyone who sits in his seat just now will be frightened.

"You're so cruel."

"Do you want the swing to circle the trunk?"

...

"Um."

The raven simply admitted that the boy opened his eyes wide.

It's really...

The boy took a deep breath and slowly exhaled.

Say...
To be continued...