Rosy Mansion.
Shouko was now paying attention to the series that she had written. She arranged the books according to their publishing dates. As for the stand-alone ones, she would look at them later.
Aiko and the Sea. Aiko and the Island. Aiko and the Wind. Aiko and the Sun. Aiko and the Moon.
When she first began drafting Aiko and the Sea, it was on impulse. She got the inspiration during her field trip to an orphanage located at a beach in the south of the city. There, she met an interesting girl around six years old. At that time, she realized that the girl would always look at the sea when her peers chose to have fun playing together with the other volunteers.
"Momo, what are you looking at? Why aren't you playing ball with them?"
Seeing the little girl so fixated on what she was gazing at, Shouko couldn't suppress her curiosity and went to approach her. She crouched by the little girl's side, her eyes were focused on the small face.
