Synopsis

The encounter with the shape-shifting tanuki unsettled Souta deeply. How could anyone abandon such a small, seemingly forlorn creature to its own devices? He offered the whimpering, hungry thing some shoyumame, and a bath as well. Afterward, Souta decided to take the child into town on the Kotoden train for clothes. There, he unexpectedly encountered Manabe-san, his first love, now a mother of two young children, who happened to have her own little ones with her. Taken aback, Souta introduced th