Anohana:Part 1 Chapter 1
Chapter 1 : First Memory
What are we doing for fun tomorrow?
At that place, there are endless ways of finding pleasure. Dig in the soft dirt under the trees, and you will find a lot of rhino beetle larvae. You can skip flat stones at the dry river bed. You can play sumo in the pine tree leaves. Daruma-san ga koronda[1] is good too.
The colour ghost[2] might be lacking when compared, as the colours in the mountains are nothing but green, light brown, and grey. Where can we find other colors?
Oh, there is that color—white. It’s the colour of the dress she is always wearing.
But that white is like the jellyfish made of towels when you take a bath: fraughting the air for an instant, then slowly changing to indigo as water invades inside.
Even if it was white, it will still vanish.
Tomorrow, to replace the white that suddenly vanished, I decided to wear a white T-shirt—within that haziness.
Translation Notes
- ↑ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darumasan_ga_koronda#Darumasan_ga_Koronda
- ↑ a game where the one who plays the ghost appoints a specific colour. Other players who can get to a place with that colour before being caught by the ghost wins.
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