MaruMA:MaHon:SSS20
Happy Birthday Dear Yuuri!
"Look forward to your birthday this year." Everyone says that but…
A friend said 'I read through the baseball rule book carefully for you.'
"In order to talk with you. Right now I'm sort of a professor of baseball. Ask me anything. I'll know what a fielder's choice and an infield fly is, you know?"
Another friend said, 'I planted a tree for you.'
"It's a tree that blooms amazing and colorful flowers. If you let it be, it'll grow as big as a dragon and want food and start walking around at night."
"W-why such a scary tree…"
"What? You always use that rod-shaped weapon, right? The wood from that tree was the closest to that material."
My sibling said, 'Since you've added another unnecessary year to your age,' and handed me a video game.
"Learn urban planning, building administration, and farm management by the end of the day. Until yesterday you were just a single citizen, but now that your birthday has passed you acquired the skills to be a great mayor. Oh my, have you grown!"
My mother said, 'I thought I would give this to you when you turned sixteen,' and pulled out a thick book with her special smile. I-is it an album jam-packed with embarrassing photos of when I was a child!? It's finally come. The present I've been dreading! Wh-wh-wh-what embarrassing things are in my past!? As I thought that, I saw that the inside was pure white and there wasn't a single photograph inside.
"Honestly, Yuu-chan, you're supposed to start filling it yourself now. Fill it with photos of friends and companions and lovers."
However, as she was speaking my mother stroked the album with a slightly glum expression.
"But it definitely doesn't measure up, huh?"
"What?"
"No matter how much I try to think up something clever to give you, it never measures up to the wonderful present that I gave you on your zero birthday."
Of course I don't have any memories of when I was zero years old. I wonder what kind of nice present I got. Even so, why couldn't I remember it? It's a waste. It's really a waste.
"What are you saying? Papa and Mama gave you your first step into life."
A sturdy body and a strong heart.
There's really nothing better than that.
Thank you, everyone.
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