Friends

Eri Manaka lives alone in the big city. She writes a romantic novel on impulse and is startled when it gets rave reviews and makes her a literary celebrity. But doubts soon kick in, and Eri begins work on an anti-romantic sequel, in which her heroine Rie goes through the torments of the damned.

I was 20 years old when I just started living on my own. I was 20 years old when I first started living on my own, and all sorts of "what if I become ________" thoughts came into my head. The "too small" me, who used to murmur childish fantasies like "What if that cloud falls down" or "What if I don't know where I live?