Chapter 2 (1/2)

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Translator's Note:

The story’s narrator switch from Mitsuha to third-person a lot but that is not a mistake, this is FUNA’s earlier writing style and maybe some foreshadowing.

Too surprised by the countryside!

”…… It’s a ceiling I don’t know”

After saying one of the best 30 lines she always wanted to say, The awaken Mitsuha vaguely thought.

(This is…)

If I recall, I mysteriously appeared in a forest, exhausted, then found a path…

And now I’m sleeping in a bed I don’t know, and I’m looking at the ceiling I don’t know. The furniture and furnishings in this wooden hut are shabby, but they are neatly organized and clean so there is a feeling of cleanliness.

(Am I safe? No, someone saved me)

Her mind wasn't completely clear and Mitsuha had something to do in a hurry anyway before thinking things out.

”Water! Someone give me water and something to eat!!”

Yes, it was a request for food and drink.

Patapata. With hurried footsteps, the door of the room was opened, and a lovely girl about ten years old with silver hair and blue pupils wearing simple clothes comes in.

The girl shouts happily with a smiling face, but unfortunately I do not understand what you are saying at all.

(Oh, it’s a foreigner. Also looks like she's not an English speaker).

She was prepping for a college entrance exam so naturally, she can tell if it's English or not.

(It doesn't seem like j.a.panese, English, Chinese, Korean, German or French at least…)

From the girl's appearance, I wouldn't think this is somewhere in Asia.

Anyway, I want water and food, we can communicate later. My throat is tingling and it is also painful to talk. That's why I'll skip trying useless communication methods! Mitsuha gives up on having a conversation and instead suddenly starts gesturing. The gesture of holding a cup with both hands and drinking water, moving the hands from mouth to throat to stomach. How's that, it’s common in all the world, even monkeys would understand!