One day, I - a high schooler - found a paperback in the hospital. The "Infirmity Novel" was its title. It was a diary that Sakura Yamauchi, a classmate of mine, was writing in secret. Inside, it was written that due to her pancreatic disease, her days were numbered. And thus, I coincidentally went from "just a classmate" to a "secret-knowing classmate". It felt like I was being drawn to her, who was my polar opposite. ... more>>

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The story centers on grade schooler Nanoka Koyanagi, who meets a short-tailed cat and three different women as she is out taking a walk. The... more>> first woman is Minami, a high schooler whom Nanoka sees has many wounds on her wrist. The second woman is an adult, constantly called a "whore" by her co-workers. The third woman is an old lady, trying to live out her twilight years in peace. [ANN] <<less