When the Green Leaves Flourish

Promise of the Fireflies

Kobato reads a book to the children at Yomogi Kindergarten, but she cannot read well, which Fujimoto quickly and meanly points out. Kobato practices at the park where she meets the book’s author. Having lost his girlfriend, this man is left with a broken heart. Upon learning that he had lost all will to write picture books, Kobato decides to take action…