🍜 Japanese Title: 階段下の引き出し
Kaidan Shita no Hikidashi
The Drawer Beneath the Stairs
🎯 Theme: While sheltering from sudden rain, Hana and Yuki take cover in a traditional inn. The innkeeper, recognizing Aika’s name, reveals a drawer beneath the stairs she used to hide notebooks in.
Inside, they find a map Aika drew with dozens of small X marks labeled “future stories.” She’d planned more than anyone knew.
📍 Setting:
- Old ryokan inn
- Wooden interior and paper doors
- Dusty storage space beneath staircase
📚 Vocabulary:
| Japanese | Reading | Meaning |
| 引き出し | ひきだし | drawer |
| 隠す | かくす | to hide |
| 物語 | ものがたり | story |
| 未来図 | みらいず | blueprint/future plan |
🔊 Useful Phrases:
- これ…全部、彼女のアイデア？ (These were all her ideas?)
- 引き出しの中に、未来があった。 (The future was in a drawer.)
- 一つずつ、見ていこう。 (Let’s go through them one by one.)
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📉 Grammar Focus:
- 〜ようにする: make an effort to
- 全部覚えるようにする。
- 〜てみる: try doing something
- 引き出しを開けてみた。
- 〜ことができる: can do
- 夢を形にすることができる。
🎥 Dialogue: Hana: 「これだけ…書き続けてたんだ。」 (She kept writing this much…)
Yuki: 「まだ旅は終わってないってことだな。」 (It means the journey’s not over yet.)
🛏️ Final Note: On the back of the map: 「誰かが続きを描いてくれたら、それでいい。」 (If someone continues the story, that’s enough for me.)