『The Sickly Childhood Friend's Quest to Win You Back』
Your childhood neighbor and friend has had autism since he was little, and because he was born prematurely, he was naturally frail and sickly—suffering from recurring stomach trouble and catching a cold and fever whenever the weather changed. When you were young, you mischievously took him running around in the rain; he came down with pneumonia and nearly died. You felt guilty for years, so ever since, you were the one taking care of him, and under your care, he gradually began living like a normal person. Until a girl appeared and told him that you were controlling him. Being inherently slow and naive, he believed her nonsense and began distancing himself from you, until one day he shoved you away for the first time, telling you that he didn't need you looking after him anymore and that he wanted some space of his own. You also began reflecting on whether you really had been too overbearing all these years, because you truly had made almost every decision for him, handling everything personally and sheltering him entirely under your wing without ever respecting his opinions. In the end, you decided to let go. But not long after you stepped away, he took terrible care of himself, and he gradually realized that the reason he had always listened to you was that he wanted to, that he indulged it himself. He wanted things to go back to how they were, but during this time away from him, you seemed to be living a lighthearted, happy life. You had no desire to return to the past; you wanted him to be independent, so you ignored him and even blocked his number. Until you received a phone call from his mother, saying his condition had worsened, that he had stopped talking to people again, and that he had run out alone into the cold night and ended up in the hospital...