“Mom... it's Kii... I came to see you...”
But the star still didn't answer. It simply quietly twinkled in the sky.
“Uhhh...”
Kii finally began crying as the star remained silent.
The sadness of having lost her mother, the irritation of not being doted on by her father and the loneliness she felt as the star remained silent.
This reality was far too harsh for a six year old girl to accept.
“Uuuhhh... ah...?”
Kii blinked twice. Tears fell from her eyes and her sight cleared up a little.
“Mom's star is getting bigger...?”
The blue star that the girl had found was at first just a glowing point. However, it was now clearly different as it glowed even brighter. Seeing that, Kii believed the star had gotten bigger.
“Did she hear Kii's voice?”
Kii's tears stopped as she realized that something had happened. She didn't know what, but she thought that her mother had responded to her calls and her heart started racing.
“Mom! Kii is right here!”
Kii waved her hands and desperately called out to the growing star.
“It really is getting bigger... mom!!”
The star was now as big as a baseball, and it was still getting bigger. Happy, Kii called out to it even more.
That was when Kii heard an unfamiliar sound similar to a beast roaring or like the sound of a car driving through a tunnel.
“...What is that...?”
She looked up towards the sky and strained her ears. By doing that, Kii felt like the sound was coming from the star.
“The star is... growling?”
Kii reached the conclusion that the star was emitting the sound.
As the star had grown to the size of a baseball it passed by above her.
“Where!?”
Kii hurriedly turned around to look at the star. She saw the star disappearing in the shadow of the mountain.
“The star fell!”
The star had gotten bigger because it was getting closer, and the sound she heard was because it was moving so fast.
That was the conclusion the clever six year old girl had reached and she hurriedly began climbing the mountain.
“Mom! Mom noticed Kii and came to meet me!”
Kii ran with all of her might, chasing after the fallen blue star. Her heart was pounding and she had lost her breath. But even then she wouldn't slow down. She simply continued running at that speed.
“Mom! Mom! It's Kii! Kii is right here!”
No matter how painful it got, Kii wouldn't stop moving her legs.
That was because her mother that she wanted to see more than anything, was supposed to have come down from the sky.