Gogo no Midori de Machiawase

Summary

As a child, Chikage had a close friend named Rei, but one day Rei vanished without a trace, leaving Chikage as the only person who remembered he ever existed. Years later, now a high school student, Chikage unexpectedly encounters Rei again in the mountains—only to discover that Rei is actually a supernatural guardian spirit of the forest. Determined not to lose him a second time, Chikage begins t...

As a child, Chikage had a close friend named Rei, but one day Rei vanished without a trace, leaving Chikage as the only person who remembered he ever existed. Years later, now a high school student, Chikage unexpectedly encounters Rei again in the mountains—only to discover that Rei is actually a supernatural guardian spirit of the forest. Determined not to lose him a second time, Chikage begins traveling back and forth to visit him, kicking off a heartwarming and slightly bittersweet long-distance romance between an earnest human and a non-human entity.