...and the next day came.
"Yu-a, are you going to go see that kid again today?"
"Yeah! Of course - he's a good kid."
"... Child of the Forest, no, Yua. Now, Ho... Seok, can we stop seeing each other...?"
"No, Ellie, I told you that kid is a good kid."
"Child of the Forest... you are already losing your color."
At Ellie's words, Yua hurriedly looked around her body.
" ... No, that won't happen... Yeah, why..? I don't lose my color.. "
The legs and feet of the forest child, which had already turned a dark shade of gray, had also turned gray.
"...Ellie, what do we do now?"
"Young child, you haven't done your job as a child of the forest."
" ... M, I'm sorry, Ellie... and my forest, "
...the child, or rather the child of the forest, was plagued by guilt.
"...Young child, you'd better go see that child quickly."
"Huh, uh... I get it.."
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Thump thump_)
The sight of the child of the forest running looked like a bird without wings trying to fly.
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" ... Heh, Hoseok..!"
"Oh, Yua! You came all the way here."
"... Hoseok, I... I'm losing my color more and more. What should I do?"
"Wh, what? Why are you..."
"I don't know, but your body..."
Within a few days, Ho-seok's feet turned a bright lime green and his vitality returned.
"... That's strange... Yua, you've lost the color of your feet."
"But, I got my feet back in color."
"Really... is that so?"
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After a long silence, Hoseok spoke first.
"I'm sorry, Yua, but I don't think we can meet anymore."
"Uh, why..?"
" ...because of me, you are losing your color more and more."
"If we meet again, the forest will be covered in darkness, the forest... As a child of the forest, I can't leave it like that."
"... Hoseok..."
"Yu-ah, we had so much fun. I even gave you a name and you came to my gray house to play. We were good enough friends, and we couldn't have been better. Yu-ah, we didn't have much time together, but we were happy. I was happy to see so many colors because of you. Take care."
... And with these words, Hoseok ran and ran through the endless forest, covering the blue forest with gray.