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アイスの神様

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HarunaIgarashi's Story God of Popsicles God of Popsicles "My allowance... There's almost nothing left."
In the convenience store, Haruna stands below the advertisement for new popsicles, counting her Coppers.
She'd heard stories about the "God of Popsicles," a guardian for children who grants happiness to those who love popsicles. That marked the beginning of Haruna's journey of popsicle exploration.
Haruna's mother always gave her enough allowance for popsicles, but it was far from enough ever since she started to take care of the stray cats.
"It's fine! There's always a way to make more allowance!"
Haruna recovers in just 0.1 seconds before running off to the convenience store owner.
"Haha! You want to earn your allowance through work? Sorry, I can't condone child labor. So, you don't have enough money for a popsicle, right? No worries, it's on me today."
"Wow! Thank you! But I can't accept it for free! I'll figure something out!"
Haruna rushes home.
"...You want to do housework to earn more allowance?"
Mrs. Igarashi glances at the barely passing grade on Haruna's test papers after hearing her request.
"I don't need you to do housework. Just make it into the top ten in your class on the next exam, and I'll give you more allowance... Haruna?"
"Mon, just forget I ever came home! And forget everything I said too!"
Haruna darts out the door, sprints straight to the park, and plops down into the pile of fallen leaves by the cat base.
"Whoa! That was close! I almost fell into Mom's allowance trap!"
"...Sigh, where else can I earn my allowance?"
Haruna looks around and realizes that every possible way to earn allowance in her small world has already been exhausted.
"God of Popsicles, I really, really, really wanna have that popsicle..."
"Nyaa!"
One of the stray cats rubs itself against her leg. Haruna looks down and, to her surprise, sees a purse among the pile of fallen leaves that the cat had just pushed open! The heavy purse jingles as she opens it...
"There's so much money in here! I could buy so, so many popsicles with this!"
"Nyaa!"
As if to show off its achievement, the stray cat meows and lies down, exposing its soft belly – waiting for the little girl to give it a good rub. However, just a moment later, Haruna leaps to her feet!
"The owner of this purse must be really sad right now!"
She runs around the park with the purse and asks everyone she meets on the way.
"Did you lose this purse?"
"I found a purse in the park!"
Over and over, she ran around the park asking everyone. Finally, she ran into the owner at the park's entrance – a blond girl about her age.
"Thank you so much for finding my purse. Now Riu doesn't have to feel bad about losing it anymore. So, how can I repay you?"
"Wow! Could you fulfill a wish of mine?"
"Huh? I-I think so."
"Yay! This way! This way!"
Finally, Haruna got the popsicle she wanted with Chiori Mikami's financial support. She eagerly pulled Chiori along, recounting her eventful day.
"The great God of Popsicles must have brought us together! I'm so lucky! Hehe!"
"God of Popsicles? I think I've heard of it... But...", Chiori Mikami tries hard to recall, then looks utterly speechless, "That's a made-up story for a popsicle TV commercial!"
"How naive is this girl to believe a TV commercial?" Chiori Mikami thinks to herself.
"The God of Popsicles is real!" Haruna does not notice as her full focus is on unwrapping the popsicle.
"Hehe! Because I've been living a happy life!" Now that the cute, pink and blue popsicle she wanted is finally poking out of its wrapper, Haruna takes a bite – and half of it vanishes just like that.
"I-Isn't that too fast?! Didn't you say it took an entire day of effort to get?!"
"Hahaha! Because you've got to take big bites to enjoy a popsicle!"
"And where did you learn that from?"
"It's true! Just give it a try! Like this! Nyam!"
"No! I'm not a child... Come on, I'll get you another one."
"Wow! You're so nice, Chiori!"
"W-Wait! Don't call me that! We've only just met!"
On this day, Haruna Igarashi not only got to try the new popsicle she'd been craving but also made a new friend – her faith in the God of Popsicles has never been stronger.
She believes that by growing up enjoying delicious popsicles, more and more happiness will surely flood into her life. 		絆レベル3