Ningyo Hime No Machi (Kodansha Bungaku No Tobira)

[Machine Translation] Nine years have passed since the Great East Japan Earthquake. Kota, who was an elementary school student living in Iwate at the time, evacuated with his father to Shizuoka and took shelter with an acquaintance of his father. I have abandoned my hometown," he thought. He is tormented by this thought, but after his father's death, Kota visits his hometown and is asked by an old woman, Sunaba, who used to be like family to him, to "save Kaede". Kaede, a girl being chased by a mysterious man, seems to be searching for something... This is a story about a slightly mysterious town where a legend remains that "some people come back from the sea.

東日本大震災から九年。当時岩手に住む小学生だった宏太は、父とともに静岡に避難し、父の知人のもとに身を寄せた。「故郷を捨ててきた」。その思いにさいなまれながらも、宏太は父の死をきっかけに故郷を訪れ、かつて家族同然だった老婆・砂婆に「楓を助けてやってくれ」と頼まれる。謎の男に追われる少女・楓は何かを探しているようだが...。「海から帰ってくる者がいる」という伝説が残る、少し不思議な町のお話。