


The narrator explains that his or her new apartment is at the top of a hill. He apologizes to her that he didn't offer much help on that day but the girl starts to cry and says she didn't properly thank him at that time although she feels really grateful for his accompany. He decides to call her when he finds her bakery phone number from the alumni register. Five or six years later, the guy sees the obituary of the man. Since then, they never keep in touch although he knows she went to patisserie school. She takes one of the kiwis and continues eating one after another with her sadness sinking in. Strangely, the place is full of kiwi fruits and the girl breaks the chain and enters the building. On the way home, they encounter an old building which used to be a post office. A few short conversation exchanges during the meal but the entire lunch seems awkward or tense. The man appears to be a well-known politician and the guy assumes she is the illegitimate daughter of the man. She will meet this man with the guy at a French restaurant.

If she needs any help, she needs to find the man from the business card that her mother passes to her. The girl tells him that her mother is sick. She asks him to go to a place with her this weekend and he just says yes despite the sudden invitation.

Fruit JuiceĪ male student is studying in the library and approached by his female classmate who he has never spoken before. She can call for her and buy the shortcakes but she decides not to interrupt her phone conversation. The narrator sees a young woman in the kitchen, crying while talking on the telephone. She even emptied the refrigerator and tried to curl herself in it. She used to keep watching the shortcakes that she bought for her son until molds appearing on it. While waiting for the shop owner appears, the narrator recalls some of the memories she had done in the past. Every year she buys him the strawberry shortcake even though he died twelve years ago due to suffocation in an abandoned refrigerator left in an empty place. The narrator tells the new arrival that she is buying her son a treat for his birthday. Another customer comes in, claiming that she is the spices supplier for the shop. She enters a bakery shop but nobody is there. The narrator begins the story by describing the common sceneries in a square.
