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One sunny day, Poppo came to a town
near the sea.
Seagulls were flying above the seashore
that had many ships waiting
for its turn to sail out.

“This is such a fascinating place
as the central city”,
said Poppo
and he stood on an electric wire,
observing the road.
It was wider compared to the city
with fewer passengers.
A wagon with fish on its back passed
the sign of the main street.
Then Poppo found a straw hat boy
on the road,
who he met in the train before.

“Hi! Hi again!”
The boy looked up
when Poppo called at loud.
“Ah! You are the train-riding-pigeon!”
“I came to see the sea today.
Hmm…By the way, I’m hungry.
Are there any popcorn in this city?”
“Probably.
I came to see the sea as well.
Would you come with me?”

Poppo flew and sat on the boy’s hat,
and the two walked to the store.
A few minutes later,
they could see a girl in afar,
waving her hands
in front of the Boss-Burger store.

She looked a bit younger than Piyon,
with her dress
in light green like a spring leaf.

“Oh, no”,
said Piyon who attempted to turn his way,
but the girl ran
and came excitedly towards the two.
“Hi, Piyon!
I haven’t seen you for a while,
how are you?
What are you doing here?
Oh is that your pet pigeon,
that is so cute!
I recently…”
As the girl kept on talking,
Poppo asked Piyon.
“Your girlfriend?”
“Friend. Lily, the fairy of the leave”
“She clearly loves talking”
Piyon interrupted Lily and said,”
Okay, good to know you're doing well.
We came to see the sea today,
and we are going to eat lunch
somewhere near”
“Really, me too! Then let’s go together,
I was also hungry
after walking for so long…”
The two went inside the store following Lily.
On the menu in large,
there were plenty of foods
that Poppo never knew.
Poppo jumped and flapped his wings
“Wow, so many foods!”
“What should I choose?”
said Piyon.
“I want a hamburger!
Look, this must be tasty!”
Lily answered him enthusiastically.
“Yes, I’ll do the same”
“Okay, two hamburgers!
How about you mister pigeon?”
“Popcorn!”
“Sounds great and great~!”
The three walked out of the store
with warm bags in their hands,
and walked to the sea again.

(The story continues!)

The three sat on the hill near the beach.
The wind blew towards the ocean
from the meadow.
Piyon and Lily, who live in the forest,
cheered by the beautiful sight of the beach.
“Wow, I can see the horizon!”
“The ship might be able to fly out
in the sky if it slid on the ocean!”
“It’s not that hard for me to fly!”
Poppo did not look out to the sea
and poked the bag of popcorn.
However it did not open,
and at last Piyon opened the bag for him.
“Popcorn is so good!”
Poppo enjoyed the taste of the popcorn,
which tasted many times better watching
the view of the sea.
“Hey, Poppo,
do you want to try
this chicken burger as well?”
“No, thank you. I don’t eat my friends”
“Eh, but it’s yummy though…
Then may I try your popcorn?”
Lily′s eyes focused
on the bag of the popcorn.
Then a wind passed by.
“What was that?”
Piyon wondered.
It was not something
that naturally blew on the land,
and only occurred near them.
“What’s wrong, it’s just a wind?”
Said Lily and screamed loudly,
trying to eat another bite of her hamburger.
“Aaaah! My hamburger is gone!”
“That can’t happen…”
Sighed Piyon,
but the hamburger
which was there a few seconds ago was gone.
“See? It’s gone!”
Lily stood up and looked around,
flapping her cloth.
Piyon said as if he came up with a thought.
“Oh! Poppo is it you?”
Poppo jumped up by his shock,
dropping a piece of popcorn.
“No way!
I was just eating my popcorn faithfully!”
“Okay, but…”
Piyon looked up at the sky.
Of course nothing was there
but a bird flying in afar.
However,
there was something in the bird’s claws.
“Hamburger”
Said Poppo.
"See it's not me!"

“Hey wait! That’s Lily’s!”
Shouted Piyon,
but the bird flew away ignoring him.
Lily looked at her hands
which the warmth of the hamburger
was still left.
“That was fast. I didn’t even see him”
Piyon sighed,
“Stealing other people’s stuff is not nice,
He must be doing it several times already.”
“I think it’s not a big issue.
That bird was hungry, I suppose.
But why me?”
Laughed Lily.
“Then…, I’m gonna get some from Poppo!”
Poppo wasn’t happy at first,
but he soon realized that a bag of popcorn
was too much for a pigeon
and ended up sharing it with them.
Eating some popcorn,
Piyon was a bit impressed how Lily
was kind enough to forgive the bird.
The sun was already coming down
above the horizon,
the herds of birds flew the sky.
“Should we head out soon”
They stood up after Piyon.
It was fast for a day to end,
but Poppo thought about a present to give
his best friend in his hometown.

When the three started
to walk to the station,
Lily exclaimed.
“Wait!
Can't we see the ocean closely
before we leave?”
“Oh that’s true.
We completely forgot
about it because of the bird thief”
“Let’s go!”
Said Poppo excitedly,
and they came to the seashore.

The wave reflecting the setting sun came
and flew away.
Poppo chased the wave,
but jumped up being surprised
that it soon came back.
“Poppo, you can’t swim.
You know it's dangerous!”
Called Lily.
Then, Piyon pointed afar.
“That bird is eating… something?”
“Yes?”
When Poppo and Lily took a look,
a bird was peeking a round-shaped pack,
as if it was his own.
However, everyone knew it.
“It’s that bird!”
“That’s my hamburger!”

Shouted Lily and Poppo ran to that bird.
“You can’t just escape~!”
But Poppo stopped when that bird,
kite, raised its head.
It was much larger
and looked stronger with its sharp claws,
and Poppo’s bravely disappeared.
The Kite stared Poppo.
“Poppo!
It's fine, that hamburger is already his,
not mine!”
When Lily laughed and said so,
Poppo came back to them immediately.
“I can just buy a new one and that's it.
So let’s go back home!”
“Poppo, would you come with us?
To our forest”, said Piyon.
Poppo thought for a bit and answered,
“I will go back to my hometown.
My friends should be waiting for me there”
“Okay, well we met luckily twice,
and I believe
there will be a third time too.”
“See you again!”

Poppo flew to the sunset sky.
He could see Piyon and Lily
waving their hands at him.
Watching the sea birds flying back home,
Poppo said,
“Bye to this town, I’ll go home too!”
A colorful train passed near
Piyon and Lily.
“It might be too fast to end our trip”
“That’s true”
Their journey seemed to continue, will it.