Su Yang swam over toward Mitsuha.
"..." Mitsuha.
Hey, what the hell was wrong with this guy?!
But they were in the water now, so the two of them swam toward the shore together.
Mitsuha pressed both hands against the ground and gasped for breath.
She was wearing a rather thick coat, which had absorbed a great deal of water and become very heavy.
When she had gone into the water earlier, she had forgotten to take it off.
Mitsuha had not taken off her coat because she had been trying to save someone.
Su Yang noticed this. "When you're rescuing someone, you need to take off thick coats like that that absorb water. Otherwise, they'll become a drag and you could drown too."
"..." Mitsuha.
Was that something someone who had been hanging around in a lake should be saying?
"Are you a tourist?"
Mitsuha asked.
"...More or less." Su Yang nodded. "I came here four years ago..."
"But looking at it now, it seems the surroundings haven't changed much," Su Yang said. "This lake is still as beautiful as ever."
"Most people who come here say that."
Mitsuha said, "But it would be a lie to say nothing has changed."
"A lot of development has taken place over the past four years, and Lake Itomori has become a tourist attraction."
"And today, I was picking up trash."
Mitsuha said.
Su Yang noticed a bag and a pair of tongs set aside nearby, with a few soda cans inside.
They had probably been thrown away by tourists.
That was the tragedy of development.
Opening a place up could bring garbage with it.
"But winter is coming, so visitors don't really like coming here. Why did you come here?" Mitsuha asked again.
"Actually," Su Yang said, "I'm looking for a