"For most people, if they got frustrated with drawing, they could play some games, practice music, work out, or do something else to change their mood. But what about Mashiro?"
"Mashiro's world contained nothing but drawing. She didn't even understand basic common sense about life outside of drawing, so even if drawing frustrated her, she wouldn't know what to do. She couldn't play games, knew nothing about music, and on top of that, she preferred quiet, so there was no way she'd go exercise..."
"Therefore, even when drawing frustrated her, she wouldn't put down her brush, because aside from drawing, Mashiro truly didn't know what else she could do..."
"That was why sketching trips had become one of Mashiro's few leisure activities. After all, compared to staying home every day and repeating dull drawing exercises, going out to sketch at least let her experience nature and move her body a little..."
"But other people aren't like that! In fact, for other people studying art, outdoor sketching doesn't count as leisure at all. Isn't it still drawing when you get right down to it? They became restless precisely because they'd been drawing too much, so how could outdoor sketching possibly make them feel relaxed?"
"After all, outdoor sketching is still drawing!"
"So that's what makes Mashiro different from everyone else—or rather, what makes her difficult for others to catch up to. To other people, an outdoor sketching trip is just drawing somewhere else. How could people with that mindset learn different styles of drawing and draw inferences from one example to another?"
"Only Mashiro, whose world consists almost entirely of drawing, could feel relaxed over something as simple as an outdoor sketching trip. That was why she could form the conditions to make connections through such an activity, because when they