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After an illness keeps her from the start of the school year, Mai bonds with a classmate and Sumi, the school rabbit she helps care for.

Mai returns to the hospital with a fever. The doctors recommend a healing environment, and her family consider placing her in her grandmother's care.

Mai and her mother arrive in the Goto Islands, where she meets her grandmother — a stern and quiet woman — for the first time.

Mai eagerly embraces meeting new people while staying with Shōko, but Megumi worries about her daughter's fragility despite her adventurous spirit.

Shōko encourages Mai to go on her class trip to the beach, but when she falls while getting out of the water, Megumi panics at her daughter's injury.

With Megumi back in Higashiosaka, Shōko teaches Mai to care for herself, even as she makes frequent missteps while tackling unfamiliar chores.

Mai adapts to life on the Goto Islands, helping Shōko make loquat jam, learning to find joy in hard work and becoming more self-sufficient every day.

When Mai discovers Shōko named her boat after Megumi, she asks why the two have been apart for so long, and the answer falls short.

During a jam delivery, a customer suddenly goes into labor, and Mai desperately tries to find Shōko to help the expectant mother.

Mai joins Kido and Sakura to fly a Baramon kite to celebrate Itta's brother's birth, and when she holds the string, she finds it's an unexpected thrill.