[Machine Translation] No one can withstand the heat of Kyoto in August. After being dumped by my girlfriend and left stranded in sweltering Kyoto, I found myself forced to participate in a baseball tournament to pay back a debt to a friend. It was supposed to be a rag-tag team made up of international students and strangers, but then an unbelievable hypothesis was put forward . This Naoki Prize-winning collection includes two stories, including the title story, which depicts encounters during the season of the Okuribi bonfires.