美登利(みどり)は布(ぬの)を投げて(なげて)助けよう(たすけよう)としたが、恥ずかしく(はずかしく)て言葉(ことば)を一切(いっさい)交わせなかった

One rainy day, as Shinnyo passed by Midori's house, the strap (hanao) of the clog (geta) he was wearing suddenly snapped. Midori tries to toss him a red scrap of cloth from inside her house to help him mend the strap. However, out of extreme shyness and awkwardness, the two could not exchange a single word, and Shinnyo walked away as he was—a famous scene symbolizing their pure yet awkward relationship.