5. "Oh!"
6. "Thank you for coming."
7. "No, thank you."
8. "You do such good work with the kids!"
Memuatkan…Memuatkan…
4. "Ah! Okubo-sensei!"
5. "But now the real work begins."
6. "You're finally done, hm?"
7. "Ahhh, it's overrrrrr!"
8. "For me, too!"
9. "Right?"
1. I guess it was in grade four...
2. I figured she was just at that age, so I was ready for that... More or less.
3. She would get so prickly all the time.
4. Sometimes, she'd sit around moping.
5. "But, um."
6. "Lately, she really does talk about nothing but you."
7. "You know, like, she'll be even more of a handful when she hits junior high!"
8. "Ha ha ha!"
1. "I'm sorry. Now I'm crying!"
2. "It's too much, I know!"
3. "No, no! Please don't worry about it."
4. "I guess she likes you a lot..."
5. "I imagine something..."
6. "Happened at school, like she fought with her friends or something..."
7. "So... Thank you so much."
1. "And I see you all the time in the counselling office."
2. "What?"
3. "Right?"
4. "Where did that come from?!"
5. "You've helped me out, too."
6. "You know, okubo-sensei."
7. "You're a good teacher."
8. "That's just..."
9. "Right?"
10. "Aah, I really need to take a cue from you."
11. "Y--"
12. You're wrong.
1. I'm not an especially good teacher.
2. I mean, I drink, I go lose control.
3. I do things like kiss a woman I just met.
4. Then I fall for that woman.
5. Then I press my loyal husband for a divorce.
1. I do things like fall into my own trap.
2. I'm a foolish person.
3. But...
4. I am glad that yoshizumi-san's happier now.
5. Nagase-san and nitta-san seem as happy as ever right now.
6. I'll try talking with them both again.
1. "Well, I mean, she lives in my old neighborhood, aaaaaaand we've had some personal interactions!"
2. "This friend of mine, eri-chan."
3. "Well, yeah. We've gone out a few times."
4. "But that's it."
5. "Hey, but like."
6. "What is that look about?!"
7. "We've maybe held hands?"
8. "Seriously. I won't get up to anything weird."
9. "Ouch!"
10. "That's never just it with you!"
1. Serious opinion from flaky yukako.
2. "See? That's what I'm saying!"
3. "You are married, morita-kun."
4. "I think you'd be better off not doing anything where it looks like you might do something weird."
5. "But you're hanging out with her, knowing how eri-chan feels."
6. "Nothing."
7. "So. What happened?"
8. "Uh!"
9. "What has not gone that far?!"
10. "No, it's not gone that far."
11. "Huh?"
12. "Whaaaat? Are you cheating on your wife, morita-kun?"
13. "Mm... Well."
1. "Ngh!"
2. "And like."
3. "When I imagine a playboy like you toying with my daughter, morita-kun, I just can't sign off on this."
4. "Oh!"
5. "That was rude to your wife."
6. "Sorry."
1. Do I...
2. Really have the nerve...
3. To butt in about someone else's love life?
4. "Still, though..."
5. "Eri-chan's the one who came to me for advice."
6. "I can't just tell her no, right?"
1. "Are you free? I thought maybe we could have supper together somewhere."
2. I'm definitely in no position to be lecturing from on high.
3. "I can be ready in a few minutes!"
4. If there's anything I can do, it's maybe...
5. "Eri-chan..."
6. "What is it?"
7. "Wha--?!"
8. "I wanted to tell you something."
1. "I like someone myself."
2. "The truth is, the situation you're in..."
3. "Oh."
4. "Huh?!"
5. "And that person is married."
6. "Is it ayano-san?"
1. "But if you wouldn't mind, I was hoping you could..."
2. "Make a dish or a dessert or something."
3. Way before I quit school.
4. Before that was...
5. A long time ago.
6. Before that...
1. Probably. In our own way.
2. We were actually a relatively close family.
3. Grandma was still healthy.
4. "I-it's morita-san."
5. "Oh!"
6. "I'll..."
7. "I'll tell him now."
8. "I'm not doing this anymore."
9. "We actually already had a plan to meet..."
10. "So he's just double checking that."
11. "Wh--"
12. "What's he say?"
13. "Umm."
1. "Good for you!"
2. "I won't see morita-san again."
3. "Why don't you stop, too, akari-san?"
4. "What..."
5. "Wouldn't it be better to give up on ayano-san?"
7. *a world free even of the "C" of covid unfolds in the story of the manga.
8. Covid everywhere. How are you all doing?
9. I'm grateful every day to modern medicine.
10. Although I also still struggle with poor eyes and tight shoulders...
11. After I was released, the mysterious post-hospital shower headache manifested, but it's calmed down now.
12. Something about how it goes away in a couple of months.
13. I have other conditions, so this is just my experience.
14. Incidentally, mine's called reversible cerebral vasoconstriction syndrome.
15. Intense pain!
16. So many people took such great care of me. I hope I wasn't too much of a bother!
17. I still lead a shut-in life, just like I did before covid came along.
18. "Ngaah."
19. But along the way, I've been in the hospital and had surgery.
20. I hope I'll be in better health when we meet again in volume six!
21. Maybe as a side effect of being in poor health for a while, I had lost all interest in any kind of entertainment. But lately, I've been able to enjoy things again.
22. Which reminds me!
23. I don't go anywhere, so I don't have any new stuff to say...
24. What else...
25. Even without covid, this was how it was.
26. "Life is precious!"
27. "Don't push yourself. See your doctor!"
28. "Please take care of yourselves!"
29. "Sun sun sun"
30. "It's so hot outside!"
31. Going for walks in the neighborhood.
32. I'm reading a book for the first time in a while.
33. *I'm not doing sit-ups. I'm leaning against the wall!
34. O-kura-san, s-moto-san, ishideden-san, everyone at kohei nawata design office, my editor u-mura-san, everyone involved with the book, and all you readers...
35. "Thank you so much!"
1. Coming up next...
2. The finish line for happiness is still far off.
3. Up to now, he's refused to get divorced.
4. But husband Wataru...
5. "Let's get a divorce."
6. "Fine."
7. brings up divorce when they meet to talk.
8. What are Wataru's true intentions? How do Ayano and Akari feel about this?
1. This love of theirs, with no clear, easy solution in sight...
2. "And then the two of you can live happily ever after."
3. Where is it going?
1. Ayano leaves her husband Wataru and moves back into her parents' home. She's determined to use this time to really think about what she wants out of life, but Wataru is unwilling to back off and is dead set on fixing their marriage. Akari, meanwhile, can't help but wonder if she and Ayano might have a future together after all.
3. From the critically acclaimed creator of Sweet Blue Flowers and Wandering Son.