1. "She even brought a boyfriend home the other day!"
2. "So fast!!"
3. "Grade ten."
4. "She's what? Grade nine now?"
5. "Oh, that's right!"
6. "My older girl wasn't able to go to school for a whole year there."
7. "Well, the kids sure have it rough."
8. "Eeaaah!"
9. "Ah!"
10. "Okubo-sensei."
11. "I just remem-bered when you said boyfriend."
12. "You know okubo-sensei, right?"
13. "The teacher for grade six, class two."
1. "Oh, thank you!"
2. "Have a good one!"
3. "She's the woman from that time!"
4. "But when I saw her face earlier, I remembered!"
5. "For a minute, I wasn't sure. She's never taught either of my kids."
6. "Ohh!"
7. "A bunch of us went to a concert and then stopped at a restaurant."
8. "She was there, too."
9. "So last summer, okay?"
10. "You're curious, right?"
11. "What about okubo-sensei?"
12. "Huh?"
13. "And?"
1. "Go on ahead to the bar."
2. "Ah!"
3. "Riii-ight?"
4. "Ahhh, another great tour this year!"
5. "Okay!"
6. "Just gotta make a call."
7. It just ended, so it's finally suppertime!
8. "Hooray! I'll call you when we're done with supper then."
9. "Would be great if you could come get me, hon..."
10. "Did you all eat yet?"
11. "Yeah? Great."
12. "What? Really? You will?"
13. "Not sure how I'll get home."
14. "You bet!"
1. "The table behind us is on fire right now!"
2. "On fire...?"
3. Wait.
4. Huh?
5. "It was definitely at school!"
6. "The kids' center?"
7. "The store?"
8. "At the super-market?"
9. I feel like I've seen her somewhere before.
10. "School?"
11. "On fire?"
1. Divorce?
2. "Yeah, big conversation. Divorce."
3. Cheating?
4. "And there was something about cheating."
5. She was the cheater...
6. "And she was the cheater."
7. She was the cheater.
8. "And there was another woman sitting there, okay?"
1. "If we'd been sitting opposite, okubo-sensei would've noticed us."
2. "She was the cheater?!"
3. "And then things would have gotten awkward."
4. "But it was still plenty awkward as-is."
5. "My middle kid's in her class."
6. "Ohh..."
7. "What do you mean? There's nothing I can do."
8. "The sixth grade parent-teacher conferences are next week, right?"
9. "What are you going to do?"
1. "Oh!"
2. "Hello there!"
3. "I'm really glad ichika-san could make it to school today."
4. "Oh, hello! How are you?"
1. "The nurse, asano-sensei, says her coming at all is still very impressive."
3. "But she still can't get all the way to class."
4. "Right."
5. "And it might be best if she held off on being with the other children."
6. "Yoshi-zumi-saaan!"
7. "Your mom's here to pick you up!"
3. "Have a good day then!"
1. Th...
2. "You remember when I told you about that showdown at the restaurant, right?"
3. Th...
4. "I guess the woman was okubo-sensei."
5. This kind of...
6. Silly gossip...
7. "Hasegawa-san saw her today and put it all together."
1. "You can't just go blabbing this stuff to kiiiiiiiids!!"
2. "Mana?"
3. "What."
4. "Don't let it bother you."
5. "Let what bother me?"
1. "I don't care about that."
2. "Some of them are going to cheat."
3. "Teachers are still people, after all."
5. This sucks.
6. Okubo-sensei is just like her.
7. Just like her.
2. "Thank you all for coming today."
3. We're not happy to be here, but...
4. Thank you for meeting with us!
1. With chatty nitta-mom maneuvering behind the scenes...
2. It's her private life, after all.
3. Suddenly all of the parents and guardians here...
4. Know about the incident in the restaurant.
5. "Egawa-san."
6. "Yes?"
7. "Err, sensei?"
1. "I realize this is a rather prying question."
2. "But there's a rumor going around..."
3. "That you're currently in an adulterous relationship."
2. I mean, a family restaurant.
4. A place like that, no surprise that parents might be right there watching me.
5. And there we were, having that conversation.
1. Should I tell them?
2. Um?
3. Here?
4. Explain the situation?
1. Anything I say will sound like an excuse.
2. Want to tell someone.
3. But I maybe...
4. I maybe want someone to listen to me, finally.
5. It'll be a problem whether they hear me out or not.
1. "So why not do it? Can't hurt to apply."
2. "I want to interview at your school. And then I'll see my current sixth graders off and quietly slip off to another school."
3. "Right."
4. "If I put in a transfer request now, it might not be accepted."
5. "You really love edamame, huh?"
6. I did this to myself.
7. "But this is totally different from your situation, okada-sensei!!!!!"
8. "Unn-nnh."
9. "I'm sorry I ate all the edamame, really!"
10. "I mean, the reason I transferred to where I am now was trouble with other people."
11. I got the transfer I requested surprisingly easily.
1. "I still have one more interview left."
2. "But, well, they said it would be fine."
3. "We're really going to miss youuuuu!"
4. "We'll all have to get together still, okay?!"
5. About that embarrassment of a parent-teacher conference.
6. The principal never asked...
