1. "Hmm?"
2. "Hey..."
3. "Your brother..."
4. "Was your brother drunk, too?"
5. "Why...???"
6. "Oh yeah."
7. "Your brother got in a fight with a drunk near here once, right...?"
8. "That's what you said."
9. "I just wondered what would make someone pick a fight with a total stranger."
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1. "That's all?"
2. "The guy called my dad"
3. "Oh..."
4. "It's 'cause"
5. "Bald..."
6. "That's all."
7. "He was all "How dare you say that! You don't know anything!""
8. "Like how you're so conceited...or just don't care... Your mother was loved. That's a good thing."
9. "Huh?"
10. "....."
11. "I feel like I'm starting to understand why you and your brother are like this..."
12. "How's it look...?"
13. "Sha-ved my head..."
14. "He wasn't bald anyway, he just shaved it."
15. "He used to have a full head of hair and now he was bald as a pool cue."
16. "Papa...!?"
17. "Dad said he wanted to have a matching look, so he shaved his all off."
18. "When my mom's hair started falling out from the chemo,"
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1. "So hey,"
2. "What do you want to do tonight?"
3. "Th-that's not what I meant!!!"
4. "You're sick and I thought you might want to sleep in a bed!!! I just wondered if we should get a room!!"
5. "...it's fine. You won, after all..."
6. "And besides, my period's over now."
7. "Just think about it! I'm going to go buy a change of clothes."
8. "I never got to take a bath, after all."
9. "Oh..."
10. "Where?"
11. "Asakusa's right over the bridge there."
12. "There's a shopping district. I'm sure I'll find something."
1. "....."
2. Asakusa...
3. I've never been...
4. "....."
1. "Hey...! ...hey...!!"
2. "!"
3. "Wh-what's the matter...? Why're you running...? Are you okay!?"
4. "Oh, see? You overdid it..."
5. "What happened??"
1. "Want to go to asakusa, too!"
2. "Um...!"
3. "I..."
4. "I..."
5. "...I, I don't know this area at all...so if I lose sight of you..."
6. "I mean, we don't even have cell phones or anything..."
7. "You ran after me for that...?"
8. "...huh?"
9. "...hm?"
10. "...what ??"
1. And with club activities after school, I didn't have time to just hang out or anything...
2. I... School was in the city, of course, but I commuted from chiba,
4. I never felt like just going alone...
5. And...
6. But my husband wasn't really the sightseeing type...
7. I've seen it on tv before and thought I might like to go someday...
8. ...it's probably my last chance...
9. "Mmm?"
10. "Hmm... Mm?"
11. "I'd like to go just once."
12. "...no?"
1. "You say "60", but this is already asakusa right here..."
2. "...really...?"
3. "Just across the bridge and to the right is the kaminari gate... It's a popular tourist spot"
4. "Yeah... It's a nice place..."
5. "BUT, UH... sorry..."
6. "There's a police station near there, too, so we'll have to avoid the gate. I'm sure you'd like to see it..."
7. "That way"
1. "It's a famous snack from asakusa."
2. "...a friend of mine from far away really liked kaminari okoshi."
3. "Kaminari okoshi?"
4. "Uh..."
5. "Hm? Well..."
6. "Hey, didn't you live in shoto? How come you know this area so well?"
7. "I came here for clothes,"
8. "But I can't remember where that shop was..."
9. "Kaminari okoshi ??"
11. "If we've passed the police station, can we get closer...?"
12. "Mmm..."
13. "Sorry... Without my glasses, I can't see much."
14. "We're pretty far, though..."
15. "Oh, look."
16. "There's kaminari gate!"
17. "Can you see it? It's straight up ahead."
18. "Sorry."
19. "I see."
21. "Sorry"
22. "There's a lot around here."
23. "There's another police station right by the gate."
24. "Oh... The thing is,"
1. "....."
2. I believe
3. ... Foreigners...
4. "It's not like I really, really want to see it or anything...!!!"
5. "Really!!"
6. "Oh! Hey!! It...it's okay! Sorry!!"
7. "Okay!?"
8. I won't stand out too much here, no more than I would in hiroo or azabu or roppongi.
9. There are a lot of them. Especially around asakusa. Tourists.
10. "..."
11. "Wait! I'm okay, really..."
12. "It's not worth getting arrested! Really! Sorry!"
1. "It's fine. Let's go."
1. "Haha haha."
2. "With this many foreigners here, I bet we could even take a photo in front of the gate itself and not get caught..."
3. "There really are a lot of foreigners. We've passed like three people who look just like you..."
4. "Hm?"
5. "...sorry it had to be now..."
6. Wish I'd come here sooner.
7. So this is what nakamise is like. ...wow, it's pretty neat. There's so much here to see...
8. Note: Nakamise is the long street of shops leading from Kaminari Gate up to Sensoji Temple.
9. "Oh!"
11. "Nah..."
12. I wish I could have taken you somewhere like this rather than on run from the law...
2. "Look."
3. "Here's something you can wear."
1. "I'm just looking, ARIGATOU GOZAIMASU"
2. "Oh,"
3. "May I help you?"
4. "Whaaaat...?"
5. "Can she try this on!?"
1. "Why don't you buy it?"
2. "Ugh..."
3. "Come on, quit it..."
4. "It's perfect."
5. "Uh, I'm a native speaker, sorry."
6. "Oh, your japanese is so good!"
8. "Of course not!!"
9. "You're not gonna buy it?"
10. "Oh my!"
11. "You shouldn't trick people like that."
12. "Please come again."
13. "I was born and raised in japan."
14. "Sorry..."
2. "Huh?"
3. "Hey..."
4. "We've gotta budget better."
5. "You shouldn't waste your sister's money on stuff like this..."
6. "You can eat it when you get better."
7. "Excuse me, I'll take one bag!"
8. "Want to try it?"
9. "Uh..."
10. "Who cares?"
11. "Whatever we use it on now is just a waste anyway."
12. "But my throat hurts, so I don't want anything crunchy..."
13. "Thanks."
14. "These look pretty hard..."
1. "Can I open it?"
2. "I want one"
3. "Huh? ...sure."
4. "You wanted them that badly?"
5. "Not really."
6. I never parti- cularly liked them,
7. But I wanted to remind myself what they taste like...
8. "Hmm..."
9. "That's sensoji temple up ahead."
10. "...there's nothing for us there, so let's just go back to the car."
1. "Is it that good?"
2. "Does your dad really want kaminari okoshi every single time? Doesn't he get sick of it?"
3. "Right?"
5. "He says that's all he wants."
6. "And now almost 30 years later, he's still super excited every time I bring it home for him."
7. "It's the first souvenir I ever bought him, back when I came here on a school trip."
8. "Hey."
9. "Hm?"
10. "Shall we visit the temple?"
1. "...huh!?"
2. "Can we visit the temple?"
3. "No way! Why!?"
4. "I just..."
5. "...s-sorry..."
6. "You're right... This isn't the time..."
7. "What would you even pray? Wish? For at this point... Sorry..."
8. "It, it's all right. Let's go...!"
9. "I... I just thought"
10. "I..."
11. "Uh... I mean... I just..."
1. "What did you wish for?"
2. "I just prayed that I'd be with you forever."
3. "It's not wishing!"
4. "....."
5. "Oh, right ..."
6. "What about you?"
7. "Hm?"
8. "My family's christian, so I don't really have much experience with this sort of temple thing."
1. "What's wrong? Are you okay??"
2. "!"
3. "S-sorry... I used to..."
4. "come here..."
5. "with her..."
1. "....."
2. She knew her family...
3. So that friend from far away was her girlfriend's father...
4. "...Sorry..."
5. "about that..."
6. "Shouldn't be crying over memories like this..."
7. "I..."
8. "Aban- doned her..."
9. "Really"
10. "So I"
11. "... Sorry ..."
12. "That's what I get for coming somewhere like this that's so full of memories..."
13. "I was just trying not to really think about it, but now it's all coming back..."
14. "I don't know, it's like when we were back at the inn and I was talking about my mom or about her,"
1. "...huh?"
2. "If crying brings you happiness."
3. "It's okay to cry, you know."
4. "And just cry and be happy."
5. "You should be glad of that"
6. "It's a good thing to be sad about someone's death. That means you had someone in your life whose death would make you sad."
7. "..."
8. "Unlike never feeling sad over anyone's death."
9. "I think being sad over the death of someone close to you is the sign of a life well lived."
10. "Am I wrong?"
11. "That's certainly one way to put it."
1. "Can't you at least say "Composed"??"
2. "You're"
3. "That there's joy in having someone to lose in the first place."
4. "It just pisses me off when people act like their life's some great tragedy, wallowing in their misfortune, and ignore the fact"
5. "Always so cold about that sort of thing."
6. "I get it."
7. "No, but I've been surrounded by people I wished would die."
8. "You are composed."
9. "You've had it the worst."
10. "Haven't you ever felt sad over someone's death?"
11. "How do you feel about her now?"
12. "Ha..."
13. "Hm? Well..."
14. "I was just whining 'cause I'm jealous, that's all..."
15. "I don't care what you think."
1. I guess I wish I'd had a mom or older sister like her.
2. More than a girlfriend.
3. "And I wouldn't want anyone else for a mom, and I think my mom's the best in the world, but..."
4. "Of course I, um, I l-l-l-loved her, and I still care for her,"
5. "You... Really did live a charmed life."
6. "She was really almost too good for me... We went right past friends and lovers to being family."
1. Up until the very end, my mom never accepted that I was a lesbian.
2. It was like she'd rather die than see me for who I am.
3. "I guess."
4. She could be kind of egocentric.
5. And even my girlfriend... I mean, I can't really talk, but...
6. But not everything was perfect.
7. "Huh?"
8. "Egocentric?"
9. "You're taking her side?"
10. "You don't know anything..."
11. "Was she really that selfish?"
12. "She managed to get along with you all this time, so I figured she must be pretty patient and mature..."
2. "And outed me to my dad!!"
3. "She came to my house and introduced herself"
4. "Huh? But that's what she did!"
5. "Ou..."
6. "Outed...? Is that language really necessary...?"
7. "I guess!!"
8. "I told her the thought was enough."
9. "But I didn't want that."
10. "But she said"
11. "She was just trying to do the right thing, wasn't she? If she were a guy, it'd be like asking your dad for permission to date his daughter..."
12. ""I have to do this properly.""
13. "So."
1. She was sincere.
2. She was self-centered!
3. "She wouldn't give up. She just wouldn't. But I'm the one who had to see my dad every day and feel awkward about it!!"
4. "And after he rejected her I thought she'd give up, but she just said, "It may not be easy but I'll just have to try harder to make him understand.""
6. "And then when I finally moved out and got my own place..."
1. She was probably happy she could go see you without anyone interfering...
2. "I'm so glad...!!"
3. I know!
4. And I was happy, too. But whose fault was it that I had to move out in the first place? It's kind of tactless.
5. She never told her parents she was a lesbian and lied about having a boyfriend...
6. She knew my mom rejected me
7. "Who's this boyfriend? I'm a woman. I'm your lover." you don't know how many times I thought that...
8. Just the fact that she wanted to introduce herself would have been enough for me! I have my own reasons and her actually going and doing that ruined things! And how's this for hypocritical!?
9. And she said she understood how I felt!
10. "I..."
11. "I get it."
12. "I really do."
1. "I had to balance these feelings with my love for her."
2. "I do. But this is stuff I've been holding in for a long time!"
3. "...I'm... Surprised you'd say that of someone who just passed away..."
4. "Being grateful for her sincere desire to meet my dad versus sucking it up when she messed things up with my family."
5. "You still have feelings for her, don't you...?"
6. "The dead are gone. Let me say what I want. I held it all back while she was alive."
8. "Anyway, I don't think someone who caused their own husband's death and kicked over their father's ashes has any room to talk."
9. "She never told her family she was a lesbian, but I think they guessed."
10. "Thanks."
11. "...you're right. I'm sorry."
12. "After all..."
14. "I'll hear you out."
1. "If someone is afraid to go through the basic formalities, they have no right to date my daughter, so I wish they'd just come and meet us. We won't reject them.""
2. ""But we've never met this person."
3. "Once when she left the room, her mom said to me,"
4. "...and it's like,"
5. ""My daughter is seeing someone," she didn't say boyfriend,"
6. "I know what it's like to be rejected."
8. "You got married and had a baby"
9. "...I still can't believe she said that!"
10. "And never knew what it was like for people to reject you just for who you are."
11. I just...
12. Does that make me a coward? So what?
13. Don't want to be rejected.
1. I believed that if we focused on the things we agreed on and just sucked it up and closed our eyes to what we didn't understand
2. We could stay connected with those we love and live in peace.
3. I can't understand anyone,
4. So I don't care if people don't understand me.
5. "...what's wrong with that?"
6. "No matter how much time we spend with someone"
7. "We still can't truly know what it's like for anyone but ourselves."
1. "I like that about you."
2. "But..."
3. "Giving up on the possibility of understanding... Is not the same as never hoping someone will understand..."
4. "It hurts."
5. "And when you try and force yourself to believe they're the same... And something happens to knock you off balance..."
1. ...I thought I had it good.
2. My life was pretty much the exact opposite of unhappy.
3. I... Had money. And family. And a nice girlfriend. And aside from that lack of understanding,
4. Even if there were parts of me they didn't understand, the things we did agree on were more than enough for me to love them.
5. I was happy.
6. "Yeah."
7. ...and lately that hurts a lot.
8. "I've given up, so I wish I could stop hoping, but just because I've given up doesn't mean I can make myself stop hoping."
9. And then I saw you again after all these years...
10. That's just how things were.
1. "And I remembered back when we were in school, when I was in love with you..."
2. "I remembered"
3. "How I felt, what I wanted."
4. "I thought, "I want to understand this girl", but..."
5. "It all got mixed up together... And I just... Couldn't do anything."
6. "When I found out about your dad and your family and your financial situation and your club injuries and when I saw you beaten bloody and crying but still insisting you weren't crying... The more I knew, the more I felt like I was out of my league."
7. "Understanding seemed so far away and my prejudices grew and I wanted to hide my pity and try to change things for you..."
1. "You are walking by my side."
2. I wished I could be the one walking by your side some day in the future.
3. "Hahaha... I guess I am. But..."
4. That I could be the one to take on everything that hurt you...
5. "But..."
6. "Being with you without understanding each other... Feels like I'm still alone..."
7. "And it hurts..."
8. "I was able to compromise with my family and my girlfriend..."
9. The vision I had back then of walking with you...
10. Wasn't one of cutting you off from the path you should have taken and robbing you of a place to go and forcing you to walk with me.
1. "The very fact that you have somewhere to call home makes it hard to find common ground with me."
2. "And you had two... Both your family and your girlfriend..."
3. "Maybe it's because we have nothing in common..."
4. "Except the fact that we know we can't understand each other..."
5. "That's why... I threw it all away."
6. "No."
7. "...to find common ground with me?"
8. "No matter who you're with."
9. "Feeling alone"
10. "So I could understand what it was like for you"