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From here on out, your job'll be to bring in the tea. Here!

Be polite! Polite! Where's your answer?!

By the time you can use the sewing machine...

Well, that'll be about ten years from now.

Eh?!

Heiwa Fansubs Presents...

Carnation

小さく丸めた躯は今

Chisaku marumeta karada wa ima

My body, tiny and curled up, is right now

Week 3 "Passion" Episode 14

Screenplay Watanabe Aya

かなしみ隠し震えて

Kanashimi kakushi furuete

Trembling with hidden sorrows

Music Satō Naoki Musical Performance\h Face Music

Theme Song "Carnation" Sheena Ringo

命を表していろのね

Inochi o arawashite iro no ne

My life is represented by my color, isn't it

Cast

Ohara Itoko Ono Machiko

Ohara Chiyo Asau Yumi

重く濡らした瞼は今

Omoku nurashita mabuta wa ima

My eyelids, heavily soaked, are right now

Ohara Haru Shoji Terue

Yoshida Natsu Kuriyama Chiaki

よろこび映す日の為

Yorokobi utsusu hi no tame

Reflecting my rapture of this day

Masuya Kōkichi Thomas Ken

Ohara Shizuko Yagyū Miyu Ohara Kyoko \h Maki Mei Ohara Mitsuko \h Yoshida Aoi

心を育てているのね

Kokoro o sodatete iru no ne

That's how a heart is raised, isn't it

Sakamoto Kanaya Katsumi Okamura\h Kawano Tomohiro Yamaguchi\h Nakamura Daiki

Tanaka Yuasa Takashi

Ohara Zensaku Kobayashi Kaoru

You guys hurry up and eat! No reason to wait.

That's true, but that'd be sad.

Itoko's Grandmother Ohara Haru

This is the first time she's come home after working all day.

She'll be exhausted.

She's off doing the thing she loves. Nothing for us to fuss over.

My, what a heartless father you are. Eh?!

The rest of us'll wait alone.

You guys, don't eat yet.

I'm home!

She's back!

I'm home!

Welcome home!

Ah... I'm starving!

Welcome back!

I'm home.

Well, you're late coming from work.

How was work? Was it troublesome?

Nothing like that.

Really?

Well, I am a newbie, so they ran me ragged.

But it's no big deal.

They just said, "Here, do it like this," is all.

Everyone was VERY friendly.

Really?

Yeah.

I'm really happy I get to go to Masuya Patch Store.

Here.

Thank you!

Itadakimasu!

Yes.

Ten years...

I can't use the sewing machine for ten years. Ten years from now.

Ten years ago, I was...

...I was still like this.

That's such a long time without even being able to touch it.

Such a looong time...

...where I won't be able to touch the sewing machine...

Even if I made it look good in front of my family...

...I could vaguely feel that the reality of the patch shop...

...was crumbling right before me.

Hold on a minute!

Huh?

Take this!

What's this?

Onigiri. Eat it when you get hungry.

Yeah. Thank you.

Itoko!

What is it?

Take this! Confetti candy.

If someone scolds you...

...go to some corner and eat one.

Thank you.

Yeah.

I'm off.

Get going!

The confetti candy was gone almost immediately.

Oi, Ohara! You still crying? Hurry and help out!

I'm not crying.

I'll be right there.

For all practical purposes, I was scolded from morning to night.

Though the sewing machine was so close, it was growing farther and farther away.

It felt like I might not get to touch it my entire life.

Ohara!

Masuya Patch Store

Masuya Patch Store

I didn't know just how serious it was trying to improve.

I would be hard to stick at it.

I wonder how everyone at the Girl's School is doing?

Ah... it'd be nice if I could see Natsu.

Natsu!

What are you doing here?

Nothing really.

What about school?

We got off at noon today.

What did you come for?

Huh? Well, nothing, really.

Well?

Like this?

That's it, that's it.

Ah!

You have a good aptitude for it.

Not everyone is as good as that at first.

A sewing machine is wonderful. With this, you can sew so quickly.

Oi Ohara, where's that tea?

Yes, right away.

What's your name?

I'm Yoshida Natsu.

Natsu, huh.

That's a great name.

Do you live around here?

I'm with the Yoshida-ya restaurant.

Oh, that's a nice place!

Will you be its Proprietress in the future?

That's correct.

Ehh!

Oi.

It's okay for you to go already.

Huh?

I'll take care of the rest.

Yeah.

Ah, I'll do the wash with the hot water.

That's okay!

Eh?

I'll do the rest of the washing. You hurry on home.

Yes.

So long.

Yes.

So long, I'm off first.

Ala?

What are you doing? You're still here?

I thought you'd left long ago.

Could it be you were waiting for me to go home?

Somewhat.

There's something I wanted to tell you.

Married? Taizō-niichan is?

That's right.

Eh?!

Married?

You didn't know about it?

This is the first I've heard of it.

What's this? I thought you would have known all about it.

Ehh...

Taizō-niichan's getting married, huh?

I hate it!

Huh?

I definitely hate it!

Why would you hate that? How do you know this about Taizō-niichan?

I know quite a lot about him.

Ehh...

We pass each other by every day when I'm going to the Girl's School.

That's all?

That's right.

That's...

That's what you know about him?

Don't laugh!

Don't laugh!

Geez!

Don't laugh!

Don't laugh, I said!

All right, all right. I won't laugh anymore.

Do you...

...like Taizō-niichan?

I see, but...

Speaking seriously...

I don't think Taizō-niichan even knows you exist.

That's...

...because I'm still little.

Eh?

Because I'm still little, he just passes me by without noticing.

But, if I could grow up just a little more...

...and become even more beautiful, I could catch his eye.

Today at your store, everyone there was saying how pretty I am.

Ahh...

And so, until I can just grow up a little more...

...I can't let him get married!

You can't just say that.

I want you to tell him...

"You can't get married yet!"

I don't know about that...

Tell him!

I won't!

Hmph!

Natsu was talking like a fool...

...but while I was chatting with her...

...for a moment it felt like I had gone back to being a schoolgirl again.

But...

...tomorrow I have to go back to work.

Itoko?

If you don't get up, you'll be late.

Here.

It's no good.

Something wrong?

I've caught a cold.

Eh?!

You're a fool.

If you have a cold...

...it's okay for you not to go to the store.

No, I'll go.

I have to do the inventory today.

Do you want to eat some porridge?

No, don't want any.

I'll have tea.

Okay.

Hey you!

Huh?

Put this on.

Eh?

No one's wearing these yet.

Never mind that and wear it.

You'll get a chill otherwise.

With a cold, you can't get a chill.

Matsuya Patch Store

The low man on the totem pole at Matsuya Patch Store has to go to the store...

...a lot earlier than anyone else in the mornings.

First off, to open all the windows.

Stir up the coal.

Fill the water jugs with water.

And then wipe up the places everyone uses.

What's this?

Ah, good morning.

You caught a cold? Do you have a fever?

Yeah...

Ah, that's bad. If you have a fever, you should go home.

I know, but...

With someone like you, it's the same whether you're here or not.

Might as well go on.

Someone with a cold's a bother.

Go home and get yourself cured.

That's what the Big Boss would say.

Yes.

Excuse me.

Take care.

Oi, you shouldn't have done that.

Huh? What?

It's better she goes home than we catch her cold.

That's true, but the way you said it, she'll take it all seriously.

Eh?

Really?

Of course.

"Doesn't matter if you're here or not," and "you're just a bother," she'll take all that seriously.

I didn't intend having her take it like that.

It's not good telling the truth like that. The truth.

I'll quit!

I'll quit from the store!

To Be Continued

Carnation

End

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