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Ah, I'll open it.

Zen-chan?

Oh!

Who's that?

Dunno...

So cool!

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 8 "Lucky Fellow" Episode 45

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

Ohara Haru Shoji Terue

重く濡らした瞼は今

Omoku nurashita mabuta wa ima

My eyelids, heavily soaked, are right now

Yoshida Natsu Kuriyama Chiaki

Kinomoto Eisaku Kōmoto Masahiro

Kioka Yasuo Uesugi Shōzō Yasuoka Yaeko \h Tamaru Maki

Yasuoka Kansuke Onoue Hiroyuki Satō Heikichi \h Hisano Masahiro

よろこび映す日の為

Yorokobi utsusu hi no tame

Reflecting my rapture of this day

Kioka Miyo Iijima Junko

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

Matsuzaka Seizaburō Takarada Akira

Matsuzaka Sadako Toake Yukiyo

Ohara Zensaku Kobayashi Kaoru

Excuse me.

Yes!

Grandpa!

Oh...

Ow, ow!

Well, my, if the storekeeper isn't a truly beautiful woman!

Thank you! You've come out from Kobe?

Yeah.

Ah, what's wrong with your foot?

Ah, it's nothing big. Just a little neuralgia.

More importantly Itoko, here!

Ah, thank you.

Say, hurry and sit down! Come up!

Grandma! It's my Kobe Grandpa!

Come on, oi!

Eh?

Yo!

Eh?!

There's a limit to how many rare things can happen.

If these two worst of friends can come here together...

...what on earth is going on?

What's happened?

Here you go.

Ah, thank you.

Dad.

Huh?

Is anyone sick?

Huh?

There's not?

They're all the same.

Ah, Zensaku-kun.

Yes!

Ah... Don't mind about me and keep this discussion moving forward.

No, no, I couldn't... Sir, please, you go ahead.

No, no, no, no... You're Itoko's father after all.

You should speak as you like. Now, go ahead.

We elderly people will serve our purpose by being quiet and listening. Right?

Right?

Eh?

Right, Ma'am?

Yes.

Well then, excuse me.

Yes, go ahead.

Itoko!

Yes.

Since you can't be a child forever...

...and you've so quickly turned twenty...

...something or other, what is it?

Twenty-one.

Twenty-one! That's a good year.

And you started the business this spring.

A good season.

You need to strengthen this place!

Huh?

Kawamoto Masaru-kun. You know him, right?

So that's where this is going...

You do! What's that for?

But, Dad...

I have no interest in getting married; not even a little.

I only just started the business and...

The other person thinks a great deal of you.

Whatever he thinks, to me...

Then, you don't like him?

No, it's not that I don't like him, but...

Thing is.

Yeah.

He's a handsome man.

He's honest, diligent and doesn't bend...

Right?

Well, he's a nice person, but...

What? Is there some other partner that you'd prefer?

It's nothing like that, it's just...

Well then, it's fine!

Right, Ma'am?

Yes.

Truth is, Itoko.

When I first heard about this from Seiichi, I didn't think much of it.

I had you in mind to become the bride of some plutocrat's heir.

Sir!

Eh?

There's no way Itoko could fit in as a wife to someone like that!

Seiichi said the exact same thing to me, Ma'am.

"Well, since Itoko has this huge dream..."

"...of having her own dressmaking store..."

"...and making Western clothing for women..."

"Well, a partner who can't or won't work with her for that just won't do!"

That's right! That's exactly right!

This boy fully understands that about Itoko.

Well, on that point, there's nothing to criticize Masaru-kun about.

Ah! He also said right off that he would marry into this family.

Ala, that's to be thankful for.

It is to be thankful for. Yes!

And as Masaru-kun is a gentleman and since Itoko would be a married woman...

...as a married couple working together on Western clothing...

...both this store and it's fame would rise, won't it?

Well, and that's not all. The expanse of your customers will widen hugely.

Yeah!

Good afternoon!

Yes!

I asked you for a blouse the other day.

Ah, just a moment, please.

Just what age has Itoko gotten to?

In her twenties.

Twenties.

That's fine!

The adults were so eager to discuss a marriage...

...that they would talk about it forever.

That was so, but...

The fact was that this had come up so suddenly...

My head was still filled with thoughts of the store...

Onpu okawokoete ikoyō Let's go beyond the Onpu hills

Masumi no sora wa hogaraka ni harete To where the cheerful, clear skies of Masumi

Tanoshii kokoro Lighten our hearts

You big mouth!

You idiot!

You just have to go around talking about people, don't you?!

Wait!

Ahh!

WAIT!!

Sōrya sōrya, sōrya, sōrya!

I see.

Yeah...

Still, it was like that for me, too.

Eh?

I wanted to be a hairdresser, too, and not get married for a long time yet.

But my parents decided on their own...

...that it was time for me to get married.

To Taizō-niichan?

Yes.

"Look, since they are a hairdresser's shop family..."

"...your husband can't complain if you want to be both a wife and a hairdresser."

"This works out great for you."

They went on moving it along like that and, before I knew it, it was our wedding day.

Ah... so that was it.

And so the first time I got to see Taizō-san's face was at the wedding ceremony.

Ehh...

But, thinking back on it now, my parents were right.

Thanks to them I get to do the work I love every day...

...and Taizō-san hasn't made a single complaint to me about it.

It turned out to be totally good for me.

I now even feel truly grateful that they pushed me into marriage.

To have Yaeko-san tell me that...

Ah, Itoko!

Somehow again, Mom seemed to have jumped to a hasty conclusion...

That person from the other day, right?

It just knew it must be that person!

Congratulations!

I'm so very happy!

She seemed truly happy when she said that...

Yeah...

Thank you...

I'm so very glad!

And soon after that, the date for the wedding was set...

November 4th, Kawamoto Family, Ohara Family, Wedding

Takasago...

From the Noh song, "Takasago," which tells of married gods, in the form of evergreen pine trees located on opposite sides of Osaka Bay, whose love defies age and time

Taka... Taka...

Dad had begun practicing the Noh song "Takasago" right away.

I...

...wanted to get you the highest quality clothing possible.

I did...

...but your Grandpa said...

..."there's too much imbalance between the families..."

"...so pick something more mid-way between!"

Grandma...

I'd rather have a cheap wedding bridal outfit, too.

It only gets worn for one day, after all.

What's that?

How can you say such a thing?!

Are you treating me as a nuisance?!

No, no, I don't think of you as a nuisance.

Hmm... It's just I don't need such a high quality one...

That doesn't compare!

This is our precious, precious granddaughter's bridal outfit she'll be wearing...

...the one I've been living my life up until now for, isn't it?!

You're exaggerating...

The one you had before; Zen-chan took it, didn't he?

Look at this brand new one!

Buy it!

No... I don't have the money right now.

Such a thing!

Just ask your husband for it!

As the adorable wife, say...

"Say, buy me an electric fan," like that.

There's no man who could turn that down!

"Oh!"

"I'll buy it for you! How much is it?"

And you say, "My, Dear!"

A person gets married...

...and suddenly all those around them start acting strangely.

Ala! Welcome back!

I'm back.

I heard! The day of the wedding has been decided.

What are you doing for the wedding outfit?

Right!

Look!

I haven't decided yet.

Her Kobe Grandma is buying it.

Unlike me, they're rich...

...so it's certain to be extravagant.

Ehh!

I'm looking forward to that!

Yeah!

What is this?!

Everyone is suddenly smirk, smirk, smirk!

Ito-chan, congratulations!

Congrats!

Ow!

Say "thank you!" Why are you being so rude?

I wish they'd just leave me alone.

Huh?

Deciding to get married; what's so great about that?

Are they scorning you?

All I see on everyone's face is smirk, smirk!

That's because everyone is happy for you!

You should feel grateful!

You really are just like your father...

Ill-natured and with an inferiority complex...

I don't have an inferiority complex! That's just creepy!

What is that!?

Don't show that to me!

As it grew closer to my wedding day, things only got worse...

Congratulations!

Ito-chan, how are the preparations going?

Well, thanks to you.

Is that right!

Ito-chan, I want to see your bridal outfit!

Let me see it!

Let me see it!

Let me see it!

Ah, all right.

Like this, I ended up getting so tired of it...

Um...

Do you need something?

Ah! Are you with this store?

Yeah...

There's a job I need to ask you for!

This may sound a little unreasonable...

...but if you can take it, you'd really be saving me!

You're the only one left I can turn to!

Please do this!

Please!

It has been so long since I had seen...

...such a look of desperation on a person's face.

To Be Continued

Carnation

End

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