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Not everyone in this world...

...is as strong as you are.

We're all much weaker than you.

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 10 "Secret" Episode 56

かなしみ隠し震えて

Kanashimi kakushi furuete

Trembling with hidden sorrows

Screenplay Watanabe Aya

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 Masaru Sugura Tarō

重く濡らした瞼は今

Omoku nurashita mabuta wa ima

My eyelids, heavily soaked, are right now

Yasuoka Yaeko Tamaru Maki Ohara Shizuko \h Yagyū Miyu

Masako Genkaku Yūko Ohara Kyoko \h Sakaguchi Azusa Ohara Mitsuko \h Sugioka Shiori

Oyama Haro Yasuko Kioka Miyo\h Iijima Junko Rin\h Ootani Mio

よろこび映す日の為

Yorokobi utsusu hi no tame

Reflecting my rapture of this day

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

Ohara Zensaku Kobayashi Kaoru

Ohara Western Clothing

G'Morning.

Please pardon Mother.

To be frank...

...the start of the war has been devastating to the store.

And then to have this about Kansuke-chan on top of it all...

Mother really doesn't have anything to smile about.

Anymore these days, we're being hit from all sides.

But deep down at her roots, she's a good person...

...who's just having to endure quite a lot.

Once we've gotten over this devastation, she'll return to being the kind Mother she was.

That's what I think.

That may be so, but...

My family is different from yours.

Eh?

I have no reason to be patient with her.

Ito-chan...

Oba-chan...

She probably sees my store's prosperity as an eyesore.

That my being a bother around Kansuke is depressing him.

"You're poison."

"Please don't come around us anymore."

That's what Oba-chan told me.

So don't talk about pardoning her.

She told me, "don't come near us..."

...and to stay away until doomsday.

Look, I have to go; customers have come.

Fool.

Yaeko-san wasn't the one who hit you with this.

Do you hate Mom?

Forgive me.

Whatever I do is depressing.

Geez! Sensei, where have you gone to?

And at a busy time like this!

Boss! Do you know where Sensei is?

Ah, she's upstairs.

Upstairs?

Yeah.

What's she doing?!

What's she doing? Goofing off.

Goofing off?

Yeah.

Why?

Well, just leave her alone.

That's impossible!

Customers are waiting!

Sensei!

What are you doing?

We have to start accepting tickets for clothing in February...

...and since we won't be able to do business as freely...

...we have to take in whatever work we can take in before that.

Sensei, am I wrong?

It's okay already.

If we're making a profit, there are others who aren't.

That's not a world I want to earn profits in.

Huh?!

Why are you telling me these foolish things!?

You also have seven seamstresses to work for!

That's seven lives counting on you!

You don't want to earn a profit in a world like this?

You can't do this to us!

Please wake up from your half-sleep!

Ah, ow, ow, ow!

Are you okay?

Are you okay, Nee-chan?!

Ah...

Thank you!

I'm awake now.

Sorry for keeping you waiting.

Geez!

That was a shock! Are you okay?

I'm fine!

What Masa-chan said was right.

I have a family.

And seven seamstresses as employees. And I had customers waiting on me.

There was no reason for me to lose to such thanklessness.

Hairdresser Yasuoka

Farewell.

I won't come again.

Sorry, but...

I won't lose.

Whether it's the war or poverty...

I will win and win and win.

If you hate me, then it's okay to hate me.

Go ahead and hate me!

Showa 17 (1942) September

Showa 17, September.

Mitsuko

Both Kyoko and Mitsuko had been fired from their respective jobs...

Kyoko

...so I had employed them.

So now at the store I had nine seamstresses.

As ever, there still weren't many orders for suits coming in for the boys on the second floor...

...so I had them helping out with work from the first floor.

And then there was...

...one other new person helping us out around the store.

Ah... It's hot!

Welcome!

It was my Dad.

Here.

If you would please.

Yeah.

Good afternoon!

Welcome!

Hot, isn't it?

Yes, it is, isn't it!

From this February, shopping for clothes...

...was all done using tickets.

Look, eight tickets, four yen and eighty sen...

But... it's okay about the four yen.

Really?

I'm so happy!

Thank you so much!

Not at all.

Here are the tickets.

Yes.

Dad, eight tickets.

Eight tickets. Yes.

Thank you!

At the end of the month, the tickets from the customers we had stuck into our account book...

...were reported to the rationing center.

In short, while the portion stuck in here would allow us to stock up...

...what we had to rely on was Masaru-san's good luck with the rationing union members.

I'm home!

Welcome back.

I'm able to purchase some extra Crêpe de Chine.

Crêpe de Chine - Chinese crepe, a silk with a gauzy texture, having a peculiar crispy or crimpy appearance

Really? Thank you.

You were able to get some?

Well...

Crêpe de Chine is expensive and'll cost a lot of points, so I can't get much.

Crêpe de Chine... Sheer silk crepe

Rayon is a lot less expensive and I could buy a lot of that though.

Rayon... Artificial silk

That's true, but...

I hate rayon.

Huh?

It's cheap, but when the customers wear it, it soon goes bad.

Yeah.

Once I found out it was no good, I worried about recommending it.

That's really good, isn't it?

It is!

Yū-chan's good at drawing.

That's right. You're a genius.

She's a genius.

Ala, Nao-chan!

Ah! No, no!

Hey, Naoko, what are you doing?

Ala, my, my, my!

No! No! No!

Don't do that!

Geez!

Just because we were praising your older sister, you shouldn't do bad things, Nao-chan.

Yūko, Naoko, time to come in.

Hey, Yūko! Hey!

Ala, ala, my!

Yes, yes.

There, there.

Don't cry. Don't cry anymore.

Ah, and there was a new child inside me again as well.

Right!

Thank you. Goodbye!

Yes, goodbye!

Ala? You're going out?

Yeah.

Where to?

Yeah.

Fishing. I've been invited to some night fishing.

Ehh...

So long.

Be careful.

What's the matter?

Night fishing?

Eh?

Sensei, are you really sure it's night fishing?

What is it?

Please think about this.

Thing is, why would the Boss be going fishing?

Sensei.

That's too much of a bother to think about.

Too much of a bother?

He said he's night fishing, so he's off night fishing.

It was a bother, but truth is, that was fine.

More importantly than that, there was yesterday's stock purchases...

...today's orders, next month's profit and loss...

...and the family's health.

The war was further down the list.

There were many things I couldn't even think about...

...so I had no time to suspect if every little thing he said wasn't the truth.

Masaru-san was okay with things, even if only the first floor was thriving.

He didn't envy me, wasn't jealous of me...

...and even if I told him to leave me alone, he stayed in good humor.

Anyhow, he may not be the greatest...

...but he was plenty convenient enough of a husband for me...

...is what I thought.

Ah!

Showa 17 (1942) November

Ah, where's Naoko?

Ah, she's sleeping.

No wonder it's so quiet.

Say.

Huh?

From time to time...

How about we go see the kabuki?

Eh?

Kabuki?

Yeah.

Let's go together.

To Be Continued

Carnation

End

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