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"Mom..."

"School has started up at last."

"As expected, on the morning of the entrance ceremony..."

"...Naoko put on her sailor outfit ..."

"...and went out with a very miserable look on her face..."

Room 3

"When I returned to the apartment that evening..."

I'm back.

Ah, Nee-chan.

"She had brought in a strange boy."

Saitō Genta

Ah, hello! Nice to meet you; I'm Saitō.

Saito speaks with a Tohoku dialect (Aomori prefecture in northern Japan)

Ah... hello.

The way Modigliani does the body lines is incredible.

Amedeo Modigliani - Italian artist, 1884-1920

His combination of straight and curved lines are beyond imagination.

"What is she thinking..."

"...bringing in a boy like this!"

"I thought that to myself..."

"...but because she had at long last made a friend..."

"...I put up with it."

"Besides, I couldn't very well ask both Naoko and this boy..."

"...'What on earth have you come to THIS school for?'"

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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 19 "Confidence" Episode 106

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 Yūko Niiyama Chiharu

重く濡らした瞼は今

Omoku nurashita mabuta wa ima

My eyelids, heavily soaked, are right now

Ohara Naoko Kawasaki Asami

Matsuda Megumi Rokkaku Seiji

Kitamura Tatsuo Hosshan.

よろこび映す日の為

Yorokobi utsusu hi no tame

Reflecting my rapture of this day

Haraguchi Takeshi Tsukamoto Shinya

Yasuoka Tamae Hamada Mari Masako\h Genkaku Yūko

Saitō Genta Kaku Tomohiro Yoshimura\h Doitaiji Ozawa\h Noda Nironari

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 Chiyo (flashback) Asau Yumi Ohara Haru (flashback) \h Shoji Terue Yoshida Natsu (flashback) \h Kuriyama Chiaki

Kinomoto Eisaku (flashback) Kōmoto Masahiro Kioka Yasuo (flashback) \h Uesugi Shōzō Yasuoka Yaeko (flashback) \h Tamaru Maki

Yasuoka Kansuke (flashback) Onoue Hiroyuki Kioka Miyo (flashback) \h Iijima Junko Okunaka Sōjirō (flashback) \h Komatsu Ken'etsu Kinomoto Setsuko (flashback) \h Nishimura Ayako

Miura Heizō Kondō Masaomi

About what you were talking about the other day.

Huh?

When you said, "Launching a big business in ready-made goods."

You've become interested in that?

I guess...

Okay!

Keep it down, you!

Sorry, sorry, sorry!

The other day...

Yeah.

The Union President spoke to me about buying some really choice fabric.

Oh.

But I have to buy ten rolls of it.

Ah.

As you'd expect, I felt that was too much for my store...

...so I wanted to talk about selling you some of it.

I'm in!

There.

Here.

Thank you.

Ah... I see!

Well... That's an interesting plan.

Let's make a toast.

Here, Kanpai!

Kanpai!

When it's being done by the great Ohara-sensei, I'm completely reassured.

Well, to be honest...

...it really wouldn't matter whether it was his business or not.

"Really wouldn't matter?" What's that, you!

But I am happy I was able to respond to the Union President's kindness.

Yeah... Yeah.

I feel grateful for your support.

Well... That's, well...

...if my oldest acquaintance were to find out...

...I'd spoken to you about this, he'd be upset; saying this was self-serving of me.

So let's keep this a secret.

Wha... what's that about self-serving?

It's best you not know.

Union President, please tell me! Who's this guy you were favoring?

Don't know.

Union President! Why not? Who was it?

Don't know.

Whaa! You've gotten even more irritating somehow.

And then we returned to raising our enjoyable toasts.

What is this...

I don't feel refreshed anywhere.

I feel gloomy and oppressed...

What is this?

Ah...

I bet it's this.

Trapeze Line

What Saint-Laurent had brought out...

...it was nagging me that I didn't understand it at all.

I had been ignoring what it was I didn't understand.

But, it was wrong of me not to understand.

Saint-Laurent is twenty-one years old.

I guess when I was twenty-one...

Ohara Dressmaking Store

I, too...

I'll do my best!

Just watch!

At that age I felt I was further ahead of the curve than anyone.

What had happened to that confidence?

A twenty-one year old...

...doesn't really understand.

When you were twenty-one?

Yeah.

What did I appear like?

Huh?

Did I look like I knew what I was doing?

Twenty-one?

Ah... Ito-chan, what happened then?

I opened my shop...

...and got married at twenty-one.

Ah...

Ah...

That's right.

Ah...

If I recall...

When you had finally opened your store, you said...

Ohara Dressmaking Store

"The reason the customers aren't coming is because of this store's appearance!"...

...and "I'll cut out the lattice work."

For reasons I don't understand, you took work making tents and said...

..."my feet are bad," like that...

Are you still working on that?!

You wouldn't even stop working on the day of your wedding...

For pete's sake, you idiot!

Ito-chan!

Nat-chan!

And then you were wonderfully late...

This...

...pig!

You were scolded greatly by everyone.

Well...

...I don't really know much more...

I didn't look like much, huh?

Yeah.

Ahh... that was so...

...but I feel refreshed!

I had made mistakes at twenty-one.

I was a fool!

There's nothing to feel afraid of from a twenty-one year old.

Please put a stop to this. It's in a different league from our store.

It's unreasonable.

There's nothing unreasonable about it.

Director Kitamura said he'd do both the sewing and the selling.

I only take on the charge for the fabric...

...and afterwards I get 10% of any sales.

Still Sensei, if by any chance it's a failure...

It won't fail!

They'll be my designs!

Moreover, the fabric is first-class.

I'll definitely be a winner!

Having such confidence...

It's best to do business in my own way.

See here...

Yeah.

...this is the essential point.

Oh...

Tight, airy, tight, airy.

Airy...

This fabric.

Yeah.

This color.

Right here, tight, airy, tight, airy, then lightly.

"Mom, please listen."

"When I returned to the apartment today..."

I'm home.

Ah, hello, good afternoon. Excuse my disturbance.

"The number of men had increased!"

Hello.

In this egg's curves...

...I can sense the universe.

Yes!

This egg contains everything.

Hey, this isn't a joke.

It contains...

...all of natural beauty.

Here! Now, go ahead...

Please eat. Please don't hold back.

Oh!

Thank you very much.

No, no.

You guys. This Ohara Naoko's older sister...

...ever since she entered school, has been eternally the top honor student.

Eh?!

Don't, Sensei!

I'm not that big a deal. I'm far too serious.

Well... Being an eternal top student is hard to do.

Yeah, yeah.

That's a big deal, right!

Well, she really is just too serious though.

Huh?

Eh?

When it comes to her subjects, she grinds away at them like a fool.

Getting good grades and having talent are two different things.

Huh?

Oh... Miss, I guess that's a Dior dress?

Eh?

That's their Trapeze line, isn't it?

Ah.... that's right.

I sewed this myself.

I can't afford a Dior dress.

His sack dresses are popular.

That Saint-Lawrence is incredible.

I'm excited by what he might bring out next.

Yeah!

Hmm...

I guess you all are students here, huh?

Well, well, Yūko-kun. These guys here are the first male students we've admitted.

Ehh...

Well, it's true you couldn't tell by their appearance...

...but they have surprising abilities.

From here on, these guys'll open up a new future.

Just watch.

Ah.

Well but, Sensei. Naoko's incredible, too.

Yes.

Naoko's incredible, too.

Is she?

Huh?

Well, compared to an honor-roll student like you, she may appear unreliable, but...

Yes.

To me she's just my bad little sister...

After all, though she's a student here, going around wearing a worn out sailor outfit like that.

It's embarrassing...

Shut up!

I'm different from my thoughtless Nee-chan!

Huh?

Thoughtless?!

What's that Trapeze Line?

Should you be frivolously wearing clothes designed by someone else?

Huh?

Look.

Once we decided to take this path...

...that's the instant we became designers.

What we wear...

...should have our style as designers.

Until I've settled on my own style...

...I won't wear imitations of someone's else's.

Don't you really get that?!

What's that?!

Ah, what is it?!

Say that one more time! You good-for-nothing!

What are you doing!

Ah, I didn't say anything wrong!

You blockhead without any guts!

What was that?!

You haven't got the right...

...to succeed to the store!

Don't joke around with me, ugly!

Ah, wait, wait...

You idiot!

Who's the idiot!

Let go, you moron!

What was that?!

Please calm down.

Wait, wait!

You good-for-nothing!

Fool! Idiot! Fool, fool, fool!

Naoko's gotten out of hand

Such a letter had come from Yūko.

Rather than the subject of what the fight had been about...

...what bothered me far more...

That's their Trapeze line, isn't it?

Trapeze line

His sack dresses are popular.

...was this.

To Be Continued

Carnation

End

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