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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 24 "Declaration" Episode 137

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 Natsuki Mari

Yamaguchi Takae Takeuchi Miyako Ohara Rika \h Kojima Fujiko

重く濡らした瞼は今

Omoku nurashita mabuta wa ima

My eyelids, heavily soaked, are right now

Kawase Yuzuru Kawaoka Daijirō Yoshioka Einosuke \h Shigeyama Ippei

Takayama Mamoru Touma Sora Mizuno Kōji \h Kozasa Masatsugu Kamiyama Masashi \h Enokida Takato

Ohara Itoko (flashback) Ono Machiko Ohara Chiyo (photo)\h Asau Yumi Ohara Haru (photo)\h Shoji Terue

よろこび映す日の為

Yorokobi utsusu hi no tame

Reflecting my rapture of this day

Matsuda Megumi (flashback) Rokkaku Seiji Ohara Masaru (photo)\h Surugu Tarou Masako (flashback)\h Genkaku Yūko

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 (photo) Kobayashi Kaoru

From here on...

...I don't want any help at all from my daughters.

In exchange, we'll be starting work on a new Brand.

It will be really tough work getting used to it at first...

...but I want us to do our best somehow.

If you would please.

That's it! If that's the thing Sensei has decided to do...

Mizuno Kōji

...then of course we will do as much as we possibly can. Right?!

Yes.

Thank you...

Still, it really will be tough.

You've known this store as being laid-back recently...

...but the two people who were here before you...

Geez!

Ow!

Sensei!

Please behave responsibly!

The only voices they had for me were nothing but complaints...

That's impossible!

We wouldn't complain to Sensei, right?

Yes.

We both respect Sensei from our hearts.

We will just follow you silently.

...is what Taka-chan told me.

I want a Line that will show off even an elderly person's worn-down body fashionably.

But isn't this shape a little too elaborate? It will be difficult to make.

What are you saying!?

This is the appropriate place for the device.

If it's not made well, it won't sell!

Look, pret-a-porter and custom-made clothes...

...are different in the time it takes them to become profitable.

Right?

My point is... There's fabric charges, accessory charges...

...labor costs and fees, advertising expenses, transportation charges and a host of sundry expenses.

Right!

It's to the extent where...

...financing from a bank on a monthly basis is essential.

Wait, wait... I don't understand. Please tell me once more.

Isn't there that? Debt is a bad thing, isn't it?

It would be better not to have to borrow money...

...but it's going to be different for you from here on...

What I'm talking about is the month-end settlement with the fabric shop that's in ten days!

Eh? Why?

Huh?! Did you just click your tongue at me?

I didn't.

Liar! You did! You clicked your tongue!

Did not.

Did so! I say you did! You did do that!

Hey! What's going on, Taka-chan?

Sensei.

This is impossible for me anymore!

Huh?

Asking an oba-chan like me to take up something new like this...

...is just impossible!

I can't keep pace with it!

Mamoru.

Yes?

Your way of speaking was getting intense, wasn't it?

He clicked his tongue at me.

Don't click your tongue at her.

Yeees.

The way we were before was better, Sensei.

I think this is a bad thing to do.

I'd like us to return to our peaceful store from before.

Now, now, don't say that and sit down. Okay?

No.

On the other hand, Kō-chan was surprisingly patient.

More.

More.

No.

This is the wrong fabric. A much thicker one.

Yes.

I found out he was reliable.

Ah... Geez!

I hate this already!

Taka-chan!

I don't get it at all!

Mamoru!

Stop it with all the sobbing! This is your job!

Don't clench your teeth so!

Yes...

I'll take it slowly.

Rika-chan?

That's right.

What's with the clothes?

Kamiyama Masashi

And your hair's all bunched up.

I've stopped.

That was sudden...

Sorry 'bout that.

Come to your familiar paper exchange.

If you have any old newspapers, old magazines or anything such as rags...

Who's that grade-school girl?

His little sister?

He did say he had a little sister.

Ah, Naoko? Look...

I want you to have this bed taken back.

Well, it's really getting in the way already!

Like I said, to make a sales network...

...you need to secure a good sewing factory...

...and anyhow, social trust is the most important thing you need.

Yes.

I'll say this again. To gain that confidence, first your assets...

...as well as your organization needs to be in good order or it's useless.

Do you understand to this point?

I understand.

This...

...this...

...and yes, this.

It's difficult, huh?

What do you think?

This one.

Why?

Just somehow or other.

Fool! Geez...

This is important. Think hard about it!

Geez...

Delicious!

This is great, Rika-chan.

I want seconds!

Well, the curry wasn't a failure. Right?

Even so, this is skilled.

The vegetables have been cut so carefully.

Ala, Kō-chan, you've already wolfed yours down?

I was hungry somehow.

You moved on that really well.

Rika, pour him some seconds.

Yeah.

There's plenty.

Yeah.

This is delicious.

It really is good.

I could eat all the curry here.

Right?

Rika-chan, is there still enough for seconds?

There is.

Ready?

A project like this is hopeless unless you gather all the information yourself.

And then, unless you can make personal connections, it'll be no good.

But me and personal connections...

That is...

No one was saying that Takae-san would be in charge of the project.

Deciding who does what in the organization.

What I'm saying is, "this is the form it's taking now."

Right?

No one would ever consider Takae-san to be in charge of stocking for this project.

Huh?!

I'm sorry.

I'll be leaving first.

Yes!

Let's keep going, keep going.

Is this it?

This, too.

Yes.

I was told it's a good patterned fabric, so I thought I'd bring it...

But what do you think?

I guess this is it.

Use this for the dress!

Make the dress I told you about the other day with this.

Eh?

Eh?

Use this for the dress?

But Sensei, to arbitrarily use this fabric on that recent dress...

...it won't be an easy thing to get it to match with your pattern, will it?

Hmm...

Putting this to the pattern would be totally exceptional.

It'll take some wonderfully complex calculations for that.

I guess.

But even so...

...this pattern is interesting. I think it's good!

Okay, we'll go with it!

Eh?!

You young'uns think it's impossible...

...but it can be done.

This doesn't mean I've gotten old.

Kō-chan, bring me a mannequin.

Yes!

Ah, that's right...

This should be brought up more like so.

Right?

Look, we'll tie it off here. Look.

You're right.

At last...

...it's done.

Ahh...

Eh!

I've got it at last.

Sensei!?

Grandma?!

It's nothing.

I just felt a little dizzy.

I had been overdoing things.

Sensei?!

Grandma?!

Sensei?!

Grandma?!

Hang in there, Sensei.

Are you okay?

I had never been scolded so in my entire life.

Are you okay, Grandma?

Grandma, do you want some water?

No, I'm fine.

Please don't overdo things... Sensei.

Rika.

Eh?

Don't tell your Mom about this.

Yeah...

Even if I could fool those around me somehow...

Grandma, are you okay?

Sensei...

...I couldn't fool my own body.

Sensei...

Ow, ow...

"She's just as big a fool as ever," they seemed to be saying.

And you're right.

G'morning.

Ah, ah, ow, ow, ow...!

Advertising?

Yes.

It's about time we prepared for that.

Well still, my daughters don't really have anything to do with this.

What do you mean they don't have anything to do with this?!

Those three are super-big names!

Even so, I don't want to.

I don't want those girls names dangled in my advertising.

This isn't a situation where you can say such naive things.

Huh? What's naive about it?!

I have confidence in my own goods...

...and I don't need to use my daughters to attract in customers!

We'll talk about that three years from now.

What?

Sensei, just how many people in this entire country know of "Ohara Itoko" right now?

That's...

I don't know how many across the country...

...but that'll change once these fine clothes are...

We don't have the luxury to talk like that.

Just like that, the funds we need to make the next set could disappear.

Listen, Sensei.

For those people who have never bought Ohara Itoko clothes...

...we have to declare their value to them in a flash.

"Clothes made by some oba-chan in a Kishiwada dressmaking store."

Who's going to pay attention to that sort of plain talk?

Unless we can get them to see the value of Ohara Itoko...

...then whatever else we might do will be totally useless!

Your daughters...

...need to do anything and everything they can to cooperate in the promotion of this.

We will definitely never succeed without them!

Taka-chan, this guy's making me angry!

I don't know!

If I have to put up with him...

...then Sensei, please put up with him, too!

To Be Continued

Carnation

End

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