"For the past few days, it's been raining." "Now that I think about it..." "I can't remember the last time I saw a clear sky." "(prayer for good weather)" "It sure has been raining for a long time." "It's depressing." "Yeah." "I wonder how long it's going to rain." "What's with that creepy laugh?" "I'll make it sunny... this coming Sunday!" "You will?" "Yeah!" "I'm praying for good weather... so it'll be sunny!" "I wish it would just keep raining." "But... you wouldn't like it if it rained on Sunday, right?" "No." "I want it to rain." "I want it to rain for a long, long time." "Eh?" "But the baseball club... has a game against Minami JHS on Sunday, right?" "Yeah." "That is... a great chance for revenge!" "That's fine." "I just... want it to keep raining." "It's not fine, Takanashi!" "I have been... waiting for Sunday for a long time!" "Ah,Matsunaga." "Well, anyway..." "I am sorry to say this Takanashi, but Sunday... will be sunny!" "What do you mean?" "Didn't I ever tell you?" "I can cause it to be sunny!" "Yeah?" "Well, why don't you hurry up and make it sunny?" "You idiot!" "I make it sunny when it really matters!" "Right, Shizuru?" "I do that, right?" "Yeah." "Now that I think about it, most of the time when I'm with Fumi, the weather is good." "Yeah!" "Hey, Takanashi." "Why don't we bet on it?" "Haven't you... looked at the weather report?" "I'm sorry to tell you this, but it is going to be raining for a while." "You can never trust those reports!" "You want to do it?" "If it is sunny, you'll have to pay tribute to me." "and do one thing that I tell you to do!" "If it rains, then it'll go the other way around." "Just do whatever you want." "It is going to rain anyway." "Okay!" "That seals the deal!" "I wonder if Fumi-chan is going to be alright." "I can't believe you made that bet." "Don't worry about it!" "It'll rain hard now and be sunny by Sunday!" "Fumi-chan, are you really alright?" "No problem!" "That is why... we'll all make teruteru bozu today. (dolls that" "Japanese people make to try to improve the weather)" "Okay?" "That was fast!" "What do you mean by that?" "Let's just get one thing straight... you guys are on my side, right?" "Yeah..." "Okay!" "With this, Sunday will be sunny!" "Takanashi!" "Hey!" "Are you trying to run away?" "Matsunaga... don't talk to him that way." "Why not?" "He was the pitcher in the last Minami JHS game." "We got destroyed." "That was the first game after all of the third year students left the club so they could concentrate on studying." "The third year students even came to watch, but..." "He thought that it was all his fault... and got really depressed." "That's why I don't want you to talk to him like that." "So that's what happened." "That's it?" "How stupid." "Don't say something like that!" "I think he really wants to get revenge!" "He keep practicing his pitching by himself!" "So..." "So please just be nice to him." "So, Fumi-chan..." "What is going on Sunday... that you've been looking forward to?" "Do you want to know?" "Well, there is a festival at a shrine the next town over!" "A festival?" "Yeah!" "I have been looking forward to it since forever!" "You made me... make all these teruteru bozu for that?" "I'm really happy that you are helping me!" "Shino didn't understand at all!" "Weather doesn't change even if many people pray for it to change!" "Do you really think it'll change for one person?" "Is what she said..." "That is why I'm asking for your help!" "That's just like Shino-chan... but I think that..." "Shino-chan is praying as well." "I think so too." "... change for one person. huh?" "I think that's true though." "If there are people around who want it to be sunny, there are always people around who are praying for rain." "It's gotten bad again..." "You shouldn't have done that." "Playing catch in a classroom is not good." "But..." "You are a girl, Mizuki..." "I can't believe you fell and got hurt like this!" "It hurts!" "I haven't even done anything yet!" "You have to stay still!" "Try to make it so it doesn't hurt!" "Just take the pain!" "It hurts!" "I told you not to make it hurt!" "I'm sorry." "I am done now anyway." "Thank you." "But... why did you start playing catch in a way that got you hurt like this?" "Takatsu and Kasama threw it really hard." "It made me want to throw it hard too." "So Takatsu-kun plays baseball?" "Yeah!" "He said he wants tot go into the baseball club when he gets to junior high." "Really?" "This Sunday, your school has a game with Minami JHS, right?" "Takatsu and the others really want to go see it!" "Well, I guess it really doesn't matter if they want to see it or not," "But I wonder if it is going to stop raining." "The teruteru bozu army is ready!" "With this..." "Sunday will definitely be sunny!" "Today," "I went over to Fumi-chan's house and made a lot of teruteru bozu so that it will be sunny on Sunday." "Really?" "Hey!" "If it's sunny on Sunday, why don't you come and watch the game too, Sis?" "I wonder." "Come on!" "Let's go together!" "I will teach you the rules of baseball!" "Well, that will be nice." "I am really looking forward to Sunday." "I wonder if the teruteru bozu will really make it sunny." "Oh yeah!" "We should make teruteru bozu too!" "Help me make some, Sis!" "Again?" "...in the last Minami JHS game... and got really depressed... he really wants to get revenge..." "He keeps practicing his pitching by himself!" "Fumi-chan?" "Hey, Fumi-chan?" "It's really creepy when Fumi-chan... is all quiet like that." "Sorry for being all creepy!" "Did something happen?" "No." "I just don't get it though..." "Takanashi says... he wants it to rain on Sunday." "With all the practicing he's doing, he should..." "Show what he has on a nice sunny day!" "That's what I would want to do anyway..." "I just don't get it." "I think it would be best for him... if it were sunny on Sunday." "Right?" "Doesn't everyone else think so?" "What's with that look?" "I am a little surprised!" "What do you mean by that?" "That is the first time I've ever seen you worry about another person, Fumi." "Yeah!" "I'm really surprised." "W-What?" "You make it sound like I only think about myself!" "That's not true?" "What?" "Just think about it you got things like bells that increase your happiness and a bracelet that was supposed to make you rich." "And also lucky slippers..." "All that was just for you." "That's right." "The fact that you would do something to make it sunny next Sunday for Takanashi..." "Yeah!" "I see you in whole new light!" "Yeah!" "I know that I'm being praised... but..." "I just don't like what I'm feeling deep down." "Don't worry!" "We are praising you!" "Yeah!" "Yo, Takanashi!" "Are you going to practice?" "It must be hard... to practice like that everyday." "Y-Yeah..." "Here!" "You can take this!" "You want it to be sunny on Sunday too, right?" "What the hell are you talking about?" "It's okay." "Don't hold back!" "Just take it!" "Just leave me alone!" "It's much easier for me if it rains!" "Even though you practiced that much?" "Do you think I will win..." "If I practice hard enough?" "It's not like every wish comes true!" "What an idiot." "They do come true." "If you really wish hard, they will come true!" "Okay, here you are." "What's wrong, Fumi-chan?" "Oh, Shizuru." "You don't look happy." "Yeah..." "I'm starting to think... that I can't make it sunny when it really counts." "I really want it to be sunny." "I think I found a good way." "Do you want to try?" "Hang them upside-down?" "Yeah!" "But, isn't that what people do when they want it to rain?" "I heard that before... but, in the Edo period, when people started making teruteru bozu, people hung them upside-down as well." "Really?" "Yeah." "The teruteru bozu song... has three parts." "The first two parts talk about making the teruteru bozu happy by giving them gold bells or alcohol, but the third part of the song is about threatening them!" "Threatening them?" "It is something like using force to make them hurry up and do their job." "I feel sorry for them though." "Using force to hurry someone along!" "Just like something I would do!" "Thank you, Shizuru!" "I feel much better!" "R-Really?" "That's great, Fumi-chan!" "I will not give up on this!" "Never!" "Never!" "I'm going to hurry home and try it!" "G-Good luck..." "When the sun comes out, I'll put you guys back the way you were." "So, hurry up and make it sunny!" "You guys can do it!" "No way!" "I really can make it sunny!" "Yeah!" "Takanashi!" "Yo!" "Good morning!" "Did you come over here just to gloat?" "Of course, I did!" "Here you go!" "Teru... teru bozu?" "After your game, give them a nice river funeral!" "W-Why do I have to do that?" "You lost the bet!" "You can do it!" "Okay!" "I'm off!" "Do your best in the game!" "You practiced a lot!" "You should be all sunny and happy like me!" "See you!" "Bye bye!" "It's great for Fumi-chan... that it actually became sunny." "Sis, it's going to start!" "Let's have a good game!" "Play ball!" "Pitcher!" "Give us lots of runs like last time!" "Yeah!" "Stop talking down on him like that!" "It's not like... every wish comes true!" "They do come true." "If you really wish hard, they'll come true!" "You should be all sunny hand happy like me!" "She... really can make it sunny..." "Strike!" "Yeah!" "Yeah!" "Way to go!" "Strike!" "Batter out!" "That game was amazing." "Yeah!" "Takanashi-san is so cool!" "I want to join the baseball club too!" "Ya-hoo!" "Yo!" "Fumi-chan." "You didn't go watch the game?" "I said I was going to go to the festival." "Really?" "Are you just coming back from the festival?" "Yeah!" "I took a lot of pictures... so I'm taking the film out to be developed!" "How was the festival?" "It was great!" "It was really fun!" "I even got to carry the portable shrine!" "When I get the pictures back, I'll show you!" "Thanks." "But..." "This is all thanks to you, Shizuru." "Thank you so much." "You saved me from losing my reputation as someone who can make it sunny!" "I will pass this story down to my kids!" "You don't have to do that!" "Bye!" "Ah!" "Fumi-chan!" "Don't you want to know who won the game?" "If the woman that can make it sunny is cheering for a team, they win!" "It looks like Fumi-chan, the woman that can make it sunny, makes more than just the weather turn out nice." "I'm so lucky!" "This thing gives good luck!" "Do you mean that while fluffy thing?" "Yeah!" "It is called a Keseran-Paseran." "I'll tell Mom about it later!" "But Mom doesn't like thigns like that, right?" "Oh yeah!" "What should I do?" "Next time:" "Keseran-Paseran" "I want to see Mom, but this thing..." "I don't know what to do!" "This is the time in life when people have lots of worries!" "Time in life?" "Mizuki..."