"I'm going shopping!" "Wait for me!" "too." "What do you think?" "Can you fix it?" "Well..." "Kojiro the Green runs around noisily." "I made up Kojiro the Green last summer." "There!" "It's ready." "Try it out." "Sure." "Kojiro came to mind while I was underwater." "so only I can see it." "Shinko..." "What do you think?" "Huh?" "Streams don't usually... turn at a right angle like that." "So why does this one?" "But hasn't it always been that way?" "Do you know how long it's been like that?" "Grandpa used to be a schoolteacher." "it's been that way... for a thousand years." "A thousand?" "!" "that looks like... but actually this land... a thousand years ago..." "but he taught me all the interesting things that I know." "\1cH0A0A0A}e" "Mitajiri Station!" "Mitajiri." "Stupid big sister!" "what's wrong?" "Sis pulled off Kewpie's arm!" "My goodness!" "Why would she do such a thing?" "!" "and this stream was made to flow at a right angle since then." "Suo." "This region used to be called the Province of Suo." "And where the stream turns..." "New scooter!" "This stream follows what was an old ditch around a city block." "Your bike broke down?" "So what... that old thing." "Look at my new bike!" "And that road where Yoshimura-san and Ejima-san argue... has been there since ancient times." "My Grandpa told me all these interesting things." "Grandpa!" "Did you see Shinko?" "No." "Jeez?" "The steamed bread is also gone..." "Shinko!" "Shinko!" "Where are you?" "I know you're out there!" "go ahead!" "Shinko!" "Shinko!" "I can't hear you!" "I'll give you rice to take!" "What was Suo's capital city like... a thousand years ago?" "Now I know!" "And this side?" "Shinko!" "Come out right now!" "I'll be just fine here." "The ship from the Imperial Capital arrives soon." "We must meet it." "Imperial Capital?" "!" "I'm sure a Princess will come!" "Right rudder!" "There it is!" "was called here... to govern Suo!" "come out here!" "Let's enjoy the view together." "Hey!" "Who's playing in the field?" "It's you again!" "Hey!" "Bah!" "Just when the Princess was coming out!" "Kiiko." "Yes." "You must be Dr. Shimazu?" "General Affairs Department." "Hello." "It's such a long trip from Tokyo." "here is my card." "well." "She must be your daughter?" "Yes." "This is the main street." "It's so tiny compared to Tokyo." "and there's nothing at all." "There are horses and cows." "There are just big wheat fields." "Not like Tokyo at all." "Stupid!" "Idiot! even though she was bad. but that's nothing compared to... a history of a thousand years." "Grandpa." "Your medicine." "Daddy didn't come home last night either." "He's too busy working." "eat your breakfast quickly!" "I'm late!" "Because of this 'Mai Mai' curl!" "You're fast!" "But I'm faster!" " It stinks!" " Smells bad!" "What's that smell?" "!" "Stinks!" "Stinks?" "it smells rather nice." "arrived yesterday." "Why'd she use it?" "I don't know." "Lipstick!" "She even wears lipstick." "Pretends to be foreign." "A weirdo." "She makes an awful impression." "class three." "was born last night!" "It was born?" "!" "so self-study for the first hour." "you color so well!" "Not really." "Wonder what they'll name it?" "it'll be a trendy name!" "Did you listen to the radio?" "From 18:00?" "I did!" "Wow!" "Awesome!" "Your colored pencils! how many colors are there?" "Never seen that before..." "What's up?" "Ignore her." "10... 14..." "Wow!" "There are 26 colors!" "I've never seen such colors!" "maybe imported?" "There sure are lots of reds and blues in foreign countries." "how's your self-study going?" "grade five." "Skipped class again." "Ignore him." "can I borrow this color?" "I want to color the Seto Inland Sea with it." "but maybe not for you." "he broke it!" "That's enough." "Give it back to me!" "be careful!" "Nice clothes." "Are you OK?" "what are you doing to the new girl?" "!" "It's Mr Hanada!" "Daddy Hanada!" "Daddy!" "Don't make fun of me!" "Watch out!" "Aah..." "Umm..." "Shimazu Kiiko-san..." "Why didn't you tell?" "Only Shigeru was punished." "I don't know." "What do you mean "I don't know"?" "!" "Hey..." "I'm sorry." "Ah!" "Hey..." "Hold on!" "You're so weird..." "' but there's a whole town here." "I had no idea." "A paper drama storyteller!" "I want to see!" "Let's go." "Let's go!" "Could you... go first?" "Sure." "Good doggy!" "Good doggy!" "There!" "Want a tummy rub?" "Good doggy!" "Good doggy!" "I see." "I guess you don't like dogs." "A deutzia shrub!" "They're called 'deutzia' because the branches are hollow." "Deutzia means hollow?" "I don't know... nobody's home." "How about your mom?" "Not here." "come in." "Wow!" "You have stairs!" "Nice!" "No one has stairs around where I live." "Sit down." "'kay." "Heidi" "A Little Princess" "Bear!" "let's play!" "Ah..." "The dog's called Bear..." "Kiiko one month old" "Want some milk?" "A gas refrigerator!" "but where is it?" "At the back." "Wow!" "At my place an ice vendor puts ice in every day." "I've heard about TV." "Have you ever watched it?" "Yeah." "In Tokyo." "Once or twice." "Really?" "!" "So... so how was it?" "The colored pencils came from there?" "Yeah." "is your father somebody important?" "No." "A doctor... at the factory." "I shouldn't have... worn the perfume." "You shouldn't... feel that way." "I won't wear it to school again." "Yeah." "Why doesn't anyone visit?" "Please come here." "Come soon." "Come..." "Come on!" "Come on!" "Look!" "That's my house." "Doesn't it look like like a ship?" "Look!" "Sailing on waves of wheat." "You're right!" "And he's my Grandpa." "but not me." "Scary? Grandpa invited him to dinner!" "And she's my Grandma." "And next..." "This way!" "it's my museum of secret treasures." "Prizes from Glico candy." "What I'd like is to light it inside with electricity." "I'd sneak out at night to see the lit-up windows." "Would be so pretty! my little sister." "Hello." "Here." "What is it?" "!" "Come inside." "what is it?" "What did you bring us?" "I-It's..." "Shiny foil!" "They were on Dad's desk." "Is it OK?" "It's a gift." "it glitters!" "It's chocolate!" "What's in it?" "It leaks." "Alcohol 'hin 'hit." "Halcohol?" "Halcohol." "I feel like I'm on fire!" "Like peppermint water?" "Or chili oil?" "Is chili oil good?" "It's awful!" "We take it when we can't go poo-poo!" "Take it and poo!" "Tastes bad!" "This is better!" "Sweet 'halcohol." "sweet 'halcohol!" "My Mom won... a prize in a magazine photo contest! she told them she was single!" "where's your Mom?" "My Mom died!" "She got water in her lungs and died!" "Amazing!" "Father!" "Mother!" "Mitsuko!" "You ate it too?" "!" "What should I do?" "There's whiskey inside!" "Only one left?" "there's one more." "two more." "And who are you?" "I'm Shimazu Kiiko." "From the worker's residence!" "I'm thirsty." "Me too." "This place isn't as deserted as it looks." "you're here." "I don't mean that." "for water." "my 'Mai Mai' begins to move." "What is a 'Mai Mai'?" "right here." "and a curl here also!" "you mean that curl?" "Not me." "I don't have one." "I'm the only one in my family with one." "My hair jumps up like this!" "I really wish I didn't have this! sometimes this Mai Mai gets really excited! but has a thousand-year-old secret!" "A thousand-year-old... secret?" "!" "a thousand years!" "Bitter!" "Are you better now?" "I'll show you." "This way!" "Slow down!" "Right here!" "Here?" "This road has been here for a thousand years." "Really?" "!" "This way!" "Wait!" "What was it like back then?" "Carts pulled by oxen were moving through here." "Look." "Here comes one!" "it'll run me down!" "That was close!" "You be careful too!" "Out of the way!" "come here." "Come to see me." "Soon... the river!" "River?" "!" "blacksmith hammers clang bang bong!" "Clang bang bong!" "Clang bang bong!" "your Majesty?" "Please proceed." "Yes." "it says... was here." "Really?" "Grandpa told me so." "Look at that!" "It's still called The "Kokuga" bus stop!" "It really is!" "Look!" "the river!" "It's one thousand years old?" "I'm faster!" "something big must have been built here." "Something big?" "maybe a mansion!" "Wow!" "Excuse me!" "What are you doing?" "Digging for things where an ancient building was." "What kind of building?" "the Governor of Suo." "Just like you said." "maybe?" "What?" "!" "Dolls?" "What were dolls like back then?" "I guess?" "It's impossible to find dolls." "Such soft things don't last underground." "too bad." "a girl probably lived here." "Around your age." "Really?" "!" "how splendid!" "The ceremony of hauling the pine sapling." "It's said the pine lives for a thousand years." "But I've already become so old..." "How much longer can I watch over her?" "That scholar said in ancient times the sea reached to Katsuma Shrine." "One thousand years ago." "Reclaimed land..." "We can see your house." "We're on the sea!" "Splash... splash..." "Splash... splash..." "What's that girl like?" "From a thousand years ago?" "let me see." "Wait a moment." "let me try to do it myself first!" "Let's see..." "Just wait... wait." "I'm waiting." "But you know... it would be great if she had a friend." "like you." "princess." "I was told that a girl my age was waiting for me in Suo. but I've waited for days and no one visits." "I brought lots of Hina dolls and things to play together." "I cut up pretty paper to make kimonos. it's true that we arranged for a girl your age... to be waiting for you." "no one can know how long someone will live." "My sons had a younger sister that they loved so much... but it's not like that for us." "Our ancestors came here from far beyond the sea." "We are a people that work in iron." "The best iron is from stars that fall from the night sky. and made it our home." "We've been making iron here for hundreds of years since then. you'll find remains of bellows from hundreds of years ago." "Hundreds of years old?" "Hundreds of years old." "All right. on the Day of the Mouse." "You must remember... pine of a thousand springs..." "Remember this day..." "At Katsuma Inlet... remembering that precious day forever." "People have always been here." "And they will be here a thousand years from now." "I just can't!" "I can't imagine what the girl was like." "It seems you can't do it if you don't have a Mai Mai." "I can't even remember what my own Mom was like." "That's Mom before I was born." "too." "Right?" "it suits you." "Kaboom machine!" "your ears!" "Kiiko?" "No." "scissors!" "P-R-S!" "It's Shigeru!" "With Hitoshi from class five." "In the mulberry field?" "!" "Hey!" "What are you doing?" "it's Shinko!" "What's up?" "Making a dam." "A dam?" "Here goes!" "Again!" "Ready!" "Again!" "Kiiko." "Eh?" "!" "Here goes!" "A loach!" "What are you making?" "A dam." "It'll be so big!" "find a big board!" "Come on!" "who's that?" "grade six." "He loves such things." "we... we want that." "Out of the way." "Help me." "what's that?" "An island." "Oh." "Huh?" "!" "Tatsuyoshi..." "Here." "There!" "We made such a huge dam." "I hope the water fills up." "You know..." "Sorry about before." "Huh?" "Oh..." "Right." "It would feel great to let out all the water at once." "but..." "It would be a waste." "We worked together." "Let's let it all out!" "Let's do it!" "do it!" "Something red." "What was it?" "A goldfish?" "The mulberry field stream?" "That was an important river a thousand years ago." "They tied boats to that 'Mooring Pine.'" "But I don't know about a girl from a thousand years ago." "She was called Nagiko-chan?" "Yes." "This book says that was her name." "Really?" "!" "Her father composed waka poems. and probably brought his daughter." "She may have been in Kokuga a thousand years ago." "Her name is the only one I know." "Hizuru-sensei smelled so nice." "Yeah." "It was nice." "She was writing a letter." "Was she?" "Maybe to her lover?" "What?" "!" "it's there." "Oh?" "!" "You're here?" "To give it some bread." "We saved some lunch too." "Tatsuyoshi!" "Oh!" "Everybody's here." "I thought of a name for the fish." "So did I!" "How's about 'Hizuru'?" "Darn!" "Darn." "I see!" "Everybody chose that name." "10 yen each!" "go in quietly." "leave before the lights come on." "Don't let my dad see you from upstairs!" "Ouch! but when we grow up will we kiss like that?" "I hope that..." "Hizuru-sensei will have a happy life." "I wonder if my Mom was like that." "here." "Yes." "Look at this rocket tail!" "Really!" "Just like Hizuru-chan." "Yeah." "What's a Hizuru-chan?" "You don't need to know." "What is it?" "What is Hizuru-chan?" "look!" "Sis!" "Tell me!" "Hey!" "Tatsuyoshi's father!" "tell me!" "That's who he is?" "this is Hizuru-chan the goldfish." "It's cute." "Go!" "I have lots of new friends." "Because of you." "Thanks." "it was the Millennium Magic." "too." "But there is still one friend I'd like to have." "too." "Nagiko-chan." "little dice eyes!" "Come on!" "Not so bad." "Switch." "you eyes!" "how about this?" "Pass my turn." "One more throw!" "Wait!" "I can't!" "good!" "try this..." "Cuckoos!" "And deutzia!" "Put some there!" "And some more there." "I've never done this." "It's beautiful!" "Play with me..." "All right!" "let's go!" "Right!" "we'll rely on you and your wooden sword." "Are there really bandits inside the cave?" "they'll hear you!" "The bandits may have guns!" "we're the Destiny Squad." "That sword belongs to Tatsuyoshi's father!" "His father is a 4th-dan kendo master!" "stay calm!" "It's a cat." "That was scary!" "I was so spooked." "What were those eyes?" "Cat eyes." "Just a cat!" "No way!" "Shinko!" "Tell Mitsuko it's nap time!" "All right!" "Where is Mitsuko?" "Oh no!" "She's not here!" "Mitsuko!" "Mitsuko-chan!" "are you there?" "She's not here." "Where is she?" "Let's look below." "Kokuga is so big..." "What should I do?" "!" "Hizuru-sensei!" "Shinko?" "Did you see a little girl?" "!" "about this tall." "I didn't see her." "What's wrong?" "goodbye." "did you find her?" "Oh!" "In front of Shinko's house..." "Police." "Thank you so much." "She went into the golf course... to collect golf balls." "We are very grateful." "Not at all." "I'll be off now." "What a relief!" "but put it back." "He's such an honest policeman. he went in first and caught the criminal." "right?" "Mitsuko!" "You're safe!" "I see you found your little sister." "Hizuru-sensei?" "too." "Yes." "I'm so restless." "I feel like there's something in this big wide Kokuga." "Oh?" "Restless and kind of happy." "Maybe it's just growing up." "Maybe not. and you..." "Huh?" "!" "A pretty ring!" "I guess I have to tell you now." "I'll stop teaching after next Saturday." "Huh?" "!" "I'm going to marry." "This autumn." "so I'll quit next week." "It's a secret until Monday." "Who will you marry?" "He's from my college days." "We'll be living in Tokyo." "so he's really athletic." "I wish I could go to Tokyo." "Come and visit when you're older." "Goodbye!" "She'll be a bride!" "A bride!" "Kiiko!" "This will be our secret." "congratulations!" "Huh?" "About what?" "You too!" "you too!" "'kay." "Let's play!" "Yes!" "faster!" "Do they really plant flowers on top of dirt walls in Kyoto?" "the Emperor ordered it." "They're beautiful." "So many flowers blooming in the pond!" "Kiiko!" "Pretty!" "I'll add my marbles." "Me too!" "Hizuru's here!" "She seems to like it." "Hizuru-chan." "Fish don't sleep in beds." "It's OK." "Amazing!" "What's that?" "It's OK." "He'll get mad!" "Shh!" "We'll add these as decorations." "These people... are saying no one should play with me." ""Not with her..."" "Why do they do that?" "What for?" "Huh?" "Why am I crying?" "Huh?" "Shinko?" "It's bad." "Your mother's... perfume?" "I thought it would look nice." "But today I saw the top came off... did Hizuru die?" "She was more red than the sunset." "Hizuru." "It's hopeless." "I tried that already." "Let's give her a funeral!" "A funeral!" "At the historical site!" "Holy in Heaven..." "Pray for real." "we prayed him up to Heaven." "Pray like this and Hizuru will come back on August 15." "She won't come back." "I know that." "And neither will my mother." "Let's just forget them." "what's on August 15?" "It's when the souls of the dead return." "you held the funeral there." "Because I said it was the center of a thousand-year-old site?" "I wonder if she'll return with the Millennium Magic. and next time Hizuru will live for a thousand years!" "right?" "Or Kiiko will not feel... wait up!" "Hey!" "I couldn't believe it!" "What?" "I saw something swimming in the stream." "A red goldfish just like Hizuru!" "Really?" "!" "by the stone wall." "I saw something red wiggling." "it was identical to Hizuru." "since she's already dead." "Kiiko!" "Holy in Heaven..." "Seems like Hizuru-sensei will stop teaching." "What... really?" "She had a boyfriend." "Really?" "But he was already married." "What? that she'll marry some other man in Tokyo." "It's so disappointing." "It makes 'Hizuru' seem like... a bad name for a goldfish." "the end is near!" "Take that!" "Hey!" "We were just fooling... are you..." "Huh?" "Are you confident about taking Kiiko around with you?" "What if the goldfish isn't there?" "I'm not confident..." "But..." "I want Hizuru to be there." "too." "it's you who said that you saw her." "Come with me." "Tatsuyoshi..." "Tatsuyoshi..." "Mitsuru and Hitoshi?" "we..." "Get up off your butts!" "I promise we'll find her. swear on you life!" "We will find the fish tomorrow!" "The sword of the Destiny Squad says so! we have no choice." "too!" "Yeah." "Let's promise." "That we'll meet here tomorrow and we'll laugh together." "where are you?" "will come!" "in this nonsense?" "Master!" "ind you!" "reat danger... avengerisstillnot here." "Tatsuyoshi has grown so much." "Coming!" "Radio drama continues tomorrow..." "Shinko!" "Suzuki-kun is here." "Huh?" "Suzuki?" "Yes." "Suzuki..." "Suzuki." "Suzuki Tatsuyoshi." "What is it?" "Shinko." "Huh?" "All of you will understand tomorrow." "I have lost all hope." "Crap!" "I don't know what you're talking about... terrible." "What happened?" "Yoshimura-san just passed by." "He said the policeman that found Mitsuko..." "Yes?" "He hung himself in the police station!" "What?" "!" "He was involved with yakuza at the port." "In a 2nd-floor gambling den at Bar California." "A woman there tricked him into it." "His asthma again..." "He owed them hundreds of thousands of yen!" "My!" "He left a suicide note accepting responsibility." "we managed to stay together because of Tatsuyoshi and his father's sword." "What will happen tomorrow?" "He did nothing wrong." "I'm sure of it!" "help me." "Enough talk!" "Don't you know that his son is Shinko's friend!" "Oh my!" "Shinko will hear you." "That's who he was..." "He did have a son my daughter's age." "Is it painful to die?" "Stop..." "Don't talk like a junior high student!" "Just asking!" "You're taking it too personally." "There are many temptations." "Probably gambling got to him before some woman." "It often happens." "Tell me he was innocent." "And tomorrow..." "The sword was so dazzling." "Millennium Magic..." "It's completely worthless." "I totally forgot." "I promised to take a Glico prize to Kiiko." "Can I go now?" "Why not tomorrow?" "But..." "I promised." "I'm going." "take the flashlight!" "I've got it!" "I'm hungry!" "Mitsuko..." "Suzuki" "You here?" "!" "Is anyone home?" "!" "you here?" "you home?" "Shinko?" "Yeah. they won't let us meet." "Our promise to meet is ruined." "So we have to find Hizuru by morning." "The two of us?" "I ran away." "But why can't we play with you anymore?" "the Bar..." "California." "Because of the woman there." "She is evil." "Where's your Mom?" "until tomorrow." "Probably Hizuru won't show up." "The Millennium Magic that Grandpa told me about is gone." "You're OK with saying that?" "let's go!" "Where?" "Revenge for the broken promise!" "we can go anywhere." "Miss." "Be sure to lock the door." "Thank you." "A letter?" "I'm sorry..." "Shinko-chan?" "!" "I'm going far away." "but..." "Shinko-chan. have you gone so far that I can't understand you?" "and won't involve you in my fantasy world any more." "I'm sorry I did that." "I wonder why?" "Because I decided to stop remembering my Mom?" "too?" "that girl from the past that only you know will be gone." "Mom used to read me this book when I was little." "I only know because Dad told me." "I would never have gone there." "The Port" "Cops come more often now." "Because that happened." "Since that cop died." "I saw my dad come into this alley with a blonde woman." "And in there is the Bar California." "Shinko?" "Not... at all!" "I don't know why it's come to this..." "I don't know." "I must get revenge against her!" "Let's go!" "You insult my novel?" "!" "Learn your letters first!" "What did you say?" "!" "Huh?" "!" "Hey!" "Control yourselves!" "Lousy drunks!" "don't stop yet!" "Fight some more!" "You pee-pant kids want beer?" "Don't look at them." "Yeah." "Clang bang bong!" "Blacksmith hammer a thousand years ago." "a river I'd probably fall into." "mansion inside walls." "The girl living there plays with Hina dolls." "I did see her face just one time..." "A bride... flowers... in full bloom." "Many laughing people." "But that girl doesn't laugh." "Shinko-chan." "Tomorrow's promise..." "Tomorrow we will all laugh..." "Oh!" "That girl's not here today!" "I started to see it!" "Huh?" "Huh?" "Huh?" "Ah!" "I have a Mai Mai!" "Princess!" "Princess!" "Princess!" "Little one." "let's go." "Don't go that way." "This way." "It's pretty!" "Amazing!" "So many flowers!" "Oh!" "Tatara Mountain!" "It's the same shape!" "Clang bang bong!" "Clang bang bong!" "Shinko-chan!" "Shinko-chan!" "Bring money next time!" "we're almost there." "Almost there." "almost there." "that girl." "soon." "Here we are." "It's here." "California" "Oh!" "Who's out there?" "Kids..." "Are you the woman from Bar California?" "!" "Who's out here?" "What's with these lousy brats?" "You're the wo-?" "!" "Yes!" "I'm the girlalifornia." "You run the 2nd floor yakuza gambling den?" "!" "Shinko. you little brats. and teach you a lesson." "Right?" "Tatsuyoshi came for revenge!" "His father was a good policeman." "and he committed suicide!" "We came for revenge!" "Give us back tomorrow's promise!" "I beg your forgiveness... for her absence from the mansion." "We ate spoiled fish and have fallen ill." "Does your stomach hurt also?" "but I have to look after my sisters and Mother." "Oh!" "I forgot to feed the mansion bird." "You always have that look." "You should smile more." "Here." "Does that kid always have that look?" "He doesn't smile much." "Tatsuyoshi!" "That's enough." "you'd have become a yakuza." "Huh?" "Now smile!" "Have a drink." "want me to teach you how to carve a spinning top... that beats all the rest?" "Not very friendly!" "Why would you do that?" "Officer Suzuki showed me how when we were having a glass." "His eyes gleamed with pride at that moment." "He seemed to be happy." "What are you saying?" "!" "His father probably taught him that already." "I didn't let him." "My father... but I said don't bother." "Then he hit me." "my father... stinking of alcohol." "Crap! my father passed running by this bar." "I wish I could... go and run with him!" "Father!" "kid." "Tatsuyoshi!" "keep it down!" "Boo!" "Boo!" "Boo!" "The Demon of Sickness!" "Boo!" "but don't worry." "This is..." "Mr. Hoso." "He's strong and has four eyes and a spear!" "He'll drive out the Demon." "Demon be gone!" "Oh!" "The Demon got away!" "Houseman!" "poke." "ow... I'm leaving tomorrow." "I'm taking the train to my Mom's relatives in Osaka." "I'll teach my kids how to carve tops and attach kite tails!" "take this." "I'm off! have lots of fun!" "Learns lots of fun things to pass on to your kids!" "So play as hard as you can!" "Destiny Squad comrade!" "Let's play again tomorrow." "Yeah." "he really... smiled." "I better go." "hello!" "Yes?" "I want..." "Who are you?" "I'm Aoki Shinko." "I promised to give a Glico prize to Kiiko." "Oh." "your friend..." "Shinko-chan!" "I found one!" "Put on your shoes!" "Let's go!" "Go where?" "Eh?" "Hurry!" "Dad!" "Kiiko!" "Hizuru the goldfish is alive?" "!" "I want to see!" "I want to see!" "Want to see?" "I want to see!" "I want to see!" "Good!" "hurry!" "Where?" "There... around there." "I think it was here..." "But... well..." "That's strange." "I know it was here." "It's true." "Yeah." "The battery died." "Ah..." "Are you scared?" "Shinko-chan." "I sense things nearby." "So many things all around us." "They're here. and your mother... as long as we remember them." "see!" "It was in a book." "My Mom as a child." "you look like her." "I lost that last race to you." "I'm the slowest runner." "But you look so fast." "But I always win against Kojiro the Green." "Who is that?" "I imagined him." "sword on his back." "There's a lot of those around!" "Your head is full of so many things." "Ouch!" "Shimazu Kiiko?" "!" "Take that!" "But this goldfish is real." "It'll be here tomorrow and the next day and the next day..." "Yeah." "Shinko!" "Shinko!" "Dad!" "are you really Dad?" "Huh?" "!" "Is there a fake me?" "who never comes home." "Hah!" "Your Grandpa is worried about you!" "I love my Grandpa." "You're so easygoing! is made out of your Grandpa." "And you are...?" "from Shinko-chan's class." "Of course." "I study algae at Yamaguchi U." "She lives in the residence." "I'll walk you home." "You're bad ones." "I take after my dad." "Fool!" "We have different genes!" "You're not as high-class as me." "Your dad is nice." "everybody's nice." "let's play again tomorrow." "Yeah." "Hizuru-sensei!" "her Grandpa died." "Shinko-chan will be moving to the town where her dad works." "Everyone!" "The turtle is for you." "And this is too!" "What is it?" "I bought them at the sweet shop that just opened." "I wanted to go see it." "Thank you." "Never give in to that mean Hiroko at Kanayama Diner!" "Shinko-chan!" "we'll meet again!" "気まぐれ 神さま whimsical god" "遠い昔 あの場所に" "Many years have passed" "流れ星 ひとつ 落とした" "Since you dropped that single shooting star" "あれから随分 時は経ち" "In a place long gone" "見渡す限りの" "Amidst that sea of wheat" "青い麦の海" "That reached the horizon" "君だけに 教えてあげる" "I showed only you" "たからものの 隠し場所" "The hiding place of that treasure" "The cicadas" "The tree sparrows" "The golden laces" "The pale colors" "The wilting flowers" "The crimson threads" "The dice we threw" "The reeds we blew" "The azure beads" "わたしの小さなたからもの" "They were all part of my small treasure" "明日また 笑って遊ぼう tomorrow" "待っているよ 海の底" "I'll wait for you at the bottom of the sea" "誰も知らない ふたりだけの it'll just be ours" "ひみつの約束 こどものせかい" "This secret world of children" "神さま 突然 you suddenly" "あの子 連れてった" "Brought that child with you" "会えるのは 夏の一日" "But could only meet me on the first day of summer" "それだけじゃ ちょっと寂しい" "Leaving me a little lonely" "Altair" "And Vega" "Sing their songs" "While the gods" "Of forests and war" "Lay in the vast fields they will pass each other" "And one will become the princess of a kingdom some day" "明日をずっと 覚えていよう" "Let's try and remember what comes tomorrow" "甘い甘い風が吹けば innocent wind will blow" "いつか見た 船が浮かぶよ" "And that ship we once saw will rise up again" "麦の波を きって進もう" "Cutting across the waves of wheat" "思い出せれば 何時でも" "If you still remember me one day" "ここに来て 手を繋いで" "Come back here and hold my hand" "明日また 笑った遊ぼう tomorrow"