"What are you doing today?" "You don't have work, right?" "Someone is coming to visit." "Are you staying?" "I guess it's a little better if you're gone" "What is this?" "W-what is this?" "It's sukiyaki." "But that's pork." "Pork?" "So?" "It's sukiyaki." "This isn't sukiyaki." "You think this is sukiyaki?" "Uh, yeah." "Listen, Ookawa-kun." "What?" "This isn't sukiyaki." "It's not sukiyaki." "The" "The Extreme" "The Extreme Sukiyaki" "So you can stay if you want, but I might end up punching him." "Give it up." "You mean Minemura-san?" "No." "You're close, but no." "Horaguchi-san." "So... go out for the day." "No." "It's cold out." "Then..." "What will you do?" "Don't let those shavings fly off." "They're falling onto the newspa" "That one just flew off over there." "What will you do with that?" "Make sure you get rid of it." "I have been." "Not those." "The actual thing." "Why toss this?" "So what about that person?" "Why so suddenly?" "Who?" "The one coming by today." "I don't know." "That's what I want to know." "You're skateboarding?" "Ah, yeah." "Can you skate?" "Yeah, kind of." "If we're just talking about standing on it." "I can't if it's moving, though." " Horaguchi-san..." " Yeah?" "Why are you here, out of the blue?" "Oh, uh..." "It's just, you know..." "Oh, what is that?" "Actually, what are you doing?" "Carving wood." "A bow." "Why?" "Why?" "I'm not sure." "You don't know why?" "There doesn't need to be a reason." "Huh?" "There's no reason behind it." "What?" "Whatever, it's fine." "It is." "It is fine." "But I'm curious!" "It's awesome." "I... haven't forgiven you, you know." "Suddenly getting a hold of me..." "What's the problem?" "You haven't since the funeral." "Oh." "Really?" "How many years do you think it's been?" "10!" "Wasn't it 15 years?" "15 years!" "You never sent any word." "So why now?" "Nothing in particular... just, you know..." "And I... already cut you out of my life." "No, no, no..." "I cut you out, too." "Then why are you here?" "To see you." "No, if you see somebody that you cut off contact with, then you're still in contact!" "Do you get that?" "Yeah, but we're reconnecting." "Reconnect when contact is cut off?" "That isn't possible?" "!" "I don't know!" "Don't ask me!" "Then who can I ask?" "Ask other people who have done it before!" "Why did you come here?" "It's just... you know..." "I'm... not too sure, either." "It's just..." "I've run out of things to do, or something." "You can just do nothing." "No, even you can't get by doing nothing." "Coming to me because of that is far from cool." "B-b-but, Ookawa..." "What?" "You were always, you know... good at handling stuff like this." "Like what?" "Having nothing to do." "I wonder if bows... can be carried on board?" "Bows." "Can they be brought onto airplanes?" "...that's a bow?" "!" "I want to go abroad on that one right there." "You can't." "Why not?" "That's a domestic flight." "There's a jungle in Okinawa." "In Okinawa." "I can get there on a plane." "Isn't that more like the woods, or a forest?" "And "jungle"... is that "forest" in English?" "No, they're different... aren't they?" "Like, you know..." "Jungles are like... fuller than forests." "So, what about the jungle?" "Well..." "It's just that I... want to film a documentary there." "About the jungle?" "No, no, about a trip through the jungle." "Who is going on the trip?" "Me." "Who is filming it?" "...me?" "Do you have something to use for filming?" "No, I don't." "Do you?" "I do if we're talking about photos." "Where do they sell cameras for films?" "At that place..." "Akihabara, maybe?" "Akihabara, huh..." "Ookawa..." "What?" "How about we make that film together?" "Horaguchi-san... do you think about the future?" "Of Japan?" "You don't think about the future of Japan, do you?" "Well, no, I don't." "Why?" "Well, I mean yours." "Why is this about me?" "Why?" "What?" "Well, I mean..." "What you're going to do, and such." "Oh." "Well, I do think about it." "Are you keeping in touch?" "About what?" "With who?" "With Kyouko-san." "Are you going to Director Nakamura's funeral?" "Of course I'm going." "Want to go together?" "Why?" "I thought it'd calm the nerves." "Mine." "I'm talking about mine." "I wanted to leave it on." "Why?" "It seems like a sign of good luck." "For what?" "For what?" "Just in general?" "Suzuki-san..." "Yes?" "I... have given this some thought." "Can I go ahead and say it?" "Say what?" "Well," "I'm about to say it." "May I?" "I guess that depends on what you have to say." "What is it about?" "That's why I'm asking for permission to say it." "But if I don't know what it is, I don't know if it's okay." "I... am not considering marriage." "At all." "Or anything like it." "With who?" "With me?" "Like I said..." "I'm not considering marriage or anything." "Oh." "Do you want to... get married?" "Should we?" "No, like I said, I'm not considering it." "Where are we?" "I have no idea." "This isn't Akihabara, is it?" "Do you even have the money to buy a camera?" "No, I just came to see how much they cost." "But there are no cameras around." "Huh?" "Isn't this where Kyouko" "Ow!" "Sorry!" "I'm sorry!" "Why did you bring that?" "To keep my hands busy." "Then carry a bag or something." "What is this place?" "There are no electronics stores around." "I have no idea!" "Is it just not Akihabara?" "I did see something like an electronics store outside the station." "Could it be the other way?" "The other way?" "Didn't you say there was an electronics store right outside the station?" "Well... did we actually get off at Akihabara?" "By the way... why did you come with me?" "Because I was free." "I don't really want to chill with you, Horaguchi-san." "What about this?" "What about it?" "This is just us walking together." "Doesn't that thing mean we're in Kappabashi?" "Yeah, Kappabashi." "Ohhh, the place with the kappa living under the bridge?" "No, I don't know." "There are a lot of kitchenware stores and such here." "I came here before with Kaede." "Who's that?" "Who's that?" "Heyyy... aren't we, you know... really cool?" "The way we look?" "Well... yeah, I guess." "We are, right?" "!" "Yeah?" "We're cool." "I wonder about it, but there's nobody to tell me." "But we do look cool, yeah?" "I said we're cool." "Yeah?" "Then why... don't I have a girlfriend?" "Social skills?" "Maybe your social skills are the problem." "Oh." "Yeah." "That's it." "Wouldn't they be pretty bad, then?" "They'd have to be." "Girls liked me back when I was a student, didn't they?" "Right?" "Yeah, they did." "Would that mean... my social skills are so bad that it's like they were multiplied by -1?" "That's pretty bad, isn't it?" "I guess so." "We sure are something." "Uh, I do have a girlfriend, though." "How?" "I don't know!" "Does she have bad social skills, too?" "That's rude!" "We can't date unless we both have bad social skills?" "She has them?" "She doesn't." "It's not that she doesn't... but I can't say she does, either." "Oh, w" " Ookawa!" "Ookawa!" "Ookawa, loo" "What?" "What's this place?" "A Buddhist shop, isn't it?" "There are stores for that?" "You thought there weren't any?" "No." "Ookawa." "Ookawa, come here for a sec." "Ookawa." "Look at this." "What?" "Is this a Bodhisattva?" "A Bodhisattva!" "What's a Bodhisattva?" "A female Buddha." "Really?" "It's like the Buddha's lover." "That sounds like something out of a story." "That sort of thing happens." "Buddha is still human, after all." "Huh?" "He's not human, is he?" "He's human." "From, you know..." "India." "He's Indian?" "So he ate curry?" "Yeah, it would be curry, wouldn't it?" "He may well have... but maybe he ate it in fancier ways." "Like with salad." "Would that even be good?" "It would!" "What are you saying?" "It's curry!" "It'd be curry-flavored salad!" "Of course it'd be good." "So, then..." "Hey." "Hey." "Go watch over them." "Quickly." "Hey." "Hey!" "This thing." "That's so awesome!" "I wonder what it's for." "It's got to be a weapon." "No, the Buddha using a weapon sounds wrong." "Oh, then... then..." "In the hair, maybe?" "For braiding?" "Huh?" "Not really braiding, more like..." "The Buddha's hair is... you know, it's..." "It's what?" "He has a perm!" "He totally needed this for it." "Using water?" "He did it with this." "Isn't he just curly-haired?" "Are you looking for a vajra?" "A v-vajra?" "Uh..." "What is this... used for?" "As a vajra." "No, uh..." "What is... it's purpose?" "For admiring." "And decoration." "There are people who use it that way." "Then it's purely for appreciating?" "Well, it is normally used as a vajra... but there are people who simply appreciate them." "Are you looking for something in particular?" "Uh..." "A Bodhisattva." "These are..." "Tathagata." "Tathagata, huh?" "Why?" "I thought it'd be good to have one." "It's not!" "I don't really know anything about your place, but you don't need to have even one." "I don't?" "What are you going to do with that?" "Decorate my room, I guess." "Want me to return it for you?" "Why?" "Because you don't need it." "I don't need it." "Then return it." "I've thought about it." "This quickly?" "Yeah, this quickly." "Using this, I want to... get it back." "Get what back?" "Something... like... power!" "You bought a Buddhist statue for that?" "Yup!" "This has a strong flavor." "Seriously?" "Thinking something like that is "strong" is why you're LOHAS." "I don't see what you mean." "It's Suzuki." "How are things with him?" "We broke up." "How many times is that?" "By the way, what does it mean to break up?" "Huh?" "Have you never...?" "That's not what I mean." "That guy... is now single, but not." "What do you mean?" "We broke up, but he just kind of ignores it." "What?" "That sounds like a zombie." "A zombie?" "They're dead, but don't realize it." "They don't know they're dead?" "If they did, they'd stay dead." "Is your neck okay?" "It's not doing very well." " Can you hear it?" " Yeah, what's making that sound?" "I'm not sure, but..." "Maybe... my bones are grinding against each other?" "That would mean your bone structure is weird." "For real." "It's pretty bad." "Like they're running out of oil or something." "Maybe you should visit an onsen." "By the way, do onsens do anything for this sort of thing?" "Isn't the water just on your skin?" "Yeah, but skin absorbs it." "Let's go." "Sure." "But I'm going to Okinawa with Suzuki." "Isn't Okinawa unlikely to have onsens?" "Wait, you're going with Suzuki?" "Yeah." "We'll break up there." "You just like him, don't you?" "What's there to like about him?" "I have no idea." "That's what I want to know." "I wonder if there's nothing there..." "What should I do with it?" "Then you're getting along perfectly." "With who?" "With Horaguchi-san." "We can't chill like we used to." "But you are." "I suppose." "It's a pain." "Why?" "Because there's that thing with Minemura-san." "On that note," "I don't really see why you're so hung up on it." "Yeah..." "You wouldn't get it." "Then let's not talk about it." "Is it fine like this?" " I think so." " Really?" "It's a boomerang, right?" "What?" "It's a bow." "Hey, Kaede!" "When are you coming home?" "At night." "Have a good one." "I wonder..." "Is it just fine as a boomerang?" "Oh, shit!" "The director's wife... seemed pretty upset." "He was still young, after all." "He was." "It's hard to believe he died." "He sounded just fine." "But..." "He was hospitalized for a while." "About a month, right?" "People sure do up and die suddenly." "It's awful." "Yeah." "Thanks." "For seeing me home." "Want to come in?" "You want to be left alone, don't you?" "I guess." "Well then." "Bye." " I'll call you some time." " Sure." "Hello?" "What are you up to?" "Was asleep." "What about work?" "Don't have any." "Oh, I see." "Horaguchi-san." "We used to drive around when we were in school, yeah?" "Yeah." "Do you still have the car?" "I do." "It's my parents', but only I use it." "Let's take off somewhere." "I was..." "What?" "just thinking that I'd like to go somewhere." "Yeah." "Yeah." "We'll talk about it later." "Yeah." "Yeah." "Okay, sure." "Later." "Okay, bye-bye." "Yeah." "I sure didn't need this." "What?" "!" "Ookawa?" "Yeah." "My skateboard!" "Huh?" "I forgot my skateboard!" "Huh?" "I forgot my skateboard back at that Buddhist store!" "And?" "Like I said, I bought a Buddhist statue, right?" "Oh." "And I forgot my skateboard there." "Yeah, I get that." "Why are you calling me about it?" "Uh, can we go get it?" "Can I go get it?" "Just go." "Hello." "Nice to meet you." "This is Horaguchi-san." "Thank you for your care." "Of him!" "He's not." "What is that?" "A pot." "Sure is." "What's up?" "Ah, right, right." "I went to get my skateboard." " It wasn't there." " In Kappabashi?" "Yeah, yeah." "Since I was there, I brought back the statue." "Brought it back?" " Yeah." " Ohhh." "Statue?" "A Buddhist statue." "I didn't want to come back empty handed so with the refund money..." "I bought this." "For... you know..." "Since it's iron it can take iron out of the water." "You're giving it to us?" "Yeah." "So where are we going?" "Where do you think is good?" "Well... somewhere without very many people." "Somewhere with lots of driftwood." "Driftwood?" "!" "Why?" "I want to do things with it." "Don't do anything with it!" "They're fine as they are." "Are you going somewhere?" "Guys!" "We are." "Where to?" "We're deciding that right now." "The boomerang, too." "The boomerang." "We're going to go toss this boomerang." "Where?" "Yeah, where are we going?" "The ocean?" " A different prefecture?" " A different one?" "To another area of Japan?" "Oh, uh... are there sandy beaches in Tokyo Bay?" "No!" "It's a bay!" "What's a bay?" "Bays don't have beaches?" "No." "Or so I've heard." "There has to be!" "No, that's not what we want." "Not a bay." "Instead, a much larger area with ocean access." "What exactly do you think a bay is?" "A bay." "When?" "When are you going?" "Right now?" "Now?" "!" " Now?" " Now?" "!" "Yeah." "Er, well, uh, it's fine with me." "But, in the dark, the boomerang might hit someone when it comes back." "Oh, yeah, I guess so." "It'll be dangerous anywhere." "Hence at the ocean." "What will you do if it hits a fisherman or something?" "Well, I have work... so how about Saturday?" "Saturday?" "Well, yeah." "I'm fine with it." "Do you have plans?" "No." "Is it just you two going?" "I'm not going." "Horaguchi-san, do you have a friend?" "I don't!" "Other than you!" "Not cool." "Long time no see." "Who's that?" "Is that..." "Ookawa-kun?" "Yeah." "That's right." "What is it?" "I thought that it's been a long time." "Yeah, and?" "Are you well?" "Just fine." "You changed your number." "Uh, how do you know where I live?" "I asked Miyuki-senpai." "Why are you here?" "I want to go to the ocean." "Want to go to the ocean?" "This coming Saturday." "Wanna come?" "Hey, listen..." "There's no reason I'd go." "What?" "Where are we going?" "I'm not too sure, myself." "Nice to meet you." "Nice to meet you." "My name is Kimura." "Mine is Yoshida." "I was friends with them when we were students." "I've heard about that." "So, where exactly are we going?" "Where to?" "The ocean." "The ocean...?" "Because Ookawa brought it up." "Did I say that?" "!" " You did say it!" " Hey, what about food?" "Food?" "We can grab a bite somewhere." "If we're going to the ocean, I want to eat outside." "But, you know..." "We have to have sukiyaki." "Why?" "I bought a pot for it." "Why?" "Well..." "I don't know." "Hey, hey... is... is this the right lane?" "I don't know!" "You need to-- just look at the map." "I'll feel sick if I'm looking down!" "Then you're not helping at all!" "Isn't it just straight?" "Straight is... which one?" "This one?" "Isn't it this one?" " This one?" "Which one?" " I think it's this one." "This one is going off this way!" " Oh, you know Bijogi Junction?" " Yeah, what about it?" "It has a strange name." "Hey, this lane is going off this way." "Guys." "Is this right?" "I have no idea." "Do you think a beautiful woman turned into a tree?" "I'm just going to go straight for now, okay?" "Is that fine?" "Kaede!" "Do you think a beauty turned into a tree?" " Maybe one was buried?" " For real?" "What?" "Why?" "I'm not sure, but you can bury someone up to their necks." "You're saying one was buried and became a tree?" "It would only be up to the neck!" "I don't get what you mean!" " What is this?" "What do you mean?" " I don't know, though." " What are you talking about?" " I heard about this..." "Okay, but why bury them?" "I don't know." "As a marker?" "Is this about history?" "Archaeology?" " You said as a what?" " What's the subject here?" " A marker." "What?" "A beauty did what?" "What is the beauty doing?" "She's doing what?" "Burying?" "Burying what?" " A "birthmarker"!" " What's being born?" " A what?" "A marker for something buried." " A birthmarker?" " How big would one be?" "They're doing what?" "Where'd those two go?" "They want to eat their onigiri over there." "Let's go." "Way back..." "Minemura-san and the two of us slept in here once." "Where?" "Oh, by the sports field?" "Yeah, there." "We somehow slept pretty well in here." "I'm pretty sure it was too hot to sleep." "When I woke up, Minemura-san wasn't around." "And he ended up showering in the nude using their water." "What's with that?" " He showered in their water?" " Yeah." "You don't remember that?" "Maybe I actually was asleep." "I wonder what the deal was..." "Which tower were we at?" "H?" "Sounds right." "But I've kind of forgotten." "By the way..." "There was this guy at school in my 2nd year, and his motorbike was set ablaze." "He was a friend of mine..." "do you remember him?" "Not at all." "You don't know that, either?" "What was up with him, always studying jazz..." "What was his name?" "He was always in the stairwell by the cafeteria." "Who was that... ?" "Ookawa." "Look." "It's blonde." "Looks like it." "Is it Minemura's?" "What is this place?" "A commercial rest area." "What's that?" "Maybe a place built around where people stopped for bathroom breaks?" "Why would people build around toilets?" "Hey, so what is a commercial rest area?" "For prostitution, maybe?" "No way." "Hand me the beef." "Thanks." "They sold veggies, too." " Let's get some." " Yeah." "Didn't we stop at one before?" "On one of our adventures." "Here?" "!" "Not here, but a commercial rest area." "When?" "When was it..." "Hey." "We all often went on trips together when we were students." "The three of you?" "Not just the three of us." "There were two more." "I told you about Minemura-san and Miyuki-san." "Ah, yeah." "Miyuki-san!" "How is she?" "How do you know I spoke to her?" "You asked her where I live." "Your place?" "The two of us went to her place." "You just dropped by?" "They did." "But I thought calling first would be..." "you know..." "Just dropping by is worse!" "I thought it'd work out if I did it that way." ""Work out," he says..." "This is the first time I've seen the ocean." "This is the first time I've seen the ocean." "You've never seen it before?" "Did I not tell you?" "You've never seen it until now?" "I've seen it on T.V. and such..." "Did you not have, like, a school by the seaside in elementary?" "I was in Saitama." " Saitama?" " Saitama is landlocked." "Okay, but that should mean... you'd think you should go see it?" "I didn't really take part in things like that." "Why?" "Why not?" "She... you know had a bad time at school." "Uh, but... did you not go with friends in high school or university?" "No." "I don't have friends." "So... stuff like this didn't happen." "And that's why..." "I'm having a really good time right now." "Right now?" "Yes." "But you sure don't show it at all." "Oh, really?" "You're not very excitable." "Oh, well, how about... taking a dip in the ocean?" "I'm fine." " Why?" " I'm fine." " It's scary." " If you stay on your feet..." "No, I'm scared." "Then... you go in." "Go on in." "In the ocean?" "Yes." "Go for it." "Go for it." "Isn't it not really the type of beach to swim at?" "How is it?" "Cold!" "How cold?" "Piercing cold." "Why did you...?" "About Ookawa-kun's girlfriend..." "Kaede-chan?" "What does she do?" "I don't know, either." "I just met her." "What about the company?" "You found one, right?" "I really don't know." "No, yours." "Mine?" "I... uh... you know..." "I quit." "Last year." "The year before?" "Maybe?" "Or last year..." "I quit last year." "Why?" "Asking me why is a little..." "It... wasn't a good fit, I guess." "Was that the same company as before?" "As after graduation." "Yeah, that one." "Weren't you slow to realize it, then?" "I did figure it out right at the beginning." "But don't you think that would be a bad reason to leave a job?" "In most cases." "Did something happen?" ""Something"?" "Something like..." "Is it complicated?" "Well, it is complicated." "I thought maybe something serious happened." "Something serious, or..." "Why?" "Why...?" "Because it was pretty sudden." "Suddenly... because it was sudden." "Sorry, sorry... but, uh..." "It wasn't... really that sudden or anything." "There were things going on with me for some time." "It might have been sudden to you, Kyouko, but it wasn't at all for me." "Well... what I mean is... uh..." "like this." "There is a flow, yes?" "And this jump here." "Yeah." "What is this?" "Well, what I'm saying is..." "This is a major event." "If you just look at it from here, it's sudden." "But I know all of these parts." "I know all of these..." "I went through them." "So this jump here... is just a part of the flow." "Am I... the jump?" "Rather than saying it's you..." "It's like... for example, going to see Ookawa." "And the things that came from that." "Like, right now... being here, doing this." "We need to buy some soap." "Why?" "We're running out." "We are, but we're not out." "There are..." "Soaps made by specific areas." "I've no idea." "Are you saying there are local specialty soaps?" "It seems like there would be." "I'm sorry, I have no idea." "Soap is the same wherever you buy it." "It doesn't really have to be soap." "Like..." "Things like... what is that?" "Things like that?" "Like what?" "Things that... show off where you've been." "Things you buy as mementos." "Could you possibly mean souvenirs?" "Souvenirs?" "Souvenirs are..." "No, not souvenirs." "No, they're souvenirs." "No, souvenirs are..." " for" " There it is." "But, no... that has to be a souvenir." "Aren't souvenirs things for gifting?" "You can buy them for yourself, can't you?" "Then they're souvenirs." "Is this about wanting to buy souvenirs?" "Yeah, I guess." "You're throwing it, right?" "!" "You're doing it?" "Yeah?" "!" "I'm going to toss it!" "Will it come back?" "It will!" "I wonder if it really will." "No need to wonder!" "Maybe don't throw it?" "Why not?" "Because you'll lose it." "It'll come back just fine." "Maybe you should move, though." "Both of you." "W-w-w-w-- where to?" "That seems like life." "Only one shot, and you can't go backward." "But it's better that way, isn't it?" "Not being able to go back, I mean." "There's beauty in it." "Time to go back?" "Mmmm..." "I guess so." "Aren't we having sukiyaki?" "We can buy meat along the way and do it then." "We can have it at Ookawa-kun's place." "Sounds good." "Oh, sorry." "No problem." "How long was the ride?" "How long was the ride?" "I think we can get home in about 3 hours if we go straight there." "Let's get going, then." "Let's go!" "Flowers?" "Quince." "Quince?" "They're so pretty." "They're not plum blossoms." "They look like it, though." "It's honey." "You bought honey?" "Yeah." "Linden honey." " You bought Linden honey?" " Yeah." "How is it?" "It's as good as expected." "Try some." " Can I?" " Yeah, no problem." "Go ahead." "H-how should we" "Feels like... it's been a while." "It has." "That's not what I mean." "Right." "Are you often... busy with work?" "What do you mean?" "You don't go on company vacations or anything?" "Company... vacations?" "Uh... where I work" "...where I work, there is only one other girl working." "Oh." "There were more before, but they've all quit." "Then you get to be popular." "No, it's nothing like that." "That so?" "Nobody really talks to each other." "It's not that we don't get along or anything, though." "We're just busy with work." "What kind of work is it?" "Well..." "Typical work?" "Oh." "What about you?" "Well, I'm... just doing average work at izakayas and such." "It's the same as when you were in school, then." "But... working salary and working wage aren't that different, anyway." "Really?" "It's not that there's no difference..." "but, yeah." "Well, I'm... wanting" "to do a movie." "Really?" "Yeah." "What do you mean, "do a movie"?" "I mean, I want to... f-film a movie." "Really?" "I want to..." " f" " Wait, what?" "Had you seen Horaguchi-kun?" "Were you in contact all this time?" "Or rather... since then?" "No." "Ever since that thing with Minemura-san, not at all." "I see." "I guess not." "He just called me up suddenly." "That guy hasn't changed." "Isn't he just acting like he hasn't changed?" "There's no way he hasn't changed." "We're talking about 15 years, after all." "Yeah." "In that time, babies become 15." "That's not a very poetic way to put it." "Yeah, I thought that mid-sentence." "And babies are... are still pretty "empty"." "Would that mean... adults are "full" of something?" "I wonder..." "Memories, maybe?" "I'm forgetting quite a lot." "But there are things you can't forget." "That's true." "There are even things I've forgotten about yesterday." "I'm not missing anything about yesterday." "How old is this?" "Do you use this?" "The tape deck broke." "It's been a while since I saw one of these." "I guess." "I haven't cleaned the car out." "Since when?" "Uh, it's been... well, we bought it when I was 19." "So I guess about 20 years." "This is..." "The book?" "The book?" "This is mine!" "For real?" "Look." "That takes me back." "But... it sure has been there a while." "Yeah, because I haven't cleaned the car." "I'm surprised you remembered such an old book." "I was in the middle of reading it." "I figured I'd buy another copy of it." "I'm glad I didn't." "Why?" "You should have just done it." "I just couldn't." "Out of guilt." "About what?" "Can I take it back?" "Of course, of course!" "I'm pretty hungry." "I want to eat some vegetables." "I want vegetables." "But we're having sukiyaki soon!" "Let's get vegetables somewhere." "We just bought some at the rest area!" "That was celery and stuff." "I want salad." "Alright, then." "Then let's get some at a supermarket somewhere." "We have to get meat, too, anyway." "Speaking of which... since when do you eat vegetables?" "Huh?" "What do you mean?" "You don't seem the type." "What type do you think I am?" "You didn't really eat them unless it was a tiny amount with your hamburg steaks." "Isn't that based on what I ate at school?" "You ate that at home, too!" "I did, but..." "I'm pretty sure you were always eating that." "Weren't you always eating them at school, too?" "Was I?" "Yeah, yeah." "And I was... eating udon every day, yeah?" " I don't know." " Right?" "Right?" "Vegetable stand." "There was one there." " Where?" " There it is." "Over there." "We've passed it." " Let's go." " Sure." "Hold on." "Just... hold... hold on." "What is it?" " Don't worry." "I'm looking for a place to u-turn." " Over there." "Right there." "Give me a sec." "Kyouko, hold this." "Okay." "Somehow..." "I'm sorry." "For what?" "For..." "I'm not sure." "Did Daisuke have a thing for you?" "Daisuke?" "Yeah." "Ookawa-kun?" "I wonder?" "It seems like he did." "Does it?" "I was fairly popular." "I had a feeling you were." "Did you?" "How about now?" "Are you...?" "Now?" " I'm not so sure about" " No, no... not that." "Will you go out with Horaguchi-san?" "Me?" "You won't?" "Well, you see... he's the same as before!" "I thought that might be the case." "Not a chance." "He's already like an artifact of the past." "Doesn't that sound like a fairly big deal?" "Ohhh, does it?" "What about you, Kaede-chan?" "Will you tie the knot?" " Can I ask?" " It's no problem at all." "Really?" "It's just... at our age, making new friends like this doesn't come easy." "Except at work." "We're friends?" "Oh, I'm sorry." "If we're still... you know." "No, not at all." "I'm happy with being friends." "I don't have any friends." "Why not?" "I only have male friends." "How long will it take?" "Maybe about 3 hours?" "Less than 3 hours, I'd guess." "2 hours and 40 minutes, maybe?" "Basically 3 hours, then." "Guess so." "Getting home sure is a pain." "We also have the option of not going home." "No, no, no..." "Got enough medicine?" "Yeah, about a day's worth." "My contacts are a problem." "We can pick up what you need at a convenience store." "Got plans tomorrow?" "Yeah, kind of." "If I call, it should be okay..." "Seeing a friend?" "Yeah, pretty much." "Are we really not going back?" "For real?" "Open sesame!" "Do you have any rooms available?" "I'm very sorry, but guests without a reservation are..." "Okay." "I guess we need to have a reservation here." "We're totally booked up today..." "Isn't this hopeless?" "Isn't this only the second place?" "But they all seem packed!" "Then should we go home?" "At this point, what choice is there?" "Then... we'll go home and have sukiyaki?" "There's still sukiyaki to eat..." "Well... we could eat at a restaurant instead." "I found somewhere with room." "Really?" "Where?" "This place." "It says we can stay there." "Here, then?" "Let's go to the baths!" "Yeah?" "I was..." "like..." "What?" "it's not that I wasn't worried, because I was before I saw her, but after seeing her, I can tell she hasn't changed." "Who?" "I'm talking about Kyouko-san." "She hasn't?" "What do you mean she hasn't changed?" "I mean she's the same as she was before." "Can't you tell?" "Kyouko isn't really one to change a lot, I guess." "Well, she has changed a bit." "Well, yeah, it's not like she hasn't changed one single bit." "Hey, hey..." "What about me?" "Me." "Well, it doesn't... it doesn't really feel like it's been forever." "Yeah, I get it." "I get it." "That's the way it goes." "Have you ever left a book unfinished?" "No, not really." "Well, me neither." "But if you pick up a book you started forever ago and start where you left off you feel lost, yeah?" "If you just jump right back into it." "That's the feeling I have." "I don't really read books, so I don't know." "Yeah, but that's how it feels." "But if you read back just a little bit you see what you've forgotten." "And you read and read and remember this or that." "And, in the end, you lose the discomfort." "If you read it through." "Were you a reader, Horaguchi-san?" "Nope." "Tell me honestly... hearing from me after so long..." "What?" "Were you super happy?" "I wasn't "super" happy." "Huh?" "But... you were a little happy, right?" "Well..." "Just a little." " Ookawa!" " Whoa, what's with that?" "!" "You just suddenly blew up!" "Ow..." "You alright?" " You don't look comfortable!" " Something's all up in my junk." "Ah, yeah, yeah." "Want to go there?" "It has ocean access." "The ocean sounds nice." "What's this?" "Their mascot." " Shall we?" " Yeah, let's go." "Aren't they taking too long?" "They sure are." "What kind of relationship do you think those two have?" ""Those two"?" "What kind...?" ""That" kind." "Ookawa... you... are planning to marry Kaede-chan, right?" "She's going to die." "Uh..." "Well, yeah, everyone dies eventually." "Not like that." "From some illness." "Some complicated health problem." "What are you talking about?" "She seems fine, though." "Yeah, she's not going to die very soon." "But... we don't know when it'll happen." "Cancer or something?" "No, not like that." "It's like... something genetic?" "Or... you know..." "Then... shouldn't you marry her while you can?" "Yeah, yeah, I even brought it up." "She doesn't want to." "Why not?" "I don't know." "Maybe she's like... feeling you deserve better?" "Or something more like... uh..." "Nahhhh, it's not that." "She doesn't want me, she says." "What?" "What's that about?" "Why?" "I can't support her." "Support, huh?" "You would have to, yeah..." "I really need to do something huge, I think!" "Can't you just do a lot of small things?" "Rather than doing one big thing." "There are people here..." "What should we do?" "What do you want to do?" "Are you getting out?" "Are you getting out?" "But, you know..." "Love sure takes a lot of forms." "You think they were...?" "Who do you mean?" "Those two guys?" "You saw them?" "Those two?" "They looked like it." "I'm not sure." "When did you two start dating?" "When?" "A year or so ago." "It's been two years!" "How did you meet?" "At work." "How do you know that?" "You really did?" "It's going well, then." "What is?" "Work?" "No, not that." "Isn't 2 years pretty normal?" "Couples who meet at work... break up quickly." "That's you." " What?" " That happened?" "I hadn't heard." "Since you kept it secret." "Why?" "It was nothing big." "I was dumped for not being "cool"." "Yeah, that." "Minemura and I spent a week or so trying to cheer you up." "That's an exaggeration!" "But it totally was about that long!" "Why don't I know about this?" "You were, uh..." "You were almost always with Saitou-san at the time." "This is all the way back then?" "At what kind of job did you two meet?" "An izakaya." "Still working there, too." "I mean him." "They're asking me to be the manager." "That sounds like gloating!" "I'm not gloating!" "You should take the job." "No way, I've still got things to do." "There are things I want to do." "The film?" "You're going to do it?" " I am." " Give it up." "There's no way I can sleep!" "I'm having too much fun!" "This is a blast!" "Why..." "Why... did you suddenly come see me?" "I'm not sure." "You do know why." "I wonder why..." "Why?" "I guess I wanted to see you." "What?" "What's that reaction?" "Nothing, really." "Since we haven't spoken since then..." "Yeah, that's true." "I'd forgotten." "You liar." "It's not that I forgot, but I stopped remembering." "Me?" "Well, yes, you... and everyone else." "Minemura, too?" "That's... a different matter." "So that's how it is." "Yeah." "You know about..." "The Devonian period?" "It doesn't have to be the Devonian... but I can't come up with the other ones." "Well, I get what you're saying." "Stuff like..." "That other period... something period..." " The Jurassic period?" " Yeah!" "It's like how... we're in a different period now." "It feels that long ago?" "It does." "Well, you know..." "If we call "back then" the Devonian period, then right now, we're in... the present day." "Hold on... the Devonian period and the present day are absurdly far apart." "Are you okay?" "Well..." "Things feel like they've changed a lot." "Like a lot of time has passed?" "Yeah." "It's already... a different time." "Don't you think?" "I feel like..." "I was..." "What?" "It's just..." "I was..." "I haven't said anything yet!" "You haven't." "But I was... fairly stuck in the Devonian." "My time there was pretty long." " Really?" " Yeah." "I'm not even through it yet." "Seriously?" "You should move on to the next period." "I know." "I don't really know what to say." "But... the past is" "already set in stone, or something." "It's settled, yes?" "What I mean is... it is stuff that has already happened." "So..." "How do I say it?" "People often end up looking back on it." "But... even so, life isn't settled yet." "But with the past "settled"," "I think we have to look into the darkness instead." "Into the darkness?" "We say "the future is dark," right?" "It may be dark, but... we have to look toward it." "We do say that, but... is that the right meaning?" "I'm not sure." "But the future is dark, right?" "Since we can't see it." "But if we don't look to it, we're screwed." "I... understand that!" "Do you?" "You're right." "Since... my Devonion period has been dragging on." "I think that" "Ookawa's has, as well." "It's not dragging on." "Whoa, what?" "You're awake?" "!" "I am." "What's with you?" "Well, you guys were having a serious talk..." "It wasn't that serious." "I felt I shouldn't interrupt." "Then you should have kept it up until it was over!" "But you started talking about me." "My Devonian period is over, though." "Is it?" "But you're always kind of... "there"." "I'm not." "But you're always the same!" "He hasn't changed, has he?" "I'm not sure." "We've only been together a few hours." "But it does seem like you haven't." "Humans just don't change that much." "What do you know about being human?" "I pretty much get it." "You don't get it." "What do you know about me, then?" "I pretty much get you." "I think we change quite a bit..." "Huh?" "You were awake, too?" "Yeah, I was." "W-were you listening to all that?" "Where should we have the sukiyaki?" "Let's have it outside." "At a park or something." "Yeah." "I'm coming back soon." "Sure." "I'll call you when I'm back." "Your boyfriend?" "Yeah." "Yeah?" "Deeeeepart!" "It smells good!" "It smells like meat!" "It is meat." "It's hot here!" " Hold on, hold!" " This one's done!" "It's fine for now!" "Let's put another one in." "This is enough as it is." "Okay!" "Here we go!" "Sugar?" "Yeah!" "You do that for yakiniku." "Well, you put in sugar..." " This much?" " Yeah." "And the oil... is..." " ...a little lacking." " It's spitting at me!" "It's just turning into yakiniku!" "Looks good!" "Here it comes!" "Here comes the soy sauce!" " It's good!" " It worked out." " It's delicious." "It's so good!" "Could you always cook?" ""If you don't see a man for many years, you should look at him with fresh eyes!"" "It's an expression that means he has changed, right?" " What is that?" " I've heard this before!" "A Chinese one?" "The hell is that?" "It means that changes happen after many years, right?" "That's a given." "It is, yes." "Women change after years, too, don't they?" "Didn't it mean something else, though?" "Wasn't it more about a man's laziness?" ""Laziness"..." " I'm not sure, but..." " So?" "Basically, you want to say you've changed?" "Don't put it like that!" "But that's it, right?" " Yeah." " So say that from the start." "It's hard to tell exactly where "cooking" starts." "What do you mean?" "Well, for example, cooking rice is "cooking", but you're not really cooking." "Maybe it starts with miso soup?" "Even I can make miso soup." "Instant miso soup, maybe." "But all you have to do is add hot water." "You can't get away with that living abroad." "You're going abroad?" "I'm not." "You want to, right?" "Eventually." "That sounds odd." "You're going on a trip, right?" "I am, but putting it that way makes me sound like an idiot." "Could you not?" "You are an idiot." "Yeah, more or less." "Are you?" "I'm not!" "You sure are." "I guess." "But, you know..." "I think you're really something, Ookawa." "Do you?" "How?" "I just..." "I think he is." " Somehow." " In what way?" "Please tell me more specifically." "There's nothing specific about him... but, look, he's... not your average guy." "Isn't that a bad thing?" "I see your point." "Ookawa-kun somehow has nothing particularly special about him, but if you look at him as a whole, there's a special aura about him." " As a whole?" " Yeah." "What are you doing?" "What are you up to?" "I thought it would enhance the flavor." "This is sukiyaki, you know." "Yeah." "You just used that on the meat!" "That's something you use for sushi or curry!" "Is it?" "He makes "sukiyaki" with pork at home." "Don't bring up what happens at home!" "You still listen to this." "This music." "Of course I do." "I always have." "Do you not, anymore?" "I haven't been listening to music lately." "What do you mean by that?" "This is a band that Minemura-kun showed me." "So I just... haven't been listening to it." "By the way, I'm the one who showed this to Minemura." "Were you?" "Yeah, I was." "I really liked Moonriders, so I always listened to them." "One time, when he came by, I showed them to him." "After that, he showed them to you." " He did?" " He sure did." "And so... one time, you showed them to me and said "isn't this good?"" "I don't remember that." "You wouldn't." "But I already loved them by that point!" "I don't remember that." "Well, Minemura..." "Minemura went and... showed them to you as if he had found the band himself in the first place." "Yeah, he did." "Actually, weren't they... a fairly big band?" "They weren't that unheard of." "But he was still all... he acted like he thought he had really good taste in music." "I know he did." "I was there when he showed it to you." " Were you?" " Yeah." "But for the sake of his not losing any face, when you later showed it to me, even though it was embarrassing for me," "I acted like I'd never heard it before." " Did you?" " Yeah." "You were being that considerate of me?" "I pretty much was." "Then I'm the lame one." "Yeah, you are." "But..." "Minemura is the lamest, though." "Listening to this brings back a lot of memories." "There are a lot of things we forget." "And there are things we want to forget, but we're not always ready to do it." "You're right." "Subtitles by Euphoric Translations"