"That man came to our house carrying something mysterious one afternoon." "Excuse me." "Is this the Hibara household?" "Yes, it is." "My name is Sawada." "I called you a couple of days ago." "Thank you for coming so far." "Are you going to be okay putting that much in the bowl?" "No problem!" "Safe!" "That guy came from far away!" "We have to give him a lot!" "And again, safe!" "This is it." "Keseran-Paseran" "Excuse me." "Excuse me!" "Here you are." "Thank you." "Please take some senbei as well!" "(rice crackers)" "I'm so sorry!" "I thought it would be a good thing to give him a lot." "I am just not lucky lately." "What's that?" "It's called a Keseran-Paseran." "Keseran-Paseran?" "People started calling those white balls of fluff that years back." "It is like a Tensara-Paseran or a ball of fox hair." "If you raise it well, it will even give birth." "You mean that this things is alive?" "It is the child of the one that I am raising." "If you raise one of them, you'll receive good luck." "People have even said that if you put one of these into a bureau containing a kimono, the number of kimono will increase." "Really?" "Then it is really great!" "Actually, I was thinking of giving this to someone in my village... because only one is needed for good luck." "I looked around for anyone that wanted to take it, but there is no one in that village who understands what it is." "I don't care who you give it to... as long as they take good care of it." "Please find someone." "It's so cute!" "Ah!" "No, Mike-san!" "This thing is very important!" "G-Grampy!" "I'm sorry!" "I didn't mean to enter your room." "I was just thinking how cute this thing was..." "Do you want to raise it?" "Can I?" "You can if you take good care of it, and..." "I don't want you to show it to a lot of other people." "Your luck will run away if you do that!" "Okay!" "Here it is." "Face powder." "Thanks!" "It's a little old, but I heard that colored or scented face powder doesn't work." "It's really delicate." "Mizuki, try giving it some." "Okay!" "It ate!" "How cute!" "Yeah!" "Mike-san again!" "Stop it!" "Yeah!" "If I don't treat it well, it won't be lucky!" "If you keep at it, I'll be angry!" "I really wonder if it is lucky." "Sure it is." "I can feel it." "Oh yeah." "I got to call from Chitose before." "She said she can come here this weekend." "See!" "Something good happened!" "You're right!" "I'm late!" "Fujitani-sensei isn't here yet?" "Sorry!" "I was running late!" "What great timing!" "Hibara-san, what's wrong?" "Ah!" "N-Nothing!" "It has to be because of the Keseran-Paseran." "Yeah!" "Curry and pudding!" "Today's lunch is great!" "There is one extra pudding." "Does anyone want it?" "Yeah!" "Yeah!" "Okay!" "Is everyone ready?" "Wait a sec!" "I can't believe this many people want it!" "I'm not very lucky with Rock, Paper, Scissors either!" "Okay!" "I know what I'm going to throw!" "Me too!" "I'm going to get this pudding." "I just don't know!" "You're not going to win, Hibara!" "Time's already up!" "Let's do Rock, Paper, Scissors." "Okay!" "Rock, Paper, Scissors!" "No way!" "I won!" "I am so lucky!" "I can't believe you won it all in the first round of Rock, Papaer, Scissors, Mizuki!" "It never happens like that!" "Good things like that are going to happen often to me from now on!" "Yeah?" "Why?" "You have to keep this a secret between us." "I am raising a lucky charm!" "What do you mean by raise?" "Is it an animal?" "Well, more like a ball of hair." "It sorta acts like an animal." "People ssay if you raise it, you get lucky." "Is it like a four-leaf clover?" "It is a little different." "What do you mean by ball of hair?" "Sorta like that!" "What's that?" "The fluffy part of a thistle." "I wonder if something good will really happen!" "I think so!" "Wow!" "That's so beautiful!" "Amazing!" "A good thing did happen!" "Yeah!" "I told you!" "This is great!" "I want to raise one of those white fluffy balls too!" "Me too!" "It is actually called a Keseran-Paseran." "Keseran-Paseran?" "It can also have kids!" "If it does have kids, I'll give them to you two!" "That's great!" "The Keseran-Paseran will keep bringing me happiness!" "I wonder when Mom and Dad will get here." "But I don't think I should tell Mom about this." "Mizuki!" "Keiko-san, from next door, is here!" "Okay!" "Wow!" "Those chestnuts are huge!" "I heard that your parents are coming tomorrow." "I thought that you might all like to eat chestnut rice together." "Yeah!" "Another good thing happened!" "Thank you very much, Keiko-san." "Thanks for doing this all the time." "No problem." "Oh yeah!" "Later, I can give you something good in return, Keiko-san!" "That's okay!" "You don't have to!" "No!" "I want to give you one!" "I am sure it will make a lot of good things happen to you too, Keiko-san." "Please look forward to it!" "R-Really?" "Thank you." "That has to be because of the Keseran-Paseran too!" "Thank you, Keseran-Paseran." "Shizuru." "Mizuki." "How have you been?" "It took you a long time to get here!" "I got tired of waiting!" "Sorry about that!" "Okay!" "Here are presents for you both!" "Thank you!" "Thanks, Mom!" "A comb?" "It's cute." "Make sure you carry at least something like that around with you." "You are a girl after all." "What a pain!" "Look!" "It looks much better if it is combed like this!" "Sis, you are tickling me!" "Make sure you teach her how to comb her hair, Shizuru." "Okay." "I am going to go cook chestnut rice." "Yeah!" "I love your chestnut rice, Mom!" "Mom's chestnut rice is so good!" "Mizuki, don't be in such a rush!" "Slow down when you eat." "Yeah!" "It's not like the chestnut rice is running away from you." "She really likes it." "Yeah!" "That's great, Mizuki." "I'm so lucky lately!" "I made it to class before the teacher!" "I got to eat two puddings because I won Rock, Paper, Scissors!" "And, of course, tonight's chestnut rice!" "That's great!" "A lot of good things are happening to you." "This is all because of my Keseran-Paser-!" "Keseran..." "Paseran...?" "I have heard of that before!" "Oh yeah!" "Everyone wanted one years back!" "Those white balls of fur!" "Mizuki is raising one now!" "That's great." "Show it to me some time." "I can't really show it to other people." "Really?" "That's too bad." "Not even a little?" "Mizuki!" "Stop talking and finish eating." "That goes for you too, dear." "Looks like she got mad at us, Mizuki." "Mom never changes." "There is nothing we can do about that." "She is just worried about us." "She wants to guard us against something like that." "Mom doesn't like stories about things from the other world, right?" "I knew about it, but it still makes me feel sad." "It is a good creature." "You're right." "Do you think that Mom would get really mad if I gave her one my Keseran-Paseran's kids?" "I don't think she will get mad." "I wish it would make Mom happy too." "If it does, then..." "Dad!" "Stop teaching those kids stuff like that!" "This is called a Tensara-Basara." "Because of some events that happened in the past, I'm holding onto it now." "It is something like what Mizuki has." "It is something that is seen all the time, so it is a good chance." "Give it a look." "What does it look like?" "Part of a small animal." "Things like this happen some time after small animals are eaten." "The one Mizuki has... is sort of like fluff of a willow seed... or calculus that has animal hair mixed into it." "It could also be a lump of fur that was swallowed by some animal." "Those type of things happen a lot." "I know." "This thing... is a memento... that one lady held as very important." "She found it after she lost her house in the war and ran to the local shrine, carrying her baby." "After that, she gave it flour that she could have used to make a meal for herself." "No one had anything to eat back then, but she felt so powerful after she did that." "Really?" "She always kept it near her until she passed away." "However, her child did not understand anything about it." "The husband did not want it to be handled roughly, so he gave it to his friend, who gave it to me." "That's not fair, Dad!" "That kind of story is not normal!" "Don't overlook this!" "Really?" "But it is more or less the same!" "Some sort of unique condition or something in the background turns some sort of thing into the Keseran-Paseran or the Tensara-Basara." "We can't see what is happening in the background!" "We can only see the normal things that happen around us." "If you try to judge things like this without knowing about their background, there will be holes in your argument, along with other inconsistencies." "However, those kids can feel that background." "What I'm teaching them is the knowledge they need to know in order to understand and cope with thing using that background." "Raising a ball of hair is a way to do that?" "I've been worried that they'll be reliant on things like that in the future!" "Chitose!" "Lower your voice." "I wonder if Mom and Grampy are fighting..." "Those kids are just a little more sensitive than other kids, so please stop teaching them about luck and ghosts!" "Chitose, it's okay!" "Those kids react to things like that" "I want them to deal with things in real life!" "Am I wrong to want that?" "Chitose!" "You should really give them more room to grow." "Dad!" "Those kids are different from your other customers!" "Chitose!" "Mizuki and Shizuru are not that weak." "He is thinking about them." "She is right, Chitose." "I know..." "I asked you to raise them here because there is nothing here to stimulate them." "I am so thankful for what you are doing, Dad." "Don't worry about it." "No matter what we do, it'll take time." "There is no reason to panic about it now." "Mizuki!" "Wake up!" "Good morning." "What time is it?" "Dad and Mom left because they had to get back to work." "No way!" "Why didn't you wake me up, Sis?" "I tried to, but you just kept going back to sleep." "Give it back?" "Yeah." "Okay, why don't we go for a walk?" "There is a better way to deal with this situation." "This place is really high." "It's a nice view, don't you think?" "Mizuki, did you have fun while you were raising that?" "Y-Yeah.." "If that's true, then it did its job." "Why don't we let it go to give good luck to another person?" "A good wind has come." "Let it go from here." "This is goodbye." "Remember that you had a good time with it." "I'm sorry." "I really wanted to play some more." "Welcome back!" "Mizuki, mom called." "She says she'll be able to come back here next weekend too." "It's great." "Yeah!" "Thank you, Keseran-Paseran." "Man, it has gotten cold!" "What are you making, Sis?" "A scarf." "That's great!" "Make one for me too!" "Mizuki!" "There is something wrapped around your neck!" "Really?" "Next time, Jatai" "Ah..." "This is going to be terrible." "I just want to relax with Mike-san under the kotatsu every so often." "(kotatsu: table with a heater on the bottom and a blanket around the edges" "Hey!" "Are you listening?" "If you put this string through here..." "Sis..."