Clannad VN:SEEN6801

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#character 'Akio'
#character 'Nagisa'
#character '＊Ｂ'
#character 'Sanae'
#character 'Yoshino'
#character 'Yagi'
#character 'Voice'
#character 'Doctor'
#character 'Sunohara'
#character 'Nishina'
#character 'Sugisaka'

<0000>
// And again, on such a busy day, we rested.
<0001>
// And because we worked so hard, we gave ourselves a present by spending our time being idle on the weekend.
<--sounds more naturale. ;) -Hiiragi Kagami 
<0002>
// On Sunday, the two of us went to Nagisa's house to show our faces.
<0003>
// People and their circumstances with others.
<0004>
// So that some day, I can go forward calmly.
<0005>
// If I notice, it could already be summer.
<0006>
// That day, while meeting with Pops, who was trying to suppress his sunburned face, he whispered to me.
<0007>
// \{Akio} "I'd like to talk about that."
<0008>
// \{Nagisa} "Having another secret discussion?"
<0009>
// \{Akio} "Nope, nothing at all."
<0010>
// \{Akio} "Look, go meet with Sanae."
<0011>
// \{Nagisa} "Yes. Well then, Let's go, \m{B}-kun."
<0012>
// Ouch, my arm is gripped by Pops.
<0013>
// \{\m{B}} "Ah... I... will come later."
<0014>
// \{Nagisa} "Huh? What's wrong?"
<0015>
// \{\m{B}} "Look, you, I want you to talk with Sanae-san."
<0016>
// It's the truth. Since yesterday evening, you've wanted to talk to her.
<0017>
// \{Nagisa} "Is that so? I understand. Although it would be okay to go later, I'll go now."
<0018>
// So she says, and walks into the house.
<0019>
// \{Akio} "Your bride is very simple."
<0020>
// \{\m{B}} "Your education of her is the reason for that."
<0021>
// \{Akio} "No, I'm talking about THAT, I'll show you."
<0022>
// He takes out a square envelope from his chest pocket.
<0023>
// \{Akio} "Do you see? \p Did you see? \p Can you see? \p Should we see? \p Should we see what we see?"
<0024>
// \{\m{B}} "Whatever, just go ahead and show them..."
<0025>
// \{Akio} "Hahaha, in such a hurry."
<0026>
// \{Akio} "Look here..."
<0027>
// Several photographs are removed from inside the envelope as it is opened.
<0028>
// On them are dazzling photographs of Nagisa in a waitress uniform.
<0029>
// After those, pictures of when they visited a family restaurant.
<0030>
// \{Akio} "Look at this time, what you do think of this angle?"
<0031>
// \{\m{B}} "You must have been lying on the floor when taking that one. The surrounding customers were pulled into it."
<0032>
// \{Akio} "Look, the height of this one..."
<0033>
// \{Akio} "I didn't miss when she bent in front of me, such an exciting picture to take."
<0034>
// I am amazed.
<0035>
// Doesn't Nagisa's chest look larger when looking from above? 
<0036>
// Moreover, such smooth skin, from the expanded cleavage, I see straightaway.
<0037>
// \{\m{B}} "Wait, this..."
<0038>
// \{Akio} "What? Do you want it...?"
<0039>
// \{\m{B}} "Is it possible to make a photo-reprint?" 
<0040>
// \{Akio} "However, you must not tell Nagisa, about the significance of these, as they are due to my power alone."
<0041>
// \{\m{B}} "I wouldn't be possible to tell, it's not right to interrupt one's work."
<0042>
// \{Akio} "Ah. Therefore this crawling on the floor, at times crawling out of windows, and acrobatic photography, is mine alone."
<0043>
// \{\m{B}} "You know... Pops." 
<0044>
// \{Akio} "What..."
<0045>
// \{\m{B}} "P......"
<0046>
// \{\m{B}} "Please."
<0047>
// I was the one asking for them!
<0048>
// \{Akio} "Well... if you bastard want them so badly..."
<0049>
// \{\m{B}} "Very much want!"
<0050>
// \{Akio} "Anyhow, could you take your hands off of it?
<0051>
// \{Akio} "I understand, you're a very resourceful little one..." 
<0052>
// \{Akio} "Here, here you are."
<0053>
// I grip the photograph.
<0054>
// That time. 
<0055>
// The pounding of feet.
<0056>
// It sounded like someone running down the passage panicked.
<0057>
// \{Akio} "Wha..?"
<0058>
// After that, was Sanae-san asking "are you okay?" in such a worried voice.
<0059>
// I have an unpleasant premonition, and hurry to the passage.
<0060>
// There are two in the washroom.
<0061>
// \{\m{B}} "Nagisa, what's wrong?"
<0062>
// Nagisa places her hand in the washbasin, looking down.
<0063>
// \{Sanae} "It looks like she suddenly felt ill."
<0064>
// Sanae-san removed her hand from Nagisa's back as she responded.
<0065>
// \{Akio} "Oh, did you make a child? That's something to celebrate then."
<0066>
// The carefree voice of Pops came from behind me.
<0067>
// \{\m{B}} "That feeling could be worsened by such an easy-going..."
<0068>
// Right there I stopped what I was saying.
<0069>
//  ... wait. Reconsider.
<0070>
// That's right, today Nagisa said she had something important to talk to Sanae-san about.
<0071>
// It was something that she couldn't tell me, but something she could only talk to Sanae-san about.
<0072>
// \{\m{B}} "........."
<0073>
// \{Akio} "Damn, if I had that ability, wouldn't I already be that way?"
<0074>
// \{Sanae} "It seems that she was able to do it."
<0075>
// \{Akio} "What?"
<0076>
// \{Sanae} "A child."
<0077>
// \{Akio} "What? Mine?"
<0078>
// \{Sanae} "No. Nagisa's and \m{B}-san's." 
<0079>
// \{Sanae} "Congratulations."
<0080>
//  With words of blessing to us, Sanae-san clasped my hand...
<0081>
// \{Akio} "Wait just a moment, Sanae!"
<0082>
//  Pops was caught off guard.
<0083>
// \{Akio} "This guy and Nagisa were doing naughty things while sleeping, for that's the only way a child can be made!"
<0084>
// \{\m{B}} "Um, no..."
<0085>
// Could it be ... I break out in a deluge of sweat. 
<0086>
// \{Akio} "If you didn't do naughty things, then why is it possible?! Are you saying the stork will carry one over?!"
<0087>
// \{Akio} "Surely this is a misunderstanding!  Tell me it's a false alarm."
<0088>
// \{Nagisa} "Hey, Dad..."
<0089>
// Then Nagisa looks up and turns around slowly.
<0090>
// \{Akio} "What is it, Nagisa?"
<0091>
// \{Nagisa} "That..."
<0092>
// What does she have to say?...
<0093>
// Say.. \p From this person, have to say?
<0094>
// \{Nagisa} "With \m{B}-kun ... \p I did naughty things..."
<0095>
// Nagisa's Explosive Statement Part 3.
<0096>
// I am frozen like a rock where I stand.
<0097>
// There is not a single daughter who could honestly say such a thing in front of her parents... except for her...
<0098>
// Surely the most unusual living thing on this earth... would be Nagisa.
<0099>
// \{Sanae} "Since her menses has also stopped, I am inclined to think she is correct."
<0100>
// \{Akio} "KAH..."
<0101>
// \{Akio} "Y... You bastard..."
<0102>
// Pops had a peculiar expression.
<0103>
// \{Akio} "Con..."
<0104>
// \{Akio} "Congratulations..."
<0105>
// The shaking voice celebrated. 
<0106>
// Afterwards, we were taken to neighboring town's hospital for examination.
<0107>
// The result was just as expected.
<0108>
// \{Nagisa} "Two months."
<0109>
// \{Akio} "Is that so..."
<0110>
// \{Akio} "Are... are you going to give birth to it?..."
<0111>
// \{Nagisa} "Of course!"
<0112>
// I already knew that would be her answer.
<0113>
// Nagisa wouldn't have an abortion.
<0114>
// She couldn't do such a thing as ending a life.
<0115>
// \{Akio} "It's going to be hard..."
<0116>
// \{\m{B}} "I will protect her."
<0117>
// I said strongly.
<0118>
// \{Nagisa} "Of course. Because \m{B}-kun is with me, I'll be fine."
<0119>
// \{Nagisa} "For today, we're doing the best we can."
<0120>
// \{Sanae} "It's just like how Akio-san was on that day."
<0121>
// \{Akio} "What?"
<0122>
// \{Sanae} "When we gave birth to Nagisa, Akio-san, you said you would defend me."
<0123>
// \{Akio} "Is that so... it must be so..."
<0124>
// However, Nagisa's body is far weaker than Sanae-san's. So it is right to worry about this.
<0125>
// \{Nagisa} "It is a child with \m{B}-kun. I absolutely want to have it."
<0126>
// \{Akio} "Tche" 
<0127>
// \{Akio} "Well, go for it... you resourceful one."
<0128>
// Finally, as it's said, my chest is trusted away like a strike. 
<0129>
// It's natural, to follow one's way back. 
<0130>
// It's the same road we two have walked up many times.
<0131>
// However, something is different now.
<0132>
// It's fresh. Everything has changed slightly, in some way.
<0133>
// \{Nagisa} "...ehehe."
<0134>
// Nagisa, without any reason, laughed happily.
<0135>
// So... we are going to have a child.
<0136>
// This reality made everything appear new. 
<0137>
// And, we are to become parents.
<0138>
// Us as parents...?
<0139>
// Humorously it's not really possible to imagine that future.
<0140>
// When was that? 
<0141>
// \{Nagisa} "Therefore \m{B}-kun, when the child comes, you must be very nice..."
<0142>
// \{Nagisa} "And be a very good father." 
<0143>
// \{\m{B}} "Is that so?"
<0144>
// \{Sanae} "Nagisa will surely be a gentle mother."
<0145>
// \{Sanae} "Therefore, your child will be very happy."
<0146>
// This feels like a extremely old familiar conversation.
<0147>
// In those school days, when my reputation was just a joke, now, it's actually becoming a reality.
<0148>
// When thinking about it, a spontaneous smile spills out.
<0149>
// Ah, Nagisa also, smiled just a little bit, I think.
<0150>
// It's going to be hard. That I already know.
<0151>
// But, in spite of that, we'll be happy.
<0152>
// Birth Chapter.
<0153>
// \{Yoshino} "Congratulations!"
<0154>
// \{\m{B}} "Ha?"
<0155>
// \{Yoshino} "Your child of course! Your child!"
<0156>
// We meet in the office, Yoshino-san and I chat.
<0157>
// Just what kind of network is forming...
<0158>
// I hadn't told Yoshino-san yet.
<0159>
// \{\m{B}} "Thank you."
<0160>
// \{Yoshino} "You are a child as well..."
<0161>
// \{Yoshino} "You're not even a working person capable of carrying your half of the load, how could you possibly be qualified to be a husband."
<0162>
// \{\m{B}} "Is that so?"
<0163>
// \{\m{B}} "But, you completely lack self-awareness..." 
<0164>
// \{Yoshino} "If you bring a child to the world, while unpleasant, it might bring self-awareness."
<0165>
// \{Yoshino} "If everyone was alone, it wouldn't be possible to live..."
<0166>
// \{Yoshino} "Someone must support someone else to live..."
<0167>
// \{Yoshino} "That beginning for \m{A}, see with your eyes..."
<0168>
// \{\m{B}} "Slow down!"
<0169>
// Yoshino-san kept on talking, while I was leaving the office.
<0170>
// \{Yoshino} "That beginning for \m{A}, you must see with your own eyes."
<0171>
// He kept talking while I started the car.
<0172>
// \{\m{B}} "Today, isn't there a medical examination?"
<0173>
// \{Nagisa} "That's right."
<0174>
// \{\m{B}} "... shouldn't I come along?"
<0175>
// \{Nagisa} "I'm fine."
<0176>
// \{Nagisa} "Being pregnant isn't like being sick."
<0177>
// \{\m{B}} "But, recently you have not been waking early. It's like your not feeling well."
<0178>
// \{\m{B}} "Have you been eating properly?"
<0179>
// \{Nagisa} "I'm only having morning sickness now. If I eat a little bit at a time, I don't feel bad."
<0180>
// \{\m{B}} "Urgh, it's because of work, right? ... today... "
<0181>
// \{Nagisa} "That's right. \m{B}-kun, please do well at your work."
<0182>
// \{\m{B}} "Yeah..."
<0183>
// \{\m{B}} "But if you don't go to the neighboring town, you can't be properly examined..."
<0184>
// \{\m{B}} "If there is anything wrong, make sure properly contact Sanae-san."
<0185>
// \{Nagisa} "Okay."
<0186>
// \{\m{B}} "Well, I'll see you later."
<0187>
// \{Nagisa} "Take care."
<0188>
// \{\m{B}} "I'm home."
<0189>
// \{\m{B}} "How was your medical exam?"
<0190>
// That is the first thing I asked upon arriving home finding Nagisa in the middle of preparing dinner
<0191>
// \{Nagisa} "Ah, yes. Well..."
<0192>
// \{Nagisa} "We went over my medical history, I had my blood pressure checked, then they checked on my pregnancy."
<0193>
// \{\m{B}} "And...?"
<0194>
// \{Nagisa} "And, well..."
<0195>
// \{Nagisa} "With the ultrasound machine, I was able to see the baby in my stomach."
<0196>
// \{\m{B}} "Huh? It's possible to see it already!?"
<0197>
// \{Nagisa} "Yes. But, it is still like a little egg."
<0198>
// \{Nagisa} "After this, in just a short of a year, how much it will grow."
<0199>
// \{Nagisa} "There seems to be no trouble of woman's diseases, so it's safe to say that will be able to have a healthy baby."
<0200>
// \{\m{B}} "Is that so..."
<0201>
// We'll be able have a healthy baby...
<0202>
// Since the doctor says so, it can't be a mistake.
<0203>
// A feeling of relief washes over my body.
<- more literal
<0204>
// \{Nagisa} "However, I was really scared for a moment..."
<0205>
// \{\m{B}} "Over what?"
<0206>
// \{Nagisa} "Aah... no."
<0207>
// \{Nagisa} "...it's nothing."
<0208>
// \{\m{B}} "It is something, your anxious right. Tell me."
<0209>
// \{Nagisa} "No, it's something I can't say to a man..."
<0210>
// \{\m{B}} "Why do you hide it, the child is both of ours right?"
<0211>
// \{\m{B}} "Or did you mysteriously become pregnant on your own?"
<0212>
// \{\m{B}} "Usually, birth is a collaborative activity. Even Sanae-san said so."
<0213>
// \{\m{B}} "Look, don't hide it, say it."
<0214>
// \{Nagisa} "... ah, okay..."
<0215>
// \{Nagisa} "Well then..."
<0216>
// \{Nagisa} "... it's an embarrassing position."
<0217>
// \{\m{B}} "Hah?"
<0218>
// \{Nagisa} "Being seen in the pelvic examination stand."
<0219>
// \{\m{B}} "I don't know."
<0220>
// \{Nagisa} "My skirt and underwear, everything taken off, with my legs spread..."
<0221>
// \{Nagisa} "It's completely embarrassing!..."
<0222>
// \{\m{B}} "... how much?"
<0223>
// \{Nagisa} "Is it okay not to say such a thing?"
<0224>
// \{\m{B}} "No, it's okay..."
<0225>
// \{Nagisa} "But, I thought it is not good if it conceal it."
<0226>
// \{\m{B}} "Which is it..."
<0227>
// \{Nagisa} "This ... please keep it a secret ... my experience..."
<0228>
// \{Nagisa} "For the time being..."
<0229>
// \{\m{B}} "For the time being?"
<0230>
// \{Nagisa} "Umm..."
<0231>
// \{Nagisa} "That I've opened up to \m{B}-kun."
<0232>
// \{\m{B}} "........."
<0233>
// That I've opened up to \m{B}-kun...
<0234>
// That I've opened up to \m{B}-kun...
<0235>
//  .........that I've opened up to \m{B}-kun.........?
<0236>
//  As cold feeling runs down my back, I turn my head to look behind me.
<0237>
//  ...no one is there.
<0238>
// I can't understand this...
<0239>
// \{\m{B}} "That is, don't say this to Pops and Sanae-san?"
<0240>
// \{Nagisa} "Exactly, don't tell them."
<0241>
// No, you don't have to tell me that.
<0242>
// \{Akio} "I've also encountered the same thing."
<0243>
// \{\m{B}} "What, what the"
<0244>
// Unexpectedly
<0245>
// \{Akio} "Ha ha ha ha!  Hey, even I've seen Sanae in that embarrassing position!"
<0246>
//  ...Sanae-san!?
<0247>
// \{\m{B}} "I, I don't want to seeeeeeeeeee!"
<0248>
// Flutter.
<0249>
// \{Sanae} "\m{B}-san..."
<0250>
// \{\m{B}} "Y, yes..."
<0251>
// \{Sanae} "It's half of Akio-san, right?"
<0252>
// \{\m{B}} "Aaaaargh----!"
<0253>
//  Flutter.
<0254>
//  ...it's a dream.
<0255>
// \{Nagisa} "n..."
<0256>
// \{Nagisa} "What's wrong, \m{B}-kun?"
<0257>
// Nagisa is already out of bed.
<0258>
// \{Nagisa} "Did you just have bad dream" 
<0259>
// To that person in me that confronts my inferiority complex, why half scale?...
<0260>
// \{Nagisa} "...... ?"
<0261>
// \{\m{B}} "Waking someone from a bad dream..."
<0262>
// It's okay because I said it ... \p I'm just thinking too much to go back to bed.
<0263>
// \{\m{B}} "Are you ok?"
<0264>
// \{Nagisa} "...I'm sorry. I couldn't seem to be able to wake you."
<0265>
// \{\m{B}} "It's okay, because I'm with you"
<0266>
// Each day, Nagisa's morning becomes a little bit worse.
<0267>
// This morning she wasn't able to get out of bed.
<0268>
// \{\m{B}} "It's gotten a little bit worse, hasn't it."
<0269>
// \{Nagisa} "Yes, sorry for making you worry."
<0270>
// \{\m{B}} "Why are you apologizing? It's both our responsibilities."
<0271>
// \{Nagisa} "Ah, right."
<0272>
// \{\m{B}} "Have you eat properly?"
<0273>
// \{Nagisa} "...I've not eaten very much."
<0274>
// \{Nagisa} "I'll be able to eat a little better in the afternoon."
<0275>
// \{\m{B}} "Isn't there anything that can help with it?"
<0276>
// \{Nagisa} "I don't think so."
<0277>
// \{Nagisa} "Morning sickness is still not really well understood..."
<0278>
// Nagisa takes some ice out of the freezer, and places in her mouth.
<0279>
// \{\m{B}} "Ice?"
<0280>
// \{Nagisa} "I can't even drink liquids if I feel bad."
<0281>
// \{Nagisa} "However, if I suck on some ice, I'm sure I'll be able to drink some while it melts."
<0282>
// \{\m{B}} "You can't even drink water...?"
<0283>
// This particular physical condition, I just can't imagine...
<0284>
// When sick in bed, moisture can be easily consumed. 
<0285>
// Women's difficulties...
<0286>
// Is all I can do is tell her to keep fighting...
<0287>
// \{\m{B}} "How about something sour?"
<0288>
// \{\m{B}} "I'm not saying I want to eat something like that."
<0289>
// \{Nagisa} "Eating things like citrus fruits will only make it worse."
<0290>
// \{Nagisa} "The doctor said that the individual variation is large, and is different for each person."
<0291>
//  So I also did some investigation.
<0292>
// Proper eating seems to be the most beneficial cure.
<0293>
// People say it's best to eat little by little to make sure the stomach isn't empty.
<0294>
// And that it is the worst in the morning because one has been asleep and thus can't eat.
<0295>
// So I made rice balls at night.
<0296>
// And to limit her thirst, I used salt in sparing moderation.
<0297>
// And to lessen the smell, I put just a little sprinkle of dry flavoring.
<0298>
// It's in many smallish bites-sized portions.
<0299>
// 2 AM.
<0300>
// Beep Beep Beep Beep Beep Beep... ...  
<0301>
// \{\m{B}} "... what time is it?"
<0302>
// I switch on a light.
<0303>
// \{\m{B}} "Nagisa, are you okay?"
<0304>
// \{Nagisa} "...Yes... what's going on? At such a time" 
<0305>
// \{\m{B}} "Are you feeling sick?"
<0306>
// \{Nagisa} "Right now I'm okay."
<0307>
// \{\m{B}} "That's good. Here, could you eat one of these?"
<0308>
// I present her a plate of the rice balls.
<0309>
// \{Nagisa} "What's the matter? This?"
<0310>
// \{\m{B}} "I've read that it's good to eat a little bit through the night." 
<0311>
// \{Nagisa} "Did you make them?"
<0312>
// \{\m{B}} "They are a little funny looking, right?"
<0313>
//  It's true, the shape is uneven, and over-all appearance is bad.
<0314>
// While seaweed wrap was suitable, even the flavoring sprinkles were irregular.
<0315>
// \{Nagisa}  "... thank you."
<0316>
// \{Nagisa} "Itadakimasu!" 
<0317>
// \{\m{B}} "Don't over work at eating now." (?)
<0318>
// \{\m{B}} "If you're feeling bad, we can shift the time."
<0319>
// With her small hands, Nagisa placed the rice ball in her mouth.
<0320>
// Just one bite seems to bring a good feeling over her.
<0321>
// \{Nagisa} "It tastes good."
<0322>
// \{\m{B}}  "Having had one bite it good right"
<0323>
// \{\m{B}} "Don't eat too fast, it's okay to save some."
<0324>
//  Nagisa continued and ate three small bites.
<0325>
// Might not be a perfect performance, but she did well to eat to her limit. (?)
<0326>
// Once again at 4 AM this scene is repeated, although we both ate this time.
<0327>
// This time just a bland unadorned rice ball.
<0328>
// However, Nagisa ate five this time.
<0329>
// \{Nagisa} "It was really good...ehehe."
<0330>
// Nagisa laughed as she said so.
<0331>
// It had been a long time since I saw her smile like that.
<0332>
// \{\m{B}} "........."
<0333>
// \{Yoshino} "Can you hear, \m{A}?"
<0334>
// \{\m{B}} "........."
<0335>
// \{Yoshino} "Are you asleep?..."
<0336>
// \{Yoshino} "Jeeze, are you going to just lay around like its rest-time?..."
<0337>
// \{Yoshino} "I'd just like to see you keep that up."
<0338>
//  .........
<0339>
//  I hear humming.
<0340>
// That's terrible ... yet comfortable melody.
<0341>
// Finally, the long battle with morning sickness is finally over.
<0342>
// \{\m{B}} "Good morning."
<0343>
// \{Nagisa} "Good morning."
<0344>
// \{\m{B}} "Where you able to wake up okay?"
<0345>
// \{Nagisa} "I'm fine."
<0346>
// \{Nagisa} "I'm feeling really good this morning."
<0347>
// The 10~11th week, in accordance with the book I was reading.
<0348>
// \{\m{B}} "Home delivery?"
<0349>
// From Nagisa's mouth, the words came out as we set down for the evening meal.
<0350>
// \{Nagisa} "Yes, exactly."
<0351>
// \{\m{B}} "Home delivery..."
<0352>
//  I consider the thought.
<0353>
// \{\m{B}} "WHAT? A delivery right here?"
<0354>
// \{Nagisa} "That's right."
<0355>
// \{\m{B}} "In other words, you don't want to have the birth in a hospital?"
<0356>
// \{Nagisa} "Exactly."
<0357>
// Naturally. Am I fool...
<0358>
// \{Nagisa} "Today, I saw information on a motherhood class at the hospital."
<0359>
// \{Nagisa} "There was a note posted from a mother who had given birth at home."
<0360>
// \{Nagisa} "The husband, father, and mother all surrounded, frantically supporting her."
<0361>
// \{Nagisa} "All there before the baby is born, encourages the mother."
<0362>
// \{Nagisa} "Everyone held each others hands for a long time, it was written."
<0363>
// \{Nagisa} "In our on home, the new father gives the baby his first bath."
<0364>
// \{Nagisa} "The baby that comes from the stomach can be embraced for such a long time at home."
<0365>
// \{Nagisa} "It is not likely to be held as much at the hospital, or so I would think."
<0366>
// \{\m{B}} "That might be true..."
<0367>
// In any case, there is also Nagisa's health.
<0368>
// She shouldn't make a decision without due consideration.
<0369>
// \{Nagisa} "Besides, this room..."
<0370>
// \{Nagisa} "I vowed to never cry in this place..."
<0371>
// \{Nagisa} "As it is an oath, I've worked hard never to give up in this place."
<0372>
// \{Nagisa} "Together with you, \m{B}-kun."
<0373>
// \{\m{B}} "Ah. That's how it is."
<0374>
// \{\m{B}} "I understand, how you feel."
<- more literal
<0375>
// \{Nagisa} "Furthermore, I really want to give birth here in this town."
<0376>
// \{\m{B}}  "Ah."
<0377>
// \{\m{B}} "But, first of all ... let's consult the doctor."
<0378>
// \{Nagisa} "Yes, let's ask her right away." 
<0379>
// A hand dirty with black dust.
<0380>
// I watched that hand.
<0381>
// A lunch time, I told Yoshino-san about what we had talked about.
<0382>
// \{Yoshino} "Home delivery...?"
<0383>
// \{Yoshino} "That sounds good."
<0384>
// \{Yoshino} "\m{A}, you are on a path to self-awareness."
<0385>
// \{Yoshino}  "People just can't go on alone..."
<0386>
// \{Yoshino} "Someone must support someone else so they can live..."
<0387>
// \{\m{B}} "You've already told me this."
<0388>
// \{Yoshino} "But the ending is different... listen."
<0389>
// \{\m{B}} "Okay"
<0390>
// \{Yoshino} "Someone must support someone else so they can live..."
<0391>
// \{Yoshino} "It's a start for you, \m{A}, your beginning is in your hands in how to raise your own child."
<0392>
// A hand dirty with black dust.
<0393>
//  My hand.
<0394>
// \{Nagisa} "I've talked with the doctor."
<0395>
// \{\m{B}} "Ah, and what did he say?"
<0396>
// \{Nagisa} "He said that if my current condition continues, it might not be a problem."
<0397>
// \{Nagisa} "And, here, this is the pamphlet from the maternity center. The doctor gave it to me."
<0398>
// \{\m{B}} "Is that so?"
<0399>
// \{Nagisa}  "\m{B}-kun, what do you think?"
<0400>
// \{\m{B}} "Well, let's see." 
<0401>
// \{\m{B}}  "If the doctor says it's not a problem, I want to respect your strong desire."
<0402>
// \{\m{B}} "I want to hold it with my hands."
<0403>
// \{\m{B}} "And, with this hand ... I want to give my baby its first bath."
<0404>
// \{Nagisa} "Yes."
<0405>
// \{\m{B}} "On the next break, let's consult with Pops and Sanae-san." 
<0406>
// \{Akio} "HOME DELIVERYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!?"
<0407>
// While shouting, his body listed to the right."
<0408>
// \{Akio} "What's with this drift today."
<0409>
// \{\m{B}} "Is the game over?"
<0410>
// \{Akio} "Tche, ok,ok, and right in the middle of breaking a record..."
<0411>
// The power to the game machine had gone out.
<0412>
// \{Akio} "So, what is it?"
<0413>
// \{\m{B}} "Nagisa is going to have a home delivery"
<0414>
// \{Akio} "HOME DELIVERYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!?"
<0415>
// \{\m{B}} "Did you not hear?"
<0416>
// \{Akio} "Now look here, birth itself is already hard, and now you want to make it harder by doing it at home?"
<0417>
// \{\m{B}} "Yeah."
<0418>
// \{Akio} "And may I ask for what reason she wants this?"
<0419>
// \{Akio} "Save money? A punishment game? Religious issue? More interesting birth?"
<0420>
// \{\m{B}} "Something entirely different..."
<0421>
// \{Akio} "Then, just what is it?"
<0422>
// \{\m{B}} "Just what is it... well many reasons really..."
<0423>
// While it was decided by thinking so much, I can't really put a word as to why.
<0424>
// \{\m{B}} "Nagisa and I just want to."
<0425>
// \{\m{B}} "Together we decided on it."
<0426>
// \{Sanae} "I give my approval."
<0427>
// \{Akio} "Huh?"
<0428>
//  Sanae-san appears from the kitchen carrying a tray.
<0429>
// Nagisa follows behind her.
<0430>
// Seeing her appear, Pops extinguishes his cigarette.
<0431>
// \{Sanae} "While I gave birth in the hospital in the next town..."
<0432>
// \{Sanae} "It says a lot, that Nagisa will soon be leaving our care..."
<0433>
// \{Sanae} "Can we only leave it up to the hospital, birth doesn't come from just oneself, and a little loneliness will be remembered." 
<0434>
// \{Sanae} "Akio-san has also embraced Nagisa, but only after being held be person in the hospital right?"
<0435>
// \{Akio} "Really?!  I really though I was the first!"
<0436>
// \{Sanae} "You weren't."
<0437>
// \{Akio} "Damnnnnnn...."
<0438>
// \{Akio} "But, I was the first to make fun of her."
<0439>
// \{Nagisa} "Do such things really matter?" (?)
<0440>
// \{Akio} "Well, that was just because I wanted to be affectionate."
<0441>
// \{Nagisa} "Even if it was affectionate, It's not good."
<0442>
// \{Akio} "Ha Ha Ha! ?"
<0443>
// \{Akio} "Alright, back to the game?"
<0444>
// \{\m{B}} "Nope, this conversation's end hasn't come."
<0445>
// \{Akio} "un... aaa. then...  What else could the be"
<0446>
// \{Akio} * "Sanae and myself are already Nagisa's neighbor. It has to be born somewhere right?"
<0447>
// \{\m{B}} "No, that interesting birth joke hasn't been thought-through yet..."
<0448>
// \{Nagisa} "Home delivery."
<0449>
// \{Akio} "What?  That interesting?"
<0450>
// \{Nagisa} "Dad, we're serious."
<0451>
// Well said, my wife.
<0452>
// \{Akio} "Aah..."
<0453>
// Pops picked up a glass from a line one the desk.
<0454>
// And then he drank in one gulp the sake.
<0455>
// \{Akio} "Ok, I got it..." *
<0456>
// He lets out a deep breath.
<0457>
// \{Akio} "To be first, to hold your baby."
<0458>
// \{\m{B}} "Ah."
<0459>
// \{Akio} "Still..."
<0460>
// \{Akio} "But I will be the first to make fun of the baby-----!"
<0461>
// \{Nagisa} "That's no good, \m{B}-kun will be the first to make fun of the baby."
<0462>
// \{\m{B}} "........."
<0463>
// \{\m{B}}  "... don't think so, I don't want to make fun of it."
<0464>
// \{Nagisa} "Ah..."
<0465>
// \{Nagisa} "True ... shouldn't make fun of it."
<0466>
//  Foolish parents make a foolish child...
<0467>
// \{Sanae} "This is Yagi-san."
<0468>
// \{Yagi} "I'm Yagi. It's nice to meet you."
<0469>
// \{Nagisa} "I'm \m{A} Nagisa. It's nice too meet you too. Please help me in my delivery.
<0470>
// She is the midwife who we will be relying on.
<0471>
// She was a classmate of Sanae-san from her school days, who recently opened a maternity hospital by herself.
<0472>
// When being called a midwife, typically an elderly person is imagined, but as Sanae-san's classmate she is naturally young.
<0473>
// \{\m{B}} (Even so, doesn't Sanae-san herself look really young...)
<0474>
// \{\m{B}} (Sanae-san's youthfulness really is mysterious...)
<0475>
// \{Yagi} "Let's see, you've already completed your initial medical examination right?"
<0476>
// The conversation began by first confirming the basics. 
<0477>
// \{Nagisa} "Yes, I had it the week before last."
<0478>
// \{Yagi} "Let's see, from here I'll go over some explanation."
<0479>
// \{Yagi} "The midwife's role is only to provide thorough assistance."
<0480>
// \{Yagi} "Therefore, I can not do medical treatment."
<0481>
// \{Yagi} "Please make sure to go for your regular medical examinations."
<0482>
// \{Yagi} "When you came to our maternity center, they performed an examination with a machine, and everything looked okay?"
<0483>
// \{Nagisa} "Yes."
<0484>
// \{Yagi} "And because of that, you hope to deliver your baby here at home...?"
<0485>
// \{\m{B}} "Even though the room is a bit narrow, will it be okay?"
<0486>
// \{Yagi} "As long as there is enough room for the futon, anywhere will be okay."
<0487>
// \{Yagi} "The area doesn't matter."
<0488>
// \{Yagi} "More important than that, it needs to be an environment where the mother can relax."
<0489>
// \{Yagi} "During pregnancy, various anxieties and body carvings can appear."
<0490>
// \{Yagi} "They need to be relieved, if we are to have a happy delivery."
<0491>
// \{Yagi} "While there is still 3 months to go, I think things are going well."
<0492>
//  Midwife-san bows from the driver's seat of her car.
<0493>
// We bow back to her.
<0494>
// Her car disappears into the narrow alleyway.
<0495>
// It seems that she commutes from the neighboring town by car.
<0496>
// Nagisa is serious, but so its midwife-san.
<0497>
// For the sake of Nagisa's birth, I think everyone is coming together to help her fight on.
<0498>
// \{\m{B}} (It somehow resembles...)
<0499>
// Unintentionally I remember.
<0500>
// Before we noticed, there were a lot of supporters in our student days in the clubroom.
<0501>
// Like those days.
<0502>
// That day was a day at the maternity center for a medical examination.
<0503>
// I took some time off of work, so that I could go with her.
<0504>
// \{Yagi} "Nagisa-san, can you see-?"
<0505>
// Nagisa lies on the medical exam table, with what looks like the boss of all stethoscopes is placed on her stomach.
<0506>
// \{Nagisa} "Yes."
<0507>
// \{Yagi} "Do you understand? This moving area is the heart."
<0508>
// \{Yagi} "The head has already grown too, with perfect eyes and nose."
<0509>
// \{Yagi} "Father, make sure you take a look too."
<0510>
//  I was captivated by the monochrome monitor.
<0511>
// Although the display was grainy, it certainly projected a breathing little life.
<0512>
// \{Yagi} "Because the placenta has favorably developed, there is little worry of a miscarriage at this point."
<0513>
// \{Yagi} "From here on, the baby will grow quite rapidly."
<0514>
// \{Yagi} "It will grow several times its current size in just a month."
<0515>
// \{Yagi} "Next month fetal movement will begin."
<0516>
// The two of us walk on the road near twilight. 
<0517>
// To make sure not to hurt Nagisa's body, we always walk slowly.
<0518>
// \{\m{B}} "Quite the endurance, our baby has."
<0519>
// \{\m{B}} "Although I didn't notice it, because your appearance hasn't really changed."
<0520>
// \{Nagisa} "That's true."
<0521>
// \{Nagisa} "Although it is still small, it is doing quite well."
<0522>
// \{\m{B}} "Until now, I think I didn't feel things were going properly."
<0523>
// \{Nagisa} "Is that so?"
<0524>
// \{\m{B}} "Well, it is inside Nagisa's stomach, and it's hard to know its true physical condition."
<0525>
// \{\m{B}} "I just am kind of like that..."
<0526>
// I know it in my head, by my body just fails to follow through.
<0527>
// My recent experience at work, has it skillfully removed some of my closeness to her?
<0528>
// \{Nagisa} "It is ok"
<0529>
// Gently, Nagisa grasps my hand.
<0530>
// I returned her grasp. 
<0531>
// \{Nagisa} "\m{B}-kun is trying his best, I know that best."
<0532>
// \{Nagisa} "Therefore, the baby also surely knows."
<0533>
// \{Nagisa} "Because the baby and I are two hearts beating as one."
<0534>
// \{\m{B}} "I guess that's true..."
<0535>
// \{Nagisa} "It is."
<0536>
// \{Nagisa} "\m{B}-kun, \m{B}-kun, take a look!"
<0537>
// \{\m{B}} "What is it, that your so happy to show?"
<0538>
// \{Nagisa} "Look, this."
<0539>
// Nagisa held out a pamphlet as big as a note pad.
<0540>
// \{\m{B}} "...Maternity Record Book?"
<0541>
// A colorful illustration drawn on the cover, done in a very conscientious way.
<0542>
// \{Nagisa} "Recently at the medical examination, they said to create a maternity record book."
<0543>
// \{Nagisa} "And then to please deliver it to the town hall."  
<0544>
// \{Nagisa} "Today, I reached that goal."
<0545>
// \{\m{B}} "Oooh."
<0546>
// Nagisa turned it over and over many times to confirm her accomplishment.
<0547>
// Although I know the pages have nothing written on them, I flip through the pages by force of habit.
<0548>
// \{Nagisa} "I'm going to write in it everyday from today onwards."
<0549>
// \{Nagisa} "It's a record of the baby."
<0550>
// \{Nagisa} "While it's growing, I want to write how things have changed."
<0551>
// \{\m{B}} "I guess that's a good idea."
<0552>
// The fetal movements have begun that following month.
<0553>
// \{Nagisa} "Eh."
<0554>
// \{\m{B}} "Un? What's wrong?"
<0555>
// \{Nagisa} "Just now, it moved" 
<0556>
// \{Nagisa} "The baby, it moved, fetal movement!"
<0557>
// \{Nagisa} "It's just how they said it would, in the motherhood class"
<0558>
// \{Nagisa} "It moves vigorously, it kicked my stomach and made a full revolution."
<0559>
// \{\m{B}} "One full revolution?..."
<0560>
// \{Nagisa} "It is evidence it will grow up full of energy."
<0561>
// \{Nagisa} "That is the baby's way of informing me."
<0562>
// \{Nagisa} "'I'm here!' it says."
<0563>
// Nagisa rubbed the important bulge beginning in her stomach.
<0564>
// \{\m{B}} "May I also feel it?"
<0565>
// \{Nagisa} "Yes, please do."
<0566>
// Nagisa's warm stomach.
<0567>
// Inside of it, a life that has already made one rotation grows.
<0568>
// The process in which life is formed ... the two of us were experiencing it now.
<0569>
// \{Nagisa} "We should think about a name."
<0570>
// It was evening, when Nagisa suggested it.
<0571>
// \{\m{B}} "Is that so? ...We should."
<0572>
//  Up until now, for such a thing to be forgotten.
<0573>
// \{Nagisa} "Is it still too early?"
<0574>
// \{\m{B}} "No, it's okay. It's not too early to think about it."
<0575>
// \{\m{B}} "However, we will have to think about both boy and girl names." 
<0576>
// \{Nagisa} "Shall we take one letter from \m{B}-kun's name?"
<0577>
// \{\m{B}} "No, doing such a thing like without thinking isn't good."
<0578>
// \{\m{B}} "The baby is already going to get the family name of \m{A} from me."
<0579>
// \{\m{B}} "It is just like you changed your family name, because I now protect you."
<0580>
// \{\m{B}} "When a girl is married, she changes families, as it is then the husband's responsibility to protect her."
<0581>
// \{Nagisa} "Is that so..."
<0582>
// \{Nagisa} "Then, I want to defend my name."
<0583>
// \{\m{B}} "That's so. Let's do that."
<0584>
// \{Nagisa} "But, I only have one character in my name, it would be like she would become my sister."
<0585>
// \{\m{B}} "Well, that could be."
<0586>
// No matter how much we thought, using the character 'Nagisa', we could never find a name.
<0587>
// \{Nagisa} "'Nagisa' means beach."
<0588>
// \{\m{B}} "That's true."
<0589>
// \{Nagisa} "Tides have a big influence on such a place." 
<0590>
// \{\m{B}} "Ah."
<0591>
// \{Nagisa} "There, why not use 'Ushio', tide could be said that way right?"
<0592>
// \{Nagisa} "And this name suits both a boy and a girl."
<0593>
// \{\m{B}} "Ushio."
<0594>
// \{Nagisa} "Yes, Ushio."
<0595>
// \{Nagisa} "Surely, it will have a very varied life."
<0596>
// \{Nagisa} "Like tides on a beach, at times there is an influence, and at times the two must part ..."
<0597>
// \{Nagisa} "But, if time passes, it rises back gain and returns near again."
<0598>
// \{Nagisa} "Forever, that is cycle is repeated ... I watch over the tide."
<0599>
// \{Nagisa} "What do you think?" 
<0600>
// It's similar to myself, however I have a different reason for being close.
<0601>
// In this long journey of life, Nagisa has experienced more than an average share of joys and sorrows, thus such a name is fitting.
<0602>
// And, with that history, there is no doubt this the way family should be.
<0603>
// \{\m{B}} "But when you think about it, a tide has a bigger existence than even a beach."
<0604>
// \{Nagisa} "That's true. Because it's an ocean."
<0605>
// \{\m{B}} "It wraps around just about everything, don't forget ... and brings much kindness to people, don't you think."
<0606>
// \{Nagisa} "Yes..."
<0607>
// \{Nagisa} "I want that."
<0608>
// Is she becoming exhausted? As Nagisa speaks, she closes her eyelids.
<0609>
// \{\m{B}} "Going to sleep?"
<0610>
// \{Nagisa} "Yes."
<0611>
// \{\m{B}} "Should I turn out the lights?"
<0612>
// \{Nagisa} "Yes, please."
<0613>
//  \m{A} Ushio.
<0614>
// That will be the name of the child we will raise.
<0615>
// From that day on, Nagisa began to call the child that is in her stomach by its name.
<0616>
// \{Nagisa} "Shio-chan."
<0617>
// Nagisa dropped off the 'U', when saying its name.
<0618>
// \{Nagisa} "It's very cute to call it like that."
<0619>
// \{Nagisa} "Shio-chan..."
<0620>
// \{Nagisa} "Ehehe"
<0621>
// \{Nagisa} "So that's how, we decided on Ushio as a name. 'Shio-chan'."
<0622>
// \{Akio} "Oh, is that it..."
<0623>
// \{Akio} "Shio-chan, it's papa~"
<0624>
// \{Nagisa} "Don't lie!"
<0625>
// \{Nagisa} "This child, it will believe you!"
<0626>
// \{Akio} "Can't it be a running joke, that it's my child?"
<0627>
// \{Akio} "And that you're really the grandpa!  Tsukkon de miseru yo." *
<0628>
// \{Akio} " Nagisa would have to go with it for it to work."
<0629>
// Nagisa's stomach is not a cockpit.
<0630>
// \{Akio} "However, if I am called Grandpa ... then it's a no, huh?"
<0631>
// I'm usually a how-it-is person.
<0632>
// \{Akio} "Therefore, then the grand me will be Akkii. Come on everyone, call me Akkii.
<0633>
// \{Akio} "Let that be its first experience of this damn old man."
<0634>
// \{\m{B}} "But why?..."
<0635>
// \{Sanae} "I'd also like to know why you want become that, and for that matter about all of this conversation."
<0636>
// \{Akio} "Ah, because, I, at that time the monologue was just very random...?"
<0637>
// You noticed.
<0638>
// \{Sanae} "It's around now that ears begin to hear, so it can grasp sounds from the outside."
<0639>
// \{Sanae} "It's also good to let it listen to music."
<0640>
// \{\m{B}} "And parent's own singing is best."
<0641>
// \{\m{B}} "However, with this one's favorite music, I'm not sure how it will be."
<0642>
// \{Nagisa} "Then, I will sing everyday so it can listen."
<0643>
// \{Nagisa} "Dango, dango..."
<0644>
// \{Sanae} "That's a very good thing right?"
<0645>
// \{\m{B}} "Well, it would be better if that song were a bit more fashionable."
<0646>
// \{Nagisa} "Yes. Therefore, let's all sing it together."
<0647>
// \{\m{B}} "Are you kidding me?"
<0648>
// \{Akio} "Alright, I'll be the lead vocalist."
<0649>
// \{Akio} "Youngster, your on drums. Say 'Tsukachii Tsukachii'"
<0650>
// \{Akio} "Hiyaa! Kakkee!"
<0651>
// \{\m{B}} "Please give the father the simplistic part."
<0652>
// \{Akio} "Well aren't you the selfish one, well, that."
<0653>
// \{Akio} "How about a battle to teach the next bar's lyrics."
<0654>
// \{\m{B}} "That's something I don't want to participate in."
<0655>
// \{Nagisa} "Dango, Dango."
<0656>
// Before anyone really became aware, Nagisa began to sing alone.
<0657>
// \{Sanae} "Dango, Dango."
<0658>
// Sanae-san then joined in.
<0659>
// Before long all of us joined along.
<0660>
// And with that, everyone brought a happy summer day to a close.
<0661>
// It was a day of relentless lingering summer heat.
<0662>
// The moment the door I opened the door, something jumped into my field of view.
<0663>
// Suddenly my eye was drawn down to the tatami before me.
<0664>
// This person's legs were bent in such a way to look like the hiragana letter ku (く).
<0665>
// Still wearing my shoes I full out run to her, her body only be barely held up by her arms.
<0666>
// \{\m{B}} "Nagisa!"
<0667>
// .........
<0668>
// Other than repeated labored little breaths, there was no reaction.
<0669>
// I touch her forehead. It is surprisingly hot.
<0670>
// Her face was pure-white. 
<0671>
// I have no clue what has happened.
<0672>
// To cause Nagisa to run a fever and collapse.
<0673>
// What should I do?
<0674>
// \{\m{B}} "Nagisa!..."
<0675>
// For awhile, all I can do is hold her body and repeatedly call her name.
<0676>
// \{\m{B}} (To the futon for the time being...)
<0677>
// By the time I had recklessly laid Nagisa's body on top of the futon, I finally remembered that Sanae-san was home.
<0678>
// I pick up the phone, and dial the numbers while watching sweat pouring off Nagisa's face.
<0679>
// \{Voice} "Hello, this is the Furukawa residence."
<0680>
// It's Pops. 
<0681>
// \{\m{B}} "It's me, please, can you put Sanae-san on the phone"
<0682>
// \{Akio} "Ah, just a moment."
<0683>
// Shortly, I am connected with Sanae-san.
<0684>
// \{Sanae} "Yes, this is Sanae."
<0685>
// \{\m{B}} "its \m{B}. Nagisa is running a fever and has collapsed."
<0686>
// \{\m{B}} "It is a terribly high temperature."
<0687>
// \{\m{B}} "I don't know what to do..."
<0688>
// \{Sanae} "Please calm down, \m{B}-san."
<0689>
// \{Sanae} "It's okay, because I'm coming right over."
<0690>
// \{\m{B}} "Y, yes..."
<0691>
// \{Sanae} "For now lay her down on the futon, wring a wet towel, and place it on Nagisa's forehead."
<0692>
// \{\m{B}} "I understand..."
<0693>
// \{Sanae} "Then, wait for me. I will contact Yagi-san and run right over." 
<0694>
// \{\m{B}} "Yes, please do."
<0695>
// I hang up the handset.
<0696>
// It's possible to do that for now.
<0697>
//  I wring a wet town, and place it on Nagisa's forehead.
<0698>
// \{\m{B}} "Just hang in there, Nagisa."
<0699>
// I stand up. 
<0700>
// \{\m{B}} "Is this serious...?"
<0701>
// I ask Sanae-san after she had tended to Nagisa for a while.
<0702>
// \{Sanae} "For right now, things have settled down. I think she only has a slight fever."
<0703>
// \{\m{B}} "How is the baby..."
<0704>
// \{Yagi} "There is no problem. The baby is just fine."
<0705>
// \{Yagi} "But if you're worried please take her to have a one time examination."
<0706>
// \{\m{B}} "Is that so..."
<0707>
// While I feel better to hear that the baby safety is okay, I am suddenly struck with intense regret.
<0708>
// \{\m{B}} "Everything is my fault..."
<0709>
// \{\m{B}} "I should have come home sooner..."
<0710>
// \{Sanae} "Do not worry so much about it \m{B}-san."
<0711>
// \{\m{B}} "But, she did everything she could..."
<0712>
// \{Sanae} "That is, because this child wanted to hold on. However it is no one's fault."
<0713>
// \{\m{B}} "No, if that was the case, it wouldn't take so much extra effort to stop the fever..."
<0714>
// \{\m{B}} "I only understand about her..."
<0715>
// \{Sanae} "Please don't blame yourself so much. \m{B}-san, don't lose it now."
<0716>
// \{\m{B}} "Okay..."
<0717>
// \{Yagi} "Well then, I will leave her to your care and be on my way."
<0718>
// \{\m{B}} "Thank you very much."
<0719>
// Nagisa wakes up, for a moment she doesn't seem to understand where she is. She only moves her head to examine the vicinity.
<0720>
// Then, as she sees Sanae-san in the kitchen, she realizes what has happened.
<0721>
// \{Nagisa} "I am ... sorry..."
<0722>
// She says to both Sanae-san and me.
<0723>
// \{Nagisa} "for all of the trouble ..."
<0724>
// \{\m{B}} "It is okay."
<0725>
// \{Nagisa} "I'll make dinner..."
<0726>
// \{\m{B}} "You're not going to cook anything."
<0727>
// \{Nagisa} "I'm sorry... truly..."
<0728>
// \{\m{B}} "There is no need to say your sorry, silly."
<0729>
// No matter what we said, she endlessly and endlessly apologizes.
<0730>
// \{\m{B}} "Right now, Sanae-san is already making pourage."
<- rice gruel ...  chicken soup anyone?
<0731>
// \{\m{B}} "Therefore, patiently wait."
<0732>
// \{Nagisa} "Okay..."
<0733>
// \{\m{B}} "I'm really sorry..."
<0734>
// I said while bowing to Sanae-san for all of the trouble.
<0735>
// \{Sanae} "Enough of the apologies, didn't you just scold Nagisa for that same thing a moment ago, \m{B}-san"
<0736>
// \{\m{B}} "Haha, I guess I am the same..."
<0737>
//  Truly, as expected from Sanae-san, to whom I am completely in debt..
<0738>
// \{Sanae} "And with that, I should be going for today."
<0739>
// \{\m{B}} "Sorry for keeping you so late."
<0740>
// \{Sanae} "It's okay."
<0741>
// \{\m{B}} "Please give my regards ... to Pops ."
<0742>
// \{Sanae} "Okay, I'll tell him."
<0743>
// I remember the summer two years ago.
<0744>
// On that day, Nagisa was always near, with our hands joined.
<0745>
// Now, we were only caught up like that during the night.
<0746>
// Until now, during the day I was away at work.
<0747>
// And during that interval, I was entrusting Nagisa to Sanae-san.
<0748>
// When I return home, the dinner has been prepared, and Sanae-san returns to her own home.
<0749>
// Such is an ordinary day.
<0750>
// Nagisa's fever ...\p did not fall for long.
<0751>
// While I was folding laundry, the phone rang.
<0752>
// I answered it, and it was from Pops. 
<0753>
// \{Akio} "Tomorrow, take a break from work."
<0754>
// \{\m{B}} "What, you want me to be rude? I can't suddenly just take a break."
<0755>
// \{Akio} "Take a sudden break."
<0756>
// \{\m{B}} "Please understand, I can't just do such a thing at my work."
<0757>
// \{Akio} "Tche.. then, when can you possibly take your next break?"
<0758>
// \{\m{B}} "I don't know. Even if I do have a break, urgent work can still happen."
<0759>
// \{Akio} "One way or another, you're married to your work, you bastard."
<0760>
// \{\m{B}} "What on Earth are you saying.  When I can take a break, I surely will do so."
<0761>
// \{Akio} "The place I want to go is really special."
<0762>
// \{\m{B}} "What place is that? If it's an unrespectable place, I'll be upset."
<0763>
// \{Akio} "Don't worry. It's such a good place I can't talk about it."
<0764>
// \{\m{B}} "........."
<0765>
// \{\m{B}} "... I understand. I will make an effort."
<0766>
// \{Akio} "Ah, call me when you can take a break."
<0767>
// \{\m{B}} "Yeah."
<0768>
// I hang up the phone.
<0769>
// \{Nagisa} "Was it father?"
<0770>
// \{\m{B}} "Yes."
<0771>
// \{Nagisa} "Did he say something absurd again?"
<0772>
// \{\m{B}} "No..."
<0773>
// Pops actually seemed to be serious.  
<0774>
// Fortunately, two days later I was able to take a break from work.
<0775>
// \{\m{B}} "I'm sorry, Sanae-san"
<0776>
// \{Sanae} "No problem. Please have some fun."
<0777>
// \{\m{B}} "It's not that. I'm not going to play."
<0778>
// \{\m{B}} "I'd like to see someone like Pops actually talk seriously for once."
<0779>
// \{Sanae} "Is that so? Well for this long-awaited break, I'm sorry."
<0780>
// \{\m{B}} "No, although I am the taking a break today, I really wish Sanae-san could take a break..."
<0781>
// \{Sanae} "Although I take breaks, I really don't think all that much about them."
<0782>
// \{\m{B}} "Well is that's the case, I guess its okay..."
<0783>
// \{\m{B}} "Well, I'm off."
<0784>
// \{\m{B}} "Nagisa, I'm going now."
<0785>
// \{Nagisa} "Yes, have a nice time."
<0786>
// Only one face was oriented my way, and I waited for him to come over.
<0787>
// \{Akio} "Yo!"
<0788>
// \{\m{B}}"So what is this good shop?"
<0789>
// \{Akio} "Ah, it's an unmanned market."
<0790>
// \{\m{B}} "Eh?"
<0791>
// \{Akio} "There is no sales-person; you leave the right amount of money and a letter behind."
<0792>
// \{Akio} "And that is, everything is fine."
<0793>
// How can he say that there is nothing to worry about, I glared at him. 
<0794>
// \{\m{B}} "So, we really are going to an unpleasant place?"
<0795>
// \{Akio} "Come along and find out."
<0796>
// He was always such an arbitrary person.
<0797>
// We travel out to the outskirts of town, and struggle on to the location along the mountain detour.
<0798>
// Enclosed with nature, it was like a secret place.
<0799>
// \{Akio} "Right here, this is my playground."
<0800>
// \{Akio} "Always, I used to play children's base ball here, so that what I want to do."
<0801>
// This person, just when it seems impossible to properly set aside work, such a thing was done here.
<0802>
// An amazing person.
<0803>
// \{Akio} "Rapidly nature is being cleared away, so that now it can be used for new buildings."
<0804>
// \{Akio} "Already baseball is going away, and so is the view..."
<0805>
// \{\m{B}} "........."
<0806>
// \{Akio} "This town, it keeps on changing."
<0807>
// \{Akio} "That's why, somehow, I want to stop it."
<0808>
// \{\m{B}} "Yeah, I'd like to see that..."
<0809>
// It wasn't only me. Pops also thought the same thing.
<0810>
// And, it wasn't just us, it might just be the whole world that thinks this way.
<0811>
// \{Akio} ""I think that I particularly should defend nature."
<0812>
// \{Akio} "People think the town should keep on changing to meet the needs of people."
<0813>
// \{Akio} "However... \p I would like this place alone not to change."
<0814>
// This special place ... can it really not change?
<0815>
// \{Akio} "This is the continuous of a story from two years ago."
<0816>
// I hear the click and sound of a lighter catching a flame.
<0817>
// \{Akio} "It is a story of the time Nagisa started dying."
<0818>
// So it was said, and the conversation really began.
<0819>
// When I arrived home, I eat the prepared dinner, after seeing Sanae-san off, it was only Nagisa and myself.
<0820>
// \{Nagisa} "What did you do today?"
<0821>
// \{\m{B}} "No, we really didn't do anything in particular."
<0822>
// \{Nagisa} "Is that so?"
<0823>
// Nagisa didn't carry on about what I did with Pops.
<0824>
// Maybe she heard it in my voice that I refused to say.
<0825>
// \{\m{B}} "........."
<0826>
// Besides, since there wasn't a topic, we both fell silent.
<0827>
// Only the low hum of the electric fan fills the room.
<0828>
// It is a quiet night.
<0829>
// \{Nagisa} "\m{B}-kun..."
<0830>
// Nagisa said with a quiet voice.
<0831>
// After a short moment, I realized she said it.
<0832>
// \{\m{B}} "Hn? What? What is it?"
<0833>
// \{Nagisa} "well..."
<0834>
// \{Nagisa} "Hand..."
<0835>
// She says, as she pulls out her white hand from within the futon.
<0836>
// \{\m{B}} "A... ah."
<0837>
// She brings it near me, and I grasp it.
<0838>
// \{Nagisa} "Sorry..."
<0839>
// \{\m{B}} "Don't be..."
<0840>
// I bring up my other hand, and encompass Nagisa's hand with mine.
<0841>
// \{\m{B}} "It is too hot?"
<0842>
// \{Nagisa} "I'm alright. I want to stay like this for a long time."
<0843>
// \{\m{B}} "Ah... we'll stay like this for a long time."
<0844>
// \{Akio} "That was really a sad incident."
<0845>
// After breathing out a long, thin trail of smoke, Pops started to speak.
<0846>
// \{Akio} "The story is more than 10 years old."
<0847>
// \{Akio} "I was a member of the theatrical company then, and every day I had work and practice."
<0848>
// \{Akio} "Sanae was a teacher. She taught in a nearby private junior high school."
<0849>
// \{Akio} "Our occupations made it difficult to see each other... our lives were crazy."
<0850>
// \{Akio} "Therefore, Nagisa was usually alone."
<0851>
// \{Akio} "Because we were always gone during the day, Nagisa was always alone except for at night."
<0852>
// \{Akio} "Then... always Nagisa would go stand in front of the gate to our house and wait for us to return home."
<0853>
// \{Akio} "Usually it was Sanae-san who came home first. Rarely did she ever have to work late."
<0854>
// \{Akio} "Therefore, Nagisa would wait in front of the gate."
<0855>
// \{Akio} "Sanae-san would take little Nagisa's hand, and take her into the house."
<0856>
// \{Akio} "'I'm sorry', she'd always say..."
<0857>
// \{Akio} "Nagisa would always shake her head 'no', even though she always on the verge of tears."
<0858>
// \{Akio} "Such was an ordinary day."
<0859>
// \{Akio} "However, one day, Nagisa caught a cold with a fever."
<0860>
// \{Akio} "It was a cold day. The snow was falling and piling up."
<0861>
// \{Akio} "It was the kind of day that no one wanted to go outside."
<0862>
// \{Akio} "At that time ... I was practicing for a big performance at the end of the year.  Sanae-san was helping a student with the upcoming examination."
<0863>
// \{Akio} "Neither of us were able to get enough time to talk with each other about it that day."
<0864>
// \{Akio} "And we both left the house while Nagisa was still sleeping."
<0865>
// \{Akio} "Yet..."
<0866>
// \{Akio} "Just as usual, Nagisa waited on that day too. In front of the gate to our house.."
<0867>
// \{Akio} "It really should have been expected, when we think about it now."
<0868>
// \{Akio} "However, at that time in her condition we never thought she would do such a thing."
<0869>
// \{Akio} "We really should have noticed..."
<0870>
// \{Akio} "That was her utmost desire."
<0871>
// \{Akio} "Nagisa was always an adult, never using childish words..."
<0872>
// \{Akio} "She would say, 'I always want to be near you.'"
<0873>
// \{Akio} "Therefore, on that day as well, she was only being herself..."
<0874>
// \{Akio} "It didn't matter that she was sick and running a fever..."
<0875>
// \{Akio} "When I returned home, Nagisa had fallen in front of the house."
<0876>
// \{Akio} "She was buried in the snow."
<0877>
// \{Akio} "It's a cruel story..."
<0878>
// \{Akio} "For us, to know that our mistakes could hurt the most important thing in our lives..."
<0879>
// \{Akio} "........."
<0880>
// \{Akio} "Immediately after I carried her inside, I called the doctor."
<0881>
// \{Akio} "The doctor ran over, and gave her all kinds of treatments." *
<0882>
// \{Akio} "Yet... her fever didn't fall ..."
<0883>
// \{Akio} "Even at the dawn, nothing..."
<0884>
// \{Akio} "........."
<0885>
// \{Akio} "About this sad thing, we didn't know what to do..."
<0886>
// \{Akio} "Sanae-san and I were in despair..."
<0887>
// \{Akio} "I felt pushed down to the bottom of a pitch-dark valley."
<0888>
// \{Akio} "I didn't think it would be possible to crawl out of it."
<0889>
// \{Akio} "I held Nagisa's body..."
<0890>
// \{Akio} "Then I left."
<0891>
// \{Akio} "All that I could do was pray."
<0892>
// \{Akio} "Such final moments was unpleasant..."
<0893>
// \{Akio} "To find assistance for this child..."
<0894>
// \{Akio} "The dark clouds advanced..."
<0895>
// \{Akio} "I... \p reached here at last."
<0896>
// \{Akio} "And, this green field... I thought it wrapped up Nagisa."
<0897>
// \{Akio} "I wondered if everything was a dream."
<0898>
// \{Akio} "However, all that remained was a shape."
<0899>
// \{Akio} "In the light of the morning ... \p Nagisa opened her eyes, and saw me."
<0900>
// \{Akio} "Tears swelled up and poured down my cheeks."
<0901>
// \{Akio} "I expressed my gratitude for everything."
<0902>
// \{Akio} "And, I vowed. I would always be beside her."
<0903>
// \{Akio} "Since then..."
<0904>
// \{Akio} "Always, I visit this place."
<0905>
// \{Akio} "Without this place, I don't think that my child would be living today."
<0906>
// \{Akio} "Hey, brat."
<0907>
// \{Akio} "It's okay if you don't believe the story of this place..."
<0908>
// \{Akio} "But you know, that in the future, pain and sadness might wait for you."
<0909>
// \{Akio} "Do you understand, brat..."
<0910>
// Pops saw my face. 
<0911>
// \{Akio} "No, \m{B}."
<0912>
// The power of his eyes rallied.
<0913>
// \{Akio} "We are family." 
<0914>
// \{Akio} "We will help each other." 
<0915>
// \{\m{B}} "........."
<0916>
// \{\m{B}} "Y-yeah..."
<0917>
// I, however, was only able to nod. 
<0918>
// While I clasped Nagisa's hand, I reflected on Pops' short.
<0919>
// I didn't comprehend one part of it.
<0920>
// Just what did Pops mean?
<0921>
// However, there is one thing was conveyed.
<0922>
// That is the same pain in the chest that I have felt for quite some time.
<0923>
// This town changes.
<0924>
// And, we are caught up in this big wave... that crashes down, and then retreats away.
<0925>
// Such an overwhelming power deprives Nagisa, and takes her away.
<0926>
// Someday...
<0927>
// Someday, will this clasped hand also be separated?
<0928>
// I don't want to think of such a day.
<0929>
// I don't want to think of such a painful day.
<0930>
// Nagisa...
<0931>
// for a very long time, I want you to stay beside me...
<0932>
// And for our new life... to be together with all of us.
<0933>
// A few days pass from then...
<0934>
// I come back here again while Nagisa was sleeping.
<0935>
// --and, this place of green, which wraps up Nagisa...
<0936>
// Just what is it.
<0937>
// Did this place really save Nagisa's life?
<0938>
// --which in the future, pain and sadness might wait for you...
<0939>
// Or that... it is some kind of symbol?
<0940>
// It is said that everything changes.
<0941>
// Even the nature in this town, important people...
<0942>
// Even Nagisa as well...
<0943>
// Together with this place...
<0944>
// Forever lost...
<0945>
// That is what you're trying to say right.
<0946>
// That day I took a break from work, I stayed by Nagisa all morning.
<0947>
// We ate the rice gruel that I made, then I cleaned up the place a bit...
<0948>
// Knock Knock.
<0949>
// The sound came from the door.
<0950>
// \{\m{B}} "Hm? Coming."
<0951>
// I answered the door, and found Sanae-san standing there.
<0952>
// \{\m{B}} "Eh, what's wrong?"
<0953>
// \{Sanae} "Because you're on a break, I came over."
<0954>
// \{\m{B}} "I am home today, so please feel free to stay home."
<0955>
// \{Sanae} "Am I a hindrance?"
<0956>
// \{\m{B}} "You can't think that... there is no way that you could be."
<0957>
// \{Sanae} "Then, excuse me for disturbing you then."
<0958>
// She removes her shoes, and arranges them neatly by my own. 
<0959>
// \{Sanae} "Well, have you already eaten your meal?"
<0960>
// \{\m{B}} "Yes, just a while ago."
<0961>
// \{Sanae} "I haven't eaten yet. May I make something to eat?"
<0962>
// \{\m{B}} "Y-, yes, of course."
<0963>
// Since you weren't able to eat with us, I think it would have been better for you to eat at home with Pops.
<0964>
// Somehow, I felt pity for Pops.
<0965>
// Standing in the kitchen, Sanae-san opened the door to sink, then stopped moving.
<0966>
// \{Sanae} "Ah..."
<0967>
// \{Sanae} "You're out of rice."
<0968>
// \{\m{B}} "Eh, I'll go get some."
<0969>
// \{Sanae} "It wouldn't be right if I didn't buy it."
<0970>
// \{\m{B}} "I can run and get it. Please just wait here, Sanae-san."
<0971>
// \{Sanae} "No, I will go." 
<0972>
// \{\m{B}} "No, please stay and chat with Nagisa."
<0973>
// \{Sanae} "Since I already am making food just for myself, I'll just pick something up when I return."
<0974>
// \{\m{B}} "But, I shouldn't leave buying the rice to you..."
<0975>
// \{Nagisa} "How about both of you go?"
<0976>
// Nagisa said in our general direction.
<0977>
// \{\m{B}} "What...?"
<0978>
// \{Nagisa} "The thought of mother eating alone, is so sad."
<0979>
// \{Nagisa} "\m{B}-kun, please go with her to eat. Then, please buy rice on the way home."
<0980>
// \{Nagisa} "Please."
<0981>
// \{\m{B}} "No... but..."
<0982>
// \{Sanae} "Nagisa, I'm sorry. I'll only borrow \m{B}-san for a short time, okay?"
<0983>
//  I hesitate, but Sanae-san takes my hand as she said so.
<0984>
// I thought it was surprising. This isn't an action that Sanae-san would naturally take.
<0985>
// \{Nagisa} "Okay, I'll be just fine."
<0986>
//  Nagisa didn't seem to take any notice in it, as she saw us off.
<0987>
// \{Sanae} "I'm sorry, \m{B}-san."
<0988>
// \{\m{B}} "For?"
<0989>
// \{Sanae} "That you have to keep company with me during my meal..."
<0990>
// \{\m{B}} "No, it's alright. Nagisa seemed to really want us to."
<0991>
// \{\m{B}} "Let's return in about an hour."
<0992>
// \{Sanae} "Alright."
<0993>
// \{\m{B}} "Here, this is the place where Nagisa worked."
<0994>
// \{Sanae} "Yes, that is what I heard."
<0995>
// \{\m{B}} "The shop manager is also an acquaintance... this is a good place."
<0996>
// \{Sanae} "Yes, it doesn't matter to me."
<0997>
// \{Sanae} "Hee~"
<0998>
// Sanae-san looks around the store, in admiration.
<0999>
// \{Sanae} "A very 'now' store isn't it."
<1000>
// \{\m{B}} "That's an obsolete word."
<1001>
// \{Sanae} "Haha, but, this is the first time I've eaten in a place like this, I'm a bit nervous."
<1002>
// \{\m{B}} "You don't dine out very much?"
<1003>
// \{Sanae} "That right, I don't."
<1004>
// \{\m{B}}"How about Pops? Does he care for the house alone?"
<1005>
// \{Sanae} "Yes, he has force needed for tending the store."
<1006>
// \{Sanae} "Thus, I can go on this date with \m{B}-san."
<1007>
// \{\m{B}} "Now, I'm quite shocked."
<1008>
// \{Sanae} "Even with such an old lady, you can be shocked?"
<1009>
// \{\m{B}} "Sanae-san is young, seriously."
<1010>
// \{Sanae} "That makes me happy to hear."
<1011>
// Sanae-san ordered fruit juice and I asked for iced coffee.
<1012>
// \{\m{B}} "Do you not usually eat in the daytime?"
<1013>
// \{Sanae} "Yes, I usually do."
<1014>
// \{\m{B}} "...?"
<1015>
// The waitress brings the fruit juice and the iced coffee. 
<1016>
// Sanae-san takes the glass, and drinks the orange colored juice through a straw.
<1017>
// And after her drink she speaks.
<1018>
// \{Sanae} "Childbirth... is difficult."
<1019>
// \{\m{B}} "... eh?"
<1020>
// For a moment I don't understand what she is saying.
<1021>
// However, after thinking about the emphasis of her words, all I can do is turn my face down.
<1022>
// \{Sanae} "In the state she is in, even being in the mother's womb is dangerous..." 
<1023>
// \{Sanae} "That is the opinion of the doctor that is regularly examining her."
<1024>
// \{Sanae} "It would be best if the decision is made soon, and..."
<1025>
// Right now Sanae-san is just showing a mere bravado of courage.
<1026>
// She created this situation only so she could tell this story.
<1027>
// To tell this ... painful story. 
<1028>
// \{\m{B}} "To make a soon decision about what... that..."
<1029>
// \{Sanae} "Yes. It is about abortion."
<1030>
// Sanae-san was able to say the words that were not easy to say.
<1031>
// \{Sanae} "Of course, if only Nagisa's temperature would fall."
<1032>
// \{Sanae} "But, \m{B}-san, you already know... Nagisa's fever drags on."
<1033>
// \{Sanae} "Therefore, it is the doctor's opinion ..."
<1034>
// \{\m{B}} "Is that so..."
<1035>
// \{Sanae} "Somehow, \m{B}-san."
<1036>
// \{Sanae} "Please talk with her about this."
<1037>
// \{Sanae} "I don't care if it takes time,"
<1038>
// \{Sanae} "because this is a very important matter."
<1039>
// \{\m{B}} "I understand..."
<1040>
// \{\m{B}} "Sanae-san."
<1041>
// \{Sanae} "Yes."
<1042>
// \{\m{B}} "Always... for the things you do for us, thank you very much."
<1043>
// \{Sanae} "No."
<1044>
// \{Sanae} "Because we're a family."
<1045>
// She says with a big grin and happy face.
<1046>
// That was such a huge relief.
<1047>
// \{Nagisa} "Did you have fun eating with mom?"
<1048>
// \{\m{B}} "Ah, yea..."
<1049>
// \{Nagisa} "Mom looks so young; it must have looked like you were on a date."
<1050>
// \{\m{B}} "Perhaps..."
<1051>
// \{Nagisa} "Where you able to buy the rice?"
<1052>
// \{\m{B}} "No..."
<1053>
// \{Nagisa} "You didn't buy any?"
<1054>
// \{\m{B}} "Ah... I forgot..."
<1055>
// \{Nagisa} "Is that so..."
<1056>
// \{\m{B}} "........."
<1057>
// \{Nagisa}  "You ... don't look good."
<1058>
// \{\m{B}} "........."
<1059>
// \{Nagisa} "What's wrong, \m{B}-kun?"
<1060>
// \{\m{B}} "........."
<1061>
// \{\m{B}} "You know, Nagisa."  
<1062>
// \{Nagisa} "What?"
<1063>
//  It wasn't necessary to respond.
<1064>
// \{\m{B}} "Our child..."
<1065>
// \{\m{B}} "Childbirth ... is difficult."
<1066>
// \{Nagisa} "........."
<1067>
// \{Nagisa} "I want to give birth."
<1068>
// That... was a very natural answer.
<1069>
// \{\m{B}} "Nagisa, I also desire that thought..."
<1070>
//  However, I... have to persuade her.
<1071>
// In order to protect her...
<1072>
// \{\m{B}} "Even if your body could give birth today, our child might suffer a misfortune..."
<1073>
// \{\m{B}} "That misfortune... you too might face..."
<1074>
// \{\m{B}} "I don't want to see such thing..."
<1075>
// \{Nagisa} "........."
<1076>
// \{Nagisa} "... I want to keep fighting on."
<1077>
// \{Nagisa} "Is that no good?"
<1078>
// \{\m{B}} "........."
<1079>
// \{\m{B}} "Because there is still some time... let's talk about it again later..."
<1080>
// \{\m{B}} "Because you don't have to decide just yet..."
<1081>
// The next day, we talk about it again.
<1082>
// However...\p Nagisa's decision is unchanged.
<1083>
// \{Nagisa} "For my weaknesses..."
<1084>
// \{Nagisa} "to have to kill a person's life, I can not bear the thought of it..."
<1085>
// Nagisa had already envisioned... a life seen by two.
<1086>
// To protect Ushio with both her hands was her drive.
<1087>
// \{Nagisa} "If it's for my child, I especially do everything I can."
<1088>
// \{Nagisa} "I want my strength to be giving birth."
<1089>
// \{Nagisa} "A mother's strength..."
<1090>
// \{\m{B}} "........."
<1091>
// \{Nagisa} "So it can meet \m{B}-kun, that's why I'm fighting and so I can live strongly."
<1092>
// \{Nagisa} "So... the most important thing, I do not want to lose."
<1093>
// \{Nagisa} "I want to give birth to Shio-chan."
<1094>
// \{\m{B}} "........."
<1095>
// \{Nagisa} "\m{B}-kun..."
<1096>
// \{Nagisa} "My body may be weak..."
<1097>
// \{Nagisa} "Somehow..."
<1098>
// \{Nagisa} "Please let me live strongly."
<1099>
// \{\m{B}} "........."
<1100>
// \{\m{B}} "You are..."
<1101>
// \{\m{B}} "Plenty strong..."
<1102>
// \{\m{B}} "Amazingly strong..."
<1103>
// \{\m{B}} "Already, isn't that enough...?"
<1104>
// \{\m{B}} "Already..."
<1105>
// Midway through... my voice becomes tearful.
<1106>
// \{\m{B}} "Surely it is I who am weaker..."
<1107>
// \{\m{B}} "Afraid, I am..."
<1108>
// \{\m{B}} "About losing you..."
<1109>
// \{\m{B}} "I am really scared of losing you..."
<1110>
// \{Nagisa} "...I'm quite alright."
<1111>
// \{Nagisa} "As long as \m{B}-kun exists..."
<1112>
// \{Nagisa} "As long as you hold my hand... I'll do my best."
<1113>
// \{Nagisa} "As this child's mother..."
<1114>
// \{Nagisa} "Therefore... \m{B}-kun too, as this child's father, please hold my hand."
<1115>
// \{Nagisa} "Please."
<1116>
// \{Sanae} "\m{B}-san... you're tired right?"
<1117>
// \{\m{B}}"My body is energetic..."
<1118>
// \{\m{B}} "Yet..."
<1119>
// \{\m{B}} "Yet... if I am really okay, I completely don't know..."
<1120>
// \{\m{B}} "What I say might be a terrible, cruel thing..."
<1121>
// \{\m{B}} "That is, you may be depressed, and may not recover..."
<1122>
// \{\m{B}} "That is, even I want to give birth... to my child..."
<1123>
// \{\m{B}} "It is a life that I've been watching over here..."
<1124>
// \{\m{B}} "Given a name to..."
<1125>
// \{\m{B}} "But, I am..."
<1126>
// \{\m{B}} "I am..."
<1127>
// \{\m{B}} "I am uneasy that there is no other way..."
<1128>
// \{\m{B}} "Uneasy..."
<1129>
// \{\m{B}} "I want..."
<1130>
// \{\m{B}} "Nagisa to..."
<1131>
// \{\m{B}} "I want Nagisa to keep living..."
<1132>
// \{Sanae} "\m{B}-san, please take a rest."
<1133>
// \{\m{B}} "I cannot sleep..."
<1134>
// \{Sanae} "That's okay. Just lay your body down."
<1135>
// \{Sanae} "I think that child also is tired. Therefore, please keep some distance between you two."
<1136>
// \{Sanae} "I will stay at \m{B}-san's house."
<1137>
// \{Sanae} "Therefore, \m{B}-san, please rest in my home."
<1138>
// \{\m{B}} "I couldn't put you such a troubling position..."
<1139>
// \{Sanae} "That is the opinion of your nearest caring person."
<1140>
// \{Sanae} "Right now, you're both tired of seeing other."
<1141>
// \{Sanae} "Even for a short time, you two should keep away from each other."
<1142>
// \{Sanae} "So as to be able to work out some of your thoughts." 
<1143>
// \{\m{B}} "........."
<1144>
// What Sanae-san said is true.
<1145>
// \{Sanae} "Please, \m{B}-san"
<1146>
// \{\m{B}} "Okay..."
<1147>
// \{\m{B}} "Only for one night..."
<1148>
// \{Akio} "Tche.. a bride stealing a man's lover.... time to have a cigarette and get drunk"
<1149>
// \{\m{B}} "That whole 'have a cigarette and get drunk' thing really doesn't appeal to me..."
<1150>
// \{Akio} "Don't be such a spoiled-sport... do you drink sake? If you drink, it's possible to sleep even if thins are unpleasant.
<1151>
// \{\m{B}} "When drinking, do you cry or laugh or act violently? I'd like to know."
<1152>
// \{Akio} "It's okay."
<1153>
// \{Akio} "Crying and laughing and acting violently, I can keep things under control."
<1154>
// \{Akio} "Alright, finish it up"
<1155>
// I drink at the same pace as Pops.
<1156>
// This is the first time to have consumed so much alcohol, to beyond this extent.
<1157>
// The number of empty cans and bottles on the floor increases.
<1158>
// \{\m{B}} "Hey, Pops..."
<1159>
// \{Akio} "What?"
<1160>
// \{\m{B}} "Hey Pops, what would you do, if you were in my situation..."
<1161>
// \{Akio} "Tche... don't you know?  I am standing in that situation."
<1162>
// \{\m{B}} "What, how about a metaphorically?"
<1163>
// \{\m{B}} "Then, suppose for a moment that it was so with Sanae-san..."
<1164>
// \{\m{B}} "That Sanae-san's body is weak, but says that she wants to give birth to a child anyway."
<1165>
// \{Akio} "If she herself said she wanted to have the birth... I would allow her to do so."
<1166>
// \{\m{B}} "Why? And what if Sanae-san was going to die from it!?"
<1167>
// \{Akio} "Don't go killing Sanae without my permission!!"
<1168>
// \{\m{B}} "I said metaphorically."
<1169>
// \{Akio} "Tche..."
<1170>
// \{Akio} "Hey, \m{B}. this is what I think."
<1171>
// \{Akio} "After all, it might be that person's reason for living, being inside of family and loving person."
<1172>
// \{Akio} "Therefore, we..."
<1173>
// \{Akio} "That day, we gave our dreams, and entrusted them to Nagisa..."
<1174>
// \{Akio} "When one lives alone, it is not a good thing..."
<1175>
// \{Akio} "Like living alone on some distant star."
<1176>
// \{Akio} "What kind of provisions does it take to live?"
<1177>
// \{Akio} "There's nothing at all, right."
<1178>
// \{Akio} "Therefore, people must be connected."
<1179>
// \{Akio} "When one connects with someone for the first time, you're alive, and you can feel it."
<1180>
// \{Akio} "Happiness is also born from it."
<1181>
// \{Akio} "Therefore, how could that possibly be denied... by me..."
<1182>
// \{\m{B}} "........."
<1183>
// \{Akio} "That is my idea now. Don't worry about it."
<1184>
// \{\m{B}} "........."
<1185>
// \{\m{B}} "If we noticed earlier, would it have been better..."
<1186>
// \{\m{B}} "Before it grew so much..."
<1187>
// \{Akio} "No..."
<1188>
// \{Akio} "You already know."
<1189>
// \{Akio} "Such things are unrelated."
<1190>
// \{\m{B}} "Then, I am at fault..."
<1191>
// \{Akio} "That's also wrong"
<1192>
// \{Akio} "This..."
<1193>
// \{Akio} "At some time has already been visited." 
<1194>
// \{Akio} "She has an ordinary wish, that's all."
<1195>
// \{\m{B}} "........."
<1196>
// \{Akio} "She wished for it."
<1197>
// \{Akio} "Do not blame yourself."
<1198>
// \{Akio} "........."
<1199>
// Pops lights the cigarette held in his mouth.
<1200>
// \{Akio} "Fuu..."
<1201>
//  He didn't say anything else, only blew out smoke from his mouth.
<1202>
// \{\m{B}} "........."
<1203>
// After that I just become silent ... and watch the smoke disappear in to the air in front of me.
<1204>
// \{Akio} "Anyhow, time for sleep..."
<1205>
// It is past 3 AM.
<1206>
// Even after turning off the lights I still can't sleep...
<1207>
// As my mind continued to think.
<1208>
// About Pops and Sanae-san.
<1209>
// Both of them had their own individual dream.
<1210>
// Pops to be in the theater, and Sanae-san to be a classroom teacher.
<1211>
// For each other, they gave up those dreams.
<1212>
// Their dreams were entrusted to their daughter.
<1213>
// And then they did what they could to ensure their daughter's happiness.
<1214>
// Yes...
<1215>
// ----after all, it might be that being within support of family and loved-one is a person's reason for living.
<1216>
// I arrived at that same point.
<1217>
// I also was the same.
<1218>
// The reason why I live, and live with Nagisa, is to share happiness with her.
<1219>
// For that reason, I live.
<1220>
// And, also...
<1221>
// Nagisa, who brought life into me, is the same.
<1222>
// People's dreams and happiness are always there. 
<1223>
//  I must make myself accept that...
<1224>
// Can I take that away?...
<1225>
//  If I were to lose Nagisa, I'd be in despair.
<1226>
// She's trying to do the same thing...
<1227>
// Such a thing can't be done...
<1228>
// I can't do it...
<1229>
// However, I am uneasy...
<1230>
// That place...
<1231>
// Like the way of nature, there is no one who doesn't change anywhere.
<1232>
// Similarly, being likely to vanish...
<1233>
// Being likely to go far away...
<1234>
// This uneasy thought... being likely thrown how it is now...
<1235>
// .........
<1236>
//  ...that's not right.
<1237>
// Such a thing is unrelated...
<1238>
// Such things can not be believed...
<1239>
// But, because Nagisa and I have surmounted so much to get to today...
<1240>
// Any kind of difficulty, we've surmounted them...
<1241>
// Person and person together.
<1242>
// Thus...
<1243>
// This time, it would be best if we could surmount this...
<1244>
// But, because she said she wants to keep trying...
<1245>
// Because she says she is strong...
<1246>
// Therefore, we...
<1247>
// Until today it is the same...
<1248>
// We should continue to walk forward...
<1249>
// Putting our effort together...
<1250>
// To keep realizing the dream.
<1251>
//  I wake up.
<1252>
// I don't know what time it is.
<1253>
// I pull my body out of bed.
<1254>
// I walk towards where I hear people's voices.
<1255>
// \{Akio} "Thanks"   
<1256>
// Now, Pops sees the customer off.
<1257>
// \{Akio} "Buy some more... shikete customer..."
<1258>
// \{Akio} "Fuu..."
<1259>
// \{Akio} "Owa..."
<1260>
// Pops is surprised to see me when he turns around.
<1261>
// \{Akio} "What are you doing, if you're there, then use your voice."
<1262>
// \{\m{B}} "Yo."
<1263>
// \{Akio} ""Good morning" you mean."
<1264>
// \{\m{B}} "Morning."
<1265>
// \{Akio} "Yeah, morning."
<1266>
// \{Akio} "So did you sleep well?"
<1267>
// \{\m{B}} "Thanks to the sake."
<1268>
// \{Akio} "Hangover?"
<1269>
// \{\m{B}} "I'm alright."
<1270>
// \{Akio} "Really. It's already gone?"
<1271>
// \{\m{B}} "Yeah..."
<1272>
// And...
<1273>
// these people's dreams as well...
<1274>
// \{\m{B}} "Pops..."
<1275>
// \{Akio} "What?"
<1276>
// \{\m{B}} "I... \p Is it okay if I don't to stop her?"
<1277>
// \{Akio} "........."
<1278>
// \{Akio} "Ah... don't stop it."
<1279>
// \{\m{B}} "Why?"
<1280>
// \{Akio} "He who suffers the most must find an answer to a question."
<1281>
// \{Akio} "That is best."
<1282>
// \{Akio} "We are now a united family and support her."
<1283>
// \{\m{B}} "........."
<1284>
// \{\m{B}}  "Yes..."
<1285>
// \{\m{B}} "I understand..."
<1286>
// \{Voice} "Good morn-ing."
<1287>
// A new customer peeked into the shop.
<1288>
// \{Akio} "Look, you're obstructing my work. Quickly get out."
<1289>
// \{\m{B}} "Yeah, thanks for your assistance."
<1290>
// Changing places with the guest, I head to the back of the shop.
<1291>
//  The door to the room opened and I saw Sanae-san standing there; she invited me outside again.
<1292>
// \{\m{B}} "Sanae-san..."
<1293>
// \{Sanae} "I talked with the Doctor again."
<1294>
// \{Sanae} "He said that if we can keep the current reduced state of activity, then the birth may still be possible."
<1295>
// \{Sanae} "However, there still is no change in the amount of danger."
<1296>
// \{Sanae} "Yagi-san... we still need to have her judgment."
<1297>
// \{Sanae} "If we're going to have the baby, it will take everyone's effort."
<1298>
// \{\m{B}} "Understood... thank you very much."
<1299>
// I return inside the room.
<1300>
// \{\m{B}} "Nagisa... are you up?"
<1301>
// I call in a quiet voice.
<1302>
// \{Nagisa} "\m{B}-kun, is that you?"
<1303>
// Nagisa turned her face towards me.
<1304>
// \{\m{B}} "Yes"
<1305>
//  I sit down next to her.
<1306>
//  And, I naturally clasp her hand.
<1307>
// \{\m{B}} "Hey, Nagisa."
<1308>
// \{\m{B}} "I'd like to ask a question"
<1309>
// \{\m{B}} "You, must live strong..."
<1310>
// \{\m{B}} "As a strong mother, giving birth to a new life, and raise it, but I still have a question..."
<1311>
// \{\m{B}} "That is, why are you doing it..."
<1312>
// \{\m{B}} "Please tell me..."
<1313>
// \{Nagisa} "It is what I should do."
<1314>
// \{\m{B}} "That's... the main reason?"
<1315>
// \{Nagisa} "Yes... that is my main reason."
<1316>
// \{Nagisa} "Until now I was very weak..."
<1317>
// \{Nagisa} "I should do this first as a mother..."
<1318>
// \{Nagisa} "If I was defeated here..."
<1319>
// \{Nagisa} "I wouldn't have the qualification to become someone's parent... I'd just be a weak child..."
<1320>
// \{Nagisa} "Then ... this child who has stayed in my stomach... would be so sad." 
<1321>
// \{Nagisa} "Therefore, it is necessary for me to give birth..."
<1322>
// \{Nagisa} "And I made it together with you \m{B}-kun ... this child..."
<1323>
// \{Nagisa} "I will be a strong mother."
<1324>
// She said, while placing her other hand on her stomach.
<1325>
// \{\m{B}} "Hey, Nagisa..."
<1326>
// \{\m{B}} "For me, living with you is the reason that I live."
<1327>
// \{\m{B}} "For that I want to live."
<1328>
// \{Nagisa} "Yes."
<1329>
// \{\m{B}} "And, you want to live strongly..."
<1330>
// \{\m{B}} "As a strong mother, you want to produce a new life..."
<1331>
// \{\m{B}} "That is the reason that you want to live."
<1332>
// \{Nagisa} "Yes."
<1333>
// \{\m{B}} "Then, let's realize our two dreams"
<1334>
// \{Nagisa} "Is that really okay...?"
<1335>
// \{\m{B}} "Yes."
<1336>
// \{\m{B}}  "The alternative..."
<1337>
// I strongly clasp her hand.
<1338>
// \{\m{B}} "The absolute defeat would be so hopeless."
<1339>
// \{\m{B}} "Absolutely, I don't want to allow that."
<1340>
// \{\m{B}} "The other results do not exist."
<1341>
// \{\m{B}} "Frustrations, mistakes, nothing."
<1342>
// \{\m{B}} "Realizing our two dreams... that alone."
<1343>
// \{\m{B}} "Absolutely."
<1344>
// \{\m{B}} "Alright, Nagisa..."
<1345>
// \{Nagisa} "........."
<1346>
// Nagisa's face was sweaty.
<1347>
//  ...her smile forced.
<1348>
// I thought it is the face of a future mother.
<1349>
// \{Nagisa} "...yes"
<1350>
// She nods her head powerfully.
<1351>
// Nagisa keeps fighting on.
<1352>
// Pops, Sanae-san, and I, we are all supporting her.
<1353>
// The reason Nagisa lives strongly is to give birth to our child. 
<1354>
// And my reason is to live with Nagisa...
<1355>
// Pops and Sanae-san wish for Nagisa to be happy.
<1356>
// Everyone's dream is connected.
<1357>
// The family has become one, and moves forward.
<1358>
// No one is alone, everyone is near someone.
<1359>
// I feel the warm of such tears coming out...
<1360>
//  ...of an ordinary day.
<1361>
//  It felt like the beginning of  the arrival of autumn to the skin.
<1362>
//  In the corner of the room, the things needed for the child that will be born start collecting.
<1363>
// Without any request from us, Pops and Sanae-san add to them every day.
<1364>
// It's so embarrassing that the diapers have been piling up; just how many months of wear?
<1365>
// \{Nagisa} "It's funny, ehehe..."
<1366>
// Every time Nagisa saw it, she laughed.
<1367>
// \{\m{B}} "Those two will not be satisfied until everything has been bought."
<1368>
// \{\m{B}} "And, because no one even noticed we're out of toilet paper, it's stupid."
<1369>
// \{\m{B}} "Next time I'll just have put on one of those diapers."
<1370>
// \{Nagisa} "That would be good."
<1371>
// \{Nagisa} "Surely it would be cute."
<1372>
// \{\m{B}} "Is that so...?"
<1373>
// Nagisa pats her swollen belly.
<1374>
// As a companion of our conversations, this child also gives its response.
<1375>
// Gently calling out with a smile. 
<1376>
// \{Doctor} "This is the last chance you'll have to have an abortion."
<1377>
// Said the Doctor after completing the medical examination here.
<1378>
// The doctor has learned of Nagisa's stubborn will, so he continues.
<1379>
// \{Doctor} "Maybe, if would just think of the danger to the mother's womb, you would do so."
<1380>
// \{Doctor} "Hereafter, the burden will only increase."
<1381>
// \{Doctor} "Even if you get over your current sickness, we don't know if you will have the physical strength left for the delivery."
<1382>
//  .........
<1383>
// \{Nagisa} "At that time..."
<1384>
//  Everyone inside becomes quiet, as Nagisa's mouth was open.
<1385>
// \{Nagisa} "At that time, how will the baby in my stomach be...?"
<1386>
// \{Doctor} "As a general rule, priority is given to the mother's womb for the birth."
<1387>
// \{Doctor} "However, in \m{A}-san's situation, your physical strength and questions with your current disease are still a problem."
<1388>
// \{Doctor} "As I have said many times, as just a private person, I am opposed to \m{A}-san giving birth to the child."
<1389>
// \{Doctor} "Because..."
<1390>
// The doctor frowns his already wrinkled face further, and speaks.
<1391>
// \{Doctor} "I can not guarantee the safety of the mother's womb..."
<1392>
// \{Doctor} "Of course, there is still a possibility of a still birth."
<1393>
// \{Doctor} "And if your fever doesn't fall, that also might cause complications."
<1394>
// \{Doctor} "All of these kinds of dangers are just assumptions."
<1395>
// \{Doctor} "Still, do you still want to have the delivery?"
<1396>
// \{Akio} "Tch... somehow or another we will, bastard."
<1397>
// \{Doctor} "Of course, I will do everything that I can do, and I'll have to visit here often."
<1398>
// \{Akio} "Ah, yes... we know that."
<1399>
// \{Doctor}  "Please, discuss this with the members of your family."
<1400>
// \{Doctor} "Well then, I must be going for today."
<1401>
// \{Sanae} "Thank you very much."
<1402>
// Sanae-san stands up and sees the doctor out.
<1403>
// The silence continued after Sanae-san returned.
<1404>
// \{Akio} "... ah, that's right"
<1405>
// \{Akio} "How's dinner coming along, Sanae?"
<1406>
// \{Sanae} "We ate just awhile ago."
<1407>
// \{Akio}  "Is, is that so...?"
<1408>
// \{Nagisa} "........."
<1409>
// Nagisa, quietly, looked over at the pile of diapers. 
<1410>
// And what she was thinking...
<1411>
// \{\m{B}} "........."
<1412>
// Pops, Sanae-san, and I... we all knew.
<1413>
// Even with everything, Nagisa still wants to give birth.
<1414>
// Therefore, everyone tries only to calm themselves.
<1415>
//  ...Can I see the way that Nagisa moves forward, warmly, and strongly?
<1416>
// While thinking about that.
<1417>
// Before long, everyone might renew their own purpose. 
<1418>
// \{Akio} "Thought this is a room with so little free space, what's with all these diapers?"
<1419>
// \{\m{B}} "But it's you who are always buying them"
<1420>
// \{Nagisa} "Recently, \m{B}-kun said he would have to wear one."
<1421>
// \{Sanae} "Is that true, \m{B}-san?"
<1422>
//  The gloomy feeling leaves the room, and the normal condition returns.
<1423>
//  Now, we can see the way that Nagisa moves forward, warmly, and strongly.
<1424>
//  Therefore, we followed along.
<1425>
// \{\m{B}} "Possibly, Sanae-san might have a grudge against me... or so I think."
<1426>
// \{Sanae} "Oh? Why would you think that?"
<1427>
// \{\m{B}} "Because I changed Nagisa."
<1428>
// \{Sanae} "Changed... you said?"
<1429>
// \{\m{B}} "When I met Nagisa for the first time, she truly was quite weak."
<1430>
// \{\m{B}} "She truly was always on the verge of crying..."
<1431>
// \{\m{B}} "Before I came, she was standing on the slope to the school gate..."
<1432>
// \{\m{B}} "She was a girl who couldn't even take one small step forward."
<1433>
// \{\m{B}} "Then, after meeting me... she has strengthened."
<1434>
// \{\m{B}} "Therefore, if she had not met me, I don't think she'd be doing things dangerous like these."
<1435>
// \{Sanae} "That's not true at all, \m{B}-san."
<1436>
// \{\m{B}} "Yes... It is because you're such a nice person, Sanae-san, that you say that."
<1437>
// \{Sanae} "But it's my true feelings."
<1438>
// \{\m{B}} "Yes... thank you very much."
<1439>
// I... should I allow you to praise me?
<1440>
// However, is that only it...?
<1441>
// \{\m{B}} "Because I didn't know my mother..."
<1442>
// \{Sanae} "That was so?"
<1443>
// \{\m{B}} "Therefore, honestly Sanae-san, you're like a mother to me."
<1444>
// \{Sanae} "I am honored by that."
<1445>
// \{Sanae} "But please think carefully for awhile, if having such a cry-baby as mother is so good."
<1446>
// \{\m{B}} "Yes."
<1447>
// There wasn't that much snow this winter.
<1448>
//  In the past, the snow was thick enough to allow for a snowball fight...
<1449>
//  Now it is impossible to believe of such things ever happened.
<1450>
// When the snow sleets down on the ground, it is instantly turned to water and loses its color.
<1451>
// Such a thing we watched steadily.
<1452>
// One day at work.
<1453>
// \{\m{B}} (Here... is near that place...)
<1454>
//  I remembered its existence.
<1455>
// Yes.. that place, it must have been an important place.
<1456>
// \{\m{B}} "Is it alright if I slip out for a moment?"
<1457>
// \{Yoshino}  "For what?"
<1458>
// \{\m{B}} "Sorry, I'll be back soon."
<1459>
// Without having obtained permission, I run out.
<1460>
// \{\m{B}} "Ah..."
<1461>
// Why...
<1462>
// I could not find the word, so I did not speak.
<1463>
// I don't know... about these kinds of things.
<1464>
//  I sit down in that place.
<1465>
// \{Voice} "The town keeps changing. It's not possible to stop it."
<1466>
// Pops came near, and I stood up.
<1467>
// \{Akio} "Everything around us changes..."
<1468>
// \{Akio} "That is, why people live, or so they say..."
<1469>
// Pops might always be watching over this place.
<1470>
// With me, on that day he also visited that place.
<1471>
// For awhile we don't say anything, we just stared off at the cold standing structure.
<1472>
// \{\m{B}} "Pops..."
<1473>
// \{Akio} "What is it..."
<1474>
// \{\m{B}} "To the point of a crime, if I could stop this construction... I wonder if would allow Nagisa to become lively again."
<1475>
// \{Akio} "A fool is that you are..."
<1476>
// \{Akio} "A single individual's power can't possibly stop it..."
<1477>
// \{Akio} "That is... I'm told this place is going to be a hospital..."
<1478>
// \{Akio} "For a long time, we haven't had one in this town"
<1479>
// \{Akio} "And from this point... how many lives will be saved... think about it."
<1480>
// \{Akio} "The town is changing... so that people can live..."
<1481>
// \{Akio} "There isn't any other way..."
<1482>
// \{\m{B}} "I... have come to hate this town..."
<1483>
// \{Akio} "Thought that is because of your current circumstance..."
<1484>
// \{Akio} "Don't fall into despair."
<1485>
// \{Akio} "By all means, if your at the point of wanting to commit a crime, come talk to me first."
<1486>
// \{\m{B}} "Are you going to stop me...?"
<1487>
// \{Akio} "I won't stop you."
<1488>
// \{Akio} "I'll just try to find a substitute."
<1489>
// And with that that word, I thought I could come out of the illusionary world.
<1490>
// I truly also loved this person as well.
<1491>
// After work I return home, I change positions with Sanae-san sitting next to Nagisa.
<1492>
// And I hold Nagisa's hand.
<1493>
//  Nagisa places her other than on her swelling stomach.
<1494>
//  It already feels like we're a family.
<1495>
// We are a family of three people, That's how it feels.
<1496>
// \{\m{B}} "Are you not cold?"
<1497>
// \{Nagisa} "No..."
<1498>
// \{Nagisa} "\m{B}-kun's hand is colder."
<1499>
// \{\m{B}} "Is that so..."
<1500>
// \{Nagisa} "Because it is still cold outside..."
<1501>
// \{\m{B}} "That it is..."
<1502>
// \{\m{B}} "Ah right... it's going to be Christmas soon."
<1503>
// I just recalled that.
<1504>
// \{Nagisa} "Yes."
<1505>
// \{\m{B}} "And at the same time it is your birthday."
<1506>
// \{渚} "Yes."
<1507>
// \{\m{B}} "What do you want this year? Say anything. I'll search to buy it."
<1508>
// \{渚} "Well, that over there is good."
<1509>
// She said, looking over in the corner of the room at a stuffed dango toy.
<1510>
// \{\m{B}} "Silly, those kinds of things, there is no use in buying more of them."
<1511>
// \{渚} "No, I want to have a lot of them. From one to two. And from two to three."
<1512>
// \{\m{B}} "A large family of dango, eh?"
<1513>
// \{渚} "Yes, exactly."
<1514>
// \{\m{B}} "Then, one per year, until they make a large pile?"
<1515>
// \{渚} "I'm happy with that. To see that would make me happy."
<1516>
// \{\m{B}} However, isn't that a premium thing. How many years ago did they stop making them."
<1517>
// \{\m{B}} "Year after year, it will be harder to find them."
<1518>
// \{\m{B}} "Being able to find one last year, it was purely by chance."
<1519>
// \{渚} "Is it too difficult a request?..."
<1520>
// \{\m{B}} "No... but, I am not sure. But it's your birthday after all."
<1521>
//  It is the birthday of the most important person to me.
<1522>
// \{Nagisa} "Sorry... but, it would make me incredibly happy."
<1523>
// \{\m{B}} "Yes, entrust the task to me."
<1524>
// Two weeks pass and it is the day of Christmas.
<1525>
// Pops and Sanae-san also visit, like two years before, to congratulate Nagisa.
<1526>
// However, unlike 2 years ago, Nagisa did not cry.
<1527>
// \{Nagisa} "Incredibly cute!"
<1528>
//  She held my present, a Dango Daikazoku stuffed animal, for a long time.
<1529>
// \{\m{B}} "Except for the color, it is exactly the same as the other."
<1530>
// \{Nagisa} "I will never get tired of such a cute thing." 
<1531>
// \{\m{B}} "However, the old ones surely are envious. They feel left out."
<1532>
// \{Nagisa} "Because it's so big, I can not hold a lot at a time."
<1533>
// \{Nagisa} "Thus, I'd like \m{B}-kun to hold one."
<1534>
// \{\m{B}} "Huh? Me?"
<1535>
// \{Sanae} "Yes, please"
<1536>
// Sanae-san gets two of them, and brings them all the way back.
<1537>
// \{\m{B}} "Seriously?..."
<1538>
// \{Nagisa} "It will be sad if they are not held."
<1539>
// \{\m{B}} "Alright... but, two at the same time?"
<1540>
// \{Nagisa}  "\m{B}-kun, your body is bigger, so it will be fine."
<1541>
// \{\m{B}} "One at a time is not good enough?"
<1542>
// \{Nagisa} "........."
<1543>
// \{\m{B}} "A, ah... I understand.  I'll hold them."
<1544>
// I arrange the two dangos vertically and hold them.
<1545>
// The top one seems ready to tumble off. I have to hold it down with my chin.
<1546>
// Even my nose was buried in it.
<1547>
// It smelled like... Nagisa.
<1548>
//  Could it be because she is always holding it...?
<1549>
// \{\m{B}} "How this... okay...?"
<1550>
//  Muffled voice. Could she even hear it?
<1551>
// Nagisa laughs.
<1552>
// \{Nagisa}  "\m{B}-kun, it's completely cute."
<1553>
// \{Nagisa} "ehehe"
<1554>
//  In the end a smiling face.
<1555>
//  A new year begins with the New Year.
<1556>
//  Pops and Sanae-san both pray for an easy delivery at the first shrine visit of the year.
<1557>
// After coming back from the New Year's activities, they both spend time with us in our narrow room.
<1558>
// And we eat all of the rice cakes cooked vegetables that Sanae-san cooked.
<1559>
// Nagisa also eat some by pulling out the rice cakes.
<1560>
// On the last day of the first three days of the New Year, a most unthinkable guest visits us.
<1561>
// \{Sunohara} "Hey, it's been a long time."
<1562>
// \{\m{B}}  "You, who are you?"
<1563>
// \{Sunohara} "Now you, we saw each other plenty last year."
<1564>
// \{\m{B}} "Could it be, Sunohara?"
<1565>
// \{Sunohara} "There is no 'could it be' about it. It IS Sunohara."
<1566>
//  Behind him, Nishina and Sugisaka also appeared.
<1567>
// \{渚} "Everyone... how do you do today?"
<1568>
// Nagisa isn't able to conceal her joy that they have come.
<1569>
// \{Sunohara} "By now, because you've had so much rest, I thought you'd be surprised."
<1570>
// \{\m{B}} "No, it's only a surprise in your head..."
<1571>
//  I look at Sanae-san. Sanae-san was never surprised, only a smiling face.
<1572>
// \{\m{B}} "Sanae-san, do you know them right?"
<1573>
// \{Sanae} "Yes."
<1574>
// \{Sanae} "By all means, I'd like to be surprised."
<1575>
// \{\m{B}} "And it was done."
<1576>
// \{Nishina} "Although I am a little late, congratulations on becoming a couple and getting married."
<1577>
// Sugisaka places a big bundle on the floor.
<1578>
// \{Sugisaka} "Because we're celebrating both of these together, I thought one wedding present would be good."
<1579>
// Sugisaka opens the closing.
<1580>
// From inside of the bundle, baby goods come pouring out.
<1581>
//  A very similar set of things, are piled up on the wall beside it.
<1582>
// I command Pops with my chin to hide that pile.
<1583>
// \{Akio} "O, ou..."
<1584>
// \{Akio} "Wait, what, how dare you try to set me to work that way!"
<1585>
// \{Sugisaka} "Ah... you've already have a lot?"
<1586>
// \{\m{B}} "Look, are you just now noticing?"
<1587>
// \{Nagisa} "No, because it is something we need, it's not an inconvenience too have too much."
<1588>
// \{Nagisa} "Thank you very much."
<1589>
// Having come from Nagisa's mouth, we know they are honest words of gratitude.
<1590>
// \{Sanae} "Everyone, I'm sorry I only have left over things, but please eat some of these New Year's dishes."
<1591>
// Sanae-san stood in the kitchen.
<1592>
// \{Akio} "Alright, you're already 20 years old. Have some sake."
<1593>
// Pops pulls out a 1-shou bottle.
<1594>
//  We drank sake, poked at the New Year's food, and have all around good time.
<1595>
// \{Nishina} "Furukawa-san's father is young and stylish, don't you think."
<1596>
// \{Akio} "ka, it's true, it's true.  All because I'm in love, with this woman."
<1597>
// \{Sugisaka} "Mother too, young and a completely cute one, huh."
<1598>
// \{Akio} "Ka, it's true, it's true. Because she's my lady. Follow my example, with such a lady."
<1599>
// Nishina and Sugisaka spoil Pops who is in top form.
<1600>
// Sunohara and I are next to Nagisa.
<1601>
// \{Sunohara} "Hey, \m{A}"
<1602>
// \{Sunohara} "Now you both have the same family name. Isn't that complicated?"
<1603>
// \{渚} "No, it's no problem. Please just call me how you always have."
<1604>
// \{Sunohara} "Then, \m{A} as always."
<1605>
// \{Sunohara} "Right, \m{A}"
<1606>
// \{\m{B}} "Yeah."
<1607>
// \{Sunohara} "Becoming a father, how does it feel?"
<1608>
// \{\m{B}} "What kind of strange question are you asking."
<1609>
// \{Sunohara}  "For me, I think these kind of things are still some future story."
<1610>
// \{Sunohara} "But, when I heard you say that you were going to be one, suddenly it felt closer to me than I thought."
<1611>
// \{Sunohara} "Hearing talk of these things in front of you, makes me think about becoming a father, and I feel that it would be a natural disaster."
<1612>
// \{Sunohara} "I don't think I'm ready to become one."
<1613>
// \{Sunohara} "Yet still, just what feelings happen as a part of these kind of things, I'd like to know."
<1614>
// I feel Nagisa's eyes fix on me waiting for my comment.
<1615>
// It might be something that Nagisa was interested in knowing as well.
<1616>
// \{\m{B}} "I really don't know..." 
<1617>
//  I answered.
<1618>
// \{\m{B}} "My true feelings, I don't yet know..."
<1619>
// \{\m{B}} "However, I've grown closer to my favorite person..."
<1620>
// \{\m{B}} "And it is for her that I live, that I know"
<1621>
// \{\m{B}} "But that's all."
<1622>
// \{Sunohara} "Haha."
<1623>
//  Sunohara laughs at the answer.
<1624>
// \{Sunohara}  "After everything, \m{A}, you haven't changed a bit."
<1625>
// \{\m{B}} "Is that so?"
<1626>
// \{Sunohara} "Yeah. But honestly, I thought you and Nagisa-chan had gone to some faraway place."
<1627>
// \{Sunohara} "However, unexpectedly how near you really are. That I've come to realize."
<1628>
// \{Sunohara}  "It's so.  If you've become absorbed in it, then become a father."
<1629>
// \{Sunohara} "Yes, if that's the case I am convinced."
<1630>
// Why is it that Sunohara seems to be relieved.
<1631>
// \{Sunohara} "If we could occasionally get together, just like this, it would be nice to keep these silly relationships."
<1632>
// \{\m{B}} "That's so... truly."
<1633>
//  Everyone goes home, and a quiet visits the home.
<1634>
// \{Nagisa} "Shio-chan..."
<1635>
// \{Nagisa} "ehehe."
<1636>
// \{Nagisa} "Dango, Dango..."
<1637>
//  Now, she begins to sing."
<1638>
// However, I think her singing is troubling.
<1639>
// \{\m{B}} "Hey you, aren't you tired. Could you stop singing for me?"
<1640>
// Actually, I am worried about her fever going up.
<1641>
//  However, Nagisa did not stop singing.
<1642>
// \{Nagisa} "If there is anything I can possibly do for this child, then I want to do it..."
<1643>
// Her tone went up with her answer.
<1644>
// \{\m{B}} "Shio... I will sing... so you, be quiet and listen."
<1645>
// \{\m{B}} "Dango, Dango..."
<1646>
//  I begin to sing.
<1647>
//  However, Nagisa joins in.
<1648>
// \{\m{B}} "Now you... I'll get angry."
<1649>
// \{渚} "But... two people singing are much more cheerful than one person singing..."
<1650>
// \{Nagisa} "And I think that the more cheerful we are, the more cheerful this child will be."
<1651>
// \{Nagisa} "Right, Shio-chan?"
<1652>
//  Even though she asked, there is no way that there could be a reply.
<1653>
// \{\m{B}} "Then, just a little."
<1654>
// \{Nagisa} "Okay"
<1655>
//  We continued to sing together.
<1656>
//  ...and so, we passed the time happily away. 
<1657>
// At the end of January, her fever began to rise again.
<1658>
// It becomes impossible for Nagisa to even get out of bed.
<1659>
//  Despite that, in her stomach, the new life's motions can be seen.
<1660>
//  Powerfully, it is like it impatiently waits to be born into this world.
<1661>
// That purity...
<1662>
// slowly...
<1663>
// A life of its own, this child wishes to be delivered...
<1664>
// That ... scene.
<1665>
// That long-felt uneasiness continues to grow...
<1666>
// In the middle of the large current of time, trying to fight against the sorrow, but it advances on...
<1667>
// Within that current, Nagisa and I become separated...
<1668>
// Nagisa is carried to a place that we can never again meet.
<1669>
// Even reaching out...
<1670>
// Trying to connect, there is nothing there...
<1671>
// I can not reach. 
<1672>
//  Such a thing is unpleasant...
<1673>
// Absolutely unpleasant...
<1674>
// Nagisa lives...
<1675>
// So that the child is safely born...
<1676>
// And, that family, I continue to defend...
<1677>
// So everyone can become happy...
<1678>
// That is my dream...
<1679>
// Because they are the reason I live...
<1680>
// A telephone call.
<1681>
// \{Sanae} "It's Sanae"
<1682>
// A worried voice.
<1683>
// \{\m{B}} "What's wrong?"
<1684>
// \{Sanae} "Akio-san, he isn't over there is he?" 
<1685>
// \{\m{B}} "No... I wasn't expecting him."
<1686>
// \{Sanae}  "He didn't return after going out yesterday..."
<1687>
// \{\m{B}} "Did he say... where he was going?"
<1688>
// \{Sanae}  "As usual, after baking the last bread in the afternoon, he casually leaves, just as normal..."
<1689>
// \{\m{B}} "I understand. Sanae-san, stay in the house. Because we don't know when he might return."
<1690>
// \{Sanae}  "\m{B}-san, are you going to go look for him?"
<1691>
// \{\m{B}} "Yeah."
<1692>
// \{Sanae} "But, Nagisa will be alone..."
<1693>
// \{\m{B}} "No, right now she is asleep... for just a little bit."
<1694>
// \{\m{B}} "And, I think I know where he is. Therefore, I am going there, just to make sure..."
<1695>
// \{Sanae} "Then, I'll go there. Please tell me where it is."
<1696>
// \{\m{B}} "No... I can't tell you that. Sorry..."
<1697>
// I could not betray the will of Pops.
<1698>
// For Sanae-san's sake, I think he wants you to live in reality. 
<1699>
// \{\m{B}} "I'll be back soon. Everything is fine."
<1700>
// \{Sanae} "I understand... please, \m{B}-san."
<1701>
// \{\m{B}} "...no problem."
<1702>
// As it came in view ahead, I saw a flood of big construction equipment.
<1703>
// And it is awful... noisy
<1704>
// Parties concerned about the construction had gathered, and where talking about everything.
<1705>
// I had a bad feeling.
<1706>
//  In front of my eyes is a rope.
<1707>
//  It limits how far the concerned parties can approach.
<1708>
// I strained my ears to hear.
<1709>
// \{Voice} (There was no one to eviction in this place... )
<1710>
// \{Voice} (So, what connection do you have...?)
<1711>
// \{Voice} (That's strange isn't it...?)
<1712>
// \{Voice} (Because, it's not like you have a reason...)
<1713>
// At that point, I grasped the conviction.
<1714>
// But it is Pops that I am here for.
<1715>
// I recklessly run around looking for that figure.
<1716>
// \{Akio} "Yo, well isn't it \m{B}?"
<1717>
// \{\m{B}}  "Pops..."
<1718>
// \{\m{B}} "You... what are you doing?"
<1719>
// \{Akio} "It's nothing. Everything is fine. After this I'll return home."
<1720>
// \{\m{B}} "You... before our conversation, where you going to do the same..."
<1721>
// \{Akio} "That was a promise."
<1722>
// \{Akio} "You only though I was saying it back then, but in reality I am doing it."
<1723>
// \{Akio} "........."
<1724>
// \{Akio} "Trees ... they are being cleared away..."
<1725>
// \{Akio} "In that talk, there may have been some expectation of hesitation..."
<1726>
// \{Akio} "But even I have my own thoughts."
<1727>
// \{Akio} "Nevertheless, I wait for a change in the body..."
<1728>
// \{Akio} "However, that is a scene judgment..."
<1729>
// \{Akio}  "When the big shot leaves, eventually it will be preserved..."
<1730>
// \{Akio} "To the corner of the hospital... for a moment..."
<1731>
// \{Akio} "That is only the story..."
<1732>
// \{\m{B}} "Can I hit you?"
<1733>
// \{Akio} "What?"
<1734>
//  Smack.
<1735>
//  I hit him before waiting for an answer.
<1736>
// \{Akio} "That hurts!"
<1737>
// \{\m{B}} "Sanae-san is worried to death..."
<1738>
// \{\m{B}} "Feel her distress...!"
<1739>
// \{Akio} "Do what...?"
<1740>
// \{\m{B}} "Anyhow, I'm going home."
<1741>
// Pops stayed there as I left. 
<1742>
//  The high fever still afflicts Nagisa.
<1743>
// Nagisa looks worn-out.
<1744>
// Will you be able to hold out through the rest of this?
<1745>
// However, if Nagisa's sleeping face were to weaken away, I'd feel like I had to run away.
<1746>
// A surge in the tide is due soon...
<1747>
// Will you be able to cash in on it...
<1748>
// I put my energy in our clasped hands.
<1749>
// \{Nagisa} "\m{B}-kun..."
<1750>
//  A voice.
<1751>
// Nagisa weakly opened her eyes.
<1752>
// \{\m{B}} "Yes, what is it, Nagisa..."
<1753>
// \{Nagisa} "I am a trouble for everyone..."
<1754>
// \{\m{B}} "Silly, nothing of the sort..."
<1755>
// \{\m{B}} "It is you who must hold up more than anyone... everyone knows that..."
<1756>
// \{Nagisa} "Is that so..."
<1757>
// \{\m{B}} "There for... rest.  You're not in any pain...?"
<1758>
// \{Nagisa} "No..."
<1759>
// \{Nagisa} "But, I would like to talk a bit more with you, \m{B}-kun."
<1760>
// \{\m{B}} "Ah... understand. Only a little bit..."
<1761>
// \{Nagisa} "Okay..."
<1762>
// Nagisa looks up at the ceiling.
<1763>
// No beyond there... that is she was looking at the future.
<1764>
// \{Nagisa} "My current goal is to give birth to this child..."
<1765>
// \{\m{B}} "Yeah..."
<1766>
// \{Nagisa} "And..."
<1767>
// \{Nagisa} "This child, \m{B}-kun, and myself will all live as 3 people."
<1768>
// \{\m{B}} "........."
<1769>
// Tears form in her eyes.
<1770>
// If she were to shut her eyes, it would flood out.
<1771>
// Why, in such a future, it seems like such a dream...
<1772>
// Such is just an ordinary future...
<1773>
// Such is just a common future...
<1774>
// More than ordinary it should be...
<1775>
// Why isn't it more than common...
<1776>
// The road that Nagisa travels has always been full of difficulty...
<1777>
// Ordinary happiness... is further away than for most people.
<1778>
//  ...far away over there it is.
<1779>
//  Life... \p  but only that much. 
<1780>
// Unexpectedly Nagisa closed her eyes.
<1781>
//  Her sleeping face is calm, although she is losing weight.
<1782>
// \{\m{B}} "Nagisa... therefore forever..."
<1783>
//  Forever, \p holding hands.
<1784>
//  Intense labor pains then start. 
<1785>
// Nagisa's face is wrenched in agony, I ask Sanae-san what can be done.
<1786>
//  Having confirmed the situation, Sanae-san faces me.
<1787>
// \{Sanae} "\m{B}-san, please"
<1788>
// \{\m{B}} "Understood."
<1789>
// That is the signal to make the call to the midwife Yagi-san.
<1790>
// I immediately contact her by phone, and went out into the rain to greet her.
<1791>
//  Nagisa is still suffering when I return with Yagi-san.
<1792>
//  I could do nothing but leave it to the two that are here.
<1793>
// \{Yagi} "Furukawa-san, could you put some hot water on the baby bus?"
<1794>
// Yagi-san ordered Pops.
<1795>
// \{Yagi} "\m{A}-san, please come here and support your wife."
<1796>
// That I had hoped for.
<1797>
// I am in the middle of the interior of the room, near the vicinity of Nagisa's knee. 
<1798>
// \{\m{B}} "Umm..."
<1799>
// I call out to Yagi-san who is busily removed medical equipment from her bag.
<1800>
// \{\m{B}} "Is okay to hold her hand, right?"
<1801>
// \{Yagi} "Yes, of course. Please do that."
<1802>
// It is okay.
<1803>
// When ever Nagisa is suffering, I want to help rescue her from it.
<1804>
// I pull Nagisa's hand and toward me; she is desperately clenching the palm of her hand to bear the pain, and I open it with force.
<1805>
// And, in her sweaty palm, I place my hand.
<1806>
// Then, she strongly closed her hand like she had been desperately seeking it.
<1807>
// Our two fingers tightly intertwine leaving no gaps.
<1808>
// \{\m{B}} "Nagisa, I am here..."
<1809>
//  Briefly Nagisa's eyes look at my face.
<1810>
// \{Nagisa} "........."
<1811>
// Although she couldn't say it, she nodded her head strongly. 
<1812>
// \{\m{B}} "Hang in there..."
<1813>
// \{\m{B}} "Don't lose... in such a place as this..."
<1814>
// \{\m{B}} "Give birth safely..."
<1815>
// \{\m{B}} "Let's start, this new life with the three of us..."
<1816>
// \{Yagi} "Then let's begin"
<1817>
// \{\m{B}} "Yes"
<1818>
// \{\m{B}} "Please"
<1819>
// Nagisa's delivery has begun.
<1820>
// Many times Nagisa lost consciousness.
<1821>
// And the pain would bring her back again.
<1822>
// That cycle repeated over.
<1823>
// That cruel treatment makes me want to advert my eyes...
<1824>
// It is as if she is being tortured to death with no mercy.
<1825>
// To persist on, there is nothing.
<1826>
// However, continues to receive no resistance.
<1827>
// If things continue like this, Nagisa will die...
<1828>
// You're not dieing are you...? 
<1829>
// Quickly...
<1830>
// Quickly end this...!
<1831>
// I keep shouting in my mind.
<1832>
// It's long...
<1833>
// And the last cycle has not come.
<1834>
// It seems like this will continue through eternity...
<1835>
// My five senses are lost, I am in darkness.
<1836>
// ah, why has it become this way...
<1837>
// Has my mind lost its endurance? ...
<1838>
// Or else, am I in despair...?
<1839>
// Has everything already come to an end?...
<1840>
// Suddenly my sight returns.
<1841>
// Before my eyes, something is on the bed.
<1842>
// .........
<1843>
//  ... I hear it.
<1844>
//  ... a cry.
<1845>
//  ... A baby's cry.
<1846>
// I finally understand, and look up with energy.
<1847>
// And, I stared at the reality.
<1848>
// The direction of that cry...  the baby's bright red body rests on top of a towel.
<1849>
// For a moment I separate my hand from Nagisa's, and lift the baby off of the towel into my arms.
<1850>
// And, I clasp Nagisa's hand once again.
<1851>
// \{\m{B}} "Nagisa..."
<1852>
// Nagisa's eyes were closed.
<1853>
// A completely exhausted face...
<1854>
// \{\m{B}} "Nagisa..."
<1855>
//  I call.
<1856>
// \{\m{B}} "Nagisa-..."
<1857>
// Tears begin to collect in my eyes...
<1858>
//  ... and could fall any moment.
<1859>
// I squeeze her hand strongly.
<1860>
// \{\m{B}}  "Nagisa!"
<1861>
// \{Nagisa} "...\m{B}-kun"
<1862>
//  She barely opened her eyes.
<1863>
//  Her vision must be blurry, she could not find my face.
<1864>
// \{\m{B}} "I'm here, Nagisa..."
<1865>
//  I bought my face close.
<1866>
//  Finally, she could see me.
<1867>
// "I... \p could do my best..."
<1868>
// \{\m{B}} "Ah. True... you did, Nagisa..."
<1869>
// \{\m{B}} "Listen, it's the cry of our child..."
<1870>
// \{Nagisa} "Yes..."
<1871>
// \{\m{B}} "Look, I'm the first to hold it..."
<1872>
// \{Nagisa} "Yes, cute..."
<1873>
// \{\m{B}} "Ah... because it's our child. Ushio."
<1874>
// \{Nagisa}  "Shio-chan..."
<1875>
// \{\m{B}} "That wouldn't work, if it's not a girl..."
<1876>
// \{\m{B}} "Isn't that so, Sanae-san..."
<1877>
// \{\m{B}} "Look, after all it is... a girl..."
<1878>
// \{\m{B}} "It's an energetic girl..."
<1879>
// \{Nagisa} "That's good..."
<1880>
// \{\m{B}} "Yes, it's good... truly..."
<1881>
// \{Nagisa} "Yes..."
<1882>
// \{Nagisa} "........."
<1883>
// \{Nagisa} "But..."
<1884>
// \{Nagisa} "I'm really tired..."
<1885>
// \{\m{B}} "Y, yeah..."
<1886>
// \{Nagisa} "Therefore..."
<1887>
// \{Nagisa} "Please let me rest a bit..."
<1888>
// \{Nagisa} "........."
<1889>
//  I become uneasy.
<1890>
// Particularly... because Nagisa's face is so pale.
<1891>
// \{\m{B}} "........."
<1892>
// The surroundings are noisy, with the sound of foot steps.
<1893>
// What should I do...?
<1894>
// Pop's harsh voice... even Sanae-san's panicked voice is heard.
<1895>
// I wish they were all quiet.
<1896>
// Because I want to talk calmly with Nagisa.
<1897>
// \{\m{B}} "Hey, Nagisa..."
<1898>
// \{\m{B}} "Wait just a moment, Nagisa..."
<1899>
// \{\m{B}} "I want to talk just a bit more..."
<1900>
// \{\m{B}} "If you just listen, it's okay..."
<1901>
// \{Nagisa} "Yes..."
<1902>
// \{Nagisa} "........."
<1903>
// \{\m{B}} "Look, it's our child..."
<1904>
// \{\m{B}} "Your and my child..."
<1905>
// \{\m{B}} "Its face looks like a monkey..."
<1906>
// \{\m{B}} "Just a little one..."
<1907>
// \{\m{B}} "I'll call out its name..."
<1908>
// \{\m{B}} "Ushio..."
<1909>
// \{\m{B}} "I'm your Papa, Ushio..."
<1910>
// \{\m{B}} "This is your mama..."
<1911>
// \{\m{B}} "Haha... I'm ignored."
<1912>
// \{\m{B}} "Hey, understand it's simple..."
<1913>
// \{Nagisa} "........."
<1914>
// Nagisa couldn't speak.
<1915>
// But it's okay, because she was holding my hand.
<1916>
// So as not to part.. strongly, strongly.
<1917>
// \{\m{B}} "This child's growth into adulthood, surely, will only take a blink of time..."
<1918>
// \{\m{B}} "Quickly it will be big... and start kindergarten..."
<1919>
// \{\m{B}} "You and I will accompany her to the kindergarten entrance ceremony.... surely that will be a very humorous thing."
<1920>
// \{\m{B}} "We're still like children ourselves, accompanied by children..."
<1921>
// \{\m{B}} "Amusing isn't it, surely..."
<1922>
// Nagisa also smiles.
<1923>
// \{\m{B}} "Going to elementary school, Parent's day at school, athletic meets... doing things as a family..."
<1924>
// \{\m{B}} "And all of this wonderful sight seeing..."
<1925>
// \{\m{B}} "We... might be really funny..."
<1926>
// \{\m{B}} "Such things like that, I'll become the biggest fool..."
<1927>
// A rigorous nod.
<1928>
// \{\m{B}} "But you know, you..."
<1929>
// \{\m{B}} "Because this poor girl was forced to listen only to 'Dango Daikazoku' while in your stomach..."
<1930>
// \{\m{B}} "I worried she will have the same tastes as you..."
<1931>
// \{\m{B}} "It would be nice if it didn't only resemble Nagisa's cute parts..."
<1932>
// \{\m{B}} "It's okay even if she is also a bit of a crybaby..."
<1933>
// \{\m{B}} "To keep on going in the moment"
<1934>
// \{\m{B}} "Such a child would be good..."
<1935>
// \{\m{B}} "It's okay even if she's clumsy..."
<1936>
// \{\m{B}} "If it is considerate..."
<1937>
// \{\m{B}} "She can live with all her might for other people..."
<1938>
// \{\m{B}} "Such the way that you... are like..."
<1939>
// \{\m{B}} "Becoming like that..."
<1940>
// \{\m{B}} "would be good..."
<1941>
// ...my vision becomes blurry.
<1942>
// Suddenly my eyes fill with tears.
<1943>
// And, I am not able to stop them from flowing out.
<1944>
// What is with this uneasiness. This pain in my chest.
<1945>
// I only thought I wanted to talk calmly with Nagisa...
<1946>
// \{\m{B}} "Hey, Nagisa..."
<1947>
// However already... there was no return.
<1948>
// \{\m{B}} "........."
<1949>
// I didn't feel the strength of Nagisa's hand.
<1950>
// \{\m{B}} "Nagisa... Nagisa...!"
<1951>
// I desperately grip her hand.
<1952>
// \{\m{B}} "Nagisa..."
<1953>
// \{\m{B}} "Don't go, anywhere..."
<1954>
// I said in a crying voice.
<1955>
// \{\m{B}} "Forever, to be by my side... haven't I said that..."
<1956>
// \{\m{B}} "That is... the dream that I have found..."
<1957>
// \{\m{B}} "If you leave, there will be nothing good left..."
<1958>
// \{\m{B}} "It would be a horribly boring life..."
<1959>
// \{\m{B}} "Because the one who thought he finally found his dream..."
<1960>
// \{\m{B}} "Because assuredly living is hope..."
<1961>
// \{\m{B}} "Hey, Nagisa..."
<1962>
// \{\m{B}} "Nagisa-..."
<1963>
// I keep calling her name.
<1964>
// ...forever, \p forever.
<1965>
// Inside of a radiant light.
<1966>
// My eyes have not adjusted to it, because up until now I was in darkness.
<1967>
// Before long, the radiant becomes dim, the backgrounds fall into shadows.
<1968>
// There is that place.
<1969>
// On the slope below the school gate.
<1970>
// She is there again.
<1971>
// Quietly, I look up at the school gate which was so far away.
<1972>
// I hesitated to call out to her.
<1973>
// Why, I don't know...
<1974>
// What are you thinking. She for a moment looked down and sighed.
<1975>
// Slowly, time passes.
<1976>
// She... turns around with her back to the school gate.
<1977>
// She sees me.
<1978>
// And, she begins to walk away.
<1979>
// She passes beside me like I am an unacquainted person.
<1980>
// ... if you don't call out.
<1981>
// but...
<1982>
// Should I do so?...
<1983>
// Having that meeting with me...
<1984>
// As it was, walking on a separate path, wasn't that good?
<1985>
// However...
<1986>
// I...
<1987>
// ... I...
<1988>
// "... Nagisa!"
<1989>
// That name I called out.
<1990>
// "I am here!"
<1991>
// "........."
<1992>
// Nagisa once again turns around.
<1993>
// She looks at my face.
<1994>
// "... thank goodness."
<1995>
// "It isn't possible to ignore your voice"
<1996>
// "Is that so..."
<1997>
// "By some chance, \m{B}-kun... if you had not met with me..."
<1998>
// "I can't imagine such a thing..."
<1999>
// "It would be terribly uneasy..."
<2000>
// "........."
<2001>
// "But, I was able to meet with \m{B}-kun."
<2002>
// "And it is completely happy."
<2003>
// "Is that so..."
<2004>
// "Therefore, somehow..."
<2005>
// "Please, don't hesitate anymore."
<2006>
// "From here on, what are you waiting for..."
<2007>
// "Please never regret that you were able to meet me."
<2008>
// "Always... forever, please live strongly."
<2009>
// "........."
<2010>
// "Is it not good?..."
<2011>
// "........."
<2012>
// "No..."
<2013>
// "I understand..."
<2014>
// "I don't regret it..."
<2015>
// "It was necessary to meet with you, so I have confidence... to keep living."
<2016>
// "Longley, keep living."
<2017>
// "Is that so...?"
<2018>
// "Thank you very much."
<2019>
// A grin and a smile.
<2020>
// "Then, let's go."
<2021>
// "Yes."
<2022>
// In to the future, day after day there after...
<2023>
// "I'd also like \m{B}-kun to come to like 'Dango Daikazoku'."
<2024>
// "Is that so, I'll think about it."
<2025>
// "Yes."

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×	Chính	Fuuko	Tomoyo	Kyou	Kotomi	Yukine	Nagisa	After Story	Khác
14 tháng 4	SEEN0414							SEEN6800	Sanae's Scenario	SEEN7000
15 tháng 4	SEEN0415		SEEN2415	SEEN3415	SEEN4415			SEEN6801
16 tháng 4	SEEN0416		SEEN2416	SEEN3416			SEEN6416	SEEN6802	Yuusuke's Scenario	SEEN7100
17 tháng 4	SEEN0417	SEEN1417	SEEN2417	SEEN3417	SEEN4417		SEEN6417	SEEN6803
18 tháng 4	SEEN0418	SEEN1418	SEEN2418	SEEN3418	SEEN4418	SEEN5418	SEEN6418	SEEN6900	Akio's Scenario	SEEN7200
19 tháng 4	SEEN0419		SEEN2419	SEEN3419	SEEN4419	SEEN5419	SEEN6419
20 tháng 4	SEEN0420				SEEN4420		SEEN6420		Koumura's Scenario	SEEN7300
21 tháng 4	SEEN0421	SEEN1421	SEEN2421	SEEN3421	SEEN4421	SEEN5421	SEEN6421	Interlude
22 tháng 4	SEEN0422	SEEN1422	SEEN2422	SEEN3422	SEEN4422	SEEN5422	SEEN6422	SEEN6444	Sunohara's Scenario	SEEN7400
23 tháng 4	SEEN0423	SEEN1423	SEEN2423	SEEN3423	SEEN4423	SEEN5423	SEEN6423	SEEN6445
24 tháng 4	SEEN0424		SEEN2424	SEEN3424	SEEN4424	SEEN5424	SEEN6424		Misae's Scenario	SEEN7500
25 tháng 4	SEEN0425		SEEN2425	SEEN3425	SEEN4425	SEEN5425	SEEN6425	Mei & Nagisa
26 tháng 4	SEEN0426	SEEN1426	SEEN2426	SEEN3426	SEEN4426	SEEN5426	SEEN6426	SEEN6726	Kappei's Scenario	SEEN7600
27 tháng 4		SEEN1427			SEEN4427		SEEN6427	SEEN6727
28 tháng 4	SEEN0428	SEEN1428	SEEN2428	SEEN3428	SEEN4428	SEEN5428	SEEN6428	SEEN6728
29 tháng 4	SEEN0429	SEEN1429		SEEN3429	SEEN4429		SEEN6429	SEEN6729
30 tháng 4		SEEN1430	SEEN2430	SEEN3430	SEEN4430	SEEN5430	SEEN6430		BAD End 1	SEEN0444
1 tháng 5		SEEN1501	SEEN2501	SEEN3501	SEEN4501		SEEN6501		Gamebook	SEEN0555
2 tháng 5		SEEN1502	SEEN2502	SEEN3502	SEEN4502		SEEN6502		BAD End 2	SEEN0666
3 tháng 5		SEEN1503	SEEN2503	SEEN3503	SEEN4503		SEEN6503
4 tháng 5		SEEN1504	SEEN2504	SEEN3504	SEEN4504		SEEN6504
5 tháng 5		SEEN1505	SEEN2505	SEEN3505	SEEN4505		SEEN6505
6 tháng 5		SEEN1506	SEEN2506	SEEN3506	SEEN4506		SEEN6506		Other Scenes	SEEN0001
7 tháng 5		SEEN1507	SEEN2507	SEEN3507	SEEN4507		SEEN6507
8 tháng 5		SEEN1508	SEEN2508	SEEN3508	SEEN4508		SEEN6508		Kyou's After Scene	SEEN3001
9 tháng 5			SEEN2509	SEEN3509	SEEN4509
10 tháng 5			SEEN2510	SEEN3510	SEEN4510		SEEN6510
11 tháng 5		SEEN1511	SEEN2511	SEEN3511	SEEN4511		SEEN6511		Fuuko Master	SEEN1001
12 tháng 5		SEEN1512		SEEN3512	SEEN4512		SEEN6512			SEEN1002
13 tháng 5		SEEN1513	SEEN2513	SEEN3513	SEEN4513		SEEN6513			SEEN1003
14 tháng 5		SEEN1514	SEEN2514	SEEN3514	EPILOGUE		SEEN6514			SEEN1004
15 tháng 5		SEEN1515			SEEN4800					SEEN1005
16 tháng 5		SEEN1516			BAD END					SEEN1006
17 tháng 5		SEEN1517			SEEN4904					SEEN1008
18 tháng 5		SEEN1518			SEEN4999					SEEN1009
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