01x08 - Koigokoro

[bunniefuu]

Um...

Have we met somewhere before?

Oh no.

Are you being serious?

Ah!

Sorry.

Sorry.

You aren't joking, are you?

Why would I joke about this?

She isn't joking.

Tell me the truth! Who are you?

I'll call for someone!

Okay.

Playing along might
actually make it easier.

Nice to meet you.
My name is Sorano Kakeru.

LOVE UNSEEN BENEATH THE CLEAR NIGHT SKY

I'll join you.

I don't even want to make a ripple.

Um, are you all right?

Welcome back. You guys eating?

It stinks like garlic!

Okay, let's sum everything up.

Or Shu'ay, Shoraro wah...

Don't talk with your mouth full.

How can he be goofing off
at a time like this?

On Sunday, after the festival...

Fuyutsuki and I kissed.

Then came Monday.

You didn't see Fuyutsuki all day, right?

Right.

She didn't even come to the lecture.

Then Monday night at the monja place,

I sent the video
with your love confession.

For another week, you don't see her,
and you don't hear from her.

When you finally see
her again, she has amnesia.

And when I try to tell her
that we were friends,

she flat-out denies it.

Didn't Fuyutsuki have her cell phone?

She'd know if she
checked her old messages.

Well, I did ask her to show me her phone,

but then...

Then what?

The screen had been completely smashed.

"I can make phone calls. However, the
screen controls don't quite work anymore."

She explained like she always does,
barely missing the point.

Nice one, Fuyutsuki!

This isn't a laughing matter!

Yeah, I get that this
ain't a great situation,

but we can't let it get us
down too, can we?

You can only say that because
you haven't seen her yourself!

Aw, don't start crying now.

She has good reason to, though.

Tell me the truth! Who are you?

It felt like everything up to now
had been reset to zero.

Despite all the fun,
despite all the laughter,

despite all the heart-pounding
moments, it was now all gone.

But there's no way I could just say,
"Oh, okay" and let it go.

Yeah, well, there's no point crying.
Don't you wanna do something about it?

Something like what?

Is there really something we can do?

I said, something like what?!

Well, we'll do whatever we can.

Are you guys having some miso soup?

You our mom?

I cooked up oodles of rice too,
so you can even go for seconds!

You seriously our mom?

Quit trying to make me laugh, Sorano-kun.

Well, crying isn't going
to change anything.

So you're fine with this too, Sorano-kun?

"Fine"?

"Fine," really?

How could I be fine with this?

Come on. Let's have some gyoza
before it gets cold. Okay?

No. I don't want any.

There's no point in us fighting.
Come on now and eat your gyoza.

You our mom?

Delicious.

Right?

Hey, w-wait, leave some for us.

No way. I get hungry
when I'm in a bad mood.

Or do you have anything else to eat?

Narumi did say he got some
sausage sent from home.

Hell no!

That's my absolute favorite!

The long sausage coiled up
like a sausage spiral!

Now, my boy, that sounds downright tasty!

Hell no.

Quit being such a cheapskate and open up!

Hell no! Hell no!

Would you just open the damn fridge?

- We could try to brainstorm
some way to help Fuyutsuki,

- Take this!

- but I doubt we'd end up
with any workable ideas.

- The gyoza! Eat the gyoza instead!

- Meanwhile, as we were grilling gyoza,
battling over sausages...

- Open up!

- ...worrying, crying, and fighting,

- Please, stop!

- Come on!

- I thought this was still
a way to express our despair.

- Come on!

Would you give up?

I found out that the hospital always held
sing-along time at two in the afternoon.

So hey...

Has she really forgotten about me?

She just kept walking
as if she hadn't even heard me.

This is hard.

This hurts.

I never should have tried talking to her.

I wish I could disappear.

But all I want right now is
to be near Fuyutsuki.

There's something wrong with me.

I'd never felt as attached
to anyone as I did to Fuyutsuki.

Check this out.

- Great for People Who Love Children And
Are Interested in Childcare and Welfare

- Even Once a Month Would Be Greatly Appreciated! Activities: Playing and Helping in
the Kids Room \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h [Story Time, Kamishibai, etc.]

- They're recruiting student volunteers.

You're picking up more volunteer work?

Actually read what it says.

Oh. The same hospital?

Yeah. It's for helping in the kids room.

Stuff like reading books
and doing paper theater.

So if we can get in...

Oh.

We might be able to talk to Koharu-chan.

Yah buh, ih deh-den we-aah...

Quit talking with your mouth full!

Will we make it past the interview
if they think we have a hidden agenda?

If I'm gonna do it, I'm going all in,
regardless of Koharu-chan.

But since we finally found her,
let's at least take the interview.

Mm-hmm!

There was no other choice
if I wanted to be close to Fuyutsuki.

- Great for People Who Love Children And
Are Interested in Childcare and Welfare

- Even Once a Month Would Be Greatly Appreciated! Activities: Playing and Helping in
the Kids Room \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h [Story Time, Kamishibai, etc.]

- The next day, we all applied to become
student volunteers at the hospital.

And the interviews we were so worried
about? Well, we all passed them.

I'm sure our university affiliation
and Hayase's volunteer experience

worked in our favor.

Then came the paperwork, antibody tests,
and volunteer insurance registration.

There were a lot of hoops to jump through.

And then we attended
the orientation for volunteers.

At our hospital, we call the play time
with child patients "kids time."

During that brief time,

we try to help the children forget
about the stress of being hospitalized.

As such, please do not discuss
their illnesses with them at all.

Many patients admitted long-term
to a general hospital's pediatrics ward

are fighting very serious illnesses.

This can be a difficult job, but I do hope
you will be able to stick with it.

This isn't going to be
easy volunteer work.

This is one of our patients. She plays
the piano for us during kids time.

Fuyutsuki-san, these are
our new student volunteers.

Sorano-san, Narumi-san, and Hayase-san.

We've asked the three of them to
help out as volunteers during kids time.

So she is an actual patient.

I had a feeling she probably was.

Nice to meet you.

Yes, it is nice to meet you.

Roar!

Hey, go do origami!

Roar! Roar!

Ow, ow, ow!

Agh!

Let's go over there.

Can I see the origami book?

Thank you.

Hey, hey, you should do origami with us!

Hmm, I wonder if I'll be any good.

Miss, can I have the next one?

Sure.

Wow!

Yay!

One more!

Just a minute.

Oh.

Thank you very much.

Should I help make paper planes?

Looks like you can't keep up.

Kancho!

Ouch!

You can't do that! Ow! That's off limits!

Why were you looking at the lady
like that? You're so gross!

Huh? I wasn't looking at her!

You big liar!

Oh, I know. You were looking
at her boobies, weren't you?

Huh?

No, I wasn't.
I wasn't! Of course I wasn't!

Liar!

I-It isn't nice to tease adults like this.

He was looking at her boobies!

Stop it!

- Boobies! Boobies!

- Hey, it isn't safe to run in here!

- Hmm.

Look at what I caught.

Narumi!

Let me go!

It's too hot, old man!

Old man?!

Next time you run, I'm gonna get
Old Muscle Man here to catch you again.

Huh?!

You win.

What do you mean, Old Muscle Man?

I bet you'd make a real popular streamer.

Today we're gonna do 200 push-ups!

Come on, now! Keep up with the old man!

Nah, sounds dumb.

You sayin' I bombed?

Yeah, you bombed hard.

What's with this
Old Muscle Man crap anyway?

Hey! Come and make origami.

Huh? Okay.

They're almost like a comedy duo.

By the way, Sumire-chan
didn't show up today, did she?

It sounds like they started her
on medication.

Oh dear. She's in for a rough time.

June drew to a close, and the rainy
season ended earlier than normal.

Now it's nearly summer vacation.

Whenever I try to talk to Fuyutsuki,
the conversation goes nowhere.

In fact, I think she's avoiding me.

Origami Dictionary

Is Sorano-san present?

Huh? Oh.

Over here. To your right.

Sorano-san, is everything
all right at college?

What do you mean?

Well, I've been worried
about your attendance.

Oh, is that all?

All good, all good. Hayase's
been signing in for me anyway.

I'm still quite worried about you.

Then what about yourself, Fuyutsuki?

What do you mean by that?

Well, are you doing okay at college?

College?

I don't go to college.

Please don't change the subject.
We're talking about you right now.

- I'm so tired of this.
I can't take much more.

- It's wonderful that
you're willing to volunteer,

- but I really don't think you should be
neglecting your studies.

I don't even want to think about it.

Sorano-san?

For a moment, I thought you may have left.

I was just keeping a low profile.

Please stop joking around.

Wow. I really used to treasure
our little back-and-forths.

Are you listening to me?

Just forget about it!
Who cares about college anyway?!

Hold on. What's the matter?

Forget it!

It's nothing.

Why don't we speak outside
for a minute. Okay?

I'm sorry.

Yeah, sorry.

I finally got to feel Fuyutsuki's hand
again, as I had many times before,

but it suddenly felt very cold.

Let's clear some things up.

Clear things up?

Do you mean to tell me that I attended
the same college as you and your friends?

Mm-hmm. Yeah.

And we were all acquainted,

so it appears that I suddenly
lost my memories of us?

Yeah.

So honestly, this whole thing is
really unsettling.

I don't know what to do.

Well, what would you have me do about it?

Would you want me to remember everything?

Yeah, that would...

That would honestly be extremely annoying.

Annoying?

Why would she say "annoying"?

Trying to remember would be annoying?

Does the precious time we shared
mean absolutely nothing to her now?

How could you?

How could you say that?

I only have six months left.

Huh?

The cancer has spread to my liver,
so I'll be dying soon.

Don't you think it would be painful to
remember all of that if I'm about to die?

And as I'm dying one way or another,

I really don't think you should bother
with me anymore, Sorano-san.

It would be a waste of time.

Fuyutsuki delivered the incredibly
sad news as if it were nothing.

Are you really going to d-die?

Yes, I am. I think I can feel it coming.

It is the third time
I've been through this.

I started chemotherapy again last week,
so I'm really not feeling well.

In another two weeks or so,
I won't even be able to leave my room.

So, really, please forget about it.

Please forget about me.

I'm, um, really sorry
for how I acted. I'm sorry...

f-for being so stubborn. I'm sorry.

My love for Fuyutsuki
is pouring out of me.

I'm such a mess.