My wife Michiru was an ordinary woman who lived in a small town in Nagasaki.
Congratulations.
First prize, 200 million yen!
What...?
On learning that the lottery ticket that she had by chance was worth 200 million yen,
Two hundred million yen...
Michiru found her life steered in unexpected directions.
You're thinking of going back to Nagasaki with Kanbayashi-kun, aren't you?
You need 5 million by tomorrow, right?
I'll prepare it for you, so let's break up.
It's my fault, isn't it?
It's my fault that I did that thing from the very start.
I think he's trying to pin the crime on me.
Takakura-san...
Talking like Takei's some bad person, that's weird.
Is it?!
Michiru-chan, Takakura-san's dead.
Seems like she committed suicide.
Surrounding my wife was nothing but a chain of tragedies involving people's lives, escalating even further.
You must be kidding me...
aozorasubs
Life Story of
Bookstore Clerk Michiru
Episode 8: True Colors
Ah!
"Takakura Erika-san died being hit by an express train bound for Shibuya".
"From circumstantial evidence, East Mitaka police closed the case as a suicide".
It's my fault...
It's all my fault...
Takakura-san...!
Takakura Erika, tormented by guilt from killing Kanbayashi Kyutaro, committed suicide.
However, she used a frypan to protect herself.
Tragedies happened one after another.
For Takakura, and for Kyutaro as well...
...Michiru could not help but pray.
A suicide note or something...
What?
Why?!
Why is Kazuki-san's note in here...?
Manager, I'm sorry for being late! I don't feel quite well...
Yes. Ah, no, it's fine.
Look closely! This girl!
She must have bought more than 40 tickets.
No idea. Customers who buy 40-50 tickets are quite common, you see.
I see... Even though you know, you decided not to say anything.
But this girl, she bought the tickets with our money, then ran away-
Fine...
Even though I sell lottery tickets...
Happiness is not something that can be bought with money.
Furukawa-san.
Look, that's wrong!
What will you do with this month's issue of Katashite?
Oh... I'm so sorry.
If you don't feel well, you can go home today.
Well, well...
I'm sorry.
Hello?
Fine to talk?
Oh, Takei? Um... only for a bit.
Is this about Takakura-san?
It was a shock for you, I see...
Sorry I wasn't able to come back home last night.
Can you come home today?
Actually, I was told just now that grandma's in critical condition.
I have to be away for a while.
"Be away"?
Michiru-chan, the taxi stopped just now. Sorry about that.
Ah-
Anyway, I won't be back for 2-3 days.
Ah, wait a sec, Takei.
Um, you see...
May I speak to Toyomasu-san of Book Sales Department?
What, he hasn't showed up?
For 4 days?!
Thank you very much.
Hey.
Yes?
You know Furukawa-san's new cellphone number, don't you?
Oh...
No, I don't.
Is that true?
Yes.
Why did Takakura-san have Kazuki-san's note?
You need 5 million by tomorrow, right?
At the apartment at Hamadayama, at 4 PM. Wait for me.
She heard...
And then, the 5 million yen disappeared...
Oh, then, Kazuki-san was...
Old lady Sawada's death was a big one, wasn't it?
You're right...
My condolences...
Is Michiru-san doing well?
Oh... She's caused a lot of troubles...
Is she living with Kanbayashi-san in Tokyo or something?
Yes...
It seems so...
Is this what they call "only the relatives do not know"?
Tateishi-san, not now!
But it's just weird!
Ever since Furukawa-san left...
...only strange things have happened.
The son of Kanbayashi jewelry shop is gone and won't come back,
and Kazuki- Toyomasu-san seems to have missed work for a while now.
As I thought, that girl bought the tickets over here,
and ran away with the 200 million yen, don't you think?
Saying things like that...
Maybe I should try going to Tokyo...
Auntie...
Hmm?
After the funeral ends tomorrow...
...I'll have to go back to Tokyo as soon as possible.
Grandma will miss you...
She loved you the most, that's why.
Even though I was her only grandchild...
I wasn't able to do anything...
I'm sorry...
Don't worry about it.
The various things you've sent her...
I think they made Grandma very happy.
Is that so?
She only entrusted things to you...
We're the only relatives left, I guess...
Will you be okay by yourself?
I'll be fine. From here on out, it'll be youth.
How about money and such?
That I have.
Oh, right.
You see, Grandma left all her savings for you.
You should use it.
I'm fine without it.
Somehow...
I've lost hope...
I can't even think of any use for it.
How boring...
Kazuki-san, what happened...
Excuse me.
Did this girl come on the last day of Summer Dream?
No idea.
Is that so...
Huh?
That!
Oh, someone left it here.
It has been a while, but no one's claimed it.
If you want it, I'll give it to you.
No, thanks.
Just what are you doing, Furukawa?!
The number you are calling is currently unavailable...
Where's Kazuki-san?!
I don't know.
You can't possibly not know...
Do not keep things from me anymore!
Is he at your apartment at Hamadayama?
Huh?!
He's staying there, isn't he?
You've handsomely prepared 5 million yen for him, I see.
Even though he promised me he'd call me the next evening,
since then, I can't reach Kazuki-san at all.
Isn't that weird?!
I really don't know anything.
How far do you plan on playing dumb?
Then, how's Kanbayashi-kun?
"How"...
He left town to come here and look for you, you know?!
I didn't meet Kyutaro!
Furukawa-san!
Two men around you have gone missing.
Are they dead? Are they alive? Isn't that strange?!
When they noticed you have the 200 million yen,
you wanted to break up with them...
Those two, don't tell me you...!
Wrong...
You're wrong...
It's not me!!!
A dream...
Soon, Michiru's shivering imagination sprang to life.
Kazuki-san...
And then, her conviction changed because of that.
Yes?
Would you open the door, please?
You were the girl from last night?
I have something important to tell you about Michiru-san...
What is it?
Wa-!
Wait, why? W-w-wait...
Ow!
Hurry.
Give me a hand.
Hatsuyama, please... help me!
You're thinking of senpai as he used to be.
You only see the Takei you had as a childhood friend so you don't want to let him go.
I-I'm s-scared...
I have to run away.
Ah!
Where are you going?
Michiru-chan, why are you so scared to see me?
Let's go home, to our place.
What would we do when we go back?
Let's drink something warm together.
Hey, Takei...
Hmm?
Did Takakura-san really commit suicide?
Michiru-chan, people will come. Let's talk about it upstairs.
No! Let's talk here!
Let's go.
The flight from Haneda to Kichijouji is leaving soon!
While crossing the railroad by Inokashira Park...
Takakura-san stepped onto the rails, or so I've heard...
And you?
I was waiting at her house.
You promised to meet her, didn't you?
She told me to wait there.
She...
She was afraid of you.
Afraid of me?
Even though you didn't verbally blame her, you put invisible pressure on her...
What's invisible pressure?
You, she said...
w-were pinning all the crimes on her...
Michiru-chan, do you think I would do such a lowly thing?
Poor thing.
Takakura-san's delicate, that's why...
Have some milk tea.
Let the two of us put Takakura-san in memory.
Oh...
Right!
There's something Takakura-san was fond of. You might be surprised.
I'm playing it.
"Like a bone-melting tequila, kiss me..."
What's this?
Yuumin's "A Midsummer Night's Dream".
"Let's dance so furiously that the night sky too chokes up."
The one who's singing is me.
It was around 2nd or 3rd grade, I guess?
When you came over,
"I... I... I..."
we played and recorded things on tape. Don't you remember?
"I could not wait for the distant, distant, distant dream, dream."
You sang along with me.
Did you have this all along?
"Look at me till the very last, ignite me."
It's my favorite, after all.
When I let Takakura-san hear this, she too has taken a great liking to it.
"Farewell, always..."
Stop it...
I'm not really in the mood to reminisce a song in the past.
I see...
I thought you could be healed if I let you hear this...
Takei, tell me...
About Kazuki-san.
It was only to protect you...
Takei, tell me properly...
That man, you see...
He had been aiming for your money right from the start.
What money?
The fortune you're carrying.
'Fortune'?
That 200 million yen in your backpack.
The 200 million yen you won from the lottery.
Since when?
Who knows?
I wonder if that man might have also heard about it...
But, you see...
Michiru-chan, you're too naive!
You're so full of gaps.
To protect ourselves...
...we need to completely eliminate that man.
Then, as I thought, the 5 million...
We took it back for you.
Did you kill him?
It's to protect you.
Are you out of your mind?!
This is a secret just between you and I.
Everything will go well now.
Let's clean up the apartment at Hamadayama...
...and live there.
"Like a bone-melting tequila, kiss me..."
"Let's dance so furiously that the night sky too chokes up."
Sorry!
"I... I... I..."
Michiru-chan, if you don't feel well, why don't you lie down?
"I could not wait for the distant, distant, distant dream, dream."
"Look at me till the very last, ignite me."
"Farewell, I surely won't forget this night with the two of us."
Michiru-chan.
From now on, I'll always be beside you.
I'll protect you.
Since a long time ago,
I'm the happiest when it's just the two of us.
I can do anything to protect you.
Anything to be with you...
"Like a bone-melting tequila, kiss me."
"Let's dance so furiously that the night sky too chokes up."
"I... I... I..."
"Distant, distant, distant dream..."
At that time, whether Takei Taruo had turned around, or whether the frypan hit his head,
or whether it had been a lethal blow, Michiru was not the one to judge.
It was just a compelling urge.
You've lost weight.
Please forgive me, Michiru...
Don't forget
Want to go back
get
This is the shape of your fortune right?
The stigma of a criminal is embedded in my heart, that's why.
But can't
Where did we cross paths, I wonder?
Doko de kake chigaeta no darou
どこでかけ違えたのだろう
Takei, please stop this already, I beg of you!
I don't get it even now
ima to nareba wakaranai
今となれば分からない
Samayou you ni Step out mou atomodori wa dekinai
Miss, is something the matter?
Like to wander about and Step out, but can't go back anymore
彷徨うように Step out もう後戻りはできない
Step out
You were holding onto something that moment, down, down, down, down
Kimi wa sono toki nanika wo daite down, down, down, down
キミはその時 何かを抱いて down, down, down, down
Translator: Ruu
down,
down
Furueru sono mi wo okizari ni shite doko e mukau
Leaving that trembling body behind, where are you headed for?
震えるその身 を 置き去りにして どこへ向かう
Timer/Typesetter: Ruu
Karaoke Timer/FX: Mitsu
Naze unmei no mama saigo no KAADO wo kazasazu
Why while in fate, you didn't hold out your last card?
なぜ運命のまま 最後のカードをかざさず
QCs: SacredCultivator, Ruu, Jess
That shows the shape of your fortune
You're in a state where you can't believe
Shinjirarenai mama
信じられないまま
Encoder: SacredCultivator
Is it Ace of Spades or the only Joker
The future that connects to hope has also Run out
Kibou wo tsunagu mirai mo Run out
希望をつなぐ未来も Run out
Like this forever, ever, and evermore You're alone
このまま ずっとずっとずっと You’re alone
Kono mama zutto, zutto, zutto, You're alone