Hirugao: Love Affairs in the Afternoon

I felt like I was being ripped apart.

But now that I know who is his wife, all I will see if I look back will be hell.

I was never strong enough to make myself truly evil.

You can cry.

I was very sad that I had to break up with him.

Let's cry on each other's shoulders.

I'm sorry to be so weak.

As if I would say that.

What?

If you go home with your eyes swollen

even your unobservant husband would notice something was wrong.

I know that.

Get it together.

What are you going to do if he finds out, like what happened with me?

Both of you don't mess around, if he finds out about this, it'll be over.

You'll lose everything you have.

Your husband will never trust anybody again.

I don't care how bad you're hurting, you have to bring this to the grave.

Aren't you hurt, Rikako-san?

In a normal relationship, you're allowed to cry and pity yourself.

You can take it out on your friends, binge eat, even go on a trip.

But you have to keep an affair a secret, even after it's over.

All we can do is go back to our boring everyday lives before we met them.

There's no way I'm not hurting.

But...

this is part of having an affair.

Good.

Just go back to your everyday routine, like you did everyday.

Everyday routine...

like I did everyday.

Yuichiro!

Come look at this!

Yuichiro!

Hmm?

- Hurry? - What is it?

Professor Nyuki likes my thesis!

Nyuki?

A breakthrough in the study...

That's amazing!

Give me my reward.

I quit trying.

A normal wife is boring.

I am your wife, but we did research together as a team.

Normal people wouldn't be able to break that bond, don't you think?

That's true.

You should cherish me.

You have a special wife.

Tighter.

This way!

We've had an amazing response, everyone wants to know about the artist.

We've received so many questions already.

I knew I could count on you!

Access numbers to the site have gone through the roof.

I'm glad I put our personal differences aside and asked you to do the cover.

- Are we ready? - Yes, standing by.

Here we go!

It's a historical moment with the hot upcoming artist and talented editor!

What's wrong?

Smile!

[You talk to your subjects through art. Artists are a lonely sort...]

Mana, what happened, you're all wet!

Oh no, you should have called me if you didn't have an umbrella with you.

But you don't have your cell phone!

Oh, that's right, I'm sorry.

I can do it myself.

Why don't you take a shower?

We're having your favorite chicken katsu and potato soup...

and Hina's favorite bean salad.

Yay!

I don't like chicken katsu anymore.

What?

I don't like potato soup either.

Is something wrong?

No, I just don't like them anymore.

Mana?

I'm home.

Hi.

It's so humid because of these evening thunderstorms.

Hi, Mihamu and Hamusuke. Papa's home!

My boring everyday routine was back again.

I brought in the paper.

Thanks!

It's the end of the month already...

It almost seems like everything that happened with him was a dream.

Just a dream that an average housewife had during her afternoon nap.

No, it was not a dream.

If it was just a dream, it wouldn't put me through so much pain.

I'm going to run to the store.

But I'm hungry.

I'll be right back.

Sawa-chan!

It seems God is not so easily forgiving.

Love Affairs In the Afternoon

Sawa-chan!

I'm sorry about yesterday, I was in a hurry.

No, it's fine.

But you left suddenly the other day, too. So, I was wondering what was up.

Oh... thanks. I just felt a little sick.

Is it because I kept rambling on about myself?

Maybe!

What!

But things have been better with my husband since I talked to you.

- I see. - Uh huh.

When I did what Rikako-san told me to do and stopped nagging him...

he stopped holding back and hugged me.

That's great!

Your husband's crush was just in your imagination.

I don't think so.

I think my hunch was accurate.

He definitely had somebody else.

Maybe things just happened that way.

I don't think so.

He's no smart talker, it can't be that easy for him to find a woman.

You're weird Sawa-chan, you sound like you know my husband.

Well, I was just guessing.

From his being a high school biology teacher.

Did I tell you he taught high school?

Yes, you told me the other day.

Really.

I wanted to talk to you while we were still in summer break.

A talk? With you? About what?

Kinoshita.

You've lost something important.

I don't want to see you graduate like this.

You haven't gotten over your mother leaving, right?

I thought about it, and I'm sure your mother hasn't forgotten about you.

As if.

She's shacked up with a younger man, she hasn't given me a single thought.

No.

Even if she's found a new life, I'm sure she's hurting too and has regrets.

Teacher.

Who are you talking about?

What do you mean?

Why don't you ask the principal?

I'm going.

Wait!

Give me back my cell phone.

I can't even contact Mana and Hina, it's terribly inconvenient.

Just use the landline if you need to talk to them.

Have them call that number, too.

I can't even text message with my friends.

Do you have such an urgent matter that needs a text?

Please. Give me my phone.

That reminds me, I've canceled all your credit cards.

From now on, budget the living allowances I've given you.

Tell me if you don't have enough.

Are you going to trap me here the rest of my life?

Your husband is not such a sneaky man.

Of course you are.

To take my phone and credit cards in revenge.

If you don't like it, you're welcome to leave.

You say that, but you know I could never leave my children.

What's wrong?

You're always calm, but you look so angry now.

No good. Smile! Don't waste your beautiful looks.

Listen, all you need to do is smile all the time.

Not like you're capable of doing anything else.

Do you know why I always managed to keep a calm smile on my face?

What?

Do you know how I managed to take care of the home and children everyday?

What it took for me to see you out the door with a smile on my face...

when you never help with the children but just complain?

You need to shut up.

How I cheerfully ironed your clothes, when you said all I was good for was my looks

and you would do anything with women you felt like doing?

Shut up!

It was because I had affairs.

Because I had someone to comfort me, away from you.

Apologize!

You haven't apologized to me once about this whole thing!

If you want to stay in this house, get down on your knees and beg to me to let you stay.

I will not apologize.

What did you say to me?

You're trying to justify your actions after sleeping with a man like that?

It's not just him.

I slept with other men I met online, too.

What...

They had no talent or money compared to you.

There were some that were just trash.

But not one of them looked down on me like you always do.

Are you stupid?

Are you stupid!

Don't you understand they just humored you to sleep with you!

And that was fine with me!

Just to have a single moment of having someone desire me...

was a hundred times better than getting nothing from you!

Get out.

Love is a difficult trap for a wife.

But we never see that until we get hurt and lose everything that we had.

I told... Sawa-san about the affair.

Why?

You have to learn to trust your wife and become a real family...

so I thought she needed to know about your father's shameful past too.

You meant Dad's affair? Oh!

Who else is there?

Nobody.

She's waving at you.

It's fine.

What's fine?

What has gotten in to you?