Suki Suki Wan Wan! (すきすきワンワン!)

Ten...

Ten.

Ten! Ten!

Ten, my grandma told me.

A legend from some faraway country....

Where was it...

Mo... it's mammon.

Ten, did you hear me?

In a country called Monmon.

"When a dog dies, it is reborn as a human."

There is such a legend.

So when you passed away...

I'll cut off your tail and bury it on top of the hill.

I need to cut the tail off.

Because the tail is still growing...

Ten, are you listening?

Hey….

Hey, cut the tail off, then.

When I die.

Cut the tail and bury it on the hill.

Because I miss you.

I love you, Kota.

I love you so much...

Ten….

Ten!

14 Years Later

⚟Oh, Mom, he's dead.⚞

He's not dead.

Oh, Mom, he's alive!

Okay, Let's go. - Yes.

You shouldn't be that kind of adult. (Children) Yes.

Yes. - Ahh….

Ah!

Thank you for waiting.

Do you have another order? All right.

Take your time.

smartphone) (ring tone)

smartphone) What the hell are you doing?

What about your job?

Smartphone) Didn't you say you were going to get a part-time job?

What is a "do-it-yourself" scam? Or did you quit again?

And again, somehow? Hey, what are you going to do? Properly..

Smartphone) (Sound of disconnected call)

Ha...

It's me.

Ten, the dog you used to live with.

Kota-kun…

I want to lick you.

Lick you!

Lick your skin!

Lick you!

Wan! (barking sound)

No matter when I come, it's always messy.

I'm sure your dead mother won't be too happy now.

You know those loop movies? - E?

The one that goes around and around in the same place.

When you go to bed, it's the same day again.

Déjà vu? It's like that every morning when I wake up.

It's like that every day.

The same old thing, day after day, I don't like it!

I don't like it. - I don't mind it.

Anyway, if I had enough money to eat.

3000 yen a day?

1000 yen? Is it 800 yen?

Do not try to fit into a mold.

I'd like a renter sooner rather than later.

So, that's it, huh? You're the landlord. I said, just do the interview.

That's your job as a real estate agent, Kakita-san.

You're the one who brought him here.

Who is the one who refuses at every turn?

You're just bringing in people that I have to turn down.

You know, the last time I saw you, you brought a college student.

What's wrong with that?

Nanatsuhashi University is the university I graduated from.

I don't want the troublesome vertical relationship of senior and junior.

If you bring him into the house... I'd choke to death.

And with tennis clubs.

He said he's a member of the Mass Media Research Society.

He's having so much fun in college, that he can't help it.

Living under the same roof as that person...

It's not going to work!

You don't have to see each other.

The bathroom, toilet and kitchen are shared.

Kakita-san knows that, too.

Ha...

Before that, I went to Tokyo to become a model.

183cm with a small face and long legs.

I brought him along with me.

Is it ok to go upstairs to the 2nd floor for a minute?

Worst part is, I brought him in afterwards.

He was the same age as me and worked for a foreign company.

He has a tower apartment in Minato Ward.

He wanted to rent your house as a second house.

That's why we rarely need to meet face to face.

Not good.

Instead of a warehouse, he said he wanted to put camping supplies and such in the room.

He says his hobby is the outdoors.

I've never been a fan of the active stuff.

To think if we're under the same roof...

I felt an indescribable pressure.

I am sure my heart is going to be devastated.

I don't want much.

I just... I don't want to jeopardize my day-to-day life.

I'm just saying that I want you to bring in some normal people here.

So, you see, I don't know what you mean by "reasonably normal.

Are you going to interview him in person?

Are you going to abandon your brokerage business? - In the first place, I...

I'm reluctantly doing it out of respect for my father.

I don't care about such a cheap property like this.

⚟ Hello! ⚞ - Ah, here he is.

See you later.

E? - Free up some space for him.

Huh?

⚟ Oh, go up, go up. ⚞

⚟Talk directly with the landlord⚞

⚟Excuse me⚞

Excuse me!

Hello!

Ah!

It's pretty messy, isn't it?

What's going on! It's not like you, Kota.

Yes? - I was originally here.

Kota-kun, this was your grandmother's house, right?

Your parents divorced when you were little.

Kota, you used to live here with your mother.

But your mother died, too.

Now you are alone.

What is it?

Why me? You want to rent an empty room?

As long as I can eat with the money I make, it's okay.

He said you were a decent man.

Ah, did you ask the real estate agent?

He said because I was a small-minded Generation Z, he would say bad things about me.

I heard it from a real estate agent.

I heard that a room on the second floor, about 8 tatami mats is vacant.

Because it gets a lot of sun and got a nice view.

400,000 a month including utilities.

What⁉

On the real estate agent's website

It may have been written as 38,000 yen.

38,000 yen is fine, but...

I will pay 50,000! - What?

I heard that you pays nearly 10,000 yen a month in rent to the landowner.

Ah, the land is not mines.

I will pay 50,000 yen per month for that.

50,000...

It's temporary. I haven't decided to rent it out yet.

I will pay in cash 50,000.

Hmm

No, I'm telling you it's hypothetical.

I haven't decided yet.

What?

Were you in Silicon Valley? - I was raised by my uncle.

I lost my parents soon after I was born.

So are you fluent in English? So, what? You graduated from vocational school and become a programmer?

Yes. My uncle encouraged me to go out on my own early on.

I have managed to be able to eat.

Wow, you're doing really well for a twenty year old.

But mostly because it's remote.

I'm more likely to be rumbling around.

Rumbling?

I don't feel motivated to do the work.

I'm a decent man too, I just want to make enough to eat.

I want a place where I think I can work.

Eh? Is that so?

I can't help it if I push myself too hard.

But you do have dreams, don't you? Dreams, goals?

Is there such a thing nowadays?

No?

I don't want much.

If my daily lives are not threatened.

I'm happy enough to be just a normal person.

Nice.

If only Kota were here. - What?

If Kotan-kun is here, I came to see him.

Huh...?

I was a dog in my previous life.

Huh... Eh!?

It was on my twentieth birthday, that I went on vacation to New Orleans.