Second to Last Love (最後から二番目の恋)

They're so noisy!

Aren't those two tired yet, geez?

Fuyumi...

Fuyumi.

Nagakura-san.

Please wake up, Nagakura-san!

Good morning.

Ah. Good morning.

- Ah, it's morning... It's morning? - It's morning.

No, this is no good. It's morning.

It's something like that, isn't it?

You're really slurring there.

I'm slurring.

Right? Well, um, since it's morning...

...if you don't get ready quickly, you'll be late.

I have to get ready, too.

- So long; thanks! - Morning...

'Morning.

Ah... 'morning.

Ah. Did you get smashed again?

- Shape up already. - Hey. Don't shake me, don't shake me.

- Shinpei. - Huh?

- Um... - Yeah.

Good morning.

Ah, 'morning.

- 'Morning. - 'Morning.

- Hey, stop that. What is this? - Hurry.

You'd best be careful. When I get angry, I'm like a Sukeban. (leader of a female gang)

Be quiet, geez!

'Morning, Drunken Princess.

Sorry about that, My Prince.

There!

Chiaki, sit down!

What is it?

- Ah, hello. - Ah, hello.

Sorry. Was my brother clinging to you again?

It's totally okay! Because we were both drunk.

We were drunk.

- Sorry about that. - We were, weren't we?

Ala? Mariko-chan, are you studying?

Yes. About the history of dramas. Right now I'm at the spot covering trendy dramas.

Ah, those, huh? I miss them.

You're great.

Enough, Chiaki. Hurry and sit down.

- What is this? - Shinpei!

She's in a foul mood this morning, isn't she?

What is it?

What's up?

Shinpei. Sit down a minute.

Me?

Quiet down, you. So shrill, so shrill.

- Here Chiaki. - Ah, thank you. I'm so happy.

- You there. - Yeah.

- Are you okay? - Huh?

What's going on between you and Chiaki?

"What's going on"? Right?

Um. Nori-nee, you should follow the rules of grammar a little more...

- Shut up! - Yes.

Somehow, it's fine you've declared yourselves lovers and all...

...but are you really going out together?

Somehow it doesn't look to me like you are at all.

What's that? We're fine.

What do you mean?

That is... I want to hear if you're actually getting it on!

Oi! Oi, you. What is... Erina's right here! Stop that, you!

Please don't start paying attention to me now.

As a parent I have to pay attention...

- Please continue. - Continue...

What's going on, Shinpei?

Come to think of it, nothing is going on there, right?

That's right, that's right.

You could say we're at ease with each other.

Yeah, that's it. Rather than something like dating, it's become something like a platonic relationship.

- Yes, yes, yes. - Right? For you too, right?

What are you talking about?

You're not some couple who's been together forever, after all. Isn't that just no good?

That's not true.

The thing is...

- ...why are you angry about that? - That's right.

That's right, Nori-nee. Rumors have been coming to my ears from here and there about your family.

Huh?

- That's right! - That's right, huh?

You're always doing this. What are you intending? All you're doing is troubling Yoshino-san.

Well, it's not causing me that much trouble though.

Look, she said I wasn't causing any trouble.

I didn't say that you weren't causing ANY trouble.

I think it would be better to avoid using such gray expressions like that with Nori-nee.

That's true.

Look. If you guys were true lovers...

...you wouldn't be letting all these strange situations come up.

Sorry about that.

Ever since earlier all you've done is say these incomprehensible things. Blab, blab, blab, blab!

You're the one doing incomprehensible things!

Like what?!

You and Chiaki kissed, so don't go around saying such great things!

Ala?

Ah... you saw that?

- Well... - I saw it.

Ah, was it that? You did seem a little cross since this morning.

That's wrong, that's wrong. It... it was that...

It was a fine, soft kiss.

- Oi! What are you saying?! - It was?

- No, no, no! - No, it's okay. No. Sorry, sorry...

- Just a minute! Shinpei, it wasn't. - No, no, that was...

Let's see, um, let me explain. I think...

...um, he just mistook me for someone.

Mis... mistook you?

Yes. Me for your wife.

- You mistook me for her, right? - With Nee-san?!

Ye... yes! I mistook her.

- How do you know that? - I mistook you.

Because he was calling out her name over and over. In his sleep.

- Her name. - Ehh?

"Fuyumi. Fuyumi."

"Fuyumi," like that. "Wait, Fuyumi."

Fuyumi?

Eh?

- Who's Fuyumi? - Eh?

I don't know.

Who... who is that?

Who is that?

That's not your wife's name? Then what was that? Then, what, what, what was that?

- Eh? Fuyumi? Fuyumi? - Yes.

That's the worst. Who's that woman?

Well, I don't know. Well, did I really say the name, "Fuyumi"?

You did say it. What are you saying?

That's why my thought of, "Ah, what a nice, romantic story," just took a nose-dive.

- Then just who is this "Fuyumi" person? I know! - No, that's not it, not it.

It's that, isn't it? One of the girls from that cabaret club the other day.

What are you saying?! You're wrong!

It's true that is the sort of plain name you'd associate with a woman from a cabaret club.

That's so. That's so, but that's not the problem, now is it?

Confess. Who is it? You wouldn't just call out some unknown woman's name, now would you?

Right? Isn't there something?

To make me say such a name...

My friend Rei-chan's mother's name is "Fuyumi" and she's very beautiful.

That's it.

That's not it! That's not it! Don't go deciding that! That's not it!

For pete's sake. Double-dealing and doing it with a woman who's name you can't even remember is the worst!

I won't have you saying vulgar things like, "doing it with a woman," you!

The thing is, I've told you this many times over, but I'm not double-dealing with anyone! I'm not!

- Really? - That's right.

Even though, in the end, you've been keeping both of them dangling.

- Well, that's because... - I think that, too.

What's that?

That in the end, by getting involved with both of them and causing trouble after trouble...

...and not coming to any sort of conclusion about them...

...you do it because you get some kind of fun out of it, right? You're popular that way.

- You're wrong, wrong. That's just your... - Was I declaring that that is wrong?

I'm not saying there's anything wrong about it.

After all, you're all adults. And all of you are lonely.

So then, as long as all of you are okay with it, then everyone's happy.

Am I wrong?

That's, well, as you say, but...

Well, it's true there may also be that.

Oh. It's rare for you to admit to a loss like that.

I never once said anything about losing.

Um. I must say that since we have come to a rather disorganized place, I will try to put some meaning to it.

Last night yet another incident occurred.

- Eh? What? - Yes.

I confessed to Chiaki-san that I had fallen in love with her.

- Huh?! - You confessed?

Yes. And then Chiaki-san thanked me and accepted it.

Seriously?

Whaa! That's cool.

That's great, Mari.

Then, we're in a triangle now, aren't we?

- By triangle, would it be an isosceles triangle... - This has gotten all messed up again.

Then, eh? Isosceles... What's "isosceles" mean?

- It's a beautiful... - More importantly than that...

...in the end...

...just who is this "Fuyumi"?

That's...

- Who is it? - I wonder who it is?

Who is it?

Heiwa Fansubs Presents: Saigo Kara Nibanme no Koi - The Second to Last Love Episode 10: "Even an Adult's Future is Shining"

How are you doing, Mariko-chan? Doing your best?

Yes. Thanks to you.

You could say I'm looking forward to this. For this drama to be finished.

I see.

"A Love That Hasn't Ended Yet." ("Mada Koi wa Owaranai" a play on the previous series Koizumi Kyoko and Nakai Kiichi starred in, "Mada Koi wa Hajimaranai" "A Love That Hasn't Started Yet")

That's a very nice title, isn't it?

Thank you for that.

Um. It's been a long time since I watched a drama.

I do watch anime from time to time.

What kind of anime?

Ow. Sorry.

By the way, what was the last drama you watched?

"Western Police." ("Seibu Keisatsu" series that ran primarily from 1979-1984)

She said, "Western Police."

Good morning.

- Good morning! - Ah!

What is this person?

So cute!

Um, this is our screenwriter, Kuriyama Haruka-sensei.

- I'm Kuriyama Haruka. - Yes. I'm Nagakura Mariko.

- Hurry and get back... - There is that.

When I was a child, there was a thing I treasured very much, but loved too much and so it got worn out...

...and so my mother told me she threw it away, but you look just like my old stuffed animal.

So cute!