Half Blue (半分、青い。)

Hello?

Hello? Who's there?

They hung up.

Ah, sorry, I couldn't find the toilet.

It's confusing with all the additions to the building.

You got a phone call. I thought it might from your home.

Sorry for asking you here on Christmas eve. - No problem.

What are you going to do, Ryoji?

Please do like I asked.

[ Love Fireworks, by Yumiko Sano. The long awaited new full length novel ]

Week 18 - I Want To Go Home - Episode 104

My legs won't stop shaking.

That won't help.

She's stable now.

It's an inflammation of part of the parotid gland causing a fever.

It's the mumps. - The mumps.

Are there any after effects?

Like hearing loss?

I...I...lost hearing in one ear because of mumps.

Mumps related deafness! What can we do so the same thing doesn't happen to Kano?

That would be awful. Absolutely awful! - Madam, calm down a little.

Suzume-chan! Ryo-chan!

Sorry I'm late.

Blood tests showed that Kan-chan indeed had the mumps.

The fever lasted two days.

On the third day it went down.

Yumiko Sano?

That phonecall when a woman picked up, that was Yumiko Sano?

What have you been up to?

No, it's not like that.

It's a little delicate but, Shohei-san asked me over there.

You met with Shohei-san again?

What did Yumiko Sano-sensei want you for?

She's got a new book and she really wanted

me write a script for a movie of it.

She said it was because my previous script for "A Nameless Bird" was wonderful.

You're going back to the movie business.

Do you want to end up a penniless vagrant?

No, you're wrong. I will never be that. I...

That's why, Sano-sensei,

Although, I'm truly delighted with the offer...

Eh?

Ah... I...

I think you should write the script

and direct the movie? Right? - Yes.

Sensei, please don't say things just to make people happy.

What? - Well...

I haven't got even the slightest longing to be a director anymore.

What a shameful waste! - Mea-chan.

I'm sorry.

I'm glad to know you don't have another woman. - Yeah.

You've cut ties with the movie business. - Yeah.

Suzume-chan is taking Kan-chan for a hearing test tomorrow. Be strong for her.

Yes.

I will look after Suzume-chan and Kan-chan.

Seriously!

She's fine. She can hear properly in both ears.

I was scared out of my mind.

You made it.

I'm so glad.

I'm truly glad.

Ah... yeah...

Aaah... aaahh...

Is that right... that's fantastic.

I'm sorry Okaa-chan.

Yes? What for?

For scaring you.