Second To Last Love Season 2 (Zoku Saigo Kara Nibanme no Koi / 最後から二番目の恋)

This is a nice town, isn't it? I love it.

So do I. Though I've lived here a long time, I feel relieved whenever I walk along here.

Yeah.

Ah, hello.

Good afternoon. I'm Nagakura.

Ah, Nagakura-san. Good afternoon.

Hello there. Good afternoon.

Akira-chan, good afternoon.

Ehh... This is it, huh?

Yes. This place has a nice atmosphere to it, doesn't it?

Yeah. It's nice.

Here. Ah, geez. This here.

Please watch your steps.

Ah, I'm sorry. Yes.

Since we're just wandering around here.

Ah, they're adorable, aren't they?

You're right.

It does give you the feel of a Kamakura wedding, doesn't it?

Doesn't it? Don't you think it's nice?

Well, it is nice.

Thank goodness. That you like this place too, Yoshino-san.

Still, there is that, isn't there?

You were young when you got married, weren't you?

Huh? Who?

Well, you.

Me?

Yes.

When I got married?

Yes.

Isn't that obvious? What are you saying?

Well, it's just I can't imagine you as a young man somehow.

You're as rude as ever. I was a Nowy young man.

Nowy - Slang term from the 80's meaning "with it" or "up to date"

I was a boy's boy, I'll have you know.

Stop it with the "nowy' business. You're pushing it.

I would wear Tacchini polo shirts.

Right? I even wound up being a trainer on a houseboat.

A houseboat is pushing things.

And I had a pair of Farrar pants.

And some Clark's...

I can't even imagine that.

Don't go laughing like that...

I'm not.

What do you mean you're not?

Thank you for waiting, Nagakura-sama.

Congratulations upon this occasion.

Thanks. Thank you very much.

Well, this really is a sudden development, isn't it?

Really? I didn't think so, though.

Really?

Yeah.

I was sure about it around this time last year.

Ehh...

Ala. Though you turned it into a Drama...

...the reading of it was sugar-coated.

That offended me just a little.

Because this is that sort of place, please stop that.

That's true. I'm sorry.

No, no. Me as well.

Eh... As the parents of the bridegroom, would this be fine with you?

Hold on there, please.

You've got it wrong. You're wrong, aren't you?

Ah... I'm very sorry!

It's okay. It's okay. You don't have to do that.

Right, Mother dear?

Well, I have gotten used to it already.

Only recently. Just recently though.

I'm very sorry!

Well, whatever.

It's okay, it's okay.

Yes, I'm going to take the photo!

Nagakura

Yes! Yes, say cheese!

Cheese!

Pancakes again?

Thank you very much!

Please, go and take your time.

Hey, hot shop owner!

Please wait just a minute.

Delicious, isn't it?

Owner! Owner!

Ah, yes, yes.

I need some water.

Ah, water? Yes, yes.

Just a minute, please.

And then some of your pancakes!

Pancakes, right?

Whaa! What's this?

Wait, wait, Nori-nee...

Hey...

Hey, c'mon and help me out.

Don't wanna.

Where's my pancakes?

Yes, pancakes.

I'll cook them with plenty of love.

If you would please.

Nori-nee.

Recently it's all been pancakes, pancakes.

And they have pancake faces.

Never mind that. Come on.

I don't wanna!

I come home looking for peace and quiet.

I don't come back here just to make meals.

So I don't wanna!

I understand. Yes, yes.

Just help me out. Help me out.

You don't understand at all.

Where's Onii-chan?

He went out.

For pete's sake. He's useless when it comes to crucial moments.

That man, geez...

Yes, yes. Here, here...

I don't wanna.

Where's Mariko?

Mariko-sensei's in the middle of writing.

Geez!

Nagakura Mariko. Moving along smoothly.

The sight of Chiaki-sama's delighted face flows into her mind.

Like I thought, Kamakurabo trays are nice, aren't they?

Kamakurabo - Trays with detailed carvings done in the Kamakura style (where this series is set) and meant for the Bon Festival

Thank you very much.

Eh? And, this is the one?

Yes.

We'll have the names of the bride and groom carved into them.

Whaa, that'll be nice. Right?

Um...

Huh? What is it?

Were you sleeping just now?

No. I was wide awake.

No, no.

Isn't there something you wanted to say?

No, there isn't, there isn't.

Well, please go ahead and say it.

I want to hear your opinion.

No, there really isn't anything.

I understand. I can tell that there is something.

Look. You have "I want to say this" written right here.

No, there's nothing written there.

And "I want to say this," is written here, too.

There's nothing written there. Nothing there.

Well, look. I think it's best if you don't keep it in.

Please go ahead and say it. Right?

Yes.

You do seem to have an opinion to make.

Ah, do I?

Well, I...

...don't want to boast about the countless number of wedding ceremonies I've been to until now...

...but I have attended quite a few.

I see.

All the way from the 1980's to the 2010's.

That means, well, I've got a history...

...of having been given countless numbers of presents like these over the years.

In my case, I attended most of those weddings as a friend of the bride...

...and so, on the return trip, my women friends and I, well...

...we would check out the presents we had been given.

You've done that, right?

I know that, I know that.

"Ah, what could this be?" "Then, my turn! Me!" we'd say.

And then we'd each unwrap them from whoever's behalf it was from, right?

Well, we would say just whatever we wanted about them after that.

We would all give out with our harshest opinions.

Well, I would say them myself, too.

You would.

I would, wouldn't I?

And there's these Kamakurabo trays for the Bon Festival. Right?

They're splendid.

They're truly wonderful.

Thank you very much.

I even went out and bought one myself right after I moved here to Kamakura.

So with all that in mind, I'd like to dare to give an opinion about them, too.

Hmm... I think, "should we have these?" a little...

Huh? Huh?

Well, well, well...

Well I think, "It'll be a waste since they're just too nice and so they'll end up being put away into a closet."

And so I get the feeling their fate is just to be forgotten somewhere in the house.

And because it'd be so much trouble to return them...

...and because they really can't be used for anything else.

What's more, since they'll have names carved into them...

...that makes it even more difficult to find uses for them.

And then, um... There's the box that they come in.

This is bulky, isn't it?

This is inconvenient for a woman who's just been to a wedding ceremony and is her in formal clothes and shoes.

And this is so bulky they'll have to say, "give me a break already."

In short, they've got a bad reputation. These things just don't come to one's mind as gifts.

"What's this? For the Obon Festival?" "Whaa, how useless!" they'll say.

I wonder if you can understand what I'm trying to get at.

It might be just as you say.

Ah, right? Thank you very much.

But, you don't understand the meaning behind a gift.

I don't understand that much.

So can I explain it?

Huh?

This is called a "gift," right?

Yes.

It's not a practical one. Well, it's better off not being practical instead.

Well, that's why I say I don't understand the meaning of it.

It's a memento. It's a gift.

Yes.

A Bon Festival tray is different from those consumable gifts you hand out, say, at year's-end.

And so it's fine if they aren't very useful.