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At that moment, Dad tried to take a picture of you and stepped in the front …
And you got mad at me later when we went home.
Dad? Mom?
He was worried and thought that you came to dislike him.
Girls are difficult to understand…
Huh? What are you saying?
I wish I could have been a sensible father.
Sorry, Micchan. I thought I had my eyes on you.
Mizue, I was seriously worried about you. But, you changed your address suddenly.
We did not know how to talk to you because we were not that smart.
Hey, I thought you were a friend of mine. Why didn’t you tell me anything?
Mizue, why didn’t you come to us?
Sorry. We couldn’t do anything for you.
What? What’s going on?
Voices from above.
They are all here and thinking of you.
Hey, don’t apologize so much. I was wrong or stupid.
Hey, I’m sorry.
I did not see anything…. I just didn’t realize antthing.
Sachiko! Yoko! Tsutomu! Dad! Mom!
They don’t hear you! Voice from underground won’t reach to the surface. That’s the meaning of death and coming to the real dark world.
You were cared so much… why didn’t you see anything?
Although you were living in the world under sunlight, you were looking at only shadows made by light. Right?
Looking at shadows?
Humans are stupid…come to the dark underground, then finally realize that it was bright in the earthly world.
Because the light shines on everything, sometimes you see things you don’t like.
Even if so, you won’t see anything if you look away from the right. If you look at only shadows, you would feel that everything is darkness.
Since that time, I had stopped seeing anything. Stopped listening to anything.
I….was creating darkness by myself.
The truth was… a morning came after a night…even when it was dark, the light always shined from somewhere. Unlike this place, everything was not all dark.
You are right. It is dark in this place. All dark.
I wanted…to live longer….wanted to see the light.
It’s alright. You will not be here forever. When your turn comes, you can go to a place in the light. If you realize the truth of light and darkness, you can go to above.
But, grandpa and grandma has been here for 62 years? I cannot stand it for that long.
It is a little special… in his case.
Special?
Excuse me! Is this the Yanagihara Family?
Who?
Oh, just talking about him.
Here he is.
Oh, hi! Nice to meet you. Is she your grandkid?
Yes, she is.
Who are you?
Hi, I’m a God.
Huh?
I’m a God.
Whereabouts?
Don’t be so rude.
Thank you for waiting, Mr. and Mrs. Yanagihara. Finally got some spaces. For you two.
It took for a long time, honey.
…Yes.
For two?
Yes. Tadayoshi told me that he won’t go without Tsuki at the same time. They were waiting for two open spaces all along.
Two…at the same time?
He could go to above soon as he came here. But, he was staying here stubbornly and waiting for me.
You were waiting for grandma?
Yes. For 50 years. And we waited together for 12 more years….finally we can go together, honey.
Yeah.
So…you both are leaving now.
Sorry about that. It will take a little longer to get a space for you.
It cannot be helped…understand.
Micchan.
Oh, see you later! Not later… take care…sound weird since we are already dead.
Anyway…thank you.
Tsuki…
Yes, I know.
What?
Excuse me. I’m afraid but….will you please take this little girl before us?
What? Why?
We understand that we need to keep the rule of the waiting list. But, she just came here.
She had been suffering being alone. We cannot leave her alone here.
That’s a trouble. I finally brought two spaces for you.
Please consider old one’s silly willfulness for a grandkid.
Old ones…for me, you guys are still super young!
Please.
Wait, what are you saying?
Go ahead now. They are leaving soon.
When we have a rebirth, perhaps we will be your grandkids.
Huh? Why? Grandpa waited for 62 years because of those spaces…
Next chance will come again. I’m used to wait.
It cannot be helped. Alright, let’s go.
Really?
Take care
Of yourself.
But!
Michhan.
You must keep yourself…well?
Grandpa, that’s a wrong interrogative…
You shall go now.
….thank you. Next time, I will spend a life without looking down.
We are leaving.
Okay.
Oh, yeah. You shall have an ordeal before going to above.
What’s that? I haven’t heard of it.
Your conduct was really bad when you were on the ground.
Wait! No way! What is it? Majikanben! (Give me a break).
What is Majikanben?
Well… it might be Benten (Goddess of fortune) who is serious and generous.
Oh, then we should pray together.
Yeah.
Majikanben. Majikanben.
Is she alright?
What a handful grandkid.
Were you really okay?
Yes… there will be an opportunity to see our children again.
Bad luck to say that.
And…there is a light here, too.
Huh?
Your light, Tsuki.
Honey.
You are the light for me.