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Dear Brother...
A golden bowl, on the right hand
A silver bowl, on the left
Never equal without the other
Those two bowls in each of us;
Those two invisible bowls.
The golden bowl, filled with happiness
Shines with a warm radiance
The overflowing love I've felt since I met you
Couldn't possibly be held in the golden bowl
A golden rapture,
A silver sadness
Let us lay down everything that has passed
So that only you may be held, So that only love may be held,
Let us empty those twin bowls.
You were 10, I was 11.
We met for the first time in our house backyard.
I was weeping.
-You're the only one. - Yes.
You're the only one to ever see my crying face.
- You, my sister... - Yes!
I was 10, you were 11.
The sunlight was very strong, even though it was only May.
It was the day when I visited the Ichinomiya House with my mother.
I saw you there, for the first time,
within arm's reach.
I saw the family's beautiful young mistress, that I had only ever heard about from my mother.
Who are you? This is my family's garden!
Um... Today, I...
oh, I know.
You're the housekeeper's relative, right?
Please sit here. Come here.
You know, I was invited to my friend's party today.
But please listen,
I was placed at the lowest seat! My seat!
I've never been so humiliated in my life!
It was too much. I stormed out after a while!
Just because she was seated at the lowest seat...?
You, you can't talk about this to anyone.
Not even my father, mother, brother, or anyone else!
Miss, miss, did you come home?
Do you understand? You absolutely can't tell anyone.
Lady Fukiko, why are you in such a place!
I only saw the chauffeur, and I feared the worst!
It's nothing.
I just wasn't feeling well, so I merely excused myself early.
Just then, I thought I would never forget your profile.
A little girl, who had just been crying,
barely even 11,
trying not to show her tears of shame to the servant,
raising her head highly and pursing her lips proudly.
That high pride, enough to bring shudders to a child's heart,
made me convulse with happiness.
Since then, my heart was filled with thoughts of you.
Right, since that day,
I could see no one else but you.
But I didn't know,
that you were in love.
What's more, a sad, painful love
and Mr. Henmi Takehiko, of all men.
A single summer week's puppy love.
A love befitting you and one that no one else could have.
Episode 25 The Scarlet Lipstick
Lady Saint-Just!
I was looking for you, Lady Saint-Just.
I called you so many times, but you weren't home,
and you didn't come to school after Lady Miya's birthday party,
and yesterday, I even went to your house!
Well here I am.
Yes!
Do you have anything to talk about? Anything important?
No, not particularly...
Well then.
Your door was open yesterday!
Your apartment, you should lock the door when you go out!
Yeah, yeah...
Where are you going?
My, Ms. Misonoo, here, of all places...
We were looking for you.
Oh, yes.
Lady Miya has called you.
What? To the Sorority House?
Yes.
Yes, I understand.
Please wait. Not now, but 8 o'clock tonight.
Please wait in the Kisaragi Room of the Sorority House.
8 at night? Kisaragi Room?
Curious. Such a late time is nonsense.
She can go home first, and come back.
The school gate will have been closed by then.
This isn't your business!
It seems she is going to entrust an important Sorority matter to you.
It is something no one else but you can do.
No one but me?
Lady Miya said so.
Understood? We have informed you.
Yes.
Lady Saint-Just!
Embroidering is done one stitch at a time, with your heart.
Only then you can create a tasteful work of art.
One stitch, for your mother...
- Ms. Orihara. - Yeah, yeah!
I don't expect you to create beautiful embroidery.
It's impossible even if you were to expect it.
But in the future,
shouldn't you at least be able to hold a needle to sew your husband's buttons on?
I'll just get a husband who can sew his own buttons.
An embroidery filled with a mother's love, on your lunchbox pouches.
Even though the content might be frozen food.
- What's wrong, Nanako? - What? Hm...
Is something bothering you?
You've been gloomy all afternoon.
You know... I think I can't go watch 'Believe in Love' after school.
What? But today's the last chance!
- Have you told Tomoko? - No, not yet.
What's wrong?
You're the one who wanted to see that movie.
Sorry. But it's finishing after 8pm, right?
So what's happening at 8 pm?
- Lady Miya. - What?
Lady Miya has some important matter to entrust to me.
Lady Miya? What is it about?
I don't know.
- Do you have a minute? - What?
Oh... Yes!
- I have something to ask you. - Me?
- You're Misonoo's friend, right? - Um, yes...
I want to know.
About her relationship with Mr. Henmi Takehiko.
Huh? Sure...
Lucky! To be able to see Lady Saint-Just this close...
You see... Mr. Henmi and Nanako first met...
Rei!
I've been looking for you. I wanted you to join the practice match tomorrow.
- Did you know? - Huh? What?
It seems like Ms. Misonoo Nanako
was Mr. Henmi Takehiko's student when he was a part-timer in the cram school.
And she asked him to be her 'brother', and now they're pen-pals!
Brother or pen-pal or not,
don't you think she has such girlish tastes, as expected?
So what? That's none of my business.
Not your business, huh?
I see. That would be better for you. None of your business.
- Well then. - Rei!
Brother, school ended at 4 pm school, and the appointment with Lady Miya is at 8 pm.
I couldn't spend that much time just at the school,
so in the end, I went to see 'Believe in Love' with Mariko and Tomoko.
We decided I should leave early, so I could make it at 8 pm.
But, the famed 'Believe in Love' was
not what I had imagined and was for mature audiences.
Who is it?
You're...
Good evening. I'm sorry to have come so suddenly.
There's something I need to...
What's wrong? Are you drunk?
Maybe. But I haven't had even a single sip of alcohol.
What?
No need to call a doctor. This happens sometimes.
I have so much I want to ask you.
About?
I have a lot to ask you,
so I came all the way here.
I'll make some coffee. Come inside.
There is so much to ask, mountains of questions,
yet I can't.
I can't, after all... Not to you.
For her honour, for her pride's sake...
I'll be going now.
They were grumbling about this and that,
but they both were heavily concentrating on the film.
- The Kisaragi Room? - Yes. Do you know it?
The Kisaragi Room
is an exclusive room for the Sorority Member's Chairwoman.
In short, it's Lady Miya's private office in the Sorority House.
The northernmost room on the 2nd floor.
Come in.
Please excuse me.
Please. Come and sit over here.
Yes.
- Please, come over here. - Um... Ok.
Please sit down, over here. Come here.
What's wrong? Come here. Closer.
Um. Ok.
They remind me of a doll I used to have... your lips.
Well? Isn't is a pretty color? It will suit you.
Huh?
Come, close your eyes, and pucker your lips.
Brother...!
How beautiful! It really suits you.
2 years, no, 3 years maybe.
You will become such a lovely lady
that you'll even surprise yourself.
And, all these fantastic, dreamlike gentlemen
will crowd around you.
That's why, please break things off with Mr. Henmi.
I, I've told you before...
I, I... Bro... No, Mr. Henmi is...
I know!
I knew it, from the beginning.
Huh?
From the beginning, everything!
From the beginning?
Don't you understand?
Lady Miya?
I love you.
You were so cute, I didn't know what to do, since the entrance ceremony...
That's why, about Mr. Henmi...
Lady Saint-Just?!
You're...
Get out!
Your pride, enough to bring shivers.
That beautiful dignity, that I always longed for.
Where has it disappeared to?!
No...
To even dare to degrade yourself so much, you're...!
You're...!
Why can't you just admit it?
That you love Henmi Takehiko!
That's why that girl...
That's why you forced Misonoo Nanako
to be admitted to the Sorority!
You wanted to make her your subordinate by admitting her into the Sorority,
and separate her from him!
Brother... and Lady Miya? That's why I'm in the Sorority?
How is that possible?
I finally understood
what you're planning, and what you're trying to do.
But I want you to stop!
I don't want you to go as far as to destroy your pride,
I don't want that!
How dare you to say such rubbish!
Nanako, don't tell me you believe that.
If you won't get out, then I will.
Lady Saint-Just?
Which one?
What?
Which one is it? Which ear?
Which is it? Which ear did Lady Fukiko's lips touch?
Which is it?!
Brother,
I think I'm going crazy.
Could it really be true? What Lady Saint-Just said?
Lady Miya... with Brother...
And that's why she admitted me into the Sorority.
To separate me from you.
I'm embarrassed.
I'm unworthy to be in the Sorority after all.
I'm embarrassed.
And,
And... I'm frustrated.
Lady Fukiko,
the more I think about it, you...
I always end up hurting you.
I finally spoke the unspeakable.
His memory was deep in my heart,
sleeping there, hidden and silent.
Sparkling with magical light, like a treasure.
My treasure.
My treasure, that nobody should see.
Faster! Much faster!
What? Ok!
I should quit. I'll quit the Sorority.
- Hi, Nanako! - Hi.
'Believe in Love'. I'll tell you how it ends.
The ending?
Yeah. You left halfway through, right?
That, that's where the fun began!
Tell me. I want to listen.
You see, Elizabeth,
she finds out that Tom has another lover!
What's more, that person turns out to be her friend! Elizabeth's friend.
She spots their rendezvous.
That's terrible.
It is! It's so very terrible.
And then, you're in the climax.
- Can you guess what happens? - Hmm.
It's sad.
She goes on a journey. Pregnant with Tom's child.
And then?
That's it. It ends there.
Too bad...
Hey, Elizabeth, are you okay?
Maybe tomorrow, or the day after... Just a little more...
Thanks, Tomoko.
Mistress! Why so suddenly...?
Mistress!
He was my treasure...
He was only mine, yet...
They ruined him!
They ravaged him!
No!
I dreamt an awesome dream last Sunday
But when it saw you,
Surprised, the dream just flew away
I would never lose
So just for you
I have rushed and tried so hard
This feeling of love, staying in my heart
bewildered by the mischievous fairies' game
dances to and fro, always capricious