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Then it sings stronger.

How?

That sounds cute.

- Oh, boss! Good morning.

-Good morning.

I thought you had today off.

I had to cook the bean paste.

- For today.

-Bean paste?

I thought you cooked it yesterday.

Well, yesterday...

customers came,

so I had to open up the shop.

But

What about the pancakes?

I fried them all.

You fried them...

I had a lot of failures.

I'm sorry, boss.

But I sold them all.

I put up a sign:
Sold Out! Thank You

But, selling the whole batch,

you must have been tired.

I was.

Still you came early this morning.

OK, I got it.

- Hov\/ much bean paste today?

-Two kilos of dried beans.

Two kilos.

Well, Tokue.

If you're not too tired,

and only if you Want to,

could you help serve customers?

Oh, boss...

- Do as you please.

Really?

Look at these.

There's a hole!

It's hot.

Boss, I knitted these at home.

It's still too hot for them, but...

- You made these?

-Which do you like?

See them in the light.

- Which one?

-Which one...

I guess the blue one.

Sure? it's thin, the other has two layers.

No, I like this one.

It's still so hot.

- Shall vve take a break?

-Oh, that would be nice.

Thank you.

L, ah...

I have a debt to this shop.

Really?

Ifs... a burden I'll carry all my life.

Is it a large amount?

You haverft been tricked, boss?

No.

The owner of the shop paid the debt

for me.

That's why I'm here.

We all have our stories.

We just have to vvork hard.

Thank you.

I'll do my best.

- That math we're doing...

-What is it? Factor something.

Factorization.

Factorization, Whats that all about?

-It's pointless.

Meaningless.

Is it really?

Of course it is, just factorizing time.

- School is boring.

-it is boring, these days.

Find a Way to make it matter.

Hovv would vve do that?

Turn it into a game.

- No Way.

-Miyu's parents...

They'd kick me out.

Then let them kick you out.

Just for a day.

That's trouble.

- You Want us to fail?

-We'll fail.

- You're cruel.

-No.

I dorft Want that.

But you should do What makes you happy.

You have all that freedom.

What did you Want to be, Tokue?

At our age.

At your age, I Wanted to teach Japanese.

No, really.

I Wanted to read poetry with my students.

But, back then,

the vvar had just ended,

and everything was chaos.

Oh, no! The time!

- What?

-Cram school.

Well, take those with you.

Be careful.

We've only got five minutes.

You're not going, Wakana?

- I dorft go.

-Oh, I see.

- Do vve have discards, boss?

-The rejects.

- Here.

-Thank you.

- The rejects.

-Thanks.

Uh, Tokue, What happened to your fingers?

I carft shake this summer cold.

I keep coughing.

- Are you OK?

-I'm all right.

Uh, your fingers, What happened to them?

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