Atarashii kutsu wo kawanakucha Page #4

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It was a long trip.

You've got to watch your step here.

Let's keep going!

Just kidding.

I could drink a bit more.

Then come with me,

if you like.

I treat.

I will treat. I have treated before.

I'm forgetting Japanese.

Are you drunk?

Who, me?

Paris! What a place!

Here?

Here we go again.

Cheers.

That's good.

Really?

Try it.

May I?

OK.

That is good.

Have some more.

Want to trade?

It's good, but it's too strong.

Tell me more about your sister.

You're interested in her?

I'm jealous that she's crazy enough

to take off like that.

She has the name for it.

If only I had a name like...

...'sparrow'.

But why did she have to bring you

to Paris and then leave you?

Why not just come herself?

I don't like talking about it...

Forget it, then.

But maybe I will.

Which is it?

She forced me to bring her.

You paid?

She's got a job.

I made her at least pay half.

Why did she bring you?

For good luck.

Good luck?

I always have to be there

when it's important.

University entrance exams,

job interviews, field days...

Or when her pet hamster

had surgery.

If I'm there, things go well.

And you're delighted to be there...

No, I'm not.

Sorry. It's just that she's so pretty.

There's more to it than that.

It started when she was born.

Her birth day...when she was born.

This is getting interesting.

It's not that special.

When Mom had Suzume...

...she needed a Cesarian.

It was touch and go.

Her water had broken

long before her due date...

...so it was an emergency delivery.

It looked like things

weren't going to work out.

My father rushed to the hospital,

and I went to my grandmother's.

That's when we knew it was a girl.

Mom said the baby was calling me.

Mom said to bring me from Grandma's

because the baby inside her wanted me.

So I was brought to the hospital

while my mother was in labor.

I sat out in this kind of corridor

and waited for seven whole hours.

I see.

In the end, my sister was fine.

That's great.

So we've heard this story

over and over again...

Oh, thanks.

The story of Suzume and me.

We've been ground into each other.

So whenever she has something,

I have to be there.

Now she doesn't even tell me why.

I'm just summoned to be there.

Which means she has

something important in Paris.

Probably.

What could that be, I wonder.

Yeah!

The luck brother.

What?

The brother who brings

good luck.

Me?

Yeah, it's amazing. I'm like a shrine

she visits for every big step.

Safe birth...

...success at school, a job...

...and love. I wonder if that's

what this is all about.

I feel like I'd like to pray.

What?

Would you mind?

Aoi-san!

Aoi-san! Hey!

Am I drunk?

Did you finish this already?!

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