The Heart Page #4

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Chizu? Is the bath run?

By the way, have you thought

any more about Chizu?

I think you'd make a splendid couple.

I did promise your parents to look

after their property and financial assets.

- But Chizu's my cousin.

- Even better! She knows you well.

Well... we may have been friends

as kids,

but marriage is a different thing

altogether

I'm sure Chizu thinks the same.

I won't marry for your sake.

What are you saying? You're...

He wanted to trick me out of my money.

I realised that the marriage

to my cousin was simply a cover-up.

While my father was alive,

my uncle had been a good man,

but now money had changed him

into a dishonest one.

I'll never forget that day

as long as I live.

Since then, I've never trusted anyone.

Sir, you said that you could trust

neither yourself nor your wife?

That's because...

...l'm only human, too.

Sensei, you're hiding something...

No, I'm not.

You're hiding something.

Listen, Hioki...

I think you're confusing my past

experiences with my present thoughts.

No, Sensei, what happened in your past

has shaped your present.

For me, experience and ideas are

worthless if one separates them.

That's why I seek advice from you, sir.

You're brave.

I just want to learn from life.

Even from my own dark past?

My past experience has taught me

to distrust others.

But I would like to believe in you.

You're too innocent to distrust.

I wanted to be able to believe

in someone before I died.

Would you... be that person for me?

- Yes.

- Very well.

Then I shall tell you.

I'll tell you all about my past.

But not now.

I promise I'll talk when the time is right.

Shall we head back?

My wife's probably got the food ready.

Where is your graduation certificate,

Sensei?

I wonder what happened to it.

It'll be around somewhere.

I put it away some place.

What are your plans for the future?

To be honest,

I haven't really thought about it at all.

Your family has money,

so you've no worries.

- I'm a bit like your husband...

- But you ought to have a job.

You mustn't emulate him

in his idleness.

I don't idle my time away.

How's your father coping

with his illness?

I don't think he'll live much longer.

His illness is incurable.

There isn't much hope.

Shizu...

I wonder if you'll die before me.

Why?

I was just wondering, that's all.

Maybe I'll be the first to go.

Usually, it's the husband who dies first.

Not necessarily. But maybe

it's because the husband's usually older.

Exactly, that's why I'll die first.

- You're an exception to the rule.

- Really?

You're in good health,

so it's likely that I'll be the first to die.

Yes, definitely me.

What would you do, if I died first?

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