Hiroki Kitakaze storys The first story Shun (standard:drama, 31329 words)
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Sub-title (blind spot of 50 years) Story of impression in Hiroshima and Odawara in Japan.

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goes to meet soon in .. " "Truth�I" "It is really true.  The grandpa 
does not keep the promise as it is Chicyan instead which cries at once 
as usual either. " "Yes ! understood. " Chikako was effective of 
Shozo's comfort or when it is stopped to cry, has parted from Shozo's 
foot. And, Mayumi also arrived at the seat near Chikako afterwards when 
was made to crawl and  boarded the seat in the taxi back because had 
been urged to take the taxi when going to Mayumi's place. "Then, goes." 
Tatsuya boarded the passenger's seat of the taxi when Tatsuya also said 
so, and eyes moistened a little were turned to previous. There was not 
feeling to make cabby cough too much to take care with the place of 
this separation either, and the cabby also confirmed the destination to 
Tatsuya when the door was slowly closed with the button at hand and 
added, "Was it good?" afterwards. Mayumi went out instinctively toward 
Shozo and Kazue when a manual window was opened "Called when arriving" 
and lonesomely of the endurance, and said a little in the voice of the 
tear mixing while Tatsuya and the driver were exchanging. "It is 
careful. " " without getting a cold" Kazue says while crying because of 
subsequent that Shozo says to Mayumi in a voice which seems to be sad, 
and the daughter is watched with moistened eyes. "asks. " The car began 
to run slowly aiming at Hiroshima Station when Tatsuya answered the 
driver so. Chikako waved toward Shozo and Kazue who waved toward here 
because of the window in the back indefinitely. 

"Chicyan �Ineatly sits." Mayumi made the foot flap in the seat on the
window side near me and told sitting Chikako to scold. There were a 
thing for Chikako to have been to the parents' family of Tatsuya in 
Odawara several times and to take�@Shinkansen�iHigh-speed train�j after 
a long time and a thing still called seven years old, too and Chikako 
seemed not to settle down near having passed by Nagoya. "The ice cream 
is very. " The woman of the salesman in the car tries to raise the 
sales voice, and pass on the side of three people. "Does Chicyan eat 
the ice cream? " The passage was placed, and Tatsuya who had been 
sitting alone heard from Chikako conjecturing an appearance not settled 
of Chikako. Then, because Chikako had nodded gladly, Tatsuya took out 
200 yen of the purse, bought the ice cream for sales in the car, and 
passed to Mayumi. "Eat so as not to spill." Mayumi said to Chikako who 
ate while bad manners, and always spilling meal usually in the scolded 
voice. Chikako ate the ice cream delicious while looking at the outside 
when the ice cream was received from Mayumi. The blue sky spreads out 
besides the window, the roof of the flowing private house is compared 
with the sun, and the reflecting light jumps into Chikako's eyes. 
Chikako settled down a little when finished eating the ice cream or 
after having looked at the brought picture book a little of sitting to 
drip because of the seat, fell into to sleep. 

Chikako had the dream. VTR which covers the current state of the life of
the person who does not inherently have the both arms flows in it when 
Chikako has looked at the news program of the television with 
grandfather Shozo some time. Because Chikako who had seen it had said, 
"It was armless in that person" an unusual thing in the seen voice, it 
was a tone to which Shozo was dignified and a spoken spectacle in 
Chikako. "Chicyan, It is not necessary to say such a thing. That person 
has cruelly painful time by the thing without the arm. However, it is 
not necessary to see by poor eyes. Because that person is alive hard. 
Therefore, it is necessary to live hard with the person that Chicyan is 
physically handicapped. " "Yes was understood. I'm sorrying for the 
grandpa. " "Chicyan is not only a physically handicapped person, and 
should live together hard with the person who received the wound to the 
mind. Especially, Pikadon�iAtomic bomb�j dropped to Hiroshima in old 
times." "Pikadon�H" "It was a bomb which the soldier in the United 
States dropped.  The bomb dropped, the person died fully, and all the 
people for whom had been left received the wound to the mind. It 
understood or is Chicyan. All must live hard. It understood or is 
Chicyan .It understood or is Chicyan .Chicyan�c�c " Then, Chikako woke 
up. When had a scary dream, it was not a sweat though sweated a little. 
Chikako was a downpour by which dimmed more than a little while ago, 
and the end in winter was reported that the glance was turned to the 
window besides the window from among the train which had come to stand 
out the light of the light. Rain thrown without mercy pursus the entire 
window, The scenery it was things except the flow seen a little while 
ago had disappeared because of rain like the water spray, too. Chikako 
recalled the thing to have had eyes which seemed to be sad strangely 
after Shozo had finished spoken while watching me who was reflected in 
the window where the view had been interrupted. The glance was averted 
from Chikako, and Shozo was pausing while seeing the distance. Chikako 
still remembered the thing which had become sad together in spite of 
seeing such Shozo, and a little bewildered to the attitude of Shozo 
different from always feelings. However, did Shozo sadly watch the 
distance at that time? And, why together do become and did become sad? 
Chikako has not understood anything yet now. 

A lot of bridges are laid in the Sakawa river which flows in the Odawara
City, and there is a bridge called a Fuji road bridge laid in Kuwahara 
on the east side of the river and Nakasone on the west side in that. If 
the mountain in Fuji is seen in the other side of mountains of 
MyoujinnMyoujyou when commands a view of the sky from the bridge to the 
west and commands a view of the sky in the east, the thing to look 
about mountains of Tannzawa can be done. And, when the river was looked 
at from the hillside in the bridge, the factory of the enterprise was 
seen for both sides of the river to line, sometimes blew from the 
chimney, the rising smoke drifted an unpleasant smell in the nose of 
people who lived near the river, and it became one of causes of 
photochemical smog which often occurred on the day when summer cleared 
up. April 9, chikako who changed one's school to the Kito Odawara 
municipal elementary school in the sleeve on the west side of the Fuji 
road bridge according to the promotion to the second-year pupil had 
come to the classroom of one class of the end of the opening ceremony, 
and the second grade pupil in the oldest wooden schoolhouse in the 
school. Because students other than Chikako are advancing at the time 
of one year even if it was said to the second-year pupil that would 
move up, became shape that Chikako entered this class only one person 
newly. Chikako was standing queuing up by Tomoko Kawai and two people 
who were Chikako's teachers next to the desk on the platform to 
introduce oneself. "Introduces a new friend all today�I. " The Kawai 
teacher who had been standing in the Chikako vicinity said to the 
student of the class. "My name is Chikako Kawahara. My best regards 
please asks." Chikako seems to have felt nervous while bowing, greeted 
toward the student of the class. The setting sun which enters from the 
window of the classroom shines on students. Chikako was keeping 
standing when the head was raised with the blackboard which was behind 
the classroom paid attention from it without a remark. Chikako does not 
try to say anything though Kawai teacher asked seeing such Chikako, and 
the gentle voice urge of the Kawai teacher as I wonder where Chikako 
Chan came "" with a silence as usual. Chikako did not try to say 
anything though an embarrassed Kawai teacher was waiting to become 
silent a little and for Chikako to open the mouth. The Kawai teacher 
reluctantly sounded in the classroom when turning to the student of the 
class and said in an extending big voice. "Chikako KawaharaChan came 
from the first Hiroshima west in Hiroshima Prefecture elementary 
school.  All do happily" �@Then, it was said Hiroshima, and the stir 
happened from among the student of the class because had considerably 
heard a distant name of a place. Glances of the stir and students who 
watch Chikako unusually are received, and  hangs one's head, and the 
face down of Chikako. " Chikako Chan, your may not particularly 
strained" The Kawai teacher brought his face close to the face of face 
down Chikako in a gentle voice and said. "�c�c" An expression which 
seems to be shameful with a silence as usual is floated and the face 
down of Chikako. Still, Chikako was not meant though was a face down at 
all though questioned Chikako on various things in a gentle voice by 
the Kawai teacher as usual ablush. Such Chikako was seen and the Kawai 
teacher said, "Then, Sit down at the seat" while touching Chikako's 
shoulder by the hand. Then, Chikako returned to the seat of me in the 
seat which had been arranged in order of the attendance number. 

"Kahn�c�cKahn�c�cKahn�c�c," The sound of the bell of leaving school
sounds "Teacher goodbye" "Good-bye. " The Kawai teacher is opposite to 
the student of the class and a return greeting is done. Chikako ended 
the homeroom, shouldered the bag, and wore the hat, And, walked to the 
doorway with the shoe cabinet with the Kawai teacher. Attached when 
arriving at the doorway, in proportion to, and Mayumi who had come to 
the school was waiting for Chikako to come ahead of the shoe cabinet of 
one class of the second grade pupil. "I'm sorry for the teacher. Sends 
to such a place." Mayumi said seeming to apologize to the Kawai teacher 
who followed next to Chikako. The Kawai teacher is bowing. "Were you 
able to greet all neatly today?" Mayumi heard it from Chikako who made 
to shamefulness on the side of the Kawai teacher and was standing. 
Then, it is answered that  mutters "Yes" and Mayumi, and the face down 
shamefully of Chikako. The Kawai teacher who had been looking at it 
said, I wonder It was a splendid greeting.  whether having been 
strained a little however "" while patting the head of Chikako who was 
wearing the hat. And, the Kawai teacher told Mayumi who was anxiously 
looking at Chikako to encourage. "This time, it is the first time in 
children of one class of the second-year pupil of whom I Take charge to 
accept the transfer student. Especially, children of the class seem to 
be a little bewildered to the child who came like Chikako Cyan from a 
long distance because Chikako Cyan is unusual in the school, too. 
However, it is not thought that becomes accustomed mutually sooner or 
later, and do not worry so much, please. " "Teacher goodbye" "Good-bye. 
" Another students take out shoes of the shoe cabinet in surroundings 
which three people are halted and spoken, puts on shoes on a big board 
where the shoe cabinet is paved below soon, and walks to the doorway at 
a quick pace while greeting the Kawai teacher. Mayumi politely said, 
"Please continue your favors toward Chikako's thing hereafter" while 
lowering the head, and exchanged the greeting several times 
continuously with the Kawai teacher. Chikako also Kawai teacher greeted 
"teacher goodbye", and two people went out of an old wooden 
schoolhouse, and walked to a certain courtyard on the way in going to 
the front gate. 

When two people arrived at the courtyard, the courtyard was crowded with
children who would return hereafter. The voices of children who speak 
in a big voice with the child who is making a noise because goes up the 
cherry blossoms planted in the courtyard tree echo to the schoolhouse 
with which the courtyard is covered and it sounds in the entire 
courtyard. "Safe!, It is possible to become all classes happily at 
once. " Mayumi comforted and said to Chikako different from a situation 
surrounding in which it was low-spirited so a little hanging one's 
head. Still, becomes silent and the face down of Chikako only in the 
nod to Chikako with "Yes" while hung one's head. The petal of cherry 
blossoms which had become only muds lay on in's feet as was stepped by 
children. Mayumi came to be worried a little. However, it was thought 
over to be low-spirited as the Kawai teacher had said only first. And, 
Mayumi took Chikako from it without a remark and two people walked to 
the front gate. 

Mayumi moved to to Chikako even if going to the supermarket when walking
on the road which passed like going out of the front gate and having 
carried out the moorland by the thing by which the thing to want to buy 
something for Chikako who was low-spirited and I wanted also to have 
shopped a little. Then, two people deflected from the road which led to 
the residential quarter to which had gone to school, and walked to the 
supermarket because Chikako had nodded gladly. 

When two people are walking on the road in front of the supermarket
where a lot of people are walking, Tatsuya's mother Noriko had the 
vinyl bag of the supermarket from the previous person. "Well Mr. Mayumi 
hereafter, will you shop?". "Yes" When Mayumi was asked by Noriko, 
Mayumi floated and answered the smile a little. "Chicyan . Have mother 
buy a lot of cakes. " "Yes!" Noriko walked through the side of two 
people while floating the smile when saying so. "Chicyan . What do you 
want to eat tonight?" "Good the curry and rice�I" "Then, supper tonight 
is decided to the curry and rice of the mother making specially!" 
"Yes�I" Mayumi took Chikako and walked to the entrance of the 
supermarket when Chikako raised a voice which seemed to be glad. 

When you walk in the pavement on the road where Mayumi finishes
shopping, and goes from the supermarket to the house by two people 
where traffic is a little,it was asked Mayumi as Chikako drank the 
bought juice, "Mother . Do not you live with grandmas by what?". 
Tatsuya's family's going out of the parents' family of Tatsuya where 
Tatsuya's father Koutarou and mother Noriko lived, moving to a nearby 
cheap apartment of two stories, and having lived were inadvertently 
recent. Mayumi grew up considerably also by Chikako when moving in 
Odawara and started clerk's part the thing to which the hand parted a 
little and ahead in the woman clothes counter at the department store 
in front of Odawara Station by the thing that I wanted also to have 
worked. However, Koutarou who does not at all understand the thing that 
the woman who marries and has the husband and the child works comes to 
collide gradually with Mayumi. Moreover, because Mayumi had come to 
collide with Noriko because Mayumi that the return is late came to 
begin to become accustomed to the part and to do housework at time zone 
different from Noriko, Mayumi gradually lost whereabouts in the house. 
When Mayumi consults Tatsuya about the thing, because Tatsuya had 
agreed with the thing that the obstacle works by not being so that 
Mayumi might bring up Chikako, it was persuaded that parents understood 
the thing that Mayumi worked. Tatsuya in the thing has collided with 
parents because parents did not understand Tatsuya persuades however at 
all. Tatsuya thought that you should part a little with parents. And, 
when talking with Mayumi, became a thing of going out of this house, 
renting the apartment in the school district at the school of which 
Chikako had been commuting, and seeing the living appearance by three 
people. Chikako felt the thing that Tatsuya and Mayumi were fighting 
against grandparents somehow. But, Chikako was not looking at the place 
where parents were actually quarreling with grandparents because the 
circumference was not unsmart man by the quarrel in front of the child. 
And, even if you hear the translation which Chikako moved to Tatsuya 
and Mayumi after Tatsuya's family moves, because both suitable things 
were said and cheated, Chikako went out of the house where Tatsuya's 
parents lived and did not know the true reason moved to the apartment 
where Tatsuya's family lived now. 

"The grandpa and the grandma hate mother. " Chikako did not understand
Mayumi's word. Still, Chikako asked the return to the word. "What kind 
of things are the thing and dislike of mother?". "Mother does not 
understand.  The translation is heard from the grandpa and the grandma. 
" Mayumi told Chikako that vomited a little and threw away. Then, 
Mayumi floats a painful expression, turns, and has fallen silent 
because Chikako has heard the same thing again. Chikako who had seen 
such Mayumi's attitude became silent as much as Mayumi and turned 
ahead. After that, anything did not exchange the word though walked in 
a row as for two people and walked single-mindedly toward the 
apartment. 

There is a road which leads to the municipal management residential
quarter left when coming in front of the cigarette shop walking in the 
pavement on the road in front of Hotaruda Station, Chikako was taken 
and entered the road because Mayumi had known that it was a shortcut 
where went to the apartment there. And, it is thought that two people 
will walk a little on the road from Chikako and has come into view left 
the Renshouji park. When Tatsuya's family comes to Odawara before 
Chikako moves from Hiroshima to Odawara, the return is always late, and 
Tatsuya who is making holiday busy is recalled the thing to play in 
this park, the glance was moved to about 20-meter park which was 
previously. Then, it was seen for the junior high school student who 
dyed the hair to red to climb chain in the park like the uniform, to 
smoke the cigarette, and to collect several. Chikako had hidden oneself 
behind Mayumi before the park front passed because Chikako had become 
scary somehow. Mayumi also conjectured the situation or came near to 
the roadway a little while joined behind Chikako without a remark and 
tried to pass the park front. When two people go in front of the park, 
there is a boy who has shape for the bowl which can been done with 
concrete to turn down from whom height steams the cigarette on the 
slide with about three-meter 1.5-meter diameter, The boy said, "That 
child is lovely" toward Chikako. Some of another collected boys also 
moved the glance to Chikako in the voices. Then, because Chikako who 
had been flickering looking at the park with side glances became 
scarier, Chikako has stuck at the right of opposite to the park's there 
Mayumi's body with fit. When Mayumi has the vinyl bag of the bag and 
the supermarket had in the right hand in the left hand and changes, it 
seemed to have said that did not want to affect the situation so much, 
and tried to pass in front of the park with Chikako had been applied at 
the right of the body by a little fast step. When two people go in 
front of the doorway of the park, The boy who had put on the same 
uniform as collected junior high school students who had rid on the 
bicycle came to two people. The boy passes on the side of Mayumi at a 
considerable speed. "Oh�I" Because the boy had passed just beside my 
body, surprised Mayumi instinctively raised the voice and halted in the 
place. Chikako sticks to fit and Mayumi while making the body spirited 
also of Chikako who hears such mother's voice. The boy who had rid on 
the bicycle without stopping even to the nature like Mayumi's voice 
etc. said that was going to the place where collected junior high 
school students in a big voice toward all. "Came to light to the 
teacher.  You will all run away early. " Then, it was said, "Let's 
temporarily go to my house" in the voice which surrounding boys heard 
as the boy on the slide stood up. Boys who hear the voice are floating 
the expression in a hurry to which bubbles over. After that, boys made 
the boy on the slide a head when gathering under the slide, and 
disappeared in lining by running with short steps with the municipal 
management house. Though Mayumi and Chikako make the back looked back 
timidly and were looking at the appearance where boys disappear, 
however, when boys bubble over a little and the voice to run away 
weakens gradually, both Mayumi and Chikako returned to me, and returned 
to the apartment where we lived. 

Please read �– before reading Chapter 3. 

�–There is a custom by which Kun and Chyan are applied after child and
animal's names in Japan. Especially, Kun is applied after boy's name 
and Chyan is applied after girl's name. 

The seat substitution of the morality of the third hour on the day just
now tried to be done from the opening ceremony in the classroom of one 
class in class on the third for two years which the setting sun 
inserted. Though of course changing order of seats which is the order 
of the attendance number until today by the thing of substituting the 
seat,it was a thing which joined two seats of length from six rows in 
length and six rows in side, made how to arrange the seat a row, and 
was done at the same time as permuted the seat substituting this seat 
for three rows in length and six rows in side. It was a thing which 
joined two seats of length from six rows in length and six rows in 
side, made how to arrange the seat a row, and was done at the same time 
as permuted the seat substituting this seat for three rows in length 
and six rows in side. �@When you say why to make the seat such how to 
queue up, make the girl at the right of the row of length, make the boy 
sit on the left, and in case of the purpose is to make the thing about 
which the boy who does not talk usually so much talks with the girl 
during the lesson can done The purpose is to make the boy sit at the 
right of the row of length on the girl and the left, and to join the 
seat 1 and several from ahead of the row of length of six people in 
case of the purpose is to make the thing about which the boy who did 
not talk usually so much and the girl talked during the lesson can 
done, to make to one group, and to make six groups in all as which the 
number of the boy and girl was the same. When the seat is arranged and 
the group is made in this manner, the companion goes out the gap when 
it is necessary to divide students [When experiments on science or eats 
school lunch] by the number of children, and because the number of 
people disjoints, there is no gathering things, and students can be 
divided at once by the same number, all classes did the seat 
substitution from the lower classes of this school to the upper-grade 
in the shape said so at this time when a usual class had not started 
yet. However, the way of the seat substitution stuck mutually a good 
various, inside people, there was a decided way, included the way 
decided by lot, and it was left to the homeroom teacher. As for the 
charge of this class, the Kawai teacher had decided the thing done by 
lot this seat substitution for the first time by the thing and the 
thing that things of students of this class have not been understood 
well yet. "Hereafter, the seat substitution will be done. The person 
from whom the name is called comes for taking ahead because decides the 
seat by lot this time. " The Kawai teacher put the chair behind a large 
desk on the platform and said to students of the class in big voices 
while having a seat. "Well! lot." "The first grade pupil was not lot! " 
The voice of dissatisfaction comes out from among children. "Keep quiet 
all!" When the Kawai teacher tells to control everyone's voice of the 
class, the voice of the dissatisfaction not so installed was made not 
to be heard and began to call names other than students that the thing 
to sit having poor eyesight ahead is done through necessity in order of 
the attendance number. The voice of the dissatisfaction not so 
installed was made not to be heard and began to call names other than 
students that the thing to sit having poor eyesight ahead is done 
through necessity in order of the attendance number. Chikako seemed to 
have been relieved a little in the thing decided that the seat 
substitution was done by lot. The reason for lot is that the nature was 
easy than the way in which the person who hoped mutually gathered for 
Chikako who was the transfer student. However, Chikako still had one 
worried thing. The reason for it is to have to sit from the number of a 
lot of one person of people of boys alone on a seat the endmost on the 
passage side in the thing that Chikako had entered the number of people 
of girls of this class when it was the last number "19".Though feelings 
called one person's nature is easier because one person has increased 
by the thing which I entered were suited somewhere, too,for Chikako who 
was the transfer student, feelings that did not want to become those 
who overflowed were stronger. Chikako went ahead when my name was 
called, drew lots, and returned to my seat. And, the lot broke off with 
the complexity was timidly opened by both hands like paper which 
encompassed the internal medicin "18 " When the figure written with the 
red ball-point was seen, Chikako was relieved by chance. "Well!, I am 
the most previous seat. " "It is a group the same as KakKun which did ! 
" Other students are raising the voice of pleasure and dissatisfaction. 
The Kawai teacher decided that all lot ended seats of students with 
poor eyesight by the discussion, and directed all members of students 
to move the seat. "gah�c�cgah�c�c." "Retreats and retreat. " "Oh, it is 
dangerous. " A lot of desks are dragged, the sound against which the 
floor and the desk rub and students' voices sound in the classroom, and 
extends. Chikako was about also to see in that from the back and move 
to my the second place from the back on the part of the rightmost. The 
boy who became a near seat if Chikako came near my place finished 
already moving and sat. Because the boy had asked from Chikako while 
pointing at a near place which had become vacant when turning to 
Chikako "Here?", Chikako answered, "Yes". The boy stood up when the 
answer of Chikako was heard, and when Chikako's desk was gripped 
without a remark, moved the desk to the place which had become vacant 
near me. When Chikako said, "Thank you" while moving the chair to the 
place in the desk, the boy greeted "You're welcome" while floating. "My 
best regards" When Chikako also greeted "Yes, my best regards" while 
being possible a little to shine, two people turned ahead and sat on 
the seat. 

"Hereafter, please divide in each group it. And, please decide the group
leader and the sub-group leader of each group. " The Kawai teacher said 
as the Kawai teacher who was sitting on the chair stood, the sound by 
which the desk was dragged in �ggah�c�cgah�c�c" and the classroom 
sounded, and extended. Because six groups of Chikako were seven people 
unlike other groups, everybody of six groups joined behind the seventh 
seat when six desks were able to be opposed and the desk was adjusted 
to one, and sat down at the seat both of seven people. The Kawai 
teacher said, "Talked all, decided, and the toss was useless" when 
making sure that the seat finished moving and sat on the chair. In 
Chikako's group, the boy is Taichi Iwata , Naoyuki Aizawa, and Yuhki 
Matsumoto from ahead. the girl is Aiko Suzuki, Hisako Yoshizawa, 
Chikako Kawahara, and Yumi Tamura from ahead. Seven people assumed the 
way including the discussion. However, because I did not want to do the 
group leader and all sub-group leaders so much, all made to awkward 
without the thing for everyone to open the mouth. Then, a little 
doubtful expression was floated as Taichi thought that Yuki after a 
while about going directly and said. "When saying so, let's decide in 
that. " "That?" "HuHuHuHuHuHu" When fearless laughter was raised, 
Taichi took out the writing case of drawing out the desk. And, when the 
pencil and the mechanical pencil of the hexagon were taken out, Taichi 
began to make the hole for six sides of the pencil like dice the 
mechanical pencil ahead from the writing case. "Then, the boy and the 
girl sequentially roll this,the person who puts out the smallest number 
becomes a group leader, the person who puts out a small number 
secondarily will become a sub-group leader. The person who puts out the 
smallest number becomes a group leader. The person who puts out a small 
number secondarily will become a sub-group leader. And, when a lot of 
smallest numbers go out, the person who puts out a small number 
mutually does extra innings mutually. Let's decide by this way." The 
boy becomes a face which seems to be happy if Taichi says while showing 
the pencil which finished making the hole all of the group, and the 
girl is making eyes a point a little. However, the idea which Taichi 
said between girls does not include an opposable idea, and either, 
moreover, every seven people rolled the pencil in Taichi like dice 
because they had not objected. 

"Now turn of Yumippe[Yumi's nickname]" Hisako who put out �g6" passed
the pencil to Yumi of seven public notices when saying in a relieved 
expression. The current result, Taichi of starting to say puts out "3", 
and Chikako has put out lowest "2".When Yumi pulled the right hand 
which gripped the pencil behind a little near the center of the board 
of the desk while drawing the wrinkle to the middle of the forehead 
after prayed a little, the glance of six people was poured into Yumi's 
right hand. Yumi slowly opens the right hand, and the pencil rolls on 
the desk through the finger. "4 " Yumi patted, lowered the chest by 
chance, and Taichi and Chikako risked the shoulder aghast. "It is good. 
I am a sub-group leader, and Mr. Kawahara is a group leader. Decision!" 
Taichi tried to write my name in seeing the sub-group leader of the 
distributed form of each group when saying so. Then, Yuki said to 
Taichi in seemed a little dissatisfied voice. "Gacchyan[Taichi's 
nickname],The group leader is impossible in the transfer student." "The 
group leader does to the girl. " Girls other than Chikako also are 
raising the voice of dissatisfaction following Yuhki. "It is a thing 
which has already been decided. " "It is also in the group to which the 
girl does the group leader. " Naoyuki said following Taichi. Chikako is 
heard me all and to be quarreling, do the face down, and by the face 
which seems to be going to begin to weep at any moment. "ChikakoChyan, 
seems to begin to weep. " "It is poor! " "Gacchyan! Become a group 
leader." When girls of the group which saw Chikako who seemed to begin 
to weep said to Taichi in succession, Taichi became an embarrassed 
face, and murmured Yuhki while looking for Chikako. 
"YuhKun[Yuhki'nickname],ended very. " "Gacchyan! Does not change 
particularly in the group leader and the sub-group leader." "Yuhkun 
must become a group leader when Yuhkun says particularly. " "I do?." 
Though Yuhki becomes a little embarrassed face when is said so by 
Taichi, because the face down having the face over which Chikako seems 
to cry as usual, the voice which was the whisper was enlarged, and it 
was said, "I become a group leader" by a serious face. "YuhKun,It is 
good-looking." All of six groups banter Yhuki. When Yuhki writes my 
name in seeing the group leader of the form to disregard such a 
surrounding voice, was about to be told to write the name in sub-group 
leader's place, and the form was passed to Chikako. 

When the school ends, Chikako was walking on the gravel road which led
to the residential quarter having passed like having carried out the 
moorland alone to return to the house. Higher weed than the stature of 
Chikako that the day inserts from the sky with a cloud after the rain, 
and the wind sometimes sprayed is ruderal is shaken, and the sound 
called SharaShara is made. In Chikako's surroundings, school children 
who were leaving school were bubbling over happily each other. Chikako 
looked back, and the writing case in the satchel looked back back when 
coming up to per center and Chikako looked back to the moorland behind 
because the ringing KataKata sound had approached. Then, Yuhki was seen 
to run toward here. Yuhk was heard as running out of HahHah and the 
breath when coming to Chikako's place. "It is a house, and here of Mr. 
Kawahara. " "Yes, the house of YuhKun is here�H " "My house is here. 
The house of Mr. Kawahara is where?" Chikako did not want to answer so 
much. However, because I am helped a little while ago and given Yuhki 
has heard in the voice to put familiarity, Chikako turned the finger to 
the apartment and explained the place. "Oh dear, Chikako's house is an 
opponent in the municipal management house. It is a banks of a river of 
my house splash residential quarter. Might there might be a green 
plaza? The near what. " "Then, it is an accompaniment on the way. " 
�@Chikako said while nodding to speaking Yuhki. �@ �@Yuhki has asked 
from Chikako speaking for a while by two people. "How was Mr. Kawahara 
called at the previous school?". "Chiichyan." "Oh, Chiichyan. Because 
Chikako is a name?" "Yes, all call my thing Chiichyan. " "Then, I am 
called Chiichyan. " "Yes" �@Chikako is floating seem a little shameful 
expression. "But, Chiichyan does not speak with a local accent at all 
though came from Hiroshima. The person in the other side will usually 
speak by speaking with a local accent about Hiroshima." "My house, the 
father was a person in Odawara, and how to talk was not changed though 
came to Hiroshima, though mother is a person in Hiroshima, when 
speaking with the father, mother speaks by the standard dialect. 
Therefore, I can speak either. However, speaking with a local accent of 
Hiroshima occasionally goes out to the other side because lived for as 
many as seven years." Yuhki nodded while seeing the face of Chikako who 
was floating the smile a little by the face which and, was and did not 
consent somewhere by finding something a new thing. "Then, speak by 
speaking with a local accent about Hiroshima. " �@Eyes sparkled this 
time contrarily a little while ago and Yuhki was importuned for 
Chikako. Then, two people laughed in big voices because Chikako had 
spoken by speaking with a local accent about Hiroshima while mimicking 
Shozo's low voice each other. "It is a real thing! " Two people raised 
and laughed at a bigger voice when Yuhki was said to Chikako who was 
laughing in the voice to joke a little each other. "Chiichyan, today's 
dismissal" "Yes, dismissal" "I play catch with younger brother in a 
green plaza today. Do not you do together?" "Yes, it is good. " 
�@Chikako did not have the thing to play catch. However, because 
feelings said that wanted to play with Yuhki were strong, Chikako 
nodded immediately. �@Two people confirmed time and the place when 
coming to the place into which two of residential quarters separated 
while doing various conversations, and returned straight to the house 
separately. 

Chikako went out enough of the house ahead when ate lunch, and faced a
green plaza with the bicycle because the promise to gather in a green 
plaza at two o'clock of daytime. 

The boy who seemed that Yuhki and the younger brother had already played
catch in sands which had been assumed to be quiet which was no one 
enclosed by the net when Chikako arrived at the road in front of the 
plaza. Yuhki turned to the road to understand soon, and when Chikako 
came, Yuhki to play catch signaled awareness to younger brother by the 
hand and stopped playing catch the thing to which Chikako had come. 
And, younger brother is taken when the glove put near the net of the 
plaza is picked up and has approached Chikako running. "Hi, this fellow 
is younger brother Yoshikazu. All call KazuKun." "Hello" Yoshikazu who 
was standing next to Yuhki is greeting Chikako. "Hello" Yoshikazu's way 
to talk felt Chikako strange slow while greeting Yoshikazu. "By 
offering Chiichyan and this glove . I think that uses easily because it 
is what I embezzled." When saying as Yuhki presents Chikako the glove 
Chikako was able to arrive at the left hand the fading glove had been 
embezzled as said. "Well, looseness" Chikako appeals in the glove, and 
the hand is put in and out, and a large thing appeals to Yuhki. "Well, 
is it large for a moment?". When you watch the glove by which Chikako 
is putting the hand in and out while floating the expression that Yuhki 
is painful, it was said, "Here was smaller" as Yoshikazu removed the 
glove which was able to arrive at the left hand, and passed to Chikako. 
Though Chikako held back a little, it was possible to think over when 
it might be good only if it was possible to arrive, and Yoshikazu's 
glove to arrive at Yuhki by holding the passed glove sideward. "Oh, 
right" "Then, offering of glove here I offer elder brother's glove." 
Yoshikazu received the glove of Yuhki from Chikako who was holding back 
a little when saying in a proud expression. "Is it safe KazuKun?". 
"Yes" Though Yuhki comes to be worried and was heard from Yoshikazu, 
nothing was said from it because played catch usually well to 
Yoshikazu's who had not spoken with the girl usually so much looking to 
seemed gladness too much, and knew that Yoshikazu's skill was certain. 
After that, When three people extend to the triangle according to the 
distance of the bowl to which Chikako is thrown, Yhuki to Yoshikazu, 
and Yoshikazu to Chikako and Chikako to Yhuki, by shape, catch was 
started. Chikako has become accustomed gradually thanks to Yuhki 
laughingly received though Chikako was a little bewildered to catch 
which has never been done first even if Yoshikazu who throws the ball 
taken easily and what kind of ball are thrown. "The good Chiichyan 
condition" Yuhki calls Chikako who threw a quite good ball by the 
eighth throwing a ball. Chikako floated a proud smile in the voice. 
Until today after moves, Chikako had not shortly been moving the body 
at the school with the thing with a not favorite thing to move the body 
too much yet by the thing that the class of the physical educa The 
thing for such Chikako to move the body on the day like today when it 
cleared up is a very comfortable thing, Chikako who had begun to become 
accustomed to catch threw the ball of a white rubber ball to power full 
Yhuki. 

"Receive KazuKun my great physical strength fast ball! " "Yes!" When you
turn the ball for a while by three people, Yuhki which had begun to 
become accustomed threw the ball of hastening to Yoshikazu a little. 
The ball thrown fast can curve more a little than Yoshikazu sideways, 
Yoshikazu who tried to take it by force has fallen in considerably 
impossible shape on ground. "KazuKun!" "Elder brother, it is painful." 
When Yuhki approaches Yoshikazu in a hurry, was made to stand up 
holding Yoshikazu's shoulder, and the sand stained to clothes was paid 
by the hand. Do the stream of blood from Yoshikazu's elbow and knee, 
and the skin peels off. Yuhki slowly walked to the house because 
Yoshikazu nodded when asking from Yoshikazu as the face being stiffened 
"Were you able to walk?" with the shoulder had been held. When two 
people began to walk, followed afterwards while a little being 
frightened though Chikako was looking the appearance a blank surprise. 

Chikako was on the second floor of the house, and had been made to wait
by 6 - mat room which Yuhki and Yoshikazu were using while mother in 
Yuhki and the house was treating Yoshikazu. The room has dyed orange in 
the room because of the light of the evening sun inserted from the open 
window. Chikako while is waiting, the face down worrying about 
Yoshikazu's thing sitting while leaning against steps under two step 
bed where the space of the room was considerably occupied. A big poster 
which prints the photograph is pasted to the door of thrusting. The 
appearance which professional baseball player's batter had swung full 
to watch the hit ball soon was reflected in the poster. Face down 
Chikako looked up when was made to wait for a while and looked at the 
poster. The thing etc. of baseball : Chikako though did not understand 
anything. However, was being deprived for a little while by the poster 
which projected baseball player's shining moment. "kachi!" Chikako who 
was gazing to the poster, when turning around to the door because the 
sound to which the door opens was, Yuhk is about to enter the room with 
Bon Festival when Yuhki put two cups which ice and the juice entered. 
"I'm sorry, is made to wait. " When Yuhki said so, Chikako asked from 
Yuhki in an anxious expression while receiving the cup entering of the 
juice from Yuhki. "Safe KazuKun?" "Yes, no wonderful thing in injury 
either" "It is not because I turned the glove. " "Differs, The reason 
is that I threw a strange ball. " Yuhki encouraged Chikako because 
became desperate if comforted Chikako who was depressed because thought 
saying so because it was still me. When Chikako hears speaking Yuhki 
which encourages me, saw boldly hearing the thing which had been felt 
when greeted Yoshikazu not away from the head from Yuhki. "Is it 
KazuKun bad somewhere?" "Why?" "Because of how to talk and very slow" 
Yuhki became seemed a little lonely expression in the word of Chikako. 
And, Yuhki was said to Chikako while looking at the outside of the 
window which was the opening standing up when the cup had in the hand 
was put on the floor. " All mean Wise delay. It is not separately bad 
where either. However, speaking holds slowly." (Wise delay is brain 
injury person's thing. ) Chikako who had understood the meaning of the 
word which Yuhki had meant was looking into a face of Yuhki which was 
not called Yuhki the word and nor was compared with orange which seemed 
to be sad. �@Though Yuhki kept silent for a while,when sitting one of 
two study desks displayed to the window side, heard from Chikako while 
floating a smile which seemed to be sad. "Is the thing disliked about 
Chiichyan and KazuKun?". �@Chikako refused immediately. "Truth?" "Yes, 
KazuKun is gentle." Two people floated a gentle beaming face in the 
word of Chikako each other. "It was good. However, all do not like 
thing about KazuKun." "Why?" "There was no wonderful thing now, and 
both of two people old times were bantered however and were serious 
all. However, Gachyan said variously to guys who bantered and sent 
away." "Well, Gachyan is unexpectedly gentle. " "Yes, I did not think 
to seem be to scary first either. However, after that, came to become 
happily and to play baseball and to do together in the plaza there." 
"Gachyan also plays baseball. " "It is terrible and a masturbation. I 
am not suitable. The ball is terrible and fast." "Well, it is want to 
see" "When doing this time, invite." "Truth?" "Yes!" "When do you do?" 
"What are Gachyan because does the day not promised with KazuKun always 
together? But, thinks by beginning next week maybe because of not doing 
the day in which the baseball team practices." "Baseball team?" "Team 
of child association" "YuhKun plays baseball and is done also even in 
that. " "Yes" "Oh dear, YuhKun really likes baseball. Did YuhKun paste 
that poster?" Chikako heard from Yuhki while pointing at thrusting. 
"Yes, It is cool. For me, to the player of the professional baseball 
the dream." Yuhki sparkled eyes and stood up when saying so. And, 
lifted with the shoulder by becoming the horizontal with the grip of 
the wooden bat had been leant next to the desk by the right hand. After 
that, became an expression which seemed to be embarrassed this time if 
a previous bat was looked at proud for a little while, and the bat was 
leant against former place. "What do you want to become Chiichyan in 
the future?" Chikako shamefully answered when was asked from Yuhki so, 
"I want to do the tailor." "Well" Afterwards until Chikako returns to 
the house, Yuhki has variously heard the thing of the dress from 
Chikako. However, because Chikako had not had the knowledge of the 
dress, did not answer at all. And, the dream of me who said 
shamefully,I think that is far far apart from the dream of Yuhki said 
as eyes sparkling, the face was reddened and the body had been 
shortened without answering anything. 

�@Please read �– before reading Chapter 5. 

�–The conversation sentence by Koutarou is speaking with a local accent
of Odawara. 

Night of Sunday, Tatsuya had come to my parents' family for the first
time after had exceeded in the apartment. Because time had passed 
considerably as for Tatsuya after had gone out of the house, the thing 
to go to those who thought even if talked about parents again with 
Mayumi's thing was reported to Noriko beforehand. Noriko opened the 
door and went out of the inside when Tatsuya stood in front of the door 
in the house of one story which became antiquated, and the buzzer which 
had arrived next to the door was pushed. "Poppa, it is?" "Tea is drunk 
in the living room now. " Tatsuya walked to the entering living room in 
the house when hearing from Noriko so. And, tea was drunk sitting on 
the sofa which had been displayed sideward of a long table in the 
living room both when arriving at the living room as Koutarou watched 
the television. Tatsuya said that would sit on the sofa on the other 
side with Koutarou toward Koutarou. "Poppa, Mayumi is reflecting on the 
thing variously said to the poppa, it is said that it will be thought 
that level money who me is earned because Chikako grows, and the hand 
parted, and saved for Chikako's future. Savings of Chikako's school 
expenses do not go satisfactorily only by my work either. Therefore, 
will you permit Mayumi's working?" Tatsuya said to Koutarou by a strong 
tone. Then, Koutarou erased the power supply of the television by 
remote control, and said to Tatsuya. "It is not a thing known though 
done you by married couples very. But, the wife and I of me have 
already aged. I do not want to take care with so much in the house." 
Koutarou took the cup when saying to Tatsuya without power, and sipped 
tea. "However, the poppa, hereafter, Mayumi will say that will neatly 
do housework. It might be easy also even for mother if Mayumi does so." 
"The woman works outside, and there is no reason to be able to do even 
the thing in the house. Even my wife will have complained, and should 
be able not to sleep by being washed in the middle of the night. When 
coming to eat separately separately making for the rice among those, it 
is not significant even if lives together. You do not only pay the 
rent!" When Koutarou says to Tatsuya while drawing the wrinkle to the 
middle of the forehead by a strong tone, face down of Tatsuya being not 
able to do the thing to answer anything back. Then, Noriko who heard 
the story of two people while washing tableware in the kitchen in the 
vicinity in the living room came to the living room, and sat on the 
Koutarou vicinity. "Tatsuya. Younger brother Masayuki marries and lives 
neatly. It is not useless if not steady because it is senior to your 
Masayuki. Recently, Masayuki was promoted to the section chief. Learn 
Masayuki a little!" It is things compared by Noriko with younger 
brother Masayuki, and Tatsuya is expressions considerably in a bad 
mood. Tatsuya pressed unpleasant feelings which had a lump in one's 
throat, and heard from Koutarou in the voice to cling. "Then, the thing 
said that it is not possible to live together any longer?" "Ah hey when 
moving to Tokyo. Then, you do not get on a long commuter train every 
morning. " "Such a thing does not occur. Chikako is poor to make change 
one's school again because has already gone to school. Mayumi suffers 
from asthma a little, and is not particularly strong in it in the body 
either. It is likely to have come to Odawara after had thought about 
it. " "Then, you might only have to resign the company by you, exceed 
in the place where air somewhere is good, and live. Because development 
is advanced fast by the city outskirts, air will become dirty like the 
city among those also in Odawara." "It is impossible, and resigning the 
company. Flew to Hiroshima once, Finally returned to the headquarters 
in Tokyo, and work began just to get on the right track. In it, Moves 
to the provinces and there is not confidence which can be done well 
either, it is said to me who came for a long time that another can do 
what work the salaried man." Tatsuya is turning eyes moistened a little 
to Koutarou when saying by a strong tone. "Anyway, by which I cannot do 
anything. Tatsuya, hear neatly. Saying as the world will be not 
particularly sweet. Even your of now wife said us by all means by you 
though opposed, and married. Even Chikako gave birth by your and your 
wife. Therefore, decide yourself now. Please understand." Koutarou 
tried to stand up when saying, and go to the room of me in the interior 
there. "Poppa, Please wait. " Koutarou walks slowly without hearing the 
word said that Tatsuya will stop. "Tatsuya, Mother and the father are 
not made to embarrass too much." Noriko also has gone to the kitchen 
when saying so. Tatsuya is a while, became silent and the face down. 
However, reluctantly returned to the apartment because the means to 
persuade parents any further had not hit on. 

A little chilly day when drizzle falls. At the time of start usual class
and passed one week, Chikako tried to read the book when becoming a 
rest while the class of the second hour was ending with sitting on my 
desk. Chikako did not say that would separately like book. However, 
until today after changes one's school, the face of Mayumi of the 
neurosis floats in Chikako's head whenever there is an invitation even 
if there is an invitation even if talking with the girl of the class 
and playing, because a special invitation was cut off and Chikako was 
not good at thing said to the other party who had invited why to 
decline the invitation, Chikako was not good at other party who spoke 
to say nothing of the friend either. Chikako spent the rest time while 
dimly looking at the book with sitting on my desk when becoming rest 
time for that. It is a thing that Mayumi's existence leaned heavily 
because things to play outside were fewer girls in Chikako the much 
more than the boy though it is friendship of the child approved by the 
thing to come and go in a house each other in some degree that it is 
needless to say. Chikako opened the fairy tale for the lower classes 
which had been borrowed at the library on the desk at this rest time, 
there was not a thing to chase the character, and either was looking at 
dimly when casually paging. "House of Chiichyan . There is a computer 
game. " Taichi who had been speaking with six baseball friends who 
included Yhuki in surroundings of the blackboard said to surroundings 
in the heard voice. The baseball friend came to Chikako's seat the head 
of Taichi when in whispers talking from it for a while. And, Taichi at 
the head seemed to have gotten excited a little and heard from Chikako. 
"Chiichyan . Do you have the computer game?" "Yes" "Please let me play 
a game and do. Is it good?" Chikako has answered Taichi's considerably 
forcible word without being answered as unpleasant, "Yes". Taichi said 
that would hear the answer of Chikako toward the boy who followed 
behind. "All . Saying was said. Then, let's go to the house of 
Chiichyan all and play a game!" "Yes! good!" "For me, it is the first 
time to do the computer game. " Boys' voices which seem to be glad 
sound in the classroom. Chikako is said by Taichi though it was thought 
that only Taichi came to play, particular many people boys came to play 
and do the thing, and had an embarrassed face. Then, Yhuki approached 
one person and Chikako, and said seeming to apologize from among boys 
who were bubbling over. "I'm sorry for Chiichyan. It has been said to 
all that Chiicyan has the computer game." "It is separately good. Good 
afternoon even if many people come to the house, it is safe because 
mother is a part-time job and does not exist." Chikako told apologized 
Yhuki to encourage. "May I also go?" "Yes, of course" Even intimate 
Yhuki did not have the thing which was called in the house because 
Chikako called the boy in my house even when was in Hiroshima and there 
was no thing to play. Because the Yhuki had come to play, Chikako 
floated an expression which seemed to be glad. 

When rain stopped in around daytime, and Chikako left school, the day
opened from the space of the cloud. When Chikako ends by the school, 
and comes in front of the room of me on the second floor of the 
apartment, the key to the door was opened with the key which was about 
the string which was to the neck, and the door was opened timidly. 
Mayumi from whom the fight with Tatsuya got an increasing neurosis 
because of Koutarou and Noriko's things after moves to this apartment, 
frequently took a rest from the part-time job excluding Wednesday of 
the rest. When the thing that there was no entering Mayumi in the house 
was confirmed, Chikako smoothed the chest down by chance. And, goes to 
the kitchen, tied on the wall of the kitchen, and the game was put out 
and tied to the television from among fit and the television rack put 
to attach. 

When all gather in Chikako's house, the tennis game of the fighting type
was done by the tournament form by eight people because there was no 
game for the boy in Chikako's house. "Receiving, super-serving!" "Well, 
made a mistake. " The voices of boys who play a game while pushing 
controller's button strongly more than the necessity leak from one room 
of the apartment, and sounds in the apartment. Chikako who was the 
owner was looking the game of Yhuki Taichi of the semifinal war when 
one public notice was knocked down with surprising swiftness. "Yes!" It 
is pleased for Taichi who is scoring the first single-unit to take the 
second set in 6-4, to become those who win, and to raise both hands. 
"In case of the ace, and the game of my baseball team, everything is 
okay though makes do. " Yhuki was filled with Taichi while laughing by 
the face that defeated Yhuki seemed to be a little mortifying. When two 
public notices were knocked down with surprising swiftness, the face 
down in the second game of the semifinal war seeming to apologize also 
of Chikako. "Chiichyan is strong." "Because of owner" "Chiichyan is the 
queen of tennis." The voice to admire Chikako comes out of 
surroundings. This computer game was what ahead in Hiroshima Tatsuya 
had bought Chikako longer than another half a year. And, Chikako was 
enthusing about the game because there was no other party of play 
except Yhuki. Therefore, Chikako was single-mindedly doing this 
computer game from the moved time to today when the school ended and 
returned to the house. Therefore, the skill of the game of Chikako was 
a terrible thing by reflecting in boys who had hardly done the computer 
game by coming today sarcastic. "I defeat the queen!" When the reset 
button was exaltedly pushed while making eyes bloodshot, Taichi began 
finals with Chikako. "Go for it! Gachyan" "Externals of our baseball 
team hang." The current game is seen, because Chikako was too strong, 
every person who assisted in Chikako was gone. Taichi was assisted all, 
and advanced the game with Chikako as the shoulder being stiffened. 
Taichi has been defeated being not able to do the thing taken in 
Chikako by as much as one point though the game began eagerly. "How 
frustrating!" Taichi was postponed standing up when saying to "It was 
not interesting that Chiichyan was such strong . Let's went to the 
outside all and played baseball and did" and surrounding boy while 
immediately floating the wry smile though Taichi was making to 
mortifying first. "Yes!" A surrounding boy has been postponed as much 
as Taichi, too. "Chiichyan will come. " Taichi said to Chikako who was 
seeming the to apologize putting things in order of the game rounding 
the back. "Even if I go, it is safe. " "What is said, and more baseball 
is the number of people, happier. " Taichi said to Chikako who was 
holding back laughing. Chikako took out the key to the bicycle of 
drawing out small articles putting there next to the television of the 
kitchen and went outside when all baseball friends went out of 
Chikako's house. Taichi at the head said to the baseball friend that 
the baseball friend and Chikako went down the stairs in the apartment 
and arrived at the bicycle depository. "Then, has the glove and set in 
a green plaza. " Then, Yhuki came near to Taichi's side and said. "I 
take the glove of Chiicyan. " "It is not appropriate for the hand of 
Chiicyan in the glove of YhuKun. " "There is a glove of goodness, and 
KazuKun. " "Ah There is fully a glove gotten from elder brother's old 
glove or the relative in my house however. " "Yes" "It is thought that 
give the glove if there is appropriate for the hand of Chiicyan in 
that." "It is good." Yhuki went to take off the glove in the house 
riding on the bicycle on which had rid when becoming a consenting face. 
Taichi faced Taichi's house riding on the bicycle with Chikako when 
explained circumstances to Chikako. 

"That is my house." "Well" When two people come in front of the house of
Taichi who is managing the greengrocer, the shop was pointed as Taichi 
who was running in front of Chikako got off the bicycle and said to 
Chikako. Chikako also is getting off the bicycle with Taichi. When you 
go to the storefront where a lot of vegetables are displayed as two 
people push the bicycle, The woman of Taichi's mother Sachiko and the 
middle age who had worn the apron was talking standing some. "Oh, Mr. 
Iwata,this radish are cheap. Your shop is rumored if fairly making a 
profit." "Such a thing is a lie, does not make a profit at all. Here 
holds out so that the guest is not taken away by the supermarket." "If 
you say so,a near town seemed to have been good at supermarket 
recently. Your shop is also serious." In front of the shop which the 
two people are speaking, Taichi tried to take Chikako, and pass timidly 
while pushing the bicycle gotten off. However, Sachiko has been noticed 
disappointing. Sachiko said to Taichi by a sarcastic tone that would 
turn to Taichi. "Well! It is unusual. this day a date to the girl?" 
"Differs! Came to take off the glove because played baseball and did in 
the plaza." "You and baseball. Study a little!" The appearance which 
Taichi and Sachiko say each other is seen, and Chikako and middle age's 
woman are laughing. As Taichi complains that the usual serif came out 
in the head, think the conversation with mother do not to want to be 
asked by Chikako any further, went in front of the door of the 
iron-barred window which was next to the shop and the bicycle was 
stopped. Chikako also stopped my bicycle to the vicinity of Taichi's 
bicycle. "Taichi. Playing baseball too much till late is useless." 
"Understand!" Taichi opened the door of the iron-barred window when 
loudly shouting, took Chikako, and walked to the garden. Chikako was 
following Taichi when the attitude of Taichi different from always was 
amusing and laughed again. 

It was said, Taichi was "Chiichyan, waited here because glove was taken
off" when two people arrived at the garden, and existed in the 
warehouse in the garden. The big persimmon tree is planted in the 
garden and it that Sound backing hangs. The boy of the high school 
student title came to the veranda when Chikako was waiting for a while 
in the garden. "Are you Taichi's friend? " "Yes" When the boy hears 
from Chikako, Chikako answered while looking up at boy's face. Hears of 
rattling sound from the warehouse where the door at the entrance is 
open. The boy who heard the sound shouted in a big voice toward the 
warehouse. "Taichi! Tidy putting things in order furnace." 
"Understand!" "Says so, and never puts in order." The boy floated an 
expression which seemed to be ill-humored when saying so, and 
disappeared in the interior of the house while spottily saying. Chikako 
sees the back figure of the boy who leaves and has thought that that 
boy comes. Therefore, it became difficult in the garden and entered the 
warehouse with Taichi. 

"Oh, A small disguising oneself danced around here." Do the turn one's
back to of Taichi under light with a light lamp of nakedness to the 
entrance when Chikako entered the warehouse and looked for the 
cardboard box which the glove fully entered. "Gachyan, still?" "Ah, has 
waited for a moment." Taichi is looking for the glove as Taichi throws 
in the hand to the cardboard box as usual. "Person a little while ago 
and who?" "Ah, That is an elder brother." Though Chikako is looking at 
Taichi's back figure for a little while when hearing from Taichi so, 
After a while, Chikako looked about the vicinity because various things 
on surroundings. Then, a lot of magazines had been piled up next to the 
doorway of the warehouse from which Chikako was standing, and a 
photograph naked of the woman was recorded in the cover of the magazine 
which was most up. "It was!" When the nature is taken from Chikako in 
the cover of the magazine, Taichi finds the glove and the voice has 
been raised. When Chikako turns to Taichi in a hurry and is reconciled, 
Taichi has approached Chikako while dusting dust where Taichi exists 
about the glove. "Chiichyan, this can arrive. " "Yes" Chikako was able 
receipt to take off the glove from Taichi and arrive it. "Give to this, 
Chiicyan. Endure for a moment in an old thing. " "Thank you. But, may I 
really get ?" "Yes, because of thing it which has not been used any 
longer" When Taichi says so,the glove which went out from the cardboard 
box was put away when looking for the glove given to Chikako and began 
to go out. "Thank you" When the reward is said to Taichi who is the 
putting things in order of the glove again, Chikako is gladly watching 
the glove. Two people went out of the warehouse, and returned to the 
storefront with the bicycle when Taichi put the glove in order. 

Sachiko approached two people when two people returned to the
storefront, and heard from Chikako. "Daughter, How is the name said?" 
"My name is Chikako Kawahara. " Chikako in good heart answered Sachiko 
who had become person's face which seemed to be good different from the 
time which had been called Taichi each other. "Chikako Chan, it is 
happily done as Taichi. " "Yes" "Taichi thinks that worries when 
disliked because there is not girl's friend either." "Mother, you may 
not say an extra thing. " Taichi floated trouble expression and said to 
Sachiko who was speaking with Chikako. Chikako is laughing again on the 
side of Taichi. "Then, goes because all wait. " Two people rid on the 
bicycle when Taichi said to Sachiko. "ChikakoChyan, moreover, smells 
play. " "Yes, it is and comes. " Two people began to run toward the 
plaza when Chikako said to Sachiko while having rid on the bicycle. "It 
is careful!" Sachiko is shouting in a big voice. Toward two people who 
are rowing the bicycle. Chikako turned back, and waved toward Sachiko 
though was disregarding by Taichi. 

The baseball friend seemed to get tired of waiting when Taichi and
Chikako arrived at a green plaza and played catch. "Gachyan, it is 
slow." "Oh I'm sorry. " When the voice of disgust is poured on Taichi 
by the baseball friend,the bicycle is stopped with Chikako near the 
fence,ran to the friend who was playing catch in a hurry. "Gachyan, 
KazuKun is put." Yhuki took and waited for Yoshikazu when Taichi and 
Chikako arrived at the place with the companion. The bandage has been 
still rolled in Yoshikazu's elbow and knee. "KazuKun, is it already 
safe?" "Yes" When Chikako anxiously heard from Yoshikazu, Yoshikazu 
nodded energetically. On the side, Taichi said to Yhuki as Taichi 
folded one's arms. "When the number of people becomes nine people, it 
is not divided that KazuKun enters though is good by the same number." 
"I am looking because there is no thing which baseball played a game 
and did. " Chikako seemed to have kept one's distance from Taichi who 
was folding one's arms and said. "It is not. About one person may leave 
a lot." Yhuki said to a surrounding friend. However, because there is a 
difference from the game of baseball with little number of people at 
the defense even if the child who has not done enters, all float an 
expression which seems to be dissatisfied. "It is so, Chiichyan becomes 
a pinch-hit of my team. If you do so, Chiichyan can be presented to the 
game, too." When Taichi says to Chikako who is holding back, because 
Yhuki and a surrounding friend had agreed with the idea, Chikako also 
nodded with pleasure. 

"Strike!" The ball which Taichi threw is and the judge has been as one
of the attack sides is watched by children of the team of Taichi on the 
defense side. Chikako who had been standing near the fence was having 
the current seeing a fast ball of Taichi who had not seen and popeyed 
as Yhuki had said. 

Back of three times, when Chikako stands in the batter's box in the
pinch-hit of Taichi's team, Yhuki to have been the pitcher slowly threw 
the ball. "kakhn!" The sound of a metallic bat sounds in surroundings, 
and the ball which rises lightly flies to the light. Chikako ran in one 
base when the ball hit the bat as Chikako was said by Taichi. "pach!" 
"Out!" When the child in one base takes the fly which Chikako struck in 
the light running, the voice of the child who was the judge came out. 
Chikako walked to the fence to which Taichi's team was sitting a little 
with a downcast air. "Chiichyan, the condition" Taichi said to 
disappointed Chikako as the following batter Taichi faced the batter's 
box. "I will go! Gachyan." "OK!" The face of Yhuki by which the catcher 
was watched became a strained expression different from time when the 
ball had been thrown to Chikako. Taichi who set up the bat also looks 
serious and Yhuki is watched. Held Yhuki threw the fastest ball to 
which I was thrown to Taichi. "Ball" Chikako in the plaza where the day 
is sinking, it is a sink as for the sweat, eyes must sparkle and the 
baseball friend who is enthusing about a white bowl, Chikako was 
watching happily. 

Chikako was not good at girl's friend though May came. Chikako seems
also to have given up the thing to have already made the friend though 
the thing that Mayumi's neurosis deteriorates more than ahead was the 
best cause, Chikako did not go out to the outside things except play on 
clinging Yhuki in the computer game when returning to the house. On the 
other hand, Taichi considerably mortified the thing defeated at Chikako 
because of the tennis game or did the tennis game when coming to 
Chikako's house many times taking several baseball companions after 
that thing. Chikako is the beginning, though resistance was felt in the 
thing of which Taichi comes to the house because it was happier that 
there is an opponent than does alone, it was habituated for Taichi to 
come to Chikako's house and to play a game. The part-time job, and 
Mayumi is an out day and day in which Taichi's baseball team does not 
practice. 

The first Monday of which it clears up May, Taichi was coming to
Chikako's house this day. Chikako tried to open the key to the front 
door from the neck with the key which had been lowered always when the 
school ended and  arrived in front of a house. "why?" Because the sound 
to which the usual key opened was not even if the key was turned to the 
right, Chikako turned the knob of the door to the left while looking 
doubtful. "kachi!" "Open." When Chikako becomes a little uneasy 
expression, opens the door timidly, and enters the door, As for 
Chikako, the nature adhered to the thing that Mayumi had taken a rest 
from the part-time job because a little low, black heel which Mayumi 
was putting on at the usual work. And, Chikako entered the inside 
looking for Mayumi when shoes were taken off and went up to the house. 
Chikako looked at surroundings feeling the sign where the person 
existed arrived at the kitchen and spent. The drop of water sometimes 
drips because of the faucet, hits the tub for wash, and the sound is 
made. And, the vase which stuck Chikako's sweets and the pink color 
rose was put from Chikako's back on the coffee table only a little. 
Chikako went to the usual sleep by three people 6 - mat room when the 
thing that there was no Mayumi in the kitchen was confirmed. Then, an 
expression which seemed to be painful was floated as Mayumi did the ice 
pillow on bedding and lay. "Mother" Mayumi answered Chikako in the 
voice to which consideration was not clear when saying in a little 
small voice to confirm whether Mayumi was asleep, "What?" "Mother, The 
boy of the same class which said Gacyan came, and the computer was 
promised to play a game together today. You may do. " Chikako timidly 
heard from Mayumi. "Yes, it is not so annoying though it is good. 
Mother, because very has a pain in the head today." Mayumi tossed about 
to the other side with Chikako when saying to Chikako in the voice 
which became ill-humored for headache. When Chikako goes out of 6 - mat 
room, and closes the glass door which has partitioned the kitchen and 6 
- mat room, Chikako went to the television and began to set the game. 

When Taichi and two baseball friends arrived at Chikako's house, began
to do the tennis game by the tournament as usual in the kitchen with 
the television. As much as one point was not able to be taken from 
Chikako and the defeated thing had disappeared though Chikako was 
strong as usual because Taichi also shortly passed to Chikako's house 
at another half month and played a game. However, Taichi moved the 
controller as the shoulder being stiffened because had not done to 
Chikako still by as much as one victory. "Gachyan, Win negligently. " 
Two baseball friends who had come to Chikako's house times how many 
another by Taichi's association, It seems to have been disgusted to 
finals as the game of advanced Chikako and Taichi is seen and complains 
to Taichi. "Understand! " Did the answer of Taichi of the word to two 
baseball companions an unpleasant voice. Chikako had said the thing 
which Mayumi noted to Taichi and two baseball companions beforehand 
before starting playing a game. However, it was not possible to play a 
game to think saying as might angry to boys who raised the voice by all 
means because Mayumi began to get up because Chikako was uneasily 
captured and the point was taken by Taichi. As for Taichi who scored 
the first single-unit ahead, the second set was taken six games ahead, 
and Chikako was chasing subsequent by three games. Taichi is waiting 
for serving of Chikako of the tenth game in expression that it is 
possible to win this time. Two baseball companions also seemed to get 
excited this time by Taichi when winning and were looking at the 
screen. Chikako mightily struck the first serving the tenth game when 
haste was going to be evaded and breathed deeply. Chikako and Taichi 
repeated the same point(Egalite) twice afterwards when the tenth game 
became the Egalite of 40-40. And, it is about to be said that Taichi 
decides the service ace, and takes and the advantage is decided after 
Egalite of the third times, and waits for serving of Chikako. Chikako 
also struck a fast serving to Taichi's court when breathing deeply. A 
gem white on the screen comes and goes at high speed in the court. The 
ball floated on the inside when Taichi struck the ball which Chikako 
hit after several-time relays back, and Chikako struck the ball back 
and entered Taichi's court. "Got! " Taichi did the ball in the smash 
and the ball was stricken back to Chikako's court. A white ball rolled 
knocking against the wall in the back when flying in the direction 
opposite to the character of the game which Chikako was moving, and 
bounding in the base line. "Yes!" "Painful!" Taichi raised both hands 
and stood up in the place. However, it is overjoyed and hits the table 
that the right hand of Taichi who raised is after Chikako, the vase 
dropped to the floor in the kitchen when the vase put on the table was 
set up and rolled on the table and cracked. "Gashan!" Water in the vase 
which does not spill on the table is soaked in the water which mixes 
with the splinter to which the pink color which scatters with the 
splinter, and has stuck rose cracks, and scatters. Taichi and two 
baseball friends only had the face a little perplexed as eyes were 
opened wide. However, Chikako who knew that it was a considerably 
expensive thing that this vase was sent to Mayumi of a favorite flower 
on the marriage anniversary of year fifth from Tatsuya was a face which 
seemed to be going to begin to weep at any moment. "Garagara" Mayumi 
who heard of the sound to which the vase cracked opened the partitioned 
glass door and came to the kitchen. Mayumi who did while having a scary 
face when the cracking vase was found, and asked to Chikako and three 
boys. Then, because Taichi had honestly raised the hand, Mayumi came 
near to Taichi. "Bashi!" Taichi falls in the place, raises a big voice, 
and has begun to weep when Mayumi puts considerable power, and hits 
Taichi by mere of the hand. Though Mayumi tried not to care the cry of 
Taichi, and find out the name by questioning from Taichi, because does 
not answer and kept crying, the telephone was called to Taichi's house 
when the name was found out by questioning from Chikako, and looked up 
at the telephone number with the class list of names which was next to 
the telephone. Taichi went out running in Chikako's house putting on 
shoes while crying while Mayumi was calling. Two baseball friends who 
had come with Taichi also went out of Chikako's house following Taichi. 
Chikako kept crying because applied both hands to the ear to crouch on 
the edge of the kitchen, and so as not to hear the voice of Mayumi who 
was roaring for hysterically. 

When the class during the one hour of the next day ended, Taichi and the
baseball friend had gathered in front of the classroom always. Mother 
says "You may not go to such a house any longer". Taichi who speaks by 
a strong tone always partitions all and is speaking to a surrounding 
baseball friend in a very weak voice which differs always. Chikako was 
absent today. After all, Taichi's mother Sachiko made amends to 
yesterday's thing for the vase. However, because the cracking vase was 
a thing bought for as many as three years only with the limitation 
goods ago, the thing to make amends for the same thing cannot be done, 
it was said that bought time and same money would be paid. Therefore, 
Mayumi hung up the telephone considerably dissatisfying though decided 
the thing for which made amends. "All must not have spoken any longer 
with Chiicyan. " Baseball friends other than Yhuki are nodding because 
Taichi spoke yesterday's thing. "YhuKun is also useless. " When Taichi 
said to Yhuki which did not consent so much, Yhuki said, "I was 
impossible because it was near the seat" and looked embarrassed. "Then, 
YhuKun is good in class. But, the rest time is useless." Taichi said to 
Yhuki in a tight voice. After all, Yhuki nodded being pushed to 
surrounding atmosphere at the end though Yhuki looked embarrassed. 
"Understood, go out of the baseball team when speaking with Chiichyan. 
" Taichi who had become bullish by the thing that all members had 
agreed said all in a little big voice. Then, fear said that will be 
removed only by speaking with Chikako by the baseball team ran baseball 
friend's boys other than Taichi. Rain in which the coming of the rainy 
season is felt besides the classroom has fallen. 

When the next day Chikako went to school, attitudes of students of the
class to Chikako were dangerous things. In the bargain, information 
which Taichi of boss existence threw has simultaneously spread to the 
entire class when transmitting to the baseball friend. Chikako who did 
not know anything thought going to Taichi's place first of all when 
arriving at the classroom, and my apology for the thing which Mayumi 
had hit the day before yesterday, and went to Taichi's place. But, 
Taichi does not look round to Chikako, take all baseball companions, 
and gone out besides the classroom. Rain from yesterday continues 
besides the classroom. When Chikako what is not understood somehow and 
looks about surroundings, students of the class divided into the group 
always and disregarded Chikako was seen with side glances. Chikako does 
not understand what I may do, cried because both hands were put on the 
desk when sitting down at my seat, the face was held to the arm, and 
the voice was raised. "Kahn�c�c,Kahn�c�c,Kahn�c�c," The hurry into of 
students who are besides the classroom. Chikako kept crying even if the 
bell that the homeroom in the morning starts rang. "Garagara" When the 
Kawai teacher enters the classroom, has approached Chikako's seat 
awareness the thing over which Chikako is crying. "Chikako Chyan, How 
did you do?" The Kawai teacher anxiously heard from Chikako. "What 
was?" Chikako repeated and was not answered the question of the Kawai 
teacher who heard. And, the face has not been raised though Chikako 
stopped crying as keep the moment cry. "What was?" The Kawai teacher 
heard from Chikako who had finished crying again. But, Chikako does not 
try to answer anything. "Chikako Cyan, Not understanding in having 
become silent." Chikako did not answer anything though was asked so by 
the Kawai teacher. When the embarrassed Kawai teacher says, "The 
embarrassment. Then, let's go to the staff room later and speak", and 
went to the platform and the greeting in the morning was started. 
"Standing up, greeting, and sit-down" The voice of the child of the day 
duty by which the greeting in the morning is pressed sounds in the 
classroom. Chikako who heard the voice was looking seemed abstraction 
while sitting down at the seat when looking up, all bowing, and 
greetings. After this thing, Chikako came frequently to be absent from 
the school. After all, Chikako who did not say anything to the Kawai 
teacher in the staff room, Even if going to school, entered all, and 
was disregarded, and entered the state completely isolated. And, Yhuki 
only done to play in the house also acts from the transfer to exist 
that thing with Taichi at the rest time, and there is no chance to 
speak. Moreover, it becomes impossible for Chikako to have done the 
promise by which played on Yhuki because had spoken awkwardly somewhere 
even if Chikako talked to in class. Chikako has come to be the school's 
ending and on one's return to the house single-mindedly housebound and 
to do the computer game for that. 

When May ends, too and approaches, Tatsuya who was looking at Chikako
who is always playing a game without going out of the house until, 
Chikako's thing talked worrying with Mayumi, something lesson was said 
that made do. Then, Tatsuya has relative's house near the school to 
which Chikako goes, Circumstances were spoken and asked because had 
known the thing that Tatsuya's niece's Tae was open of the piano 
classroom in the house. Then, Chikako came to have commuted there on 
Thursday every week because Tae said that did the lesson after having 
considered the thing which was not able to be practiced because there 
was no piano in the house. 

The last Sunday in May. Tatsuya who always plays a game with Chikako on
holiday, when you go out by the promise by which meets the old friend, 
Chikako was playing a game as alone as usual. In the kitchen, Mayumi 
from whom the part-time job becomes a rest because of the shift is 
cleaning. Chikako was casually looking at Mayumi who got tired when 
playing a game by about two hours, and was cleaning in the kitchen. The 
sound of the cleaner sounds in the house. While hearing the sound, 
Chikako recalled the thing to do the fish hanging by Yhuki, father of 
Yhuki, and three people on the bottle gourd pond where the plaza 
existed soon back the last Sunday in April which cleared up similarly. 
The day by can the fishing even of Chikako who does not have the thing 
to fish in the big catch after the nature catches the crucian carp and 
the dace until ending, River beach of Sakawa river did a stone throw 
with Yhuki. Chikako came to think that Yhuki fished on the bottle gourd 
pond and to want to go to the bottle gourd pond today when it was 
recalled. Because Chikako did not have wanted to say to Mayumi that was 
going to the bottle gourd pond, faced River beach walking when put on 
shoes without taking the key to the bicycle from a small putting which 
was next to the television of the kitchen. 

When Chikako arrives at the bottle gourd pond, many people crowded a
pond which was not so large each other and the fishing string had been 
hung down. There was no appearance of Yhuki in that though Chikako 
looked for Yhuki while flickering seeing the people with side glances. 
And, Chikako thinks that goes to the place where a stone throw was done 
this time, River beach covered with round stones that the ayu fishing 
has not started yet did not have the shadow though walked to River 
beach of Sakawa river, and Chikako walked from there to the downstream 
looking for Yhuki. There was no appearance of Yhuki in that though 
passed each other with several people by Chikako when Chikako walked to 
the downstream. When Chikako keeps walking for a while, in a thing 
tired considerably walking on a thing and a round stone considerably 
away from the place where Yhuki and a stone throw were done and halted. 
And, a handy stone was found to be near, sat, and the flow of the river 
was looked at with the blank surprise. "shun,shun" The take a smell of 
as one collie which had the hair of the saver and white holds the nose 
to the Chikako vicinity of the neck muscle when Chikako is sitting on 
the stone at a while. "Ticklish!" Chikako became scary a little because 
was in the size that the length of the collie is the same as me when 
turning to the collie. With the thing to wear the collar, Chikako was 
relieved in the thing to shake the tail because turned a pretty pupil 
to Chikako and Chikako patted the head. The collie is licking Chikako's 
face. When Chikako looks about the vicinity of the desire when is so 
that the owner is near, it was seen to walk as the boy who had the 
helicopter of a yellow radio controller in the hand said something 
toward one person and here. "Why there is a dog of Sechyan in such a 
place. " (Sechyan is a word which means the bum in Japanese. ) The 
collie ran away to The upstream to dislike boy when the boy came to 
Chikako's place. When Chikako sees the profile of the boy who is 
looking at the back figure of the collie which runs away, the nature 
adhered to the return of the opening ceremony when the boy was smoking 
on the slide of the park. The boy still floats an expression which 
seems to be mysterious and is looking at the collie running away while 
looking doubtful. Chikako flickering shortened the body when turning to 
the river, and had looked for the boy. After a while, the boy who was 
looking at the collie faces Chikako and has heard from Chikako. The boy 
had forgotten the thing to meet ahead with Chikako. "Hey, You! What do 
you do in such a place?" "The friend is waited. " "Friend? Is the 
promise by which meets in such a place done?" "No. Do not promise. " 
When the boy hears speaking Chikako who answered while refusing while 
drawing the wrinkle to the middle of the forehead, it is said, "In 
waiting so as not to promise, You is an interesting fellow!", and the 
voice is raised and laughingly. Chikako became a little ill-humored 
face if was laughed by the boy and watched the boy. "I'm sorry. Laugh 
though waits with great pains. Then, waits for a moment because the 
elder brother teaches how to control the helicopter until the friend 
comes and furnace." The boy says so, the helicopter of the radio 
controller was put on sands a little away, and the machine which 
controlled the radio controller to Chikako was given. And, turn behind 
Chikako, cover Chikako's hand with my hand, and while operating the 
thumb of both hands of Chikako who is putting on the lever by my 
finger, the helicopter of the radio controller pending was made. 
"Bhhun!" 

"Then, because that helicopter also goes to the right when this lever is
blown down to the right. Hey, Do you neatly hear!" Chikako did not hear 
boy's speaking as the boy had said. When thinking that the helicopter 
of a yellow radio controller flew in parallel to the cloud which 
extends to the blue sky like the stripe, turns this time, draws to the 
length and breadth mutualfinancing association, and the line of white 
smoke is drawn in the sky. When the helicopter of the radio controller 
freely flown about in such a way is seen, Chikako thinks that all 
unpleasant things which are up to now blow off, was being deprived of 
eyes by the helicopter of the radio controller which the boy was 
indirectly moving. Because Chikako has become accustomed to the boy 
when the control is taught Chikako for a while, the boy was said, 
"This, do not destroy, because it is a thing which the previous father 
bought." while smiling a wry smile, and gave the machine which 
controlled the radio controller to one Chikako for a little while. 

Though Chikako was looking at the helicopter of the radio controller
which the boy is moving though the sun inclines, the thing to return to 
the boy was reported that the thing which had come without informing 
Mayumi of anything was recalled. "Come to do again " "Yes!" When 
Chikako nods gladly to boy's word, walked a little at a quick pace in 
River beach. 

When Chikako comes off Kawahara, crosses the bottle gourd pond, runs in
the bank, and climbs Because Yhuki had been seen to play catch with 
Yoshikazu in a green plaza, Chikako tried to get off the road following 
in front of from the bank to a green plaza. But, Chikako's foot stopped 
rapidly in the place had been gotten off from 2 to 3 steps. Do the 
blush of a right cheek to the evening glow color watching two people 
who are playing catch in the plaza, and Chikako is keeping standing. 
Chikako liked thing of two people very much. But, Chikako thought that 
I had the thing like the wall which was not able to enter by all means 
when was ahead with those two people. Chikako pierced, was moved to 
feelings not to be able to know this true character, and returned to 
the house at a quick pace through another road when the direction of 
the body was changed. 

After that, two days. There was no appearance of the boy there though
Chikako went to the river beach of Sakawa river by which the helicopter 
of the radio controller was driven with the boy after putting the 
satchel on the house when the school ended. The boy does not show up at 
all though Chikako shortly waited in the evening, Two days, Chikako 
waited to lift the ayu fishing and for the boy to come by watching the 
flow of the river in the river beach where those who fished increased, 
and looking at those who fished. The third day, Chikako similarly went 
to the river beach, and looked about the vicinity. Then, to the sky of 
which Chikako went back from the river beach to the upstream from which 
Chikako stands, a small thing which seemed to be the helicopter of the 
radio controller moved and turned. Chikako had the upstream and the 
bicycle run when returning in the river beach where had walked, and 
going to the bank. There is a road as can passed by the car when 
passing under Hujinitibasi through the bank, and deflecting from this 
side of the entrance of the Sakawa river cycling course to the right. 
Chikako got off the bicycle when coming to the road, pushed the bicycle 
as the sky worrying, and walked. When you walk as Chikako pushes the 
bicycle for a while, Chikako came near to the person because there was 
a person who was moving the helicopter of the radio controller with the 
machine which controlled radio controllers as much as the boy. It was 
not the boy but middle age's man. Chikako was disappointed. However, it 
was thought that there was still a boy somewhere, pushed the bicycle 
there to the upstream further, and walked. When the road which the car 
was able to pass changed into the road covered with the grasses, 
Chikako stopped uneasily walking when having come to the place which I 
did not know and tiredness. And, the key was pulled out when Chikako 
went to the stairs which went down in the river shortly suited and the 
bicycle was stopped and the waist was sold wholesale to the stairs. 
Vivid green of the weed compared with the light on the day of daytime 
beautifully shines to the opposite bank. Chikako attached behind both 
hands while looking at green in the opposite bank and rested the body. 
"Bow, Bow " When Chikako is resting the body for a while, Chikako heard 
and dog's cry was heard from the road where sat in the cycling course 
on one step. Chikako heard the cry while watching the opposite bank 
thinking that the dog might be strolling by someone. "Bow, Bow " The 
dog keeps barking as usual. Chikako thought it was strange because 
heard the cry from very the same place when dog's cry was heard for a 
while. "Bow, Bow. Bow, Bow." Chikako thought that I was called somehow, 
turned around behind, and stood up. And, when you pay the sand which 
places to clothes by the hand, slowly climbed the slope climbed the 
cycling course just behind the stairs where Chikako was sitting. When 
Chikako climbs the slope and goes out to the cycling course, the 
opponent on the road which can have been done with asphalt has the 
place which has flattened. 

The hut which folded, put the tinplate together there, and had built
stood. And, next to the hut, The collie tied to the stake driven in to 
ground with the chain shook the tail to Chikako and barked. Chikako 
came near to a collie because the collie was seen and understood that 
it was a collie at once which had held the nose to my neck muscle on 
the day which met the boy in the river beach. "Ticklish. " When Chikako 
is patting collie's head, the collie has held the nose to Chikako's 
neck and face as much as that day. Chikako rubbed my face against the 
face that fragrant of the soap of the collie which had held is. The 
collie is licking Chikako's face. "Chiichyan is lonely. Let's play 
together." After the moment play each other, Chikako said the head of 
the collie which did not have would the answer patting. "Chiichyan, It 
is a good name.  " Chikako looked back because had heard the voice from 
the back. Then, a man who had put on the length pair of trousers with a 
thick cloth though it was neither T-shirt nor winter of the long sleeve 
of dull dullness was standing before one is aware. "This dog, Ojichan's 
dog" (Ojichan is a word which means middle age's person's thing in 
Japanese.) Chikako who had been playing with the collie each other 
heard squatting down while looking up at man's face. "Ah it is so. But 
ojichyan. 27 years old still. Do not come." The man is muttering 
spottily some while smiling a wry smile when the question of Chikako is 
answered. "This dog, How is the name said?" "It is said Shun(�u). " "Oh 
dear, it is said Syun. Unusual name. Male?" "Well, female." "Then, it 
is SyunChyan. " Chikako turned to Syun when saying so, and played while 
calling "ShunChyan" and the name a little while ago each other. "But, 
Shun was seen to take to the person so much excluding me for the first 
time." The man sees Chikako, and mutters like one remark. "Ojichyan, 
Why does ShunChyan hold the nose?" Chikako heard from The man feeling 
the doubt in the action of Syun to which the nose was still held. "The 
nose of Shun is bad. " The man said in seemed a little lonely voice. 
After that, the head of Shun was patted squatting down when coming near 
beside Shun. "As for Shun, various arts can be done. " The man who had 
turned around to Chikako had the art done to Shun when saying so. 
"Hand!" "Opposite hand!" Chikako who had not kept the dog was looking 
at it feeling admiration. "May I do Chiichyan?". "Ah, Let's try. " 
Chikako had the same art done when hearing from the man so. After a 
while, Chikako who is having the art done to Shun as the man who was 
squatting down stands up, the man was said, "Then, let's did the 
special art", and unchained that it was about the collar of Shun. And, 
it was said, "Being going to go, Shun" when the stick of the tree 
shortly suited was taken and threw to the grassy place in the cycling 
course. Shun runs after the back of the stick of the thrown tree. Shun 
returned running in man's place holding Shun in the mouth when the 
stick of the tree was found from the grassy place. "Cool." The other 
hand not patted though a man patted the head of Shun was put out in 
front of the mouth of Shun. Then, Shun put the stick of the held in 
one's mouth tree on the hand put out. Chikako who was squatting down 
said, "Oh It was terrible" the special art while standing up and it was 
popeyed. "Chiicyan also, Let's try. " The man passed the stick of the 
tree which had to Chikako when saying so. "Yes!" Chikako is nodding 
gladly. "ShunCyan, Takes. " Chikako threw the stick of the tree to the 
same place as the man when saying so. "If such an art is taught, any 
dog comes to be able to do. However, it was serious that Shun made 
remember because the nose was bad." The man said to Chikako while Shun 
did the stick of the tree to taking. Chikako received the stick of the 
tree from Shun patting the head while floating the smile when Shun 
returned. The person who is running in the cycling course, so as not to 
turn the glance to two people, passes. "I will already enter the hut. " 
The man walked in the collar of Shun when saying so, and it was 
possible to arrive and walked to the hut on the chain. "Ojicyan, May I 
play on ShunChyan?" "Ah it is good. But, the chain is not removed." The 
man did not look back and said. "Yes!" Chikako watched the back of a 
man who got exhausted while saying so. The man opened the door of the 
tinplate when arriving in front of the hut and entered the inside. 
"Gatan!" After that, Chikako returned to the house riding on the 
bicycle on which rid when playing on Shun until the day grew dark. 

"Let's play janken. " (Janken is to play a game by the decision of
victory and defeat in the form of the hand. ) The light on the day 
which blazes right above in daytime inserts from the window of the 
classroom, and the shadow is made on the passage side where the day is 
not hit. Friday the next week.When five children finished ate the 
school lunch as for students of six groups,  janken by which who put 
away the tableware which was was decided was always done. Though was 
excluded Chikako, there was no thing to eat the school lunch alone 
because it was a rule of the school to harden in the group and to eat 
the school lunch. However, when eating though Chikako speaks, and was 
always do a face down and was eating the school lunch, As for Chikako, 
only janken done this time was made to participate why. "Yes, win!" 
Taichi and Hisako win first, and, next, going directly, Aiko, and Yumi 
come off, became Yhuki and Chikako's man-to-man fights. "Win of YhuKun" 
All Taichi unpleasantly said that Yhuki would defeat to Chikako in the 
voice. Children who finished eating go on Chikako's desk in tableware 
repeatedly. Chikako came to the school overworking though the condition 
of the body was a little bad because Mayumi had taken a rest from the 
part-time job this morning. Therefore, there was not an appetite either 
but existed without touching. "Kahn�c�c,Kahn�c�c,Kahn�c�c," The sound 
of the bell which informs of the end of the time of the school lunch 
resounds in the school. The Kawai teacher was having  leave the student 
in the classroom until lunchbreak when the student left the school 
lunch and eat. It was a dessert's alone without eating a mandarin 
orange alone though overworked and touched because Chikako had been 
left several times so far. "kachya, kachya." "gah�c�cgah�c�c." Children 
of each group put tableware in order, and the desk is returned to an 
original place. The child of the person on duty of the school lunch has 
approached in the expression called it is a trouble when sitting 
without eating the mandarin orange from Chikako. "Put in order early! " 
"Chiicyan is not eaten. " Chikako's face is a little pale. "Well, 
hatred of mandarin orange, unusual" Chikako refused when said so. When 
only Chikako subdues mandarin orange by the unit as for Yhuki which 
sees school lunch person on duty's child spoken as Chikako in a near 
seat, Chikako's tableware was piled up on six tableware on Chikako's 
desk. And, Yhuki was about to walk to the net which was able to be done 
with the iron to carry tableware in front of the classroom with it. 
Then, Taichi blocked in front of Yhuki, and said while frowning. 
"YhuKun, violation of the rule. " "Chiicyan is made bad so feelings. " 
Yhuki draws the wrinkle to the middle of the forehead. "YhuKun, Is the 
promise broken?" It was said to Taichi that Yhuki would be said so by 
Taichi in a big voice. "It is necessary to help each other when someone 
is embarrassed even if it is said that the thing of Chiicyan will be 
disregarded. " "YhuKun, useless, Is the promise with me broken?" Taichi 
urges a promised thing more than the necessity. "Gachyan is cruel ! " 
Yhuki said in bigger voice than a little while ago. Then, Taichi said 
to Yhuki in the looked voice that misinterpreted the face, and floated 
the smile a little. "YhuKun, might like thing of Chiicyan. " Yhuki 
which hears Taichi's word is petrified. "Gashan!" Yhuki cried because 
raised a big voice sitting down in the place when tableware which had 
was dropped. "Uehhn�c�c!" Chikako who was looking at the communication 
of Taichi and Yhuki also, cries because the face turns down on the 
desk. Glances of the sound of Yhuki and Chikako's cries in the 
classroom, extending, and students in the classroom were turned by two 
people. Then, the Kawai teacher in the place in the desk of the 
platform came to the place of two people, and asked "Both, how did you 
do?" Two people keep crying as usual. "Iwata Kun, What was?" The Kawai 
teacher heard  from Taichi who had gathered not understanding what 
came, and nor standing in the place. But, Nothing was answered to 
Taichi. 

The Kawai teacher called that three people became lunchbreak in the
staff room. And, tried to ask again what was at the time of the school 
lunch. But, Yhuki and Chikako keep crying as usual, Taichi reddened the 
face without understanding what came, was do a face down, and said 
neither three people nor anything. Still, the Kawai teacher kept 
hearing from three people. Then, it was said it was unpleasant at the 
time of hearing by a face pale of Yhuki and Chikako. When the Kawai 
teacher who saw it takes two people to the health room in a hurry, was 
going to stop, and Taichi also returned to the classroom hearing the 
story any further today. 

After that, Two days after of Monday When Chikako who was sleeping to
Saturday in the house on Sunday comes to the school, there was no 
appearance of Yhuki in a near seat. Yhuki ran a fever after that thing, 
and took a rest on Saturday. Chikako and Taichi again kept silent 
without answering both of anything when becoming lunchbreak though 
Kawai teacher was called by the staff room. Though the Kawai teacher 
called three parents the day before yesterday, it was answered that 
neither three people nor anything were understood.Therefore, the Kawai 
teacher seemed to have been embarrassed for this matter, too. After 
all, this day, Two people do not answer anything until lunchtime ends,  
returned to the classroom with the Kawai teacher when the bell that the 
fifth hour starts rang. 

After school in day the same, Chikako was running in the cycling course
riding on the bicycle.Chikako was running in the cycling course riding 
on the bicycle. Chikako had gone to the place of Shun times how many 
another by this day. The day opens from light blue sky of thin cloudy 
weather, and a fresh wind sprays on Chikako's face. When Chikako gets 
out from the place where the tree has grown in abundance sideward of 
the road both, tried to stop bicycling near the place where Shun 
exists, and pull out the key. Then, Shun being unchained, Shun jumped 
and took side with Chikako who tried to pull out the key squatting 
down. "ShunChyan, painful." Chikako turned around standing up to sell 
Syun wholesale from the back when the key was pulled out with Shun 
shouldered. After that, Chikako says, "ShunChyan, eat this?" when the 
head of Shun is patted at a while, put in the vinyl bag and the brought 
cookie was presented in front of the mouth of Shun. "Musya, Musya." 
Shun is delicious, and eats the cookie. Chikako ate the cookie for 
myself while carrying the cookie to the mouth of Shun. When Chikako is 
eating the cookie with Shun for a little while, because the sound to 
which the door of the hut opened was, Chikako faced the hut.  Then, the 
man goes out, and has approached Chikako from the inside. "Chiichyan, 
There is not so much food in Shun. " "Ojichyan, I'm sorry." As Chikako 
mistakes to the man, the bruise of the amount of a man worried. 
"Ojicyan, How did the disregarding do?" Chikako seemed to have a pain 
in the wound to which nothing was treated, and heard. "Ah The stone was 
thrown by children. " "It is a cruel thing. " Man's wound is watched as 
Chikako frowns. "It was good on Sunday. " "Why?" "They are squids with 
a lot of people on Sunday, unchains and Shun is released. The stone was 
thrown to Shun when it was a different day." The man said in the pain 
while appropriating the hand to the wound. Chikako became painful even 
by me if man's wound was seen, and frowned the frowned face further. 
"Is it medicine credit, safe?". "Ah It is safe. " "Chiichyan brings the 
medicine from the house. " "No, because of unnecessary, safe." The man 
is floating a little ill-humored expression. Chikako who saw the man is 
not saying from it, played looking back Shun each other. "It is not 
possible to arrive and the chain to the collar of Shun." "Yes" The man 
walked to the hut when saying so. After Chikako had looked for man's 
back figure a little, Chikako this time had the art done to Shun. 
"ShunCyan, Hand!" 

Chikako was frantically playing on Shun. Then, the bell of the song of a
red dragonfly which informed of 6p.m. was sounded. (The song of a red 
dragonfly is a nursery rhyme of Japan. ) Chikako who hears it, the 
nature adheres when it is time that Mayumi returns from the part-time 
job, The thing to return to the house was able to be succeeded to Shun. 
"ShunCyan, Chiichyan should return to the house any longer. " Chikako 
looks seem lonely. "ShunChyan, moreover, come. " Chikako walked to the 
stopped bicycle while saying so when standing up. Then, Shun followed 
behind Chikako. "ShunChan, Don't arriving! " Chikako persuaded to Shun 
squatting down when looking back. "ShunChan, Don't arriving! " The wind 
blows to Kawahara in the evening, and the hair of the body that 
Chikako's long hair and Shun are tufty shakes. "ShunChan, Don't !" 
Chikako said to Shun which attached no matter how persuaded by a strong 
tone and began to walk. But, Shun looked staring about, spent the 
vicinity, and followed Chikako. Though Chikako walked to the hut even 
if it is embarrassed, and says to the man, because Chikako felt the 
thing that does not approach the hut easily ahead, Chikako was not able 
to give up on the way, to do the thing very done, and have crouched in 
the place. Shun which follows sticks out the tongue on the side of 
crouching Chikako and breathes. Though Chikako was crouching for a 
little while, The chain reluctantly tied to the collar of Shun because 
Mayumi came back from the part if not returning to the house early. 
"ShunChyan, I'm sorry" Chikako said in the voice which seemed to cry. 
The vicinity begins to darken. Chikako did not part from the head the 
promise with the man, and was keeping standing for a little while. But, 
Chikako pierced the key to the bicycle in a hurry, got on, rowed the 
pedal desperately, and returned to the house when the face to which 
Mayumi was angry was crossed to Chikako's head. 

"Father, There is Mr. peacock!" "Is it larger than Chiichyan?" Mayumi
follows while floating an expression which is a little tired of Mayumi 
back where Chikako and Tatsuya are walking hand in hand. "Boast mother! 
There is Mr. peacock" Mayumi nodded only a little when was said so by 
Chikako who was bubbling over. The last Sunday in June of recess of 
rainy season which clears up well.The Kawahara family had come to the 
zoo in an Odawara castle municipal park. The neurosis would become 
cruel by this day, and Mayumi who had come to go to the hospital was 
resigning the part-time job. And, Tatsuya who had been looking at the 
appearance that Mayumi got depressed every day was going to make Mayumi 
who did not go out of the house even if Mayumi was not it after moved 
breathe in air on the outside a little, and decided that took also by 
Chikako and went out by, on this day. However, the Kawahara family went 
to an Odawara castle municipal park where was able to go at once by 
train because they were not able to do the thing to make Mayumi that 
the physical condition is not so good make an excursion. As for 
Chikako, parents were made to hear coming to an Odawara castle 
municipal park only once when was still being held by Mayumi. But, 
Chikako did not have the memory, moreover, Chikako was looking at 
animals besides as having come to the zoo for the first time because 
had not been to the zoo. 

"Father, Please carry me piggyback. " When the family arrives at the
observatory in the castle tower in the Odawara castle, it was short, 
and the net for the fall prevention pestered and Chikako where the 
scenery had not looked obstructive easily pestered Tatsuya for carrying 
piggyback. "Chiichyan, Stop in such a place because it is dangerous." 
Mayumi said to Chikako by the scolded tone. "Safe. " Tatsuya said, 
"Chiichyan, it is for a moment. " when saying to Mayumi who was angry 
and took Chikako in the shoulder squatting down. "Oh!" When Tatsuya 
stands up, Chikako sees after a long time, and has raised the voice of 
admiration to the scenery from a high place. The town in Odawara which 
became small is seen in Chikako's presence, and the Sagami bay 
stretches to the opponent. The town in Odawara which became small is 
seen in Chikako's presence, and the Sagami bay stretches to the 
opponent. And, Chikako moves eyes of the Sagami bay ashore along, the 
blue sky where continued the misted Miura peninsula and even where 
greeted eyes. "Father, the sea are seen. " "As for Chiicyan, will like 
seas. " When the sky where Chikako continued even where was seen, 
became melancholic feelings though was looking at the scenery first 
happily by Chikako. "Father, unload. " "Chiichyan, Is it already 
good?". "Yes" Tatsuya had a mysterious face when was said so by Chikako 
and unloaded Chikako on the floor. 

"The vicinity in the foot in that mountain is Kouzu�c�c. " Tatsuya is
explaining the scenery which looks from the observatory as Tatsuya 
opens the finger to Mayumi. Though Chikako heard the speaking in the 
Tatsuya vicinity for a little while, became trivial, and Chikako who 
averted eyes from the scenery and heard became silent and entered the 
castle tower in two people. In the castle tower, there was a souvenir 
shop, and crowded with many people. Though Chikako looks for a while 
and was spending in such a castle tower, when it was seen to speak as 
several boys were happy by the key ring counter in the souvenir shop, 
came near to that. "This, the azimuth magnet adhere. " "Oh The light 
adheres here. " Which boys buy while looking at a absorbed key ring 
worries. On the sides of boys, Chikako was looking at a lot of key 
rings which had been multiplied by the net of iron. Then, there was a 
key ring which had adhered the stuffed animal of a small dog in that, 
and Chikako was being deprived of eyes by the key ring. "Chiichyan, 
goes to where! Embarrasses when lost!" When Chikako was found, Mayumi 
who had entered scolded in a big voice in the castle tower awareness 
the thing where Chikako did not exist. "Chiichyan, It was in such a 
place. " Tatsuya who followed behind Mayumi also looked embarrassed and 
 said to Chikako. "I'm sorry" Chikako is apologizing as Chikako hangs 
one's head. "Chiicyan, Go slowly." Mayumi tried to walk to the stairs 
which went down to the floor below when saying to Chikako so. "Father, 
that are bought." Chikako said to Tatsuya who had been looking at 
Chikako who did not begin to walk as Chikako pointed at the key ring 
which adhered dog's stuffed animal. "This?" "Yes" When the key ring at 
which Chikako pointed is taken, Tatsuya is turning over the price tag. 
"Chiichyan, Don't ! This front stuffed animal was only bought." Mayumi 
who heard Chikako and Tatsuya's speaking scolded Chikako looking back. 
Three people are seen as people of the circumference react to Mayumi's 
big voice. "�c�c" Chikako had the face which seemed to begin to weep 
and face down of Chikako. "I will buy." It was said, "There was no 
other way" when Mayumi from whom Tatsuya had gotten excited was told to 
calm, and Mayumi received the key ring from Tatsuya. "Please give this. 
" Mayumi tries to pass the key ring to the clerk when saying so, and 
take out the purse of backing of leather which has. "No, I pay here. " 
Tatsuya said while putting out the purse which Tatsuya had been putting 
in the pocket after the pair of trousers to Mayumi who tried to pay 
money. "Uselessness, Only because Chikako depends too much when Tatsuya 
buys." When Mayumi says to Tatsuya in a blunt voice, Tatsuya cannot say 
anything, hangs purse the pocket in the pair of trousers back. "Become 
600 yen. " Chikako was feelings glad to be going to buy. But, when 
Chikako sees Mayumi who has put out money from the purse while 
strangely having a face which seems to be lonely, the feelings glad are 
gradually cooled, too, I who had said that would want to buy was 
regretted. Because Tatsuya started to say when going out of the Odawara 
castle, "Juice takes a rest while drinking", the Kawahara family went 
to the bench in the zoo and lowered the waist. Then, because fragrant 
of animals' excrement was, Chikako said to Tatsuya that that was better 
when be able it to be started to say that another place was good, and 
to do also by Mayumi. Then, it was said that Tatsuya would take a rest 
there because the courtyard of the Odawara city library in an Odawara 
castle municipal park was a rest room, and the family walked toward the 
Odawara city library because they had agreed both. 

"Father, There is Mr. deer." Chikako said to Tatsuya as Chikako who had
been walking on the road following the library as well as Tatsuya 
pointed at the cage sideward of the road. Then, the married couple who 
had taken one boy from the previous person walked hand in hand about 
sideward of the boy both. "I will go. Jump!" When the married couple 
who was walking standing in a row sideward both says so, and the boy is 
lifted by the hand, the boy has happily raised the voice. "Oh!" When 
Chikako who was walking as well as Tatsuya sees off while looking back 
to passing of the three people, came near to Mayumi who the face down 
to two person back and was walking and it was said, "Mother, Moreover, 
does have a pain in the head?" It was said that Mayumi refused, and was 
safe. But, there was no thing that a melancholic dark shadow disappears 
from Mayumi who greeted Chikako's eyes. "Go previously because 
understands at once if entering the entrance. I go to the parking lot 
which is beyond this and juice is bought. " Tatsuya said to Mayumi that 
the family was coming to the place where the library was seen. "Go 
together. " "Do not have to, Part from here for a moment, Buy as I 
run." When Tatsuya says so, and finds out what you want to drink by 
questioning from two peopleTatsuya ran to the parking lot at once to 
avoid tried to put out the purse from backing by Mayumi. Mayumi is 
watching Tatsuya's back figure while appropriating the hand to backing. 
Chikako who saw such parents had an awkward face and was petrified. 
"Go, Chiicyan." Chikako was do a face down and followed Mayumi when 
Mayumi said so and began to walk. "Mother, There is a cage there. " 
When two people arrive in front of the libraryChikako said while 
pointing at the place where the tree on the other side grew in 
abundance, and ran there. "Chiichyan, Go where!" Mayumi looks 
troublesome and Chikako is followed. When Chikako arrives in front of 
the cage, the kite is three, the wing was made to flap and strolled in 
the cage. "Mother, There is Mr. kite. " Chikako sparkled like having 
found something eyes, and said to Mayumi who had come later from the 
back. "Go, Chiicyan. " Mayumi looks troublesome as usual. "Mother, Wait 
only for a moment. " Chikako said so and watched the kite. Mayumi was 
looking at the kite in the Chikako back when saying to such Chikako, 
"Child that there is no other way". Eyes sparkle at the time of 
beginning though was having been looking Chikako, if the kite which is 
flying over the sky is seen to be put in the cage, usually gradually 
becomes lonely feelings, it was muttered, "With this, Mr. kite cannot 
fly" by chance. The silence in daytime wraps surroundings of a popular, 
few libraries, and the nothingness which cannot be shown in the word 
drifts in two parents and children' minds. "The bird in the cage cannot 
fly. " Mayumi who had been looking at the kite standing behind Chikako 
said by a heavy tone. Chikako who looked back to Mayumi hearing the 
word, a solitary expression of mother who remains reverberations of the 
word, watched while feeling uneasiness with uncertain true colors. 

�@Mayumi went to work part-time about the supermarket in front of
Hotaruda Station when July came. Tatsuya opposed hard. However, Tatsuya 
is faced out to a strong intention of Mayumi who says, "Went out of 
Tatsuya's parents' family so that I might work part-time", the thing 
that Mayumi went reluctantly to work part-time was admitted. However, 
to the opinion of Tatsuya who says, "Only as for the frequency, because 
the neurosis is commuting to the hospital cruel, wants to decrease ", 
the thing which Mayumi also opposed was not able to be done, and made a 
thing which worked only in the week the third. The first Thursday in 
July which clears up well. This day for three days, Tatsuya went out to 
Shizuoka by the business trip of the company in the schedule of five 
days, and Mayumi also had gone to the hospital since the morning. 
Chikako is this day, was reading the picture book sitting on the desk 
when the class during the one hour ended and became rest time. Then, 
the Kawai teacher came near to Chikako and said. "Chikako Chyan, There 
is a telephone from the teacher in the piano classroom a little while 
ago, It was said that would want for to be made take a rest from the 
lesson because caught a cold today. " "Yes, understood. " �@Chikako 
throbbed a little while saying so. The Kawai teacher was seemed to when 
Chikako's telling that much something business and went out of the 
classroom at a quick pace. The reason why Chikako had throbbed is to 
think that the thing to go directly to the piano classroom came to 
light from the school. �@Because the cram school and the lesson had had 
to go by the regulations of the school after had returned to the house 
once, Chikako also was following the regulations of the school first. 
However, to Chikako that the house was far from the school, thing that 
house of seem ridiculous of Tae is near school, thing where no friend 
who returns together either, and, in the thing to do the lesson at once 
when Chikako whose Tae is the first the day student arrives at the 
house, Chikako had gone directly to the house of Tae when the school 
ended because of the lesson of the third times. Though this thing that 
Chikako has broken the rule of the school was a thing of which Tae and 
Mayumi were aware, it is a thing that parents and the relative connive 
at the thing to break such a rule which is often. For that, Tae which 
is called also says the good thing said, it is "I want not to connect 
even if calls the person, and to sleep early in heat of the remainder" 
to the Kawai teacher, the fact said calling reluctantly because of it 
was not possible to call before Chikako went to school, and coming from 
the school directly was concealed. It is possible to occur usually, and 
though an actual condition of Tae has a fever, after calling Chikako's 
school, Tae, slept taking the medicine when called parents of the 
student who came to this day lesson. 

"Da, Ru, Ma, San, Ga, Ko, Ro, N, Da" When the school ends, and Chikako
arrives in front of the apartment, younger children were doing 
Darumasangakoronda. (Darumasangakoronda is play of a traditional child 
in Japan. ) "Yosikun, Moved now. " "Mortifying! " When Chikako makes 
children exchanged and passes in front of the apartment, climbed the 
stairs, went in front of the room, and the knob of the door was turned 
to the right. "kachi, kachi" "Why, Close." As Chikako thinks that 
Mayumi might be going to shop the hospital on one's return, the key 
which came to be lowered to after Mayumi began to go to work part-time 
and Chikako's necks was taken out, and the key to the door was opened. 
"kachi" There is no high-heeled shoes puts on when mother always goes 
out to the place where puts on shoes when Chikako enters the door but 
there are only leather shoes of a man who has not seen, and some 
strange noise is heard from the interior of the room. Chikako doubted, 
and entered the inside timidly with noiseless steps. The door of the 
room in the interior which is always the sleep is open when Chikako 
arrives at the entrance of the kitchen and Chikako hears the voice of a 
man and the woman who does not understand there. To the kitchen, from 
the room in the interior with the heard voice, the cry of the cicada 
which entered from the opened window sounded, and the heat which was 
able to be steamed drifted. Chikako timidly approaches the room in the 
interior from the entrance of the kitchen. Chikako arrives in front of 
the room, the breath was drunk when moving to the room of the glance 
the impact of the remainder. Naked Mayumi overlaps with a naked man who 
has not seen and embraces each other. Though Chikako hardens for a 
while in the place, opens eyes wide, and was looking at the blank 
surprise and two people, when the look that Mayumi is abstracted is 
turned by Chikako, becoming scary, went to the door and in a hurry and 
went out from the room. 

Chikako ran delirious. Chikako was made to slip on, and shoes put on
were not straight, and kept running on a certain road in the place 
where I memorized. 

�@How much might have run. Chikako instinctively stopped the foot to the
tiredness of the remainder, and looked about the vicinity. Then, there, 
fished with Yhuki at one time, on the bank where the bottle gourd pond 
was seen.Chikako sees the bottle gourd pond on the bank and returns to 
me, squats down in the place when settle the body that the pulse does 
not finish ringing. On the bottle gourd pond, does not crowd 
contrasting  with the Sakawa river which the ayu can fish, the noise of 
the car which runs in the expressway which hangs in the Sakawa river 
sounds in the vicinity. But, Chikako's pulse resounded more greatly 
than the noise in the body. When Chikako watch the bottle gourd pond 
for a while with Chikako squatted down, memories with Yhuki ran in the 
head. Chikako moves as Chikako hangs one's head. The memories were 
happy memories with Yhuki for it to become impossible even to have 
already spoken now. Chikako wipes the tear with the skirt, the face 
which hung one's head is raised, and the bottle gourd pond is watched. 
After that, a while of Chikako, after had moved, thought of the thing 
of Yhuki by which it was nice to him whom the friend was not able to 
have done by as much as one person. 

When the sun was about to inclineThe elderly person with the gray hair
with the fishing tool has put the talk of the bottle gourd pond on 
Chikako who was watching the surface of the water squatting down 
ashore. "Daughter, Return to the house slowly.Mother worries. " Chikako 
stood up without a remark when was said so by the elderly person, and 
walked to the bank. Chikako did not want to return to the house. From 
it, Chikako wanted to go from it to the place of Shun. But, after 
breaking the promise with the man, Chikako who had not gone to the 
place of Shun was watching the surface of the water on the bottle gourd 
pond until the sun inclined while thinking how did. Chikako who climbed 
the bank halts and hangs one's head. Though it was scared that a man 
was angry to Chikako, feelings by which wants to meet Shun than such a 
thing are stronger, and to Chikako now who does not apply by going, 
turned the body to the cycling course. 

Shun tied with the chain approached Chikako up to full length of the
chain when Chikako arrived at the place where Shun existed, the tail 
was shaken, and barked. "Bow, Bow" Chikako spouted at a dash when such 
Shun was seen the thing which had been endured up to now, and embraced 
Shun closely while loudly crying. "ShunChyan, Mother was�c�c, Mother 
was�c�c" Shun embraced closely in great force, the neck is placed 
between Chikako's arm and a tight collar and makes to painful. 
"Bow�c�c" Chikako was embracing Shun closely as leaning at a while 
while crying. Then, the man has come out from among the hut because 
heard Chikako's big cry. "Chiicyan, What went wrong?" The man heard in 
the voice to fondle crying Chikako, stands behind Chikako from whom the 
man is embracing Shun closely. Chikako parted from Shun when looking 
back in the man's voice, was held in a man this time, and took side. 
"Ojichyan, Mother was�c�c, Mother was�c�c" "Is mother of Chiichyan a 
what went wrong?". The man said while patting the head of Chikako who 
was crying, held the face to the hit of my stomach. "Mother embraced 
each other to A man who does not know nakedly. " When the man hears 
Chikako's story, make efforts to the eyelid and while moistening the 
pupil a little, kept patting Chikako's head. The sun grows dark, to a 
popular river beach which not is where the hit began to darken a 
little, two shadows which come in succession have expanded. The man was 
not able to be saying, and Chikako's head was patted. But, after a 
while, Chikako's body was separated from me like having hit on 
something. And, both hands were applied to Chikako's both shoulders 
squatting down in the place and said. "A good thing is heard from 
Chiichyan. " The man goes to the hut when saying so, and has taken out 
the violin case of the inside. The man opens the violin case near 
Chikako, when the violin that the bowstring has rusted a little is 
taken out from the inside, the sound of the bowstring is adjusted. 
"Chiicyan, In this, Ojichyan is a tune made in the school days. " The 
man said that the adjustment of the bowstring would end so and set up 
the violin in front of Chikako. And, the man began to play the tune 
said making in the school days. The sound of the violin wraps none of 
Kawahara who has the evening, the grass waves as being shaken by a 
graceful examination in the wind.  Shun came near to Chikako's side 
when listening to the blank surprise and the tune with Chikako had 
stood, and sat on's feet. The man is playing the phrase of eight bars 
repeatedly as the baby-sitter song. Because Chikako who had listened to 
the tune had settled down a little at a while, sat on the place. And, 
when the hand is moved to Shun to sit on the vicinity and leans a 
little, eyes were shut and the ear was entrusted to the sound of the 
violin which the man played. When Chikako is fascinated with man's tune 
different from the monotonous melody always played in the piano 
classroom, knowing, leant against Shun and fell into to sleep. 

Insect and frog's cries sound in the river beach of the night, the sound
of the water which flows in the river wraps the river beach. 

"Uh�c�c" As for Chikako, the sultriness of the remainder woke up.
Moonlight inserts from the space of the ceiling, and the inside is 
shone on faintly. Chikako to whom consideration was not clear by living 
tried to face the light and the neck was moved. Then, because a thing 
tufty in the Chikako vicinity lay, was surprised, got up, and the tufty 
thing was paid to attention. "ShunCyan!" Chikako patted the head of 
Shun which was the sleep in my vicinity when saying so. Chikako thinks, 
"Maybe, here might be in the hut" while patting Shun, felt the wall 
while crawling even if looking for the door. "Bow!" Shun barked 
conjecturing that Chikako wanted to go out of the hut. "Gatan!" 
"Chiichyan, Did you get up?" The door opened, and the man said as the 
man looked into in the hut. "Yes" When Chikako answers, crawled and 
went out to the outside. "Chiichyan, Looking up" The man said to 
Chikako who had stood up putting on shoes. Chikako looked up at the 
sky. The moon shines to the night sky in the river beach without the 
outside light, and the constellation in July is blinking. "Beauty" 
Chikako has instinctively raised the voice. "I like to see the star 
here. " The man who was looking up at the sky muttered squatting down 
and said so. Chikako who heard it faced a man. The face of a man who is 
looking up at the sky is compared with the light of the moon, and eyes 
shine. Chikako was watching the pupil of the man who shone lonesomely 
for a little while. "Chiichyan, Hungry. Does eat bread? " The man said 
to Chikako for a while that would see the star by two people. "Yes!" 
The man went to the hut when Chikako nodded happily and brought two 
French rolls. And, one was passed to Chikako. "It is delicious! " 
Chikako who had not been eating anything since daytime raised the voice 
and ate the French roll delicious. The man is having eating the French 
roll torn to Shun to sit on the Chikako vicinity. Chikako looked about 
the opposite bank while eating the French roll. With the mercury light 
of the factory, an orange town light of the Toumei expressway which 
queues up like beads shines gaily. Chikako who had seen it was sad 
feelings why. "Shun, Let's wash one's body. " To Shun when a man who is 
having eating the French roll squatting down says so and stands up, 
moreover, has gone out with soap and the towel this time enters the 
hut. Shun runs happily about man's surroundings. "Chiichyan, Help me, 
because the body of Shun is washed. " The man said as the man walked to 
Chikako who had been looking at the opposite bank while having standed 
up. Shun follows happily after the man who began to walk. "Wash where. 
" Chikako heard while halted. "Wash in the river. " "Well" Chikako 
followed a man while inclining the neck a little when said so. The man 
asked when it was necessary to remove the collar of Shun to Chikako as 
the man took off shoes in the hillside on the stairs. "Oh" When the 
collar of Shun is removed as Chikako counts on only the light of the 
moon, the fierce battle fighting hard is done. Between those, to enter 
the river, the man was rolling up the skirt of the length pair of 
trousers.Chikako removed the collar for the desire barely, the collar 
was put on the stairs while saying, "Outside", and the man was faced. A 
big scar in the leg of man's left leg is compared with the light of the 
moon which reflected to the river. When Chikako is watching while being 
surprised at the size of the remainder of the wound, Shun entered the 
river as Shun to which the collar was removed began to run. "Chiichyan, 
help me" The man said to Chikako while entering the river. When Chikako 
takes off shoes and socks with had the face to be surprised, entered 
the river so that the skirt should not get wet paying attention. 

"Shun, Play. " Shun swam in a deep place in the river at which the foot
did not arrive when saying to Shun by which the man finished washing 
body. After that, when the man and Chikako go up from the river, goes 
up the stairs, the waist was lowered queuing up in the place in the 
hillside. The man is wiping Chikako's foot with an old towel. Chikako 
was looking at Shun which swam in the river while being wiped the foot 
for a little while. However, after a while, the thing of the anxious 
wound was asked to the man. "Ah this, wound bitten by Shun." "Oh! by 
ShunCyan. " "Yes, it is so. " "Why?" The man spoke to Chikako while 
floating a bitter expression when the translation bitten by Shun was 
asked by Chikako. It was autumn of last year that a man had been bitten 
by Shun. Shun has copulated to a male dog of the crossbreed to which 
strolls in the cycling course since the autumn of the year, when a man 
does not see. And, it is autumnal of last year, Shun gave birth to 
eight puppies. However, six in eight dies at once after gives birth, 
and two of the remainder was also good of vigour too much. The man will 
bury the puppy which has died, The man tried to take up from Shun. 
However, Shun is not about to part from puppy's by the side quite, Shun 
groaned in the voice which seemed to be going to bite at any moment 
when approaching. An embarrassed man pulls the chain which is about the 
collar of Shun by force, pull Shun apart from the place where the puppy 
exists, the stake was driven in to ground, the chain tied, and was made 
not to reach the puppy. After that, a man began to walk even if the 
puppy was put in the cardboard box which had been picked up, and went 
for the burial somewhere. However, in terrible power which tries to 
approach puppies of Shun, the man strikes to ground and the applied 
paling comes off, Shun bit to the leg of the left leg of a man who had 
the cardboard box. When the cardboard box is dropped as a man raises 
the voice to the pain in the remainder and falls, Shun goes by the 
cardboard box and has not moved there. "At all, It was painful. It was 
thought that died. " "After that, how did you do?" "There is no other 
way, There might be a tree near the hut. " "Yes" "The chain was bound, 
and taken up in it. " "Well" Chikako was surprised to hear the one side 
of Shun which I had not seen and was opening eyes wide. "And, how were 
the puppies who had died done?". "Ah, Buried under the river beach from 
here near the bottle gourd pond it was more in the downstream." Chikako 
is nodding as Chikako recalls the thing when meets Shun for the first 
time. When Chikako asked the man, the man answered while smiling a wry 
smile, "Two of the remainder also died at once". It was a lie. When the 
puppy which died of Shun was taken up, the puppy which was alive also 
took up the man. And, if it is not possible to keep even if Shun is 
born at the time of the pregnancy, the man has understood, because knew 
bum's dog does not have the recipient, two puppies which were alive 
were killed when six puppies which had died were buried and buried 
together. However, there was be sure to being able not to say to 
Chikako that I did such a cruel thing, and the man told a lie this 
time. "ShunChyan, Poor" Chikako muttered as Chikako hung one's head. 
"Because Chiichyan is a girl, feelings of Shun might be understood from 
me. " When the man stands up while saying so, goes down the stairs, 
summoned swimming Shun. With Chikako sits on the stairs, becomes 
feelings sad to see the back of a man who does not have the power 
compared with moonlight, Chikako recalled grandfather Shozo's thing 
why. 

When becoming the next day, though the man told settled a little Chikako
the return to the house, Chikako refused while trembling.Chikako spoke 
circumstances where a man was not able to return, "The father is out in 
the business trip, There can do nothing but be mother and two people 
even if returning to the person. " But, seemed and it was not possible 
to transfer a man it to have insisted that return to Chikako many 
times. However, while insisting many times, because a man was not good 
at thing to admit me who adjusts mother  who did such a thing and 
Chikako only to two people, reluctantly made to the thing to take in 
Chikako in the hut applying the condition only while the father came 
back from the business trip. And, because I was not a member of 
society, various promised things were applied and added to Chikako as 
it was not possible to go out to the outside in daytime because it was 
easy to be doubted variously. Chikako often defended the said thing, 
because had understood man's standpoint well, and slept to Shun in the 
hut in daytime, and the night played on Shun in the river beach and was 
spent. However, because the face that mother is abstracted by all means 
because of the head did not want not to disappear, and return to the 
house by the tremble by Chikako, when the day when the father comes 
back from the business trip to a man is asked to Chikako, after all day 
long from an actual day, the day was said. It was the next day that 
Mayumi's lie had come to light where Tatsuya had returned from the 
business trip. A true by all means thing was not able to be said, and 
Chikako made to the thing done to staying in the house of Yhuki 
momentarily though the thing that the lie does not pass was understood 
when Tatsuya came back to Mayumi. Tatsuya has completely believed 
Mayumi's lie by the thing it does not know what was between Yhuki with 
Chikako and the thing whose day where Tatsuya returned from the 
business trip by chance is Saturday. And, there was no thing that 
Chikako came back even if the evening of the next day came. "Call. " 
When Tatsuya says to Mayumi who was sitting opposite to the table of 
the kitchen, stands up and the direction of the back, took the receiver 
of the telephone which was next to the television. Mayumi was looking 
at the appearance that Tatsuya was calling with the body which was 
frozen of the whole body had been made to sit. "Not coming. " Tatsuya 
said turning around to Mayumi while having a mysterious face when the 
face was separated from the receiver talked over the telephone. When 
Mayumi sees the face of the husband who is not suspecting himself at 
all, the consideration of a strong crime to the thing which I had made 
a daughter sprang, broke down with sitting, and the face turned down in 
the table. Mayumi's big cry sounds in the room which dyes an evening 
glow color. hough Tatsuya was looking at Mayumi who seems not to 
understand how to become, and nor is crying for a little while as the 
blank surprise, returns to me in the voice said, "Hello" of hearing 
from the receiver, Tatsuya said, "I must be going" when a little 
speaking with mother of Yhuki and put the receiver. Tatsuya who had 
looked back must feel something Mayumi,  and crying Mayumi is watched. 
Tatsuya said while shaking Mayumi's shoulder by the hand when 
approached Mayumi and squatted down by "What went wrong?" and a strong 
tone. When Mayumi is said so by Tatsuya, thing which I did, thing that 
Chikako has seen it, And, Chikako went out of the house and the thing 
not having come back yet was spoken honestly. When Tatsuya who hears it 
stands up to shake off angry to the wife who forgets oneself, to put 
out the search wish, the police were called. 

A gray cloud hides the mountain of huji under a cover, and mountains of
miyoujin and Myoujyou are wrapped. 

Wednesday the next week, the man had come to the back door of the school
lunch room in the elementary school which was to be near. "I'm sorrying 
always" "It is good. When embarrassing, each other " The man has 
received the vinyl bag which the French roll enters from the aunt who 
put on the white robe for the school lunch room. "Is it such good?". 
"Good afternoon Fully remained. " The aunt of the school lunch said to 
the man while floating a gentle smile. After the man had settled in the 
river beach, it was after that the man had met the aunt of the school 
lunch for three months. The man often called at houses, and was getting 
food and soap, etc. until the man settled in the river beach and met 
the aunt of the school lunch. There was a house of the aunt of the one 
school lunch. And, it was said, "Calling at houses and turning might be 
serious" when calling at aunt's house to the second times, and was 
recommended to come to the school lunch room at the school of which I 
was working. Though the man was holding back first, is strongly 
recommended by "Anyway, a remaining thing is thrown away" and the aunt, 
commuted to here since then. "These kind of things remained today, is 
made to eat, ShunChan " The aunt of the school lunch passed the vinyl 
bag which the sausage fully entered to the man when saying so. "Well, 
Thank you very much. Shun is pleased. " "Always say when there is a 
thing which is besides. " The aunt of the school lunch closed the door 
in the back door when saying so and entered the inside. The man walked 
on the road which had come as the sky which seemed to begin to rain at 
any moment worrying when two bags were looked at by the face by which 
the man was grateful, too. 

On the way in return by the man, when coming near in front of the front
gate at the school, the signboard had been leant against the corner in 
the front gate. "Look for this girl. Please report seeing to the 
police. Kanagawa prefectural police " The man dropped two bags which 
had in both hands. Chikako was reflected in the photograph had been put 
on the signboard. When the man who was keeping standing for a little 
while returns to me, picked up two bags in a hurry, ran, and faced the 
hut. Chikako planned to return on Sunday. But, Chikako also refused 
when telling that the man returned on Sunday. Though Chikako also 
thought that returns when Sunday comes first because the house had 
already been vacated on the first since the day where Tatsuya returned 
from the business trip, has not understood how only has to answer if 
returns and the reason to vacate the house is asked by Tatsuya. The man 
ged mad really with such Chikako's attitude, the man drives out Chikako 
besides the hut, locked when the door of the tinplate was closed and 
Chikako was prevented from putting.  Chikako has begun to weep after a 
while when reluctantly leaning against the door. Though a man goes to 
the interior of the hut so as not to hear the Chikako's cry and closed 
the ear with both hands, the cry of Chikako who enters the ear is not 
borne, Chikako was put in the hut again. 

There was no appearance of Shun there with Chikako when entering while
the man was arriving at the hut. There was no appearance of Shun with 
Chikako though the river beach was looked panicking and spent because a 
man had not had the thing that Chikako went to play in daytime up to 
now. Drizzle begins to get off in the river beach, hits the roof of the 
tinplate, and KanKan and the sound are made. The man closed the door 
when reluctantly entering the hut and lay. The man is watching the 
ceiling in a dim hut. The man comes to toss about for side. The man who 
had copied the wall of the tinplate onto eyes recalled, saw with the 
television when was a junior high school student, the riot police and 
policeman's appearance arrested assaulting the student who is occupying 
the schoolhouse of the university, and people who are participating in 
anti-war meeting. 

Rain which had begun to be gotten off in daytime gradually became
violent. 

About evening when rain became drizzle a little, Chikako and Shun
finally came back to the hut. "Ojicyan, Gotten wet. " Chikako put Shun 
in the hut when entering the hut while saying so and closed the door of 
the tinplate. "Chiichyan, Promised not to go out to the outside in 
daytime. " The man said by the tone to which it was a little angry. The 
face down of Chikako. "Went where. " When a man heard so, Chikako 
answered with the face down, "Sheltered under the bridge because it had 
rained rapidly when playing on Shun near the Houtoku bridge which was". 
"Ojicyan, I'm sorry" Chikako is apologizing because fears the attitude 
of a man different from always. The man told to sit because Chikako who 
was the face down like man's standing had the talk. After that, a man 
ignited the candle by the match when the candle which stuck in t he 
candle setting up was taken out of the place with luggage in the 
interior of the hut and put in front of him. When Chikako gets wet a 
little and Chikako who is making to it cold sits in front of a man, the 
hand is held up in the candle. Shun became lying upon face and turned 
the face to the wall on the side. The man said to Chikako in a gentle 
voice which differed a little while ago that sat again and sat 
straight. "Chiichyan, Let's already return to the house. " The look of 
a sad man to whom had been cornered was turned by Chikako. Chikako 
crossed the foot to previous when the man's eyes were seen, applied the 
amount of hold to the knee by both hands, and refused. "Chiichyan may 
not return today, Let's return to the house when rain will go up 
tomorrow." Chikako is frequently refusing. "Omawarisan searches for the 
thing of Chiichyan. When it is the state as it is, Ojicyan is caught by 
Omawarisan. " (Omawarisan is policeman's thing in Japanese. ) When the 
man says to Chikako in the voice which seems to cry, Chikako did not 
refuse, and did not move with the face buried under the knee. "Asking 
Chiicyan, You may return to the house because it is asking. At last, a 
man begins to weep, kept crying because the body was blown down to 
previous when both hands were put out to previous, and amount was 
applied to t he shell of both hands.  Chikako also began to weep when a 
man who was crying because Chikako who heard the cry looked up was 
seen. The cry of two people sounds in a dim hut. And, to lack and to 
erase the cry, the roof of the tinplate was beaten and the sound of 
applied rain became violent. Chikako who kept crying because forgets 
oneself, after a while, Chikako set up the face feeling a cold thing in 
the hit of my lower half of the body.  Then, the man was touching 
Chikako's lower half of the body by the face which had clung to 
something. "Ojicyan, What is done. " The man does not try to stop even 
if Chikako says in a voice embarrassed of Chikako. "Ojicyan, Quit! " 
The man kept this time touching though Chikako said in a big voice. 
Chikako who had become scary ran away to the edge of the hut. The man 
approaches while seeing Chikako by eyes by which a man goes mad. 
Chikako turned the face to the wall while trembling when the man came 
beside of me. "Gabu!" Moreover, Shun bit to the right hand of a man who 
had tried to touch Chikako's lower half of the body. "Painful!" The man 
tries to shake off Shun bitten as a man raises a sorrowful voice. When 
Chikako goes out of the hut to becoming empty of which the man and Shun 
jostle and puts on shoes, ran in the cycling course where the downpour 
fell. 

Chikako who had thought that the man ran after sprinted. "zah�c�c!" In
addition, the downpour which has fallen a little while ago strengthens 
the density of falling rain. When Chikako turns the face a little below 
so that rain should not catch one's eye, sideward eyes kept being not 
shaken and run.Chikako who had been running without thinking about the 
destination looked up by chance. Then, with the boy who drove the 
helicopter of the radio controller together in the river beach, the 
slide to which the boy had been sitting caught one's eye when starting 
and meeting. Chikako entered the hole where the side of the slide was 
run through when passing under the hedge of the Rensyouji park. Chikako 
who entered the hole c rawls and advances toward the interior. When 
Chikako arrives at the center of the hole, sits holding the knee, has 
been shrinking the body applying amount to the knee. "Hah, Hah, Hah, 
Hah," Sprinting Chikako has run out of the breath. Chikako shut eyes 
and took a rest. Then, a right cheek was licked. "ShunChyan!" Shun is 
about to have followed Chikako. Chikako clung to Shun while crying. 
"ShunCyan, Scary.  ShunCyan, Scary." Chikako's cry echoes to the hole 
of the slide. Chikako kept saying �gShunCyan,Scary." many times while 
clinging to Shun. 

When ten o'clock of the night is passed, rain is complete and seen, some
stars were blinking from the space of the cloud. "Hey! In the hole 
something it. " One boy in boys who had come to collect in the 
Renshuoji park after rain had gone up said all in the heard voice. 
Surrounding boys gather. The boy who found first shone on the writer 
who had, and lit and shone on in the hole. "dog!" "Bowwow" Shun groans 
as Shun threatens boys when the boy shouts. "Hey, In dog's other side 
still something it. " The boy who had been looking in the hole in the 
back of the fire and the boy who was burning said. "Girl!" The boy who 
had been looking back said in the voice to be surprised. Then, the boy 
goes ahead of the hole as the boy who was looking in the endmost lacks 
and divides boys who have gathered to surroundings of the hole, looked 
in the hole while burning with my writer. The boy was a boy who had 
driven the helicopter of the radio controller together with Chikako in 
the river beach. "Hey, What is done in you and such a place. " Though 
the boy said to Chikako as the boy who understands laughs a little when 
is Chikako, Chikako does not react. "Bowwow" Shun keeps groaning as 
Shun threatens. "Hey, Safe?". The boy comes to be worried because 
Chikako does not react even if calling, though the boy entered the hole 
because Shun approached while groaning in the voice which Shun seems to 
be going to bite at any moment, gave up and went out of the hole. After 
that, the boy ran toward the pay phone near the park to call the 
police. 

"Omawarisan, It is there. " The boy who informed a young policeman who
came to the Renshouji park the motorcycle pointed at the hole of the 
slide and said. "Ah there. understands. You must return to the house 
because I do. " Boys do not try to move at all though the policeman 
said in the voice which boys where the policeman had collected in front 
of the slide also heard. "Hey, returned, and returned. " When the 
policeman goes in front of the slide while saying so, boys were driven 
away ahead of the hole of the slide while making a gesture as said 
removing. Boys have the face to be sulky being deprived to the 
collecting place though the good thing was done. "Let's go to the 
second park. " When one boy says in the voice to be sulky, boys have 
scattered to Renshouji the second park riding on the bicycle stopped 
sideward of the road.Boys who run on the road as the light of the town 
light rows the bicycle, erases when shining on. Though the boy who had 
informed was looking at the hole having a seat in the saddle of the 
bicycle for a little while, the boy who had informed that all 
surrounding boys were gone also disappeared in Renshouji the second 
park. A young policeman shone on with the flashlight with in the hole 
when making sure that boys were gone. Then, one dog and one girl were 
seen to be drawing close in the hole as the boy who had informed had 
said. "Bowwow" Shun groans as Shun threatens to the policeman. "What do 
you do late so in such a place?". The policeman said while shining on 
Chikako's face with the flashlight. "Hey, Hey" The policeman is calling 
Chikako who does not get up even if calling  many times. "Uh�c�c" 
Chikako woke up because had been called many times while being shone on 
the face by the flashlight. "You goes out and exist. " Chikako does not 
try to fear and go out though said as the policeman beckons. "Because 
Omawarisan came, it is already safe. You goes out without fearing and 
exist. " Chikako who does not understand who is shining on me because 
is shone on by the flashlight when the policeman says so learns that 
the person who is shining on him is Omawarisan, went out from among the 
hole thinking giving somehow or other if was Omawarisan.  It has been 
understood that the policeman is a girl to whom the search wish is put 
out only a few days ago when Chikako who went out of the hole is seen. 
"Let's return to the house with Omawarisan. " The policeman thought 
taking to the police box once when saying so, and turned the left hand 
to Chikako's shoulder. "Gabu!" Shun attached behind Chikako and Shun 
which had come out from the hole bit to the arm of the left hand of the 
policeman who had turned to Chikako's shoulder. "Sore! Release! " The 
bitten policeman backed away, and fell on ground in the park. Shun 
keeps biting the left arm of the policeman who fell as Shun shakes the 
body. Shun bitten as the policeman floated a painful expression was hit 
and only the desire was hit by the right hand. But, Shun is not about 
to release the bitten arm. "ShunCyan, Quit! " Chikako who had been 
keeping standing in front of the slide shouted toward Shun. As for the 
policeman, when the policeman's club which was able to arrive at the 
waist panicking was pulled out by the right hand, only the desire hit 
the face of Shun. "Kyan!!" Hit Shun did not move when was blown off, 
and fell on ground for side. "ShunChyan!!" Chikako who had seen it 
fainted when the name of Shun was shouted in the voice of the scream 
and fell in the place. Some lights of the room in the municipal 
management house which is on the opposite side of the park light up, 
the resident opens the window, and has looked for the park. When the 
mud which stickily places to the uniform is paid at the mere 
consolation level, the having been falling policeman holds the bitten 
arm in the pain, halted feeling a strange wild excitement though the 
foot was stepped forward by one step even if coming near to Chikako who 
fainted. The policeman turns around to the feeling of the wild 
excitement. Then, Shun which had not moved at all a little while ago 
got up slowly. Shun to get up staggering approaches Chikako. The 
policeman was looking at the appearance that Shun walks while feeling a 
few trembles for a marvelous intention of Shun which tried to defend 
the Chikako. "Bowwow" Shun groans threatening as Shun where bleeds 
stares at the policeman from a left ear and the face just beside 
falling Chikako. The policeman who saw it judges that another cannot 
solve, steps over the hedge while seeing Shun with Chikako and goes out 
to the road, took the mike of the wireless system machine which had 
placed to a left chest and called assistance. Shun sees the policeman 
calling assistance by the wireless system, felt that the companion had 
been called by animal's instinct, Shun ran away to the road following 
the river beach with Chikako had been left. 

When Chikako woke up, on the bed in the hospital there. �@Chikako is
three days from that, kept sleeping in the bed in the sickroom of the 
carried Odawara municipal general hospital. "Chiichyan!" Tatsuya who 
had been sitting on the chair on the side of the bed called Chikako who 
set up the body. "�c�c" The light on the day inserts from the space of 
the curtain, and shines on in the room. "Chiichyan!" "�c�c" Chikako 
turned eyes to abstract to Tatsuya. "Chiichyan!" "�c�c" After that, 
there was no thing that Chikako answered no matter how Tatsuya called. 
The day, abnormality was not found in the brain and the body though 
Chikako received the thorough examination either. However, because 
Chikako had not answered anything no matter what was asked of whom, it 
was said that the examination would be received in the psychiatry 
department. The psychiatrist who took charge sees Chikako who does not 
answer no matter what is heard, and concludes the voice is not had 
syndrome, moreover, because anything did not react even if father 
Tatsuya was seen, the diagnosis by which whether the memory had been 
lost was said was put out. Chikako was seen off to the sickroom where 
hospitalized when the examination of Chikako ended, and only Tatsuya 
was left in the examination room. The charge medicine spoke the 
diagnosis result by Chikako to Tatsuya in the examination room. And, in 
the future, it is not necessary to be hospitalized for a long term, and 
because abnormality did not go out of the brain and the body in the 
thorough examination, though it is possible to leave hospital when the 
appearance is seen for three days from two days, after Chikako had left 
hospital, it was said that would want to go regularly to hospital at a 
while. The condition of actual Chikako, though it was the voice is not 
had syndrome, all storage remained excluding part. The saying part, 
thing embraced each other to a man whom Mayumi does not know nakedly, 
thing that a man touched lower half of the body, and it was a thing 
which had not moved being hit Shun with the policeman's club. Like 
this, when child's brain recalls, the thing to delete the memory to 
corner me extremely by the chance of the faint etc. self-defending 
instinctively is a thing which is often. Tatsuya walked to the ward 
where Chikako was being hospitalized when the story of the charge 
medicine ended. The interview time ended, and Tatsuya spoke Chikako's 
condition to Mayumi as returned to the apartment. Mayumi is these three 
days. Mayumi kept crying while waiting for Chikako to wake up without 
remaining in the house because it was stopped to go to meet from 
Tatsuya to Chikako, and taking a nap. Mayumi returned to Hiroshima like 
the face which was the have one's eyes swollen with tears without a 
remark when Tatsuya's story was heard, and the talk ended. 

The downpour by which informed of the end of the rainy season began to
get off in the town in Odawara on the next day. 

Monday after two days. Tatsuya will leave the apartment by this day,
when Mayumi's luggage was sent to the parents' family of Mayumi in 
Hiroshima by the takkyubin(home delivery service), my and Chikako's 
luggage had been returned to my parents' family. Morning of this day, 
the hospital when Chikako who leaves hospital goes out of the door in 
the hospital with Tatsuya Koutarou and Noriko opened and were waiting 
for the umbrella in front of the taxi had been taken with Tatsuya. 
Noriko who had seen Chikako's appearance took Chikako's hand when 
coming near to Chikako and squatting down and called the name. 
"Chiicyan" "�c�c" Chikako's doing the look like the sleepwalking 
person, and without answering anything with a smile. My grandchild's 
too miserable appearance is closely seen and the tear is thrown though 
was Noriko that Chikako's appearance is made to be heard from Tatsuya. 
Koutarou had the face by which Koutarou who was looking at it in the 
Noriko back also bore shedding tears and kept standing. Details which 
both Mayumi's things were included from Tatsuya and Chikako had become 
so were made to be heard. For that, we reflected when ending without 
making a lovely grandchild miserable even here if we had understood 
Mayumi's thing more before Chikako was so done. 

When the taxi which took four people arrived at the house, Noriko took
Chikako to the Japanese-style room in which being most in interiors 
from the door to the house. When two people arrived in front of the 
Japanese-style room, Noriko opened the sliding door. In the 
Japanese-style room where sits on bedding, Chikako's luggage is 
beautifully displayed to the wall side. Noriko has Chikako change of 
clothes to pajamas when entering the Japanese-style room while affixing 
the hand to Chikako's shoulder, was said, "Chiichyan was uselessness if 
not sleeping because just left" in a gentle voice, and put Chikako to 
bed squatting down. The sound of rain heard through closed door and 
shoji sounds in the Japanese-style room. "The cake and the juice are 
waited because brings now. " Noriko opened the sliding door when saying 
so and standing up, went out of the Japanese-style room, and closed the 
sliding door slowly. "Patan" Chikako was holding a few senses of 
incompatibility in Noriko's too gentle attitude different from time 
when had lived ahead together. 

When Chikako finishes eating the cake and the juice which Noriko
brought, took out the box with the sewing tool from among the luggage 
of me who had been arranged to the wall side. Chikako was making 
various things well with this sewing tool when was still in Hiroshima. 
When Chikako returns to bedding with the box with the sewing tool, 
opened the box throwing in only the foot to bedding with the body had 
been set up. In the box, the sewing tool and various cloths worn out 
are. When a pink, green felt was taken out, Chikako began to make the 
pendant of the flower from among that. Chikako who had lost the memory 
which did not move as Shun is hit with policeman's club by policeman 
was going to give Shun the pendant. Chikako thought Shun which a female 
dog did not see to be poor ahead because always wore a stern collar 
whenever met Shun. For that, when the pendant can be worn, Chikako was 
going to go to the place of Shun again, and carry the pendant to the 
neck of Shun. And, having taught Chikako how to make the pendant, was 
mother Mayumi. 

Wednesday after two days, Tatsuya submitted the resignation to the
company on this day. Angry to Mayumi had been filled in Tatsuya's mind 
until Chikako was found. However, feelings by which the shiftlessness 
of me who was not able to do anything until my daughter becomes such a 
miserable appearance is blamed have strengthened more than feelings by 
which Mayumi is blamed. Until the day before of this day, Tatsuya who 
kept blaming me because it is absent from the company and stays indoors 
in the room, turned the cause by which I was not able to do anything to 
Chikako to busy of work. Moreover, by this day, Tatsuya asked whether 
you were going to do the friend in the university age when the ranch 
was managed in Nagano Prefecture whether it was a cod in that, and had 
decided the following work. Tatsuya asked whether you were going to do 
the friend in the university age when the ranch was managed in Nagano 
Prefecture whether it was a cod in that, and had decided the following 
work. The reason for the decision that Tatsuya works in the ranch is 
that Chikako who has become like the sleepwalking person wants to taste 
the living in beautiful nature with which fresh air is filled. 
Yesterday, Mayumi is made to admit Chikako's parental authority with 
the telephone, and my name and necessary matter are filled in and 
Tatsuya who was sending the divorce notice which pushes the stamp to 
the parents' family of Mayumi in Hiroshima, moves to Nagano at this 
just good time when Chikako becomes a summer vacation, Tatsuya was 
determining that walked Chikako and two people in the future life. The 
downpour which had continued for three days became drizzle on the 
morning of this day, went up completely in the afternoon, and excluded 
the patch of blue sky in around the evening. Chikako had been playing 
by one person while being waiting to be able to do supper in the 
Japanese-style room with panda and rabbit's stuffed animals. "Mr. 
rabbit, Let's play. " As Chikako is muttering so, panda's stuffed 
animal is brought close to rabbit's stuffed animal. "Garagara" The door 
opened, and Noriko who had gone to the nearby fish shop to buy the bean 
curd came back. "Returned now." Noriko said, "The bum died in the bank" 
in the voice which Koutarou who had been reading the evening edition in 
the living room near the kitchen heard when going to the kitchen with 
the bought bean curd. Hollow eyes of Chikako in the Japanese-style room 
opened rapidly. The memory lost in Chikako's head revives. When the 
trembling body is set up, Chikako stands up. The pendant of the 
completed flower putting up the ribbon of a peduncle long and slender 
as lowered from the neck yesterday, ran to the door in a hurry when 
putting the pendant in the pocket of the skirt. "Chiichyan, Go to 
where. " Noriko said to Chikako who not was whom Noriko was sure to 
answer that Chikako was running on the passage in front of the kitchen. 
Chikako runs toward the door. Noriko said, "Chiichyan, Wait!, Go to 
where" in a voice in a hurry, and ran after Chikako. Koutarou keeps 
reading the evening edition thinking that Noriko will capture. Chikako 
put out my bicycle from the bicycle depository which was next to the 
door when slipped on and put on shoes so that was not caught by Noriko, 
got on, and rowed the bicycle desperately toward the cycling course. 
"Wait!, Chiichyan " Noriko who arrived at the door ran after Chikako's 
bicycle running when put on sandals in a hurry. But, Noriko was not 
able to do the thing that the speed of Chikako's bicycle is followed, 
gave up on the way, and halted. 

Chikako rows the cycling course and the bicycle is rowed desperately
toward the place with the hut. "Dah�c�c�c�c�c�c" The roaring sound in 
the muddy stream in the Sakawa river which rose for the downpour which 
had continued every day resounded in the river beach and the cycling 
course region. "Sechyan dies." Chikako is passed as two boys who rid on 
the bicycle talk. Chikako was done such a thing by the man and came to 
hate man's thing by did not want to see the face. However, Chikako who 
had remained the memory of a kind man who had taken in man who did not 
apply by going in the hut worried whether a man had died really 
somewhere of the mind. When Chikako came to the place with the hut, 
many people had gathered in surroundings of the hut. "Suicide" "The 
nuisance of the dog. " The voice of people who gather is heard 
everywhere. Chikako tried to go to people who have gathered when the 
bicycle is stopped sideward of the road and see the hut. But, there was 
short Chikako's being sure not to see the hut, and Chikako elbowed 
one's way through the person reluctantly. Two policemen were standing 
in front of the hut when Chikako went out to the place where the hut 
was seen. It was a schoolboy in the high school in the Sakawa banks of 
a river to have found man's corpse. Shun was seen excluding the day 
where this student did not go to school every day because this student 
had been using the cycling course as a going to school road. For that, 
for about one week of this day, this student went in front of the hut 
while feeling something different from always in the appearance of Shun 
which kept barking toward me though injured while wandering doing the 
hut front.And, today, this student that the return is late by 
extracurricular activities of baseball barked, and the bicycle was 
rowed alone toward the house, the decreasing popular cycling course in 
front of the hut toward me in around the evening, moreover, Shun tied 
to the chain had barked in front of the hut toward me. When this 
student got off the bicycle be not able to finish bearing a miserable 
appearance of the Shun which was emaciated day by day and approached 
the hut, this student said, "Was there someone?" and opened the door 
from among the hut because the stink was. Then, the blood which 
scattered when the man cuts the carotid artery of the neck congeals and 
blackens around there in the hut, the corpse of the man whom was about 
to be depressed in the interior of the hut was rolling. Though the 
student who had seen it falls in front of the hut while screaming, and 
trembled for a while in the shape, this student came toward the nearby 
telephone box to contact the police when riding on the bicycle managing 
to stand up with all speed. Chikako is keeping standing as Chikako 
watches the hut. The sky of the evening after the rain had dyed madder 
red. Chikako came near to Chikako by the policeman that a close 
retirement age ages when it was anxious in the hut and approached the 
hut and aged policeman said, "It is useless from here when entering 
ahead". Chikako asked aloud it was not possible to put out up to now 
though looked up at policeman's face when was said so by the policeman. 
The voice was speaking with a local accent of Hiroshima why. "Ojicyan, 
Died. " "Ah" Chikako was told that the policeman muttered. Chikako fell 
behind when said so and watched the hut again. The Chikako's eyes were 
moistened a little. The policeman returned in front of the hut when 
making sure the fall behind Chikako, and, turned ahead and the memory 
of the man was retraced. This policeman's having met the man, when a 
man settles in the hut, the report is received when there is a young 
person who puts up the hut without permission sideward of the cycling 
course and lives, from the citizens who do not know that the prefecture 
is managing the Sakawa river, when this policeman went to meet. After 
that, this policeman visited the hut many times, and it was said, "Work 
and the place where lived were taken care of", the man said, "As for 
me, life here was suitable for the character" and cut this policeman 
though tried to society return the man. Still, though the policeman 
kept visiting many times, and persuade the man, to the man who refuses 
by a lonely look which cannot enter in you every time the policeman 
persuades, stopped becoming painful, and persuading. There was a reason 
why this policeman had courted the man many times. It, the reason is 
that a son who is just the same age as a man exists if alive. At that 
time though the policeman thought if policeman's act of me who makes to 
a man who kept refusing was not wrong, regretted when kept saying more 
and a man only had to society return forcibly when becoming now since a 
man had died. My son and the man's faces when the policeman who is 
standing in front of the hut looks up at the sky, and it is alive are 
imagined. The tear had come into in the policeman's eyes. The policeman 
in this police box of two people where the report of the student who 
found was received only confirms the corpse and does not touch the hut, 
 was waiting for the assistance of the judgment etc. when contacting 
the Odawara police station by the wireless system.The vinyl bag had 
dropped just beside the corpse when the two policemen confirmed the 
corpse. No one still saw the music sheet though there was a music sheet 
to which the character was written in that. The following things were 
written in the music sheet by the scribble. "Dear Chiichyan. Why I will 
have on earth carried out purity. Why such a thing might have been done 
to Chiichyan. Chiichyan, I'm sorry really. Ojicyan dies, there is a 
thing which wants to ask Chiicyan, only one at the end. Thing of Shun, 
Please asks. Chiichyan, I'm sorry. Chiichyan, I'm sorry. Chiichyan, I'm 
sorry. �c�c�c�c�c�c�c�c�c�c�c�c" Chikako who watches the hut and was 
keeping standing, after a while, there was no appearance of Shun though 
surroundings of the hut were looked about looking for Shun. The stake 
has been driven in to ground near the hut seems to come off and stands. 
Chikako looked about Kawahara when elbowed one's way through the person 
garbage and went out to the cycling course. The muddy water of the 
rising Sakawa river usually hides the seen sandbank under a cover, the 
plant which has grown in an sandbank is mown down, and flows. Chikako 
shouted toward an unpopular river beach. "ShunChyan!" "Bow!" Dog's cry 
sounded from the road one step of the cycling course below soon after 
Chikako had shouted. Short Chikako exceeds the road of the asphalt of 
the cycling course, and runs up to seeing one step road below. Chikako 
turned the glance to hearing the voice, when Chikako arrives at the 
place where the road below is seen. Then, the track in the public 
health center stopped in Chikako on the road below for the carrier, and 
Shun was put in the cage having been loaded by the carrier. "Bow!, 
Bow!" Shun keeps barking toward Chikako. "ShunChyan!" Chikako descended 
running on the road which had been climbed when meeting Shun for the 
first time in front of the hut when shouting toward Shun. "Bhhhun!" The 
track where Shun was put begins to run. Chikako who arrives at the road 
below runs after the track which began to run. "Bow!, Bow!" Chikako 
shouted holding up to see Shun when the pendant of the flower put in 
the pocket while running was put out with the right hand. "ShunCyan! 
Give to This!" Do the stream of a big tear to Chikako's cheek. "Bow!, 
Bow!" Shun keeps barking as Shun which injures at the left of the face 
brings the face close to the hedge of the cage, and Chikako is called. 
"ShunCyan! Give to This!" Chikako stumbled throwing in the foot to the 
deep pool which was able to have done because of the downpour of every 
day when running as Chikako shouted so. "Oh!" Chikako raised the voice 
and fell. Then, Tatsuya's voice was from the cycling course on one 
step. "Chiichyan!" Tatsuya who had returned from the company gave up 
running after Chikako and met Noriko who came back to the house by 
chance in front of the house. And, Tatsuya asked from Noriko "Chikako 
rid in the river beach and having rid on the bicycle", looked for 
Chikako, and the bicycle was made to run at every step about the river 
beach.The bicycle on which Tatsuya rid is thrown, blown down, and goes 
down to the road below in a hurry as elbowing one's way through the 
grass which has grown on the slope in the bank. When Tatsuya arrives at 
the pool which lie face downies by Chikako and falls, was made to have 
sideward of Chikako by both hands and to stand.Chikako who had stood up 
clung to Tatsuya like clothes which became soaked, and said to Tatsuya 
while crying. "Shuncayn is, Shuncayn is," The tear had come into in 
Tatsuya's eyes because had heard my daughter's voice after a long time. 
"I'm sorry, Chiichyan, I'm sorry, Chiichyan," Tatsuya repeated the same 
word many times while patting the head of clinging Chikako. "Bow!, 
Bow!, Bow!, Bow!" Madder red emptiness the under, the track where Shun 
which kept barking was put has gone away to disappear from the Chikako 
front. 


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