45 Episode 43: I believed



"Regina! Open it!" knock on the door of a store  The fitted polished glass rattles. "Regina!""Yes, yes! I'll open it now, with the broken door!" I hear voices coming from behind the door. After a while, lights come on inside the store. A dim light comes out from behind the polished glass. "Well, what's wrong with you, at this time of night? Even if you crawl at night, be a little quieter...""Come here for a second!" I have no time to talk nonsense.  I grabbed Regina by the arm and pulled her under the umbrella. I'm sorry, but I'll explain it to you as I head to church. No veto!"Wait a minute!" Regina, however, stands firm and resists.  I don't have time to do that! I'm going to drag you hard. `Wait!'"Why!" Suddenly I felt a sharp pain in my right hand.  I saw Regina holding something in her hand against my hand. "To fight off chikan, an insectivorous plant called 'Eating!'" It is a tufted plant the size of a giant peak, and when the lower part of the tuft is pressed, the upper mouth opens and countless spines pop out of it. "This thorn melts human skin and produces a mild solution. It hurts a lot, doesn't it?""... Ouch... who is the molester! You're not carrying anything dangerous around! Also, the name is laughable! You demand a change of name!""You're a great molester to come here in the middle of the night and force me away to listen to you! Oh, you're a great... you're not a joke?" ...he'll hit me!  I'm at a standstill here. "What do you mean by urgent business with us? Wait a minute. If you don't have the tools, you can't make the medicine. Don't act rationally, can you help me?""...I'm sorry. I'll tell you the situation along the way, so hurry up as much as you can.""At that time... oh, no. I didn't want to mention whether or not I was worthy of it. I've never seen it before, and I can't compare it...""You're in a hurry. Push Regina across the door and rush her to get ready.  The store was still full of the smell of medicine.  The dark inside of the store is lit by lanterns. "Hey, wait. Let's go.""... That's early,""I'm a woman who's going to make a big deal of it. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..""Well, let's hurry!" Regina forces her out of the store before she pours in.  Oh, my God, this is... But I was also impressed.  Regina had already put together the things she needed to make sure she was ready to jump out of the way. "You are a good pharmacist,""Well, you know, the people of the town can't rely on us, and it's a waste of effort... if you want to laugh, you can laugh at least. Negative things run wild. "Do you laugh? I'll never laugh.""Do you want to curse me? Huh? Are you going to humiliate me?" The runaway is going in a strange direction.  Please introduce him to a friend. He's a good friend who can shake the darkness off his mind!"I think it's a big deal. I'll give you a big compliment."`... oh... oh... is it?' I thought compliments would get me carried away, but I got a clumsy reply. "Oh, my God, when I get compliments for my daily activities... I'm embarrassed. I'll sing even if it's my back." He laughs furiously, and scratches his back again in a deliberate manner.  Are you embarrassed? It doesn't look like it. "But... big. I'm honestly glad you relied on me.""Then I'll depend on you like a horse-drawn carriage,""Is that strange? Don't ask for it in moderation." Regina's elbow hits me in the ribs.  I'm no longer embarrassed, and I'm back in my usual mood. "I borrowed it before... it's convenient. It's convenient, it's not wetting my face... and I'm wetting my shoulders!" I brought only one umbrella, partly because I was in a hurry.  I'm heading to church sharing an umbrella, but this handmade umbrella is too small for two people.  Then it's inevitable that one of them will get wet. "Don't worry. In my country, it's good manners for men to get wet.""Well... it's a country of gentlemen," That's not the case, though. "A tool of love,""Is that so?""Don't worry. I feel like I'm being cherished." Take care... well, do you think so? "And when it's sunny, why don't you cover the front with an umbrella?""Do you have an umbrella on a sunny day?""If you have this, you can do whatever you want on the main street without hesitation... oh, stay with the umbrella! It's cold! It's so wet right now! Akan! The pharmacist has a cold or he can't be fashionable! The shop is out of business!" I tilted my umbrella to my side as much as I could as I could to punish him for saying stupid things. Regina is handing it over in a torrential rain.  Oh, my gosh. "...Oh, I'm surprised. I can't understand myself jokingly." When the umbrella is put back, Regina can brush away the rain from her shoulders and head. "But it seems to have settled down a little,""What?""You looked like you were about to die. You're too desperate. In an emergency, people around you should calm down and judge and act, right?" ...this guy!  So I'm going to play around."Oh, come on! I don't know that my last punchline was so wet... It's cold! I can't take my umbrella!" I lost money by reviewing it.  This is the sort of guy he is.  I'll never make a mistake again.  however "Thank you. I've got a little cool. The people in the church must be more distraught, so we have to keep ourselves together.""That's it. Are you really going to church?""Oh, my children are in a bit of trouble.""It may be a little difficult to have a prescription medicine that doesn't work. I don't know what to say when I see it says. This guy only guessed what was going on in the children's situation with the word church.  You're a quick‐witted man. "He seems to have diarrhea, vomiting, and fever.""Do you know the cause?""It's watery. It seems that this rain has broken the irrigation channel and caused sewage and muddy water to flow into the well."... I see. It's dangerous." It's frightening to sort out what I've heard from Bertina.  The symptoms are similar to cholera and typhoid fever. There are no antibiotics. How can I treat them. "I'm sorry..." Bad words are leaked from Regina's mouth. ... It's not good?"Well, at any rate, I can't see you and say anything about it. It's a little sudden.""Ah," I set out for the church as fast as I could, keeping pace with Regina. "Yasilot!" I had just come to the front of the Yodamari-tei when I was suddenly approached.  Magda and Estella were there. "Estella? What's wrong with you at this hour?" Estella comes running up with an umbrella. "Natalia got a high fever. I scolded her for refusing to give me an antipyretic because of the price." Did you end up having a fever? "Your throat seemed to be fine. I was gargling with tea.""That's all right, but did you come here alone? At this time of night... It's dangerous, isn't it?""Of course I brought in a bodyguard. But I asked her to come home with an antipyretic." Natalia must be in serious condition, too.  Otherwise, even if he started to say that he would stay here alone, the guard wouldn't go home. ... Or is the guard a woman? The lord's daughter is a strong guard. "I heard it from Magda. I'm going to church, too.""It's no use coming, is it?""Regina, I'll pay for it, and I want you to do everything you can.""As expected, he's a man,""Oh, manly manly manly manly manly manly man..." Estella smiles bitterly in return for Regina.  Well, even if I say it now, I won't go home quietly, and if I go home now, I'll really be walking alone this time.  It's late at night. I don't wonder what happens.  We can't help it. We'll have to work together here. "All right, then I'll hurry up a little. Magda, come on, too." I'd rather take him than leave him alone. "Ah, but then I'll have to lock the door...""...I've done it," Interrupting me, Magda shows me a bunch of keys.  You meant to follow him out of spite, didn' "Well, let's go," Now that we are four, we set out for the church. Watch our step, and walk as fast as we can.As soon as we arrived at the church, Jeanette greeted us and led us up the stairs to our children's bedrooms.  It's my first time upstairs, but there's a whiff of life in it. It's probably a complete private space. "This way," Jeanette goes along with a sense of self-importance where she used to live.  There were two children's rooms, which seemed to be separated by men and women.  But now ten men and women are laid in the same room to take care of them.  It seemed true that all the children had fallen. No, I didn't doubt it, but... I couldn't believe it until I saw it this way. You might not want to believe it. "Mr. Regina," When we enter the room, Bertina comes to us.  She looks haggard and haggard, even more haggard than I saw just now. "Children...""Oh, when I leave it to you," Speak in a whisper and Regina approaches the lying children. "Will you stay outside for a while? It could be an airborne disease." cover one's mouth and nose with a white cloth as one speaks  There were aunts and grandmothers looking anxiously at the agonizing groaning child. Are they church sisters? Not asking them to leave the room means that if it was an airborne virus, they probably thought it was already infected.  Then it's dangerous to let someone at risk of infection leave the room with us.  Regina is primarily trying to prevent the damage from spreading.  Seems cruel, but I think it's a wise decision.  We follow Regina's instructions and go out of the room.  Close the door and stand by with prayer.  ...it was terrible. The kids who were so well until this morning..."...why can't you replace him?" Jeanette says something like that.  If I were to be replaced, I'd like to take the burden on myself. I guess that's what they think. "That's what it is, isn't it?" Nobody else pretends to answer Jeanette's question, so I have no choice but to answer it.  Look, you've got to engrave it in your head. "It's to take care of the children who are suffering. Who will take care of you when you fall? Are you going to take turns taking care of them all night?""No, no... that's....""When you're weak, you'll be anxious. If you have a lot of people around you, you'll be reassured. You can't replace them to make them feel safe.""…………………is that so?" Jeanette looked somewhat convinced, though forced. "... well, everyone's worried that I look like this. I have to get my head together." Say that and slap yourself on the cheek.  And he's still a little cramped, but... he's forcing me to smile. "Thank you, Mr. Jiro,""...you don't have to thank me," I couldn't keep my eyes fixed on the healthy smile.  I wanted to be guilty because I could only make such a false accusation.  I was keen to talk about something else.  If possible, I don't care. "Well, Jeanette,""Yes,""Where did the babaa and the shit come from?""But excuse me, Mr. Jiro," Jeanette was momentarily at a loss for words she had not expected.  But he immediately raises his eyebrows and scolds me.  Don't include any nuances that accuse you, but be gentle as usual. "They're the mothers. We... they're like the mothers of the children here.""Mother? Is this the dorm?""It's a dormitory where children who have nowhere to go gather." That means they're like the staff of an orphanage.  When Bertina had an upset stomach in the Yodamari-tei, were those dormers taking care of the children?  ......then you can make breakfast out of Temae!"A lot of mothers commute from home, so basically there are only sisters in the early morning." Jeanette looks me in the face and explains that, even though I haven't asked her a question.  Is my face that easy to understand?"Well, I think Mr. Yashiro is a relatively obvious person." Aren't we talking? Do you understand that much? For a trial... That mother isn't a sister, is she?「……?」 Raise your right hand. 「……?」 1+1=?「……?」 It's a tremendous explosion of milk today, isn't it? "Confession!" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ."Oh, my God. What are you thinking about at a time like this, Jiro?""... Jillo likes his breasts too much." I wonder if it has been conveyed to you... I'll be careful in the future. "...I'll take good care of you... ...so... ...please save the children..." Jeanette joins hands to pray to the Spirit.  If there's a god, I'd like to punch the children who believe in you and pray every day, saying that they're not sick.  ...and don't forget to make Jeanette look so painful. "Hey, boys?" Then the door opened and Regina showed her face.  The cloth that covered the nose and mouth has been lowered and is now wrapped around the neck.  Was it not an infectious disease?Regina left the room and closed the door behind her.  Do you have anything to tell us?"The cause is drinking water, after all. It's a bit of a nasty pathogen that gets into my stomach and gets rid of it.""Are you worried about air infection?""No. If you get that disease, you'll still see it a few times when you're still in your hometown, and you'll know how to make a special medicine.""Really?" Jeanette's expression shines at the word "special remedy."  However, in inverse proportion to that, Regina's expression becomes cloudy.  Jeanette's expression. She must have been trying to talk to us alone so that Bertina and her mother wouldn't be allowed to do this.  I mean..."...but I'm afraid I can't make a cure for it.""………………What?" Jeanette's face bleeds with blood.  His expression disappeared with blood. "There are essential materials for the remedy, but I can't get them.""What do you need? Tell me, and I'll get it ready, even if I talk to Chuo Ward...""No, it's not in the 42nd Ward, and it's not in the town of All Bloom.""... yes," At last Jeanette felt dizzy and dented into the corridor.  Magda is walking up quickly and patting Jeanette on the back. "How can you assure me that you didn't?" Maybe she can't give up, but Estella eats Regina.  He has the spirit to say that he'll find you out at any cost. "I bought local specialties in our store. I bought them regularly even if they were a little expensive, but they suddenly disappeared from the market a month ago. They're no longer available now. But they seem to be all over the place." Regina's local specialties have disappeared from the market in the past month, and the mishandles have gone on sale... that is, they're so valuable that you'd want to make a fake... that's the only thing you'll ever find. "Can you make medicine with it?""If it weren't for that, the medicine wouldn't have been made. If it wasn't for Baocriere now, by the time they'd come back, they'd have...""...I see," I wonder what it is... "Well, I can't help it," That's all I could say.  I put out my feet to leave, but my feet are very heavy.  My vision is fuzzy. Is it me who is loose? "Yasilo, where are you going?" Estella's voice stops me, but I don't feel like doing that.  Oh my gosh!  Really... ...he's such a nasty fellow, God is Jaro.  What's going on? What's wrong with you? Are they all on Taemae's palm? Did you ridicule me when you saw me running around so hard, shit? "Mr. Jiro!" Jeanette, who followed me to the church entrance, calls out to me.  But I won't stop.  A puddle leaps.  I feel like the rain is getting heavier than before.  -- oh, before I knew I was out?" So where are you running to? Oh, you know you're stupid, 'God'?" Are you laughing right now? After running for a few minutes, I saw Yodamari-tei, my destination.  open the door with a key from Magda  Cut through the dining room, go out into the courtyard, run up the stairs and head for your room without looking aside.  kick up the door that blocks one's way  a simple empty room  All we have is a bed and a long shelf for household goods.  If a thief breaks in, he'll carry this long arm without hesitation.  But what a shame! That's a fake.  The really expensive stuff is kept in a secret drawer built under the bed.  A simple bed with straws all over the wooden box and sheets. At the bottom is a drawer I made later, filled with 'expensive things' stuffed with cloth bags.  The closing price is over 500,000Rb, more than 5 million yen in Japanese yen.  a jewel in a field once said to have been traded for gold  the source of all the constraints and fetters that I had to bear in this city  It's a spice from Baocriere.  The first time I got to the city, I stole it from the peddler Norbert.  In the end, even Norbert seems to have stolen this spice, and it is said that it is now blocked from being distributed to the market.  I'd have thought of turning it into money if the storm had cooled down."That's why I hate God, Buddha, and those who look at me from above. With a curse of disappointment, I run out of the store where it rains heavily.  I'm too wet to care.  I wish everyone would wash away this irritation, confusion, stupidity, and the strange sense of exaltation and mission that ensues.  race back down the road at full speed  It's a road that goes back and forth every morning.  Even if you can't keep your eyelids open in the rain, or if you can't see ahead in the rain, you can get to the church easily.  The lit church is strangely silent. It runs up the stairs, running down the hall next to the lounge.  The room where the kids were sleeping. Estella was the only one in front of the door. "Everyone is taking care of the children inside.""...what are you doing?""What I'm doing is what I want to ask you... OK, I'll answer you." Estella walks up to me with the expression that she knows everything. "I've been waiting for you. I'm going to make something out of you. Wouldn't it be better for you to have a crowd?" Sentence  I don't need it.I don't need the audience or the competition. "It's Regina who works hard." I popped the cloth bag I was holding onto Estella's hand. "A good guy said, 'Use this!'""Oh, a very nice person... I see. He must be a very nice person because he gives me such an expensive thing.""Oh, I think I'm going to throw up because I'm too good-natured. Oh, and I think I said... 'Don't pry into the source.'""I see... but I can't substitute my children's lives. Even if this is "indefutable evidence of wrongdoing," I'll be glad to use it." A fierce smile gazes at me.  ...so what? I won't look away. "And then...The most pleasant person of the century said, 'If you have any leftover, I want you to return it.'""That's too bad. I don't know his face or name. What kind of person was he?""...she was the most beautiful boy in the world who fainted at first sight.""Ah... I've never seen such a man," I wonder if it's right in front of Temae. "Well, I'll give this to Regina. You should go downstairs and head to the kitchen right now.""Do you want me to make you a late night snack?""Genet is boiling water. I'm sure Mr. Jiro will do something about the children. I hope you don't shake with cold when you come back." You Jeanette... How many times do I have to tell you not to trust me?  Well, thank God the water is boiling.  It's so cold that I'm dying. ... I don't know what I'm doing. I should have put an umbrella on it. "Oh, yes," I was about to head to the kitchen when Estella's voice flew from behind. "That's what the lord of a certain town said... 'if I had converted stolen goods into money for my own personal gain, I would have crushed them with all my might.'" I won't look back.  So I don't know what Estella looks like right now. I don't know. "...I see. I hope it gets across to the parties concerned.""I don't think we need to get across. I'm sure we don't have to do that anymore.""A bad man will remain a bad man no matter how far he goes. If you expect something bad, you'll see him cry someday.""That means, no matter how far a good man goes, he's a good man in the end. ... No matter what happened in the past, no matter how bad he pretended to be... regardless." That's just an ideal..."Take it with you. You know how strong he is.""I will. I hope you'll warm yourself up soon." Instead of looking back, raise your hand in place of an answer.  go down the stairs and through the door just down  Every morning Jeanette stood there making breakfast for thirty, as if she were sitting there.  They're boiling a lot of water in a large pot.  A pot that looked like a barrel, and a huge pot that sounded like Goemon's boiling in a pot. Two of them were simmering in the oven. "There are a lot of little ones, so I always try to boil water. There are a lot of kids who do that." When I enter the kitchen, they tell me such a story.  They don't listen, they don't say anything, they treat you as usual. "... Am I of the same kind as the little Onesho?""It's all wet, so it's even harder." There was still some uneasy shadow on his giggling face. "Have you ever taken care of me?""It's a secret,""You don't say none,""It's a secret," Dodgingly, Jeanette is shifting the hot water in her body into a large tarai on the floor. "For now, warm your feet with this. Take off your wet clothes and cover yourself with this." Get ready for a quick footbath, Jeanette recommends me a chair.  At the side is a towel, a large cloth, and a basket for wet clothes. "I'm looking over there, so please let me know when you've finished changing.""Are you going to strip naked in front of me?""... oh, well, behind me," He seems a little embarrassed and quickly turns his back on me.  It's the same as before. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . But I'm really going to catch a cold any longer.  It can't be helped.  I took off my clothes behind the ginet facing the other side, wrapped myself in a piece of cloth, and dipped my feet into the steaming tarai.  ……………………………………………………………This feels good. "Are you all right now?""Ah..." Looking back, Jeanette immediately collects my clothes and puts them in the basket.  Then he goes around behind me with a towel and starts wiping my hair. "Children, what about me?""You're a big boy. Leave it to me. I'm used to playing with naughty boz.""...who's the naughty one?" His hair was scrubbing away.  We can only hear each other's silence and the scraping of cloth.  It's very quiet... but in that silence, I certainly feel the presence of others.  It's a comfortable space. "I believed," Suddenly Jeanette says such a thing.  Don't stop wiping my hair. "Yasilo-san, when he ran out of here, looked as if he had his usual expression on his face."...'Ano' expression'"You're not conscious of it yourself?" be completely unconscious  I'm basically meant to be a poker face. "When we're in trouble, when we don't know what to do, Mr. Yashiro always looks the same. I know him because I'm watching him." chuckle proudly "Is your face so unique?""No, you look very reliable." The way you wipe a ginet changes.  From pressing the roots firmly, to wiping the tips of the hair gently. "I feel like I'm being told, 'Leave this to me.'" That's a terrible misunderstanding!  I've never thought of it. It's only once. "So, I believed you.""Well, Jeanette," I'm also concerned about the past tense of 'I did' even though nothing has been solved yet, but more than that..."Don't trust me. I'm not the Superman you think I am. I tell lies, I deceive people, I love big breasts.""You've told me before, and you want me to be on guard.""If you remember that, why aren't you wary? To swallow what I say means to know when you're going to be fooled and hard done. You're not trusting others.""Well......." Shortly groaning, and shortly afterwards Jeanette says, "Yes, I understood." "In other words, we shouldn't trust Yashiro 100 percent of what he says.""Well, that's it," I don't think you understand this, do you? "Then I don't trust Mr. Yashiro's words, 'Mr. Yashiro must not be trusted for lying.'""What!""Hmmm. I won't be fooled anymore." Hey, you... ...are you a real idiot?"It's a lie that says, 'Yasilo-san is a liar.'""Well, if it's true, I'm a liar, and if it's true, I'm not a liar, but if it's true in the first place, I'm already a liar, I'm a liar, aren't I?""Yes. You're a liar, aren't you?""Oh, yes... but...?" Oh, is that okay? But definitely Jeanette interprets exactly the opposite of what I think......oh, it's complicated. "That's enough... do as you please.""Yes, I will." Then again, both of them shut up and a quiet time passes by.  While feeling Jeanette's hand patting my head through the towel, I thought again that this silence was comfortable.  It wasn't long afterwards that news of the completion of a specific remedy came in.