E12 - Mother

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[00:02] ---
    Sayu!
[00:08] ---
    Where the hell have you been?
[00:11] ---
    People were spreading all these
    weird rumors because of you!
[00:16] ---
    M-Mom!
[00:17] ---
    We've got a guest. That's enough.
[00:23] ---
    This is Yoshida-san.
    He took care of her for a long time.
[00:27] ---
    I asked him to come with me.
[00:32] ---
    "Took care of her," huh?
SIGN    "Mother"
[02:22] ---
    Sayu...
[02:24] ---
    I'm fine. Let's go.
[02:27] ---
    Come in.
[02:29] ---
    Right this way.
[02:32] ---
    All right.
[02:56] ---
    So? What did you expect to accomplish?
[03:00] ---
    Running away from home for so long.
    Causing problems for your family.
[03:04] ---
    You caused no end of problems
    when you lived here, but this was worse.
[03:12] ---
    I don't understand what you want to do.
[03:17] ---
    ...not even trying.
[03:20] ---
    What?
[03:21] ---
    You're not even trying to understand.
[03:23] ---
    Well, I don't know what you're thinking.
[03:28] ---
    You don't say anything.
[03:31] ---
    Do you remember what
    I said to you the day I left?
[03:36] ---
    What was it, again? I forget.
[03:41] ---
    I knew it.
[03:43] ---
    You don't care about me.
[03:47] ---
    You don't even try to understand me.
[03:51] ---
    You've been home for five minutes,
    and already you're complaining.
[03:55] ---
    Did you run away just because
    you wanted to spite your family?
[03:58] ---
    No!
[04:02] ---
    I...
[04:04] ---
    I just... wanted to get away from you.
[04:09] ---
    From the mother who didn't even try
    to understand me.
[04:14] ---
    From the mother who told me
[04:21] ---
    that she thought I killed my only friend!
[04:26] ---
    So what did you think
    running away would accomplish?
[04:30] ---
    Even if you left, there was nothing
    you could have done on your own.
[04:35] ---
    Well...
[04:39] ---
    Still, it was her only choice.
[04:43] ---
    And it was her mom who made it
    so that it was her only choice.
[04:51] ---
    And then you end up staying
    at the house of a strange man.
[04:58] ---
    And then bring him back here,
    on top of it all! Why?
[05:02] ---
    How much are you trying to embarrass me?
[05:05] ---
    Yoshida-san came here for me.
[05:09] ---
    For you?
[05:10] ---
    You're not part of this family!
    This isn't your problem!
[05:14] ---
    Mother, that's rude.
[05:16] ---
    Issa, shut up!
[05:18] ---
    What does "taking care of you" mean, anyway?
[05:20] ---
    He was just letting a teenage girl
    stay in his house, right?
[05:23] ---
    Mom!
[05:24] ---
    I said, "Shut up!"
[05:28] ---
    You're right.
[05:31] ---
    I let Sayu stay in my home,
    even when I knew it was against the law.
[05:40] ---
    Why did you bring him here?
[05:43] ---
    Because...
[05:44] ---
    It doesn't become okay just because
    you know it's against the law!
[05:48] ---
    It just makes you a criminal!
[05:54] ---
    Every single time...
[05:58] ---
    Every single time you treat the people
    I care about as if they don't matter!
[06:02] ---
    You insult them without
    even listening to them!
[06:04] ---
    That's what I hate about you!
[06:15] ---
    Yoshida-san took good care of me.
[06:21] ---
    When I ran away from home...
    and ran even further...
[06:27] ---
    I told myself that I needed
    to put up with painful things,
[06:30] ---
    so I could get away from the real pain.
[06:33] ---
    Every single day I told myself that.
[06:36] ---
    But the truth is,
    I hated what I was doing so much!
[06:45] ---
    Yoshida-san told me
    what I was doing was wrong.
[06:48] ---
    And then he accepted me for who I was.
    Told me I could stay with him.
[06:52] ---
    And gave me a place
    I could be happy to call home.
[07:02] ---
    Yoshida-san saw me as a person.
[07:07] ---
    He treated me like family!
    Not like you!
[07:14] ---
    What are you talking about?
[07:21] ---
    You don't....!
[07:22] ---
    Understand...!
[07:24] ---
    How hard it is for me!
[07:29] ---
    How much I lost because of you!
[07:35] ---
    Really, I should've never given birth to you!
[08:05] ---
    No...
[08:07] ---
    What I should do right now is...
[08:33] ---
    That's enough.
[08:51] ---
    It feels strange.
[08:54] ---
    I almost threw the glass in her face,
    but I held back.
[09:00] ---
    And then I realized there were
    two different feelings mixed up inside me.
[09:06] ---
    One I felt boiling up
    from deep inside my belly,
[09:09] ---
    and a quiet feeling
    pushing down on it from above.
[09:14] ---
    I'm simultaneously infuriated and calm.
[09:23] ---
    Nobody chooses to be born.
[09:26] ---
    A mother and father are bound together,
[09:29] ---
    and then the child is born
    whether they want to be or not.
[09:33] ---
    But is a child responsible
    for their own life?
[09:41] ---
    I think the answer is no.
[09:46] ---
    People truly become able to be responsible
    for themselves only after they grow up.
[09:55] ---
    That's not a burden that a child
    whose mind hasn't fully matured can bear.
[10:04] ---
    But Sayu never realized that,
    and she struggled... and struggled...
[10:14] ---
    And suffered so much.
[10:18] ---
    My job now is...
[10:26] ---
    If a parent doesn't have the ability
    to choose their children,
[10:28] ---
    a child doesn't have the ability
    to choose their parents, either.
[10:32] ---
    The only person who will
    ever be her mother is you.
[10:39] ---
    A child doesn't know how to survive
    without their parents.
[10:45] ---
    If you really don't care about Sayu,
[10:51] ---
    I'd like to take her in myself.
[10:55] ---
    I want to raise her up until she's an adult.
[11:02] ---
    But... But I can't do that.
[11:06] ---
    That's not how it works!
[11:10] ---
    It's not my responsibility.
[11:13] ---
    I don't have the responsibility,
    so I don't have the right.
[11:16] ---
    If something happens to her,
[11:19] ---
    helping her, and taking responsibility
    for her, is her family's job.
[11:24] ---
    That responsibility creates a duty.
[11:28] ---
    And gives weight to the things you do.
[11:33] ---
    But...
[11:37] ---
    I don't have any of those things.
[11:41] ---
    I can't truly protect her when it matters.
[11:46] ---
    It has to be you!
[11:50] ---
    Nobody has the right to raise her but you.
[11:56] ---
    So...
[12:20] ---
    Please, raise Sayu until she can stand
    on her own two feet.
[12:27] ---
    I beg you.
[12:30] ---
    Yoshida-san, no...
[12:33] ---
    Why would a total stranger do this?
[12:45] ---
    I'm asking you, too, Mother.
[12:54] ---
    You too, Issa?
[13:02] ---
    Wh-What?
[13:04] ---
    What the hell is going on?!
[13:12] ---
    Get out! Get out!
[13:16] ---
    Mom!
[13:17] ---
    What the hell is this?
[13:19] ---
    What the hell is wrong with you?
[13:21] ---
    I'm sorry.
[13:22] ---
    Would you please leave for now.
[13:24] ---
    I'll take care of things.
[13:26] ---
    All right.
[13:28] ---
    You too, Sayu.
[13:29] ---
    O-Okay...
[13:31] ---
    Get out now!
[13:34] ---
    It's okay. It's okay now.
[13:39] ---
    What the hell is this?
[13:58] ---
    What's wrong, Yoshida-san?
[14:00] ---
    Why are you crying?
[14:06] ---
    When I heard your story,
[14:10] ---
    I thought I understood
    how your mother felt about you.
[14:18] ---
    But...
[14:20] ---
    when she said she never
    should've given birth to you,
[14:24] ---
    I realized it was far,
    far worse than I thought.
[14:30] ---
    I couldn't take it.
[14:33] ---
    I-It's okay, Yoshida-san!
[14:35] ---
    It's not okay!
[14:40] ---
    Get mad. Say something to her!
[14:48] ---
    Yoshida-san, I was about to get mad, too.
[14:54] ---
    But...
[14:57] ---
    You got mad first.
[15:07] ---
    Thank you, Yoshida-san.
[15:36] ---
    It's so beautiful
    that it almost doesn't seem fair.
[15:39] ---
    The night sky.
[15:40] ---
    Right?
[15:46] ---
    Um, Yoshida-san.
[15:50] ---
    When you got on your knees in front of her,
    I felt as if I'd been forgiven.
[15:58] ---
    I did so many things that were wrong.
[16:03] ---
    But it wasn't all for nothing.
[16:11] ---
    It's okay.
[16:13] ---
    Even without you, I can stand on my own.
[16:19] ---
    So don't worry.
[16:30] ---
    Okay.
[16:37] ---
    Do your best.
[16:47] ---
    Yeah.
[16:56] ---
    From the perspective of other people,
    the whole world, the universe...
[17:03] ---
    The bigger the scale you look at,
    the smaller we are...
[17:08] ---
    But by chance,
[17:10] ---
    the path Sayu crossed
    intersected with my own,
[17:15] ---
    and I became a part of her history.
[17:18] ---
    Will the day come
    when she remembers this?
[17:24] ---
    And when that day comes,
    will she have grown up?
[17:40] ---
    You're very close, huh?
[17:45] ---
    We settled things.
[17:47] ---
    H-How did it go?
[17:49] ---
    For now, you need to stay here
    until you graduate.
[17:54] ---
    Mother says that as long as you don't
    cause any problems, she won't bother you.
[18:02] ---
    But that's...
[18:04] ---
    Of course, those were just words.
    We don't know it'll actually go like that.
[18:09] ---
    But Yoshida-san's words seem
    to have affected her, a little.
[18:16] ---
    And Sayu came back a little more grown-up.
[18:21] ---
    It might be time for the two of them
    to figure out how to get along together.
[18:27] ---
    Of course, I'll help.
[18:33] ---
    Yeah. That's right.
[18:36] ---
    Things with Mom aren't going
    to get better quickly.
[18:40] ---
    But I can try to make them better.
[18:46] ---
    I'd always given up on it.
[18:55] ---
    I was worried for a moment.
    I guess it's all settled for now.
[19:03] ---
    It's thanks to you, Yoshida-san.
[19:05] ---
    No, I didn't...
[19:08] ---
    I just said what I was feeling.
[19:13] ---
    A grown-up shouldn't behave
    the way I did.
[19:20] ---
    No, the fact that you got
    on your knees convinced her.
[19:25] ---
    If anything, it's a little frustrating.
[19:28] ---
    Frustrating?
[19:30] ---
    Yes. I'm Sayu's brother,
[19:33] ---
    and I never got on my knees for her.
[19:37] ---
    But you...
[19:40] ---
    You were able to do it. And mean it.
[19:46] ---
    I couldn't do that.
[19:51] ---
    No...
[19:54] ---
    Thank you, really.
[19:58] ---
    Yeah.
[19:59] ---
    Yoshida-san, it's late.
[20:03] ---
    Stay here tonight.
[20:09] ---
    Um... May I speak to your mother again?
[20:21] ---
    All right.
[20:24] ---
    Thank you.
[20:37] ---
    Sayu, can you give me a little time?
[20:43] ---
    Sure.
[20:49] ---
    I'm very sorry about what I just did.
[20:52] ---
    I lost control and said things
    I shouldn't have said.
[20:56] ---
    It's too late for that.
    You already barged into a stranger's house.
[21:04] ---
    You really didn't do anything with Sayu?
[21:08] ---
    I didn't. I swear.
[21:12] ---
    Then why are you doing all this for her?
[21:18] ---
    Because I met her on that day,
    in that moment.
[21:27] ---
    That's the only reason.
[21:30] ---
    I see.
[21:32] ---
    Um, Sayu...
[21:34] ---
    I'm going to think about
    our future after we talk.
[21:45] ---
    So go back to Tokyo in the morning.
[21:54] ---
    Yes. I will.
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SIGN    "Future"
SIGN    Watch next week. I'm begging you.