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When people finish their day
and hurry home,
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my day starts.
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My diner is open from midnight
to 7:00 in the morning.
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They call it "Midnight Diner."
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Do I even have customers?
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More than you would expect.
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MIDNIGHT DINER: TOKYO STORIES
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YAKISOBA DOG
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We don't keep bread,
because we mainly serve rice.
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If some customers
really want to eat sandwiches,
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they bring their own bread.
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Here you go.
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Welcome.
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Master, make me the usual
with these, please.
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You brought so many again today.
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Please serve some to everyone
if they want.
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Okay.
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Here you are.
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This is the one!
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Mr. Kotani is a successful businessman
who runs cat cafés and dog cafés,
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but somehow he always orders
this yakisoba sandwich here.
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What's the point of putting
yakisoba noodles between bread?
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They both contain carbohydrates, right?
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I agree. Just looking at it makes me full.
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That's why it's great.
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Meat and carbohydrates
are essential to our youth, right?
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Our youth.
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Mr. Kotani, you seem to be so happy today.
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Has anything good happened to you?
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Thank you for asking!
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My high school will participate
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in the Spring National Invitational
High School Baseball Tournament.
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For the first time in 40 years!
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Congratulations.
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Well done!
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They did their best.
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Were you in the baseball club?
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Yeah, as a substitute, though.
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One of my classmates back then
is the manager now.
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Please give him a glass.
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Congrats. Would you like some?
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Yes, please.
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Ryu doesn't look like it,
but he played baseball in high school.
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So I guess he understands very well
how he feels.
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That manager promised me once
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that he'd make sure to take his students
to Koshien Stadium one day.
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He kept his promise for sure.
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Yes.
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No need to cry.
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Let's celebrate!
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Master, beer for everyone. They're on me!
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Sure.
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Mr. Kotani!
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Long time no see!
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Let's go for a drink!
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He must be so happy
that he's been drinking every day since.
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He was so drunk.
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He stood up and started singing
his school song.
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He made a mess at my bar, too.
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At your place, too?
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That's right.
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He kept talking
to other customers persistently,
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so I told him off, saying, "Stop it!"
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You should've told him off, too, Master.
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Next time he comes around.
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Give him a break.
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He works hard as the head of the company.
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He must feel so pleased and nostalgic.
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I like high school baseball games.
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Young baseball players tickle
my motherly instinct.
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I want to treat them with lots of food.
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But they're the ones
who achieved the result, right?
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Do high school baseball games
make adults get excited so much?
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In spring and summer.
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Isn't it one of the Japanese traditions?
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What's wrong with getting excited
twice a year?
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You're consistently excited
throughout the year.
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Isn't that so?
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What's wrong with Mr. Kotani?
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He'd never been that drunk before.
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Crap.
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Thanks for the other night.
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You're good!
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Have you played baseball before?
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You're so bad.
Is it true you were in the club?
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Were you watching me?
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I haven't played at all
since I was a high school student.
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I've got some blisters on my hand.
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But it's so nice
to play sometimes, isn't it?
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It reminds me of high school days.
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Nice batting!
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Your form is not right.
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What?
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If you keep batting,
you'll get the right feeling back.
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You won't easily forget
what you learned kinesthetically.
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Here.
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I'm sorry for being so drunk
the other day.
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I understand how happy you are,
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but don't you think
you drink too much lately?
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Look at this.
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MANAGER YOKOKAWA
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"Keep making small efforts.
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I want my students
to believe in themselves
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and to play their baseball games
to the fullest."
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He's a good manager, Mr. Yokokawa.
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Right?
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We both went to the university here
after graduating from high school.
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During summer vacation, when we were 20,
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he told me to walk home to our hometown
in Kōchi prefecture. So I walked with him.
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On foot? Why?
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He played baseball in university,
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but he injured his shoulder.
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I think he was thinking
about his choices ahead.
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It was when we were walking
a straight road along Suruga Bay,
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if I remember correctly.
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We bought a yakisoba sandwich,
the last one at a shop, and we shared it.
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Yokokawa!
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Let's take a break!
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Hey!
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Shut up and keep walking!
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Then he told me...
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"If I can make it home,
I'd continue playing baseball.
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As I can't be a professional
baseball player any more,
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I'll be a high school teacher
and take my students to Koshien Stadium."
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You told me the other day.
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He made it home on foot, but I couldn't.
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I got diarrhea on the way
and went back to Tokyo by myself.
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I see.
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But I felt for sure at that time
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that I should do something.
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Because I couldn't live like Yokokawa.
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Do you still see him?
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Not at all after he graduated from
university and went back to our hometown.
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I haven't paid him back
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the money I owe him.
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I see.
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In that case, why don't you
donate the money to his school?
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It'd cost a lot of money to go
to the national tournament, wouldn't it?
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Donation.
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That's not a bad idea.
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Hello?
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Are you Kotani?
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It's me.
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I talked to Yokokawa
for the first time in 30 years.
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He called me
because he learned about my donation.
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That's great.
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Thanks to you, Master.
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I didn't do anything.
I just thought of an idea.
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He remembered, too.
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He said to me on the phone...
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I finally kept my promise.
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Here.
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I wrapped them all up as you told me.
Do you want something to eat?
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No, thank you.
I'm going somewhere far away.
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Here. I don't need the change.
Please keep it.
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Okay. Thank you.
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Master, thank you.
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By the way,
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when I walked past Mr. Kotani's cat café,
it was closed.
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Really?
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I thought it was popular, wasn't it?
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I heard so, too,
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but according to the note, a new Taiwanese
tapioca shop will open next month.
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Tapioca? What's that?
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Don't you know? Tapioca.
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Tapioca?
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Tapioca.
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Welcome.
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Has the guy called Kotani been around?
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Mr. Kotani?
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I haven't seen him lately.
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I see. That's fine.
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What was that about?
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A loan shark.
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They're not very nice.
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Kotani, come out!
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You're there, aren't you?
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According to Ryu, Mr. Kotani...
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OVERDUE PAYMENT REMINDER LETTER
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...his business had gone bad,
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and he borrowed one million yen
from the company
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and disappeared.
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Come out, you! Hey!
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Looking back at how drunk he was getting,
he might have felt desperate.
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He looked so happy when he talked
about his donation to his school.
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Maybe the money also came from...
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Probably.
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He can't come back to this town.
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It must be nearly the end
of the hay fever season, right?
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I'm allergic to Japanese cypress,
not to Japanese cedar.
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I'm fed up with this.
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Welcome.
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Good evening.
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Are you, perhaps...
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I'm Yokokawa. Nice to meet you.
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This is the classmate of Mr. Kotani
and the manager he was talking about.
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Is that so?
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I learned about the donation from Kotani.
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He told me this diner's Master
had suggested he do it.
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Yeah.
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Thank you very much.
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Is beer okay for you?
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Yes.
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It's on me.
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To celebrate the participation
in the tournament.
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Thank you, but...
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Excuse me.
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That was a close game, wasn't it?
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We lost badly.
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We managed to hit back and score
in the last inning at least,
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and avoided a shutout game.
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It's wonderful
just to participate in the tournament.
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That's right.
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Thank you.
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I wish Mr. Kotani were as honest
as you are, even 10% as much as you.
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You know about...
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his debt, is that correct?
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He came all the way to the stadium.
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Did you see him?
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Yes. He told me about the debt
at the time.
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I haven't seen him since then.
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We made a promise to meet up here.
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Meet him? Here?
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Yes.
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Ryu!
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Master, make me the usual
with these, please.
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Sure.
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This is Mr. Kenzaki.
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He helped me so much
with the recent event.
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This is Yokokawa.
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The manager of my high school team
I told you about the other day.
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I wish your team good luck
for the summer tournament.
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Thank you.
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I thought about killing myself by jumping
off a cliff after watching their game.
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He told me off, saying,
"It's so silly to die because of money."
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That's why I came back here.
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Then I bumped into him in a batting cage.
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Then, he sorted things out for you?
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Yes, he did.
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After Mr. Kenzaki talked to them,
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they postponed the due date
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and they even reduced the interest.
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Thank you so much for saving my life.
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You should choose your friends.
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For your students, too.
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I'll make sure
that he keeps his promise to you.
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Hey...
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Yokokawa, what do you mean by that?
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Mr. Kotani...
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you're so clueless.
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If you miss paying back your debt,
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Ryu also needs to take responsibility,
as he protected you.
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Ryu is too nice.
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I was so happy about your donation.
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I'd be happier if the money
wasn't from the loan company.
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Here you are.
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Mr. Kotani always orders this.
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When I was in university,
we tried to walk to our hometown.
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We shared this on the way.
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Yes, he told me about it.
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At first, he said, "I won't eat it.
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I don't get hungry, because I don't play
sports as much as you do."
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A weird theory.
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But his stomach was rumbling.
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So, I asked him to cut it in half,
and then he did...
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Like this.
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It's not even at all.
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He looked at me like a puppy.
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He gave me...
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the bigger one.
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That's a nice story.
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That's the time when you were depressed...
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because you couldn't
play baseball any more.
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At that time...
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when I saw the wistful look on your face,
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I felt so much better.
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I felt like thinking
about my future a little, like,
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"Even not as a player,
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I can be involved
with baseball in different ways."
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You made us go to Koshien Stadium.
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I'm sure you can get over this.
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It's my turn to support you.
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Eat this.
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THIS STORY IS A WORK OF FICTION
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