| 1 | //Fuji: | Things move; become past tense. It feels like a waste. But then, once more in anticipation of the next moment... I press the shutter gently--// |
| 2 | [Syn: presented by Akira Hojo] [Tezuka K. x Fuji S. only...] |
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| 3 | //Fuji: | I had a dream--// |
| Yumiko: | Ara, good morning, Shuusuke. | |
| Fuji: | Good morning, neesan. //A dream of old times, for no reason at all...// |
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| Yumiko: | Just a sec, I'll pour you a cup of tea. | |
| Fuji: | How come you're up already at this time? | |
| Yumiko: | What, I can feel like getting up early from time to time! ...Well, okay. Truth is I have a presentation to give this morning, so I ended up pulling an all-nighter to get my material together. | |
| Fuji: | *laughs* I see. | |
| Yumiko: | And besides, I want to be there to see my brother off on the morning of his big competition. | |
| 4 | Fuji: | Thanks. //...I dreamt... of the time I first met you...// |
| [flashback] *camera whirrs* [Tezuka looks around] |
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| Fuji: | Ah. | |
| 5 | Sorr-- | |
| Tezuka: | ...I thought one usually asked the subject's permission before taking a photograph? | |
| Fuji: | Y-yes... Uh... um, sorry about that? (Eh, no way, he's leaving?) | |
| (Um...) It was really beautiful, so... I had to take one before I called out. | ||
| 6 | You were in a world of your own. If I'd asked your permission, I would've
been barging in. //It was really, really beautiful...// |
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| Tezuka: | ... | |
| Fuji: | Oh, but it's my bad, though. I really apologise. Here, I'll give you the negative... | |
| Tezuka: | ...It's all right. | |
| Fuji: | Eh? | |
| 7 | Tezuka: | I said it was all right. [He smiles a little] |
| //Fuji: | Wow...// | |
| Tezuka: | However, ask permission properly this time. | |
| Fuji: | Right! (This time.) | |
| [Djka: but in the end he couldn't keep to it
*laughs*] [/flashback] |
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| //Fuji: | --Every day after that, I followed you, my heart pounding. I wanted to know what the world you saw was like... | |
| 8 | I got into the same school as you, the same class as you, even got myself swept up in tennis... Every Sunday I waited to meet with you at that tennis court. Back then we were together like it was something obvious, but...// | |
| Scorekeeper: | Game to Seigaku, 1-0! | |
| 9 | Kikumaru: | Been a while, hasn't it? Tezuka playing an official match. |
| Fuji: | *laughs* So it has. | |
| Kikumaru: | ...Even so, like, he's real strong. | |
| Fuji: | Yes, but he'll be improving even further. | |
| Kikumaru: | Eh? | |
| [Fuji nods at Ryouma, standing apart by the fence] | ||
| Scorekeeper: | Game to Seigaku, 2-0! | |
| Kikumaru: | Ah~ I geddit I geddit. | |
| Fuji: | You can't help but recognise it when someone shines like that, really, even if you don't like it. | |
| 10 | Kikumaru: | [looks sidelong at Fuji] But then, I think Tezuka only got as strong as he is now because you were around, Fuji. ...Which proves that Fuji is the root of all Ebil! |
| Fuji: | Oh, is that so? Guess I won't be showing you my notes again, Eiji. | |
| Kikumaru: | Eeeeh-- (It's a joke, a joke!!) ...Would be nice if he could play all out and serious like he did before, though. |
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| Fuji: | ... //Back then we were always together.// |
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| Scorekeeper: | Game set won by Seigaku's Tezuka, game count 6-0! | |
| //Fuji: | But now...// | |
| [Tezuka meets his eyes and looks away deliberately.] | ||
| //Fuji: | Like this, so, so far apart... | |
| 11 | From the moment I took up tennis, the speed of my development caught
everyone's eye. And Tezuka was the same... The stronger I became, the starker
the difference in how he looked at me. When I noticed, what ran through my head was "this is bad"--// |
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| [flashback] | ||
| Fuji: | It's fine if you expect results from my competition matches; I'm confident of my ability to deliver. But... don't expect anything more than that. | |
| 12 | The kind of future you're thinking of isn't for me. I'm a different person from you. | |
| Tezuka: | ...I understand. It's fine, I understand all of it. I haven't said anything to you, have I? | |
| Fuji: | Tezuka... | |
| Tezuka: | Don't worry. I didn't mean to hit a sore spot, but I won't force the issue. | |
| 13 | ...Maybe we were together too much. Shared too much time-- | |
| Fuji: | ...Yes. //It was fun. Fun to chase after your world.// Tezuka, I'm sorry... |
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| Tezuka: | ...It's not something you should apologise for. | |
| [/flashback] | ||
| //Fuji: | At some point I crossed over to the other side of the lens... | |
| 14 | ...A week after that, Tezuka destroyed his elbow during a match--// | |
| Fuji: | ...In a way, it might've been a proper answer in itself... | |
| Kikumaru: | Say what? | |
| Fuji: | Nothing. (Hurry up and copy already.) | |
| Kikumaru: | ...Fuji. | |
| Fuji: | Hmm? | |
| Kikumaru: | Are you having a love affair with Tezuka? | |
| 15 | Fuji: | ...Eiji. (Think about what's coming out of your mouth for once... *sweatdrop*) |
| Kikumaru: | But I thought for sure you were having a love affair. | |
| Fuji: | Uh, by the way. You do realise we're both male? | |
| Kikumaru: | So what if you are? | |
| Fuji: | (firmly) I like girls! | |
| Kikumaru: | Even though you're girly, hehe-- | |
| Fuji: | Eiji! | |
| Kikumaru: | Oy, sor--ry. | |
| But probably Tezuka likes you, doesn't he? | ||
| Fuji: | That's just... | |
| Kikumaru: | But he's soft on you! | |
| Fuji: | That doesn't necessarily have anything to do with love. Besides... | |
| 16 | It's only because he's making an effort to be nice. In reality it's just the opposite. | |
| Kikumaru: | You're still dragging it out? It was just a coincidence, wasn't it? Not like it was your fault. | |
| Fuji: | Eiji-- | |
| Kikumaru: | ...That's what I hate about you two. You're so careful to keep everything smoothed over, going neurotic trying not to hurt the other person - all you're going to get out of it is an ulcer! | |
| Fuji: | Eiji! | |
| Kikumaru: | Ugh. | |
| 17 | It just rubs me wrong, that's all... | |
| Fuji: | It'll be a moot point soon enough. | |
| Kikumaru: | Eh? | |
| Fuji: | Tezuka's going to study overseas. | |
| 18 | ||
| 19 | //Fuji: | All because the world in which you existed was so beautiful. It moves, becomes something in the past; such a waste. And I think, so much better if one could cut it out for saving...// |
| Fuji: | You're really working hard. | |
| Tezuka: | ...Fuji, you stayed behind? There aren't any extracurriculars during exam period, though? | |
| 20 | Fuji: | You're doing self-training? |
| Tezuka: | Yes. But I'm nearly finished. | |
| Fuji: | Then is it all right if I watch until the end? | |
| Tezuka: | ...Is there a reason? | |
| Fuji: | Mm, well. There is something I'd like to ask you. | |
| Tezuka: | What? | |
| Fuji: | I'll wait until you're done. | |
| Tezuka: | *sighs* There's no set amount of training I have to get through. So it's fine; just talk. | |
| //Kikumaru: | But Tezuka's soft on you, Fuji!// | |
| Fuji: | Are you going to study abroad? | |
| 21 | Tezuka: | ...News travels fast. |
| Fuji: | //You used to talk to me the most, tell me important things before
anyone else...// When? |
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| Tezuka: | As soon as the Nationals are over. | |
| Fuji: | It's pretty rushed. //That time's far away.// |
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| Tezuka: | This is as much of an extension as I could get. I even refused the invitation once. | |
| Fuji: | //You're far away...// *laughs* Is that so? |
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| Tezuka: | ...Fuji. | |
| Fuji: | Hmm? | |
| Tezuka: | Let's-- | |
| 22 | [Fuji stares.] | |
| Tezuka: | --No. Never mind. | |
| Fuji: | ...Is it okay if I ask you something else? Eiji, you know, he said something odd. | |
| Tezuka: | Kikumaru? | |
| Fuji: | Yeah. That you liked me. He said you liked me, Tezuka. *laughs* That's odd, isn't it? |
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| Tezuka: | ...And what if I did? | |
| 23 | [Fuji stares some more.] | |
| Tezuka: | There's nothing odd about that. It isn't anything one way or the other.
I like you. ...Something like that's better left unspoken. If no one had said anything, if I'd pretended it didn't exist, repressed it - it would have been better. If I'd done that, I could've continued to stay by your side, just like back then. Maybe. ...But I decided to expect something. |
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| 24 | Even now, I want you to come with me, together-- | |
| Fuji: | That's impossible... | |
| Tezuka: | Fuji- | |
| Fuji: | Nice that you can say something like that. You like me? Even though I destroyed your arm!? |
|
| //Fuji: | At the end of summer... halfway through a match with me.// | |
| Fuji: | Tezuka!? | |
| Tezuka: | [clutches his elbow] Ugh... | |
| 25 | Fuji: | I can't forget that image. Not ever... //...Before my eyes, the world I was chasing fell apart in an instant-- No. I broke it.// |
| Tezuka: | ...Fuji. | |
| Fuji: | I... everything... //I broke everything myself... even though I took so much care...// |
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| Tezuka: | The arm is healed. | |
| Fuji: | But in the end you couldn't attend the Junior Tournament. And now... | |
| 26 | You can't play tennis without favoring that elbow, for fear of a relapse. //Even though I had so much love--// |
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| Tezuka: | ...Even if that were so, it wouldn't be your fault. It's just a coincidence that the opponent I was playing at the time was you. | |
| Fuji: | Coincidence? Do you really believe that? You can deny it all you like. If you'd been playing someone else at the time, your arm would have been fine. Am I wrong? |
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| 27 | I couldn't hear the safeword. The tension was something else, my senses
were numb - we'd both gone beyond our limits. Hit shots like that over and
over in succession, and you're sure to break your arm, aren't you? That's not tennis that'll take us to mutual heights. The two of us, we play tennis to mutual destruction. |
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| Tezuka: | ... | |
| Fuji: | But even nursing an arm like that, you just had to meet me with everything you had. | |
| Tezuka: | ...Yes, and that's the degree to which you're holding back on me now. No - more correctly, you haven't been serious against a single opponent since. | |
| 28 | Fuji: | But... I'm afraid. That something of the sort will happen again. That
I'll destroy something that I hold more important than anything else... //That's why I should have stayed on this side of the lens.// |
| Tezuka: | *sighs* You're suffering from lingering after-effects more than I am. It's not just that you're afraid of it happening again, is it? Truthfully speaking, you've never done anything but play non-serious matches. No? | |
| Fuji: | Yes... | |
| Tezuka: | Why are you playing tennis? If you dislike it so much you may as well stop. | |
| 29 | Fuji: | That's... |
| Tezuka: | ...Because of me, isn't it? Because I'm here? .......Fuji? |
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| 30 | [He pushes Fuji up against the chain-link fence and kisses him.] | |
| Tezuka: | Come with me... | |
| 31 | [Fuji mopes in his room, presumably sometime later.] | |
| //Fuji: | ...Back then we were always together, weren't we? Couldn't imagine
the world differently. Captured by a snap of the lens, the very first time
we met... "Let's go together": that's what you want the most. |
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| 32 | ...Fine, then; I'll make your wish come true. You have the right to
require anything of those who only borrow your light, don't you? I don't think what I'll be doing from this point on is right. You might find it worthy of contempt. But I can't think of any other way. A way of behaving that's not me... but it's the only thing I can do. I've watched you for longer than anyone else... |
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| 33 | I don't really need love. I don't need a steady friendship that lasts
a lifetime either. A limited time is fine. I want to go to the world where
you are. I want to fight in the world where you are. ...I'm sorry, Tezuka. This is the only way I have of fulfilling our wishes. |
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| 34 | The person you loved, named "Fuji Shuusuke", disappears here--// | |
| Fuji: | I'm... my name is... | |
| 35 | Tezuka Kunimitsu. | |
| //Until the very last, he loved you...// | ||
| 36 | ||
| 37 | [Fuji's playing tennis, apparently kicking ass.] | |
| [Ryuuzaki]: | Kikumaru, you're next! | |
| Kikumaru: | (Whoa...) Whassup? Lately you've been super-serious-- | |
| [Fuji brushes past him without a word.] | ||
| Kikumaru: | //Eh...? *sweatdrop*// Fu...Fuji? |
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| 38 | Fuji: | What? |
| Kikumaru: | Um... that's... | |
| Fuji: | You're next, aren't you, Eiji? Hurry up and get on the court. | |
| Kikumaru: | O-okay! | |
| [Later, in the clubroom] | ||
| Kikumaru: | Oooooh... | |
| Ooishi: | What's wrong, Eiji? (Squatting in a corner like that...) | |
| Kikumaru: | Summfin weird's up with Fuji~ ;_; | |
| Inui: | Fuji's being weird? Isn't that always the case? | |
| Kikumaru: | That's not true! It happened today-- | |
| [flashback] | ||
| Kikumaru: | Fujiiii, pass me your English homework! I forgot what we were supposed to do for today! *wah* | |
| 39 | Fuji: | Eiji, homework loses all meaning if you don't solve the exercises yourself. There's still time, so do some last-minute thinking. If there's anything you don't understand I'll help you out. |
| Kikumaru: | Oooh... but... | |
| Fuji: | In any case the teacher would recognise my translation style right away, wouldn't he? | |
| Kikumaru: | Oh, hey? Fuji, you - use "ore" for yourself...? | |
| Fuji: | Sometimes I do... | |
| [/flashback] | ||
| Kikumaru: | --Was what he said. Well!? That's definitely weird!! | |
| Momoshiro: | It's true that he's gotten kinda hard to approach... | |
| Kikumaru: | See!? | |
| Inui: | That's right, his playing style has changed as well of late. (I'll have to re-adjust my data...) | |
| Momoshiro: | Um, I didn't mean tennis... | |
| 40 | Kikumaru: | //Above everything else, he's not smiling at all...// It's like, he's not Fuji... |
| [flashback as Tezuka stands by the window, thinking] | ||
| Kikumaru: | Tezuka, did you say something to Fuji? | |
| Tezuka: | What do you mean? | |
| Kikumaru: | You know that career interest survey thing they gave us recently? | |
| Tezuka: | Yes. | |
| Kikumaru: | Fuji said he wanted to go pro... he said he wanted to become a professional
tennis player. I mean, he's so good it wouldn't be strange if he did, but up 'til now he hadn't said a word about it. |
|
| [/flashback] | ||
| 41 | Tezuka: | ... |
| Fuji: | Eh? Are you in charge of the clubroom key for today? | |
| Tezuka: | You're late. | |
| Fuji: | Yes, I was just having a bit of a run. I'll change right away. | |
| Tezuka: | What are you doing? Lately you've been strange. To the point that Kikumaru's noticed, so it can't be just my imagination. | |
| 42 | Fuji: | ...Nothing in particular. Strange to that extent? |
| Tezuka: | ... //I can't read his emotions.// You said you were aiming to turn professional. Is that true? |
|
| Fuji: | Oh, so you heard about that, then? Yes, I'm going to. | |
| Tezuka: | //For some reason it makes me feel uneasy.// You disliked it so much - what made you change your mind? |
|
| Fuji: | I don't remember giving off the impression that I disliked it, but there's no need for a reason. As long as one's strong. | |
| Tezuka: | //Something's-- | |
| 43 | --different.// | |
| Fuji: | Because I like tennis. *smiles* | |
| //Tezuka: | I haven't seen his smile for a long time, but that - isn't his--// | |
| //Kikumaru: | It's like, it's not Fuji...// | |
| Tezuka: | Who... are you? | |
| Fuji: | ...You've been saying nothing but odd things today. Aren't you the one being strange? | |
| //Tezuka: | ...Why do I feel as if I'm about to lose something very important...// | |
| Fuji: | I'm Fuji Shuusuke. Who else do I look like to you? Well, see you tomorrow. |
|
| //Tezuka: | Like I'm losing something...// | |
| [the door shuts] | ||
| 44 | //Tezuka: | It makes me uneasy...// |
| [Ryuuzaki]: | Today we're having practice matches! Go on the court when your name is called! | |
| [Fuji plays Kikumaru] | ||
| Inui: | Eeeh. Those two were put against each other? | |
| Tezuka: | Inui... | |
| Inui: | Well, isn't that fine? They were getting quite stiff. | |
| 45 | [Offscreen]: | Game to Fuji, 2-0! |
| Inui: | Truth be told, I gathered some interesting data recently. Fuji's data. | |
| //Kikumaru: | What... the heck's this... The pressure's incredible... It's hard to play... Almost like...// | |
| Inui: | There's quite the resemblance. The way he hits the ball, the way he structures his games even. Discounting a certain margin of error-- | |
| 46 | It's your tennis. Although your data set isn't complete, so I don't know yet if... Tezuka? |
|
| Tezuka: | Stop them. *raises his voice* Fuji, Kikumaru! That's e-- | |
| //Inui: | That... Fuji's racket... | |
| 47 | Lowered by 3.2 millimeters...// | |
| //Kikumaru: | What the...// | |
| [The drop shot lands and rolls back toward the net] | ||
| [Tezuka hauls Fuji off the court by his jersey and into the clubroom] | ||
| 48 | Tezuka: | You... |
| Fuji: | ...I'm fine. I'm still conscious of being myself. For now. | |
| Tezuka: | *grits his teeth* What do you think you're doing? | |
| Fuji: | Simplest thing in the world. | |
| Tezuka: | Fuji! | |
| Fuji: | ...Tezuka. | |
| 49 | You want us to go together, don't you? If you do don't interfere. | |
| [Tezuka stares.] | ||
| Fuji: | Aah, darn it... of course it falls apart in front of you. Please don't talk to me if you don't have to. | |
| 50 | Tezuka: | ...I don't think I want us to be together to the extent of a pretense
like this. Who told you to do this? There's no reason at all for you to
become me. I never wanted any such thing! ...Give him back. You don't know, do you? You don't know how important you were to me. You shouldn't have any right to destroy it when you don't know. |
| 51 | Fuji: | That... it's... a problem if you say that to me now... Because it's no
use, is it... like this... like me... //I can't go with you--// |
| [He collapses against Tezuka] | ||
| Tezuka: | Fuji! ...That's enough. It's fine, I understand... I understood from the beginning. It was just my selfishness. |
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| 52 | We're different people, so of course we'll be leading different lives. ...I'm sorry. | |
| //Fuji: | But even so, there was no need not to wish... no need not to expect...// | |
| [He clutches Tezuka's shirt] | ||
| //Fuji: | If only...// | |
| Tezuka: | ...I always admired you. | |
| Fuji: | Huh? | |
| 53 | //Tezuka? Me?// | |
| Tezuka: | It frustrated me until I couldn't stand it. At the very least, I was incapable of playing tennis the way you do. | |
| Fuji: | But you don't need to. You're strong enough even without doing any of the things I do. | |
| Tezuka: | It's not a question of doing. It's a question of not being able to. Do you understand the difference? | |
| Fuji: | ...B...but... you win against me. | |
| 54 | Tezuka: | Yes, that's true. Because you're the only one to whom I'm not allowed to lose. |
| Fuji: | Eh? | |
| Tezuka: | I had the feeling that if I lost against you even once, I wouldn't be able to win again. Which would invalidate my entire existence up to this point... So I was deadly passionate, every time I had to play a match with you. | |
| //Kikumaru: | But then, I think Tezuka only got as strong as he is now because you were around, Fuji.// | |
| //Fuji: | Yes...// | |
| 55 | Tezuka: | Thus, "Fuji Shuusuke" was filled with importance to me. With
frustration, with admiration... I'm afraid of losing that, more than anything
else. On top of that, I have no idea what choices you'd make. For all I know you could fall in love with someone else, or come across a way of living that doesn't allow for our co-existence. Even so, I want to try and see what kind of world we'd be walking in - with someone who gives me what you can. |
| 56 | //Fuji: | What is it like... What is it like, the world you're looking at...// |
| Tezuka: | I want to try and see. | |
| Fuji: | ...Yes. | |
| Tezuka: | And one more thing. That match wasn't your fault, it was my mistake. | |
| Fuji: | Eh? | |
| Tezuka: | The first time I felt something wrong with my arm was before our match. | |
| 57 | I knew it, I went ahead anyway, and I reaped exactly what I sowed. It's
my punishment for over-training. I couldn't say it until now, I suppose because I was hoping for something from you. Guilt would have been fine, as long as it bound you to my world. It was pathetic. But there's nothing tying you to me now. Do as you like. I apologise. |
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| 58 | Fuji: | It's fine. It's like you, isn't it? Easy to imagine now why you were overdoing things. |
| [Tezuka smiles, a little, and turns to go] | ||
| Fuji: | Tezuka, can I have three days? (Just three days' break from club practice.) I have to restore this for "your use". *smiles and points at himself* |
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| 59 | Tezuka: | Yes. |
| Fuji: | Your tennis style really is tiring, though. It doesn't suit me. (Not enough power, basically. *sweatdrop*) | |
| Tezuka: | Fine thing it'd be if it were that easy to master. (Idiot.) | |
| [the door closes] | ||
| Fuji: | It really is tiring... I barely missed putting my arm out of order... | |
| 60 | ||
| 61 | //Fuji: | How many times have I come here?// |
| 62 | [Tezuka is sitting in the stands, looking down at the courts] | |
| Fuji: | ...Every Sunday of every week, I'd come here. Even after we had that conversation,
I came by myself. Bad at letting go, huh? And I thought, it would have worked out better if the one you met here three years ago was Echizen. If that'd been the case, you would've become great rivals. You would've competed. You would've been looking at the same world, and you could've gone anywhere together. |
|
| Tezuka: | But the one I met three years ago wasn't Echizen, or anyone else for that matter. It was you. That's the reality, which is fine. | |
| 63 | At the very least, I'm glad you were the one I met here. Nobody else - you. I'm glad of that. What we have could be love, or a lifelong friendship, or something that will change its form entirely as we walk this path together. But that's not a bad thing, is it? So it's good if there are times when we're side by side, and just as well if there are times when we turn our backs to each other. No matter what form it takes, something of you will remain within me. |
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| 64 | //Fuji: | Things move; become past tense. It feels like a waste. But then, once more in anticipation of the next moment...// |
| Tezuka: | As well - and this isn't something I was capable of considering up to now - it's not possible for me to play tennis all my life. Somewhere down the line, there will be another crossroads. Painful issues or doubts I don't have now, perhaps. | |
| //Fuji: | This you, this me, this time - were what I thought more important than anything else...// | |
| Tezuka: | When that time comes, I think I'd be glad to have you there. In any and all senses of the word. | |
| Fuji: | All right... | |
| 65 | [He bends down and kisses Tezuka] | |
| Fuji: | I'll be there. Always-- | |
| //Even if, one day, the magic of these three years melts away, a new season will arrive on its heels... right away... for sure...// | ||
| [in the clubroom] | ||
| Fuji: | You're a liar! | |
| Tezuka: | *twitch* Look who's talking. What happened to that drive of yours the other day? | |
| Fuji: | You said I could do as I liked. | |
| 66 | Tezuka: | *slams down the club-leaving form on the table* So you could do this, or you could do that, but what you do is hand me this now? RIGHT BEFORE THE NATIONALS? >____< |
| Fuji: | Well, it's not for now now. After the Nationals. | |
| Tezuka: | ...All the third-years are leaving the team after the tournament ends anyway. You don't have to fill out a form. | |
| Fuji: | That's why I'm giving it to you now. While you're still the Captain of Seigaku's team. | |
| Tezuka: | What do you mean? | |
| Fuji: | I've decided. | |
| 67 | After the summer competition, I'm giving up tennis. Way back when I took it up because of you. So it should end with you. You'll accept it, won't you? |
|
| Tezuka: | You're really... stopping? | |
| Fuji: | Yes. | |
| Tezuka: | ...I understand. | |
| Fuji: | Well. I'll play you as much as you like on a personal basis. | |
| Tezuka: | You plan on coming all the way to the States? | |
| Fuji: | California, right? | |
| Tezuka: | Yeah. | |
| 68 | Fuji: | What do you know! Right in the neighborhood. I'll be studying in Los Angeles starting next year too. ^___^ |
| Tezuka: | Hah? | |
| Fuji: | I'll give you my new address once I figure it out. If it's close enough, let's live together? (Wah, we've gotta. *heart*) Mom would worry much less if that were the case. | |
| Tezuka: | W-wait, time out, you're going to study abroad... | |
| Fuji: | Photography. | |
| Tezuka: | ? | |
| Fuji: | To be absolutely precise, cinematography as a whole. I just felt like trying it. | |
| 69 | Coincidentally my father had an acquaintance in Hollywood, who said, if you were going to do it why not take a formal course? So then it just went from there. | |
| Tezuka: | ...Seriously, you're like a surprise-in-a-box. //It's true, that time too...// |
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| Fuji: | What's that supposed to mean? (Is it a compliment?) | |
| Tezuka: | It's something you would do. (Take it as one.) //When we first met... the sound of a small camera...// |
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| 70 | Fuji: | If there's a possibility I want to try. See how far I can go. //Things move, become past; such a waste. But once again, in anticipation of the next moment, we step forward...// |
| Tezuka: | Yes. | |
| 71 | //To cover with bright colours the blank album we held at birth--// | |