第8 Three promises

“—But” It was a problem for me” to say that Mom said that she should have married, why bother us?”

“Yoichi, you don’t care about your common sense.

So quickly read the continuation of the will!”

“Ouch!”

Yoichi moths his impression on reading my will, and Harumi knocks on the shoulder of Yoichi strongly.

Akio is shrinking the distance little by little, striking her nose with his handkerchief over her eyes.

“Oh, are you crying, Akio?”

“You, too…my sister.”

When Harumi turns around, Akio looks straight at the face of Harumi for the first time in this place.

Harumi doesn’t put a handkerchief on her face, son in her case, the make-up collapse of the eye is noticeable in particular.

“…My sister, and brother, if you stare at us, I’ll read her will in one person.”

When Yoichi raise his face, Harumi and Akio will cry and bring their eyes back to my will.

Yoichi still a hard-headed and impatient man, even though a change has appeared in the two of them.

What I thought many times so far, why did Miku his wife marry Yoichi?

It’s nice to be harumi’s husband, Miku, my children’s choice of a marriage is really strange and can’t be helped.


Aside from that, it’s problem to make my wish come true, but otherwise it would have never happened to meet children.

The problem at that time that I’m thankful now was a father.

Even though I knew how to give children and how to my mother didn’t last long with men, I didn’t know the existence of my father.

Again, the man who separated me and meat from the ground was killed in World War 2 before I was born.

Even though I understand that I can never make a child by myself, I didn’t think I would be with a man who is a father of a child.

Ironically, however, I was forced to admit a blood relationship with my mother who was selfish, although I want children.

As I looked at ways to obtain children to fulfill a disgusting contradiction, I reached the means to take adopted child from the child care facility.

Then I read the parenting book and looked up the location of the nearby facility.

In the eight years, I finally headed to the facility where I meet Harumi.


--Harumi, Akio, and Yoichi.


Thanks to you I have a family and I was able to live a happy life as a mother.

If you were not there, I couldn’t get out of the dark clouds all my life.

Well, I put too much emphasis on discipline so that I would die at the age of 60 or 70, but please take a look at the multipurpose.

I didn’t want you to live like my mother or me in twenties.

It’s revealed in this case, but most of the morals I have particularly taught are actually what I was taught by you.

You will not remember seeing it, but it’s no exaggeration to say that I taught you what you taught me by your existence itself.

I don’t know if that is stuck in your heart.


So, I have three things I want to tell you.

Never forget them.


First, don’t ruin your own life by your own career or ruin your life itself with your own hands.

I’d like Harumi to be particularly careful about this.

After all, you’re the most stubborn and intimidating brothers.

Besides, your thoughts are intense.

Of course, it’s for Akio and Yoichi, too.

Compared with your times, my childhood may have been good, but still it doesn’t change to abuse.

Such a thing didn’t marry me, but I was blessed to you in this way.

No matter how painful the dark clouds are, the golden light necessarily rips.

Because it’s not too late from now, you’re going to make the future from your own hands from now on.


Second, live no matter what happens.


Harumi and Yoichi may have thought of something.

But I was always cold sweat, especially when Akio didn’t do anything unusual.

It seems that Akio had complicated troubles.

Even that, even things that can’t be easily confirmed even in the people.


Certainly, now, if you lose your life, disgusting things will end from that moment.

At the same time, however, happiness that may arise in the future will never come.

I don’t mistake because I think I miss myself for not being able to finish my life in twenties.

Well, life is like the earth with darkness and light together.


And third, I wish you a separate life as another after I passed away.


By the way my little heritage has already been arranged so that you donate to the nursing home where you were nested.

Because you’re independent who are shining far away and don’t count on your mother’s money.

Although the story returns, unless only kinship is an absolute bond, the bonds of others also cross.


Harumi, Akio, Yoichi, do you know the best about that?

Because you shared the same childhood.

And, although you don’t remember, Yoichi solved the stubborn heart of Harumi and Akio when you was a baby.


No matter what appearance you’re walking in, no matter what you’re my family being.


Oh, finally only one more.


“Thank you, my stars—your mother, Ikuko Tsutsumi.”


When Yoichi finished reading my will, Harumi and Akio sacrificed me with the voice they were holding down, and Yoichi also imitated them.

“Mommy, Mommy!”

“I’m sorry, Mommy!”

Three gathered, hugging their shoulder sand crying while calling me till the voice withered.

It was the moment when the hearts of three people finally became true brothers.

I saw three brothers while I felt myself melting and spreading in the air.

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