Glow of Fireflies
What did I do...?
Last night, on the spur of the moment, I...
E-mailed him!
[From: Amemiya Hotaru. Subject: The design... Is it going well? Are you okay? I... I... want to see you. (*^o^*) Love, Hotaru]
E-mail?
I'm so scared...
I can't possibly go to work!
Manager!
[note: kame = turtle, onna = woman]
Kame-onna?
The cellphone is ringing.
Oh.
Please take it!
Here.
Huh?
It's your cellphone.
Well, yes, but...
You got an e-mail. Take a look.
No no, I can't have that honor!
I'm going.
Ma... manager!
What do you want me to do?
I can't read it.
Please read it instead!
We decided in the cohabitation treaty: Do not read the other's letters and packages.
So reading your e-mail is against the rules.
But I'm allowing you!
I'm begging you.
Please read it...without any mistakes.
Huh? You're not telling me?
There's something he wants to tell you.
Wait, wait!
Manager...
Just that? He has something to tell me?
"There's something I want to tell you, so..."
There's something he wants to tell me, so...?
"...I'm waiting in the meeting room. Come quick."
Come quick?!
But we're not even dating yet...
He's more forceful than he looks, Teshima-san.
It's Kaname.
Kaname?
Yes. Oh, Teshima.
Teshima?!
What is it?
Oh.
Oh, I see.
I understand. Bye.
Good for you.
Teshima is going to the customers directly today.
You don't have to see him at work.
So go on and prepare for work.
But the e-mail...
The e-mail you got was not from Teshima, but Jinguji Kaname.
Why would Kaname-san...?
How should I know?
I'm changing. Get out.
-Morning, Hotaru-chan. -Good morning.
-Good morning.
Hotaru.
[note:neesan = big sister]
-Yes? Why are you here, Yamada-neesan?
Kaname-san called me.
I'm over here.
I couldn't see you behind Yamada-neesan.
No need to explain.
Sorry.
He came to me for advice too.
Actually, it's really stupid, you know.
-Actually, I... -He wants to make a couple in our Interior Department.
A couple?
-Yes. Yuuka-chan and Teshima... - Get out of the way.
-Who do you think you are? -Who do you think you are?
I am a hunter of love.
I ..... am me.
Excuse me, aren't we talking?
Anyway, we decided to hold a drinking party.
What a lot you skipped there.
Hotaru. You'll be the organizer with me, won't you?
Well, no problem. But why all of a sudden?
The obasan of Love hunter says so.
The QUEEN of love hunter!
Look everybody, a message from the Queen!
"It's summer, the season of love...
It's drinking time--!"
"Interior Department get-friendly drinking party...
Go go! Golden Couple!"
What's that?
Let's hold a drinking party and make a Golden Couple.
Excuse me.
Yes, Mina-chan?
How is it different from a blind-date?
Good question. Blind dates are love outside work.
This party is meant for love inside the office.
Ahh, office love.
-A simple drinking party won't work. -Absolutely.
The atmosphere of the drinking party will be in proportion to the forming of couples.
So the better the atmosphere is, the more couples there will be.
-Ah. -Scary!
So who's going to brighten the mood?
The organizers!
Me! Me and Amemiya Hotaru.
Organizer, hmm....
What a bother...
What Golden Couple...
Anyway...
Dokko-shoichi...
A long, long time ago.
A memory from many summers ago.
I held a tiny firefly
in my childish hands.
Looking as if it was almost about to disappear,
such a tiny fragile glow.
DoReMii presents
-Third night-
Hotaru no Hikari Glow of a Firefly
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1,2,3,4,
2,2,3,4...
Oh my, Teshima-san.
What's the matter? I thought you weren't coming to work today.
I received your e-mail, so...
E-mail?
Oh, that was, um, I needed to know how you were doing with the renovation, so
that's why I wanted to see you.
About work?
Yes. About work.
So that was it.
That was it.
But...
But?
Your e-mail made me really happy.
Made me happy?
Did he just say, my e-mail made him happy?
Weeeeeeee!
This is the chance...
Grasp this chance to talk to him!
Hurry!
Stupid...
Stupid me! Stupid stupid!
Teshima-san.
Could you show me the finished design?
Sure.
Great! Wow! Unbelievable!!
The customers accepted that.
The manager too.
He was so praised.
Good for you!
What do you think?
I don't know...
Um...
Does she hate you?
What's the matter?
Earthquake?
Hotaru?
Hotaru! This is for the entertainment.
We're going to do the entertainment with this.
Let's fight for the Golden Couple.
Here.
Oh, what's this?
I hear you guys are having a drinking party.
The Interior Department is so lucky.
At times, yes.
Ah, Kaname said that it's for coupling Yuuka-chan and Teshima.
What?
And Kaname was looking for something to do for the entertainment with Amemiya Hotaru.
Oolong wine with one Wakayama apricot.
What is this?
You don't know? Like this, here...look...
DJ Ozma.
Never heard of.
That's okay.
At our department, nobody laughed.
Huh? Who did it?
Don't ask!
So you wanted to talk about this?
Oh no. Actually, I received a call from your wife.
Why to you?
Don't ask me.
And she asked me where you'd moved to.
I told her you'd gone back to your parents' place.
So maybe she'll visit you out of the blue.
What?
Hey you! Isn't the oolong wine with Wakayama apricot coming yet?
Are you listening? Oolong wine. With Wakayama apricot.
I can't do it.
I can't do the loach dance to entertain the drinking party.
Me too... I can't do it either.
Then let's not do it.
Don't give up. One more time. Okay?
Right.
Pose!
Yes.
What is that woman doing?
Who're you calling?
Sorry, I'm leaving.
Oh? Here...
Good for you. Your wife might come.
Yes. See you.
Hey.
If your wife visits you...
She might bring divorce papers.
Nothing that I, who's failed marriage can say, but...
don't sign the divorce papers easily.
You still want to make up with her, don't you?
Yes.
I do too.
Yes.
I already told you, you need to pull in your hip, your HIP.
Hip?
In where?
There you go.
What is she doing?
Pulling in the hip is like this!
Legs this way! Understand?
Of course I don't understand. It's all dark.
Look with your mind's eye.
Umm...I'm already sick of this.
I mean, I understand that you really want to brighten the mood for the party, so...
Can I go off now?
You traitor.
I'm not a traitor! I promise I'll do loach dance or anything, so let's leave the rest for each other's practice time, okay?
Okay.
Hello?
Finally. What are you doing?
Well...
Are you dressed like usual?
Not the usual...no.
You're not wearing those jerseys?
Not the jerseys, no.
Good. Then don't change.
What? Don't change?
Yes. I don't approve of that jersey.
Anyway, I'm on my way to home, almost arriving.
I think I'll get there on time, but maybe my wife will come over, so...
Wait a sec.
What?
Someone's at the door.
What? No wait, don't answer the door.
Hello?
I'm coming.
Coming.
Ahomiya.
Welcome home.
What outfit is that?
You told me not to change.
What were you doing?
Loach dancing.
Loach?
I was told to do it for the drinking party.
So you met her while loach dancing?
Huh?
She came, right?
Yeah.
What did you do?
Nothing much.
I signed...
You signed?!
Yeah, I signed it for you.
You bitch -
So can I open it instead?
I'm quite sure it's for Bontaro-san, your father.
It does say "Mr. Takano",
and he said maybe packages will arrive this season.
Phew, just a package...
He told me I can open it in case it's food.
So can I?
Go ahead.
Wonder what it is...
By the way, Futatsugi said to hand this over.
You could use it for the drinking party.
You know, the ... DJ Ozma thing.
Put it on like this, and ...
"I am now in Kanazawa for my induction course."
Ah, this is it.
"The snowflakes falling from the sky..."
Pierce me like fragments of loneliness."
"I want to see your smile."
Sh, sh, sh, stop it.
"The shocker of my heart"?
Not "shocker," "shutter," like the shutter of a camera.
Shocker?
It's shutter. Give it back.
It was popular back then, it came from a lyric.
You wrote that?
Ages ago, when I was dating her.
It was a love letter?!
Some people...called it that.
Then these, you wrote them all?!
Ah, Takano Seiichi...it's your name.
Then this Miss Miyuki is...
It's my wife.
She returned my letters.
Retuned? But you wrote them, didn't you?
Why would she return them?
Why did you open them?
Huh?
The rule is not to see the other's e-mails, phone calls, letters and packages.
You're too insensitive.
You told me I could open it!
But you didn't have to read it out loud.
Then should I have read it silently? -That's not the point.
Then what is the point? The "shocker" of your heart?
Just because you misspelled, you couldn't call me insensitive.
Misspelled?
Look at yourself.
You wrote "shocker," not "shutter."
[....and the shocker of my heart....]
I didn't make a mistake.
Yes you did.
I wrote "shutter."
You did not.
So what?
See, see, see, see?
You misspelled it "shocker."
See, see, see, see?
That's what's insensitive about you.
You are insensitiveness itself. That's how you ended up not thinking and accepted being an organizer.
I wasn't not thinking...
You don't even understand what "Golden Couple" is about.
Sure I do. A golden couple, right?
Not that. About who they're trying to match up.
Huh? What?
Anyway. You shouldn't do the loach dance.
In my opinion, this is much better than DJ Ozma.
Not just the dance, you shouldn't even be there.
No you shouldn't. Don't even come.
Why? Why should I be told this by you?
I'll participate for sure. I will do the loach dance!
Hmph. Just you wait!
Over here, please.
Yes.
Hotaru-san, is it true you're doing the loach dance?
With Kaname-san, yes.
With Kaname-san?
Dear me...
It can't be avoided....Minako-chan.
What's the matter?
The drinking party. It's meant for you, right?
For me?
Stop it.
But...Yamada-neesan said so.
That it's meant to match up you and Teshima-san.
The most natural thing. Popular girl Yuuka-san and popular guy Teshima.
Though it's a bit sad...
So who should I go to?
Ah, then how about him?
Huh?
Me?
Yeah. Looks okay.
Hotaru-san. How about lunch?
Oh, yes.
I think Kaname-san started it.
He did say he'd cheer for my love.
Why would he?
No idea. He's probably making fun of me.
By the way, weren't you saying you'd tell Makoto-kun about your feelings?
Erm...actually I couldn't.
Why?
He might hate me if I did.
No way! You're the admirable girl!
What's that?
Um, Sawaki-kun was also saying just now that you're the most popular girl.
Which guy will turn down such a popular girl?
Hotaru-san, Makoto-kun already has someone he likes.
Oh...that.
Wonder who it is.
I don't know who, but...
I'll do the loach dance!
Huh?
Leave it to me. It's like this, right?
[note: Nichibu = A kind of Japanese traditional dance.]
Erm, that's Nichibu.
Nichibu? Then loach dance is...
You really don't have to worry about the loach.
No. It's unfair to have people run around just for my love.
I'll go over to the backstage.
You will?
Please go over to the enjoying side at the party.
Yuuka-san...
Let's have lunch!
Yes! Let's go!
Dear me!
Dear me.
[Closed for today]
The pasta here is really good, you know.
What a pity.
Then, let's go to where you usually go!
What a pleasant idea!
Noodles with croquette.
Right up.
What should I choose?
Sorry, dear. You shouldn't be in such a restaurant...
One noodles with croquette!
Thanks.
Croquette in noodles?
Is it strange? Strange, isn't it?
No.
The same for me, please.
Coming right up.
Hotaru-san, let's move over.
This restaurant seems really popular!
It must be an unknown but good spot to eat.
Erm...
One noodles with croquette!
How quick!
Itadakimasu!
Yumm! How delicious!
Admirable girl.
Still admirable when eating croquette.
But you know, I don't want to lose.
What?
I don't want to lose to myself.
Um...
About Makoto-kun.
Some day, I hope to naturally become important in his heart, so
I'll fight on and not lose to myself.
How moving!
Is it okay?
I'm so happy!
One more croquette.
Why does Yuuka-chan have to do the loach dance?
Um, she wanted to.
Then what about Kaname's feelings?
Hey, stop it.
You were there?
I couldn't see you behind Yamada-neesan.
No need for you to explain.
Let me tell you, Kaname is in love with Yuuka-chan.
Huh?
He loves her, so he's trying hard to cheer on for her love.
Really?
Stop making up a story.
This - hmph!
- is the evidence!
What do you mean, Yamada-neesan?
Um, this...
Kaname wished dearly for his love's happiness.
To see his love's happy face at the party, he tried so hard to entertain.
No, it's actually...
That's why he practiced the loach-dance so hard.
This short leg practiced so hard for it.
No need to say short.
Kaname-san...you like her that much...
No way. I hate Yuuka.
I hate her.
Kaname-san...
For the good of your love, becoming the clown and cheering her on...
That's also a way of loving somebody.
Kaname-san...
I truly understand how you feel.
Yuuka-san really is an admirable girl,
and I also understand about retreating for your loved one.
I'll do it.
I'll do the entertainment alone.
Hotaru.
Well said!
Do your best.
Yes!
Go! Hotaru! Go!
That's right, Hotaru. Way to go.
Manager.
Oh, thanks.
Why do a loach dance?
I didn't know she was like that.
-Now now, is everybody drinking up? - We are!
Yuuka-chan, go on, drink up.
Amemiya does it well, doesn't she?
Hey, Gotokuji. Why should you sit there?
Because I like sitting next to Yuuka-chan.
Shall I give you my seat?
-You will? - No way!
No, no, no, no way.
Boo.
-Calm down. - And don't call me by surname.
Excuse me.
Yes?
Do you want to go eat loach next time?
Oh, um, just the two of us?
Please.
Erm...
Sure.
Huh?
I give permission.
Huh?!
I did it!!
Attention please, the birth of a Golden Couple!
That was fast!
But the other day you said you liked Mako...
I came over.
Whatever do you have to come for?
Stop nagging. Be kinder.
Wow, this is terrible.
Yeah.
Shall we go have a drink?
Where to?
How about your place?
That's not good.
Not good?
Um, I don't have alcohol.
Great! Hotaru! Great!
Saegusa and Teshima left together.
You are truly stupid.
It's okay like that.
I'm Ahomiya, after all.
If you say so.
Good job.
It was the first time I saw Amemiya-san's loach dance.
She probably couldn't say no to Kaname-san.
Hotaru-san is too generous.
I - saw her once when she was in the sales department.
Her boss was mad as hell at her.
I'm sorry. I'll redo it at once.
But later on, on the rooftop -
Canned beer at work?!
It's probably not allowed really, but looking at her,
gives me a good feeling.
-Not being affected by small matters... -Yes, I'll fight on!!
...it just gives me a good feeling.
The person you like -
is Hotaru-san?
Yes.
Home is the best!
Kitty!
Feeling great today?
Returned mail from your wife, eh?
All those I sent her when we were dating.
More shocking than divorce documents in a way.
Yes.
Maybe it means that -
you need to give up.
Uh-oh.
I did it again...in such a place...
Cohabitation Treaty.
Yes.
"Do not sleep in areas we use together."
I'm sorry.
What are you doing?
Huh?
You're going to burn them?
Wait! You can't do that!
Sure I can!
No, no!
It's already finished. Let me finish.
I don't want to!
What is it to you?
No.
Let go.
I don't want to!
Let go!
I don't want to! Ouch!
What are you doing?!
What are you doing?
Putting out the fire!
It won't be put out like that.
Water! Water!
That's beer.
No water!
Put it out!
The hose! I can use the hose!
It's a pity to burn it.
A pity?
It was misspelled as "shocker", but
your letter was quite cool.
Was it?
It was.
I wonder.
At least I've never written nor received letters like that.
I can imagine.
That's why I envy you.
If only I could say smarter things...
To Teshima?
He told me he was really happy I'd e-mailed him.
But I didn't know what to say, and just stood there.
And when he showed me his design...
Um...
In these situations, if I were the heroine of a love story,
I'd probably be saying cooler things.
Words that shine and glitter, you know.
But I...
I... can't.
Hm.
I can't think of anything smart at all.
I can imagine.
Yes.
I'll go change.
Actually, it wasn't okay.
Those letters and post cards...
actually, I couldn't give them up.
At least not yet.
So...
thank you.
Thanks.
Wow!
Beautiful! Great!
Thank you.
Excellent.
Great.
The place at Nakameguro is due, so we better go there.
Yes!
Hotaru, I'm leaving the rest for you.
Sure.
Let's go.
Amemiya-san
Yes?
Is this okay here?
Yes, anything.
Ummm...
Yes?
Um,
I...
I sometimes dropped by Asakura-ya before it was renovated.
Oh, yes.
The dried-up feeling of the shop was so sad,
and I was hoping that someone would change it.
Such a place - that it could change so much -
Yes.
Thank you.
Yes.
Congratulations for your accomplishment on Asakura-ya.
Umm...from which point were you watching?
The beginning.
The beginning?
Maybe not the very beginning.
Maybe not the very beginning?
But I know now.
What?
You like Makoto-kun too, don't you?
What?
No no no no!
But you looked really happy...
I can't have the honor to!
Please don't restrain yourself because of me.
It's not like that!
Really, please don't.
No, it really isn't like that.
I really don't like him or anything, I was just glad that I could talk properly with him.
Hotaru-san, in love relationships, lying to yourself already means you've lost.
Huh?
Is it really okay?
Is it really okay if you lose?
Weakling! Coward! Caterpillar!
Caterpillar?
I've been thinking ever since the night you did the loach dance, and I left with Makoto-kun.
If only I could hate you, how much easier it would be for me.
Now, I can finally fight to get him.
I'm not going to feel sorry for you.
You're doing it all of your own accord.
The way you are right now -
I really hate you!
Me too!
Me too, if you weren't an admirable girl, I wouldn't have done the loach dance.
I wished you were a really hateful woman.
I also wished I could hate you.
Hotaru-san...
Then, please don't lose.
Huh?
Please don't lose.
I won't either.
To you nor to myself,
I won't lose.
That...that...
That was....
Admirable girl versus himono-onna?
Beginning of battle?
Uh-oh...
Love and work at the same time is impossible.
Be quiet! It's my wife!
I'm not giving up. If I give up now, I'll be doing that forever.
Boyfriend?
She seems to have one.
In difficult situations, just roll around!
Now is the last time you can smile, you admirable girl.