I Took A Crying High School Girl To My Place. And Then...
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00:00I'm Ibuki, a 25-year-old regular office worker.
00:03I always stop by a nearby convenience store after work.
00:07Oh, there's that girl again. She's always here.
00:11The girl is always alone, just sitting there in a daze.
00:15One day, I finished working around midnight.
00:18I stopped by the convenience store as usual and saw that girl again.
00:22Huh? This late at night? What's she doing?
00:25I was curious, so I decided to talk to her.
00:28I see you all the time. It's late. What are you doing?
00:32I'm just killing time. Leave me alone.
00:35You don't have to go back home?
00:37I can't!
00:39What do you mean, you can't?
00:42Just leave me alone!
00:45I thought it was natural for her to be wary of talking to a man she'd never met before.
00:49I guess there must have been some kind of complication, so I decided to leave.
00:54A few days later...
00:56It was a really cold day, all the way from morning.
00:58I stopped at the convenience store on my way home.
01:01It's so cold!
01:04Huh? She's here?
01:06I rushed into the convenience store.
01:08Are you cold? Drink this.
01:11Huh?
01:13As I expected, she stared at me with caution.
01:17I got this for you. Do you like cocoa?
01:20I do.
01:22Then you can have it. Go ahead and drink it to warm yourself up.
01:26Uh, okay. Thanks.
01:30That's all I said to her, then went back home.
01:33The next night, I stopped by the convenience store as always.
01:38Hi.
01:39Hey. You didn't catch a cold?
01:42No. Thanks for the cocoa yesterday.
01:45You're welcome. Glad you didn't catch a cold.
01:48She's prettier when she smiles.
01:50This led me to talk to the girl little by little.
01:53Her name is Mei. She's 17.
01:55She's a sophomore in high school, but often absent from school, living with her mother.
02:00Isn't your mother worried about you?
02:03Her boyfriend is over right now.
02:06The other day, he tried to...
02:08Huh?
02:10They didn't go all the way, but I could tell from the look on her face.
02:14When I told mom about it, she didn't even scold him.
02:18Instead, she accused me of being the one who was flirting with him.
02:23I couldn't believe it.
02:25There's no one I can trust anymore.
02:28This is the only place I can go.
02:31Do you want to go talk to some social agency?
02:35They're not reliable.
02:37I wish I could do something.
02:39I think talking to one of those agencies is the only thing we can do.
02:44After all, the only other thing I could do is talk to her.
02:48A few days later, I went to the convenience store as always.
02:53W-what happened?
02:55My mom's boyfriend... again!
02:58Just what I feared might happen, happened.
03:01I was about to lose my temper.
03:04Go to the police! The police!
03:06I don't want to go to the police!
03:09Why?
03:11They're going to ask me a ton of questions.
03:14Besides, I've been arrested so many times that I'm bound to end up in trouble myself.
03:20What should we do?
03:22Then, do you want to come to my place?
03:24I won't do anything to you.
03:26This is the only thing I can do to help.
03:28O-okay. I'll go.
03:32She thought for a moment, then nodded.
03:35So, I invited her into my apartment.
03:38Excuse me.
03:40You don't need to call your mom?
03:42I don't need to say anything.
03:44She'll just tell me to do whatever I want anyway.
03:48Is that so?
03:49She said it so matter-of-factly that I felt sorry for her.
03:53From now on, if anything happens, you can go here.
03:57Really?
03:58You don't even really know me.
04:00You don't think I'm gonna steal something?
04:03There's nothing to steal.
04:05As you can see, there's nothing valuable.
04:07Besides, are you the type of person who does stuff like that?
04:11No.
04:12Then, no problem.
04:15She reluctantly took the key.
04:18Later, I met with Mei's mother, without telling Mei.
04:22Your daughter is at my apartment now.
04:24She was always hanging around a convenience store alone,
04:26so I asked her about the situation.
04:29Staying at my apartment is what she chose to do.
04:32But we're not in any relationship,
04:33so there's no need to be worried about anything like that.
04:36She's gonna have to get married in the future.
04:39I can't let you do such a selfish thing.
04:42That is, unless you're gonna give me money,
04:44I'll consider it.
04:47Just like Mei said,
04:48she had no concern about her daughter,
04:50and she was obsessed with money.
04:52I was furious.
04:54This is all I have.
04:56Would you let it go for this?
04:58You're a weird one.
05:00You do this for a person you don't really know?
05:04It's not much, but then again, you're young.
05:07Tell Mei to do whatever she wants.
05:10Okay.
05:12After that, Mei started coming to my place without visiting the convenience store.
05:16We cooked and ate together, watched TV and laughed.
05:19It felt almost like we were a couple.
05:22You're surprisingly good at cooking.
05:25My mom doesn't cook, so I had no choice.
05:28But your dishes are good too.
05:30All I'd ever seen her do was cry,
05:32so it was nice to see her smile.
05:34Sometimes I wondered.
05:36But what I was most afraid of was losing her trust.
05:40When I was a student, I worked as a teacher at a private school,
05:43so I helped her study.
05:45Wow, Ibuki.
05:47You're a good teacher.
05:49Well, that's the only thing I can be proud of.
05:53Being with her was nice,
05:54and it motivated me to work efficiently so that I could get back home early.
05:59When you finish the homework I gave you yesterday,
06:01let's play a game after dinner.
06:03Yay! I'll do my best!
06:06One day, we were eating dinner together as always.
06:10I want...
06:12Uh...
06:13I want a family where I can live happily together like that.
06:18Then I'll make you happy forever.
06:20We can have a happy family.
06:22You're okay with me?
06:24Of course.
06:26I introduced May to my parents to approve the marriage.
06:31She's only 17.
06:32You don't need to be in such a hurry.
06:35I'll give my blessing after she graduates from high school.
06:38I agree.
06:39She should at least finish high school first.
06:43Even if you disowned me, I was still planning to marry May.
06:45But thank you for accepting it.
06:47I'll take full responsibility for getting her through school.
06:51Thank you so much!
06:52I'll do my best!
06:54Both of my parents were surprised,
06:56but I'm grateful they still respected my feelings.
07:00Two years later,
07:01May graduated from high school with my support,
07:04and we went to see her mother together.
07:06Your daughter graduated from high school.
07:08I'm going to marry her.
07:09That's all we came to say.
07:11Oh?
07:12But did you come prepared?
07:14What?
07:15Please take this.
07:17This is the last of it.
07:18We won't be seeing you anymore.
07:20Sure.
07:21If you want that kind of girl, go for it.
07:24She's a piece of crap!
07:27It hurt May, but I knew it was the only way.
07:31So we moved soon after and registered our marriage at a new town office.
07:35I talked to my boss, changed my workplace,
07:37and cut off contact with May's mother.
07:41We did the right thing, right?
07:44Yeah!
07:44My family is just you and your parents.
07:47A few years later, we had a small wedding with the money we saved together.
07:51It was just the four of us.
07:53Me, May, and my parents.
07:55I had a terrible life.
07:57It was hard just to live.
08:00You saved me.
08:01Thank you so much.
08:02I will love you for my whole life.
08:05I'll only love you, too.
08:08I don't know how May's mother is doing since then.
08:11I promised myself that I would build a happy and warm family
08:14so that May's smile would last forever.