![]() ![]() Chiko is much manlier in appearance but still beautiful when made up. The next day, Mikage gets a phone call from Chika, Eriko’s friend and the person to whom she willed the club. Still, to cease living is unacceptable” (82). Mikage ruminates on how people have so little choice: we are always defeated “we make dinner, we eat, we sleep. She decided to adopt a “muddled cheerfulness” (81) and become a woman. ![]() Not long after that, her wife died and the plant withered Eriko realized she had to do better at taking care of things. In the empty home, it felt like she and the plant were the only creatures in the world-the only things that understood loneliness. This was the first time she thought that she did not like being a man. Eriko walked out with the plant and cried. One day, three days before the end, her wife urged Eriko to take the plant home so it would not be infused with death. One day, her wife remarked that it would be nice to have a living thing in the room, so Eriko went to the flower shop and picked out the simple potted pineapple. At the time, she still had faith her wife would improve, but it was very hard. When Eriko was still a biological man and her wife was dying of cancer, she would go to the hospital every day. Mikage has a memory of Eriko telling her about the first plant she got, the pineapple. Mikage does not know whether she or Okuno is winning. He tells her to come by and they will go out for tea again. She promises to bring him something, and she clings to him in the sharp wind. Suddenly, when Mikage wonders if Yuichi held the door open for that other girl in the same way that he did for her, she realizes that she is feeling jealousy for the first time. In the car waiting at the light, they watch people come and go, all heading someplace warm. She replies that she is glad he is talking about his feelings, but she stops short of saying he should come to her if there is anything he needs. He agrees she remarks that they’ve had tea so much at home, but never out together.Īt the café, Yuichi says that he remembers how Mikage was after her grandmother died, and he now understands her blank expression and listlessness. She tells him she will be going on a trip soon, but she asks if he would like to have tea in a café right now. Mikage is still thinking about her encounter with Okuno when Yuichi comes home. ![]()
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