Call of the sea endings7/6/2023 ![]() ![]() He likes the place well enough with its waterfall and big windows, but he wants warm, fattening food. He laughs that the food at the inn is all tofu and he is still hungry. She calls Yuichi, who is pleased to hear from her. She likes the vibe of the place, and while the food is cooking, she heads to the payphone. She enters a restaurant and orders a hearty dish of katsudon. Mikage is lighthearted in this strange place. The dark shadows of the mountains loom and the stars shine. However, she knows that she is knit together with Yuichi.ĭrunken tourists walk through the streets. Walking alone in the moonlight, she thinks how she’d like to travel forever. That evening, she asks her Sensei if she can go out for some food, and they tease her that she did not eat anything at dinner because she disliked it all. She feels very different now, but she wants to get away for a time. This trip feels like a gift-like she is being set free from the events of the last half-year. The next day, Mikage sets out for Izu with her team. She slips Mikage Yuichi’s info and walks away. Mikage walks her out and Chika apologies. Chika begins to cry she bursts out that she is miserable and cannot believe in the gods anymore. She wishes Eriko had confided in her because she is sure that, had she done so, she would not have been killed. She remembers the man who killed Eriko, though she was not there that night. Mikage says she will think about contacting him.Ĭhika becomes serious. She does understand Yuichi’s need to get away, though, and she has a sense he is not planning on coming home for a while.Ĭhika laughs about work and teases Mikage for being a virgin, or for her and Yuichi not having slept together. In shock, Mikage says she has to go somewhere for work. Thus, she says she will give Mikage the address and phone number of the inn, and Mikage should go to him. At that moment, Chika says, she realized the two were in love. Chika gave him the name of an inn and suggested that Mikage go with him, but Yuichi said that Mikage had to go somewhere for her job and she should not be mixed up with his problems. She wanted to help him but she could not leave, so he said he’d go somewhere alone. He wanted to do something fun, and Chika was surprised to see how defeated and weak he was. Last night, he came to the club and was desperately unhappy. Chika explains that she called about Yuichi. Chiko invites Mikage to lunch and tells her she has something to tell her.Īt the soba shop, Chika greets her effusively and they order food. 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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